Let's see how good I can become in Spanish in only 7 days. Part 2: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e7pbalhqv4w.html Follow me on Instagram ▶︎ instagram.com/ikennaobi Pimsleur Free Trial: rebrand.ly/pimsleur-free-trial ⭐ Anki: apps.ankiweb.net/ List of most common Spanish words: www.happyhourspanish.com/learning-efficiently-start-with-the-250-most-common-spanish-words/ at the bottom is 1000 Hope you guys enjoy the video! Would love it if you guys also started to do 7 day challenges too! Thanks to Cole Grooms / Nathaniel Drew / Wild We Roam for video idea!
I am really interested in this, because I am from Spain 🇪🇸. my main question is: are you learning Latin American Spanish or Spain Spanish (castellano)? another one: don't wanna bother you about it, but please make videos about learning Korean when you do? (I saw the video where you mentioned that) Im attempting to learn it and itd be nice to see how you do it.
ojalá que encontramos un dia si es posible, i learned spanish some 8 years ago and started learning portugues two days ago. with the same picture technique but memory palaces. my portuguese is bad but i can read basic text and get about 50 to 70%. learning verbs is my focus now and the conjugation rules later. Yen sua ka sa saa kosi s3 y3 b3 br3. Asomdue
This is literally my boyfriend and I his family is from Mexico and they don’t speak English except his dad and step mom so I wanted to learn Spanish so I can talk to his mom and his other family members :)
I’m still using duolingo for it and once I completely finished spanish on that, I’m going to watch videos, practise grammar, and if I’m allowed(I’m ten😂) I’ll get a tutor for spanish and just spend most of my day out of school, working on spanish and in high school I’ll also take it.
@@6stringcuber683 you shouldn't feel ashamed at all! People have different learning paces and I know for sure that if you stick to what you really desire to learn, you'll learn it eventually! C'mon I know you can do it ❤
@@6stringcuber683 Also, these kinds of videos are using a few tricks. One trick is to give the video a title and a thumbnail that they never actually deliver on. Is he really going to have a good, reasonably fluent conversation in 7 days? Probably not. But he is going to softly negate that by showing us what progress he DID make. A month is totally fine. Stick at it. I have no shame admitting that it took me about 2 years to learn Swedish to the level that I have now... the reason I have no shame is that I know I have learnt it a crapload better than Ikenna and his 7 day Spanish. 7 days is impressive sure, but like I said, is he really going to learn it or is he going to use it as subscriber bait?
@@victor-gn4jg here's the thing though. nathaniel already speaks spanish and french (a HUGE advantage) and already knew some italian. he presented it as starting from scratch in 7 days but it was anything but.
Yeah that was the exact same thing that i thought! Just note that Nathaniel already knew Spanish, and with Italian being the closest language to Spanish (up with Portuguese), it does make it easier for him. Besides that, everyone learns differently ofc
Been studying Japanese for about 6 months now using your method and I was surprised that I was able to understand most of your Japanese without looking at the screen. Spent about 3 weeks in Okinawa, Japan and was constantly complimented on how much I had learned compared to when I lived there. (My wife and her friends are all Japanese and met me when i spoke zero Japanese). Your method works!
@@AlexEEZ that's what i mean. you said "learnt", the correct word is " is learning" because learnt means completion and mastery. My point is you can't reach native level fluency and mastery in one week. That is the idea that people watching this video are getting. Spanish is my native language and he speaks worse than a 5 year old. My point is not to bash this guy, but to clarify in the mind of the people that watched this video that you are not native spanish speakers so you can't grasp how bad his spanish is. What is your reference? You don't have one! He's an absolute beginner. Again, some are getting the idea that you can master a language in a week. That is who i'm adressing this message to. So, he tried to learn as much as he could in one week. that doesn't mean he has mastered spanish in one week. Did he learn some spanish? yes. Did he master spanish and became fluent and able to understand everything in one week? no. What world you live in.
@@fgv3357 Damn chill, tf is wrong? I know very well you can't fully learn a language in a week. His intension was to learn the basics of it and become understandable to other people who speak spanish, not to learn the whole fricking language. And, I mean, he himself used the term "learnt" not "am learning", why are you correcting me? Teach him some spanish if it angers you so much.
studying because you are motivated, at your own pace is just by far the best thing I have ever done my whole lifeee. A guy in my class was sooo crazy about learning to speak many languages- now I feel it too lol. Wow it's one of the best feelings I have ever had apart from singing and praying to God. Thank you sooo much dude
8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines. 1 Corinthians 12:8-11
I took the classic 3 years of Spanish and upon seeing this video I realized a have a better grasp on the language than I gave myself credit for. May this motivate my to learn Spanish or will I go eat a sandwich, the word my never know.
