Question, do you think you have like a gene to learn languages faster than others or is it just how you apply yourself. Because I see your wanting to learn french and you were an interperator, so I'm like this is easy for you. I would love to learn spanish but thats about it. I put in about a half hour a day. Another question, did you use the Babbel or Rosetta Stone type courses at all?
@Lend Pipe No, I don't believe learning Spanish came easier to me than it would for anyone else who spent the amount of time with the language that I did. :) However, after learning one foreign language, learning others does become easier because you already know what to do. So in that sense French may not be as much of a challenge for me as if I were starting from scratch. I used Destinos to start Spanish. You can still watch the Destinos videos at this link: education.ket.org/collections/destinos/ although finding the workbooks that I had back then is a challenge sometimes. I think sometimes they're available on Amazon.
Haha, it's happened to all of us! I suggest taking a bit of time ahead of time to write down a list of resources (videos, etc...) that you're interested in using so that when study time comes all you have to do is jump right in! 😊
This past week if I'm watching something in Spanish I leave on the Spanish subtitles. That allows me to see the words I already know and start to piece together the storyline. I love that you said that about our brains gravitate towards the dominant language. Your Blueprint was great!
Yes, "fluency" is quite a vague term. I am a native English speaker learning Spanish, but if you asked me to elaborate about my knowledge of Botany, for example, my response would be very limited even in my mother tongue. That's because I have very little interest in that subject and therefore haven't bothered to learn about it. We become fluent in the things we use/do every day and the things that interest us. :)
You're great Erica! I'd advise people to travel to these Spanish speaking country or find Spanish speaking friends in your area. My boyfriend didn't speak English so I was forced to learn spanish. And I find that having conversations with people who do not speak English or your language, are the best to learn from. When I talk to fluent English speaking hispanics, they want to talk English and I want to talk Spanish so I found myself not being able to learn much from them.
Dear Erica, this video I appreciated moto fast learing points as i have included now Spanish from Spain radio brodcast RNE and TV program TVE on my daily practice .Thanks for your kind advice.
Hola!! Erica!! Muchas gracias. I just applied your blueprint. I’m not even a native English speaker. I’m native Japanese. But I hope to learn Spanish a lot from you. Thank you for your hard work!
this is what I have been telling people who ask me about language learning, and after I tell them "you have to engage with the language" the reply is allways: "but I need someone to explain the grammar to me" no, you don´t, besides if you are learning a close language, say spanish, dutch, etc... you will understand, it´s not japanese just listen, read, interact with something, you will learn, and be patient
I’m here because I’m the only one in my family that isn’t fluent in Spanish and my daughter has a quinceañera next year. I want to be able to make my speech in fluent Spanish. My wife is a native Spanish speaker and both of our kids are fluent….me, not so much. Time for me to level up. Your video makes me realize that my off and on approach has not worked and that integrating learning into my daily life is what I need. Thank you! (Subscribed)
I have been studying Spanish for 3 yrs with traditional methods (lessons, workbooks) but unhappy about my progress. I came across this concept of comprehensible input and then found your channel. I’m excited again, Erica, and so have subscribed, downloaded your language blueprint and registered for your masterclass tonight. Time for some real progress!
I am so happy to have found you, been trying to learn for a while now, did at school but far different to the actual practice. I can read ok for the most part but very very weak on comprehension and conversing, happy when I heard you to refer to your younger days and My Book of Bible Stories, we speak that language together- the Pure Language. I also feel the same way you feel about Destiños- An Introduction to Spanish. I had just finished watching the final episode 52, but plan to watch again - I think very good. I am really looking forward to benefiting from your program.
Hi Erica. I am impressed with what you had to say about learning a language faster. I have tried to learn Spanish and I am learning very slowly. I will try some of the tips that you mentioned. I want to start a language journal starting from today. I will let you know about my progress.
I just found your channel today. I am a 68 year old black man from the United States living in Panamá for four years now. I have had many stops and starts learning Spanish. I just discovered the storytelling method of learning a language. This is much different than what I used in the past. Good job on your videos. I have subscribed to follow you and learn. Keep it up? 👍🏾
yep set some goals for yourself, for me it is being able to learn small phrases through repetition. The more I learn the more I want to learn. Also I learned a complete song in spanish, one of my favorite songs too. Soo I'm thinking if I can learn 5 or 6 more songs in spanish I'll be much more fluent by then. Thanks for the tips Erica, nice to see a "sista" doing this. lol
This is great I really enjoy this video. It's helping me better to learn Spanish just try to use it in my everyday things that I do around the house movie shopping and I think this is going to help me a lot rather than just waiting to learn it on in a specific course or so thanks again and continue to put out the information to aid me to learn this language.
