Can Colombians Speak English?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ธ.ค. 2023
- Can Colombians Speak English? 🇨🇴
🌍 Instant English in Medellin | Language Challenge! 🌍
Hello amigos de Instant English! We're diving into the vibrant streets of Medellin, Colombia, and this time, we've landed at the prestigious University of Antioquia! 🇨🇴 Join us for a language challenge that takes locals through three exciting rounds of English exploration!
🔍 Round 1: Name That Thing!
We show pictures, and people guess the English names of everyday objects against the backdrop of Medellin's energy. Let's see how the locals handle this visual challenge!
🔄 Round 2: Spin & Speak!
Introducing our lucky spinning wheel at the University of Antioquia! We spin to decide the topic - it could be romance, sports, work, and more. Then, we ask a question related to that topic. Watch as the wheel adds a thrilling twist to our language adventure!
🗣️ Round 3: Pronunciation Fiesta!
In the final round, it's a Pronunciation Fiesta! Participants choose challenging words, and we discover who conquers the pronunciation challenge amidst the lively streets of Medellin.
🤩 Sit back and soak in the laughter, surprises, and language adventures. Whether you're an Instant English fan or just love seeing people embrace a new language, this video is your ticket to the Medellin language fiesta!
Chris
#instantenglishuk #britishenglish #pronunciation
What was the hardest word for you to know in part 1?
corkscrew and plunger of course, unfamiliar word for me
corkscrew and plunger.
Worcestershire xcgdhubgd!!!! Jajajaja 🇦🇷
One of the hardest word in spanish maybe is: Esternocleidomastoideo
@user-ku7im2iq8v LOL is a great videogame, here in American Continent everybody plays it. And obviously playing it with friends is very funny. I have never played Dota 2, but perhaps It's also a Good Game.
And League Of Legends has one of the best Series of this decade: Arcane, besides it has an incredible OST and Animation.
In Colombia currently many people are very interested in learning English, this was not the case in past years but now everything is so different, people discovered the importance of speaking another language, because languages are the keys to open other worlds.
Welcome to the Coffeeland ☕
I did have A LOT OF coffee
Columbian coffee is the best in the world and it’s not surprising the younger generations are so interested in learning English or any other languages.
This is exactly how I feel personally as a native English only speaker, about Spanish. Ok, don't get me wrong lol I mean, as a high school student, I attempted to learn Spanish, but it didn't take 😢 😂 However, all these years later, I'm just starting to realize how interconnected a lot of languages are.. As someone once explained something to me, they are the same but different 🤷😅
Coffeland is in Brazil dude, the biggest producer.
Some context, in Colombia that kind of chair is something different from a regular chair, and it's usually called "SILLÓN" not "SILLA", so it is easy to confuse it with coach or sofa
To be fair, as an Australian and native speaker of English even I wouldn't call that a 'chair', but an 'armchair' :)
No es excusa, también se le dice silla y silla es chair.
@@williamruiz8467No, that was an armchair, not chair... 🎉🎉
It's such a pleasure watching people from my country 🇨🇴 doing their best effort while speaking and pronouncing words in English 👏🏽.
That's not easy at all. Well done 👌🏽
Yeah, they were great and very open to try! 😎
Estamos en el2023, no En los años 90s
Hola, ven conmigo
Soy un joven mexicano y le entendí sin tener que pensarlo, wow es que es increíble, cuando le pones tanto empeño a un idioma, y al final notas el esfuerzo que te ha tomado aprender.
Bueno, nos hicieron quedar mejor de lo que pensé
No sé si reir o llorar xd
Wow, this is a useful video! I am glad to know that you are visiting Colombia. I learned English 9 years ago in an institute called Colombo Americano in Medellin. I had a great experience because I did not only learn English, but I felt like I was visiting the U.S.A due to the way the Institute was built, also the teachers taught us the culture of that country, for example the Black month history, among others. Now I wish to visit the city again to continue practicing English while I meet new people from all over the world and also learning more of their cultures. Greetings! ;)
I am so excited that you visited us, Colombia is a charming country and Medellín one of the most beautiful cities in the country. And that you were there is great, you were very kind to the people. The best teacher of all. But I think that ... I think that the level of English in Colombia is not very high because of the way it is taught in the country's schools... but now we have more possibilities with Internet sources. Like, for example, your TH-cam channel. I hope you continue visiting us, see you later in another city 😅
Thank you so much for the lovely comment! I had a wonderful time in medellin and the students were great! 😊
@@InstantEnglishUK come again plz 🥺
Thanks for doing this incredible video, greetings from Medellín, Colombia 🇨🇴
Thanks for having me
Its a very great content for all users I really appreciate your talent joined with a lot of work thank you so much keep uploading more videos like these🎉
I started to watch your videos today, and i loved it. I'm from Brasil 🇧🇷🇧🇷
Thank you!
