July 15, 2025 • 9 mins
Fred's recent trip to Uruguay inspired him to learn Spanish and he asks the 13 for any tips to help him along this journey!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, they talk better than they say.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
These are the radio blogs on the Fred Show. Okay,
like writing in our diaries, except we say them aloud.
We call them blogs. I'm taking this one, dear blog.
So after my little venture to South America to visit
Saint tod An in Uruguay, Uruguay, I have decided that
(01:06):
I am going to start speaking Spanish. I love it
permanently for no, right, it is my first language.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I'm good. I'm going to do the whole show in Spanish,
starting right out. No.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So, for twelve years growing up in Arizona, I took
Spanish and because we had to, and I didn't take
it very seriously. And it's amazing what I remember, but
it's amazing what I don't by not practicing it. So
I've decided I'm going to take this seriously and I'm
going to figure out a way to speak Spanish. Jason,
you're on over eighteen hundred days of dua lipa. Yes,
(01:41):
uh huh, do a lingo?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I know it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I know it's called dou a lingo. You don't have
to text me. I'd say it on purpose like that.
Would you say that you're fluent. No, I'm not fluent.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
No, but I feel like I could make my way
round a conversation yeahs.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, no no no no no no.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So I'd like googled, like basically, how to learn to
speak Spanish as fast if you have it, like if
you're at an intermediate level, okay, And so many different
options came up, I mean literally everything from there's a
ninety episode series on YouTube. I forget what it's called.
I don't have it right in front of me. But
it's like, you watch that and you no memorization, no
(02:24):
writing anything down. It's like if you follow their methods, supposedly,
like at the end of it, you are really good.
I don't know how that's possible. There's of course, you know, dueling,
go and babble. I saw that one a lot. People's
as simple as watching Destinos on YouTube, which is a
soap opera. I don't think that's going to work. I
(02:44):
can see why watching videos of people speaking Spanish, if
you know a little bit of Spanish, might help because
you could sort of maybe deduce things from that.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, context clues.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And then of course everyone's like immersion, which is not
an option.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
What do you mean how? And I can't move to?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Well, you're gonna move, but get you some friends? Go
out to like restaurant that.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
First, Get me some friends, right, That's that's just a
hard stop where you go together.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
You guys are gonna go.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Any friends would be right, but I guess that we're
starting from scratch. Spanish speaking friends would be awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
You pick yours up. You guys are gonna go to
I'll totally call your favorite spot.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I've seen it to Nico every day, all there, every
single day before.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I will know how to order, and.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I only speak Spanish the whole time.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I basically do that.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You'll be flowing off tacos alpus store boom. At least
I can eat.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Okay, you can't take my baby too. She can learn
everyone learning.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, all of a sudden, a baby sitter out. She
can be my only friend. It's fine. We communicated by
it at the same level as Spanish. She might have
known more Spanish than me at this point. Actually and
a half year old. No, but I'm serious, So if
anyone has any like thoughts about this, Yes, I realized
I could move to Mexico and.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And I would.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Honestly, I I think I know enough that if I
moved to Mexico and took lessons, I think within six
months or a year, I'd be in pretty good shape.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I'm serious.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That's not an option because I do have a good foundation.
I just don't remember it. And also the tenses are
a little bit questionable, Like I can pretty much tell
you what's happening right now, what's happening right here. Do
not ask me what happened yesterday or what I planned
to tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I know.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And the other tricky thing is, and I don't mean
to be controversial with this, but the dialects are different.
My aunt speaks Argentine Uruguayan Spanish, yes, which has they
used a different vocabulary, not entirely different, but there are
words that, like my aunt I would say something in
my aunt would be like, oh, we don't use that
word here, we use this. It's kind I'll be honest
(04:46):
with you, it's a little bit elitist. It's a little
bit elitist. It's like, oh, that's that's this kind of Spanish.
We speak this kind of Spanish. And then if you're here,
they'll say, oh, well that kind of Spanish is fancy.
And you know, I dated a a Nicaraguan girl for
a while and when we went to Mexico together, like
it was almost like she was speaking like with the
British accent or something, because the person, you know, the
(05:08):
person extual like step back, was like, oh your fancy.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah, it's like proper, that's what you learn as well.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So that's kind of the challenge, is I speak Spanish
from Mexico primarily, and so but as far as I'm concerned,
that's that's valuable and then I could adjust, you know.
