It is cool, but it is also how having a job at SNL works. But that doesn’t necessarily make it less of an achievement, like not everyone gets their comedy bits made into skits at SNL.
This is how it often works. Things like Dana Carvey's chopping broccoli, Will Ferrell's Harry Caray, Kristen Wiig's target lady all came from material they had pre-SNL.
I'm pretty sure this sketch was actually based off a stand up set by Marcello Hernández about him schooling his Spanish teacher when he was younger just like this. Super cool that they let him have this level of input and super funny sketch!
@K E It is 99% identical to Marcello's bit on his stand-up about this exact same thing. So he definitely wrote this. ua-cam.com/video/QNq7dMa5Vvg/v-deo.html
The brilliance of this sketch is that the dialogue in Spanish has to be familiar enough so that non-Spanish speakers can still understand the jokes. Mikey killed it with the super-gringo Spanish 201 accent and vocabulario. The sketch with Marcelo and Pedro Pascal is gold -- I hope this is a recurring bit with all the Latine hosts.
Hispanic means that you/your family come from a country that speaks Spanish (culture), and Latino that you come from Latin America (Mexico, Central & South America and the Caribbean). Hispanic denotes culture and Latino geography. A Brazilian is Latino but not Hispanic, a Mexican is both Latino and Hispanic and a Spaniard is only Hispanic.
They did such a good job with showing how Spanish is taught in America. I was able to understand all the gringo Spanish with my 4 years of high school Spanish, and about 2 words total when Marcello and Ana were speaking. Glad those 4 years of my life weren't a total waste 😅
@@corvus2512 No, gringo Spanish is the Spanish spoken by the teacher in this sketch. The dialect of the very White suburban American high school Spanish teacher. :)
@@corvus2512 Yeah, what MacSultana said. It's a slang term used to refer to white people with bad Spanish accents. It's sometimes used in a derogatory way to essentially call someone a yankee who can't speak Spanish well
my Spanish teacher in HS was Cuban, she was my favorite teacher cuz she'd deadass spend 20 minutes with us going through the book she was forced to teach us telling us how it was wrong and no one talked like that or pointing out the differences in different Spanish speaking cultures so that we knew when it was Spain Spanish the book was teaching us or Mexican or Guatemalan or Cuban etc... because the book just cobbled together a bunch of words from different countries
English is my first language. Taking Spanish class in America was very much like taking the class in this video. The teachers mean well, but there's a whole side of culture and complexity in Spanish that they totally miss. Loved seeing these three let their culture shine in this sketch!
I agree with you, I’m a teacher, that is Black and Puerto Rican, who teaches film, but this is why we have to have more teachers of colors in the classroom to represent and teach our cultures correctly! Loved this so great to watch!
It just depends on the school and districts standards... Every Spanish teacher I had growing up either was Hispanic or lived in a Spanish speaking country for a significant amount of time. They would bring in souvenirs from their travels, cook us traditional food, and could not only speak fluently to the Spanish students, but often *corrected* them on their speaking and, more frequently, their writing. For reference, I grew up in central Indiana.
I started learning Spanish independently of school during the pandemic as a middle schooler. Fast forward a couple of years, and I’m a couple of years ahead of most students taking Spanish classes, and I can tell that our school definitely has better teachers than most districts, since basically all of our language teachers have lived for prolonged periods of time in the country of origin for their selected language, but even then, I can still notice issues in the way my fellow white second language Spanish-speakers, the teachers specifically, speak, mostly revolving around z and s not being pronounced the same way, the letter r being pronounced by the uvula, etc.
research Hispanic countries as oppose to Latin ones?.. and you'll get a better notion as to why all of them have the Spanish language in common but not necessarily the same slang!
I love how now that Marcelo is on the show, we get a lot more Spanish content, especially when the host is also Latino/a. I just wish they had done it more too when Melissa Villaseñor was a cast member, or at least more exploration of her Hispanic culture in skits.
@@Mr_Archer15 Good question! I believe she can but not fluently. Maybe a lack of confidence in that area contributed to less skits of that nature. Still super under-utilized as a cast member though, and it would've been nice to have more skits where she got to explore her Latina culture. Legit the only one I can think of rn was the one she did w Selena Gomez.
@@Mr_Archer15 the girl is from whittier and she's 2nd or third Gen. She speaks a little and she's learning, per a stand up routine of hers I saw wheres she's talking g about her abuelita.
According to one of her stand-up sets, Melissa Villasenor's Spanish isn't that good. She knows enough to understand her mom, but not the rest of her family, who are Mexican and only know Mexican Spanish.
I love it when in 3:16 you see Marcello's lips mouthing Ana's line. Marcello's Spanish contribution to the sketches is so refreshing. Probably one of the best recent additions to the SNL cast. Much love from Fiji!
The sets are set up all over the room at different angles, so sometimes the audience's view is blocked depending where they are seated, but there are stationary monitors hanging from the ceiling, so everyone can always see everything.
Repent to Jesus Christ “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.” 1 Peter 5:8-9 NIV Y
@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist3 the devil is the enemy? God is the one who is a serial mass murderer all throughout the bible. What a stupid religion. Maybe stop randomly posting your fear-mongering religion in videos that have nothing to do with it.
I never thought I'd see a Colombian singer, a Dominican, and a Cuban all on one SNL skit. I am loving the representation SNL is giving. Thank you!!!! Love this skit too, so funny :D
1:40 ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Hugo says, *"My favorite food is grilled chicken with rice and beans and sweet plantains, just like my grandmother used to make.Plantains add a sweet flavor to a well-salted dish."* _Mi comida favorita es un pollo a la plancha con arroz y frijol y platáno maduro, como lo hacía mi abuela. Los platános le dan un sabor dulce a un plato bien salado._ 2:35 ENGLISH TRANSLATION: María says, *"My favorite food is a ropa vieja, with tamales, with tostones. For dessert, a Durofrío, a mamey smoothie, just in case, the mamoncillos, I love them, because they are like a mix between a lychee and a spicy lime and a little sweet too. They are so so rich. TRUE?"* _Mi comida favorita es una ropa vieja, con tamales, con tostones. De postre un Durofrío, batido de mamey, por si acaso, los mamoncillos, me encantan, porque son como una mezcla entre un lychee y una lima picante y poquito dulces también. Son tan tan ricos. Verdad?_
I had to look up "Durofrío". Apparently, it is homemade ice cream. "Ropa Vieja" is a Cuban dish with meat and vegetables. "Tostones" are fried plantains. And "tamales" are meat pies.
@@MsJanetWood The mamey sapote, is a species of tree native to Mexico and Central America. The tree is also cultivated in the Caribbean. Its fruit is eaten in many Latin American countries. The fruit is made into foods such as milkshakes and ice cream. Melicoccus bijugatus is a fruit-bearing tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native or naturalized across the New World tropics including South and Central America, and parts of the Caribbean. Its stone-bearing fruits are edible. It is also called Bajan ackee, genip, guinep, genipe, ginepa, kenèp, quenepa, quenepe, quenette, chenet, skinup, talpa jocote, mamón, limoncillo, canepa, skinip, kenepa, kinnip, huaya, or mamoncillo. Lychee is a monotypic taxon and the sole member in the genus Litchi in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It is a tropical tree native to South China. A tall evergreen tree, it bears small fleshy sweet fruits. The outside of the fruit is a pink-red, rough-textured soft shell.
@@PrincesaSae what's right is acknowledging she's talented regardless if she's latina, Asian , or any other race or gender or designation people prefer. That's how you move forward and lift people up. Not rooting for a team let's you do that.
Speaking as someone who has sat in a classroom while a teacher butchers my language to the point of not being able to understand them, I got a sick thrill out of watching Mikey get upset and scared.
Now you know how Americans feel when we hear immigrants butcher the shit out of our language. We get a sick thrill out of watching you struggle too. Turnabout is fair play, yes? If you can say it, I can too.
Funniest thing is still Cheek’s song Mexican American: Mexican Americans love education so they go to night school. And they take Spanish and get a B. 😂 I was a Spanish minor and lot of friends and classmates who were Hispanic got B and Cs and I’m like dude your fluent how you not passing 😂
@Brian Shockley I saw that too in my Spanish classes in high school. It's because feeling a language in your soul does not mean that you know that language on an academic level. Like conjugating some of the lesser used verb tenses, like the subjuntivo pretérito pluscuamperfecto, or even knowing what those terms mean. I do lots of language exchanges, and I get questions all the time that stump me, because I've never had to think about how XY&Z work in English. For example, I had some guy ask me about verbal phrases. My initial response was, "What the heck is a verbal phrase?" Then you also have to consider dialectual differences. Native speaker or not, you gotta study the vocab list. For example, in my Spanish 1 class, we learned that doll=muñeca. Except no one says that. All the native speakers got it wrong on the test.
