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I love your story! For me, I started taking Spanish in junior high and took it all through high school. In high school, I hung out with my Spanish-speaking friends and went over to their houses after school. I talked with their brothers and sisters, their mothers and dads. That's what gave me fluency. I was the high school "Spanish" tutor for the English-speaking kids and the "English" tutor for the Spanish-speaking kids. It was so cool to be able to talk easily with so many new people! When I went to college, I continued taking Spanish and hanging out with my Spanish-speaking friends. I scored highest on the National Spanish Teachers' exam in high school and got a summer scholarship with the Experiment in International Living to go live with a Mexican family--like you, in Aguascalientes! I didn't speak English at all while I was there--no hanging out with the other American kids! I knew I was really fluent when I started dreaming in Spanish--that's the gold prize! I had Spanish-speaking roommates in college and we mostly spoke Spanish at home. Even now, in my sixties, I can still understand everything and speak fluently. Now I have Spanish-speakers in my extended family and I can talk with them as easily as the English speakers! Crecimos de nuestros errores--hay que divertirse!

@SpanishWithNate.

2 жыл бұрын

That's so amazing Sheera! Muchas gracias por compartir :)

@ricardoabrego6066

2 жыл бұрын

Muy interesante.... 👍👍👍

Marrying a native Spanish speaker is a great way to go also. I’m a regular white gringo who has always had an eye for Latinas anyway. I was studying Spanish online and I met my dream girl from The Dominican Republic. After talking with her online for 6 months I was pretty much fluent. Several months after that I brought her back with me to the U.S. and married her immediately and now I’m much more fluent. Now being around her all day I can both hear and practice Spanish all the time. It’s wonderful.

@SpanishWithNate.

2 жыл бұрын

That's amazing! Gracias por compartir :)

@theguitarvirtuosoforgod1152

2 жыл бұрын

@@SpanishWithNate. My pleasure. Also, we now have 2 small children who speak both English and Spanish. It’s very entertaining to watch them. You don’t know what they’ll say next.

@user-vv9np5iq7n

2 жыл бұрын

Living in a Hispanic neighborhood inside the United States where the environment will be almost identical to living abroad in a Spanish speaking country. And of course if you can move abroad, THAT is the best. I lived in Spain for twelve years after leaving my country of birth, Russia, in 1996. In 2008 I moved from Spain to the Dominican Republic where I became a naturalized citizen and reside here full time now.

@merileon518

2 жыл бұрын

@@SpanishWithNate. Hello, I'm a latina if you're interested haha jk

@QuantumNoir

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-vv9np5iq7n Muy interesante tu historia amigo. Dale

Holy crap this is a high quality video. I like seeing a complete outline of someone's ability to learn a foreign language to fluency. This'll get anyone good for learning, not just Spanish, but any language! Thanks so much for this

@SpanishWithNate.

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Eres muy simpatico Nate, un abrazo desde Barcelona. Esta fantástico que enseñes español es muy interesante a prenderlo y divertido. Yo he estudiado 8 años inglés , y 8 francés y no se casi hablarlos, no tengo práctica.

@SpanishWithNate.

2 жыл бұрын

Un abrazo Ana :)

@NameThatSong1

2 жыл бұрын

The app Lingbe is good for speaking with others.

Soy hablante nativo, específicamente mexicano, por ende, mi español es bueno (por no decir perfecto) jeje; he visto varios de tus videos y si, tu español es impresionante, hablas de una manera muy fluida y sin problemas te consideraría hablante nativo. Tus consejos son bastante buenos, toda persona interesada en aprender español debería ver este video, incluso yo, tomare tus consejos para aprender inglés. Posdata. La lista de reproducción para aprender español tiene rolas bastante buenas, agrega algunas de Julio Jaramillo, sus canciones son muy buenas y tienen letras increíbles.

@diegodeleon9284

2 жыл бұрын

¿Como así de que tu español es perfecto? :0

@SpanishWithNate.

2 жыл бұрын

Muchas gracias!! Saludos :)

@slimcereal7604

2 жыл бұрын

@@SpanishWithNate. you should know that there are a lot of different types of spanish. Like spain, Argentina, colombia, etc. Good luck man.

i just started wanting to get seriously good at spanish when i got my job because like everyone in the kitchen only speaks spanish. trying to understand actual spanish was so much more difficult than in the class room. youve been a huge inspiration for me man!

@SpanishWithNate.

