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Muchísimas gracias por el vídeo! You mentioned about how Puerto Ricans pronounce syllable final -R as -L, just as many Caribbeans and southern Spaniards, yet there's something (I think) exclusively Puerto Rican you didn't mention, which is the throaty pronunciation of RR or initial R-. Interestingly this is something to be found in Portuguese too, not in other varieties of Spanish. 😁 Anyway the word "Puerto Rican" itself in Spanish shows exactly these two phenomena typical of the island: pueLtoJJiqueño 😉 (sorry Idk how to spell that throaty sound of RR 😅) Keep up the good work! 👍🏾😃
Muchacho = 'acho o 'chacho Guillado = guilla'o Guillada = guillá' Enfogonado = enfogona'o Enfogonada = enfogoná' Enfogonado(a) = enojado(a) ¿Qué es lo que hay? si No ¿Que es la que hay? Ahorita = 'horita Beer = birra Está palabra no la he escuchado en Puerto Rico, y sí la he escuchado mucho en la ciudad de Nueva York. Pelado = pela'o Acicalado = acicala'o (En los años 60's acicala'o significaba estar bien vestido y presentable) Autobus = guagua Parquear = palquear = aparcar o estacionar Truck = camión o guagua Al garete = desastre o desorden Bochinche = chisme = cotilleo Cafre = kafre Esta palabra surge del árabe Kafir (pagano). Se refiere a cafrería una antigua región del sudeste de África o a sus habitantes.
YAY!!! Finally a Puerto Rican teacher XD XD I'm studying Spanish and I'm trying to learn the PR accent since my family lives on the island. I want to learn more about my culture and the Spanish dialect they speak as well.
Our PUERTO RICAN dialect sounds different to alot of latino countries, cause we have TIANO words, African words, ENGLISH AND SPANISH. AND WE MAKE UP WORDS TOO. PROUD TO BE DIFFERENT, AND GLAD THAT YOUR TEACHING OUR CARIBBEAN'S culture. BORICUA FOR LIFE.
jaja sí! We have words from everywhere. It's what makes it so beautiful and of course, in my opinion, the best Spanish jaja. But obviously I'm biased. "YO SOY BORICUA PA K TU LO SEPA!!" JAJA
Also, PR was severed from Spain in the Spanish-American war (1898), so it went straight from being directly governed by Spain under the King of Spain, to being a U.S. Territory with an autonomous government, fairly recently.
I’m Puerto Rican and Mexican. My grandparents are native to Puerto Rico and my dads from Mexico. I didn’t grow up learning Spanish unfortunately and I get a lot of hate for not knowing Spanish. I could learn either Mexican Spanish or Puerto Rican Spanish but I wanna learn Puerto Rican Spanish because it’s just so unique and different. Hoping to learn more with you. Great work.
Knowing basic Spanish first could be easier and then the slang words after. The slang words and our pronunciation is what someone would use to differentiate a Puerto Rican from a Mexican.
Same here my pops is PR/Haitian and my mother is black and no one knew how to speak it except for my grandmother but she passed before I could become more fluent and I get so much crap for not being able to speak it
It's never too late to learn. I'm American, my boyfriend is Puerto Rican, and he tells me that I speak more Spanish than some of the Puerto Ricans in our neighborhood.(well our old neighborhood, we've since moved to GA) I'm passionate about learning and I learn something new everyday. Good luck
@@SpeakSpanishFaster Certainly more videos like this! If it were purely up to me, I could use more advanced listening exercises with Puerto Rican Spanish. I'm at a fairly high level by now, but the Puerto Ricans in my area are still a challenge for me to understand and I'm interested in anything that could help me. The listening exercises you've already done are cool but a little easy for the level I'm at now. But of course, I'm just one guy! Not gonna expect you to tailor a video just for me! :)
@@SpeakSpanishFaster Quizas tambien hacer videos donde hablas de temas diferentes pero solo en español y con tu acento puertorriqueño 😍. Gracias por el video por cierto hermano. Veo que eschuas las sugurencias de tus siguidores. Apreciamos eso mucho!!
The word "chavo" comes from old Spanish "ochavo" which was a coin used in Spain and its colonies, PR being one of them of course. So that's why we PRs still use it to refer to money. Same reason we use the word "peso" instead of dollar. I learned this years ago in Spanish lit class when I went to the University of PR in the 90s. I didn't see gufeo/gufeao/gufeá which was very popular in late 70s and through the 80s and GenXrs and maybe early millennials probably still use. 😊🇵🇷
Damn I worked with mexicanos for 9 years and learned a lot of mexican spanish, I changed jobs to another company and we're getting some puerto rican guys, I thought I would be good with the language barrier, but damn puerto rican spanish is wayyy different, I got a lot to learn!
Man, I wasn't taught Spanish growing up, but my family is from Puerto Rico, and when my mom/uncle's/grandparents would speak in Spanish, I always felt it sounded different from other people who spoke Spanish. Really glad I'm not crazy, and I'm looking forward to learning Spanish now! Great video!
My family is Italian. The neighborhood I grew up in was half Italian/ Puerto Rican. To this day most of my friends are PR. I know Italian, I know Spanish from hanging around my friends houses. The 2 languages are so close if you know one the others no problems. I picked up ALL the PR differences .Dropping the D, LLs as J, Dropping the S. All that. I worked with a guy, Jose, from Guatemala, my Spanish made him crazy.
Hey Gary thanks so much! Italian is another language close to my heart. I also speak Italian. Now I'm trying to learn Napolitano! I've always loved Italy and it's by far my favorite country in the world... and the debate is not even close. But yes, learning Italian was easy because it is so similar to Spanish :)
Funny you should mention this...I’m writing a book-two main characters are Italian and, you guessed it-Puerto Rican. Problem is, they’re very young, and it’s 1958 in Brooklyn, NY. -yeah. Ppl weren’t as open-minded or tolerant as they are now. I’m neither ethnicity (☘️🍺🥨), so these videos really are indispensable.