@@laurao3274 "feeling a language in your soul does not mean you understand it on an academic level" reminds me of the jokes about native-english speakers failing english class. im sure the same could be said for other art forms (bc language truly is art), like cooking or dancing. there will always be a more "structured" side with rules and terms you dont quite understand if youre used to only doing these "from the heart"
@@brianshockley6429 it is humorous at first, but it’s useful to know that a lot of Latinx parents are immigrants to the USA, so their children know Spanish just by speaking and listening, but they never take classes to understand the WHY of Spanish structure. They are not in schools where they are reading Spanish materials or writing in Spanish (American education system, where English is the dominant language in a school), and access to Spanish books for children in the US is hard. Also, many immigrant parents want their kids to focus on English. I had a Mexican girl in my AP Spanish class and she could speak and listen, but it was humiliating for her because she could not read a word to save her life or write, and I can empathize with her that the situation made her feel detached from her roots or ashamed… Think about it from your perspective as a native English speaker studying a foreign language. The PASSIVE skills (listening and reading) might be easier for you because you usually learn Spanish grammar and pronunciation first. The ACTIVE skills to produce the language (speaking and writing) are harder for you because you did not grow up surrounded by the language input to need to use it. Everybody has different levels of speaking, writing, listening, and reading. Also, you can be a native speaker and still not know all the complexities of your language. We learned English as kids and we didn’t need books to be able to speak or listen, so basically, the rules are “intuitive” to us, but we cannot explain WHY some things are the way they are. For goodness sakes, many people say “I of eaten” instead of “I have eaten”, mix up their homophones, and can’t use the right pronouns (he vs him). The SAT also proves that we do not know a lot of vocabulary outside of standard everyday use. If you know the European levels of language (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, and C2), most native speakers cannot score a C2.
My friend say why would he say I am Gino from Roma when he come from Milano... or the bit in that sketch when Graham Chapman stands up wearing the lederhosen and asks Terry Jones in perfect German where he could find the German language class.
I'm from Cuba and we are just like that! Our accent is pretty much impossible to understand if you don't know our idioms or if you are not used to the speed. But It's very fun and joyful and the video portraits that perfectly. I love it when I see these types of representations of my country
I once had a Cuban co-worker. For the record, I am Puerto Rican. At the club we worked, we'd speak in super fast Spanish. Our other co-workers and the customers would be all _y'all speak so fast!_
This is absolutely hilarious.... When I was in high school we had a man named mr. Williams trying to teach us Spanish... But all of us were Hispanic and grew up in households that only spoke Spanish... I swear I got A's on some of my papers because he couldn't understand what they even said LOL
It is very hard to think and speak at the same speed/tempo of a native language speaker. I know some high-school German, but can't translate native speakers in 'real time' like a normal conversation. I would have to ask them to please slow down their conversation and maybe I could get most of what they'd say. (But I could listen to some Latinas read a box of cereal all day, never mind look at them :) ).
@@carmelapelaez2700 my Grandparents on my mom's side are from Mexico ... On my Dad's side my grandfather is Irish and Grandmother Mexican American.... I have his last name.... Can't judge by last names ... I know PLENTY of people with Spanish last names can't even understand a single word of Spanish... Most of my friends and their families grew up speaking Spanish as well.
The SNL writer are killing this season best sketch of the night seeing Marcello ,and Anas De Armas speaking Spanish as Spanish students was so fun ,and brilliant😂👏🏽👏🏽.
I am a huge Marcello fan, and so thrilled he is bringing so much to SNL. I know he had this exact experience in his own HS. However, the real comedy gold here is Mikey Day! I'm laughing outloud! OMG, "I'm sweating a bit", "Uh-oh!", "That was a leeetle fast por me" "Yummy!", "I heard rice in there somewhere...", and you can see even Marcello is cracking up at Mikey's responses! Great ending with the dance. Hope we get many more like these.
This actually happened to Marcelo when he went to college. It’s one of his bits from his stand up comedy. So funny. Glad SNL writers used it. And I’m sure he had so much directive input! So proud of our hometown Miami boy!!!!
I am a native Spanish speaker who teaches Spanish and this is how it be my classroom. All levels of learning acquisition and different experiences. It so beautiful and it builds inclusivity. I wish more Language teachers where actually native speakers or closed to fluent so we can challenge all learners.
My Spanish teachers in Texas were all native speakers, with families in Mexico, Panama and Columbia. All had slightly different accents which was so cool. One of my favorite classes.
Lol when I was in middle school back in the early 2010s, there was a girl in my Spanish class who didn't even know much English. Her family only ever spoke Spanish. They also happened to live in the same apartment complex as me so I knew who the whole family was. I literally did not understand why she was in that class. I assume her English is better all these years later. She was just starting to learn then.
@@Mskittenlover12 in high school, I have no idea why they do it, but they do. Maybe they just walked their classes to do better on standardized testing so that the schools get more money. At the college level, heritage speakers who take 100 level are really just trying to get an easy a. Most heritage speakers who grew up speaking it, as long as they are not passive bilinguals, easily learn how to spell it and where the accents go. There is no reason for them to start at a basic level
@@Mskittenlover12 Hey maybe she was still learning, just in a different way than the rest of the class. Like, when looking at the book show Spanish words and their English equivalents, perhaps while the rest of the class is learning new words in column A and referencing column B to see what it means, she's looking at column B to learn new words and referencing column A to see what it means. Know what I mean?
I would have loved to have a classmate in my class who could have helped me. My teacher was from Puerto Rico and talked very fast, made it hard to learn. Thank God for Kid Frost!
Yes, it's adding much needed representation and diversity to the cast and the sketches. And it's always fun when the cast members share their culture in a comedic way.
As a cuban native speaker this hit me so hard, it's very interesting always to see the experiences of my compatriots around the world, and makes me feel very proud of my roots, cause no matter where we are we keep living our cuban culture and maintain our style.
Yo soy cubana, y los entendí perfectamente 😂. Los cubanos hablamos muy rápido, tengo amigos mexicanos y de otros países de habla hispana, que a veces no me entienden, dicen que hablo muy rápido 😂.
As a Mexican American who grew up with Spanish as my first language I found aspects were relatable, but I still had a different experience. I took Spanish classes from middle school through college. Most of my teachers were White and had an American accent, but I also found they taught formal Spanish which seemed to be derived from South America. We did have discrepancies in the word choices, but the teachers always had a firm grip on what was "right or wrong" in their class-rooms and we had to adhere to how they wanted to write. They never really backed down or felt uncomfortable and they definitely made us native speakers feel inadequate. On the other side, while we had better command of the accents and conversation, we didn't necessarily have better writing or grammar. Most of our parents went to school up to 3rd grade and were farm laborers. I did need to learn the grammar for many jobs where they expected excellent and well written translations. I only say this because it's complicated because there are aspects where where native speakers do get to be in command and aspects where formally trained people get to be in command.
I never took Spanish as a foreign language because I was born in Cuba and spoke Spanish fluently at home, but I was drawn to German in high school. I remember learning all of the grammar rules in class and actually ended up improving my English grammar as well despite being fluent. Language classes are a huge asset to any student because it teaches you the logic behind language which goes beyond basic communication. Definitely an eye-opening experience! :)
@@RaymondHng Exactly right! Linguistic aptitude is fundamental to describing everything we sense and yet students (who aren’t taking foreign language classes) stop receiving that education in elementary school. I remember asking my high school English composition teacher the grammatically correct way to arrange a complex sentence I was writing and she told me that she wasn’t allowed to cover grammar lessons anymore…. The English language is so vast, we should be regularly brushing up on its rules.
@Lord Rama dude, you need some serious help. You're spreading white supremacist tropes in a comment about an SNL skit. Something went horribly wrong with your life. There's still hope for you but you need to seek help now.
It’s so insane to hear words like “mamoncillo, duro frío, batido de Mamey, etc” in freaking SNL 🤯 as a Cuban this is like peak representation, blew my mind 😭😭
This is my third time watching this sketch. It is pure gold! I keep coming back to it and am always smiling the whole time watching it. Shout out to Marcello for taking his real life experience and turning it into this sketch.
@@pikachuhutch234 They know English too. It's not an issue of not understanding English, it's touching to him/her to see Spanish being made more visible.
In America when we think of Spanish we think of the Castilian or Mexican dialect of Spanish. Some of us don't remember other dialects exists lol very nice skit.
Don't count on it. Liberals are racist in a different way where don't really hate Hispanics they just ignore them like hell. Took them 40 years to hire a Latina!!
@@skxlter5747that is absolutely not true cubans aren’t represented at all if u think we are give me some examples because i’m cuban myself and the only one people know about is scarface which the main actor wasn’t even CUBAN
Gotta love how Ana explains the way cubans say “I’m in love”. As a mexican I’ve never in my life said “estoy enamorado”, just “estoy empelotado” or “estoy ganchado” lol spanish is difficult because of how we never use the standard spanish and slang is so common in every hispanic country.
@@JorgeEscobedo-pz5yf Mexico City, empelotado used to be slang back in the 90’s, not everyone knows the meaning tho, so don’t worry if a lot of people don’t get it
im a teacher of english and i use this to those students who get frustrated for not reach the native level, is very hard, so i play this video, shows backwards spanish english
As someone whose family is from Peru and I was forced to take Spanish classes in school, this is so damn true! Especially in grade school (high school teachers were better at least). It wasn't until college when I took a Spanish class for bilinguals with a Cuban professor where I finally met match 😅
¿Por qué para bilingues? ¿No seriá más apropiada una clase de literatura? And it's not about meeting your match. Fue una escuela, no un juego de ajedez.