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers! Suerte :)

Medio chileno here. Can confirm that surrounding yourself with Spanish speakers doesn't always rub their Spanish off on you. I've learned so much more Spanish in the last year that I've been studying it than the rest of my life listening to my family's Spanish

Wow you speak English faster than Spanish? Great video by the way the Spanish subtitles really helped me a lot.

Hi, Nate! Thank you so much for this video! I am currently learning Spanish which would be my third language, hopefully. And honestly, this motivated me to keep going. I'm now in my 1st year in college, but unfortunately, we were not taught Spanish in high school because our main focus was English. There's also no any Spanish speaker around me as well, that's why I find it really hard to learn. However, this video made me realize that nothing is impossible. A great mindset and perseverance is the key. Thanks for the advice, man! Just discovered your channel recently and I wanna say that you're doing such a great job. You made me appreciate Spanish even more. Keep inspiring others with your passion. The world needs more people like you.

Thanks for sharing your playlist. All the best.

100/10 vid ty nate!! God bless you!!

Great tips to learn another language ❤️. Listening to music is my favorite one👍 I did it just the opposite way. I learned to speak and write a lot of English listening to music and rewriting the songs' lyrics.

This is all very useful for me. Thank you so much. I assume that there are many ways leading you to Rome. It all comes down to being passionate about your own language journey and planing it (and sticking to the plan). I love your attitute not being afraid of making mistakes. We should put away our EGO. I want to point out that the Spanish subtitles are super cool for me since I also want to improve my Spanish. So it's evern more value for me. Keep up the good work!!!

What a great video. Thanks!

Interesante! Incluso puedo aplicar estos consejos en mi camino para aprender el inglés. Si alguien necesita practicar su español conmigo puede hacerlo y de paso ayudarme con el inglés.

@SpanishWithNate.

2 жыл бұрын

Qué bueno!!

¡Bueno nate, gracias!

Thanks for the great video Nate! I think you were really fortunate to live in a town with many Spanish speakers, and also to have had the chance to make awesome friends from that community at a very young age where making friends is waaaaay easier than in your 20s, or 30s. Not to say you didn't put in the effort though! I live in Victoria, Canada which doesn't have a lot of Spanish speakers, but I'm trying to make friends with the few who do live here. I'm also taking online Spanish classes from Colombia, and averaging 50 (50 minute) group classes a month. I listen to Spanish music, specially Reggaeton every single day, have changed the language on ALL of my devices (Phone, CarPlay, Watch, Laptop) to Spanish, I watch a lot of KZread videos like yours, and and even when I'm watching an english movie or something on Netflix, I have Spanish subtitles on so I could glimpse at a word here and there :D

Hey Nate, just found your channel about a week ago. I was hoping you'd have a video like this on your channel - guess your ears were ringing. Thanks for the advice and keep up the good work!

@SpanishWithNate.

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Casey! :)

Gran Trabajo. ¡Eres increíbles! Mi gusta el vídeo!

I enjoyed listening to your story mi amigo.

Cuando hablas español creo que naciste entre personas hispanohablantes muy bien I'm proud of you now I'm studying español I hope to speak fluently soon like native speaker 🔊

I love music! I learn to sing new songs and look up the words and phrases I didn't know.

A lot of worth for this video also when you said we needed to limit our resources to focusing that was a good point we have excess of information and the day only has 24 hours.

@SpanishWithNate.

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly :)

I think I could become fluent in High School kind of like you because I'm in 8th grade right now learning Spanish on my own and at school and my ability to speak is pretty decent, I can have basic conversations, and my accent I would say is great (I watch a lot of videos) however I still make mistakes in grammar and I think that's something I can improve in the future

You are exactly right about mindset - i had to be willing to fail and be laughed at This is a key :)

Hey Nate! I’m a few weeks I to learning Spanish and your videos have been a big part of my journey! Please keep making them and please make more videos of you interacting with different Spanish-speaking cultures! :) God bless

@julioestebanestobiaavalos6791

2 жыл бұрын

If you want it, you have it

@SpanishWithNate.

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Luke!!

@malms4026

2 жыл бұрын

How is it going today?

@nuclearmusic77

2 жыл бұрын

@@malms4026 if you’re referring to my Spanish progress, it’s going decently well! Estoy aprendiendo rápido, ¡y esta muy divertido!

@malms4026

2 жыл бұрын

@@nuclearmusic77 Cool. I just started like 3-4 days ago

gracias muy util

Muy buen video, me ayuda para aprender mejor el español.

Thank you for thissssssss

@SpanishWithNate.

