I listen to your podcast all the Time, and you mentioned that you usted to not to want to teach Spanish. I would like tobsay I think you aré a great teacher. You make clear points, give good advice, and make mexicana spanish simple for english speakers. Felicidades y suerte con su canal y podcast Nate
I've been ordering food for a while now in Spanish, but this was still helpful. I had never used or heard "me regala" in food context before this video and used it the other day to ask for a paper plate at the truck I occasionally get food from after work. Came back here to say thanks for all your content Nate.
Bruh you’re the best out there ;) keep posting this type of situational videos! It’s very useful ! Some ideas that expats will be thankful and interested are : at the bank, at the immigration office, shopping, looking for an apartment, buying a vehicle, making friends, getting lost, on and on
I love how at the end of the video, you could have very well used Xiaoma’s testimonial but you skipped it for a lesser known individual. That’s respect. I appreciate you videos and hopefully someday, I’ll understand your Spanish parts without the need for subtitles. Take care!
Awesome video again, Nate! I was in the supermarket and I heard a Latino guy next to me at the meat counter say “me regalas una langosta?” I was confused, but you’ve got my back with the explanation 👊 Is “me regalas” used more in any specific regions of México, or in other countries too?
Yes! It is for sure widely used in Costa Rica in addition to a few others. Be careful where you say it though: if you use "me regalas" it in Argentina they will take you literally and think you want their product for free! Instead, here in Argentina, we say "Te pido _____" (also pretty common in a bunch of other Spanish-speaking countries)
Cognates and borrowings aren't the same thing. Cognates are words in sister languages that descend from a common word in an ancestral language. "Internet" in English and Spanish aren't cognates. "Internet" in Spanish is a loan word from English. _Padre_ and _Father_ are actually cognates. The common ancestor word goes all the way back towards some early descendant of Proto-Indo-European. In the Germanic branch, the /p/ turned into an /f/ in certain environments -- you can see another example of that in _pesc_ and _fish._ English has bunch of words borrowed from Norman French and directly from Latin. But I'm not sure I would call English "station" and Spanish "estación" cognates. The Spanish and the French pair would be, but there was a sort of horizontal transfer to English, and cognates are about descent from a common ancestral language. "Madre" and "mother" are also cognates.
No one says Provecho to random ppl as far as I’ve seen in Baja California; so sad. I visited Oaxaca once and they did - it’s really nice 😊 I guess you have to get farther away from the US for pleasantries lol
@@morgandunzer1781 ohh! I’ve only really been out in Ensenada and TJ but maybe I haven’t been to the right places yet. I will have to get back and explore
Hace tiempo estuve en gringo landia y me tope como algunos cabezas huecas racitas me llamaron la atencion 😂😂😂 they said you can't speak Mexican here 😂😂😂 oh yeah 😂😂 and i told them is Spanish no Mexican 😂😂😂 and they said speak American 😂😂😂 i said ok there's so many native Americans languages in America from Alaska to argentina 😂😂😂 and i walked away but i told the but the way its ingles and USA no speak american 😂😂😂
"Exactly the same or extremely identical". So they're the same or the same! I think he meant "exactly the same or extremely close". I've never heard "extremely identical" before, as opposed to just "identical".
Oh, come on Nate. I can't believe you missed that. Para ir comiendo is best translated as "to eat on the go." Constructive criticism is all. I do enjoy your videos. Keep it up.
I wish you'd quit teaching the tuteo form to Americans altogether. It's unnecessary and sounds cringe-worthy when they use out out of place, which they always do, especially young people talking to grownups. To Americans it's just a verb conjugation but natives "feel" the disrespect in their bones. En Puebla cada año vienen estudiantes de EEUU para los cursos de verano en español y me dan escalofríos oirlos portarse tan confianzudos platicando con sus profesores Mexicanos.
