A Croatian making an english video about living in a spanish speaking country. You are an inspiration ! What age are you and how long did it take you to learn three languages ? Saludos !
Thank you! It's not uncommon for Europeans to speak 2 or more languages. I speak 4. I've learnt them in school as I was growing up, then practiced while I was traveling. Once you speak 2 languages it's easier to learn more. Saludos!
I suggest you to learn french, italian or portugese. For an Spanish speaker you'll pick it up real quick. The romantic languages are so similar. There is even a language which is a mix of all of these called interlingua. Youll be surprised how easy its to understand even if its a mashup of different languages.
I'm from Monterrey living in the UK (last 20 years). I loved this video because it's ALL TRUE. Monterrey people are funny like that. Particularly about cold weather and bread it's weird
I liked the way you explained,, so clear and about ahorita i even as a mexican never understood why we do it, (i don't do it) but still... it's Kind of funny once you adapt your self to that habit... greetings from a regio leaving at houston texas
I am mexican from Monterrey, I understand and agree there are "mamones" and believe it's because Monterrey is such a big city, and a lot of people are sort of fighting for this "upper class" prestige and they feel like if they act snobby or use really expensive things etc...they get to belong to this so called "upper class". Another thing is that the US is really close (just 2 hours far) and it has influenced the city a lot, some people might see acting like americans or doing "american stuff" as something cool. Anyway, I have always have found my way of getting away from these type of people. For the rest, you can find very friendly and nice, warm people. By the other hand, we are indeed very indirect, but guess what, in southern Mexico it is even more indirect haha, only with lifetime friends we get to be really direct.
an other nice video, and the messagning part is so true, seen it with my mexican friends :D I love your videos about Monterrey, as its in my future plans with my mexican gf :P
For me, "ahorita" means: let me finish my work, take a nap, go to the market, and after that, probably do that. Sobre la gente si, es algo especial, se cuida mucho la imagen y donde vives, etc. pero como todo, tambien hay gente amable y desinteresada. Felicidades por tu español 🎉
Yo soy regio y creo que ella puede hacer un video en el idioma que se le antoje, tambien este video esta dirigido a gente de otros idiomas asi que tu comentario no va
I’m from Chicago and lived in Monterrey for one year. The winter there is mild, but because in the middle-class neighborhood I live in the walls are all made of concrete with no insulation. It tends to keep the inside at a temperature that is much colder than in Chicago where we have heating and insulation.it was extremely uncomfortable for me inside the house during the winter.
@@RicardoHernandez-zl3ug I agree. We wore jackets inside once when we couldn't heat the space with air conditioning. It's not nice if you're used to heating
Is it really that bad? I was looking to buy a property in Garza García, Nuevo León a beautiful looking area, but if the people are that snobby I might reconsider. I've been to the best areas in Cabo and never met a snob like that... especially from a Mexican descent.
@@RealRichardTalbot it depends if you are from US the culture is very similar, the only difference is that people from US is more approachable they would talk to you even if you are stranger, but in Monterrey a lot of people avoid interaction, (I’m from Monterrey and I live in Manhattan)
A lot of them come to live and shop here in San Antonio. They are super annoying to deal with as a worker. Their arrogance is on another level. I pretend to not know Spanish so I don’t have to deal with them 😆
@@RealRichardTalbot Comparing Cabo to San Pedro is quite silly. Cabo is a small city that basically exists due to tourism and expats. Monterrey is a huge commercial metropolis and SP is where the mexican elite live, people who own global corporations, banks and loads of real estate, and the top management that work there. San Pedro is to Monterrey sort of like the Hamptons is to New York. We're talking about the 1%. As a foreigner you might have enough money to live among the mexican aristocracy, but unless you're *truly* loaded a lot of them will look down upon you as some lowly pleb wannabe. However that does not mean all people are like that. But if you go to San Pedro, you *will* meet those people.