2 жыл бұрын

:)

Me dejas completamente asombrado que fuiste "rey del baile" en la prepa, ¡Guau! Anyway, I hope that some day you work on your Bachelor's, Master's, and get on your way to receiving your Ph.D. in Spanish. Without a doubt, you could become a Spanish professor at USC or UCLA (or in some other academic setting). Sure, doing KZread will get you by in the meantime. But unfortunately our society values a piece of paper that shows rigorous discipline - like a college diploma (of sorts). I know you know all this. I'm just reminding you because you have a lot of potential to make serious and valuable contributions to humanity. - Un Hispanohablante de California

@SpanishWithNate.

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Saludos :)

Great journey. Your accent is excellent btw.

Hi Nate! Buenos dias! How I learned Spanish was really different, and in a way more simple than yours. I traveled around mexico for 2 and a half months recently, and I just made friends all the time and always tried to practice, and the more I would practice the better I would get. I haven't yet reached conversational fluency, but I can converse about many different topics. My listening skills are also not the best, but I can almost always understand the topic of the conversation, and from there I can ask questions to determine the details if I don't understand something. I make a lot of grammatical mistakes because I never really learned much grammar, but recently I'm taking lessons to help to improve this. What are your thoughts on learning a language naturally like how I have mostly done?

Genial 😁

bueno ..buena suerte en la enseñanza del español

Me apareció esto en recomendados (lo escribo en Español porque este vídeo enseña Español) (I speak Spanish, i'm from Argentina)

You are right about funny stories while learning Spanish. I went to Guadalajara for a week and tried to order eggs over light with has browns. It didn't go well. Google Translate told me eggs over light was huevos sobre luz, and without thinking about it that's what I ordered along with some papas fritas, knowing that might get me French fries. Rather than potatoes I wanted grits, but I knew not to even try ordering those. The waiter was more than a little perplexed. I wound up with an omelette. To this day I'm not sure eggs over light is even a thing in Mexico.

I grew up in Tijuana, and... Honestly, I'd never considered in learning the lenguage. I remember that as a kid , I used to watch TV and somehow knew what they were talking about. I have never stepped on American territory and most of the foreigners end up amazed by my neutral Californian Accent. (I'm talking about learning english, my bad, I never specified) Nate, ahora es tiempo de aprender Ruso!. vamos por un idioma mas para tu *Repertoire*

Muy buena enseñansa hablo español

Hi Nate, in the min 6:40 appears the actor Jacob Bertrand how plays Hawk in cobra Kai?? He's very similar 🤔

@TedC1603

2 жыл бұрын

It is him, they’re friends

@carlosocampo3585

2 жыл бұрын

@@TedC1603 😮 I never imagined it

Tengo curiosidad como enseñas mi idioma... Lo veré completo

I practice speaking spansih with my coworkers they are a big help but still laugh when I speak wrong 😂

How did you learn to roll your Rs? I've been trying for hours!

Me percaté que en una de tu fotos aparece Jacob Bertrand. Es él, o solo un chico que se parece a él?

Me gusta ver cómo la gente que habla inglés aprende español, es mi pasión .

Yo he estado aprendiendo español para 7 meses. Lo es necesario para mi porque solemente trabajado con mexicanos en mi trabajo. Puedo hablar bueno pienso pero la cosa me da pena es entendiendo nativos. Cuando hablan a mi dicen cosas muy despacito pero cuando hablan juntos ellos hablan con muy rápido jajajaj sabes como puedo entendarlos más fácil. Perdón para errores todavía estoy aprendiendo

I started learning spanish 7 years ago and I'm embarrassed to say I haven't gained fluency. I can barely hold a basic conversation still. I'm going to Ecuador soon and I want to be able to communicate well but I'm nervous I won't be able to. I try really hard to speak in spanish but I always get stuck and revert back to English. I read it and write it fairly well and I have a good academic vocabulary as I'm studying spanish linguistics, but conversational vocabulary is lacking.

@zbrownbb

2 жыл бұрын

Find people to video chat with online if that is less intimidating for you!