*From 6th to 8th grade this was my experience with Spanish teachers* 😂 *When I got to 9th grade my teacher was Argentinian, then Ecuadorian, Peruvian, and Ecuadorian again. They did in fact change my life* ❤
haha same my teacher was cubana and at the time i was scared because she would fully immerse us in spanish without translations but i learned so much more from her than any other teacher
I grew up with Mexican spanish and had an Argentinian spanish teacher in college. He frequently spoke down against the way Mexicans pronounce words in spanish and said that his version of spanish was the real way to pronounce things. Que tonto.
Omg, Marcello came to my college in the fall and did some stand up and one of his stories was about being the only native Spanish speaker in a high school Spanish class and it was HILARIOUS, ppl we’re legit talking about it days after😂😂 so awesome to see his concept become a whole sketch🫶🏾
We had a Spanish teacher from Spain in high school who forbid any speaking in English at all at any point in class and he was extra strict with the Hispanic kids and forbid any “Spanglish” he called it. He was determined to teach Spanish from Spain. He was a great teacher & after 2 years I was able to communicate the basics in Spanish for the rest of my life.
He's a bad teacher. Very conquistador mindset. A good teacher will be knowledgeable that there are different Spanish varieties and all of them are valid.
@@ivyantonio4043 My wife, also from Spain, teaches according to a US standard which favors Mexican. She has said that Mexican is closest to "neutral" Spanish and that Castillian (Spain) has actually drifted. She also speaks Portugues and Catalan and English (obviously). I only speak English and Spanish. She says that my accent sounds Castillian but my flow or syntax is closer to a slow Cuban. Her English sounds American with a slight accent. It's funny how fluid language is.
We had the same thing happen but reversed, old Bri'ish lady lately from Gibraltar, posh as can be. She actually did not speak or understand a lick of Spanish, or was very good at pretending so. Every bit as strict a teacher as depicted in British boarding school films. When she retired they hired a Spanish woman that had lived a few years in the USA as an exchange student, very chill, which for those of us that got switched teachers halfway through school resulted in an... interesting... mishmash of pronunciations, spellings and vocabulary. This later teacher did the explanations in Spanish for the younger years, switching those to English later. We also had an elderly French teacher which was Spanish but was very fluent, and for some reason dressed **and looked** exactly as a 18th century French poet and writer.
It's not the best Way to learn a language to mix up accents from different countries. When I started to learn English I was taught the received pronountiation. Once I became fluent and commanded the English grammar I went to the States and started with the Standard American. I taught Spanish to american students that had learned south american and mexican Spanish and they had to make a Huge effort to understand spanish Accent from Spain. 4:51
One thing I’ve seen in my personal life is that Spanish in a scholastic environment is traditional Castilian Spanish as is spoken in most of Spain. I took 4 years of Spanish in HS up in Pennsylvania. Eventually I end up moving to New Mexico and going to college there, and taking Spanish classes there. There were a bunch of students in my classes that grew up speaking Spanish in their household. They’d end up getting a C or worse in the class because what they learned in their home was far from being grammatical correct and a different dialect entirely than Castilian and they couldn’t put that behind them. Honestly it’s basically the same in English class for English speaking first families that have bad grammar that end up doing poorly in English class.
Lol I am a native Spanish teacher and when I went to a new high school, my students were surprised because my accent was really "Spanish" not like their other teachers. I taught them how to gradually understand Spanish when spoken naturally fast lol and the principal told me I spoke too fast even though my students understood.
I can totally relate to this. My parents came from Cuba in the 60s and I was born in Miami. When I was 8 my family moved to California and enrolled me in Spanish classes in elementary school. By this time I was totally bilingual and I could speak, read and write Spanish perfectly. My teachers and classmates were mostly white Americans with a few Mexican Americans. I don’t look “traditionally” Latino because being Cuban I have Spanish and other European descent so I was the only “white” kid in the whole school who spoke perfect Spanish without a trace of a “gringo” accent which created an interesting dynamic. My classmates would always ask for help and I recall my teachers coming to me for help sometimes too. It was quite the experience I must say so I found this skit particularly funny and totally relatable. My family moved back to Miami a few years later and everything went back to normal. I was just one in a million bilingual Cuban/American kids. Cheers to SNL and Ana De Armas for this funny skit. It reminded me of a very interesting time from my youth and it’s always good to see my culture represented on television in such an entertaining and funny way.
Guess what.. "Latinos" are called Hispanic and speak Spanish for a reason... suggesting that having Spanish roots makes you Cubans "different" from the rest is a little bit pretentious. Suggesting you are whiter than other Hispanics because you are Cuban is ignorant, too. The only truth to what you say is that Cubans are "different". 99% of you voting for Trump is an evidence of that.
@@mrespinoza4745 Hey Mister Espinoza I can honestly care less what you think. You take it however your heart desires. I was only telling a story about my youth. You went ahead and turned it into something else. If anything the one who sounds bitter and has a chip on his shoulder against Cubans is you. Your comment is racist as hell so you need to take a seat and look in the mirror. If you don’t like us or our politics that’s too damn bad. Believe me one of the things I love the most about being Cuban is that we can honestly wipe our asses with what people like you think about us. That also makes us very very different. Have a nice day Mr E. Thank you for amusing me with your feedback. Lo siento por ti amigo. Cuídate mucho! 🇨🇺❤️🇺🇸🇨🇺❤️🇺🇸🇨🇺❤️🇺🇸🇨🇺❤️
@@rayarena879 he is from Miami though and the Cuban culture is dominant here. Specially the talk lol I hear the Cuban more than the Dominican when he speaks spanish
Cuban accent is fast, so don't feel bad if you can't keep up. Matter of fact, all of us from the Caribbean speak very fast and cut up words. I'm Dominican 🇩🇴 and glad Cuba was represented here ❤
I’m Ecuadorian and I’ve been watching SNL since Andy Samberg was part of the cast, they way h the e sketches have been changing with the times are amazing to me, specially now seeing more Latin representation. When Ana said she learned English watching FRIENDS in the monologue it was SNL for me, this show holds a special place for me bc it always kept me on my toes, pop culture, politics, varios topics from US media… I used to watch the show on cable in Ecuador and funny enough I moved to NY 7 years ago and I still watch it. It has become a full circle moments seeing artist and actors of similar background come to show ❤
But in Spain there are.also strong.accents. Como en Andalusia they skip some letters.at.the end of the world, just like us, and when you say er niño instead.of el niño. Our.accents.in Latinamerica depend on of what part of Spain came to our countries, plus our own slangs. I am not from Cuba,.but like I know what boludo is and I am not from Argentina, and I understand your guay and ostias. There are.some expressions I dont know,.but I know most of them. .
The fact that I’m taking Spanish classes right now makes this even funnier! My teacher is Puerto Rican and she be telling me all the things the Spanish books got wrong 🤣
To be fair, Puerto Rican Spanish is a very distinct dialect. Depending on your book, you're probably learning either Mexican Spanish or Spanish from Spain.
I suppose it’s similar to when I was in Ireland. My friend was dating a gal from Spain. She could talk with him and the others, but had a very difficult time understanding me. It dawned on me that they likely learn the king’s English. The other part I found interesting is one night she had a Chilean acquaintance over. After he left she explained how she had a tough time talking with him due to the language differences. I asked her a bit about it and she said that even within Spain there is a considerable regional language difference, to the point that she had a difficult time communicating with people from other areas. As an English speaker I find that fascinating. Although English may very slightly from region to country, it doesn’t seem that drastic. On the other hand, Spanish seems to very wildly even in one country and certainly to another.
I love this ! All jokes aside We need more native speakers teaching their perspective classes that way kids can learn properly and be able to widen their chances of getting jobs and opportunities
Is not like kids can learn properly.. but Textbooks show the generic form , so to speak.. Imagine if they ever attempt to teach locla slang from Mexican, Colombian, Cuban, and so on... kids will loose their minds. Same goes to spanish speaking people - as myself- when trying to learn English. Textbook teaches the formal way , but the teacher if not native speaker, at leat should have any experience with the locals or even better: the teacher lived several years there and had experienced the local slang and culture, because oh boy if one stays with what the textbook/ generic teaching lessons.. you will be out for a surprise. Kinda like this sketch 😂 pretty much applies for any language. We can thank at leadt now we can have access to online pretty mucj everywhere , so we can watch some videos on how the locals speak 😃
@@Srt3D01-db-01 Text books will always teach "Do you have a match?" and people will always say "Gotta light?" I was in Paris for almost a year before I understood the French answered the phone with "Ne quittez pas!" ("Don't quit ((the line.))). A hangover from when the phones were so unreliable.
It is tricky though, cause spanish is very different depending on country and region, native speakers can have trouble understanding eachother inside of even the same country. There is no correct way of spanish, so anything they read even from the books or a native speaker it’s going to be skewed to an specific dialect.
This brought me so much joy. I always hate when people try to speak Spanish or Japanese but completely forget that each vowel sound is typically consistent, unlike with English.