Funny in Puerto Rico, “horita” also is in a little bit! It means in a minute, soon… “Mamáo” is probably a mamon? Just in Italy we have a “mamaluke” My Mexican friends they say ahorita - means NOW🥸 I❤️México 🇵🇷🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
Heh very true, always interesting to see what foreigners think of this place. On gente mamona: A lot of people really don't realize what it means when they read that San Pedro Garza García is the wealthiest city in Latin America. It means that a *significant* percentage of the population is the 0.01% of Latin America. Lots of them are *old* money from 100 years ago, basically nobility. They act like they own you because their families literally own half the city real estate and major global corporations, the universities, banks, hospitals, shops... In fact I've seen tons of videos of foreigners in Monterrey and I've *never* actually seen them even get *close* to the neighborhoods where the *truly* rich live... And of course that level of wealth also mints / attracts a lot of newly rich who have been climbing corporate ladders and hustling all their lives seeking their materialistic dreams... plus of course a lot of people of all sorts of economic levels come to the city with the dream of success and wealth, and so yeah... and if you consider that most of Mexico is in fact brutally poor... there's the reason they'll crank up the snobery and materialism to the max to flaunt their wealth and status. On indirectness: This is actually kind of funny because while it is a general "latin" trait, historically Regios were known to be brash and straighforward, and this is still partially true. If you go to the south of Mexico for a decent amount of time you will see what *REAL* indirectness actually is (and why many global companies prefer to establish their businesses north). But in last few decades the culture of Monterrey has changed a lot because of the city growing largely due to migration from other states, many from the south... On babyshowers: Yeah that's insane and that's another large cultural change in the city which is only a thing from the past... idk 10 years? This time from US influence. This madness of crazy weddings, baby showers, gender reveals and all these constant over-the-top events is the product of the wealthy (and wannabe wealthy) trying to act like splurging celebrities from LA or New York, encouraged by the greedy wedding planning industry that's happy to take all their money, and how social media has turned so many people superficial. Thanks for reading my blogpost.
@@briseydabello2218 I never go south (except nature in Allende), so I'm not very familiar with that part of the city, but I've heard it's growing fast and that there are some very nice new places...
@@valentinasadak if you still live in Monterrey visit Pueblo Serena, is a shopping center with a super market, movie theater, nice church and lots of restaurants, I am pretty sure it won’t disappoint you. In the back of Pueblo Serena there are many nice neighborhoods you can drive around to meet.
I feel like most of what you said about the Mexicans where you live applies to many Americans as well. Although it depends on where in the US and I did grow up by the border to Mexico in South Texas.
Um going to be honest with u im mexican and from Monterrey Mexico, the women and some men will treat u like ur not from there even if u are Mexican. It depends on how u speak the language. They will treat ubso different. But some men will treat u better than other men. Like I said if they hear how u speak and it's not like them then they will treat u differently.
Hmm, in the Latin culture (and especially in the Mexican culture), they give so much importance to parties.....So, "Baby Showers", Birthday parties, "Quinceañeras", Local and Regional Beauty Peagants, the "Day of Saint Y Celebration" (or Saint X Celebration, or Saint Z Celebration, etc, etc.) are legal traditions and used as excuses to justify parties and having fun (in many cases, all night long parties.) How can a sleepy person who has not sleep the night before go to work? I suppose because of this "partying till dawn tradition" there's a lot of absenteeism at work.
Hmmm..."ahorita" is less interesting than "manana". I will provide the correct definition: Manana - I do not care about you at all. I may be wasting your time & money, but hey that is not my problem...
Todo lo que dices es correcto. Sin embargo causa demasiada risa para nosotros los regios, ya que la mayoría de todas esas realidades son absurdas. Osea que las costumbres van tomando rumbos que se van alejando de la lógica y todo mundo se queda conforme.
Exactamente 🙂, porque esta divertido a veces, a veces solo parte de cultura donde entre las personas del mismo país se entienden. Así pasa en todos los países me imagino
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A Croatian making an english video about living in a spanish speaking country. You are an inspiration !
What age are you and how long did it take you to learn three languages ? Saludos !
Thank you! It's not uncommon for Europeans to speak 2 or more languages. I speak 4. I've learnt them in school as I was growing up, then practiced while I was traveling. Once you speak 2 languages it's easier to learn more. Saludos!
I suggest you to learn french, italian or portugese. For an Spanish speaker you'll pick it up real quick. The romantic languages are so similar.
There is even a language which is a mix of all of these called interlingua. Youll be surprised how easy its to understand even if its a mashup of different languages.
@@valentinasadak He asked you how long it too to learn Spanish?
I'm from Monterrey living in the UK (last 20 years). I loved this video because it's ALL TRUE. Monterrey people are funny like that. Particularly about cold weather and bread it's weird
And what are you doing living in uk ?
@@gerardocr8810 Like many things in life, seemed like a good idea at the time...
It's almost like the punchline is built into the statement itself when you hear someone from Eastern Europe say that Mexicans are weird
Ahorita for me has always felt like a “I am getting to it, sooner if you rush me, later/never if you don’t” 😂
One of my friends recently told me that for her it means: "Cuando tenga las ganas" 😂
Exactly like that hahaha im from mty
It's the opposite for me "later if you rush me, sooner if you don't" because people rushing me disrupts my internal processes
I liked the way you explained,, so clear and about ahorita i even as a mexican never understood why we do it, (i don't do it) but still... it's Kind of funny once you adapt your self to that habit... greetings from a regio leaving at houston texas
I am mexican from Monterrey, I understand and agree there are "mamones" and believe it's because Monterrey is such a big city, and a lot of people are sort of fighting for this "upper class" prestige and they feel like if they act snobby or use really expensive things etc...they get to belong to this so called "upper class". Another thing is that the US is really close (just 2 hours far) and it has influenced the city a lot, some people might see acting like americans or doing "american stuff" as something cool. Anyway, I have always have found my way of getting away from these type of people. For the rest, you can find very friendly and nice, warm people. By the other hand, we are indeed very indirect, but guess what, in southern Mexico it is even more indirect haha, only with lifetime friends we get to be really direct.