Up that English with a Colombian accent😅😂
The thing is that in the past knowing a language here was only a rich thing. however, nowadays it is getting more common and accessible for everyone, and there are also a lot of resources out there with the internet and different programs
Hello i'm from Mozambique and i think that i so good to see you helping people in order to understand well english, keep to make videos like this, thank you 🙏🏾
Thank you and lovely to hear that my videos have reached Mozambique 🇲🇿
You derseve It, with you channel I understand well your videos, your language with legends, i used to understand slowly english , but now i improving, thank you
Fun fact: Pablo Escobar's family moved to Mozambique in 1994.
so far, their english better than me haha, regardless of their pronounciation and grammar mistake, native english speakers still able to understand them, context is everything in conversation
Yay, I love these videos!! The plunger is back 😂
Awesome video! unfortunatelly here in Colombia our educational system is not really good when teaching english, we have to do our best to learn by ourselves, eather way by doing a courses or watching videos/movies or regular things in english. However I would say that you can find the best english speakers in Bogota.
Totalmente cierto
Perhaps it would be adequate to consult the available data before mention Colombian education is not good regarding English level, you have to take into account the relevant aspect of autonomous learning each pupil must carry on by themselves to reinforce what it has been taught in class; English teachers do not make miracles...
I don’t think so. I am from Barranquilla and got my degree in Bogota in 2017 . There are a lot of people with a decent - I would say intermediate level - it’s not enough though.
Thank you for your sharing I'm watching from somalia ❤
Keep going mate!
It is not a chair, it is an arm chair. So they taught us at school
School doesn't teach you how a native speaker would say it. A native speaker would just say chair
@@AfroKing. As a native English speaker (USA), I would call that an armchair. Specifically the one that he showed that looks like a mix between a couch and a chair. But, I would understand chair. It's just if I wasn't looking at it and you said chair I wouldn't picture it looking like that unless you explained it's in your living room or something. I would even understand it if they said couch/sofa like most did in the video, but chair is definitely better, and armchair is perfect.
@Yamanan. How old are you, though? I don't know anyone my age that says armchair. We just say chair. I hear older people say it, though. Yes I'm from America as well.
26. If I was in the room I'd say chair, but if someone said armchair I'd know exactly which type of chair they meant. It was interesting in the video because I actually thought shoes when he showed the sneakers. So I went less specific for those but I guess everyone has their own preferred words. @@AfroKing.
@@Yamanan.I agree with you :)
I love this so funny English test, it made me bear in mind when I watched this video.
Brilliant!
Great video!!!👏👏👏🇦🇷
A funny method to learn English. Great Chris. We are waiting you in Italy
Thank you! ☺️
It was very nice to see you in my country 🇨🇴, from yours🏴 in Oxford
hi , I'm from morocco and i love your videos and your simply method.
Thank you!
تحيتي لاهل المغرب من العراق
@@user-vz3qo3cf5k و الله أنتم أعز الناس و نحبكم يا إخونا العراقيين ، تحية خالصة من القلب، و سأقولها لك بالدارجة المغربية راكوم عزاز علينا.
GREAT level!!
Keep it up You guys!!!
Love it
Wow ,so nice to see you in my country 🇨🇴 and my city, Medellín!
I think they do a great job because it is not always easy to pronounce some words and speak fluent.
Greetings from Medellín!
What a lovely city!
Love your T-shirt ... Nacional Medellín !! Awesome
Me too
@@InstantEnglishUKAtlético nacional, the Biggest football club in Colombia
Come to Italy! We are waiting for this format! It Is so Amazing 🤙🤙😂
Hi! I would love to visit this country full of good-looking people-WOW! It's amazing, and I hope I get the chance to practice my English with them. It's just a 16-hour flight from where I live.