I guessed she was going to say ropa vieja because it is unstranslatable. My cousin when he got to the US got that same question at school and he answered his favorite food was old clothes lolololol
I'm a native Spanish speaker but learned English while my father was doing graduate study in the U.S. Upon my return to a Mexican high School, my friends were very eager to introduce me to their Mexican English teacher, you know, because I has just returned from the U.S. and was now bilingual. The teacher's face went pale when she realized this and I quickly understood what was going on, so I decided to not expose her and just said a brief HI and then changed the subject.
Non-native English teachers don't claim to speak the language like a native, they usually will tell you their level right away, either b2 or c1, in some weird cases c2, but that's why teachers use the best sources of English and ensure to follow them the best they can, this sources usually have "better" English compared to average native speakers
This is exactly how I describe my Spanish degree to people: Imagine a foreigner learning English from 19th century poetry and grammar textbooks and then having a conversation with you. I've definitely been Mikey more times than I care to admit 😂
Michael’s little dancey dancey at the end took me out like what is he doing 😭 also I absolutely love the Spanish sketches with Marcello and hope there’s more Latinx hosts so they can do more, the episode with Pedro Pascal was so good and I like that they brought back Lisa from Temecula for Ana too
As a mexican who studied on the US, this is sooo accurate. Btw, I love Ana speaking on her cuban accent about tostones and batido de mamey
I could listen to ADA speak all day
And the Miami girl snapping action when she wasn't getting called on 😅
Yes, Mikey Day trying to say ARROZZZ is legit all of us gringos :D
Only time we will ever hear someone say “ropa vieja” and “mamoncillo” in SNL I guess
I’ve never tried any of these dishes but they sound so good!!!
They literally MADE A SKIT from one of Marcello's COMEDY BIT. That mad respect right there 👏 🙌
i was looking for a comment that said this! he even said the same thing for his fav food as he said in his comedy bit!
What Marcelo? 😏
It is cool, but it is also how having a job at SNL works. But that doesn’t necessarily make it less of an achievement, like not everyone gets their comedy bits made into skits at SNL.
I was just thinking this lol
This is how it often works. Things like Dana Carvey's chopping broccoli, Will Ferrell's Harry Caray, Kristen Wiig's target lady all came from material they had pre-SNL.
I'm pretty sure this sketch was actually based off a stand up set by Marcello Hernández about him schooling his Spanish teacher when he was younger just like this. Super cool that they let him have this level of input and super funny sketch!
The funny part is the white guy teacher.
? It’s very hard to come up with skits. If anything they were like “please let’s do your skit”
@K E It is 99% identical to Marcello's bit on his stand-up about this exact same thing. So he definitely wrote this. ua-cam.com/video/QNq7dMa5Vvg/v-deo.html
@@goombapizza6335 bingo
Had the same experience 😂
That sarcastic "yummy!!!!" Was funny big time! 😂😂😂
The brilliance of this sketch is that the dialogue in Spanish has to be familiar enough so that non-Spanish speakers can still understand the jokes. Mikey killed it with the super-gringo Spanish 201 accent and vocabulario. The sketch with Marcelo and Pedro Pascal is gold -- I hope this is a recurring bit with all the Latine hosts.
Latino or Hispanic. Latine is contradictory to Spanish language. ‘Latine’ is something people made up in the US.
Please don't butcher Spanish by saying dumb shit like "Latine" or even worse, "Latinx".
I'm sure you mean well, but only Gringos say Latine.
@@NathanLGrossman or Latinx
Hispanic means that you/your family come from a country that speaks Spanish (culture), and Latino that you come from Latin America (Mexico, Central & South America and the Caribbean). Hispanic denotes culture and Latino geography. A Brazilian is Latino but not Hispanic, a Mexican is both Latino and Hispanic and a Spaniard is only Hispanic.
They did such a good job with showing how Spanish is taught in America. I was able to understand all the gringo Spanish with my 4 years of high school Spanish, and about 2 words total when Marcello and Ana were speaking. Glad those 4 years of my life weren't a total waste 😅
@@jimgravesus Thank you, Einstein!
@@jimgravesus It sounds like heavy Cuban or Dominican Spanish. Right?
What is gringo Spanish? Like Spanish from Spain?
@@corvus2512 No, gringo Spanish is the Spanish spoken by the teacher in this sketch. The dialect of the very White suburban American high school Spanish teacher. :)
@@corvus2512 Yeah, what MacSultana said. It's a slang term used to refer to white people with bad Spanish accents. It's sometimes used in a derogatory way to essentially call someone a yankee who can't speak Spanish well
Mikey nailed the uncomfortable awkwardness 😂
he is SO GOOd at playing up cringe/awkward moments. Reminded me of that dating game show skit they did years ago with Regina King!
I have seen colleagues experience this when they place a heritage speaker who "never took it before" in their classes 😅
It's giving "pop that beanie back on" energy.
His specialty!
He's so good that you can actually watch his soul leave his body as he dies inside.
my Spanish teacher in HS was Cuban, she was my favorite teacher cuz she'd deadass spend 20 minutes with us going through the book she was forced to teach us telling us how it was wrong and no one talked like that or pointing out the differences in different Spanish speaking cultures so that we knew when it was Spain Spanish the book was teaching us or Mexican or Guatemalan or Cuban etc... because the book just cobbled together a bunch of words from different countries
Ella le dice: "En mi país no se dice 'así-así'...". Supongo que en Cuba no se usa, pero en España sí.
@@CommenterFreeman en la mayoria de latinoamerica se dice "mas o menos" a esa seña de mano or "so so" como dicen ellos.
English is my first language. Taking Spanish class in America was very much like taking the class in this video. The teachers mean well, but there's a whole side of culture and complexity in Spanish that they totally miss. Loved seeing these three let their culture shine in this sketch!
I agree with you, I’m a teacher, that is Black and Puerto Rican, who teaches film, but this is why we have to have more teachers of colors in the classroom to represent and teach our cultures correctly! Loved this so great to watch!
@@ashleybrajae5676 White people can't speak Spanish? Spain is in Europe. Most people from Argentina are white.
It just depends on the school and districts standards...
Every Spanish teacher I had growing up either was Hispanic or lived in a Spanish speaking country for a significant amount of time. They would bring in souvenirs from their travels, cook us traditional food, and could not only speak fluently to the Spanish students, but often *corrected* them on their speaking and, more frequently, their writing.
For reference, I grew up in central Indiana.
I started learning Spanish independently of school during the pandemic as a middle schooler. Fast forward a couple of years, and I’m a couple of years ahead of most students taking Spanish classes, and I can tell that our school definitely has better teachers than most districts, since basically all of our language teachers have lived for prolonged periods of time in the country of origin for their selected language, but even then, I can still notice issues in the way my fellow white second language Spanish-speakers, the teachers specifically, speak, mostly revolving around z and s not being pronounced the same way, the letter r being pronounced by the uvula, etc.
research Hispanic countries as oppose to Latin ones?.. and you'll get a better notion as to why all of them have the Spanish language in common but not necessarily the same slang!
I love how now that Marcelo is on the show, we get a lot more Spanish content, especially when the host is also Latino/a. I just wish they had done it more too when Melissa Villaseñor was a cast member, or at least more exploration of her Hispanic culture in skits.
She's so talented but wasn't given the right roles to shine in.
Could she speak Spanish? I am aware she’s Latina but never knew if she could speak Spanish
@@Mr_Archer15 Good question! I believe she can but not fluently. Maybe a lack of confidence in that area contributed to less skits of that nature. Still super under-utilized as a cast member though, and it would've been nice to have more skits where she got to explore her Latina culture. Legit the only one I can think of rn was the one she did w Selena Gomez.
@@Mr_Archer15 the girl is from whittier and she's 2nd or third Gen. She speaks a little and she's learning, per a stand up routine of hers I saw wheres she's talking g about her abuelita.
According to one of her stand-up sets, Melissa Villasenor's Spanish isn't that good. She knows enough to understand her mom, but not the rest of her family, who are Mexican and only know Mexican Spanish.
“Estoy kidding” made me lose it 😂
Hahaa that’s when I lost it too
😂😂
He didn’t even conjugate it correctly. Estaba kidding.
I use to laugh at gringos in Spanish class. So hilarious.
@@BaraAnne So then that would make it OK to laugh at 'beaners' in English class, right?
30 year retired German teacher here. Hilarious! Any time a native speaker was in my class I asked for them to offer me suggestions AFTER class!😉
I love when Mikey Day plays the flustered, overwhelmed guy. 😂😂
He definitely took over the role from Beck Bennett without any difficulty.
i love it when Mikey day
Mikey day is quickly rising to the top of SNL. I love everything he’s in. Marcelo is going to be huge too.
Pop that beanie back on is all I can hear when he's in this type of role😅
Like everytime. Every. Time.
I love it when in 3:16 you see Marcello's lips mouthing Ana's line. Marcello's Spanish contribution to the sketches is so refreshing. Probably one of the best recent additions to the SNL cast. Much love from Fiji!
Funnylooking, no quality there, YET!! I think he'll make it though!!
@toddmiller243 I think he's absolutely hilarious, he's contributed some brilliant sketches
He sucks!!
