Gracias por ver! This should help you memorize your vocabulary better. Here’s the 3 things I would do if I had to learn Spanish from scratch again - speakspanishfaster.com/youtube
Recently, I started to briefly review lists of words about a topic(food, travel, etc,) but not give it too much thought. Then, I find articles about these topics and the words appear and they stay with me because I see them in context. Next, I listen to them and then try to use them in conversations. It is working so far. Thanks for the tips!
I spent a lot of time making flashcards without words in context. It would have been a lot better to have the words in context. The advice in this vid is spot on.
I learned 100 Spanish words that are used in 50% of all conversations (video on here) which was very helpful as they were linking words and helped form sentences
I teach English to middle school newcomers. Most are from Latin American countries. I’m required to only speak English to them but I find it helpful to learn some Spanish. This video is not only helping me learn strategies for my own language learning, it’s helping me learn how to help my students study English.
Everything you said in this video resonated with me so much in the context of my own Spanish learning experience. Your videos are SO helpful. Keep up the good work.
Quick question...I haven't finished watching the video. Should I listen to Spanish while reading Spanish or listen to Spanish while reading the English translation?
When i was learning pueryo rican Spanish, id listen to puerto rican podcasts (WITH SUBTITLES) and slow it down to find the words i dont know. Making sentences as i go and then it started making sense. Going back and listening to what theyre saying. Write these words with sentences you understand and it will click and that will then be added to your list of words you know!! Once i got through the whole video and now have translated it, i keep it slowed a tad bit, but i then dont write i just listen. After i get through the whole video i speed it up and listen consistently so i get used to the speed that they speak. I watch that 1-3 times normal speed or until i think i can understand without having to pause and think!!! Spanish TAKES TIME!!
Great content. I would like to respectfully disagree on memorizing lists of words. You're correct, most of the time it doesn't work. However, in very limited circumstances, lists are useful. For example, I work in industrial construction. So, a list of flowers or fish or beach items would be useless, however a list of tools, gear and equipment that we talk about several times a day is very useful. Hammers, hard hats, harnesses, ladders etc. This list doesn't improve my Spanish fluency but it makes me very effective if I know how to combine the list with such phrases as we need, do you have or who has. Basically, I think in everyone's life there are words that we use all the time, make a list and check it twice. Well, you might ask, what about people that just want to learn a language without any specialization? I would highly recommend a list of emergency phrases. Help me, I am sick, this man is sick, I can't breathe , call the ambulance, I am allergic to, etc. Thank you for your time and hard work.
This is very useful for me too. Since I work blue collar I work around a lot of latinos and I need to be able to communicate with them regarding construction terms/names of tools
did rock teach basketball in ilovebasketballtv before??i watched his videos when i was learning basketball in secondary school lol??having switched to a spanish teacher??
Love your stuff. Please 🙏 please put Spanish subtitles across the bottom when you speak Spanish. I still can’t quite grok what you say at the very beginning of your vids. Either I don’t know those words, or I know them but can’t catch them because you fly through them, or maybe your pronunciation isn’t clicking for me. If it’s not too much trouble, that would really Rock!
You the goat I’m learning so much from you , do you have any tips in finding native Puerto Rican language exchange partners? I’m mixed like you and my grandmother passed back in April 2020 and I’ve been trying to learn Spanish took it for 3years in college and I still struggle again you the goat I’ve taken your advice but feel I need an exchange partner but can’t seem to find one
Same, currently in grade 11 and have my CSEC exam on Spanish in a matter of weeks. And would like some conversation practice because thats the first part of the exam
Input - reading and listening Consuming comprehensible text -write word in phrases so you have a context Output - writing and 7:27 - Writing in 8:03 - Spaced Repetition - expose self to content over and over again To actively recall information 11:16 Context helps you review words Active recall vs spaced repetition (Can study reverse side) Study flash cards backwards We naturally think in English first and then speak it
I spent an entire day rehearsing for an oral exam, and when my lecture spoke to me in spanish, I didn't understand the shift he said, lol. So I agree that listening is crucial. I think I spend too much time translating in my head.
Whenever possible, if i notice a word that was in a song , and im now understanding it, i try and keep that connection in my brain. Like, Despacito, bailamos, suavemente... slowly , we danse, softly. Then i modify the word to fit the sentence need.
Cuando dijiste que no recuerdas que aprendiste en la escuela me recuerda de como toda la gente recuerdan "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" 😂 así que tienes razón porque ellos recuérdalo porque tuvieron un frase asociada con lo... en este caso "mighty mitochondria"
Why is “yo caminado” is wrong and “yo caminé” correct I understand some verbs like “hablar” for instance “I speaked” is wrong but I still don’t get why it is a big deal I have looked at all sorts of literature and it still doesn’t satisfy me when they either say “it’s the Spanish language and not English” or “it doesn’t provide the complete idea or context” when it clearly does like the shortest sentence in the world “Jesus Wept.” It conveys the idea of -ed in the -t suffix I am being critical because it is frustrating when I can see that it could be done and simplify the language but no I have to be given unconvincing arguments I am just asking a critical question is that bad.