German Giovanni Recinos I wasn’t the original poster but I’d be happy to help you with your English if you could help me with my Spanish too if you want?
As I Spanish speaker I've been speaking this language for all my life and sometimes I make mistakes. Also I speak English and Italian and learning Portuguese. But Let me tell you something kids. If you wanna learn any language at least you need to put some effort from 3 to five years straight to speak in a decent way... Respect to this guy for such an amazing intention. Greetings from Colombia 🇨🇴 South America.
What the heck? Spanish is my native language and I’m positive “you want” is “tu quieres” or “quieres”. “Quería” means wanted, like he wanted to sing- “el quería cantar”
Bro, I know three languages: Portuguese, English (obviously) and a little bit of Spanish (the necessary to don't starve in Mexico lol). He learned much more than I know in only 7 days. With time he will improve it. For people who go from portugues to learning spanish is not that hard but from english to spanish is a complete different language with no similarities between them. Give him a break lol
Considering you already know French, Spanish will come easy. I speak French and can read (not speak or hear) Spanish and understand a substantial portion of what's written, and the grammar is much simpler than French.
Luis % no, el francés es más complicado y no tiene reglas tan claras como en español; pero igual algunas palabras se pueden asociar y tratar de entender
hahah te imaginas? aprende a hablar con "tú" y salen los argentinos y uruguayos con el "vos", aprende "momento" y salen los venezolanos con "momentico" hahah pobre
Imagina tratar de aprender el dialecto chileno XD Gran parte del tiempo utilizamos palabras que solo existen en nuestro dialecto o que existen en otros dialectos, pero que en el nuestro cambia su significado xD
Its weird hearing you not have a good accent in a language. Keep it up. (Im sure you will). Spanish is easy af. After Spanish learn Portuguese. SO easy. Also, you should share some of your Anki decks.
Bro exactly my goal I just bullshit with Spanish for no more than 10 hours of practice a month for a couple months and I was surprised to know I know 90 of the top 100 most used phrases and 145 of the top 150 most used verbs and able to breakdown what 70% of spanish comment sections say it really is crazy I'm started back up now I want to live in sudamerica for a couple years traveling throughout Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay, French Guiana and then learn Portuguese and travel through out Brazil maybe even live there long term and teach English there I heard English teachers get 21-25$ U.S on average an hour but that could be bull shit lol.
I'm spanish native and I found your channel yesterday due to youtube's recommendations, what a coincidence. I love the way you learn and your techniques. It really motivates me to improve my Japanese, German and Italian. Gracias y sigue así!
Love this! Loved the idea of using mnemonics. When I learned Esperanto in a week, I just used Memrise for the 1000 most common words. I'll have to try that for my next language challenge!
@@alexgeor8102 For Esperanto, yes. However, that's only because of how easy it is to convert nouns to verbs to adjectives to whatever type of word you need. For example, I learned the word "uzo" as "use". Because it ends in an -o, I know it's a noun. Then, I can change it to "uzas" to get "uses". For other languages, Memrise may not be enough. It is a great start and I highly recommend it! Hope this helped :)
For people learning Spanish, I recommend you to watch these shows ☺⬇️ - La casa de papel / Money Heist - Élite / Elite - Alta mar / High Seas - Las chicas del cable / Cable Girls - Vis a vis / Locked Up - El internado / The Black Lagoon boarding school - El barco / The ship - Gran hotel / Grand Hotel - El ministerio del tiempo / The Ministry of Time
I have been very pleased with the progress I’ve made using this *LearnSpanish.4yourhelp. Com* (remove space and open the site) Spanish learning course. We are English ex-pats who moved to Spain, and have been trying to learn the language, seriously, for 4 years. However, in our 60’s learning a new language has been daunting. But we are making real progress now, thanks to your course.
He got it from “frequency lists by Neri” which is a blog. That particular list wouldn’t open for me but he has a lot of other lists including most common sentences
If you ever decide to learn Korean could you please vlog that process as well? It would be so incredibly helpful to see how you tackle languages that don't use the latin alphabet and have completely different grammar. Love your channel!