@@toddmiller243lol ok troll. If you think he sucks why do you watch these videos. Stop spewing negativity into the world, we already have enough of it
@@jandm4ever716:) I’m glad that you said it.
I love it when he uses his Spanish in the skits, so funny and unexpected
Mikey's Spanish?
Who?
@@soccerzz5 The "kid," I assume. And I agree.
😂 I agree and his facial expressions are pure comedic guld! He is my favourite current SNL cast member.😂
reminds me of my brothers
4:46 wait, there's people at the back of the scenario? Do they actually see anything?
probably on a screen
You can be there as an audience and yes they do see everything
The sets are set up all over the room at different angles, so sometimes the audience's view is blocked depending where they are seated, but there are stationary monitors hanging from the ceiling, so everyone can always see everything.
If only my Spanish classes were this interesting
Gotta love Ana’s commitment to her native language
Repent to Jesus Christ “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.”
1 Peter 5:8-9 NIV
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@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist3 the devil is the enemy? God is the one who is a serial mass murderer all throughout the bible. What a stupid religion. Maybe stop randomly posting your fear-mongering religion in videos that have nothing to do with it.
Lots of love for everyone then. Isn't almost everyone committed to their native language? XD
@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist3 No
@@nickaschenbecker9882 what other languages can you speak?
I never thought I'd see a Colombian singer, a Dominican, and a Cuban all on one SNL skit. I am loving the representation SNL is giving. Thank you!!!!
Love this skit too, so funny :D
✨️unidad✨️ 😂
Me too it was awesome.
So so good! 🥰🥰🥰
Just a tiny note: Marcello is Dominicano (padre) y Cubano (madre).
@@toritori5835 Oh dang! I thought Marcello was just Dominican! He's such a cutie!
Didn't realize he's half Cuban too! :D
As a Colombian I was so proud.
1:40 ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Hugo says, *"My favorite food is grilled chicken with rice and beans and sweet plantains, just like my grandmother used to make.Plantains add a sweet flavor to a well-salted dish."* _Mi comida favorita es un pollo a la plancha con arroz y frijol y platáno maduro, como lo hacía mi abuela. Los platános le dan un sabor dulce a un plato bien salado._
2:35 ENGLISH TRANSLATION: María says, *"My favorite food is a ropa vieja, with tamales, with tostones. For dessert, a Durofrío, a mamey smoothie, just in case, the mamoncillos, I love them, because they are like a mix between a lychee and a spicy lime and a little sweet too. They are so so rich. TRUE?"* _Mi comida favorita es una ropa vieja, con tamales, con tostones. De postre un Durofrío, batido de mamey, por si acaso, los mamoncillos, me encantan, porque son como una mezcla entre un lychee y una lima picante y poquito dulces también. Son tan tan ricos. Verdad?_
I had to look up "Durofrío". Apparently, it is homemade ice cream. "Ropa Vieja" is a Cuban dish with meat and vegetables. "Tostones" are fried plantains. And "tamales" are meat pies.
@@MsJanetWood The mamey sapote, is a species of tree native to Mexico and Central America. The tree is also cultivated in the Caribbean. Its fruit is eaten in many Latin American countries. The fruit is made into foods such as milkshakes and ice cream.
Melicoccus bijugatus is a fruit-bearing tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native or naturalized across the New World tropics including South and Central America, and parts of the Caribbean. Its stone-bearing fruits are edible. It is also called Bajan ackee, genip, guinep, genipe, ginepa, kenèp, quenepa, quenepe, quenette, chenet, skinup, talpa jocote, mamón, limoncillo, canepa, skinip, kenepa, kinnip, huaya, or mamoncillo.
Lychee is a monotypic taxon and the sole member in the genus Litchi in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It is a tropical tree native to South China. A tall evergreen tree, it bears small fleshy sweet fruits. The outside of the fruit is a pink-red, rough-textured soft shell.
This is the way.
They gonna think ropa vieja means old clothes yo. That would be similar to shredded beef 😂
Thanks guys! It’s nice to learn :)
3:37 I sense a little real-life frustration and disgust 😅
😂
This is a perfect example of the difference between speaking a language and speaking a culture 🤣💜
I really like that! Might have to use it sometime. Thank you!!
English speakers can say the same about Latinos/Latinas that 'speak' English. Fucking hypocrites.
Speaking a culture?
I don't speak mexicano...
Wait... Actually I do!
A huevo jijos de su pinshi madre!!!!!
Excelente y maravilloso comentario.
I mean, the teacher doesn't speak the language either
Petition to get Ana de Armas & Marcello Hernandez in a Spanish speak movie together; or any movie together
Or just give Ana de Armas all movies
or married, just kidding
Chill 😂 it’s just a sketch
oh stop
Um, why?
And this is why we need more Latino hosts
Yes 🙌🏻
How about just funny talented people.
@@harrisone79 both things are possible, Harrison...
Pedro’s Spanish was hilarious and super relatable as 1st generation immigrant
@@PrincesaSae what's right is acknowledging she's talented regardless if she's latina, Asian , or any other race or gender or designation people prefer. That's how you move forward and lift people up. Not rooting for a team let's you do that.
I am so lucky that my Spanish teachers all speak with proper accents and that actually know spanish
Speaking as someone who has sat in a classroom while a teacher butchers my language to the point of not being able to understand them, I got a sick thrill out of watching Mikey get upset and scared.
Now you know how Americans feel when we hear immigrants butcher the shit out of our language. We get a sick thrill out of watching you struggle too.
Turnabout is fair play, yes? If you can say it, I can too.
Funniest thing is still Cheek’s song Mexican American: Mexican Americans love education so they go to night school. And they take Spanish and get a B. 😂
I was a Spanish minor and lot of friends and classmates who were Hispanic got B and Cs and I’m like dude your fluent how you not passing 😂
@Brian Shockley I saw that too in my Spanish classes in high school. It's because feeling a language in your soul does not mean that you know that language on an academic level. Like conjugating some of the lesser used verb tenses, like the subjuntivo pretérito pluscuamperfecto, or even knowing what those terms mean.
I do lots of language exchanges, and I get questions all the time that stump me, because I've never had to think about how XY&Z work in English. For example, I had some guy ask me about verbal phrases. My initial response was, "What the heck is a verbal phrase?"
Then you also have to consider dialectual differences. Native speaker or not, you gotta study the vocab list. For example, in my Spanish 1 class, we learned that doll=muñeca. Except no one says that. All the native speakers got it wrong on the test.
@@laurao3274 "feeling a language in your soul does not mean you understand it on an academic level" reminds me of the jokes about native-english speakers failing english class. im sure the same could be said for other art forms (bc language truly is art), like cooking or dancing. there will always be a more "structured" side with rules and terms you dont quite understand if youre used to only doing these "from the heart"
@@brianshockley6429 it is humorous at first, but it’s useful to know that a lot of Latinx parents are immigrants to the USA, so their children know Spanish just by speaking and listening, but they never take classes to understand the WHY of Spanish structure. They are not in schools where they are reading Spanish materials or writing in Spanish (American education system, where English is the dominant language in a school), and access to Spanish books for children in the US is hard. Also, many immigrant parents want their kids to focus on English. I had a Mexican girl in my AP Spanish class and she could speak and listen, but it was humiliating for her because she could not read a word to save her life or write, and I can empathize with her that the situation made her feel detached from her roots or ashamed…
Think about it from your perspective as a native English speaker studying a foreign language. The PASSIVE skills (listening and reading) might be easier for you because you usually learn Spanish grammar and pronunciation first. The ACTIVE skills to produce the language (speaking and writing) are harder for you because you did not grow up surrounded by the language input to need to use it. Everybody has different levels of speaking, writing, listening, and reading.
Also, you can be a native speaker and still not know all the complexities of your language. We learned English as kids and we didn’t need books to be able to speak or listen, so basically, the rules are “intuitive” to us, but we cannot explain WHY some things are the way they are. For goodness sakes, many people say “I of eaten” instead of “I have eaten”, mix up their homophones, and can’t use the right pronouns (he vs him). The SAT also proves that we do not know a lot of vocabulary outside of standard everyday use. If you know the European levels of language (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, and C2), most native speakers cannot score a C2.
This is absolutely hilarious. This reminds me of a Monty Python sketch where the British Instructor is teaching Italian to a room full of Italians.
Not as good but still funny
@@drphot6050 Better.
All sketch comedy takes inspiration from MP.
@@Wayzor_ It's true what you say!!
My friend say why would he say I am Gino from Roma when he come from Milano... or the bit in that sketch when Graham Chapman stands up wearing the lederhosen and asks Terry Jones in perfect German where he could find the German language class.
the “estoy kidding” gets me everytime 😭😭😭
I'm from Cuba and we are just like that! Our accent is pretty much impossible to understand if you don't know our idioms or if you are not used to the speed. But It's very fun and joyful and the video portraits that perfectly. I love it when I see these types of representations of my country
Well they are cuban, no need to fake it 😅
I once had a Cuban co-worker. For the record, I am Puerto Rican. At the club we worked, we'd speak in super fast Spanish. Our other co-workers and the customers would be all _y'all speak so fast!_
I’m Puerto Rican I’ll take that challenge on speed
Chile here: Who said speak fast?