So glad it was helpful! Yes, I certainly agree. I take a very holistic approach to language learning and teach that you have to look beyond a single course (although they can certainly be part of the picture!) to really learn well. :)
With writing do you recommend checking with a translator each sentence or continue writing despite the chance of making mistakes. I have a notebook which I dedicated to Spanish writing where I come up with different sentences and sometimes make mistakes. However using a translator each time can become tiresome. I really want to improve my writing in Spanish so what do you recommend. Thank you
Your writing will improve in time as you continuously spend time with the language through listening and reading and adjust your own writing according to what you notice, so there's no need to obsess over everything being perfect. But using a translator occasionally or for things that you're lost on won't hurt and can help you learn new words and sentence structure. If you have a tutor or Spanish-speaking friends with proficient writing abilities then that's a wonderful way to get feedback as well.
I've learned a good bit of Hindi by watching lots of Bollywood movies with the English subtitles on. It was never my intent to learn the language, but I realized after a while I could pick up on the errors in the subtitles because I actually knew what the actors were saying. I want to learn Spanish now. I'll try your example of watching movies without the subtitles to see if I learn faster.
I'll be curious to see how it goes. Let us know! I don't know what your current level of Spanish is. If you already have some vocabulary then you may be able to pick up on some language with no subtitles (the point in which I personally would watch a movie in a foreign language is when I already know some of the language). But if you're starting from zero and you like using movies to break into a language then perhaps watching something that you've already seen in English or throwing on those English subtitles just for round 1 so that you know the plot would work well, do you think? And then going back to it more times, of course, with less of the English crutch?🙂
Cool I'm from veracruz I try to speak Ingles read. Pero al igual que tu esposo trabajo mucho but for 2021 lo voy a lograr btw happy new year for all you seguidores🥂
Hi,Erica can you do a video on race in mexico or where you live because mexico is a big country. I heard unlike the US where you get grief from the police and not so much people,it is normally the opposite in other countries
Well... I'm a native spanish speaker HAHAHHAHAHAH But I'm learning other languages as well, and this video is spitting those facts... All of these things are real, I learned about it kinda accidentally while learning english, and it worked pretty well, so a lot of these tips work for other languages as well... Good video
My first year I went through all the grammar,and felt like most of it I understood,however making the realisation that I couldn't really speak much ,this year,being my second year I've decided to spend most of my time listen to podcasts,Olly's short stories and sometimes reading along with transcription . CI + i1...Not sure what else I can do. CI all the time now. I also need to practice speaking more.
Erica, I'm a first year Spanish student and my instructor doesn't recommend the students to use online study. What do you recommend? I am not understanding the book lessons. Can't Get It
You have to do what you need to do to learn. Do you like videos? Do you like online courses? Use what you like and what you learn best with. I think that one of the advantages that I had in learning Spanish is that I never had a teacher, so I had no choice but to find my own way and it worked ;)
Hola Erica. Me gusta tener subtitles por ayuda. Jajaja. Pero yo Mira en las palabras solo cuando yo no puedo comprendo, porque lo se eso tengo que practica. Yo tengo Latino amigos ahora, y están saben que estoy aprendiendo, entonces están ayudarme y yo ayuda con Ingles también. Lo se hay mucho cosas no correcto En este comentario, pero tengo que try.
Yes, there is a time and a place for subtitles, and your method of only looking at them when. you don't understand something is fine. But many of us find that impossible to do. If the subtitles are on, we MUST look at them. I talk about the use of subtitles and captions more extensively in this video: ua-cam.com/video/6kWqj3YXg1A/v-deo.html It's fine if you use the English subtitles as you watch, perhaps the first or second time, but after that, it's best to put them away and listen exclusively in Spanish. So basically, if you're willing to view multiple times, you can use subtitles as a tool. Too many people just come to depend on them exclusively, which is where the problem lies. 😀
It’s hard to watch a movie in Spanish lol 😂 bc I don’t know what’s going on but I LOVE to listen to Spanish music even tho I don’t know what they are saying it still sound good 🤣🤣
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Question, do you think you have like a gene to learn languages faster than others or is it just how you apply yourself. Because I see your wanting to learn french and you were an interperator, so I'm like this is easy for you. I would love to learn spanish but thats about it. I put in about a half hour a day. Another question, did you use the Babbel or Rosetta Stone type courses at all?
