If you liked this video, consider checking out my pronunciation course. In it, we use audio analysis similar to this video to build a strong foundation in the sounds of the language. Get all the details and enroll here: breakthroughspanish.com/csp
I have been studying spanish now for 4 years and this video is so welcome. This is incredibly insightful. Finally and explanation why I have had so much difficulty understanding native speakers. Thank you
Thanks Bob! Glad you liked it. This video is definitely a challenge since the audio isn't great AND shows/movies tend to be harder to understand than real life. But people in real life really do run words together, jump over letters, etc., so it's good to be aware of that. I think by paying close attention to this kind of thing, it makes understanding people in real life easier.
This was a terrific idea. Fast-spoken, everyday Spanish can be really difficult to understand. Thank so much for this. I would love to see more videos like this in the future!
Thanks Natalie! Glad you liked it. The hard part was getting the screen recording of Netflix, which blocks screen & audio recording. Couldn't figure out an easy way to do that, which is why the quality isn't the best. If I can figure out an easy way to do it next time, I'll definitely do more of these
Hi Connor, I joined a speaking challenge. I have been writing down each day what I am going to say because I have not quite got to the stage of just speaking straight off. After watching your video, I am going to try to then re write it, but joining the words as suggested in your video as I think this will help me to get the rhythm better 😊
I found this absolutely fascinating. So cool how you can distinguish the subtle nuisances of the dialect/accent kind of how you can with a American from Alabama vs California. I just started learning Spanish so this is gold! thanks for sharing.
Excellent! Now I understand why I don’t understand movies in Spanish. However, how can I practically apply this knowledge going forward.? In a sense it’s like learning this language all over again discarding all I learned in the pronunciation of Spanish. Ugh!
Fortunately people in real life aren't usually as hard to understand as the characters in this clip. But with anything in pronunciation, the first step is awareness, followed by a bit of practice, followed by tons and tons of listening. The more you listen (actively), the more these sounds will start to sound natural to you, and they more they'll become part of your own Spanish.
This video was very well done and entertaining man, thank you. I am sturggling with pronunciation in terms of "aa" or "ar" sound or "mujeras" middle sound of woman. So this was very helpful
Thanks Mason, glad you liked it. Btw it's "mujeres", rather than "mujeras" :) So the two E sounds in "mujeres" should sound identical. Check out forvo.com to hear examples of native speakers saying it
This was so helpful! You're really good at this whole language thing! Lol. And as someone NOT quite fluent yet, did they have pretty strong Mexican accents? Even Diego luna sounds different than when I hear him speak Spanish in interviews (huge Andor fan!)
Glad you liked the video! Thanks for the kind words. The first and last characters are supposed to be Colombian. Neither actor is from Colombia though, but I'm not familiar enough with Colombian accents to comment on how good of a job they do with it. Diego Luna's accent is different in this show because his character is from Sinaloa but he's from Mexico City I think
@@BreakthroughSpanish ahhhh, yeah I totally missed the Columbian accent lol. But sometimes I think about the VAST amount of different English accents that have so many variations based on more than just locations (race, class, historical, etc) and I know I shouldn't be so disappointed in myself when I can't correctly identify a specific accent. Thanks! 👍
@@msmendes214 identifying accents is fun! but you can speak great Spanish without being able to do that super well. And it's also one of those things where, once certain traits of speakers have been pointed out to you, it becomes a lot easier to guess where someone is from.
