Fred's Struggling To Learn Spanish!

Fred asks the 13 for any advice on learning Spanish!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:48):
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Speaker 2 (00:55):
Thank god, I never came to that. However, I gotta
I gotta figure out which app I'm gonna use to
learn Spanish. I bought a book. I'm reading the book.
I got it on TikTok. It's by a woman named
Lisa la Kucaracha, so it must be legitimate, isn't that
the cockroach? Doesn't that mean the cockroach? And that's her
name on the book, that's what she calls I think

(01:16):
it's Lisa to Cook. I mean, I don't know why
you'd want to call yourself that. But maybe she's very famous.
I don't know, but it's it's it's learning Spanish in
sixty days, and I believe I can do it.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Oh and we're on day one.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I love it, but I'm not sure that I'm gonna
need more than that I need. I need, like an
actual tutor is what I need. But then they have
all these apps that they advertise for you know now
I'm talking about you know, the babbles and the rest
of it in the Dua Lipa like you're on, but
like they have all these other ones too, and I
I just I can't get a gauge on which one
is the best, because you've got native speakers that are like, now,

(01:50):
this app and that app is not. They're gonna teach
you vocabulary. They're gonna teach you how to speak. I mean,
you know, you're not quite fluent, and you've been on
one of them for eighteen hundred days.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, but you know a lot more than I do.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
But I started off like I took eight years in school,
so it was more like it just like dusted it off.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yes, what I need to dust it off? I need
to I need to power wash it off.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
But obviously the best use I like got when I
like could do it was use it in like real
life conversation. Yeah, Amerson's I gotta do whatever.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Move immersion. We can go to Peppies.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
You'll go in the kitchen, no line cooks, and you'll
like be able to talk to that.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
We're gonna go to a little village. That's so we're
gonna start. Okay, we're gonna we're gonna go to some
of the restaurants. We're gonna go to some local businesses.
We're gonna support. We're gonna do cil India the candy.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
That's your spot, give me a Piniona, that's your spot.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, We'll get you whatever you need.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
I truly believe, like unpopular opinion, I don't think like
high school Spanish, depending how seriously you took it, I
don't think that's really gonna be as effective I wish.
I mean yeah, but also like you're what you know,
fourteen fifteen years old when you start high school, so
like it's hard to learn when you're older. And also
you're not using it every day. You do it for
forty five minutes in class and then go home and
never do it again.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
May study untaco a pastor what are china?

Speaker 1 (03:07):
I want to oh?

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Now, see, I'm even getting aggressive.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's yeah, me too. You should get a torture. No.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Look, if it's happening right now, I can probably tell
you yeah, but tomorrow, don't ask me about tomorrow what
happened yesterday. Do not even attempt to do that. And
the other problem is that the Spanish. I'm like, look,
I'm trying to learn Spanish, okay, and Spanish is fine.
And I was having this conversation with a friend of
mine who was a native speaker from Mexico, and she's like,
you're gonna learn Mexican Spanish here, and you know Mexican Spanish,

(03:52):
go to South America where you've been. And my aunt
is all, you know, highbrow about it. She's like, we
don't use that word. We use this word. We don't
pronounce it that we pronounced it like this. You know, if
you're gonna come down here, then you need to speak
it like we do. And I'm like, yeah, but that's
not the way. That's that's formal, it's different. It's a
different dialect, right that. You know, people would look at
me funny here and I live here.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
But you're trying.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
And I think for the most part, native speakers like
appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
I feel like if you're like at least trying.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
I have noticed that Spanish speakers appreciate the effort. Other
other countries, I have noticed that they don't necessarily appreciate,
Like I'm not going to say where, but I've been
places where I've tried and they're just like no, just no,
don't just no point, or they'll just speak to you
in English. And my aunt has sexts do this in
South America all the time, like people will start, you know,

(04:39):
and she's really good. I mean, she's been speaking Spanish
for a decade. But she taught herself and had a
tutor and didn't take this in school in Peoria they
didn't teach Spanish back then. Yes, but like early on,
when she was kind of stumbling a little bit, people
would just start talking to her in English, and I
heard her say it. She'd go, no, like, no, you're
talking to me in Spanish. I'm trying to learn, like