Yes, there are SO many nice and warm people, they definitely outnumber los "mamones"
Te has adaptado bien y si Monterrey tiene los dos extremos en todo personas , clima etc un saludo cordial tu español es excelente por cierto .
Gracias, saludos! ✨
an other nice video, and the messagning part is so true, seen it with my mexican friends :D I love your videos about Monterrey, as its in my future plans with my mexican gf :P
For me, "ahorita" means: let me finish my work, take a nap, go to the market, and after that, probably do that.
Sobre la gente si, es algo especial, se cuida mucho la imagen y donde vives, etc. pero como todo, tambien hay gente amable y desinteresada.
Felicidades por tu español 🎉
Yo soy regio y creo que ella puede hacer un video en el idioma que se le antoje, tambien este video esta dirigido a gente de otros idiomas asi que tu comentario no va
I’m from Chicago and lived in Monterrey for one year. The winter there is mild, but because in the middle-class neighborhood I live in the walls are all made of concrete with no insulation. It tends to keep the inside at a temperature that is much colder than in Chicago where we have heating and insulation.it was extremely uncomfortable for me inside the house during the winter.
@@RicardoHernandez-zl3ug I agree. We wore jackets inside once when we couldn't heat the space with air conditioning. It's not nice if you're used to heating
Im from Monterrey and 😂 finally someone realize the amount of gente mamona that lives here 😂😭,
Is it really that bad? I was looking to buy a property in Garza García, Nuevo León a beautiful looking area, but if the people are that snobby I might reconsider. I've been to the best areas in Cabo and never met a snob like that... especially from a Mexican descent.
@@RealRichardTalbot it depends if you are from US the culture is very similar, the only difference is that people from US is more approachable they would talk to you even if you are stranger, but in Monterrey a lot of people avoid interaction, (I’m from Monterrey and I live in Manhattan)
A lot of them come to live and shop here in San Antonio. They are super annoying to deal with as a worker. Their arrogance is on another level. I pretend to not know Spanish so I don’t have to deal with them 😆
@@RealRichardTalbot Comparing Cabo to San Pedro is quite silly. Cabo is a small city that basically exists due to tourism and expats. Monterrey is a huge commercial metropolis and SP is where the mexican elite live, people who own global corporations, banks and loads of real estate, and the top management that work there. San Pedro is to Monterrey sort of like the Hamptons is to New York. We're talking about the 1%. As a foreigner you might have enough money to live among the mexican aristocracy, but unless you're *truly* loaded a lot of them will look down upon you as some lowly pleb wannabe.
However that does not mean all people are like that. But if you go to San Pedro, you *will* meet those people.
And don't need to be rich to be “mamones”, they already have it in their soul.
Nuevo Leon's metropolitan area has the most classist people in Mexico... and I was born and live in Monterrey so I can assure it 🤷🏽♀️
The first mistake foreigners make is think ahorita is a term of time, it is a term of will power...
😂😂
Funny in Puerto Rico, “horita” also is in a little bit!
It means in a minute, soon…
“Mamáo” is probably a mamon?
Just in Italy we have a “mamaluke”
My Mexican friends they say ahorita - means NOW🥸
I❤️México 🇵🇷🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
Heh very true, always interesting to see what foreigners think of this place.
On gente mamona:
A lot of people really don't realize what it means when they read that San Pedro Garza García is the wealthiest city in Latin America. It means that a *significant* percentage of the population is the 0.01% of Latin America. Lots of them are *old* money from 100 years ago, basically nobility. They act like they own you because their families literally own half the city real estate and major global corporations, the universities, banks, hospitals, shops... In fact I've seen tons of videos of foreigners in Monterrey and I've *never* actually seen them even get *close* to the neighborhoods where the *truly* rich live...
And of course that level of wealth also mints / attracts a lot of newly rich who have been climbing corporate ladders and hustling all their lives seeking their materialistic dreams... plus of course a lot of people of all sorts of economic levels come to the city with the dream of success and wealth, and so yeah... and if you consider that most of Mexico is in fact brutally poor... there's the reason they'll crank up the snobery and materialism to the max to flaunt their wealth and status.
On indirectness:
This is actually kind of funny because while it is a general "latin" trait, historically Regios were known to be brash and straighforward, and this is still partially true. If you go to the south of Mexico for a decent amount of time you will see what *REAL* indirectness actually is (and why many global companies prefer to establish their businesses north). But in last few decades the culture of Monterrey has changed a lot because of the city growing largely due to migration from other states, many from the south...