@carolm9996

2 жыл бұрын

Get the Meetup app and practice with other Spanish learners and native Spanish speakers as often as you like. And podcasts are great for developing your ear...Good luck in Ecuador

@xalomia55

2 жыл бұрын

Have you heard of italki? Great app and I think it’ll help you a lot, especially with conversational skills

Buen video compañero, voy a usar tus consejos para que yo aprenda inglés, eso sí, escucho mucha música en inglés y es de mi música favorita, también suelo escuchar a la gente hablando inglés, para mejorar mi escucha, lo único que me falta es practicar el habla con alguien que sepa inglés :P Quiero aprender inglés para mi carrera de gastronomía, el español mexicano, que es mi idioma natal ya lo tengo, ahora para poder comunicarme con más personas, me falta en inglés =) Buen video, le deseo lo mejor a usted

¡Consejos muy útiles! La clave es ser positivo y dejar de lado la timidez. When you take a class (outside of your regular school) or travel, you have a great opportunity to be someone new (channel Pistachio from Master of Disguise!).

I started learning spanish a month ago and I try to study about 1-2 hours a day. I don't have anyone to practice with, but I speak to myself sometimes in spanish and hear a lot of spanish songs and tv shows. Do you think I'll be able to reach fluency in a year as well? It took me 3 years to learn English so idk

@reginaldwilson3749

2 жыл бұрын

Use HelloTalk to communicate with native speakers

😭 im learning like 6 months and there's no improvement on my Spanish grammar but i can understand Spanish now 😃👍

Hey Bro, are you on Cambly? If you are on, please you need to help me to practice, I feel stuck, I haven't found a partner to partice yet

You said you were recently in Mexico. Where were you because I swear I saw you! I was in Cabo San Jose

Hello Nate, I have no one to speak Spanish with. I live in the back arse of Ireland- nobody my age is able to speak it here. What can I do? Also, is there a level I should be at before even considering talking to Spanish speaker?

@Gustavo-ee9ir

2 жыл бұрын

Hola! Si necesitas alguien para practicar, con gusto te ayudo. I'm from Mexico.

@SpanishWithNate.

2 жыл бұрын

Start ASAP! You can use HelloTalk or Tandem to start :)

@adamgillespie3393

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gustavo-ee9ir hola Emilio! Muchas gracias por tu ayuda. Which site should we talk on?

@Gustavo-ee9ir

2 жыл бұрын

@@adamgillespie3393 do you have Telegram?

@carolm9996

2 жыл бұрын

Before you start doing Spanish groups through Meetup up, you should have some basic command of the language. I think if you learn the simple past, present, and simple future (voy a ir al mercado/I am going to go to the market) for estar, ser, ir, tener, hablar, comer, beber, caminar, leer, mirar, and pensar so you can at least participate and follow a bit

Just depends on how much time you put in the language

When are you visiting Dominican Republic, Nate? Hope you visit us soon!!

6:41 Jacob Bertrand?

I thought I knew A LOT of Spanish until, I got here in Hermosillo, Sonora. I can't understand anyone 😭 Now I'm sitting in my airbnb nervous to go out.

Wait a second. I saw a picture where you’re with the actor that plays Hawk in Cobra Kai! Do you know him?

Me:speaking Spanish from birth Also me: watching this to support

Isn’t this in your other channel?

@steve7131

2 жыл бұрын

Yes 😂 he posted it on both

Al único Nate que conocía era Nate Díaz

Hold up is that Hawk from cobra Kai at 6:40

At 6:39 the guy third to left looks like the guy Hawk from Cobra Kai.

There’s something to be said there

10:42 jajaja

Es el actor de cobra kai en una foto

👍

Nate y como te fue con los albures? 😏 Supongo al principio te alburearon bastante 😅 ya los entiendes y te puedes defender?

@SpanishWithNate.

2 жыл бұрын

Jajaj sí más o menos Carlos :) Buena pregunta! Saludos compadre

@carlosocampo3585

2 жыл бұрын

@@SpanishWithNate. saludos amigo 👍

6:39 anyone else see hawk ? From cobra Kai 😂or am I trippin

Sabes decir la "Ñ"

Sería gracioso que alguien que aprenda Español viaje por toda Latinoamerica o España y vea que en cada región o país se tienen jergas que sólo se usan en ese país o región.

omg nate when to the chingada LMAOOOO

Yo soy de indio ,yo quiero improbar mi español idioma señor 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

@diegodeleon9284

2 жыл бұрын

Corrijo, es India. Te felicito por aprender el Español hermano :).

@shaizascreation6828

2 жыл бұрын

@@diegodeleon9284 yo quiero hablar alguien personas porque yo les contacto,¿puedo comenzar contigo querido?

@diegodeleon9284

2 жыл бұрын

@@shaizascreation6828 Esta bien, ¿por qué medio quieres hablar? Yo uso WhatsApp, Facebook y Discord,¿no se cuál usas vos/tu?