But and she has my my end after ten years
of living in South America, still has a tutor, and
she's like, well, you can, you can use my tutor.
(05:35):
I need to get myself to a conversational level before
I think the tutor would be helpful. So I'm very
serious about this. I just I want to I want
to be efficient and I want to do the right thing.
But you know, I don't think watching telenovellas is going
to do it. I don't necessarily think that it would
be appropriate for me to like go to class yet
(05:56):
or at all, because I think I don't know, and
I also don't think I would stick with that. So
I'm curious if anyone's done this before. I'm very sincere.
You know, did you use one of the apps? Did
it work? You know, Jason's been doing it for two
thousand days and it's somehow that's not fluid, and that's
you know, I'm a little confused about that.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
But we only do it like five minutes a day
just to keep the streak, like I do one lesson.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
You've you've been doing this for six years consecutive.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I know, but you could do endless amounts of lessons
in a.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Day like hours. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
No, No, I'm very good for fun like there's no
endgame for me. I'm very proud of you for doing it.
But I have to tell you something, Jason. If I
spend every day for six years working on.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Something, damn, but I'm not working fluid. No, I know
I'm giving you. I'm giving you a hard time. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And so I'm very serious about this and so and
I think I said that four or five times, but
I tend to not be very serious. But I'm very
sincere that this is something that I really want to
pursue and I just want.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
To do it the right way.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And if anyone has done this successfully and again, moving
somewhere would be perfect not an option, at least not
until January first, then it might be an option. The
way things are going, I might be moving somewhere else
January first, So it's very possible.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Again, I do have it is that's like actual like
you're like learning learning like it's like real school.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Right, So if that's effective, then sure, I mean I
guess again, like you can hit me up on social
fred on air. But if that's the way to do it, fine,
If it's one of these apps, fine, if it's if
there's another method that you've used. I see ads sometimes
on TikTok is. Now it's part of my I've been
searching for it, so it pops up and it's like,
(07:46):
you know, I learned to speak Spanish fluently in ninety
days doing this thing. And it's like, if I don't
know how that's possible, but if it is, I do
know enough that maybe.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Something like that would work.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I don't know, so I'm actually asking for some help here,
and I would love your feedback on this.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
I think it's awesome and I think too like it's
about confidence, is what I've been told a lot of
times because I'm so shy, because I'm like, I'm going
to say this wrong, so I'm gonna just keep quiet,
you know what I mean. But if you're willing to
put yourself out there and actually because you have to speak.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Otherwise, you're not going to learn. That's the thing too.
We think we can retain it.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Okay, I could hear it all day, but until you
open your mouth that actually say sentences and say words.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
You're really not going to learn how to speak and
communicate properly.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, what I'm saying, I'm fully willing to try. And
I've found in my experience, for the most part, with
Spanish in Mexico and other places I've traveled, people are
very willing to be patient. I did not find that
in Brazil, to be honest with you, like, and I'm
not knocking Brazil, but they were not patient with me
attempting to fumble through Portuguese. They weren't interested. And I've
been other places too where they're just not interested. France,
(08:45):
I noticed they don't. They prefer you just speaking English.
They would actually prefer that. Now, when I go someplace,
I try, because you know, I'm so paranoid about being
the six or five white dude that is like ultra
American and ignorant and doesn't try, and so I do try.
But I've noticed there are places where they're and I've
noticed in Mexico or when I speak to Spanish speakers,
they're often very willing to be patient. I've noticed, and
(09:07):
again this is not universal, but I have noticed in
other places they're a little bit less likely to work
with you, and they just let's just get to it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
So anyway, open to suggestions.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
That lady on their plane must have been really fair,
because I know that that's why you're doing it. There
was such Portuguese maybe like we don't even good luck
with that, right.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
There's no basis there's a point for that. Yeah, girl,
I can't make my mouth do those things like I
just
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Immerse yourself in Portuguese.