“Caminé” is the past tense, so “yo caminé” would translate to “I walked”, and “caminado” is used in the past participle, so you’d use it with “has, have, had”. So, “I’ve walked” would be “He caminado”…Both “caminé” and “caminado” are “walked” in Spanish, but “caminé” is used for the past tense, and “Caminado” for the past participle… “Hablar” would translate to “hablé” in the past tense to say “ I spoke”, but the past participle for “speak” is “spoken”, so you’d then say “He hablado” for “I’ve spoken”. Hopefully this wasn’t too confusing.
Gracias por ver! This should help you memorize your vocabulary better. Here’s the 3 things I would do if I had to learn Spanish from scratch again - speakspanishfaster.com/youtube
How do you spell the app that you mentioned in the video?
@@JT-un7dc AnkiDroid and Anki for desktop. There are several good video on TH-cam which explain how to use and Sync them.
Yeah i am at fault for trying to memorize the top 250 words and while i was successful I didn’t see much improvement in reading or talking.
Yo tambien.
Recently, I started to briefly review lists of words about a topic(food, travel, etc,) but not give it too much thought. Then, I find articles about these topics and the words appear and they stay with me because I see them in context. Next, I listen to them and then try to use them in conversations. It is working so far. Thanks for the tips!
I personally love the extended videos like these because it keeps my mind on spanish while getting a deeper and better understanding on it
My man forgot the name of the book about retaining information lmao. I know the struggle rofl
The mental image I used for _abrigo:_ A woman (in retrospec, I should have picked a man) in a trench coat, walking on an iron truss bridge at night.
Come through Blue's Clues ("handy dandy notebook" 📒)! 😄😂
Grácias papí, you’ve helped me improve my Spanish a lot ❤️ Ahora el Español es mi vida ♾️
You're absolutely 💯 right that damn list didn't help when needed. Only if I were studying 📖 for a test
one linguist to another, i'm shocked you don't have 1m followers yet. great teacher 👍❤️
I was literally about to look up 100 most frequently used Spanish vocab
I spent a lot of time making flashcards without words in context. It would have been a lot better to have the words in context. The advice in this vid is spot on.
Ha! Right after I watched this video, an ad played promising to teach me how to quickly learn the 350 most common Spanish words!
14:58 man! Labeling is such a GOOD idea!!! I might start doing that.
I learned 100 Spanish words that are used in 50% of all conversations (video on here) which was very helpful as they were linking words and helped form sentences
I teach English to middle school newcomers. Most are from Latin American countries. I’m required to only speak English to them but I find it helpful to learn some Spanish. This video is not only helping me learn strategies for my own language learning, it’s helping me learn how to help my students study English.
Everything you said in this video resonated with me so much in the context of my own Spanish learning experience. Your videos are SO helpful. Keep up the good work.
Quick question...I haven't finished watching the video. Should I listen to Spanish while reading Spanish or listen to Spanish while reading the English translation?
If you're a beginner, have english subtitles/captions. If more advanced, do spanish
When i was learning pueryo rican Spanish, id listen to puerto rican podcasts (WITH SUBTITLES) and slow it down to find the words i dont know. Making sentences as i go and then it started making sense. Going back and listening to what theyre saying. Write these words with sentences you understand and it will click and that will then be added to your list of words you know!! Once i got through the whole video and now have translated it, i keep it slowed a tad bit, but i then dont write i just listen. After i get through the whole video i speed it up and listen consistently so i get used to the speed that they speak. I watch that 1-3 times normal speed or until i think i can understand without having to pause and think!!! Spanish TAKES TIME!!
This seems like a really good way that doesn't take that much time in my opinion and makes a lot of sense
thank you rocky for making these videos. my dad is colombian but I never learnt Spanish, but now I'm tryna learn. keep up the work!
Find it funny can't recall a book about improving memory 🤣
You said not to use flashcards but then said to use anki 🤷
Great content. I would like to respectfully disagree on memorizing lists of words. You're correct, most of the time it doesn't work. However, in very limited circumstances, lists are useful. For example, I work in industrial construction. So, a list of flowers or fish or beach items would be useless, however a list of tools, gear and equipment that we talk about several times a day is very useful. Hammers, hard hats, harnesses, ladders etc. This list doesn't improve my Spanish fluency but it makes me very effective if I know how to combine the list with such phrases as we need, do you have or who has. Basically, I think in everyone's life there are words that we use all the time, make a list and check it twice. Well, you might ask, what about people that just want to learn a language without any specialization? I would highly recommend a list of emergency phrases. Help me, I am sick, this man is sick, I can't breathe , call the ambulance, I am allergic to, etc. Thank you for your time and hard work.
This is very useful for me too. Since I work blue collar I work around a lot of latinos and I need to be able to communicate with them regarding construction terms/names of tools
did rock teach basketball in ilovebasketballtv before??i watched his videos when i was learning basketball in secondary school lol??having switched to a spanish teacher??