@Lend Pipe No, I don't believe learning Spanish came easier to me than it would for anyone else who spent the amount of time with the language that I did. :) However, after learning one foreign language, learning others does become easier because you already know what to do. So in that sense French may not be as much of a challenge for me as if I were starting from scratch. I used Destinos to start Spanish. You can still watch the Destinos videos at this link: education.ket.org/collections/destinos/ although finding the workbooks that I had back then is a challenge sometimes. I think sometimes they're available on Amazon.
I’m guilty of spending more time searching for videos than watching them. 🤭
Haha, it's happened to all of us! I suggest taking a bit of time ahead of time to write down a list of resources (videos, etc...) that you're interested in using so that when study time comes all you have to do is jump right in! 😊
This past week if I'm watching something in Spanish I leave on the Spanish subtitles. That allows me to see the words I already know and start to piece together the storyline. I love that you said that about our brains gravitate towards the dominant language. Your Blueprint was great!
Awesome! And I'm glad you found the blueprint helpful as well. ☺️
@@EricaRayLanguage big time. Now this week will be about immersing myself even more.
Yes, "fluency" is quite a vague term. I am a native English speaker learning Spanish, but if you asked me to elaborate about my knowledge of Botany, for example, my response would be very limited even in my mother tongue. That's because I have very little interest in that subject and therefore haven't bothered to learn about it. We become fluent in the things we use/do every day and the things that interest us. :)
So true!! :)
You're great Erica! I'd advise people to travel to these Spanish speaking country or find Spanish speaking friends in your area. My boyfriend didn't speak English so I was forced to learn spanish. And I find that having conversations with people who do not speak English or your language, are the best to learn from. When I talk to fluent English speaking hispanics, they want to talk English and I want to talk Spanish so I found myself not being able to learn much from them.
Very good advice! Having a true need for communication with a person who doesn't speak your language is definitely helpful and motivational.
Hey! Just subscribed to your channel! I started learning Spanish this year and it’s been fun and inspiring! Thanks for the wonderful information!!
Welcome and congratulations on your decision to learn Spanish!! I'm so glad that it's going great for you! 🙂
Dear Erica, this video I appreciated moto fast learing points as i have included now Spanish from Spain radio brodcast RNE and TV program TVE on my daily practice .Thanks for your kind advice.
Thank you for always watching and commenting! I appreciate you! ☺️
Hola!! Erica!! Muchas gracias.
I just applied your blueprint. I’m not even a native English speaker. I’m native Japanese. But I hope to learn Spanish a lot from you. Thank you for your hard work!
Wonderful! Thank you so much. You'll do great! How did the blueprint work for you?
@@EricaRayLanguage I can apply your Methods for several language learning. Thank you!!
this is what I have been telling people who ask me about language learning, and after I tell them "you have to engage with the language" the reply is allways: "but I need someone to explain the grammar to me"
no, you don´t, besides if you are learning a close language, say spanish, dutch, etc... you will understand, it´s not japanese
just listen, read, interact with something, you will learn, and be patient
I agree 100%!!
So true!!!!
Estoy aprendiendo
Estoy de acuerdo contigo! Hay que pasar tiempo en el idioma!
I’m here because I’m the only one in my family that isn’t fluent in Spanish and my daughter has a quinceañera next year. I want to be able to make my speech in fluent Spanish. My wife is a native Spanish speaker and both of our kids are fluent….me, not so much. Time for me to level up. Your video makes me realize that my off and on approach has not worked and that integrating learning into my daily life is what I need. Thank you! (Subscribed)
Absolutely, that integration is key! Welcome and I hope to continue to be of support. ☺️
Muchísimas gracias, Erica.
I have no excuse. I live right next door to you, surrounded by the language.
Ive downloaded your free Spanish fluency blueprint and cannot wait to start reading it.
Enjoy!!