This is the Fread Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Let's get you hotel a trip for tu to see
Jennifer Lopez her brand new Las Vegas residency. Jennifer Lopez
Up All Night Live in Las Vegas March thirteenth, twenty
twenty six, at the Coliseum at Caesar's Palace. Text Palace
to three seven three three seven right now for a
chance to win two tickets to the March thirteenth show
at two night hotels day March twelfth through the fourteenth
(00:24):
at Key Flamingo Hotel Casino, Las Vegas and Brown tre
Fair Fair. A confirmation text will be sent. Dennered message
and data rates may apply. All thanks to Live Nation.
Tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster dot com for
all shows running December thirtieth through January third, and March
sixth through the twenty eighth.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, they talk better than they say.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
These are the radio blogs on the Fred Show. Okay,
like writing in our diaries, except we say them aloud.
We call them blogs. I'm taking this one, dear blog.
So after my little venture to South America to visit
Saint tod An in Uruguay, Uruguay, I have decided that
(01:06):
I am going to start speaking Spanish. I love it
permanently for no, right, it is my first language.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I'm good. I'm going to do the whole show in Spanish,
starting right out. No.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So, for twelve years growing up in Arizona, I took
Spanish and because we had to, and I didn't take
it very seriously. And it's amazing what I remember, but
it's amazing what I don't by not practicing it. So
I've decided I'm going to take this seriously and I'm
going to figure out a way to speak Spanish. Jason,
you're on over eighteen hundred days of dua lipa. Yes,
(01:41):
uh huh, do a lingo?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I know it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I know it's called dou a lingo. You don't have
to text me. I'd say it on purpose like that.
Would you say that you're fluent. No, I'm not fluent.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
No, but I feel like I could make my way
round a conversation yeahs.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, no no no no no no.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So I'd like googled, like basically, how to learn to
speak Spanish as fast if you have it, like if
you're at an intermediate level, okay, And so many different
options came up, I mean literally everything from there's a
ninety episode series on YouTube. I forget what it's called.
I don't have it right in front of me. But
it's like, you watch that and you no memorization, no
(02:24):
writing anything down. It's like if you follow their methods, supposedly,
like at the end of it, you are really good.
I don't know how that's possible. There's of course, you know, dueling,
go and babble. I saw that one a lot. People's
as simple as watching Destinos on YouTube, which is a
soap opera. I don't think that's going to work. I
(02:44):
can see why watching videos of people speaking Spanish, if
you know a little bit of Spanish, might help because
you could sort of maybe deduce things from that.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, context clues.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And then of course everyone's like immersion, which is not
an option.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
What do you mean how? And I can't move to?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Well, you're gonna move, but get you some friends? Go
out to like restaurant that.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
First, Get me some friends, right, That's that's just a
hard stop where you go together.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
You guys are gonna go.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Any friends would be right, but I guess that we're
starting from scratch. Spanish speaking friends would be awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
You pick yours up. You guys are gonna go to
I'll totally call your favorite spot.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I've seen it to Nico every day, all there, every
single day before.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I will know how to order, and.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I only speak Spanish the whole time.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I basically do that.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You'll be flowing off tacos alpus store boom. At least
I can eat.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Okay, you can't take my baby too. She can learn
everyone learning.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, all of a sudden, a baby sitter out. She
can be my only friend. It's fine. We communicated by
it at the same level as Spanish. She might have
known more Spanish than me at this point. Actually and
a half year old. No, but I'm serious, So if
anyone has any like thoughts about this, Yes, I realized
I could move to Mexico and.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And I would.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Honestly, I I think I know enough that if I
moved to Mexico and took lessons, I think within six
months or a year, I'd be in pretty good shape.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I'm serious.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That's not an option because I do have a good foundation.
I just don't remember it. And also the tenses are
a little bit questionable, Like I can pretty much tell
you what's happening right now, what's happening right here. Do
not ask me what happened yesterday or what I planned
to tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I know.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And the other tricky thing is, and I don't mean
to be controversial with this, but the dialects are different.
My aunt speaks Argentine Uruguayan Spanish, yes, which has they
used a different vocabulary, not entirely different, but there are
words that, like my aunt I would say something in
my aunt would be like, oh, we don't use that
word here, we use this. It's kind I'll be honest
(04:46):
with you, it's a little bit elitist. It's a little
bit elitist. It's like, oh, that's that's this kind of Spanish.
We speak this kind of Spanish. And then if you're here,
they'll say, oh, well that kind of Spanish is fancy.