(05:01):
I'm trying to be at your level, you know. So
she would like, actually, like stop them in there attracts me.
Don't talk to me in English. Don't you say that
to me? I can all.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
It's intimidating sometimes to a native speaker because I don't
want to come off silly. But then I think of
like people like my mother who came here, you know,
at older age. She was like twenty one years old
and didn't speak any English, but had to learn, you know,
how to speak and she did by immersing herself.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, but see that then that would be the best way.
But I have this job in Mexico. Well, one of
these days I'm going to disappear to it to Uruguay.
I really am.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
I'm going to disappear. You guys can come.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
It's a nice house and and I'm gonna have a
little radio studio there and I'm just gonna be there.
And that's the only way I'm really gonna get good.
I just have to say forget it and move there
and then if I want to eat then I and
I like live, then I'm going to have to do it.
Because everybody does agree on that that immersion is the
way to do it.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
I just don't have that luxury.

Speaker 6 (05:52):
Yesterday, when I was living in Spain, which they are
also don't speak the Mexican Spanish here because that's how
I learned. But when I was living in Spain, I
started reaming in Spanish and it was truly the trippiest
thing I've ever experienced in my life.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
That's dope. It was crazy. I know you made it then,
but I lost it all. Yeah, that's the problem.

Speaker 6 (06:09):
In the end, it doesn't even matter.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Waiting metaphone is.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
It doesn't even that God, oh my goodness, me and
me there Spanish Spanish man telling her what to do,
flip and reverse it in all right, waiting by the phone.

(06:36):
We are idiots waiting metaphonies. Knew why somebody get ghosted.
She'll been shelling a tie with Megan five fifties, the prize,
the entertainment, important blogs coming up?

Speaker 1 (06:44):
What are you working on? K of course we lost a legend.
We got to talk about that.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (06:48):
A reality star is just basically telling us who she
has gotten with in her new memoir. And then two
of the biggest actresses in the entire world got on
a commercial flight and everyone.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Was like, what I tell you who that is.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
So when I was told me to watch Destinos, just
watch Testinos on YouTube and you'll learn Span, I'm like,
come on, maybe, but I need a little bit more
of a foundation before I can watch. Like to your point,
I got to go back through all the vocap I
gotta go back through all the verbs, and then once
I kind of remember some of that, then maybe we
get into the tenes a little bit. But then the
irregulars get out of here regularly. Get out of here, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Get get out the radio blogs on the Fred Show
see and of you and me.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
I gotta learn the words first, that's another one. Those
are nice and fun. I know those.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Mayan and I were facetiming last night and I was
cussing at her and she was like, we don't use
those words. That those are not the right word.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
It's okay. It's different regions, right, different countries.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
Wait, I go to Puerto Rico or the dr Now
that that Spanish I cannot understand to save my.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Life, wait till I've already been there and wait till
I also found the same thing and.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
To become their words. And I was like, I don't
know what you're saying. My mom will tell you.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
And my mom tells a lot of stories, but this
one I think was because I kind of remember it.
But like, I did not do very well in Spanish,
like and I grew up in Arizona. I took it
for twelve years. I did not do very well. But
we'd go to Mexico for vacation and I think it
was like my sophomore year and they'd let me drink,
so I get like three or four beers in me,
which is you know, a thirteen year old Freddy boy
was feeling pretty good and We're in a cab and

(08:23):
I'm having a full on conversation with the cab driver
in Spanish zero English.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Yep, it's always easy.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
I have to.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Conjugating things. We're talking about today yesterday, and we're talking
about our.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Futures, we're talking about our dreams and aspirations.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
And my mom and my dad is sitting back there
going this dude could barely pass and look at him like,
what is wrong with you?

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah? I low is your inhibitions. You're not self conscious anymore.
I think that's what it was, you know, I think
that what it was. But my parents there were so
many things growing up. For I remember, when I was
thirteen years old, I could tell you absolutely every arena
that every NBA team played in. These dumb things I
could remember, but I could not for life me memorize,
you know, the state capitals or whatever. And they're like,

(09:05):
wait a minute, what, but you can do it, you
just don't want to do it.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
And they were right.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
I didn't. Montpellier, I don't care. Okay, I don't care.
I'm not I've never been there. I'm not probably not.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Going to go there. Okay, we're talking French. Isn't that
the capital of Vermont MONTPELLIERO isn't I don't know. I
don't even know. I don't know. Oh you don't know.
That's one word mont. Oh yeah, yeah, you're right.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
I can't say it.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
But I do know that the New Jersey Nets used
to play in the Continental Airlines Arena.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Why would I know that, I don't know who. I've
never been there.