The lls as J sound is not exclusive to PR. You will hear it also in Andalusia and other countries too. It probably stems from a lot of immigrants coming to the islands from when they were exiled 😊
I love these Puerto Rican spanish videos! My goal is to speak fluently in this dialect. I am part Puerto Rican from my fathers side of the family who are from New York, however I am from Arizona. I took spanish throughout elementary and highschool, but being in Arizona its more of the Mexican dialect. I can read in spanish perfectly (although most the time i have no idea what im saying 🤣) I can understand some spanish when im listening if its spoken slow enough, and i can order my food. Thats about it. I dont know enough to have a long conversation, but i can "get around" if I need to. I just bought your 7 day spanish program! Im super excited because i want to speak fluent spanish! Please do more Puerto Rican spanish lessons 🙏 thank you for everything!
@@kanorysvelez2896 it is a dialect, those are slang words yes but Puerto Rican Spanish is completely different. We drop S’s. Change R’s into LS, drop D’s.
Being fluent in Portuguese since a child, and being half puerto Rican is like a tease. I understand so much but just can't reciprocate the notion. This is helping me Alot.
I was born from 2 Puerto Rican parents my dad doesn’t speak any Spanish but my mom does a lil bit and she tried to teach us but my father refused so 18 years later I’m tryna get closer to my heritage with the language and dances and other stuff and your videos are helping a lot I’m still a beginner tho💛
I'm Puerto Rican too and my parents are fluent in spanish but never taught me or my brothers. Now at 19 im trying to learn the language and get connected to my culture. We're in this together homie
I hear you!! Both my parents speak Spanish. I asked my pop why he didn't make us speak Spanish. He said, you will learn Spanish at school. In middle school we had the option to learn a different language in 6th grade. I chose the beginner option, which was, French, German, and Spanish. I passed French and German with A's and Spanish-a 70. (They were teaching me Mexican Spanish) Two different languages without my knowing. The cool thing with learning you Puerto Rican Spanish....some of our words are unique to us because of our Taíno heritage. We are a unique group of people. Keep learning!! 💖💗❤ Keep searching!!
@@untitleddocument9299 I’m in the same boat bro lol, just started learning. I would be down if we all started a group chat just so we can practice Spanish together or just for motivation lol
My mom sold our house and moved to Puerto Rico 20 years ago... I've had a few set backs and am going to move in with her for a few months. I know some Spanish, the the PR dialect has always eluded me, and she has difficulty as well even though she's been there so long. Any suggestions? I'm trying to learn vanilla Spanish but when I go down there, it sounds like people are speaking a foreign language.
I am moving there also. The podcasts help a lot, like chente and Molusco, but the subtitles are always auto and inaccurate or nonsense due to the dialect. I found a site that has people talk in the dialect and then you can read along for the specific PR dialect. I’ll post it next here in a reply. And these vids are a huge help.
Soy el único que piensa que el muchacho tiene acento dominicano más que puertorriqueño? Además algunos de los ejemplos tienen más de un significado. Pero buen video de igual forma.
I was raised around Spanish from Mexico and Guatemala. And we have a bunch of people who’ve moved here for work from Puerto Rico and I have a hard time understanding them sometimes. This definitely helped. I’ve definitely heard some of these words. Lol I’ll definitely be practicing them. Thank you!
Haha, I'm glad I found this. I'm a lousy Puerto Rican - my father was from Cabo Rojo (he was part Yugoslavian/Polish/Russian, in fact, which is why I have a weird ass name for a Rican) and my mom was from San Juan (Spaniard/Taino) - and I can barely speak the language.
I'm part Puerto Rican. Born and grew up in San Diego to a mixed family of Mexican, Filipino, and white. Just moved to Florida and people say and ask me things in this dialect since I look the part lol, so i'm here to learn some of my culture. Thanks for the video.
Oh, also, there is a woman who does vlogs from PR. She does a great job of explaining the etymology of our Puerto Rican words. It really clicked for me why we use certain words: from the Tainos, and African roots!
13:01 enfogonao... Really upset... Fogón is where you cook with fire and wood. Gets really hot... So you ou get angry...hot tempered... Enfogonao.. En fogón... in fire ( not on fire that's next up)
@@SpeakSpanishFaster I work at a Starbucks where we have lots of Latino customers. I try to use the Spanish I know when I can to practice. It’s nerve wracking when your Spanish is so bad hahaha
Guagua en Chile es un bebé. Parquear o aparcar en correcto castellano es estacionar. Estoy bregando es estoy ocupado(a). Ahora es en el momento. Ahorita es después o de aquí a un rato. Esta dos palabras para los mexicanos es invertido el sentido de ambas palabras. Gracias a Dios, no todos los puertorriqueños hablan "spanglish". Cafre o Kafre es una palabra de origen africano, llevada a Puerto Rico por los esclavos de África que los españoles llevaron a partir del siglo XV. Esencialmente son o eran una raza africana.
i’m filipino and puerto rican, but i know neither language nor culture 😭 i know some spanish because of my colombian mother in-law, but i’m nowhere near fluent
Thank you for this!! I come from a Mexican-Purto Rican family, and many of these words I do know because we use them around the house, but when my family comes from PR from the holidays this will be really useful! I appreciate all of your videos, they have actually significantly improved my Spanish and Spanish listening!!
I've never heard "birras" in PR. We say "cervezas". And for "brutal" I've mostly heard it with "estar" like "esa pelocula estuvo brutal". But I can see "fue" being used
Ah, come on , yo no hablo así.por eso es que las otras naciones hacen burla de nosotros los puertorriqueños,porque hemos adoptado un lenguaje callejero y que pertenecen a las gangas. Esas francés son del bajo mundo.