These colombian guys did it right. Congrats to them. They've got a good level of English, in general, its quite fluent. It amazed me. 👏
Thank you for going to my country, 👏how much I would have liked to find you... you're one of my favourite teacher 😘
Thank you so much
This is the first time i watch your video. It is so good. I hope that you can product more a lot of video in the future. 😊😊😊
Hey man I've bumped into you just recently and your videos are fire! Can you do this kind of video in Italy? Keep up the good work!
This video was incredible 🎉 I also learned in watching this video
Brilliant
Parce, gracias por visitarnos, nuestro país es tu casa. Un fuerte abrazo a mis hermanos de Latam y del mundo. Saludos.
My dear teacher.......you are great💜👏🏻👏🏻💜
Is amazing to see my primary University while I practising english 🎉❤
I leraned a lot words with this video❤❤ thank you
I’m so happy to hear that!
we don't say "sneakers"...well it depends where you live. In Chicago it's "shoes or gym shoes"
So you call these 👞 and these 👟 shoes? I would have excepted gym shoes or tennis shoes, but simply shoes no
Everyone says sneakers
As a mexican student, learn english is so atractivo to me, because i love learn some other languages, i consider myself speak english in a level B2. Its fantastic see another people practice their english and im so proud because Colombia, one of the prettiest countrys in latinoamérica have a Good level of english, we have learn other langueges no one knows when needs some one lenguaje in especific.
The latinos are changing the world
Very good training 😊
My mate is visiting Colombia....I never thought this was going to happen!!!! Greetings from Cali- Valle .....
Actually, we struggle with this language but there are many ways to improve and reach a good level
Thank you for visiting Colombia. I got excited when I saw your video on my recommendation list. 😊
Thanks for having me
It’s so nice!
me siento muy feliz porque creia que mi ingles era pobre pero me doy cuenta que no estoy tan mal con el idioma, estos chicos me subieron el animo ;)
X2
Eso que quiso decir? Qué eres mejor, o que estás igual?
Pretty good English level in Colombia.🎉
I really would like you to come to Chile and I be one of your interviewed
Time to come to Cartagena, my bro
Y te hare un reto de Español desde ahí
I want you to come to Cali and let me know when, because I would like taking part of this amazing experiment... 🎉🎉
It's very good yours videos, i need to learning a lot to speak.
Thank you so much!
I got all the questions right 😊my heart was exploding when the lady couldn't answer the questions🤯I wanted to come there and answer her instead😁
She's learning the basics, we all went through that. But she was brave enough to accept the challenge, thus I'm certain soon enough she'll be able to improve her level.
She was very brave
@@klopf8 I didn't mean to criticize him. I was just saying that I was a little impatient. I hope everything will be fine for him 🥺💜
@@InstantEnglishUK I really liked his courage👍🏻💜
@@JeonAdelfor her, and her courage** nobody is perfect ig
Thanks its amazing vidoew my fav you tube❤
Thank you! What’s your favourite video
Hi Chris, great to have you in Medellín! Would have loved to get to see you in person. Hope you have a blast, mate.
I did indeed! Thanks for the lovely welcome
Thanks Chris , in Lima Miraflores ( Parque Salazar) waiting Paddington Bear sure the original in Paddington Station in London ( selfie Good Luck)
I am so enjoyed this video.I invite to you come to Uzbekistan.❤
Questions are very easy :)) I will be glad when you come Turkiye Sir .:)
Dude you look so kind
Thanks
@@InstantEnglishUK np
@@InstantEnglishUK I’ll give you a follow now 😂
super cool video
Thanks
İ llove Columbia,people seem to be sociable, friendly.
By the time insaw this video,I hadn't thought to travel to Columbia..
After seeing, inrhink i will.
Most of them speak really well! Creo que vamos por buen camino en las universidades. 😅
I agree ☝️
Awesome 👍
in northern Chinese, we call a ladybug a 'floral big sister'. Weirdly enough, English has a very similar expression. 🤣
In colombia, we call that animal mariquita, in spanish, which is a way to say little gay man. Xdxd. So funny.
🤣@@David-qy2fd
我一个北京的朋友也是这么叫的🤣
This was a fun video. The reason they call a Ferris wheel a “wheel of fortune” is because in Latin American Spanish, it’s called “rueda de la fortuna”. In Spain it’s called “noria”.