Good luck with that, I am a native german speaker here is a pro tipp: There is more grammar stuff in German than in english, but even natives fuck the articles up sometimes so don't be harsh on yourself with it our grammar can confuse us as well ^^
Ich lerne auch Deutsch! I've learned it for about 12 months now, and I was able to speak to a German (a pretty short conversation though). You can do it! Good luck :)
Jsjsj me pareció algo tierno y de alguna manera me subió el autoestima :') que quieran aprender español , he oido mucho que algunos dicen que es un idioma difícil y tal vez lo sea pero sé que si uno quiere aprenderlo solo debe esforzarse en ellos . Vibras :D 🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪
One tip for learning Spanish, which I hope id have a few since I’ve been studying it for the last 3 years is conjugations are key, like Italian most of the personal pronouns are inferred by the conjugations of the verb, so knowing the infinitive and personal pronoun won’t really help when trying to communicate, for example normally instead of saying “yo soy” people will casually just say “soy” or instead of “nosotros tenemos” just “tenemos” is okay. It takes a little while to adjust to not saying the pronouns but you get used to it and it becomes second nature when you keep practicing. Anyways keep up with the spanish and as always keep working hard
Quick question, if you don't mind, and by some miracle, RU-vid sends you a notification: just like it would feel weird for English-speaking people to drop the pronouns, in my language we almost always attach an article to nouns, but from the books I've seen (I study on my own) in Spanish nouns don't have obligatory articles. Is it true or is it possible they just forgot to add the articles for a few of the words in my books? For example, is "Yo estoy en casa" incorrect? Shouldn't it be "Yo estoy en la casa"?
@@Adros2121 So it's a familiarity/property thing? Would you use that for other stuff too, for example when saying you read a book? If it's your book you drop the article?
Damn i'm loving this video. As a spanish native who speaks english i find your method so enjoyable and i'm loving watching your progress man. It's heartwarming to see someone having that interest in my language. Kudos my man.
Spanish class is the devil I am currently taking a college course they just go by the book. They have a whole bunch of online assignments and a whole bunch of grammar lol
Hey, idk if this is still relevant to you or if you'll find this useful, I am actually using this website for the same purpose. 1000mostcommonwords.com/
Ikenna if you don’t upload more videos we will Riot. As a person obsessed with language, and with a demand for language videos, and you with the supply, I will not stand for this ‼️‼️ P.S. I watched EXTRA EN ESPAÑOL all the way through almost 3 times lol. Hilarious show, and very good for beginners
I love extra, it’s very helpful for Spanish learners and it’s so cheesy(in a good, funny way) and entertaining. My amazing Spanish teacher introduced it to me, but I NEED to watch La Casa de Papel, I’ve been hearing about it everywhere.
this might be a little irrelevant but watching this after going through a tough break up, it made me realize that nothing is impossible if you put your effort into something really tough so by making myself believe that it's not a hard thing to get over and just doing it helped me a lot. thank you :)
Tip: I noticed you're not putting the right sound with the things like áéíóú, that can totally change the tense ! Good luck you're doing great! Saludos desde México ❤️
Seriously Ikenna changed having to immerse into the country to learn a language to learning super efficiently at home. I typed in my journey learning french on RU-vid and was blessed finding Ikenna.
Here’s a tip that will help even more! Spanish is spoken as a national language in like 25 countries. Not only do a lot of them have different dialects in terms of casualness and formality, a lot of them have words that will translate way differently depending on where the person is from. For example, even looking at some of the most used words you have things that are radically different depending on the culture like concha, torta, amarillo, pendejo, gato/gata, ay bendito, coger etc. (A lot of them can be vulgar btw) Also even figuring out how to refer to people is hard. Different countries have different connotations for tú, usted, vos, or vosotros. There are also about 1000 tenses. Some more commonly used than others. So while practical studying is fantastic, television, conversations with natives and RU-vid are your best friends for learning how to speak on a proficiency level, like you did at the end of the week! Those are just suggestions though! It is a language that requires a lot of studying to perfect. ¡Buen trabajo y buena suerte, papi!
I picked up some Mexican Spanish and I thought that was it but when I heard the Cuban Spanish, I couldn’t understand a thing. Lol .. but I love to hear the Cuban accent (West side of Cuba).
MalluStyle MultiMedia funny you say that because I'm actually part Cuban. I grew up in a very mixed place so I use a lot of different slang terms, but the accent with which I say them is very Havanese.
@Awsamazing Eden .. whoa.. I was just thinking about the Cuban accent now and your message popped up .. anyways, I think there are two main accents in Cuba.. I’m able to understand my friend’s accent from Manzanillo (East Cuba) but I have hard time understanding the accent from Havana (West Cuba); I think it’s a real cool accent.