¿ Que es la que hay, Rocky? I'm ready for my lessons when its not hurricane season I'll go to 🇵🇷 but June is my birthday month which is June 6th♊ I would love to have 🇵🇷 desert as my birthday cake like a flan or something I'm excited to learn 🇵🇷 spanish
This was great! I’m half Puerto Rican and half Armenian. Grew up speaking Armenian and never practiced Spanish until high school. Finally trying to dive in this year and these videos have been so helpful!! Thanks!
THIS video is a godsend, since I'm actually writing a romance novel between two young ppl-one Italian and her boyfriend, Puerto Rican. The problem is, it's set (initially ) in 1958 Brooklyn when ppl were not as tolerant or open-minded...since I'm neither ethnicity and don't speak a word of Spanish, this has been HUGELY helpful. Big ups to you! 👍🏻
Hola papi. Gracias por tu vídeo. Supe unas palabras/frases pero quisiera más vídeos sobre español puertorriqueño. Me encanta el acento y quiero vivir en PR algún día. Necesito practicar más para mi primero viaje. I want to be fluent and speak to locals porque yo soy Boricua adoptada pa' que tu lo sepas. WEEEPPPAAA!! 💖🇵🇷💖🇵🇷💖🇵🇷
jaja si claro! Voy a ti! Tu puedes hacer todo lo que quieres no te preocupes. All you have to do is consume all Puerto Rican input. Listen to nothing but Puerto Rican shows, interviews, etc :)
Tu no eres una “boricua adoptada “ tu eres Una gringa so No , pr doesn’t need anymore gringos moving to the island either. We have enough gringos colonizing the island !
Thanks..I appreciate this. i was talking to a dominican chick that likes the puerto rican accent. I'm puerto rican but sound closer to a dominican..lol great job!
Amigo la palabra Guagua se creo en Cuba como una forma de reducir el nombre de la compania de transporte Wa & Wa Co. Inc. (Washington, Walton, and Company Incorporated) que llevaban las primeras guaguas llevadas a Cuba por los americanos. No sabía que en Puerto Rico se usara también esta palabra. Aquí en las Islas canarias también la usamos, así que ya tienes otro lugar para añadir a la lista. Saludos desde Gran Canaria.
This right here is a public service. Thanks for doing it. Regular Spanish classes are more confusing than helpful when it comes to trying to talk to family on the island that don't know a lick of English. They never understand the Spain or South American Spanish words I learned in school so might as well speak English to them lol... this is really helpful!
It is a dialect that is considered "non-standard". In other words, not the "formal" language of Castilian Spanish. It is called "dialecto Caribeño" and is spoken primarily by Spanish speaking people of the Caribbean Islands including Cuba, Puerto Rico and The Dominican Republic.
Do you think you could recommend books written by Puertorican authors that may or may not use these terms? Currently I’m watching El Ganador: Nicky Jam on Netflix and it does help
44 yr old Puerto Rican..."mete mano"...can also mean having sex.... 1. Esos metieron mano...they had sex 2. Acho.."yo"...acho man..."yo man" 3. Broki....brother..dude 4. Gufiao...cool That's more older Puerto Rican slang.
Hola gracias por hacer esto es que yo vivo en los estados y mi familia vive en la isla y yo puedo entender a mi familia pero no estoy tan bien a hablarlo
After living a total of 25 years in Arizona, and a 2 year stay in Madrid, Espana, I feel like my Spanish (slang) is so mixed up. So, I stick to the basic “Castellano” so I can communicate with any Spanish speaker. My daughter just started learning Spanish in High School, where she could only learn Latin at her school for middle school. I’m excited for her to learn, but being a native nuyorican, I miss hearing a lot of these words you’re teaching! Love it! Of course, I’ll have to wait until my girl gets a good base before throwing these sayings at her, but when I take my family back to PR, your video will be priceless!! It made me nostalgic to hear some words my grandmother used to say like revolu!!! 👍
Yes please more Puertorican Spanish dialect videos. I’m tired of learning Castilian Spanish from Spain and not being able to understand Bad Bunny or Jhay Cortez lol
Hola amigo acabo de descubrir tus videos y me sorprende que no sepas que la mayor parte de las expresiones que estás diciendo son procedentes en verdad de las islas Canarias. La palabra Guagua es 100% de la isla y los emigrantes Canarios en el siglo pasado la llevaron para el caribe especialmente a Cuba y Puerto Rico. Bueno como veo que no conoces nuestra forma de hablarte dejo un pequeño video para que lo identifiques y lo compares con el acento de tu isla th-cam.com/video/QNoyqT7gHAY/w-d-xo.html Un saludo desde las Islas hermanas 🇮🇨🌴🇵🇷
Haha, I didn’t know the first phrase was an actual saying, but I immediately recognized it from Ivy Queen’s song, Yo Quiero Bailar, where she says “Mujeres, pa’ la disco a bailar; ven demuéstrale a tu man qué es la que hay” 😆
Hi! I appreciate you teaching me P.R....I'm P..R myself and I knew the language pretty good! When I_9 yr.old. iehad a stroke. Then in in comma 11 day.I didn't know how to talk, walk,write ect ..I lost my Spanish since then. I' m glad I found you.! I was going to see if you could us a favor and everything word you said in Spanish.make like a game. Like a mmix puzzle to see which one that you said is correct.put 1 side English the other Spanish. If that take to much of your time then I'llunderstand. Have a blessing day!
PR Spanish: to call a female very beautiful or sweet heart "Chula". PR Spanish: see you later "habamos". Something like saying speak. PR Spanish: hurry up "avansa".
Sorry to hear about that, but in Puerto Rico's public school no enseñan ese idioma , esa frace es callejera .no es corriculum del departamento de instrucción pública de PR. Las escuelas públicas de Puerto Rico no enseñan ese idioma. Te lo dice un puertorriqueño que estudió en las escuelas públicas de PR. Amén y gloria a Dios.