03:03 Tranqui, a veces uno confunde sneakers con Skechers
Im proud of my folk colombian, very much are trying ti learn english equals of me
All these are easy for me.. greetings from Malaysia
Wait, you were in my country!😍
Welcome here
Thank you!
yeah I am from colombia, greetings
Yeah well things are changing quickly tbh! I just came back from London after been there for over 12 years. And I can tell u that there’s many people that actually speak English! In the recent years Medellin has been a good spot for tourist and also many foreign companies are coming to invest here! so people is more interested in learn another language!
Nice jersey btw mate 👌🏽
As an American, the word shoe is perfectly acceptable and quite oftened used in place of sneaker. They were correct by our expectations.
At 9:11 when he says "we stole a few words", I've thought "like the Brittish Museum".
But well, nice video. You can go to Andalusia and see if Andalusian people can speak English. Cities like Seville, Cadiz or Malaga would be great.
Great you were in my country!!! I love your videos and I've learned a lot... But tell us your opinion...
Actually I'm ashamed of our level😔
They did great!!!
Love the relaxed approach to your vids, but do you do your own subtitles? There are a few mistakes in them here and there, which for an English teaching/learning channel is kind of a no-no, right...? ;)
I do my own subtitles but they auto generated, after I go through them to correct any mistakes. Sorry if I missed anything and thanks for letting me know
is it valid say sentimental? I mean, I would have said sensitive. 14:02
Thanks for these kind of videos :) really useful to impprove vocabulary
Love that British accent it’s kinda hot, I’m from Colombia but greetings from Australia 🇦🇺.
very interesting
Nah I want to do this hahaha, come to Bogotá, Colombia for part 2
Globally English is the commercial+bussines language,in Asian countries almost all.of them After their Officiall languahes ENGLISH is always the second language (Saudiarabia/Qatar/yemen/oman/UAE/singapore/malysia/vietnam/China/japan/thailand/philipines/myamar and many other coutries ENGLISH is the language of global conversation/European union when coming to gather they use ENGLISH
They did great really…… These kind of vidoes are funny and enjoyable,it’s been few days since I found this channel and really it’s great we are waiting so many more vidoes in different countries…
Love your vidoes man glad to found this channel.
~from somaliland ❤
Thank you, so glad you got the idea of the video. I just want to make learning English fun 🤩
Amazing this English
Well they speak better English than I do Spanish so well done 👏
What kind of teacher is that man😂
Me?
1:19 practise=practice but cool video!
Hi, bro come to Tajikistan people in Dushanbe they're really interested in learning English.
I'm from the US and have always heard tennis shoes here not sneakers. Must be a regional thing
If they had said tennis shoes, I would have accepted, but for me, shoes by themselves are 👞
Yes it’s regional. From my understanding “sneakers” is an up north thing. Most of the country says “tennis shoes” and then there a certain areas in the Midwest like Chicago that say “gym shoes.”
Wow. Did u travel to Colombia? 😮
About borrowing some french words, is "grue" also used in english for "crane"?
Interesting
U have to come to cartagena! BTW.. I always thought Mischievous was more stressed on the |chi" part
/ˈmɪs.tʃɪ.vəs/
I can’t speak for the UK, but here in America there’s a nonstandard pronunciation and variation in spelling of mischievous as “mischievious.” Although incorrect, many people including former US president Herbert Hoover on record, pronounce it this way with 4 syllables and stress on the “chi” like this: mis-chē-vē-es. You may hear this pronunciation in American media which could cause confusion.
Quite interesting, thanks for sharing that.
Techer its a iterestet lesson! I'm indegenous, i speak my dilect; but i have been seing even can cumucate the leanguage like have to memorize the difarent tings name. Tanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
I really hope you come to Lima, too......
Me too
I remember the chandelier from the sia sing. Ohhhh, I am gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier.
Are you saying Webster is wrong?
Colombians are really nice.
Hey, You should have visited Bogotá.
English is not difficult, that only require of practice and experience thoughout the years
Defo
The first thing that comes to my mind when I listen "Colombia", is Shakira. ❤❤❤
Really? I thought she was from Brasil
@@bambinaforever1402 Shakira was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, and she mentions her city in Hips Don't Lie.
Ok to be 100% fair, when I am about to get out of the house I say "let me put some shoes on" and I put on sneakers! 😅
Wow a difficult situation 😂
I knew all of the vocab words in Spanish let’s goooooo
Mi bello país Colombia 🇨🇴, pero viendo esa camiseta verde que se puso...
🤣🤣🤣
It was so funny and interesting
Thank you
Wow nice 😅