The second video of the series. The results of the final Spanish battle! Will you join me on a 4 month challenge?! Record yourself every week for 4 months! 📘My Book📘 fluencymadeeasy.com (Still 60% off for a bit longer) Sign up to italki today (10$ off second lesson: go.italki.com/ikenna My two italki tutors: www.italki.com/teacher/4822494 www.italki.com/teacher/3087018
Es curioso que, como era de esperar, desarrollaste más la parte de entender tu interlocutor que la de expresar lo que quieres decir. Aún así es sorprendente el resultado. ¡Felicidades! Queda demostrado que tu método acompañado de las ganas produce un resultado exitoso :-)
Hé Ikenna, l’ecole joue un Grand rôle dans l’aprentissage des langues. Moi j’essaie d’apprendre l’allemand en 3 mois et je suis presque fini. And I speak: french English Arabic Little spanish German Little georgian Written chinese
@@artemis2016 Them: "So how long have you been learning Spanish?" Me: "Well...I started learning it around 8 years ago but if you only count the time I actually studied the language it would be about 8 weeks." xD
@@artemis2016 19 years for me lol. Well, 25+ if you count my mom speaking Spanish and English to me when I first started learning how to talk. But when I was 7, someone bought me a book and tape set to learn Spanish cause they knew how much I really wanted to learn. I've practiced on and off and can sing and rap in Spanish, but still not fluent. I'm going to seriously practice so I can be fluent within a year. I'm black btw.
You have showed us in this video that even you, the guy we come here to look up to, gets nervous and stumbles at the beginners stage. It is so refreshing to see this raw and messy time, that can sometimes feel very embarrassing, captured on video. Much more relatable, and cements that "You will get better if you practice" mentality Thank you so much for exposing yourself to us.
Lol I wish he exposed himself to us. Hahaha Sorry I'm a thirteen year old boy in a 27 year old woman's body..... But it Was really awesome to see him messing up, like everyone does when learning a new language. And he has really made me want to try and learn spanish. Again.
It's not easy or possible to learn a language in 7 days and be fluent in it, but you can learn all the basics, and with some practice you will master that language
American raised Latina, Spent 4 yrs in my home country learning the language - I'm fluent, but he's STILL a better Spanish speaker than me if he was able to learn that in 7 days!
@@jailyngonzalez2700 Could you expand on that. I can't speak Spanish, but how he talks and how the teachers talk seem to be incredibly different. He seems to know lots of words, but the rhythm and pronunciation seem completely different, probably because he's having to think a lot about everything he's saying. So I am interested in knowing how a native sees it differently to me.
Fue todo un placer tener una hora de conversación con Ikenna y formar parte de este vídeo, aún estoy impresionado de su progreso en una semana. Un gran trabajo. Felicidades :)) It was a pleasure to have one hour conversation with Ikenna and be part of this video, I am still impressed of his progress, all in a week. Really great job. Congratulations!!
Nomas para aclarar las cosas, el no empezo desde no sabiendo un lenguaje a poder conversar en siete dias . El ya habia oido el lenguaje y lo habia estudiado antes. En los siete dias nomas le puso mas esfuerzo. Lo que estoy tratando de decir es que el no empezo desde no saber nada del idioma. Cualquiera puede mejorar su idioma en unos dias pero es muy diferente aprender un idioma sin saber ninguna palabra o tono a poder conversar
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@@MatrixCoder01 pero el si aclaró eso. La idea de aprender en siete días un idioma desde zero és realmente muuuy difícil se no puedes practicar con personas que lo hablan. Pero si es posible aprender el básico se tiene un tutor disponible o vive en un país donde lo hablan. El más lindo es ver cuan possible es aprender un nuevo idioma mismo que no tengas tanta experiencia con eso y que así nosotros que vivimos en este mundo podamos cada vez más nos conectar de una mejor manera
@ Lo unico es que el video se llama "aprendiendo espanol en 7 días" Yo no digo que no aprendio nada durante esos días ; nomas digo que el titulo del video señala que el aprendio todo el idioma en 7 días.
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@@MatrixCoder01 justo En tierra de TH-cam clickbait es rey
Elliott Powell when you’re trying to sell something at the end of your video. It’s probably not a good idea to make a video of yourself failing your challenge
@@mattyhickman3995 well obviously that's what one would think, but Ikenna seems like a pretty genuine guy and looking at the first video and the methods used/amount of time he spent learning every day it did not seem like the second video would be one of success, certainly not to this degree. It's not like a video titled "EPIC FAIL" is one that wouldn't get views, nor are just honest videos about things that didn't work out completely unheard of
@@EPfruitbooter Yeah I believe him he doesn't seem like the type to lie and what does he have to lie about when he speaks 6 languages it wouldn't matter if he failed a hard challenge. Also he speaks French which definitely helped his progress.
@@mattyhickman3995 How exactly did he fail? He learned enough Spanish in a week to converse with a Spanish speaker with minimal issue. The whole point of a language is to communicate. He was successful in this. Fluency in a new language takes time and practice, no getting around that. You didn't become a fluent English speaker in a week did you? Of course not.
@@NotSoCrazyNinja is this a fake video??? Football players bring teachers to teach a certain language at their houses every day , and do not complete their learning in a week.
me too lol. I don't actually speak it, but my mother tongue is Portuguese, so I get what they're saying as they're speaking slowly and using basic vocabulary
6:27 lol why is your girlfriend filming it as if it's documentary about wild animals? "Crickey mate we caught one on top, now it is very crucial to not make a lot of noise so that we don't disturb the wild human, here we can see it is a biracial species that has a african and irish heritage, a very rare one indeed, I'm so lucky to caught one on tape. It seems to me like he is having a conversation with another human being, possibly a species that has a latino or a hispanic background based on the sound he is making. Now although they all are a very social animals, they have hundreds of different sounds that they make, so sometimes a human won't be able to socialize with another human because they don't know the sounds that they are making. However it is possible to learn how to understand and make that sound but it is quite difficult for them. You can see the african/irish human struggling to create and understand the sounds that the other human is making, since he is quite new and still trying to learn it. Tune it with us again to see how this conversation would end"
TSBB i started learning spanish this summer because i was bored lol. Now i’m addicted to be learning Spanish, im also trying to learn Swedish. If you can actually speak a bit of a language it will be motivating. In the first week of learning Spanish i could say the little basic things, but it motivated me to learn more. Now i sound like a nerd lol.