Wow!! Outstanding info! Great job! I really liked the point of talking to those in your household. So important and helpful!
Yes! And often overlooked! Thank you!! 😁
This was so helpful...especially the part about how much time I'm really spending with the language.
I'm so glad it was helpful!
Great tips🙌. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I have been studying Spanish for 3 yrs with traditional methods (lessons, workbooks) but unhappy about my progress. I came across this concept of comprehensible input and then found your channel. I’m excited again, Erica, and so have subscribed, downloaded your language blueprint and registered for your masterclass tonight. Time for some real progress!
Wow, I'm so excited for you!! 😃😃
Muchas gracias 🙏
You are great, lady! Thanks for your teachings! :)
Thank you! My pleasure!
You have me pegged!
This is so helpful. Thank you Erica!
Yay, I'm glad to hear it!
I am so happy to have found you, been trying to learn for a while now, did at school but far different to the actual practice. I can read ok for the most part but very very weak on comprehension and conversing, happy when I heard you to refer to your younger days and My Book of Bible Stories, we speak that language together- the Pure Language. I also feel the same way you feel about Destiños- An Introduction to Spanish. I had just finished watching the final episode 52, but plan to watch again - I think very good. I am really looking forward to benefiting from your program.
Welcome! I'm so happy to have you here! 🤗
Hi Erica. I am impressed with what you had to say about learning a language faster. I have tried to learn Spanish and I am learning very slowly. I will try some of the tips that you mentioned. I want to start a language journal starting from today. I will let you know about my progress.
Fantastic!! I can't wait to hear about your progress!
All facts
I just found your channel today. I am a 68 year old black man from the United States living in Panamá for four years now. I have had many stops and starts learning Spanish. I just discovered the storytelling method of learning a language. This is much different than what I used in the past. Good job on your videos. I have subscribed to follow you and learn. Keep it up? 👍🏾
Fantastic and welcome!
Smart idea about watching a movie from Spanish into English, makes.sense Erica.
Very informative video. I just started to learn Spanish. That is really good i found this channel.
Welcome and best wishes! 🙂
yep set some goals for yourself, for me it is being able to learn small phrases through repetition. The more I learn the more I want to learn. Also I learned a complete song in spanish, one of my favorite songs too. Soo I'm thinking if I can learn 5 or 6 more songs in spanish I'll be much more fluent by then. Thanks for the tips Erica, nice to see a "sista" doing this. lol
All of that sounds great! Music is a wonderful learning tool!
Thank you
This is great I really enjoy this video. It's helping me better to learn Spanish just try to use it in my everyday things that I do around the house movie shopping and I think this is going to help me a lot rather than just waiting to learn it on in a specific course or so thanks again and continue to put out the information to aid me to learn this language.
So glad it was helpful! Yes, I certainly agree. I take a very holistic approach to language learning and teach that you have to look beyond a single course (although they can certainly be part of the picture!) to really learn well. :)
I am so glad I found your channel! Thank you for the work you do. 🙌🏾💯
Welcome!! My pleasure!
Idky but "mal" made me bust out laughing 😂😂😂. Great video, thanks!!
Another solid video with specific tips!
Thank you, lady!
WOW THANK YOU SO MUCH 😍
You're so welcome! 🤩
With writing do you recommend checking with a translator each sentence or continue writing despite the chance of making mistakes. I have a notebook which I dedicated to Spanish writing where I come up with different sentences and sometimes make mistakes. However using a translator each time can become tiresome. I really want to improve my writing in Spanish so what do you recommend.
Thank you
Your writing will improve in time as you continuously spend time with the language through listening and reading and adjust your own writing according to what you notice, so there's no need to obsess over everything being perfect. But using a translator occasionally or for things that you're lost on won't hurt and can help you learn new words and sentence structure. If you have a tutor or Spanish-speaking friends with proficient writing abilities then that's a wonderful way to get feedback as well.
I've learned a good bit of Hindi by watching lots of Bollywood movies with the English subtitles on. It was never my intent to learn the language, but I realized after a while I could pick up on the errors in the subtitles because I actually knew what the actors were saying. I want to learn Spanish now. I'll try your example of watching movies without the subtitles to see if I learn faster.
