Hi! I'm Erica Ray Limones, certified language coach and Spanish teacher. I'm here to help you finally master the Spanish language with strategies that work and through the power of authentic conversations and stories.
I learned fluent Spanish while still in The States, without studying it in college and long before stepping foot abroad, and I know that you can too! Years later, when I moved to Mexico, the integration process was not nearly as challenging as it would have been if the language had been a hurdle.
I've been working professionally with the Spanish language since 2008 (as a medical interpreter, translator, teacher, and language coach).
Learning Spanish changed my life for the better, both personally and professionally, and I'm here to share this amazing experience I've received with you so that you can change your life too.
¡Guau! ¡¡¡Muchas gracias!!! Yo estaba a punto de empezar con un sitio web llamado conjugemos!!! ¡¡¡ejercicios!!! ¡¡¡Ejercicios interminables de conjugaciones verbales!!! ¡¡¡Tu idea es tan lógica y maravillosa!!!!
Y Llorena le dijo al hombre misterioso, 'te lo juro de no haberte robado el cuadrado, y si te estoy mentiendo, mas bueno que me lo castige un relampago por eso!'. No dijo eso pero siempre tengo que practicar haciendo orraciones, y trato de ser gracioso al mismo tiempo, acaso lo soy acaso no, pero la historia y prueba son super ayudante para mi gracias por haber hecho mas videos con historias
Me encanta no sola tus historias es una muy buena ideas de añadir muchas preguntas y eligir la redpuesta correcta. Soy estudiante de ese rico idioma que es el español. Jean del Canadá.😊
Awesome, i have like an 80% grasp on these but i usually have to stop and think about which is appropriate. Love these vosual mind tricks, more please! It's the only way i can remember. That and tying words to specific experiences i've had when (usually when i got it wrong in a humiliating way). The way you described this one has some parallels to the difference between preterite and imperfect (point vs line).
@@00xero Awesome! I'm glad it resonated! Yes I understand, I really have to visualize a lot of things in order to understand them myself (or relate them back to experiences!! 😁)
POR vs. PARA: A powerful visual tool so that you can stop confusing them Download the POR vs PARA free guide (and many other goodies!) in my free resource library! ericaraylanguage.com/resourcelibrary Go beyond a mere Spanish learner and become a confident Spanish speaker with me and my incredible team in the Caminos Conversation Club (LIVE classes and self-study materials available for absolute beginner, upper beginner, and upper-intermediate/advanced) levels! ericaraylanguage.com/caminos
Mi primer trabajo fue Whataburger en Texas. Aunque queria cocinar me pusieron a la caja. Yo era insolente y no muy trabajador, y cuando me mandaban limpiar los botes yo decia siempre que no habia que limpiar algo que volveria ensuciarse de nuevo. Esto fue mi filosofia supongo. No era terrible trabajo, y una ves nos mandaron todos a una reunion para empleados donde nos mostraron un video corto sacado de la pelica 'falling down' que muestra Michael Douglas tratando pedir desayuno despues de las once, cuando acaban de servir el desayuno en restaurantes supongo, y el robo el desayuno con arma. Supongo el video era para ensenyarnos a ser flexible con las clientes, no se. Pero yo estaba mas o menos feliz con mi trabajo porque gastaba todo mi sueldo en juegos para mi playstation 1 en los 90s cuando playstation era joven.
Disfruté mucho del video, especialmente la parte en que mencionas que confundiste las palabras "entretenimiento" y "entrenamiento" cuando trabajabas en McDonalds. Qué chistoso! 😅
Heyyy! I have a question. In this current moment, I can only study by my self right now. I’m interested in working with an online teacher in the future. My question is, do you have any self study advice while learning Spanish? I hope your day is going well and thank you for your time!
Hi! Yes, a large portion of this channel is self study advice. 😊 This playlist may be helpful for you: ru-vid.com/group/PLHm6cDu7EjUAz1EEnUIbzJzRiB7WDJHbf&si=gSFsUuxOm7eI8FPq
wow! Mil gracias Erica! You nailed it and described my learning efforts to date. I have been trying to build language skills by standing only on one leg of the 4-leg table of learning,(practicing speaking) Instead of Listening,reading, writing, and speaking. Most of all I need balance in all 4 areas. Thank you so much for all you do and keep up the great work:)
Totally agree. People who don’t speak Spanish think I’m native level just because I can speak the language. I’m very proud of where I’m at and I have worked very hard to get here. I use it at work, but I always feel like an imposter. I say it’s an obsession. However, I make plenty of mistakes and always wonder if I will ever truly feel free to to express myself the way I do in English. I think I may be waiting for something that will take decades. I have been studying Spanish for 5 years. I completely related to this video.