And you know, I dated a a Nicaraguan girl for
a while and when we went to Mexico together, like
it was almost like she was speaking like with the
British accent or something, because the person, you know, the
(05:08):
person extual like step back, was like, oh your fancy.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah, it's like proper, that's what you learn as well.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So that's kind of the challenge, is I speak Spanish
from Mexico primarily, and so but as far as I'm concerned,
that's that's valuable and then I could adjust, you know.
But and she has my my end after ten years
of living in South America, still has a tutor, and
she's like, well, you can, you can use my tutor.
(05:35):
I need to get myself to a conversational level before
I think the tutor would be helpful. So I'm very
serious about this. I just I want to I want
to be efficient and I want to do the right thing.
But you know, I don't think watching telenovellas is going
to do it. I don't necessarily think that it would
be appropriate for me to like go to class yet
(05:56):
or at all, because I think I don't know, and
I also don't think I would stick with that. So
I'm curious if anyone's done this before. I'm very sincere.
You know, did you use one of the apps? Did
it work? You know, Jason's been doing it for two
thousand days and it's somehow that's not fluid, and that's
you know, I'm a little confused about that.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
But we only do it like five minutes a day
just to keep the streak, like I do one lesson.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
You've you've been doing this for six years consecutive.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I know, but you could do endless amounts of lessons
in a.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Day like hours. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
No, No, I'm very good for fun like there's no
endgame for me. I'm very proud of you for doing it.
But I have to tell you something, Jason. If I
spend every day for six years working on.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Something, damn, but I'm not working fluid. No, I know
I'm giving you. I'm giving you a hard time. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And so I'm very serious about this and so and
I think I said that four or five times, but
I tend to not be very serious. But I'm very
sincere that this is something that I really want to
pursue and I just want.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
To do it the right way.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And if anyone has done this successfully and again, moving
somewhere would be perfect not an option, at least not
until January first, then it might be an option. The
way things are going, I might be moving somewhere else
January first, So it's very possible.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Again, I do have it is that's like actual like
you're like learning learning like it's like real school.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Right, So if that's effective, then sure, I mean I
guess again, like you can hit me up on social
fred on air. But if that's the way to do it, fine,
If it's one of these apps, fine, if it's if
there's another method that you've used. I see ads sometimes
on TikTok is. Now it's part of my I've been
searching for it, so it pops up and it's like,
(07:46):
you know, I learned to speak Spanish fluently in ninety
days doing this thing. And it's like, if I don't
know how that's possible, but if it is, I do
know enough that maybe.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Something like that would work.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I don't know, so I'm actually asking for some help here,
and I would love your feedback on this.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
I think it's awesome and I think too like it's
about confidence, is what I've been told a lot of
times because I'm so shy, because I'm like, I'm going
to say this wrong, so I'm gonna just keep quiet,
you know what I mean. But if you're willing to
put yourself out there and actually because you have to speak.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Otherwise, you're not going to learn. That's the thing too.
We think we can retain it.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Okay, I could hear it all day, but until you
open your mouth that actually say sentences and say words.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
You're really not going to learn how to speak and
communicate properly.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, what I'm saying, I'm fully willing to try. And
I've found in my experience, for the most part, with
Spanish in Mexico and other places I've traveled, people are
very willing to be patient. I did not find that
in Brazil, to be honest with you, like, and I'm
not knocking Brazil, but they were not patient with me
attempting to fumble through Portuguese. They weren't interested. And I've
been other places too where they're just not interested. France,
(08:45):
I noticed they don't. They prefer you just speaking English.
They would actually prefer that. Now, when I go someplace,
I try, because you know, I'm so paranoid about being
the six or five white dude that is like ultra
American and ignorant and doesn't try, and so I do try.
But I've noticed there are places where they're and I've
noticed in Mexico or when I speak to Spanish speakers,
they're often very willing to be patient. I've noticed, and
(09:07):
again this is not universal, but I have noticed in
other places they're a little bit less likely to work
with you, and they just let's just get to it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
So anyway, open to suggestions.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
That lady on their plane must have been really fair,
because I know that that's why you're doing it. There
was such Portuguese maybe like we don't even good luck
with that, right.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
There's no basis there's a point for that. Yeah, girl,
I can't make my mouth do those things like I
just
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Immerse yourself in Portuguese.
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