No way, this dude is so dope, he motivates me to learn french and korean, actually also motivated me to improve my german (im learning german in class for seven years, but i just dont know how to use this language)! I started learning korean almost a year ago, but i got bored really quickly and i just stopped learning this language. Now i see learning as fun. :) Also he recommended Language Transfer, i like to learn french from their videos. Im thirteen years old and i only speak polish, maybe english? I hope that in future i will still be so passionate about learning languages as he is (im the best at german class, lol, its fun to me but other people dont like it).
Nicole, that's nothing, imagine how much he could learn if he didn't limit his studying time each day... but just immersing oneself in a language by watching movies or reading books, will increase ones understanding by a lot, but that's not taught to kids in schools, hence why school language classes are the worst. It's always here is some glossary that you need to memorize, here's a shitty old book that you need to read... here's a boring as fuck listening practice... with some shitty phrase such as This is a book, it is very interesting... it's not strange that language class dropout rates are higher than even Calculus and other difficult math related stuff...
Wow! He knew a lot of tenses!! You could see he was working with matching gender and plurality, but he was keeping it together while using quite a few tenses. Good work!
Honestly man this pretty awesome. Spanish is my mother tongue and I struggle with it frequently. I'd say immersion via countless movies would be your best bet for really learning the language. If you can understand cantinflas then you're set.
@Ella Igwe well you actively learn/use vocab and grammar in lingodeer(plus it's free) (and as a bonus you also have tips and mini stories that you engage in at every course) and at italki I mean you can't quite go at your own pace plus you don't see written form of the language so it's pretty much a waste of time and money as you have a bunch of people on the internet who will gladly talk to/help you for free , and that's only the tip of the iceberg, you'll see what i'm talking about after just few finished courses , good luck😀
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Who else was practicing their Spanish at the same time?😂😂😂 great video, can't wait for part 3😁
I’ve started my journey learning Spanish today. I mean, I have it in school, but didn’t take it seriously until two weeks ago. Today I started pouring in effort. And today I find this video. Now I have a better gameplan :))
This channel is so motivating. Instead of just showing off, you actually show the entire process, and the behind the scenes struggles that you face. Then you expose yourself trying super hard to have a conversation when you're still a beginner. Your videos are real proof that it's possible to master a language with discipline and a good method. Keep doing what you're doing!!!
My new years resolution was to learn Spanish and dutch by 2020. I started learning Spanish feb~march and I was nearly able to understand 60% of this. I wonder how I will be by the end of the year cus so far I feel like I'm on the right track 🙌 great video ikenna!
Focusing on more than one language at one is counterproductive and brutal. you need thousands of hours of learning to reach fluency so it's better to focus on just one at a time. Learning two languages at once actually takes more time than learning them one by one. The more you try to learn at once instead of sequentially, the slower you go.
¡Qué bueno! He estudiado español por solo nueva meses en la universidad. Yo estudiaba un poco en la escuela secundaria pero no recordaba. Pero ahora, creo qué tengo un bien comprensión de la idioma.
Wow you speak pretty good spanish for just 7 days of learning. But you said that you learned it in high school too. So you probably remembered a lot of grammar and words back then. I think that it is because of this why you are that good :D
@@vivaeuropa that's not true. I took French for like 7 years and I could've written a book in French (ou une livre en francais) . back then. Je suis un "stoner" though now so that probably doesn't help my memory haha. I don't know why I started that sentence in French..... Hahaha I haven't been in school for ten years though so sue me. I'm sorry I'm just rambling now.. ... FIN
Where I'm at, you can get about 360 days of French spread out over 4 years of highschool ( many breaks in between) with teachers who don't actually test understanding and sometimes don't even do cumulative exams, so a lot of people can get up to AP French without even understanding it.
I really like how you weren’t afraid to make mistakes and just went for it!! I’ve been learning korean for about a month but I still feel like a complete beginner when it comes to a lot of things, but we’ll get there! Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing how you improve even more!
Will Rogich I like how you picked airport out of every possible public place. Yes, but that’s only because airports have their own words which you rarely use outside of an airport. It’s almost like jargon, even for me as a person speaking English since birth. But if he was roaming a city like Barcelona, he would be completely fine.
@@basil8474 First of all, that is not true at all. IF you can't get by in an airport your spanish is not even low level. Jargon is in the streets. When you go to a restaurant. or go out. An airport is the most consistent place language-usage wise. My point here is not to make fun of people with a low level of a second language. I am calling out this supposed "polyglot" that barely speaks a liq of spanish. I'm calling out the people who claim they speak a language just to say they can speak languages, instead of learning because of the personal growth opportunities. This guy is a royal fucking douche, that doesn't even chapurrear(look it up) spanish hahahahah.
I've been wanting to learn Japanese, Spanish/Portuguese and French for awhile now. I think you've inspired me to start my language learning journey. I have an issue where I can't learn anything, unless I have an exact step by step on how to, since I'm scared of failure. But, I think I need to change that. I need to step out of my boundaries.
I'm most impressed by how much you were able to understand after seven days. That requires a lot of audio input, so good for you. That's not easy to achieve!
I really appreciate this video. I'm always so conscious of my "ums" or long pauses I take to think of a word in a conversation and seeing you do what I do is really reasurring.
Man, keep it up, really good work ! I always wanted to know Spanish, but I never had enough motivation. And now after watching your videos I just booked a vacation in Spain, so i have like 88 days to learn that language :D
I’ve been following you for a while now and I’ve decided to relearn Portuguese. I started two years ago but gave up. But seeing your determination inspired me. Thank you
How much you are speaking is mind blowing. So proud of you and it has inspired me to really sit down and learn German which I have been trying to learn since the Summer.