“Brutal” seems like American English where ppl say “that’s sick”, as in, something is so good that it’s gonna make you sick, or it’s so good it’s “brutal” enough to end you. Kinda like with “duro/a” being “hard” but in a good, tough way.
Thank you so much.. I think your teachings are great. I would love the link you have to learn more Spanish please because I want to learn more and be efficient so I can teach or interpret for people in need. I never ever comment on people u tube channels this is the first time ever, but your teachings really inspired me too!
Ive heard these words before from other Latin American countries but they mean something else. I've heard Dominicans say pelao to young naughty kids, pantalla is like the TV screen. I heard Venezuelan say chavo as a guy. Ive heard Panamanian say chupar like drinking. The word I say a lot is Que Joroba as in Darn it but it can mean a back hump in other Latin countries.
Nobody needs to learn derogatory terms for women, so I wish you hadn't included 'yall' in your otherwise excellent video on Puerto Rican colloquialisms. Thanks anyway.
It’s unfortunate that the PR language is being saturated by the terminology used by the reggaeton genre which promotes violence, pornography, criminality, discord and overall negativity being adapted world wide. I grew up with the idiosyncratic words used on the island and I found them amusing and proud that this small island had their own unique vocabulary. Let’s try an focus and celebrate the wonderful things in life!
Just did some research and the Caribbean Spanish came from the Spaniards who settle in Puerto Rico, Cuba, DR and Venezuela who came from the grand Canary Islands their accent is the same. The word wawa is a Taino word for transit.
Muchas gracias a todos por ver el video! Me encantar hacerlos para ustedes 🤗! Don't forget to check out our Free Training where we reveal our 3 Biggest Secrets to become fluent in Spanish... Check that out here 👉speakspanishfaster.com/youtube
Muchísimas gracias por el vídeo!
You mentioned about how Puerto Ricans pronounce syllable final -R as -L, just as many Caribbeans and southern Spaniards, yet there's something (I think) exclusively Puerto Rican you didn't mention, which is the throaty pronunciation of RR or initial R-. Interestingly this is something to be found in Portuguese too, not in other varieties of Spanish. 😁
Anyway the word "Puerto Rican" itself in Spanish shows exactly these two phenomena typical of the island: pueLtoJJiqueño 😉 (sorry Idk how to spell that throaty sound of RR 😅)
Keep up the good work! 👍🏾😃
You're very smart, young and handsome guy!
Muchacho = 'acho o 'chacho
Guillado = guilla'o
Guillada = guillá'
Enfogonado = enfogona'o
Enfogonada = enfogoná'
Enfogonado(a) =
enojado(a)
¿Qué es lo que hay? si
No ¿Que es la que hay?
Ahorita = 'horita
Beer = birra Está palabra no la he escuchado en Puerto Rico, y sí la he escuchado mucho en la ciudad de Nueva York.
Pelado = pela'o
Acicalado = acicala'o (En los años 60's acicala'o significaba estar bien vestido y presentable)
Autobus = guagua
Parquear = palquear = aparcar o estacionar
Truck = camión o guagua
Al garete = desastre o desorden
Bochinche = chisme = cotilleo
Cafre = kafre Esta palabra surge del árabe Kafir (pagano). Se refiere a cafrería una antigua región del sudeste de África o a sus habitantes.
@@xolang
Fist time that I know about that throaty sound that you said about Puerto Ricans when they speak Spanish.
YAY!!! Finally a Puerto Rican teacher XD XD I'm studying Spanish and I'm trying to learn the PR accent since my family lives on the island. I want to learn more about my culture and the Spanish dialect they speak as well.
Hey Cassandra! Yup I"m here now hahah! I'm happy to help you out as much as possible!
Same!
me too!! i was never taught spanish but i really wanna be able to communicate with my side of the family thats PR
¡me tambien! bueno suerto cousin🇵🇷
@@acay2282 facts
Our PUERTO RICAN dialect sounds different to alot of latino countries, cause we have TIANO words, African words, ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
AND WE MAKE UP WORDS TOO.
PROUD TO BE DIFFERENT, AND GLAD THAT YOUR TEACHING OUR CARIBBEAN'S culture. BORICUA FOR LIFE.
jaja sí! We have words from everywhere. It's what makes it so beautiful and of course, in my opinion, the best Spanish jaja. But obviously I'm biased. "YO SOY BORICUA PA K TU LO SEPA!!" JAJA
im sure that goes for all Latin America lol unless you think they all speak like Spaniards LMAO
I'm Nicaraguan and I love Puerto Rican spanish
Also, PR was severed from Spain in the Spanish-American war (1898), so it went straight from being directly governed by Spain under the King of Spain, to being a U.S. Territory with an autonomous government, fairly recently.
Dominicans and Cuban got that influence as well, but Ricans do have more taino
I’m Puerto Rican and Mexican. My grandparents are native to Puerto Rico and my dads from Mexico. I didn’t grow up learning Spanish unfortunately and I get a lot of hate for not knowing Spanish. I could learn either Mexican Spanish or Puerto Rican Spanish but I wanna learn Puerto Rican Spanish because it’s just so unique and different. Hoping to learn more with you. Great work.
Thanks so much for watching :)
Me to I was never thought Spanish even that I grew up in a Hispanic household
Knowing basic Spanish first could be easier and then the slang words after. The slang words and our pronunciation is what someone would use to differentiate a Puerto Rican from a Mexican.
Same here my pops is PR/Haitian and my mother is black and no one knew how to speak it except for my grandmother but she passed before I could become more fluent and I get so much crap for not being able to speak it
It's never too late to learn. I'm American, my boyfriend is Puerto Rican, and he tells me that I speak more Spanish than some of the Puerto Ricans in our neighborhood.(well our old neighborhood, we've since moved to GA) I'm passionate about learning and I learn something new everyday. Good luck
im already boricua but i just love coming here and reminding myself these words exist even if i say em in a daily basis😂
I’m so sad I didn’t get to grow up on the island
Thanks dude! Would love some more Puerto Rico content when you can!