Other Latinos have trouble understanding Cubans lol
As a cuban, it’s so exciting for me to see Ana talking about things I relate to
Somos, dos, Lore.
As an American, it's exciting to see Ana. lol
Like selling cocaine. That would be a real representation of you people
Cuban in Florida does not count.
@@glennjenkins7907 dude, I was born, and I still live in Cuba, shut up
As soon as he said "uh oh" I knew it was over 🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Eeeeyyyummmmyyy!!” 😂
Right!! 😂😂
Soon as they walked in, you had to suspect! lol
Marcello is such an awesome addition to the recent cast
This is absolutely hilarious.... When I was in high school we had a man named mr. Williams trying to teach us Spanish... But all of us were Hispanic and grew up in households that only spoke Spanish... I swear I got A's on some of my papers because he couldn't understand what they even said LOL
It is very hard to think and speak at the same speed/tempo of a native language speaker. I know some high-school German, but can't translate native speakers in 'real time' like a normal conversation. I would have to ask them to please slow down their conversation and maybe I could get most of what they'd say. (But I could listen to some Latinas read a box of cereal all day, never mind look at them :) ).
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Don´t you think something is missing in a history which a "Dustin Kelly" grew up in a households that only spoke Spanish?
@@carmelapelaez2700 ????
@@carmelapelaez2700 my Grandparents on my mom's side are from Mexico ... On my Dad's side my grandfather is Irish and Grandmother Mexican American.... I have his last name.... Can't judge by last names ... I know PLENTY of people with Spanish last names can't even understand a single word of Spanish... Most of my friends and their families grew up speaking Spanish as well.
The SNL writer are killing this season best sketch of the night seeing Marcello ,and Anas De Armas speaking Spanish as Spanish students was so fun ,and brilliant😂👏🏽👏🏽.
This is based on a story from college that Marcello Hernandez tells in his stand-up routine! Props to him for this one!
Too bad its not funny
😕
"Loma abajo y sin frenos" just melted the part of my heart that harbours my Cuban idiomatic pride
I’m Chilean, we have a different idiomatic expression for it, but “loma abajo y sin frenos” makes a ton of sense and sounds so very poetic. I love it
La gracia para mi es cuesta abajo y sin frenos es una expresión en España también, pero lo asocio a algo que va de mal a peor xDD
I am a huge Marcello fan, and so thrilled he is bringing so much to SNL. I know he had this exact experience in his own HS. However, the real comedy gold here is Mikey Day! I'm laughing outloud! OMG, "I'm sweating a bit", "Uh-oh!", "That was a leeetle fast por me" "Yummy!", "I heard rice in there somewhere...", and you can see even Marcello is cracking up at Mikey's responses! Great ending with the dance. Hope we get many more like these.
This actually happened to Marcelo when he went to college. It’s one of his bits from his stand up comedy. So funny. Glad SNL writers used it. And I’m sure he had so much directive input! So proud of our hometown Miami boy!!!!
Who is Karol G?
@@elchasaiA Latin pop singer
@@laurencorrales2223 ok, yeah and they are famous in the US? Have most people you think heard of this person before?
@@elchasai I’m surprised you haven’t heard of her. She’s very famous.
@@laurencorrales2223 I think probably only among people younger than most
I am a native Spanish speaker who teaches Spanish and this is how it be my classroom. All levels of learning acquisition and different experiences. It so beautiful and it builds inclusivity. I wish more Language teachers where actually native speakers or closed to fluent so we can challenge all learners.
Most are fluent or at a near native fluency. At least in good schools
Any chance you would be willing to translate the Spanish? I'm really curious about what they were saying.
Mikey struggling to roll those R's in "arroz" is golden!
My Spanish teachers in Texas were all native speakers, with families in Mexico, Panama and Columbia. All had slightly different accents which was so cool. One of my favorite classes.
Colombia* 😭
Love how she does the Cuban accent perfectly I forget she’s Cuban some times I’ve lost my accent over time 😭
I came so young that i lost mine & developed a American accent
Vamos seguí hablando español y no perderás el acento cubano vamos
You want to learn Miami Cuban accent then watch Scarface 👌👌
“Miami Cuban accent.” I didn’t even know that was an accent 😂
Why don't the Cubans pronounce "S"s at the end of words? Did France control the island for a period of time?
This is how my Spanish teacher felt while I was in class . I just needed a language credit . 😂
They should have placed you higher or waived the requirement 😅
Lol when I was in middle school back in the early 2010s, there was a girl in my Spanish class who didn't even know much English. Her family only ever spoke Spanish. They also happened to live in the same apartment complex as me so I knew who the whole family was. I literally did not understand why she was in that class. I assume her English is better all these years later. She was just starting to learn then.
@@Mskittenlover12 in high school, I have no idea why they do it, but they do. Maybe they just walked their classes to do better on standardized testing so that the schools get more money. At the college level, heritage speakers who take 100 level are really just trying to get an easy a. Most heritage speakers who grew up speaking it, as long as they are not passive bilinguals, easily learn how to spell it and where the accents go. There is no reason for them to start at a basic level
@@Mskittenlover12 Hey maybe she was still learning, just in a different way than the rest of the class. Like, when looking at the book show Spanish words and their English equivalents, perhaps while the rest of the class is learning new words in column A and referencing column B to see what it means, she's looking at column B to learn new words and referencing column A to see what it means. Know what I mean?
I would have loved to have a classmate in my class who could have helped me. My teacher was from Puerto Rico and talked very fast, made it hard to learn. Thank God for Kid Frost!
Love the Latino era in SNL 👏🏽
Same here! I want more Spanish speaking hosts. Marcello has been amazing.
Yes, it's adding much needed representation and diversity to the cast and the sketches. And it's always fun when the cast members share their culture in a comedic way.
this year alone we had Ana de Armas, Pedro Pascal, Jenna Ortega, and Aubrey Plaza
@@ajkelvin Jenna Ortega and Aubrey Plaza are Latina?
@@daniellederer293 Si Señor
03:10 At that point, i would just ask them to give the lesson
Michael Longfellow dances exactly how you imagine Michael Longfellow would dance, and I appreciate that.
That's what I was gonna say
Best part
I'm glad I wasn't the only one that caught that
What, very white, but at least trying?
No melanin 😹😹😹
You just know Marcello wrote this sketch cos it refers a bit from one of his standup routines. And Mikey's as hilarious as always!
I just saw that yesterday!
@@natashafigueroa9198 Which one? Can you share a link?
@@israeldelarosa5461 It's this one: ua-cam.com/video/QNq7dMa5Vvg/v-deo.html
@@israeldelarosa5461 ua-cam.com/video/QNq7dMa5Vvg/v-deo.html
@@israeldelarosa5461 ua-cam.com/video/QNq7dMa5Vvg/v-deo.html
As a cuban native speaker this hit me so hard, it's very interesting always to see the experiences of my compatriots around the world, and makes me feel very proud of my roots, cause no matter where we are we keep living our cuban culture and maintain our style.
I got to visit your amazing country back in 2000! I loved it! 🥰
Lo mejor que CUBA la SALSA, la salsa cubana es ufff
Saludos desde Lima, Perú.
A great effort by the cast trying to speak in spanish. Muy bien! Bravo!
they’re both speaking spanish with a cuban accent. as a cuban person, it’s rough even for me to understand it😭
I have zero issues understanding any of the West Indian Hispanic accents.
Está bien, no tengo problemas porque soy oriunda de Puerto Rico.
Yo soy cubana, y los entendí perfectamente 😂. Los cubanos hablamos muy rápido, tengo amigos mexicanos y de otros países de habla hispana, que a veces no me entienden, dicen que hablo muy rápido 😂.
Ño, los Americanos te han infiltrado jajajaja
You must be Cuban American 😂
Somehow I doubt you're Cuban then lol.
As a Mexican American who grew up with Spanish as my first language I found aspects were relatable, but I still had a different experience. I took Spanish classes from middle school through college. Most of my teachers were White and had an American accent, but I also found they taught formal Spanish which seemed to be derived from South America. We did have discrepancies in the word choices, but the teachers always had a firm grip on what was "right or wrong" in their class-rooms and we had to adhere to how they wanted to write. They never really backed down or felt uncomfortable and they definitely made us native speakers feel inadequate. On the other side, while we had better command of the accents and conversation, we didn't necessarily have better writing or grammar. Most of our parents went to school up to 3rd grade and were farm laborers. I did need to learn the grammar for many jobs where they expected excellent and well written translations. I only say this because it's complicated because there are aspects where where native speakers do get to be in command and aspects where formally trained people get to be in command.
I never took Spanish as a foreign language because I was born in Cuba and spoke Spanish fluently at home, but I was drawn to German in high school. I remember learning all of the grammar rules in class and actually ended up improving my English grammar as well despite being fluent. Language classes are a huge asset to any student because it teaches you the logic behind language which goes beyond basic communication. Definitely an eye-opening experience! :)
@@totaldramaisland322 Learning a foreign language makes you acutely aware of what features your native language has and doesn't have.
You mean heritage speakers, not native.
@@20DosSaludos I think I meant first language or primary language.