On babyshowers:
Yeah that's insane and that's another large cultural change in the city which is only a thing from the past... idk 10 years? This time from US influence. This madness of crazy weddings, baby showers, gender reveals and all these constant over-the-top events is the product of the wealthy (and wannabe wealthy) trying to act like splurging celebrities from LA or New York, encouraged by the greedy wedding planning industry that's happy to take all their money, and how social media has turned so many people superficial.
Thanks for reading my blogpost.
Hi i am planning to move to Monterrey what are some of the nice areas to live in Monterrey?
Hi! The nicest is San Pedro, Chipinque, in Monterrey - San Jeronimo, Obispado
Carretera Nacional on the south part of the city is also a Nice area to live, I would say San Pedro and 2nd Carretera Nacional.
@@briseydabello2218 I never go south (except nature in Allende), so I'm not very familiar with that part of the city, but I've heard it's growing fast and that there are some very nice new places...
@@valentinasadak if you still live in Monterrey visit Pueblo Serena, is a shopping center with a super market, movie theater, nice church and lots of restaurants, I am pretty sure it won’t disappoint you. In the back of Pueblo Serena there are many nice neighborhoods you can drive around to meet.
@@briseydabello2218 thanks for the recommendation 🙂 I'll definitely check it out!
I feel like most of what you said about the Mexicans where you live applies to many Americans as well. Although it depends on where in the US and I did grow up by the border to Mexico in South Texas.
been out of Monterrey for more that 28 years and srill acting like that 😂😂😂😎
Um going to be honest with u im mexican and from Monterrey Mexico, the women and some men will treat u like ur not from there even if u are Mexican. It depends on how u speak the language. They will treat ubso different. But some men will treat u better than other men. Like I said if they hear how u speak and it's not like them then they will treat u differently.
😅😂🤣👍 That's so true.
Monterrey is my dream city! What do you do for a living that allows you to live there?
I don't live there anymore 🙂 I hope you find your way to your dream city 💞
Hmm, in the Latin culture (and especially in the Mexican culture), they give so much importance to parties.....So, "Baby Showers", Birthday parties, "Quinceañeras", Local and Regional Beauty Peagants, the "Day of Saint Y Celebration" (or Saint X Celebration, or Saint Z Celebration, etc, etc.) are legal traditions and used as excuses to justify parties and having fun (in many cases, all night long parties.) How can a sleepy person who has not sleep the night before go to work? I suppose because of this "partying till dawn tradition" there's a lot of absenteeism at work.
Unbelievable true
NICE VIDEO. NICE ENGLISH
I hate people who doesn't answer when i say buenos días.🤬 Ahorita te doy like
I love mexican Wisconsin
Excellent description of Regios / San Petrinos😅. You speak great Spanish
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she kinda looks like Taylor Swift.
@@Majorhavoktv she gets that a lot
In a little while
Alo kako si valentina ja Sam iz canada Ali mama je iz karlovac what should I say to my girlfriend who lives in Monterrey what made you move there !
Bok! Moj muz je Meksikanac, to me dovelo u Monterrey - ljubav. Dodi prvo u posjet pa onda vidite gdje cete zivjeti, gdje vam se vise svida...
How did you learn Spanish books or internet kao nema puno ljudi ko priča Español iz hrvastka
@@MyTheMinecraftGuy naucila sam u skoli stranih jezika, i onda jos semestar na faksu u Spanjolskoj
Hvala puno 😊 I’m coming jun 12 to Monterrey any good date spots for me and my new girlfriend we are both 23
@@MyTheMinecraftGuy Yes, Jabalina and Pepper Rooftop. You'll need a reservation
Hmmm..."ahorita" is less interesting than "manana". I will provide the correct definition: Manana - I do not care about you at all. I may be wasting your time & money, but hey that is not my problem...
Beautiful eyes
I’m from Guadalajara living in Monterrey and even in the same country it was a cultural shock as well the lack of manners and basic education
Mexico is soo diverse! North and south are like completely different countries
Todo lo que dices es correcto. Sin embargo causa demasiada risa para nosotros los regios, ya que la mayoría de todas esas realidades son absurdas. Osea que las costumbres van tomando rumbos que se van alejando de la lógica y todo mundo se queda conforme.
Exactamente 🙂, porque esta divertido a veces, a veces solo parte de cultura donde entre las personas del mismo país se entienden. Así pasa en todos los países me imagino
Mexican love celebrations
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Ahorita 😂
Acabo de ver anuncio de Mercado libre, dice: Ahorita - es ahora, después, al rato, mañana o en un año? 🤣 no estoy sola en esto 😄
A lot of baby shower, You are telling the truth 😂😂😂