It makes so much sense that the brain kicks out info we don’t need. Knowing this information is a game changer for me. I didn’t think about that
Ppl with photographic memory have frequent headaches... yeah
Bro used to teach me a crossover now Spanish
A true crossover indeed.
I swear to god this guy had a basketball channel that I use to watch
He does 😂 I recognized him from the basketball channel first. But glad he's helping me learn Spanish now
Do more Dominican related videos
Love your stuff. Please 🙏 please put Spanish subtitles across the bottom when you speak Spanish. I still can’t quite grok what you say at the very beginning of your vids. Either I don’t know those words, or I know them but can’t catch them because you fly through them, or maybe your pronunciation isn’t clicking for me.
If it’s not too much trouble, that would really Rock!
Very interesting lessons. I would like to start.
You the goat I’m learning so much from you , do you have any tips in finding native Puerto Rican language exchange partners? I’m mixed like you and my grandmother passed back in April 2020 and I’ve been trying to learn Spanish took it for 3years in college and I still struggle again you the goat I’ve taken your advice but feel I need an exchange partner but can’t seem to find one
Same, currently in grade 11 and have my CSEC exam on Spanish in a matter of weeks. And would like some conversation practice because thats the first part of the exam
Online tutors you can pick one from Puerto Rico prices range from $5-50 per hour
Thank you!
Of course!
Are you the same guy from Revenge Basketball yt channel?
Yeah
So how am I going to listen and read if idk what it’s saying?
I feel even writing messshes using them works for me to
Solid advice. Thanks.
Input - reading and listening
Consuming comprehensible text
-write word in phrases so you have a context
Output - writing and
7:27 - Writing in
8:03 - Spaced Repetition - expose self to content over and over again
To actively recall information
11:16 Context helps you review words
Active recall vs spaced repetition
(Can study reverse side)
Study flash cards backwards
We naturally think in English first and then speak it
I spent an entire day rehearsing for an oral exam, and when my lecture spoke to me in spanish, I didn't understand the shift he said, lol. So I agree that listening is crucial. I think I spend too much time translating in my head.
You mentioned an app that randomly repeats vocabulary words. Could you please write it down. You didn’t list it in the description box.
Learn your spanish
It sounded like Onki
Whenever possible, if i notice a word that was in a song , and im now understanding it, i try and keep that connection in my brain. Like, Despacito, bailamos, suavemente... slowly , we danse, softly. Then i modify the word to fit the sentence need.
Thanks ever so much! 🙏🏾
Good video! It takes nothing to hit the thumbs up; what's wrong with people? Don't just take but try giving!!!
Excellent 😊
It was funny when you said you couldn't remember the name of the memory book.😅
Cuando dijiste que no recuerdas que aprendiste en la escuela me recuerda de como toda la gente recuerdan "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" 😂 así que tienes razón porque ellos recuérdalo porque tuvieron un frase asociada con lo... en este caso "mighty mitochondria"
una pregunta, estoy confundido porque creo que recuerdo que yo te vi en canal de baloncesto tambien como coach rock. eres tu tambien??
GREAT TIPS! I'm never gonna forget what La Manzana is now.
Thanks Rocky
Currently learning to speak spanish for my job, greeting from Philippines
That’s awesome! We’re here for whatever you need!
What do think about the Rosetta Stone Spanish course?
Lmao, I'm on the toilet listening to this lol. How did he know hahaha
My adult kids would kill me if i labeled the whole house.😂
Why is “yo caminado” is wrong and “yo caminé” correct I understand some verbs like “hablar” for instance “I speaked” is wrong but I still don’t get why it is a big deal I have looked at all sorts of literature and it still doesn’t satisfy me when they either say “it’s the Spanish language and not English” or “it doesn’t provide the complete idea or context” when it clearly does like the shortest sentence in the world “Jesus Wept.” It conveys the idea of -ed in the -t suffix I am being critical because it is frustrating when I can see that it could be done and simplify the language but no I have to be given unconvincing arguments I am just asking a critical question is that bad.
“Caminé” is the past tense, so “yo caminé” would translate to “I walked”, and “caminado” is used in the past participle, so you’d use it with “has, have, had”.
So, “I’ve walked” would be “He caminado”…Both “caminé” and “caminado” are “walked” in Spanish, but “caminé” is used for the past tense, and “Caminado” for the past participle…
“Hablar” would translate to “hablé” in the past tense to say “ I spoke”, but the past participle for “speak” is “spoken”, so you’d then say “He hablado” for “I’ve spoken”. Hopefully this wasn’t too confusing.
Yes that was me. Not 1000 words though!
Bro u been helping me learn Spanish thanks alot
Thank you for your videos! ❤
Thank you!!!!!
You are the man!!!!!!!!
Association memorization 😊
Is this smooth papi?
Thanks Man....
Great advice!
❤
How is the app spelled? Anki??
Yes
Great tips, Rocky. Gracias
De nada!