Felicitaciones. Como hablante nativo de español, realmente no me había dado cuenta de las dificultades que alguien enfrenta para hacerse entender con 22 tiempos verbales. Ello, sin mencionar todas las variantes de cada país. Sin duda, un esfuerzo muy loable.
it’s so great to see your spanish journey as this was the first language I started learning seriously, and i learn many other languages like you. your videos help me stay motivated :) keep it up ikenna, bien hecho😌💜
So over the summer, i have been conversing a lot with spanish speakers from (Venezuela) (I live in the caribbean) and I developed a liking for the spanish language, the music, dance and the culture, over the last 2 weeks I have been studying spanish and incorporating it into every day activities and I have to say that I was able to understand mostly all that was said in both conversations from your perspective and the teachers. I learnt similar ways as you, learning the most common 1000 words (still learning), the conjugations of the verbs. listening to A LOT of spanish music and podcasts and reading phrases and short paragraphs and translating most of the words. Its a lot of hard work but I have never felt so motivated in such a long time and I am beyond proud of the progress i've made so far.. thank you for the added motivation ikenna.
You were actually getting better while talking during the second call. Impressive. I want to learn Italian as my third language but still working in my English. I'm bilingual since 5 years ago but still having issues with English (pronunciation / phrasal verbs understanding / expanding treasure) and because I work in a full English speaking environment, I'm still focusing my time on polishing this language. Felicitaciones Ikenna.
@@vivaeuropa yes, i know, but in the translation from spanish, he confused and thought that he said the he lived for 4 years in germany, but in fact, thats the time he think it was from the present, he lived in there and study for a year and a half according to what I understood 😉👍 eventhough its impressing his way to learn all that in that amount of time, i just wanted to correct it😁 Bendiciones🙏
@@BelaPuma Well, I started Japanese a couple years ago, and recently started Chinese along with it, so perhaps in the future I'll be inspired to learn Korean, but for now I'd like to take it one at a time :) It's an awesome language though I do think. You learning it?
Depends where you are, I know plenty of Mexicans who use colegio as college and universidad as university, my family is Bolivian so they say it how you've said it. Another distinction is "torta" to most a torta is a cake but to many Mexicans and I'm sure other Spanish speaking denominations it is referring to a sandwich
In upper Mexico, or in some parts of the US, escuela means school, but used to refer to high school or under. Though, I do hear it mean for any type of school. Colegio means college, universidad means university (the same way in English), or a private college.
Yeah it depends on the location. My Spanish is from around the Colima area in Mexico and we say escuela dor school, collegio for college, and universidad for university. Someone living in Colima might even say them differently. There's a lot of diversity in the language.
I’m reading your book and it’s helping me learn a new language way easier . At first it was a bit difficult because i really don’t know where to start but thanks to the book I can now learn .
ikenna I discovered your channel about a month ago & I have been teaching myself spanish and I understood almost everything in this video because I watched it while playing fifa thank you ikenna from a fellow nigerian
@@SR-xk5ih I think it's a really cool sounding language and its pretty much the only one that's evoked my interest. I have loose ambitions to someday move or go to school in Iceland too, I've found it to be a very pleasant and tight-knit community
Pretty incredible. It took me about 8 or 9 months to get where you are at. Congrats. I now speak Spanish at an upper intermediate/low advanced level. After a year I finally felt comfortable having full conversations in Spanish. To anyone out there wondering...it can be done! Maybe not in 7 days...but don't give up!
The subtitles of Spanish to English in 6:04 to 6:12 are wrong, he said that, he went to live in Germany 4 years ago, and he was living there 1 year, :)
Congratulations!! Spanish is very hard (I don't speak Spanish, but know a lot of the grammar and I can understand bcs I speak Portuguese and studied a little), and you were great
@@juliaabreus spanish really is rather easy for english speakers (compared to other languages). It is always difficult to 100% master a language though, because you will probably always make mistakes (just like native speakers will). That's not something specific to spanish.
That was amazing Ikena!!! In just 7 days you learned almost the same amount of Spanish I know!(I also found it so cool that I could understand you and the tutor) I've been learning Spanish in high school for 4 years now, and I'm going into level 3 Spanish. I only know as much as I do because I try to enjoy learning Spanish when my real passions are Korean and Japanese. This series just proves that the school language learning method doesn't work, and that If you want to learn a language and know how to do it, it can be done much more effectively. You never fail to inspire me to learn the languages I truly want to learn! Thank you so much Ikena!
Wow in my life of speaking Spanish for my 12 years in life I never knew how to say Russia lmao Edit: YOUR SPANISH IS SO DANG GOOODDDDDD FOR JUST 7 DAYS MATE! IM SO PROUD!!
Just purchased your book. So ready to finally become fluent in Spanish. I've been on this journey for 25+ if you count my mom speaking Spanish and English to me when I first started learning how to talk (we'ee black btw, and she learned from her friends growing up in Los Angeles). When I was 7, someone bought me a book and tape set to learn Spanish because they knew how much I really wanted to learn. I've practiced on and off and can sing and rap in Spanish, but still not fluent. I'm going to seriously practice so I can be fluent within a year. Thanks so much again for this. I will use this to learn the other languages I'm interested in like French and Mandarin. Love your channel, all the best! ❤
I am currently learning Spanish too, I thought my progress was okay, not great! But after listening to these conversations I understood every word and would of been able to participate very easily! Thanks for this realisation! Really appreciate it.
This was great. People act as though they doubt make mistakes when speaking. Thanks for showing us your learning experience of making mistakes is okay!
Yo estudiaba el español en la escuela por cuatro años. Aprendí muchas palabras, frases, y verbos. Mi lectura y acento estaban perfectos. Entendí cuando otros hablaban, pero no pudo hablar para responderles. En aquel tiempo, yo era muy tímida. Después de un tiempo, cuando decidí hablar a pesar de mi timidez, empecé aprender mucho más. Otra cosa que me ayude mucho era convivir con gente hispanohablante. Todavía tengo mucho para aprender, pero he progresado mucho en los años pasados. Me gustaría aprender más idiomas como usted. Me inspira para continuar la lucha.
I mean, 1 month for the basics is not that bad, I attended a German course for also 1 month but there was no way I could have a normal conversation, even the simplest of topics. Keep it up
This's amazing Ikenna, I've been whatching your videos since I've come to America and you inspire me. I always wanted to learn languages and one of them is English now I'm doing good with it also I've bought your book (flouncy made easy) I'm still reading it. So I've decided to start now learning my favorite language japanes now I believe in myself more than any time else. Thank you Ikenna for inspiring me.