I've got a brain injury which means I forget stuff almost as soon as I have read it. It makes learning Spanish so difficult. I feel I'll never get there. But I hope one day I will.
@EricaRayLanguage I did!! Thank you ❤ My husband is from Mexico and I finally understand most of what is being said when he's talking with the family. My speaking ability is not there yet. I can answer questions with short responses though, so I'm getting there. 😊 I noticed recently though, his family in his smaller home town are much easier to understand than the extended family in Mexico City. In Mexico City, they were speaking so rapidly, I was barely catching any words. 😅
OMG! Érica this was me, until I found your program. I had taken Spanish decades earlier in both High School and College. I had lots of bits and pieces of information in my head, but zero confidence to speak. I actually did go back to the beginning several times. I even tried following a online recorded program. I experienced failure, I became unmotivated and very frustrated. I thought about giving up. But, my desire to learn was greater than my frustration. I trusted that there was a better way, and stumbled upon your program. I have been making steady progress ever since, filling in the gaps as I go. I still have lots to learn, I still make mistakes, but with my Coach I can actually see and hear my progress. My ability to be understood in Spanish and my confidence increases daily, one spiral at a time. Thank you for the work that you do and share.
@@lrivers5517 Wow, Linda! What amazing insights! 🎊 Although you are not the "Rachel" described in this video, I did your initial language evaluation as well and concur with everything you mention! You had a lot of the pieces but needed help bringing them together. It has been beautiful and inspirational for us to watch you progress over these months! Congratulations to you for not giving up and for continuing to search until you found a better way, AND for putting in the work once you did find that way because none of this is magic! It takes discipline and determination and you certainly have demonstrated both qualities. ¡Felicidades! 🤗
On another RU-vidrs video, she pointed out that we need to to understand that we are basically toddlers at the beginning. The frustrating thing as grown adults with a lifetime of English or another first language, we want to to be able to communicate at the same level. But it took decades to get here. The difference is we because we already have a language, we can accelerate the process a little but it still comes slow unless you're one of those that is just great at picking up languages. But learning is not a linear process. The thing to focus on, is it continually trending upwards? It's not going to be a straight y=mx+b line to use some algebra. It will be squiggly but moving upwards. If we're very fortunate to be able pick up languages effortlessly, it might mimic an exponential curve. But I imagine, that's a rarity.
@@amen_ra6926 I completely agree! 😊 I's hard to get over our ego as adults and be patient! We learn grammar in our first language after we're already fluent. It wasn't a tool to teach us the language then and we cannot expect to learn a second language through grammar alone either. It can help us refine, but we need to listen and read to get the language in us, practice, make mistakes, get corrections and keep spiraling forward! Thanks for watching and commenting! 😊
My wife taught herself to speak English long before we met. She learned by looking things up and by listening and memorizing things she heard then figuring out what it meant and how she could use it. She did take night classes for a short time but that just confused her more than anything else. When we met I did have a decent vocabulary and could say a few phrases. I also had a good grasp on the pronunciation of the Spanish alphabet and that was it. My wife did teach me a lot more but eventually she stopped and told me I need to learn on my own like she did. So now she refuses to teach me anything else and won't even answer my questions when I ask what something means. My learning has completely stopped and I'm not progressing any further. I can't do it completely alone. My mind just doesn't work like that.
I've been married to a native Spanish speaker for 10 years and we've been together for 15 years. I can understand a lot but I don't speak much. My wife also speaks English. So mostly she speaks in Spanish and I answer in English. I should have been fluent a long time ago.
@@michaelj.anderson1116 I understand the struggles. I have a video about that with my husband and I (we had the opposite problem because I already spoke Spanish when I met him so we only speak in Spanish when in reality we should try to speak in English to help him improve his English, but it's hard! 😊) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KuUaHbI5ZG4.htmlsi=KQA8iu2utDRqwfj3
Target your particular grammar struggles (without starting over!) in my Caminos Spanish STORY course for intermediates open until Friday, September 13 only! ericaraylanguage.com/storyclub
Hola! I'm just discovering you and just ran across this video and loved it! I so wish I could talk to you directly. I will try and go to your blog and see if I can connect there. Thanks so much and thanks for keeping it real! 😊
