I Memorized the Dictionary to Learn Spanish. The Results Shocked Me.
Bored of quarantine, I decided to spend the week memorizing the dictionary to learn Spanish. I’ve done lots of language challenges and learned many things in my life, including learning Chinese, but this was one of the most difficult challenges I’ve ever undertaken.
It’s a little different from my typical “White Guy Speaks Chinese” videos but the results of this experiment genuinely shocked and amazed me and I’m so glad I decided to do it!
Regarding the app I use to memorize, it’s called Anki, a free and open source cross-platform app that’s the most efficient way to memorize huge amounts of vocabulary in different languages. It's based on a system called spaced repetition. You can read more about it and download it here: apps.ankiweb.net/index.html
The dictionary I bought is called the Spanish Frequency Dictionary - Essential Vocabulary. You can buy it from mostusedwords.com. However, I found a shared Anki you can download that has the 2500 most common words already loaded up, with audio and visuals - you can check that out here: ankiweb.net/shared/info/24142...
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Speaks fluent Chinese, says Spanish is complicated
Since you've already started, i think you should keep studying spanish for atleast 1 month and show us your skills in some spanish shop ;)
Me: has been learning Spanish for 1.5 years. Xiaoma: learns the same amount in 5 days
Dude, I'm a native spanish speaker and I got so excited when you (almost) got sentences right! hahaha. That takes a lot of time to learn, so it's really impressive. Keep learning spanish!
The letter “H” in Spanish is silent, Try to remember that. Other than that you are doing very good. 👌🏻👏🏻
HE LEARNT THE SAME AMOUNT OF SPANISH I LEARNT IN THREE YEARS OF SCHOOL IN FIVE DAYS LMAOOOAOAO BYE
He's still salty about finding out his friend spoke Spanish now he has to learn it
The best thing about Spanish is that 90% of the words are read as written
A la madre. Just wait until you go to a place a realize THEY don’t know any of those formal words and speak mostly slang.
Here I am, a native Spanish speaker, understanding every word in English he says and thinking "Maaan, those examples are complicated!"
Xiaona:
"Wouldnt it be interesting to try and learn a language just off of memorizing words?" Welcome to the American school system
Hablé con Jim is basically "Yo hablé con Jim" . They left out the pronoun Yo because the verb gives it away. The more you omit pronouns the more natural you will sound. Trust me.
I'm a native Spanish speaker, I have to say this is really impressive. Within a week you learned how to read Spanish and plenty of words, that's insane.
When I learned Spanish in school I don't even think I learned 500 words in three years and you are disappointed after doing 500 in three days...
im jealous at how hard he studies and how dedicated he is to this. i started watching his videos because i want to be multilingual so bad and now he’s going completely out of his element learning spanish! wow👏👏
The problem with Spanish is that people talk so fast, I can speak it fluently but my mind just cannot comprehend peopletalkingat200wordsperminute
Memorizing vocabulary is an underrated and incredibly effective tool. Saved me tons of time and effort when I was learning Spanish too. That doesn't mean you can just neglect to practice conversing in it, but it is definitely a huge boost.
Something common in Spanish is that pronouns are not mentioned in a same sentence all the time. Like, in English if we were talking about a girl we'd be saying "she" "she" a bunch of times. In Spanish the verb conjugation gives it away so we don't repeat "she" once is already mentioned.