No problem amigo! What more would you like to know? I'd be happy to help!
@@SpeakSpanishFaster Certainly more videos like this! If it were purely up to me, I could use more advanced listening exercises with Puerto Rican Spanish. I'm at a fairly high level by now, but the Puerto Ricans in my area are still a challenge for me to understand and I'm interested in anything that could help me. The listening exercises you've already done are cool but a little easy for the level I'm at now. But of course, I'm just one guy! Not gonna expect you to tailor a video just for me! :)
@@SamuraiSam Thanks so much for your feedback. I will definitely keep that in mind while creating :) Thanks so much.
@@SpeakSpanishFaster Quizas tambien hacer videos donde hablas de temas diferentes pero solo en español y con tu acento puertorriqueño 😍. Gracias por el video por cierto hermano. Veo que eschuas las sugurencias de tus siguidores. Apreciamos eso mucho!!
@@TJ-og6bh Muchas gracias amigo!! Lo voy a hacer!
The word "chavo" comes from old Spanish "ochavo" which was a coin used in Spain and its colonies, PR being one of them of course. So that's why we PRs still use it to refer to money. Same reason we use the word "peso" instead of dollar. I learned this years ago in Spanish lit class when I went to the University of PR in the 90s.
I didn't see gufeo/gufeao/gufeá which was very popular in late 70s and through the 80s and GenXrs and maybe early millennials probably still use. 😊🇵🇷
Thanks for your feedback Arlene. You learn something new every day! This is awesome.
Good to know
I’m here cause I wanna understand better Bad Bunny lyrics lmaoo
Damn I worked with mexicanos for 9 years and learned a lot of mexican spanish, I changed jobs to another company and we're getting some puerto rican guys, I thought I would be good with the language barrier, but damn puerto rican spanish is wayyy different, I got a lot to learn!
Haha I'll help you :)
Boricuas rlly b like “que la qué hay”
Man, I wasn't taught Spanish growing up, but my family is from Puerto Rico, and when my mom/uncle's/grandparents would speak in Spanish, I always felt it sounded different from other people who spoke Spanish. Really glad I'm not crazy, and I'm looking forward to learning Spanish now! Great video!
My family is Italian. The neighborhood I grew up in was half Italian/ Puerto Rican. To this day most of my friends are PR. I know Italian, I know Spanish from hanging around my friends houses. The 2 languages are so close if you know one the others no problems. I picked up ALL the PR differences .Dropping the D, LLs as J, Dropping the S. All that. I worked with a guy, Jose, from Guatemala, my Spanish made him crazy.
Hey Gary thanks so much! Italian is another language close to my heart. I also speak Italian. Now I'm trying to learn Napolitano! I've always loved Italy and it's by far my favorite country in the world... and the debate is not even close. But yes, learning Italian was easy because it is so similar to Spanish :)
@@SpeakSpanishFaster they’re sister languages..
Funny you should mention this...I’m writing a book-two main characters are Italian and, you guessed it-Puerto Rican. Problem is, they’re very young, and it’s 1958 in Brooklyn, NY. -yeah. Ppl weren’t as open-minded or tolerant as they are now. I’m neither ethnicity (☘️🍺🥨), so these videos really are indispensable.
The lls as J sound is not exclusive to PR. You will hear it also in Andalusia and other countries too. It probably stems from a lot of immigrants coming to the islands from when they were exiled 😊
Acho ese video estaba brutal!!!.....God Bless you my brother!!
Muchas gracias Arnaldo!!
I love these Puerto Rican spanish videos! My goal is to speak fluently in this dialect. I am part Puerto Rican from my fathers side of the family who are from New York, however I am from Arizona. I took spanish throughout elementary and highschool, but being in Arizona its more of the Mexican dialect. I can read in spanish perfectly (although most the time i have no idea what im saying 🤣) I can understand some spanish when im listening if its spoken slow enough, and i can order my food. Thats about it. I dont know enough to have a long conversation, but i can "get around" if I need to.
I just bought your 7 day spanish program! Im super excited because i want to speak fluent spanish! Please do more Puerto Rican spanish lessons 🙏 thank you for everything!
Puertorrican spanish it isn’t a dialect, those are simply slang words.
@@kanorysvelez2896 it is a dialect, those are slang words yes but Puerto Rican Spanish is completely different. We drop S’s. Change R’s into LS, drop D’s.
You look pretty black to me
Wow amazing
Being fluent in Portuguese since a child, and being half puerto Rican is like a tease.
I understand so much but just can't reciprocate the notion.
This is helping me Alot.
Este video fue BRUTAL!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥 Este tipo de info es EXACTAMENTE lo que necesito para mejorar mi espanol coloquial. Asi que, MUCHAS GRACIAS!!! 🙏👏🙌
De nada Vonni!!
Acho also means like "dang" or "damn"
Gracias Coqui! Sigue agregando palabras si quieres :)
Thank You!!! Been living in PR 3 years That was a recent new word thats I was working out meaning for thanks for making it clear!!
Chacho!😂
I was born from 2 Puerto Rican parents my dad doesn’t speak any Spanish but my mom does a lil bit and she tried to teach us but my father refused so 18 years later I’m tryna get closer to my heritage with the language and dances and other stuff and your videos are helping a lot I’m still a beginner tho💛
Lmfao, I’m no where near being Puerto Rican (I’m Norwegian), lmfao
Yo fax same
I'm Puerto Rican too and my parents are fluent in spanish but never taught me or my brothers. Now at 19 im trying to learn the language and get connected to my culture. We're in this together homie
I hear you!! Both my parents speak Spanish. I asked my pop why he didn't make us speak Spanish. He said, you will learn Spanish at school. In middle school we had the option to learn a different language in 6th grade. I chose the beginner option, which was, French, German, and Spanish. I passed French and German with A's and Spanish-a 70. (They were teaching me Mexican Spanish) Two different languages without my knowing. The cool thing with learning you Puerto Rican Spanish....some of our words are unique to us because of our Taíno heritage. We are a unique group of people. Keep learning!! 💖💗❤ Keep searching!!