@@MalluStyleMultiMedia caribbean spanish (dominican, cuban, panamanian, puerto rican) is very difficult because while spanish is already the 2nd fastest language, caribbeans speak even faster spanish. lots of abbreviations of words and dropping of sounds, particularly "s". i prefer the caribbean spanish accents for sure, but now that i have the accent down, i mostly listen to mexican spanish (i dont love the mexican accent) because they speak most clearly or what they call "the most neutral". i hear colombian and argentian spanish are good for learning as well.
lime light Mexican is not the most neutral, that's a lie. Because... neutral exactly according to who? Mexican Spanish doesn't sound neutral to me at all. As for the Caribbean accents and Chilean accent, they all come from the Andalusian accent (the accent of the south of Spain). You should listen to it to understand the history of the variety of accents in Latin America. You'll notice the similarities between this European accent and those Latin American accents.
Wow, I love how dedicated you are! This video has inspired me so much! I've been meaning to start learning Spanish almost for a year now and never did. It's not like I am bad at languages or anything, it would be my forth one actually but after a long time without studying I forgot how to make myself do thing I don't really want to do and learned how to make good excuses. I'm really impressed by how hard you work. think I will give learning Spanish a second chance after watching this video. Thank you very much for this, for sharing your learning experience. Keep up the good work, I really mean it!
That's so really interesting, because i'm native Spanish speaker, and that is true, Spanish could be a little bit hard for native English speaker, but trust me is not impossible, for me de best way to learn spanish is speak with a native, because he can explain you a lot of things! Hey guys, please never give up! You can do it!!!
Realmente, me parece que el español es un poco más difícil que el inglés en el tema de los verbos, ya que el español cambia todo el verbo en vez de añadirle una palabra extra (por ejemplo, "I will go" es "yo iré") y además, el español tiene una conjugación diferente para cada persona, mientras que el inglés tiene menos (otro ejemplo, "I am/you, we, they are/he, she, it is" tiene 3 diferentes)
I recognized two of them. "Extra" is free on youtube: just search for "extra espanol" and you'll find all 13 episodes. "La Casa De Papel" has 2 0r 3 seasons, and you can find it on netflix. Depending on your location, it will have that name or "The House of Paper" and "Money Heist". I would suggest watching extra first; it's light on the vocabulary, with less, shorter episodes. Hope this helps.
I recognized a video from a channel called "pasco y rodri" they make songs about history a child stories with animations. Just look for "destripando la historia"
Depends on the region! Right now I’m focused on Latin America Spanish, and plan to move to Mexico so I’ve been watching Mexican shows like La Casa de Las Flores o Luis Miguel La Serie. Very informative. I also watch movies I’ve already watched in English but this time in Spanish in both audio and subtitles. Helps big time!
2 hours on Spanish lesson on RU-vid and I know all the basics .I can make small talks now but hopefully I want to learn Spanish in depth and be a fluent speaker soon enough ( 6 months)
You are my greatest inspiration to learn languages. I'm 12 years old, I'm Venezuelan (so I speak Spanish), learned English in 8 years (most of them were to perfect some stuff like pronunciation), Italian in 5 months roughly (my family is Italian so I often heard them, then we moved to Italy and went to school not knowing almost nothing, but now I get everything) and currently at the peak of learning French, this last one was thanks to your method, and now I'm trying to get fluency and comprehension, let's see how do I do I the next couple of months.
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@@blessing142 I'll do my best for translating what he said. Bryce: I think he said that he started when he felt ready for a beginner conversation. Probably It would suppose about 6 months of studying.
How did you change the anki background when reviewing. It looked so cool. Also nice job learning spanish, it was kind of fun watching you as a native soanish speaker but im still impressed about how fast you learn
I need help with something bro. Tendria que cobrarle is confusing because what is it que that means what/that replacing the word a which is to? Please help me brother I'd really appreciate it.
@@vivaeuropa What don you understand? The "que " in the sentence doesnt mean "what". It is used to join the verbs "tener" and "cobrarle". In english the sentence is "I would have to charge him" so the "que" acts as the "to".
Funny true story: got kicked out my freshman year Spanish class because I corrected my Spanish teacher that you do not pronounce hamburguesa HAM-boor-guessa like she wanted to pronounce the H sound in it and I got kicked out. I am a Spanish speaker myself, so I KNEW I was right but I was still wrong to her....even tho a week before she had taught us the rule about silent H’s
For me I’m entering 7th And I have to take a foreign language *cough* French or Spanish I chose Spanish The one reason why I want to know my schedule already is cause I want to know what period I will have to suffer... Yes. That period is Spanish.