@shaizascreation6828

2 жыл бұрын

@@diegodeleon9284 yo también uso WhatsApp , puedo practicar contigo mi hermano de hoy,si te gusta

@QuantumNoir

2 жыл бұрын

Echale Ganas Campeon! 🤙🏼🤙🏼

may I know what Gringo is?

@hislas2735

2 жыл бұрын

Many times "gringo" refers to someone who is from the United States of America. It designates that you are a foreigner. But it could also refer to anybody who is fair-skinned and/or has blond, blondish, medium brown to light brown, hair. Sometimes in various Spanish speaking countries, even if you have light-colored eyes (blue, green, hazel), you are called a "gringo" by your friends or fellow countrymen. In has its origins in Spain or the whole Iberian Peninsula (I think it is or was used in Portugal, too). During the Middle Ages, in Spain, the term "gringo" was applied to people from another far away village to imply that they were foreign. Nowadays, most of the time, "gringo" is used as a positive attribute or feature. Occasionally, "gringo" is used as a derogatory term. As with other words, it just depends on the tone that you use when saying it. Saying it with enthusiasm and a sparkle in your eyes is positive. But using it in a tone of disgust is negative. Anyway, in summary, "gringo" means that you are a foreigner or that you appear to look like a foreigner.

@helmizaidi7814

2 жыл бұрын

@@hislas2735 heyy thank you so much for the explanation ☺️

@hislas2735

2 жыл бұрын

@@helmizaidi7814 Hello! I just watched one of your videos on the current COVID pandemic. I'm really impressed that you have engaged in some research to make a contribution to knowledge. Especially, so that humanity can be better prepared for future pandemics. You know, yesterday, I just realized the following. That two or three years after the 1918 pandemic, "Western Societies" or a large part of the world had the "Roaring 20's" known for rapid industrial and economic growth. People's perceptions were positive and the outlook got better. As the saying goes, "The best predictor of the future is the past". An any rate, thanks for the video - I liked it.

@QuantumNoir

2 жыл бұрын

An American. Usually a white American.

Dat giraffe neck tho....

Good info. Subbed . Do what the pros do - Promo'SM!

If any of you live in a U.S. city with a strong Latino/Hispanic population then you got it made. Get out there and get it. Too easy.

Like si quieres que Nate "el gringo" haga un video con SuperHolly para ver quien habla mejor el español.

It was so easy? I had to life 20 years in Spain! That is literally all my life. Jokes aside, all you said can be aplied to learning english and pretty much any language. Also, english is way worse than spanish to learn. Our verbs are horrible, yeah, but english vocals are SO bad. Ours make sense. "A" in Spanish? /a/. A in english? /ei/. And that with every vocal AND their combinations. And dont get me started in phrasing...

Just curious what his friends call him. Maybe el güero o el gringo.

Step one get a Mexican girlfriend

@QuantumNoir

2 жыл бұрын

The best ones. They come in all flavors and they provide all the fun stuff.

Hahaha your spanish is not fluent and I would never think you were mexican because you know spanish. You sound like any US person that speak english as their first language. keep practicing eventually you'll get better but i doubt you'll be fluent because of your age. the only people I know besides myself that speak both english and spanish fluent are people that grew up in a bilingual family.

@hislas2735

2 жыл бұрын

Fluency is the ability to speak a foreign language easily and effectively. Moreover, there are different levels of fluency - Nate has a high fluency level and it is among the best. He can easily carry on a conversation in both Spanish & English. Furthermore, he does come across as a Mexican because, every now and then, he uses terms that young Spanish speakers in Mexico use (such as "guey", "no mames", "no manches", etc.). Also, he can pass as being Mexican because, there are many fair-skinned or "güero" Mexicans. Without a doubt, many other Spanish speaking countries also have fair-skinned and "güero" people. Granted, sometimes you can detect that Spanish is Nate's second language. You see it in his pronunciations to certain words in Spanish. But, overall, with time and practice, he will come across as a Mexican who grew up in a small town (as an example: a town in the "Los Altos" region of Jalisco or other similar regions). The "Los Altos" region of Jalisco has a lot of fair-skinned or "güero" looking Mexicans. In my opinion, all he needs to do is say, "Soy de Los Altos de Jalisco" and it will be believable. - un Hispanohablante de California

@romeop2345

6 ай бұрын

Lol cry much? His Spanish is fluent.. I doubt you are fluent in English lol