@@untitleddocument9299 I’m in the same boat bro lol, just started learning. I would be down if we all started a group chat just so we can practice Spanish together or just for motivation lol
Yay I'm rican and trying to learn our dialect but it's hard to find many resources
My mom sold our house and moved to Puerto Rico 20 years ago... I've had a few set backs and am going to move in with her for a few months. I know some Spanish, the the PR dialect has always eluded me, and she has difficulty as well even though she's been there so long. Any suggestions? I'm trying to learn vanilla Spanish but when I go down there, it sounds like people are speaking a foreign language.
I am moving to Puerto Rico in January. I'm so excited, I only know Bad Bunny lyrics and nothing that will actually help me speak to people.
Lol I recommend start watching some Puerto Rican stuff on TH-cam. Look up MoluscoTV!
Also use Pimsleur app 15 a month can have you talking in 2 months and having full convos in 5 months
I am moving there also. The podcasts help a lot, like chente and Molusco, but the subtitles are always auto and inaccurate or nonsense due to the dialect. I found a site that has people talk in the dialect and then you can read along for the specific PR dialect. I’ll post it next here in a reply. And these vids are a huge help.
@@Sfeliciano4 What's the site?
Language transfer Spanish on TH-cam helps a lot !
Soy el único que piensa que el muchacho tiene acento dominicano más que puertorriqueño? Además algunos de los ejemplos tienen más de un significado. Pero buen video de igual forma.
Moving to Puerto Rico tm, I'm trying my best to learn the language, thank you for this helpful video
You can do it! Muchas gracias por ver!
I was raised around Spanish from Mexico and Guatemala. And we have a bunch of people who’ve moved here for work from Puerto Rico and I have a hard time understanding them sometimes. This definitely helped. I’ve definitely heard some of these words. Lol I’ll definitely be practicing them. Thank you!
Haha, I'm glad I found this. I'm a lousy Puerto Rican - my father was from Cabo Rojo (he was part Yugoslavian/Polish/Russian, in fact, which is why I have a weird ass name for a Rican) and my mom was from San Juan (Spaniard/Taino) - and I can barely speak the language.
I'm part Puerto Rican. Born and grew up in San Diego to a mixed family of Mexican, Filipino, and white. Just moved to Florida and people say and ask me things in this dialect since I look the part lol, so i'm here to learn some of my culture. Thanks for the video.
LMAO. "Yo, that's fire!" Rolling! 😂 I knew exactly where you were going too. Too good.
Oh, also, there is a woman who does vlogs from PR. She does a great job of explaining the etymology of our Puerto Rican words. It really clicked for me why we use certain words: from the Tainos, and African roots!
what is the channel name?
ACHO yes I’ve heard this many times living in the Bronx
I'm PRican and I didn't know we currently use the word birras for cervezas 😅
I’m half white half Puerto Rican and get a lot of hate from my family for not knowing Spanish and this is already helping a lot
same
13:01 enfogonao... Really upset... Fogón is where you cook with fire and wood. Gets really hot... So you ou get angry...hot tempered... Enfogonao.. En fogón... in fire ( not on fire that's next up)
This is so helpful! I’m half Puerto Rican and my Spanish is pretty bad lmao. Although I’m trying to learn, I want to learn Puerto Rican Spanish too!
Don't worry each day you can get better!
@@SpeakSpanishFaster I work at a Starbucks where we have lots of Latino customers. I try to use the Spanish I know when I can to practice. It’s nerve wracking when your Spanish is so bad hahaha
Guagua en Chile es un bebé.
Parquear o aparcar en correcto castellano es estacionar.
Estoy bregando es estoy ocupado(a).
Ahora es en el momento.
Ahorita es después o de aquí a un rato. Esta dos palabras para los mexicanos es invertido el sentido de ambas palabras.
Gracias a Dios, no todos los puertorriqueños hablan "spanglish".
Cafre o Kafre es una palabra de origen africano, llevada a Puerto Rico por los esclavos de África que los españoles llevaron a partir del siglo XV. Esencialmente son o eran una raza africana.
Guagua is used too in Canary Islands, Spain
i’m filipino and puerto rican, but i know neither language nor culture 😭 i know some spanish because of my colombian mother in-law, but i’m nowhere near fluent
I know you put in a lot of effort to all your videos but the 🇵🇷🇵🇷Spanish is the one I wanna learn can you please do more of puertorican Spanish
Thank you for this!! I come from a Mexican-Purto Rican family, and many of these words I do know because we use them around the house, but when my family comes from PR from the holidays this will be really useful! I appreciate all of your videos, they have actually significantly improved my Spanish and Spanish listening!!
Thank you so much for the kind words Analayah! I'm happy I could be of some assistance :)
Same girl im the same mexican and puerto rican
MexyRican here too!
I've never heard "birras" in PR. We say "cervezas". And for "brutal" I've mostly heard it with "estar" like "esa pelocula estuvo brutal". But I can see "fue" being used
My dad side is partial Puerto Rican but I didn't grow up with them , thank you this really helps
Ah, come on , yo no hablo así.por eso es que las otras naciones hacen burla de nosotros los puertorriqueños,porque hemos adoptado un lenguaje callejero y que pertenecen a las gangas. Esas francés son del bajo mundo.
