Alvaro Soler Talks Favorite Home-Cooked Dish, Slang Words & More | Growing Up Latino

Alvaro Soler discusses his experience of growing up in Barcelona, including his favorite home-cooked dish, slang words, Christmas traditions, and more.
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[@reenasingh9081]

Even his english accent sounds Sooo sweet!!!

[@wowpoopstaylorsversion3267]

Literally better than my🙂🙂🙂

[@miggisobad2377]

He's humble.

[@st0pitliz]

I've heard him sing *but i was not prepared for t h i s* bless you billboard

[@flamedenise19]

I don't fully understand Spanish, but I listen to your music all the time. My favorite is La Cintura! And I wish to dance it someday

[@janibby10]

Hes so hot 😍 If I could find myself a Spaniard like him lol

[@wildrisen]

he's so amazing, sweet, cute, humble and also my biggest idol ever I love him sjksksdkjakjaasdsdd

[@parishoffmann9069]

He's also german(I'm german too) as a spanish(half spanish speaker) he can speak english very very good 'cause when I were in Spain no one spoke english there

[@AbhishekSharma-ny1wl]

Fan from India.🇮🇳😘

[@iftkharahmed1463]

He is humble and not arrogant or attitude

[@lareskaortega5687]

Que artista más original con sus videos y. Música... Me gusta mucho ... Eres un chico que. Se ve seguro de sus logros y adelante Álvaro que talento. Un abrazo desde Chile.💋

[@fannytorres1781]

He's so nice!:)) and humble and talented

[@katerinantapkova1950]

Love him!!!

[@jarqul]

I love him

[@nohayfronteras]

I love him!

[@speakthetruth5347]

he speaks so many languages wooow

[@BrandonGali]

Great guy :)

[@omarmohammad2286]

Thank you Toyota for this interview

[@lalnunfelikhiangte]

So handsome💓

[@kurrrrt5727]

He has also a German background

[@Marti2812]

💖💖💖💖

[@RickVietsub]

So he fluents both language. He's a singer. And he gets to be good looking too? Not fair!

[@rivers2026]

lmao he sings like 7 different languages i think🤣

[@bhagaskevin4231]

😍😍😍😍😍

[@dolmalhadon1141]

👌🏻👍👍👍

[@AmetafJohora]

imagine being this attractive

[@margitcoels1964]

kein Wort verstanden, schade!! aber schön dich zu sehen Alvaro!!!!!♥

[@sofiagarcia9400]

Yo vivía en Badalona,Spain y mi familia es de aye pero mi papa se murió de cancer cuando tenía 2 anís

[@premnatarajan7072]

Espero que él sea en mejor lugar.

[@misolitude]

Notice how nobody is hating but on Rosalia’s video...

[@Diego-hc4tv]

“What wrong with you?” 🤣

[@lingxioxio1551]

SOFIAAAAAAA!

[@marilynvdbroeck]

Ok I love Alvaro Soler but he's not Latino in the way the word Latino is used in English. Latino means Latin American or of Latin American descent. Look it up in any online English dictionary or wikipedia. Billboard is just using terms without knowing what they mean, or without caring what they mean. No hate to Alvaro Soler tho!!

[@SAACAAS]

Los Italianos son más "Latinos" que los Españoles o los descendientes de los Españoles (Hispanoamericano o Latinoamericano) Latino viene de Latín, el idioma que se hablaba en el Imperio Romano. También viene porqué la provincia Latium/Latio/Lazio/Lacio es la provincia de la ciudad de Roma y la capital de Italia y obviamente del Imperio Romano. Hispania (España y Portugal) era una Región importante del Imperio. Cuando los Españoles y Portugueses conquistaron América (Latinos-Hispanos) por eso el término Latino-Americano. Los gringos lo resumen en Latinos de ahí la confusión. Aunque ellos realmente los distinguen más por la "raza" cuando ser Latino es más una etnia o cultura. Realmente el gringo debería decir Indio, Amerindio, Mestizo, Mulato o simplemente Latinoamericano o Hispanoamericano. Porque Latino definitivamente no es una raza ni es exclusivo de ningun Américano. Lo mismo que un gringo no es un American...como ellos se autodenominan.

[@SAACAAS]

Latino is a historic word. The world is not only "English people". Latino is all Spanish people inclusive Spaniard (Spanish too no?). Latín is a old language. Spanish is a modern language derivates of the old latín. Latin American are named so because they talk spanish, Portuguese or other Romance language derivates of latín. English are very silly and jealouse. Americana are not only US Citizens. In your dictionary, American or North American is only a US Citizens, no? Lo que sois es unos prepotentes de mierda. Por eso tenéis esos diccionarios y esos libros de historia con post verdad o la Historia de los ganadores.

[@michaljezek2664]

True but most of Latin Americans are of European descent (Spanish/German/Italian).

[@lorena.3.19.22]

Spaniards are latin Europeans.. So really he is Latino 🤔 You are using the words wrongly, it's like when the citizens of the United States use the word "Americans" to define themselves when really Americans are all the people who inhabit the american continent

[@marilynvdbroeck]

@@lorena.3.19.22 You don't really have the right to tell people of a language that they are using the word incorrectly. In English, it is just used differently than in Spanish. You are welcome to use the word "American" to describe someone from Mexico, but nobody who speaks English will understand what you're saying.

[@sheisveryfamous]

Growing up Latino? When he's Catalan/Spanish? Why not ask Adele how she liked growing up American 🤨

[@BrandonGali]

People from Spain are Latins too even when they're not from America. They're latins cause their language came from Latin. You dumbass

[@sheisveryfamous]

@@BrandonGali It's short for Latinoamericanos actually. Would you all Italians Latino? French Latinos?