I'll be curious to see how it goes. Let us know! I don't know what your current level of Spanish is. If you already have some vocabulary then you may be able to pick up on some language with no subtitles (the point in which I personally would watch a movie in a foreign language is when I already know some of the language). But if you're starting from zero and you like using movies to break into a language then perhaps watching something that you've already seen in English or throwing on those English subtitles just for round 1 so that you know the plot would work well, do you think? And then going back to it more times, of course, with less of the English crutch?🙂
Cool I'm from veracruz I try to speak Ingles read. Pero al igual que tu esposo trabajo mucho but for 2021 lo voy a lograr btw happy new year for all you seguidores🥂
You can do it!! Best wishes!
Love ❤️ it!!!
Thank you!!
Busted on the subtitles!
Una vez gracias por esta información beneficia Érica.
De nada! Gracias por mirar!
Hello 👋 I was wondering if you recommend watching spanish movies or tv program with spanish subtitles on?
Hi! I have a video about that here - ua-cam.com/video/6kWqj3YXg1A/v-deo.html
Is duolingo a good teaching app
Hi,Erica can you do a video on race in mexico or where you live because mexico is a big country. I heard unlike the US where you get grief from the police and not so much people,it is normally the opposite in other countries
Yeah, I've never had an issue. I will consider it. :)
Well... I'm a native spanish speaker HAHAHHAHAHAH
But I'm learning other languages as well, and this video is spitting those facts... All of these things are real, I learned about it kinda accidentally while learning english, and it worked pretty well, so a lot of these tips work for other languages as well... Good video
I had that exact same experience. I learned a lot of this by accident while learning Spanish and now find it equally useful for other languages. 😀
My first year I went through all the grammar,and felt like most of it I understood,however making the realisation that I couldn't really speak much ,this year,being my second year I've decided to spend most of my time listen to podcasts,Olly's short stories and sometimes reading along with transcription .
CI + i1...Not sure what else I can do.
CI all the time now.
I also need to practice speaking more.
Yes, that integrated approach will help you to progress much faster!
Hola Erica!! Thanks for your videos.. I swear I'm gonna do better in 2021 with my Español lol..
You got this!!
I'm leaving for Puerto Rico in 5 months to meet my boyfriends family. Is it possible to atleast speak conversationally by then??
Erica, I'm a first year Spanish student and my instructor doesn't recommend the students to use online study. What do you recommend? I am not understanding the book lessons.
Can't Get It
You have to do what you need to do to learn. Do you like videos? Do you like online courses? Use what you like and what you learn best with. I think that one of the advantages that I had in learning Spanish is that I never had a teacher, so I had no choice but to find my own way and it worked ;)
You look beautiful in yellow 💛!
Thank you! 💛
No creo que mi esposa quiere aprender español conmigo en absoluto. Espero que puedo hacerlo sólo 🤞
Hola Erica. Me gusta tener subtitles por ayuda. Jajaja. Pero yo Mira en las palabras solo cuando yo no puedo comprendo, porque lo se eso tengo que practica.
Yo tengo Latino amigos ahora, y están saben que estoy aprendiendo, entonces están ayudarme y yo ayuda con Ingles también. Lo se hay mucho cosas no correcto En este comentario, pero tengo que try.
Yes, there is a time and a place for subtitles, and your method of only looking at them when. you don't understand something is fine. But many of us find that impossible to do. If the subtitles are on, we MUST look at them. I talk about the use of subtitles and captions more extensively in this video: ua-cam.com/video/6kWqj3YXg1A/v-deo.html It's fine if you use the English subtitles as you watch, perhaps the first or second time, but after that, it's best to put them away and listen exclusively in Spanish. So basically, if you're willing to view multiple times, you can use subtitles as a tool. Too many people just come to depend on them exclusively, which is where the problem lies. 😀
Fantastic 😍💋 💝💖♥️❤️
Gracias!
It’s hard to watch a movie in Spanish lol 😂 bc I don’t know what’s going on but I LOVE to listen to Spanish music even tho I don’t know what they are saying it still sound good 🤣🤣
Yes I know just what you mean! Haha
the easiest spanish song , dont laugh is madonna " la isla bonita" .with subtitles.
You live in Mexico ?
Yup!
Contact is huge
*when ur mom is bilingual but doesn't want to repeat herself when she tells me something in spanish in English cause I barley understand Spanish* 🧍