¿ Que es la que hay, Rocky? I'm ready for my lessons when its not hurricane season I'll go to 🇵🇷 but June is my birthday month which is June 6th♊ I would love to have 🇵🇷 desert as my birthday cake like a flan or something I'm excited to learn 🇵🇷 spanish
This was great! I’m half Puerto Rican and half Armenian. Grew up speaking Armenian and never practiced Spanish until high school. Finally trying to dive in this year and these videos have been so helpful!! Thanks!
My husband is Puerto Rican and our kids are Black and Latino, so I want to learn it.
I'm Puerto rican/Peruvian and I'm really trying to learn Spanish because my parents never taught me
Bro this is crazy cuz I used to watch u to learn basketball and jumping and now I’m learning Spanish from u
That's correct all those graces are teach in Puerto Rico public school. they belongsto the gangas,you said it.
THIS video is a godsend, since I'm actually writing a romance novel between two young ppl-one Italian and her boyfriend, Puerto Rican. The problem is, it's set (initially ) in 1958 Brooklyn when ppl were not as tolerant or open-minded...since I'm neither ethnicity and don't speak a word of Spanish, this has been HUGELY helpful. Big ups to you! 👍🏻
Thanks so much for the kind words! I'm happy you enjoyed it!
West side story backward ?
Acho is also used when something goes wrong as a short of diache(diantre) sometimes also said Sacho.
Very true, thank you!
My Spanish is bad but you forgot wepa boricua etc bruh 🥱
Yes, please more with the puerto rico things🙏🏽
Hola papi. Gracias por tu vídeo. Supe unas palabras/frases pero quisiera más vídeos sobre español puertorriqueño. Me encanta el acento y quiero vivir en PR algún día. Necesito practicar más para mi primero viaje. I want to be fluent and speak to locals porque yo soy Boricua adoptada pa' que tu lo sepas. WEEEPPPAAA!! 💖🇵🇷💖🇵🇷💖🇵🇷
jaja si claro! Voy a ti! Tu puedes hacer todo lo que quieres no te preocupes. All you have to do is consume all Puerto Rican input. Listen to nothing but Puerto Rican shows, interviews, etc :)
Tu no eres una “boricua adoptada “ tu eres Una gringa so No , pr doesn’t need anymore gringos moving to the island either. We have enough gringos colonizing the island !
Can you make more videos on Puerto Rican words. I really enjoyed this.
Thanks..I appreciate this. i was talking to a dominican chick that likes the puerto rican accent. I'm puerto rican but sound closer to a dominican..lol great job!
I’m watching these videos so I can understand my Puerto Rican bf when he speaks to me in Spanish
More Puerto Rican’ Content! Lovely
Are you coach Rock?
Amigo la palabra Guagua se creo en Cuba como una forma de reducir el nombre de la compania de transporte Wa & Wa Co. Inc. (Washington, Walton, and Company Incorporated) que llevaban las primeras guaguas llevadas a Cuba por los americanos. No sabía que en Puerto Rico se usara también esta palabra. Aquí en las Islas canarias también la usamos, así que ya tienes otro lugar para añadir a la lista. Saludos desde Gran Canaria.
La palabra guagua es de las Islas canarias
@@PGUNNA201 No lo es, infórmate mejor.
@@alpacamale2909 no es cubana es de islas canarias y en P.R se usa de generación en generación la palabra guagua
@@estrellafugaz3400 vivo en canarias, la palabra guagua es cubana y se trajo a aquí de cuba como mismo se llevó a pr de cuba
@@alpacamale2909yo creo q el idioma nació en Cuba!!
This right here is a public service. Thanks for doing it. Regular Spanish classes are more confusing than helpful when it comes to trying to talk to family on the island that don't know a lick of English. They never understand the Spain or South American Spanish words I learned in school so might as well speak English to them lol... this is really helpful!
Thanks so much Des!
Muy interesante hermano :)
jaja muchas gracias amigo!!
Seems like a totally different dialect from proper Spanish.
We puerto rican didnt lose all our language, like other latino countries. We speak tiano, English and Spanish.
Sorry, forgot to also mention, we also speak africa words...
Nobody speak proper spanish in latín América.
It is a dialect that is considered "non-standard". In other words, not the "formal" language of Castilian Spanish. It is called "dialecto Caribeño" and is spoken primarily by Spanish speaking people of the Caribbean Islands including Cuba, Puerto Rico and The Dominican Republic.
Guagua is From the canary island
¡¡'Tamo activo rocky!! gracias por un otro vídeo de nuevo bien hecho cómo siempre .
Activo como siempre ya tu sabes!
Actually “orita” doesn’t extend more than one day, it’s just in a few minutes or hours later
i am puerto rican but my family never taught me spanish so im over here by myself😭
Do you think you could recommend books written by Puertorican authors that may or may not use these terms? Currently I’m watching El Ganador: Nicky Jam on Netflix and it does help
Gracias Rocky por este vídeo!! Pero... necesitamos más 😂😂😂
Jaja ACHO no te preocupes, sabes que "I got you" lol
44 yr old Puerto Rican..."mete mano"...can also mean having sex....
1. Esos metieron mano...they had sex
2. Acho.."yo"...acho man..."yo man"
3. Broki....brother..dude
4. Gufiao...cool
That's more older Puerto Rican slang.
Hola gracias por hacer esto es que yo vivo en los estados y mi familia vive en la isla y yo puedo entender a mi familia pero no estoy tan bien a hablarlo
After living a total of 25 years in Arizona, and a 2 year stay in Madrid, Espana, I feel like my Spanish (slang) is so mixed up. So, I stick to the basic “Castellano” so I can communicate with any Spanish speaker. My daughter just started learning Spanish in High School, where she could only learn Latin at her school for middle school. I’m excited for her to learn, but being a native nuyorican, I miss hearing a lot of these words you’re teaching! Love it! Of course, I’ll have to wait until my girl gets a good base before throwing these sayings at her, but when I take my family back to PR, your video will be priceless!! It made me nostalgic to hear some words my grandmother used to say like revolu!!! 👍
My Cousins Are Half Puerto Rican (Me I'm Blonde Headed) And I Wanna Shock Dem Lol.