@@RaymondHng Exactly right! Linguistic aptitude is fundamental to describing everything we sense and yet students (who aren’t taking foreign language classes) stop receiving that education in elementary school. I remember asking my high school English composition teacher the grammatically correct way to arrange a complex sentence I was writing and she told me that she wasn’t allowed to cover grammar lessons anymore…. The English language is so vast, we should be regularly brushing up on its rules.
Oh, the energy, the fun, the sense of community that Spanish speaking cast/guests bring to this show...
So true!
@Lord Rama dude, you need some serious help. You're spreading white supremacist tropes in a comment about an SNL skit. Something went horribly wrong with your life. There's still hope for you but you need to seek help now.
I’ve actually been really lucky to have two very good Spanish teachers. Love them ❤
It’s so insane to hear words like “mamoncillo, duro frío, batido de Mamey, etc” in freaking SNL 🤯 as a Cuban this is like peak representation, blew my mind 😭😭
This is my third time watching this sketch. It is pure gold! I keep coming back to it and am always smiling the whole time watching it. Shout out to Marcello for taking his real life experience and turning it into this sketch.
Agreed
Same😂😂😂😂
I love hearing more Spanish on SNL, it means a lot to me 🇲🇽
And its nice because it's done in a way where it is still funny to people like me who don't speak Spanish.
You can look at the Spanish dub of SNL.
_Mucho_ means "a lot" to me.
@@pikachuhutch234 They know English too. It's not an issue of not understanding English, it's touching to him/her to see Spanish being made more visible.
@@JacobSnell1998 ok.
In America when we think of Spanish we think of the Castilian or Mexican dialect of Spanish. Some of us don't remember other dialects exists lol very nice skit.
It's the standard spanish, very clear to understand to the people of foreign languages.
More sketches with Cuban and Miami references please!!! I’ve NEVER felt so represented before. I cried of joy and of laughter! Thank you for this!
Don't count on it. Liberals are racist in a different way where don't really hate Hispanics they just ignore them like hell. Took them 40 years to hire a Latina!!
You've been represented for years bruh chillax
@@skxlter5747 seriously tho 💀😭
@@skxlter5747that is absolutely not true cubans aren’t represented at all if u think we are give me some examples because i’m cuban myself and the only one people know about is scarface which the main actor wasn’t even CUBAN
@@beautifulcorpse8202no we haven’t
Gotta love how Ana explains the way cubans say “I’m in love”. As a mexican I’ve never in my life said “estoy enamorado”, just “estoy empelotado” or “estoy ganchado” lol spanish is difficult because of how we never use the standard spanish and slang is so common in every hispanic country.
Yes! Cuban Spanish has so many metaphors for practically everything. We commonly speak in figures of speech 😆
I´m mexican and I´ve never heard that before, Empelotado? ganchado? What´s that? Which part of Mexico talk like that? I´m curious
@@JorgeEscobedo-pz5yf Mexico City, empelotado used to be slang back in the 90’s, not everyone knows the meaning tho, so don’t worry if a lot of people don’t get it
@@PockTechTRcomo habla la chaviza.. 😏😂
@@tercerimperiomexicano4487 cuando digo empelotado muchas personas ni entienden, ahora esto es en CDMX Y MONTERREY, no se si aplique en demás estados
As a former Spanish teacher [and native speaker] I found this so hilarious.
im a teacher of english and i use this to those students who get frustrated for not reach the native level, is very hard, so i play this video, shows backwards spanish english
What I love about this is it's based on a real story in Marcelo's life
This is hilariously correct and I’m enjoying the Spanish 😂!! SNL, please do this more often.
😂😂😂son graciosos y lo mejor Karol g
@@victoriahernandez1125 Exactamente!
I grew up in South Texas, so I have a hard time trying to find this as a comedy skit. Everyone knows Spanish here as well as English.
si monica ojala hicieran mas spanish sketch pero con mas nacionalidades hablando uffff seria de locos
so fake
This was both hilarious and painful at the same time.
As someone whose family is from Peru and I was forced to take Spanish classes in school, this is so damn true! Especially in grade school (high school teachers were better at least). It wasn't until college when I took a Spanish class for bilinguals with a Cuban professor where I finally met match 😅
Yeah we had a spanish teacher exactly like this except he was older lol.
In my Spanish class, there were 2 Spanish speaking kids who almost flunked! 😂😂😂
@@aucarter how like did u guys learn the book Spanish literally no one uses irl?
¿Por qué para bilingues? ¿No seriá más apropiada una clase de literatura? And it's not about meeting your match. Fue una escuela, no un juego de ajedez.
As someone who has witnessed this, I feel ya!
im actually proud of myself that i can halfway get what marcello is saying. language learning habits coming in nicely
*From 6th to 8th grade this was my experience with Spanish teachers* 😂 *When I got to 9th grade my teacher was Argentinian, then Ecuadorian, Peruvian, and Ecuadorian again. They did in fact change my life* ❤
haha same my teacher was cubana and at the time i was scared because she would fully immerse us in spanish without translations but i learned so much more from her than any other teacher
I grew up with Mexican spanish and had an Argentinian spanish teacher in college. He frequently spoke down against the way Mexicans pronounce words in spanish and said that his version of spanish was the real way to pronounce things. Que tonto.
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Mikey Day is hilarious. He absolutely made this sketch. Few people can act out awkwardness better than he can. Loved it!
Im latina and can relate to the teacher so much. Embarrassing😂
Omg, Marcello came to my college in the fall and did some stand up and one of his stories was about being the only native Spanish speaker in a high school Spanish class and it was HILARIOUS, ppl we’re legit talking about it days after😂😂 so awesome to see his concept become a whole sketch🫶🏾
That's crazy that they would make him take a Spanish class meant for non-native speakers lol
the way 2:10 made me cackle man, i have a lisp and somehow am unable to make the rrrr sound i sound exactly like this when trying
We had a Spanish teacher from Spain in high school who forbid any speaking in English at all at any point in class and he was extra strict with the Hispanic kids and forbid any “Spanglish” he called it. He was determined to teach Spanish from Spain. He was a great teacher & after 2 years I was able to communicate the basics in Spanish for the rest of my life.
He's a bad teacher. Very conquistador mindset. A good teacher will be knowledgeable that there are different Spanish varieties and all of them are valid.
@@ivyantonio4043 My wife, also from Spain, teaches according to a US standard which favors Mexican. She has said that Mexican is closest to "neutral" Spanish and that Castillian (Spain) has actually drifted. She also speaks Portugues and Catalan and English (obviously). I only speak English and Spanish. She says that my accent sounds Castillian but my flow or syntax is closer to a slow Cuban. Her English sounds American with a slight accent. It's funny how fluid language is.
We had the same thing happen but reversed, old Bri'ish lady lately from Gibraltar, posh as can be. She actually did not speak or understand a lick of Spanish, or was very good at pretending so. Every bit as strict a teacher as depicted in British boarding school films. When she retired they hired a Spanish woman that had lived a few years in the USA as an exchange student, very chill, which for those of us that got switched teachers halfway through school resulted in an... interesting... mishmash of pronunciations, spellings and vocabulary. This later teacher did the explanations in Spanish for the younger years, switching those to English later. We also had an elderly French teacher which was Spanish but was very fluent, and for some reason dressed **and looked** exactly as a 18th century French poet and writer.
Just the basic after two years?.😂
It's not the best Way to learn a language to mix up accents from different countries. When I started to learn English I was taught the received pronountiation. Once I became fluent and commanded the English grammar I went to the States and started with the Standard American. I taught Spanish to american students that had learned south american and mexican Spanish and they had to make a Huge effort to understand spanish Accent from Spain. 4:51
This skit is the best they’ve ever done!!! Reminded me of my middle school and high school Spanish teachers 😂🙌
I was worried with all the cast shakeups, but I love the new cast and think Mikey Day is falling into a veteran role very nicely
One thing I’ve seen in my personal life is that Spanish in a scholastic environment is traditional Castilian Spanish as is spoken in most of Spain.
I took 4 years of Spanish in HS up in Pennsylvania. Eventually I end up moving to New Mexico and going to college there, and taking Spanish classes there.
There were a bunch of students in my classes that grew up speaking Spanish in their household. They’d end up getting a C or worse in the class because what they learned in their home was far from being grammatical correct and a different dialect entirely than Castilian and they couldn’t put that behind them.
Honestly it’s basically the same in English class for English speaking first families that have bad grammar that end up doing poorly in English class.
Lol I am a native Spanish teacher and when I went to a new high school, my students were surprised because my accent was really "Spanish" not like their other teachers. I taught them how to gradually understand Spanish when spoken naturally fast lol and the principal told me I spoke too fast even though my students understood.
