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Hey y'all, I just finished a video on being judgmental and how we should not be judgmental
and that video I mentioned um... you know, that I always made Spanish errors when I speak
in Spanish with y'all. And I thought, "Hmm... I'm going to tell them what's the most difficult
parts of Spanish for me. Um...you probably know 'em because I do them all the time when
I speak to y'all. So, for English speakers it's really hard for us to remember to use
the gender. [It's] very difficult to use use gender. It's very difficult to learn the gender.
Ok, so, even though know for example, it's "la mesa". You know, this is a table. It's
"la mesa". It's really hard to remember that when speaking. So, if I'm speaking in a sentence
and I refer back to the table, I might say...I might use "lo", you know, instead of "la"
and I think, "Aw damn! But oh well! It came out. It came out wrong. Oh well!" Or...I wouldn't
say "el mesa" because that just... "Mesa" is too common of a word to mess that one up,
but if it's something a little less common, yeah, I mess it up all the time. So...and
it sounds silly. Especially for the words that do not end in O and do not end in A.
Yeah, because like "nivel", you know, it's "el nivel" or it's "la nivel"? I don't know.
I have to go look it up because I can't remember. I haven't heard enough Spanish to retain all
those rules naturally, you know? I've learned them all in school. I learned 'em, but I don't...
You can't retain all that information. It's just too much. So, the gender, very difficult.
It's not difficult, but it's difficult to speak right. It's easy to write right...to
write right. Why is write...W R I T E and R I G H T...they're...they're pronounced exactly
the same...write right. Haha. They're easy to write right, but they're difficult to speak
correctly. Ok, next thing extremely hard for me are a couple of the prepositions, mostly
"por" [and] "para" and sometimes "de". I have trouble with that one too. Excuse me. I had
to clear my throat. Ever since I took Cymbalta I've had a lot of throat problems. Y'all probably
realize that in my videos I'm always like... Next thing verbs. Oh my word! You have no
idea how much you know about verbs! It's incredible and I pulled up a page on here...on the internet
I pulled up a page just to show you really quickly and you should go look at this page
too. Let's see if we can see it. These are just the regular -ar verb endings. Ok, and
we have to learn a different one for each person. We have to learn the yo conjugation,
tu, el, nosotros.... I did not learn vosotros...ellos and I think that's it. Is that all of them?
Yeah. So, we have to learn all the people, you know, the persons. And it's so hard. And
all the tenses. So we have indicativo, tiempos compuestos, por ejemplo, el preterito perfecto,
pluscuamperfecto, futuro perfecto, you know, all the perfect tenses and then there's the
subjective. Oh my gosh! Yeah...talk about something hard for English speakers to learn
in Spanish is subjunctive. It's like students don't even want to hear that word. It's kind
of like I think probably for you when I say "phrasal verbs". "Subjunctive." I'll give
you an example. Quiero que hagas tu tarea. I want you to do your homework. That's subjunctive
in Spanish. I want you to do your homework...but it's not in English. We use the subjunctive
very little in English. Um...I'll give you an example in another video because it's not
common at all and we don't think like that... Here's an example: I insist she go to the
store. "I insist she go..." It's not "she goes" because that would be regular. That
would be just the indicative. It wouldn't be the subjunctive. I insist that she go to
the store now...because I'm insisting it. Haha. But we hardly ever use the subjunctive.
So, it's really hard. What else is? POR and PARA, I said that. Subjunctive, the verbs,
the gender, and the pronunciation believe it or not. And you would think, "Why would
the pronunciation of Spanish be difficult?" Because they don't teach it correctly. I wasn't
taught Spanish pronunciation correctly when I first learned Spanish, and therefore, I
did not have a good understanding of how Spanish was really spoken and when I heard native
Spanish speakers, it was like, "Whoa, that's really different from my teacher," you know.
Like...I don't want to talk bad about my teachers, no. I have had...I mean absolutely wonderful
teachers. I just don't think that they were aware that their pronunciation was incorrect.
And...te los voy a decir un ejemplo de eso. Asi habla la gente aqui en espanol. Que fuerte
el acento en ingles, no? Oy, que fuerte. Y por esa...no. I'm trying to speak in Spanish
with you. Por esa razon...hahaha...no entendi nada because I had English pronunciation to
Spanish and it didn't make any sense when I heard real Spanish. And the same thing happen
for you, doesn't it? Ahum. That is why you must, you must... Yep, I'm using MUST. MUST
is very strong. You must listen to real native English speakers. And it doesn't matter who.
You can listen to Australians, you can go right ahead. And you want to listen to British,
go right ahead. You want to listen to American or Canadian English, it doesn't matter. Do
not listen to Indian English. I don't understand... I don't understand [it]. I don't. When you
have to call somebody on the phone and like you need help with a company or something
like my computer breaks. So, I call a company and...to help me and if I get a person who
speaks...who's Indian and speaks English with a strong Indian accent and most all Indians
speak English with a strong Indian accent, I'm like, "Oh my goodness! I don't understand.
I don't understand you." And I repeat it. I get so frustrated because they'll tell me
something and then I repeat it back the way it's supposed to be said because I'm just
a teacher. I'm like trying to help them and then they're like...I can't make fun of the
Indians. I mean I'm not trying to make fun of them. I'm just saying they don't have...they're
pronunciation is really bad in English. So, do not learn from Indians. Although, I had
a wonderful Indian teacher who taught me Spanish and she understood the correct pronunciation
of I don't know how many lang...I don't know how many languages she spoke, but typically,
no, haha, don't do it. And I think that might be all that I have a lot of trouble with in
Spanish. What do y'all think? Where should I improve? What do I need to focus on? I'm
always telling you what to do with your English. Now, tell me how can I improve...no. Tell
me what I should improve on. Ok. Just tell me, "Oh Jesi, you always make this mistake.
Please fix it because it annoys the heck out of me." Haha. Alright. Muah. Please subscribe
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