The second video of the series. The results of the final Spanish battle!
Will you join me on a 4 month challenge?! Record yourself every week for 4 months!
📘My Book📘 fluencymadeeasy.com (Still 60% off for a bit longer)
Sign up to italki today (10$ off second lesson: go.italki.com/ikenna
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Learn japanese in a week too
Like if you get the joke
How can u become an italki tutor....
U can become one 2 u know alot of languages
I’m halfway through a 4 month Spanish Challenge myself coincidentally. What do I record myself doing every week bc it seems like a good idea???
Es curioso que, como era de esperar, desarrollaste más la parte de entender tu interlocutor que la de expresar lo que quieres decir. Aún así es sorprendente el resultado. ¡Felicidades! Queda demostrado que tu método acompañado de las ganas produce un resultado exitoso :-)
Hé Ikenna, l’ecole joue un Grand rôle dans l’aprentissage des langues.
Moi j’essaie d’apprendre l’allemand en 3 mois et je suis presque fini.
And I speak: french
English
Arabic
Little spanish
German
Little georgian
Written chinese
me: spends 5 years learning spanish
ikenna: lol sike
I'm ashamed to say how long it's been for me, because I get frustrated and don't pick it back up for several months.
@@artemis2016
Them: "So how long have you been learning Spanish?"
Me: "Well...I started learning it around 8 years ago but if you only count the time I actually studied the language it would be about 8 weeks."
xD
@@sarban1653 yep, that sounds about right. 🤣 but mines is more like 15 years with only 15 weeks of study time.
@@artemis2016 19 years for me lol. Well, 25+ if you count my mom speaking Spanish and English to me when I first started learning how to talk. But when I was 7, someone bought me a book and tape set to learn Spanish cause they knew how much I really wanted to learn. I've practiced on and off and can sing and rap in Spanish, but still not fluent. I'm going to seriously practice so I can be fluent within a year. I'm black btw.
Ele ficaria louco se fosse aprender português brasileiro 😁
You have showed us in this video that even you, the guy we come here to look up to, gets nervous and stumbles at the beginners stage. It is so refreshing to see this raw and messy time, that can sometimes feel very embarrassing, captured on video. Much more relatable, and cements that "You will get better if you practice" mentality
Thank you so much for exposing yourself to us.
I agree, it gives me a lot more confidence
Lol I wish he exposed himself to us. Hahaha
Sorry I'm a thirteen year old boy in a 27 year old woman's body.....
But it Was really awesome to see him messing up, like everyone does when learning a new language. And he has really made me want to try and learn spanish. Again.
Samm Star calm your horny ass down!
He's beginner level was like... I can't relate it to anything. While me in the beginner level couldn't even speak it, even a sentence 🙃
I agree so much
It's not easy or possible to learn a language in 7 days and be fluent in it, but you can learn all the basics, and with some practice you will master that language
exactamente
Actually he does sound verry good for being learning only 7 days.
Claro que si wey!! Al puro pedo carnal.
@@Gauxd1 yes after very hard work.. but he needs to think and remember stuff every second. I'm very impressed tho
@@hakkonn8273 could take more or less, depending on you and your methods and tools.
I speak Arabic, and I'm studying French and Japanese.
Yuh dude so proud of you as a Spanish speaker.
Where from?
American raised Latina, Spent 4 yrs in my home country learning the language - I'm fluent, but he's STILL a better Spanish speaker than me if he was able to learn that in 7 days!
BenJaizZ I’m from America but grew up speaking Spanish in my house hold.
same
@@jailyngonzalez2700 Could you expand on that. I can't speak Spanish, but how he talks and how the teachers talk seem to be incredibly different. He seems to know lots of words, but the rhythm and pronunciation seem completely different, probably because he's having to think a lot about everything he's saying. So I am interested in knowing how a native sees it differently to me.
Fue todo un placer tener una hora de conversación con Ikenna y formar parte de este vídeo, aún estoy impresionado de su progreso en una semana. Un gran trabajo. Felicidades :))
It was a pleasure to have one hour conversation with Ikenna and be part of this video, I am still impressed of his progress, all in a week. Really great job. Congratulations!!
Nomas para aclarar las cosas, el no empezo desde no sabiendo un lenguaje a poder conversar en siete dias . El ya habia oido el lenguaje y lo habia estudiado antes. En los siete dias nomas le puso mas esfuerzo. Lo que estoy tratando de decir es que el no empezo desde no saber nada del idioma. Cualquiera puede mejorar su idioma en unos dias pero es muy diferente aprender un idioma sin saber ninguna palabra o tono a poder conversar
@@MatrixCoder01 pero el si aclaró eso. La idea de aprender en siete días un idioma desde zero és realmente muuuy difícil se no puedes practicar con personas que lo hablan. Pero si es posible aprender el básico se tiene un tutor disponible o vive en un país donde lo hablan.
El más lindo es ver cuan possible es aprender un nuevo idioma mismo que no tengas tanta experiencia con eso y que así nosotros que vivimos en este mundo podamos cada vez más nos conectar de una mejor manera
@ Lo unico es que el video se llama "aprendiendo espanol en 7 días" Yo no digo que no aprendio nada durante esos días ; nomas digo que el titulo del video señala que el aprendio todo el idioma en 7 días.
@@MatrixCoder01 justo
En tierra de TH-cam clickbait es rey
@@MatrixCoder01 hay que aclarar que ya sabe hablar El Frances. Y que sea muy parecido con español, no fue tan dificil que lo aprendiese
I honestly thought he was going to fail. That's insane that he can actually have a full conversation after only seven days. So inspiring
Elliott Powell when you’re trying to sell something at the end of your video. It’s probably not a good idea to make a video of yourself failing your challenge
@@mattyhickman3995 well obviously that's what one would think, but Ikenna seems like a pretty genuine guy and looking at the first video and the methods used/amount of time he spent learning every day it did not seem like the second video would be one of success, certainly not to this degree. It's not like a video titled "EPIC FAIL" is one that wouldn't get views, nor are just honest videos about things that didn't work out completely unheard of
@@EPfruitbooter Yeah I believe him he doesn't seem like the type to lie and what does he have to lie about when he speaks 6 languages it wouldn't matter if he failed a hard challenge. Also he speaks French which definitely helped his progress.