Lol you got this!
Yes please more Puertorican Spanish dialect videos. I’m tired of learning Castilian Spanish from Spain and not being able to understand Bad Bunny or Jhay Cortez lol
Hola amigo acabo de descubrir tus videos y me sorprende que no sepas que la mayor parte de las expresiones que estás diciendo son procedentes en verdad de las islas Canarias.
La palabra Guagua es 100% de la isla y los emigrantes Canarios en el siglo pasado la llevaron para el caribe especialmente a Cuba y Puerto Rico.
Bueno como veo que no conoces nuestra forma de hablarte dejo un pequeño video para que lo identifiques y lo compares con el acento de tu isla th-cam.com/video/QNoyqT7gHAY/w-d-xo.html
Un saludo desde las Islas hermanas 🇮🇨🌴🇵🇷
Min 9:53... Guillao (sounds guiyao)
Haha, I didn’t know the first phrase was an actual saying, but I immediately recognized it from Ivy Queen’s song, Yo Quiero Bailar, where she says “Mujeres, pa’ la disco a bailar; ven demuéstrale a tu man qué es la que hay” 😆
If Puerto Rico is written in spanish,,DO NOT pronounce it Porto Rico,,aprende,,Carajo lol
I visited Puerto Rico and fell in love with a Puerto rican man, I must learn 😂
Lol you got this!
Hi! I appreciate you teaching me P.R....I'm P..R myself and I knew the language pretty good! When I_9 yr.old. iehad a stroke. Then in in comma 11 day.I didn't know how to talk, walk,write ect ..I lost my Spanish since then. I' m glad I found you.! I was going to see if you could us a favor and everything word you said in Spanish.make like a game. Like a mmix puzzle to see which one that you said is correct.put 1 side English the other Spanish. If that take to much of your time then I'llunderstand. Have a blessing day!
Where all my Puerto Ricans at?✋🏼
WEPAA!!
🤔🤔🤔Wowwwww....lo más q a mí me preocupa es q venga un reguetonero...y me pregunté ...q la q hay???...y yo no sepa...😲😲😲
“Revulù”
*memories of my mom scolding me for not cleaning my room*
LOL! Facts.
@@SpeakSpanishFaster 😂
This is great! Thank you. Please do another video on words like "no cojo lucha" "pa'allá fuera", these seem to be common phrases used daily.
Great suggestion I will definitely try to cover these!
PR Spanish: to call a female very beautiful or sweet heart "Chula".
PR Spanish: see you later "habamos". Something like saying speak.
PR Spanish: hurry up "avansa".
I’m just tired of being a no sabo kid and the white Spanish teachers in my school aren’t helping I got confused with “nosotros” and “vosotros”
Sorry to hear about that, but in Puerto Rico's public school no enseñan ese idioma , esa frace es callejera .no es corriculum del departamento de instrucción pública de PR. Las escuelas públicas de Puerto Rico no enseñan ese idioma. Te lo dice un puertorriqueño que estudió en las escuelas públicas de PR. Amén y gloria a Dios.
“Brutal” seems like American English where ppl say “that’s sick”, as in, something is so good that it’s gonna make you sick, or it’s so good it’s “brutal” enough to end you. Kinda like with “duro/a” being “hard” but in a good, tough way.
Thank you so much, my husband is Puerto Rican and I don’t know Spanish at all when he comes back from the army I want to surprise him
I’ve heard chavo pronounced “chow” before.
Thank you so much.. I think your teachings are great. I would love the link you have to learn more Spanish please because I want to learn more and be efficient so I can teach or interpret for people in need. I never ever comment on people u tube channels this is the first time ever, but your teachings really inspired me too!
So happy I could help you and thank you soo much for commenting :)
Maybe next time less focus on building vocabulary for being derogatory & objectifying toward women. ✌️
Ive heard these words before from other Latin American countries but they mean something else. I've heard Dominicans say pelao to young naughty kids, pantalla is like the TV screen. I heard Venezuelan say chavo as a guy. Ive heard Panamanian say chupar like drinking. The word I say a lot is Que Joroba as in Darn it but it can mean a back hump in other Latin countries.
Just love it...! Even do you guys forget the letter "R r" .... Also you guys are always smiling when you talk. Fondly, from North Carolina 💙👣🐏
I'm so happy I found this channel. This is helping me big time with learning real words/phrases that I can use for my trip to PR in January.
Nobody needs to learn derogatory terms for women, so I wish you hadn't included 'yall' in your otherwise excellent video on Puerto Rican colloquialisms. Thanks anyway.
It’s unfortunate that the PR language is being saturated by the terminology used by the reggaeton genre which promotes violence, pornography, criminality, discord and overall negativity being adapted world wide. I grew up with the idiosyncratic words used on the island and I found them amusing and proud that this small island had their own unique vocabulary. Let’s try an focus and celebrate the wonderful things in life!
Also "acho" is followed by "mano" most of the time. 🤣🤣🤣 "acho mano que embusteeee!!!". Mano doesn't only mean hand but also dude. 🤣
Just did some research and the Caribbean Spanish came from the Spaniards who settle in Puerto Rico, Cuba, DR and Venezuela who came from the grand Canary Islands their accent is the same.
The word wawa is a Taino word for transit.
Number 16 had me thinking about the movie called "Dirty dancing"
Thank you! I use some of these words already & knew I wasn’t trippin lol… arrogant Mexicans over here don’t get it
Guagua is bus in Cuba. If I am correct guagua comes from the Canary Islands. In the Canary Islands guagua is the word for bus .