I can totally relate to this. My parents came from Cuba in the 60s and I was born in Miami. When I was 8 my family moved to California and enrolled me in Spanish classes in elementary school. By this time I was totally bilingual and I could speak, read and write Spanish perfectly. My teachers and classmates were mostly white Americans with a few Mexican Americans. I don’t look “traditionally” Latino because being Cuban I have Spanish and other European descent so I was the only “white” kid in the whole school who spoke perfect Spanish without a trace of a “gringo” accent which created an interesting dynamic. My classmates would always ask for help and I recall my teachers coming to me for help sometimes too. It was quite the experience I must say so I found this skit particularly funny and totally relatable. My family moved back to Miami a few years later and everything went back to normal. I was just one in a million bilingual Cuban/American kids. Cheers to SNL and Ana De Armas for this funny skit. It reminded me of a very interesting time from my youth and it’s always good to see my culture represented on television in such an entertaining and funny way.
Spanish ancestry is European ancestry 😭
Marcello Hernandez wrote the sketch.
Guess what.. "Latinos" are called Hispanic and speak Spanish for a reason... suggesting that having Spanish roots makes you Cubans "different" from the rest is a little bit pretentious. Suggesting you are whiter than other Hispanics because you are Cuban is ignorant, too. The only truth to what you say is that Cubans are "different". 99% of you voting for Trump is an evidence of that.
@@mrespinoza4745 Hey Mister Espinoza I can honestly care less what you think. You take it however your heart desires. I was only telling a story about my youth. You went ahead and turned it into something else. If anything the one who sounds bitter and has a chip on his shoulder against Cubans is you. Your comment is racist as hell so you need to take a seat and look in the mirror. If you don’t like us or our politics that’s too damn bad. Believe me one of the things I love the most about being Cuban is that we can honestly wipe our asses with what people like you think about us. That also makes us very very different. Have a nice day Mr E. Thank you for amusing me with your feedback. Lo siento por ti amigo. Cuídate mucho!
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@@mrespinoza4745they all voted for Trump too thinking Trump likes them 😂
Marcello and Ana are so cuban. I love it😂
Actually, Marcello is only half-Cuban. His father is Dominican.
@@rayarena879 Well. He still "so Cuban" 😌🤣
Aprendí en México y me cuesta entenderles ;-)
@@rayarena879 he is from Miami though and the Cuban culture is dominant here. Specially the talk lol I hear the Cuban more than the Dominican when he speaks spanish
@@rayarena879 Jerry: Is there a difference?
Kramer: I don't know!
Cuban accent is fast, so don't feel bad if you can't keep up. Matter of fact, all of us from the Caribbean speak very fast and cut up words.
I'm Dominican 🇩🇴 and glad Cuba was represented here ❤
Love to hear the Cuban accent on SNL❤️🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺
As a cuban I have too say that the educated cuban accent sounds beautiful just like the educated Mexican one 😂
Remember Ricky Ricardo when he spoke cuban in I love lucy
I love the sound of real Spanish. I have lived in South Texas for several decades and I can speak Tex-Mex, but that's a lot different.
Mexi Spanish is the worst Columbian Spanish is the prettiest,and I'm not Columbian I'm Puerto Rican
My sister and I grew up with both Puerto Rican and Mexican
@@bgirl928couldn't understand a word of that
Mexican*
Colombian*
Mikey Day is the absolute best. A cornerstone of SNL that deserves a lot more appreciation!
I'm an English and Portuguese teacher. This was the best Spanish class ever!!! 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
I love Marcello!!! The MVP of the newbies 😂 GIVE HIM MORE SCENES! 🗣️
I’m Ecuadorian and I’ve been watching SNL since Andy Samberg was part of the cast, they way h the e sketches have been changing with the times are amazing to me, specially now seeing more Latin representation. When Ana said she learned English watching FRIENDS in the monologue it was SNL for me, this show holds a special place for me bc it always kept me on my toes, pop culture, politics, varios topics from US media… I used to watch the show on cable in Ecuador and funny enough I moved to NY 7 years ago and I still watch it. It has become a full circle moments seeing artist and actors of similar background come to show ❤
I love how Ana was saying a whole Cuban menu😂.
2:37 I'm Spanish and that was so hard to understand even for me lol.
But in Spain there are.also strong.accents. Como en Andalusia they skip some letters.at.the end of the world, just like us, and when you say er niño instead.of el niño. Our.accents.in Latinamerica depend on of what part of Spain came to our countries, plus our own slangs. I am not from Cuba,.but like I know what boludo is and I am not from Argentina, and I understand your guay and ostias. There are.some expressions I dont know,.but I know most of them.
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You can't even imagine the chilean
A la chica no se le entendía un huevo, amigo! 😂
Hasta los que hablamos Castellano estaríamos adivinando...
Yo la entendí 70%, escucha más hablantes centro y suramericanos y entenderas mejor
The fact that I’m taking Spanish classes right now makes this even funnier! My teacher is Puerto Rican and she be telling me all the things the Spanish books got wrong 🤣
It's probably because the book is Spain Spainish
To be fair, Puerto Rican Spanish is a very distinct dialect. Depending on your book, you're probably learning either Mexican Spanish or Spanish from Spain.
@@laurao3274 Honestly, even the textbooks have outdated language a lot of the time!
I suppose it’s similar to when I was in Ireland. My friend was dating a gal from Spain. She could talk with him and the others, but had a very difficult time understanding me. It dawned on me that they likely learn the king’s English.
The other part I found interesting is one night she had a Chilean acquaintance over. After he left she explained how she had a tough time talking with him due to the language differences. I asked her a bit about it and she said that even within Spain there is a considerable regional language difference, to the point that she had a difficult time communicating with people from other areas.
As an English speaker I find that fascinating. Although English may very slightly from region to country, it doesn’t seem that drastic. On the other hand, Spanish seems to very wildly even in one country and certainly to another.
Hopefully starting with "asi asi" ?
1:06: Uh-oh! 😂😂😂
Mikey day pulling out a will Schuster impression was hilarious 😂.
Same thing when I have my first Spanish lesson in Italy.
I love this ! All jokes aside We need more native speakers teaching their perspective classes that way kids can learn properly and be able to widen their chances of getting jobs and opportunities
Is not like kids can learn properly.. but Textbooks show the generic form , so to speak..
Imagine if they ever attempt to teach locla slang from Mexican, Colombian, Cuban, and so on... kids will loose their minds. Same goes to spanish speaking people - as myself- when trying to learn English. Textbook teaches the formal way , but the teacher if not native speaker, at leat should have any experience with the locals or even better: the teacher lived several years there and had experienced the local slang and culture, because oh boy if one stays with what the textbook/ generic teaching lessons.. you will be out for a surprise. Kinda like this sketch 😂 pretty much applies for any language.
We can thank at leadt now we can have access to online pretty mucj everywhere , so we can watch some videos on how the locals speak 😃
@@Srt3D01-db-01 Text books will always teach "Do you have a match?" and people will always say "Gotta light?" I was in Paris for almost a year before I understood the French answered the phone with "Ne quittez pas!" ("Don't quit ((the line.))). A hangover from when the phones were so unreliable.
It is tricky though, cause spanish is very different depending on country and region, native speakers can have trouble understanding eachother inside of even the same country. There is no correct way of spanish, so anything they read even from the books or a native speaker it’s going to be skewed to an specific dialect.
This brought me so much joy. I always hate when people try to speak Spanish or Japanese but completely forget that each vowel sound is typically consistent, unlike with English.
Ok pero the ropa vieja, tamales and tostones as her fav food was spot on 🇨🇺
I guessed she was going to say ropa vieja because it is unstranslatable. My cousin when he got to the US got that same question at school and he answered his favorite food was old clothes lolololol
@@m.a.5028 jajajaj
solo me lo vi porque esta La bellosisima y perfecta Ana De Armas
I'm a native Spanish speaker but learned English while my father was doing graduate study in the U.S. Upon my return to a Mexican high School, my friends were very eager to introduce me to their Mexican English teacher, you know, because I has just returned from the U.S. and was now bilingual. The teacher's face went pale when she realized this and I quickly understood what was going on, so I decided to not expose her and just said a brief HI and then changed the subject.
Non-native English teachers don't claim to speak the language like a native, they usually will tell you their level right away, either b2 or c1, in some weird cases c2, but that's why teachers use the best sources of English and ensure to follow them the best they can, this sources usually have "better" English compared to average native speakers
This is exactly how I describe my Spanish degree to people: Imagine a foreigner learning English from 19th century poetry and grammar textbooks and then having a conversation with you. I've definitely been Mikey more times than I care to admit 😂
Michael’s little dancey dancey at the end took me out like what is he doing 😭 also I absolutely love the Spanish sketches with Marcello and hope there’s more Latinx hosts so they can do more, the episode with Pedro Pascal was so good and I like that they brought back Lisa from Temecula for Ana too
"Latinx"?? That word doesn't exist in Spanish. Time to stop using it. It's a Liberal Failure Fake Word.
Just say Latino. Latinx is cringey af
“How do you think I esta?”😂
Mikey Day was (as usual) _brilliant_ !!! That scramble to pronounce the RRRRROLLING "R" was hysterical 😂🤣😂
Learned more Spanish during this sketch than all 4 years of High School
I cant stop watching this! Ive lost track of how many times ive watched, but it doesnt get old...so hilarious 😂
A Cuban, a Dominican, and a Colombian all in one sketch?! Dang SNL, finally
The way she speaks Spanish is just…❤❤❤❤❤
I could listen to her read a newspaper and enjoy it.
@@markh.6687 Right?!