@@mattyhickman3995 How exactly did he fail? He learned enough Spanish in a week to converse with a Spanish speaker with minimal issue. The whole point of a language is to communicate. He was successful in this. Fluency in a new language takes time and practice, no getting around that. You didn't become a fluent English speaker in a week did you? Of course not.
@@NotSoCrazyNinja is this a fake video??? Football players bring teachers to teach a certain language at their houses every day , and do not complete their learning in a week.
Me: speaks perfect Spanish
Also me: read subtitles anyways
También yo xdd
Rigby El Flojo yo vi en la Otro vídeo jaja
Same😂
Si
me too lol. I don't actually speak it, but my mother tongue is Portuguese, so I get what they're saying as they're speaking slowly and using basic vocabulary
6:27
lol why is your girlfriend filming it as if it's documentary about wild animals?
"Crickey mate we caught one on top, now it is very crucial to not make a lot of noise so that we don't disturb the wild human, here we can see it is a biracial species that has a african and irish heritage, a very rare one indeed, I'm so lucky to caught one on tape. It seems to me like he is having a conversation with another human being, possibly a species that has a latino or a hispanic background based on the sound he is making. Now although they all are a very social animals, they have hundreds of different sounds that they make, so sometimes a human won't be able to socialize with another human because they don't know the sounds that they are making. However it is possible to learn how to understand and make that sound but it is quite difficult for them. You can see the african/irish human struggling to create and understand the sounds that the other human is making, since he is quite new and still trying to learn it. Tune it with us again to see how this conversation would end"
YES.
lol 😂😭
Not TH-cam Algorithm bahahahaha. Perfect script/narration.
Why did i read it in an Australian accent
@@flamethewire A lot of wild life in Australia I guess.
currently learning spanish in school, and this kinda motivates me to actually learn it seriously :)
Im learning german in school and i really want to improve this language. :)
@@herbatabiaa9986 viel Glück 👌
Same 😂 I hate the class cause they don’t teach properly. I only started this school year though
TSBB i started learning spanish this summer because i was bored lol. Now i’m addicted to be learning Spanish, im also trying to learn Swedish. If you can actually speak a bit of a language it will be motivating. In the first week of learning Spanish i could say the little basic things, but it motivated me to learn more. Now i sound like a nerd lol.
Same
I saw 1 month ago your channel and you motivate me to learn italian thanks bro, new fan
No way, this dude is so dope, he motivates me to learn french and korean, actually also motivated me to improve my german (im learning german in class for seven years, but i just dont know how to use this language)! I started learning korean almost a year ago, but i got bored really quickly and i just stopped learning this language. Now i see learning as fun. :) Also he recommended Language Transfer, i like to learn french from their videos. Im thirteen years old and i only speak polish, maybe english? I hope that in future i will still be so passionate about learning languages as he is (im the best at german class, lol, its fun to me but other people dont like it).
Oo...I’m learning Korean right now and I want to start learning french
He motivated me to learn russian, I’ve been learning for six months and it’s been a blast!
@@joshmassarotti9253 yes same! :D
We bro a che punto sei? (Quanto bravo sei diventato a parlare italiano?)
He talks very choppy but for 7 days that sounds like maybe 1month and a half of effort he is good with learning languages
Tiene un español de 3 meses
He can speak more Spanish after 1 week than so many people I know who have taken Spanish class for yearssssss.
Nicole, that's nothing, imagine how much he could learn if he didn't limit his studying time each day... but just immersing oneself in a language by watching movies or reading books, will increase ones understanding by a lot, but that's not taught to kids in schools, hence why school language classes are the worst. It's always here is some glossary that you need to memorize, here's a shitty old book that you need to read... here's a boring as fuck listening practice... with some shitty phrase such as This is a book, it is very interesting... it's not strange that language class dropout rates are higher than even Calculus and other difficult math related stuff...
@@livedandletdie any tips to learn a new language? I'm currently learning Dutch (it's been only two weeks) and I really want to get immersed in it
I dont know why this is so cute to watch as a hispanic...but I could say that is ready to do a very interesting conversation
Yeah, right? Idk, but I was so proud of him, hearing him speak Spanish, almost like he was an adopted child of my culture or something .... :)
Supongo que es posible poder comunicarte en algún idioma dado solamente con 7 días de exposición completa.
@@EduardoHerrera-fr6bd Con el esfuerzo suficiente sí, es posible
Wow, that's fantastic for just 7 days! I certainly think you got farther than I did learning Esperanto in 7 days!
CommonCola vi diras Esperanto?
Jay Jobanputra Mi estas komencento en Esperanto. Mi povas diri ioj simpla kaj malgranda. La video tio mi fartis montri pli bone mi nivelo en Esperanto
Estas tre bona!! Ni ambau komencantoj. Mi studas en Duolingo kaj vi?
Jay Jobanputra Mi lernis mian Esperanto kun Memrise kaj la 1000 vortoj la pli uzaj
Γιατί θέλει κανείς να μάθει εσπεράντο; 🤣🤣
You killed it with those seven days. It's clear you were able to carry on the conversation and not get sidetracked by correction.
Been waiting for part 2 and I’m so happy to see that you were able to power through even with nerves! Awesome
OMG! That so freaking great. Just 7 days you can understand them without any difficulty. I like that and thanks for motivating us.
you've made such incredible progress! i need to look into italki so that i can practice my Italian!
Wasn't expecting to see you here. I've been digging the channel for the past year.
Wow! He knew a lot of tenses!! You could see he was working with matching gender and plurality, but he was keeping it together while using quite a few tenses. Good work!
I teach myself spanish from South Africa using a Hugo book called learn spanish in three months plus some cassette recordings
but you have internet access, right? it's so much easier online.
sauved0 no
@cupa the creeper considering it's been seven months, i'll reckon he understands that simple question.
