Jennifer Lopez interview in Spanish for film "Selena" - oddity humor practical joke during interview co-star Jon Seda behind Jennifer Lopez making hand gestures
That answer was definitely rehearsed before, cause I've watched her speaking Spanish in more recent interviews and she struggles much more to express herself and to be fluent. You can tell that she understands Spanish 100%, but speaking doesn't come out natural for her, she probably isn't used to it.
@@nadiapitarch5870 I mean, this interview was 20 years ago so it's possible that her Spanish was better back then when she wasn't as big and still surrounded by her latina family often. The less you lose a language, the more likely you are to lose it. My Spanish was also way better when I was younger but now I know English more since it became my primary language
I just watched an interview of her speaking Spanish and she lost the puerto rican accent, she speaks spanish like a white person now . This Spanish was way better , i can actually tell she is puerto rican here, she had the accent.
Interesting. It seems that in the decades since this interview, her Spanish has deteriorated. Probably because beck then she was recently living with her Puerto Rican family, but in her adult life she has been living and working primarily in an English setting. It just shows that adults can loose proficiency in their native language over time.
Alessandra Vivaldi As in she has an American accent when she speaks in Spanish (at least now she does - this interview was a long time ago when her Spanish was perfect and sounded like a native speaking)
I've never quite been bilingual (English/German), but it's true that sometimes when you grow up with two cultures and two languages, you feel like something's missing. I've known about people who felt that way growing up in the UK or US. When they went back to their other home, things clicked into place more.
No matter what Jennifer does people criticize her. She admits English was what she spoke growing up. She is doing her best and communicates well, I think. Maybe commend her for trying and doing the interview in Spanish. Marc Anthony, I think, grew up speaking more Spanish and I have seen him struggle at times. It is true you lose it if you do not use it. I took many years of Spanish in high school and in college, but since then have not used it. I still understand very well but have a very hard time speaking it.
Because this video was from awhile back, she lost her accent and when you grow up speaking Spanish and then living in the states, you start to forgot words in both languages and it never ends.
@@tayomatic Actually, she might. Selena didn't grow up being fluent in Spanish either, she learned as she became famous. Sure, she still heard it around the house, but that's not the same as using it. Lopez had to move in with Selena's family for several months to learn about her mannerisms and how to properly mime for her songs - I'm sure she picked up the Spanish from them. That's probably why she's so much better here. I still find it strange she was married to Marc for all those years and it didn't improve even after touring and doing albums in the language.
I always thought she grew up in a Spanish speaking household... I'm confused. My boyfriend is from the Bronx too, he's Dominican, and his mom doesn't speak good English so he grew up speaking Spanish and still speaks it well. This seems just odd. She doesn't seem like she stays in touch with her roots. 🤔
She is clearly not a native speaker, but her Spanish was really fluent back in the day. As a Spanish teacher I can see some mistakes like 1:23 she says "los fans lo iban a disfrutarlo..." so double "lo" and that kind of things, but she sounded pretty fluent!
Me parece que hablaba mejor su español antes que ahora. Será porque en ese momento gracias a la película de selena y a la enorme influencia latina que eso representaba, llevaba a que ella hablara español casi obligada. Luego de la película de selena ya toda su carrera se enfocó en el cine 100% americano así que no había una motivación para que ella hablara español.
En ese momento ella vivía en New York aún con sus papas puertorriqueños y su abuela puertorriqueña y en todos los hogares boricuas por más inglés que se aprende en la casa se habla español tal vez es esa la razón. Ya luego ella hizo su vida y lo más que habla es inglés suele pasarle a mucha gente. Yo nací y me crié en Puerto Rico pero a veces cuando hablas tanto inglés el español se te olvida un poco y pierdes hasta el acento boricua.
@@javiercamacho1369 no, yo tengo otra teoría 😀: yo diría en aquel tiempo hablaba como podía: muy natural, no pensaba mucho solo "como puedo terminar esa frase". Pero hace unos 8 años se dió cuenta que no hablara como los boricuas y desde entonces finge ese acento "comíendose" las s al final porque quiere demonstrar su pertenencia a esa cultura [boricua]. [Si ella no fue crecida bilingüe es solo una "decisión cognitiva" como quiere hablar]. Hoy en día de vez en cuando en sus entrevistas puedes observar como por descuido le sale una s en vez que "tragarla". Eso la delata que solo finge su "nuevo" acento y el "precio" es que le cuesta una gran porción de concentración hablar con su "nuevo" acento y ese esfuerzo causa pequeñitas pausas cuando habla. Por eso - para mis oidos! - su español suena hoy mucho menos fluido [que antes] aunque con los años si ha ampliado mucho su léxico y habilidad de poderse expresar.
En 2004 se junto con Marc Anrhony que habla 100% español de igual manera no mejoro, pero aquí si lo habla mucho mejor, ahora lo habla horrible y lo mezcla con ingles
A qui hablo bien el español sele olvido con los años (mi gente latino)😅😅 vaya se ve humilde y simpatica y pesar que hoy es despota sangrona y soberbia al grado que no le gusta que la gente la vea a los ojos, Ojala y tuviera un poco de humildad hoy de la que tuvo en ese entonces.
As a fluent native speaker I honestly think her Spanish is better now. She had the accent back then of course because she probably realized for her career it was going to be beneficial but she clearly didn’t grow up speaking it.
She grew up speaking it. Her grandma didnt know english at all and she said her grandma helped raise her. She just understands it better than she can speak it
@@Anywho0o no she never did. She said her grandma didn’t speak English but neither does my grandma and my cousins barely speak Spanish. They can’t communicate.
You and me the only one's who noticed lol. I can't take her now. She need to sit and chill with her kids. She got enough money already. Soon her kids gonna be like mom you doing the most lol. I wonder what they will say about her dating and marriages.
She was humble back in those days and she new that she needed to speak Spanish to get fans. Now that she made her name thanks to that movie she is no longer interested is speaking Spanish. She doesn't care for the Latin community
She doesn’t have her accent now because she was trained to lose her accent. All actors that come from cities, countries, cultures that have distinctive accents are given vocal coaches so that they have a higher chance at being cast for more roles. Same reason Millie Bobbie Brown sounds more US American in her interviews now, although she’s from the UK. It’s more marketable for them to blend in.
Her spanish is actually quite flawless. She struggles sometimes for certain words (which I guess is just lack of practice). She has a central american accent that I cannot distinguish (I'm not from that area). I didn't investigate much in her past, but if someone came to me speaking like that, I would say they were either born and raised in a spanish speaking country and lived the rest of their lives in an english speaking country, or they were born in an english speaking country and raised by spanish speaking parents.