@@lepeangel3700 yes
@@lepeangel3700 YES
When you see the same guy in the ad and then in the video
Thank you for part 2. I've been checking your page everyday for it. Thank you so much, you're inspiring.
Honestly man this pretty awesome. Spanish is my mother tongue and I struggle with it frequently. I'd say immersion via countless movies would be your best bet for really learning the language. If you can understand cantinflas then you're set.
Next up: *Vietnamese in 24 hours*
For talk to the trees
😂😂👍
As a vietnamese, i found this hilarious lol. THE POWER OF TALKING TO THE JUNGLE
Awesome. I’m currently using Italki to reach conversational Spanish. I will be doing the four month challenge l
use lingodeer pls italki is only for practising
@Ella Igwe well you actively learn/use vocab and grammar in lingodeer(plus it's free) (and as a bonus you also have tips and mini stories that you engage in at every course) and at italki I mean you can't quite go at your own pace plus you don't see written form of the language so it's pretty much a waste of time and money as you have a bunch of people on the internet who will gladly talk to/help you for free , and that's only the tip of the iceberg, you'll see what i'm talking about after just few finished courses , good luck😀
Who else was practicing their Spanish at the same time?😂😂😂 great video, can't wait for part 3😁
I was 🙋
Love that there are English speakers learning Spanish
Sí, soy en mi día tres 🤣
I’ve started my journey learning Spanish today. I mean, I have it in school, but didn’t take it seriously until two weeks ago. Today I started pouring in effort. And today I find this video.
Now I have a better gameplan :))
@@erika89765 Spanish speaker here, Good Luck! but be careful with the verbs, it could be useful to have someone you can acquire them from.
This channel is so motivating. Instead of just showing off, you actually show the entire process, and the behind the scenes struggles that you face. Then you expose yourself trying super hard to have a conversation when you're still a beginner. Your videos are real proof that it's possible to master a language with discipline and a good method. Keep doing what you're doing!!!
My new years resolution was to learn Spanish and dutch by 2020. I started learning Spanish feb~march and I was nearly able to understand 60% of this. I wonder how I will be by the end of the year cus so far I feel like I'm on the right track 🙌 great video ikenna!
this guy is a genio, most of us cant learn what he learn in just seven days
Me encantó tu video, y me encanta conocer gente como tú! Excelente video😊 sigue haciéndolos!!!
Your tutor lives in Latvia, my home country, how cool is that?! :)
Me too , I was so happy shocked . Kā iet?
@@lailaav chulibin artma?
@@angelloguevara175 do you want to learn latvian ?
Okay I'm in
I am currently like you relearning/finishing Spanish
Also learning Chinese at the same time
All while occasionally dabbling in Korean
A mood
good luck ,just don't give up after a few days, oh and what resources do you use to study, such as lingodeer Duolingo and stuff
Focus on one language at a time
Focusing on more than one language at one is counterproductive and brutal. you need thousands of hours of learning to reach fluency so it's better to focus on just one at a time. Learning two languages at once actually takes more time than learning them one by one. The more you try to learn at once instead of sequentially, the slower you go.
Bet you gonna be like ''fuck this'' in few weeks
Felicitaciones amigo,tremenda capacidad para aprender en tan solo 7 días,increíble,saludos desde Colombia 🇨🇴.
¡Qué bueno! He estudiado español por solo nueva meses en la universidad. Yo estudiaba un poco en la escuela secundaria pero no recordaba. Pero ahora, creo qué tengo un bien comprensión de la idioma.
Wow you speak pretty good spanish for just 7 days of learning.
But you said that you learned it in high school too. So you probably remembered a lot of grammar and words back then. I think that it is because of this why you are that good :D
Lieutenant Undercover your brain is looking for reasons to can el yourself out he hardly remembers as high schools in Us don’t teach it efficiently
yep. many people underestimate knowledge they got in school
Nah he's a pro at breaking down grammar that's why. Highschools knowledge will be about 10-30 words realistically.
@@vivaeuropa that's not true. I took French for like 7 years and I could've written a book in French (ou une livre en francais) . back then. Je suis un "stoner" though now so that probably doesn't help my memory haha. I don't know why I started that sentence in French..... Hahaha I haven't been in school for ten years though so sue me.
I'm sorry I'm just rambling now.. ...
FIN
Where I'm at, you can get about 360 days of French spread out over 4 years of highschool ( many breaks in between) with teachers who don't actually test understanding and sometimes don't even do cumulative exams, so a lot of people can get up to AP French without even understanding it.
These conversations with you talking to the teachers are perfect to begin learning basic spanish. Subtitles really help a lot aswell. Thank you
The filming style at 6:10 had me laughing so hard. Oh my goodness.
I really like how you weren’t afraid to make mistakes and just went for it!!
I’ve been learning korean for about a month but I still feel like a complete beginner when it comes to a lot of things, but we’ll get there!
Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing how you improve even more!
İkenna in 7 days: profesional
Me in 7 days: Yo soy un hombre. 😢
@@Disolix Yes! 👏
Dino Čulo i feel you bro
Just so you feel better, this guy is not professional. He couldnt survive in an airport for 3 minutes with this level of spanish.
Will Rogich I like how you picked airport out of every possible public place. Yes, but that’s only because airports have their own words which you rarely use outside of an airport. It’s almost like jargon, even for me as a person speaking English since birth.
But if he was roaming a city like Barcelona, he would be completely fine.
@@basil8474 First of all, that is not true at all. IF you can't get by in an airport your spanish is not even low level. Jargon is in the streets. When you go to a restaurant. or go out. An airport is the most consistent place language-usage wise. My point here is not to make fun of people with a low level of a second language. I am calling out this supposed "polyglot" that barely speaks a liq of spanish. I'm calling out the people who claim they speak a language just to say they can speak languages, instead of learning because of the personal growth opportunities. This guy is a royal fucking douche, that doesn't even chapurrear(look it up) spanish hahahahah.
Amazing vid, seeing you chat online in Spanish gives me so much confidence to have a go at it myself.
Wow! for a weeks work that is amazing you will be fluent in no time, great video keep it up.
These are some good videos. You got this.
As a Hispanic I'm very proud of how much you learned !
I've been wanting to learn Japanese, Spanish/Portuguese and French for awhile now. I think you've inspired me to start my language learning journey. I have an issue where I can't learn anything, unless I have an exact step by step on how to, since I'm scared of failure. But, I think I need to change that. I need to step out of my boundaries.
Wow, great job! Man, 7 days for Spanish like that, it really is amazing. I speak 7 languages but it took me years to learn it this well 😊
I'm most impressed by how much you were able to understand after seven days. That requires a lot of audio input, so good for you. That's not easy to achieve!
Hey I really appreciate the show it helps me still try to learn languages
I really appreciate this video. I'm always so conscious of my "ums" or long pauses I take to think of a word in a conversation and seeing you do what I do is really reasurring.
Man, keep it up, really good work !
I always wanted to know Spanish, but I never had enough motivation. And now after watching your videos I just booked a vacation in Spain, so i have like 88 days to learn that language :D
I’ve been following you for a while now and I’ve decided to relearn Portuguese. I started two years ago but gave up. But seeing your determination inspired me. Thank you
I'm soooo proud of you! :) great job, Ikenna! We should do a Spanish challenge together, what do you think?
How much you are speaking is mind blowing. So proud of you and it has inspired me to really sit down and learn German which I have been trying to learn since the Summer.
I'm also currently learning Spanish, so I was extra excited for this video. Coolest part is that I didn't know you also lived in Belgium!
i found you 1 month ago you motivate me to learn russian!! :D thank you so much for what you do!!
Lo hiciste muy bien para solo 7 días ☺️
Felicitaciones. Como hablante nativo de español, realmente no me había dado cuenta de las dificultades que alguien enfrenta para hacerse entender con 22 tiempos verbales. Ello, sin mencionar todas las variantes de cada país. Sin duda, un esfuerzo muy loable.
it’s so great to see your spanish journey as this was the first language I started learning seriously, and i learn many other languages like you. your videos help me stay motivated :) keep it up ikenna, bien hecho😌💜
So over the summer, i have been conversing a lot with spanish speakers from (Venezuela) (I live in the caribbean) and I developed a liking for the spanish language, the music, dance and the culture, over the last 2 weeks I have been studying spanish and incorporating it into every day activities and I have to say that I was able to understand mostly all that was said in both conversations from your perspective and the teachers. I learnt similar ways as you, learning the most common 1000 words (still learning), the conjugations of the verbs. listening to A LOT of spanish music and podcasts and reading phrases and short paragraphs and translating most of the words. Its a lot of hard work but I have never felt so motivated in such a long time and I am beyond proud of the progress i've made so far.. thank you for the added motivation ikenna.
Really made me wait a whole week while I am struggling in Spanish class I just started.
You were actually getting better while talking during the second call. Impressive. I want to learn Italian as my third language but still working in my English. I'm bilingual since 5 years ago but still having issues with English (pronunciation / phrasal verbs understanding / expanding treasure) and because I work in a full English speaking environment, I'm still focusing my time on polishing this language. Felicitaciones Ikenna.
There is a mistake in the translation, in the minute 6:02, he says " some years back, 4 years ago , i lived in Germany"
2 means a couple, 3 means a few and 4 means some they're interchangeable 4 and some ans give the same meaning.
@@vivaeuropa yes, i know, but in the translation from spanish, he confused and thought that he said the he lived for 4 years in germany, but in fact, thats the time he think it was from the present, he lived in there and study for a year and a half according to what I understood 😉👍 eventhough its impressing his way to learn all that in that amount of time, i just wanted to correct it😁
Bendiciones🙏
Estoy fascinado por tu progreso! En solo siete dias ser capaz de entendrer otros y de poder comunicarte es asombroso!
Yo man such a great video, you're inspiring me to learn Chinese and Japanese, thanks for all the uploads!
I'm also inspired
wb Korean lul
@@BelaPuma Well, I started Japanese a couple years ago, and recently started Chinese along with it, so perhaps in the future I'll be inspired to learn Korean, but for now I'd like to take it one at a time :) It's an awesome language though I do think. You learning it?
@@edinburghlifesoc 日本語ならそれはそうだと思う、それとマーク中語もいい言語です、なんか音かっこいいぽい、兎に角頑張って^ω^
@@edinburghlifesoc うん今勉強してる日本語
I was impressed. You did really well, Ikenna! I could understand most of what you said.
Just a little something: colegio means school. universidad means college. colegio is like highschool/middle school etc.
Awesome work guey!
Depends where you are, I know plenty of Mexicans who use colegio as college and universidad as university, my family is Bolivian so they say it how you've said it. Another distinction is "torta" to most a torta is a cake but to many Mexicans and I'm sure other Spanish speaking denominations it is referring to a sandwich
Where I’m from colegio means private school
In spain colegio is School like ages 3-12, highschool is Instituto, ages 12-18 and then universidad is college,
In upper Mexico, or in some parts of the US, escuela means school, but used to refer to high school or under. Though, I do hear it mean for any type of school. Colegio means college, universidad means university (the same way in English), or a private college.
Yeah it depends on the location. My Spanish is from around the Colima area in Mexico and we say escuela dor school, collegio for college, and universidad for university. Someone living in Colima might even say them differently. There's a lot of diversity in the language.
you're a genius, estoy impresionadísima por tu progreso en 7 días, ¡ánimo!
I'm spanish and I feel so proud of you brother!!!
I’m reading your book and it’s helping me learn a new language way easier . At first it was a bit difficult because i really don’t know where to start but thanks to the book I can now learn .
This motivates me to actually take learning russian seriously.
I know English and Spanish. And tried to learn Russian.
What it scares me it's all those new symbols and its pronunciations
@@octimus2000 I already know how to write in Russian I just need to actually lead what the words mean
Toilet Master Как твой прогресс, друг?
ikenna I discovered your channel about a month ago & I have been teaching myself spanish and I understood almost everything in this video because I watched it while playing fifa thank you ikenna from a fellow nigerian
Lol I talk to myself like this in Icelandic in the mirror but get so nervous when I'm able to speak to locals... one day I'll feel confident enough
Is Iceland nice I live in the US and would love to move there one day. Is the cost of living high? Do the locals speak English?
Garret Payne It’s a tad bit expensive in Iceland but it’s beautiful! Also, i would say about 90% of people in Iceland speak English :)
Íslenskaaaa ❤ I only know how to read it but not understand a thing 🤣
@@SR-xk5ih I think it's a really cool sounding language and its pretty much the only one that's evoked my interest. I have loose ambitions to someday move or go to school in Iceland too, I've found it to be a very pleasant and tight-knit community
Bien echo mano, eres tan inspirador. Gracias como siempre!
I'm gonna be participating in the challenge.
I'm gonna try to learn as much French as I can in 4 months
Pretty incredible. It took me about 8 or 9 months to get where you are at. Congrats. I now speak Spanish at an upper intermediate/low advanced level. After a year I finally felt comfortable having full conversations in Spanish. To anyone out there wondering...it can be done! Maybe not in 7 days...but don't give up!
So I get how you learned the words but how did you learn the grammar? I didn’t understand that part
That was in day 4 or 5 and watching english with spanish subtitles.
I was so nervous too! Nervous waiting to watch what happened. Great job man.
The subtitles of Spanish to English in 6:04 to 6:12 are wrong, he said that, he went to live in Germany 4 years ago, and he was living there 1 year, :)
You did fantastically well. It surprises me how similar french, English and Spanish are in many ways
Congratulations!! Spanish is very hard (I don't speak Spanish, but know a lot of the grammar and I can understand bcs I speak Portuguese and studied a little), and you were great
@Eric Rudn actually, afrikaan is the easiest language for english users to learn
@Eric Rudn lol or try Mandarin
@Eric Rudn maybe bcs they have more contact, but speaking a grammatically good spanish is very hard even for natives and he didn't make much mistakes
@@juliaabreus spanish really is rather easy for english speakers (compared to other languages). It is always difficult to 100% master a language though, because you will probably always make mistakes (just like native speakers will). That's not something specific to spanish.
That was amazing Ikena!!! In just 7 days you learned almost the same amount of Spanish I know!(I also found it so cool that I could understand you and the tutor) I've been learning Spanish in high school for 4 years now, and I'm going into level 3 Spanish. I only know as much as I do because I try to enjoy learning Spanish when my real passions are Korean and Japanese. This series just proves that the school language learning method doesn't work, and that If you want to learn a language and know how to do it, it can be done much more effectively. You never fail to inspire me to learn the languages I truly want to learn! Thank you so much Ikena!
3:23
*ME* *TRYING* *TO* *STUDY* *NEW* *LANGUAGES*
THIS IS SO MOTIVATING OMG!!!
Wow in my life of speaking Spanish for my 12 years in life I never knew how to say Russia lmao
Edit: YOUR SPANISH IS SO DANG GOOODDDDDD FOR JUST 7 DAYS MATE! IM SO PROUD!!
How I love seeing peoples trying hard to achieve something that is something simmilar to my goals..I feel very motivated and Exciiteeeed!!
Pretty girl on the screen.
"my girlfriend is back there!"
exactly what I was thinking about xD
Just purchased your book. So ready to finally become fluent in Spanish. I've been on this journey for 25+ if you count my mom speaking Spanish and English to me when I first started learning how to talk (we'ee black btw, and she learned from her friends growing up in Los Angeles). When I was 7, someone bought me a book and tape set to learn Spanish because they knew how much I really wanted to learn. I've practiced on and off and can sing and rap in Spanish, but still not fluent. I'm going to seriously practice so I can be fluent within a year. Thanks so much again for this. I will use this to learn the other languages I'm interested in like French and Mandarin. Love your channel, all the best! ❤
Now hold a Conversation in all the languages you know with laoshu
Three Two it’s not possible I think , cause Laoshu he’s in the different world
I am currently learning Spanish too, I thought my progress was okay, not great! But after listening to these conversations I understood every word and would of been able to participate very easily! Thanks for this realisation! Really appreciate it.
FINALLY, YES
This was great. People act as though they doubt make mistakes when speaking. Thanks for showing us your learning experience of making mistakes is okay!
11:16 me alegro de que ahora estés bueno.
Im happy that you are hot now,("Estar bueno" is a colloquial way to say that you are attractive)
En que país? Estoy un extranjero que vive en España, y nunca he oído esa frase
dustyshop90 En españa es bastante habitual
@@MCinmystileESP Y en hispanoamérica también.
@@dustyshop90 En todo los países hispanos xd
Ole! Increible progreso en solo 7 días, sin duda es un genio.
Did u cut out the part where u used duo lingo??
Wow, you did really well for 7 days. This was awesome to watch, I need to step my game up.
That fist tutor was like 'this idiot' I really prefer HT. Saludos desde LATAM.
Yo estudiaba el español en la escuela por cuatro años. Aprendí muchas palabras, frases, y verbos. Mi lectura y acento estaban perfectos. Entendí cuando otros hablaban, pero no pudo hablar para responderles. En aquel tiempo, yo era muy tímida. Después de un tiempo, cuando decidí hablar a pesar de mi timidez, empecé aprender mucho más. Otra cosa que me ayude mucho era convivir con gente hispanohablante. Todavía tengo mucho para aprender, pero he progresado mucho en los años pasados. Me gustaría aprender más idiomas como usted. Me inspira para continuar la lucha.
Me: *has been learning Spanish for 1 month and only knows the very basics*
Ikenna: *am i a joke to you?*
I mean, 1 month for the basics is not that bad, I attended a German course for also 1 month but there was no way I could have a normal conversation, even the simplest of topics.
Keep it up
I was really surprised at how well you did, great job!!
How tf did you mix Japanese and Spanish "eto" Wtf😂
BRUH IN SEVEN DAYS THO HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE
@Jan Kasaew but those 2 languages are very similar I don't see any connections with Spanish and Japanese so that's why
This's amazing Ikenna, I've been whatching your videos since I've come to America and you inspire me. I always wanted to learn languages and one of them is English now I'm doing good with it also I've bought your book (flouncy made easy) I'm still reading it. So I've decided to start now learning my favorite language japanes now I believe in myself more than any time else. Thank you Ikenna for inspiring me.