[@antoniocruzteixeira]

i mean he agreed to do the video, @@sheisveryfamous, and his music is definitely latin-crossover. it's a grey area, maybe billboard can revisit this topic with an artist like rosalia?

[@ldgam3441]

Latino refers to the people that use a language derived from Latin.

[@ldgam3441]

@@sheisveryfamous ¿A qué te refieres con estar castellano en solitario?

[@jamesjohnson5257]

great interview but maybe 'hispanic' would be a a better word? Hispanic means Spanish speaking, so it encompasses both Spain and Latin America. But latino solely means 'from Latin America', and he is clearly from Europe....totally different continent. As someone said in the comments you wouldn't ask Adele 'what its like to grow up American' just because she speaks English. The UK and US are different. Same with Spain and Latin America.

[@Tamiguchi]

Spaniards are Latinos. The word latino comes from the Italian region where Latin language was born. Italians, Portuguese, Spaniards, as well as Latin American people, are latinos too. Latin America got that name because of the Latin Europeans that conquered it. Otherwise, it wouldn't have Latin in the name and would be called something else. Just because latinoamericano is usually shortened to latino in the US, doesn't mean that the word latino doesn't have a wider meaning in other countries.

[@applebolima4185]

Well, they all speak Latin so they can be considered as Latino as well. Just saying

[@atencioatotselsestupids9063]

@@Tamiguchi The real Latins are European,not bloody native Americans that speak Spanish !

[@jessash3022]

How is his accent German when he grew up in spain

[@daniellowe4090]

It's the third culture kid accent you get from going to international school. A weird mashup of pan-european north american english. It sounds foreign to everyone. The germans will think his german accent sounds foreign too

[@RickVietsub]

He speak all kind of languages 😂

[@Juanjo-2819]

@@daniellowe4090 his German does not sound foreign at all, neither does his Spanish. In fact he has a very neutral accent when he speaks any of these two languages.

[@katerinantapkova1950]

1

[@eb.3764]

HE'S not latino he's from Spain//half German

[@peterk3145]

Lucien Comedy Yes. French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and even Romanians are ALL LATIN, they all derive from Anciient Latin. Do your research!!!!

[@gabrielbarrios9024]

@@peterk3145 Exactly. They are just confused for Latin America, yet they don't realize that this region arose thanks to Latin Europe, mainly Spain and Portugal, which makes Latin America a branch of Latin culture. It's evident, but they are too stubborn to understand it.

[@lunasims5849]

Haha cute he has an German accent XD

[@jackieperezd]

How many languages does Alvaro speak? Lol

[@softwangji7518]

7, I think, and he's more or less fluent in all of them. Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian (his mother is spanish-belgian), German (his father is german), Japanese (they lived in Japan for seven years - from age 10 to 17) and English

[@girlsquad224]

Wowwww amazing! such a polyglot

[@zac146]

Er hat ALSO gesagt oder ?😂😂

[@noname-gi5bb]

How much language he knows?!!!!

[@gianvinzoni5087]

7

[@harperwilson1595]

Does all Spanish people look like this?😯

[@michaljezek2664]

Most of them.

[@harperwilson1595]

@@michaljezek2664 ok I'm migrating to Spain or Germany then.

[@thisbitchshonest7171]

Nope, u wish

[@Tamiguchi]

The ignorance in this comment section is ridiculous. Spaniards ARE latinos. So are Italians, French, and Portugese people. They all speak languages derived from Latin. Latinoamericano is usually shortened to latino in the US, but that doesn't mean that the word latino doesn't have a wider meaning in the rest of the world.

[@eb.3764]

You're ignorant, there are different definitions on who you ask. Not to mention that nobody in their right mind thinks of the French as Latino

[@patriciacarteno631]

LMAOO french, italians and spaniards are not latinos. They're language is latin but they themselves aren't

[@lorena.3.19.22]

Exactly! I am seeing that in America there is a lot of ignorance.. They live in their little world and don't realize that in Europe we use the word Latin to refer to countries with a Latin language.. 🙄

[@adamblesener2916]

It always pisses me off a little bit when I hear people speak English as their second language better than I speak it as my first

[@SHINYFUNGAMES]

He’s not Latino though 😂

[@gabrielbarrios9024]

He is, but not Latin American if that's what you mean. He comes from Latin Europe, which exists as a cultural subregion in Europe.

[@thisbitchshonest7171]

HE'S NOT LATINO.

[@lorena.3.19.22]

Yes he is.. He is Spanish 🤔

[@thisbitchshonest7171]

@@lorena.3.19.22 Spanish, Not latino

[@lorena.3.19.22]

@@thisbitchshonest7171 Latin European.. Where do you think the word Latino comes from?

[@lorena.3.19.22]

@al rode Of course all these countries are Latin! In fact If a Spaniard travels to the United States he is classified as Latino and not as white. That is something very curious because we are really also white haha ​​but if an Italian goes to the United States they classify him as white 🤔🤔 So if we are Latinos to qualify at the border, why not for an award?

[@thisbitchshonest7171]

@@yowhatsdis Iʼm sorry to break it to you, but HE ISNʼT

[@Nich-ib7xv]

Since when Spaniards counted as Latino?

[@yowhatsdis]

Since always. Latin culture comes from Rome

[@Nich-ib7xv]

@@yowhatsdis If you wanna talk about the real term then the real latinos are Italians, Spaniards,French,portuguese and romanian... nothing has to do with brown people from america just bcs they speak one of latin-derived languages

[@yowhatsdis]

@@Nich-ib7xv I wanna talk about Latin culture, which is the reason why this person is being interviewed... the interview is not about his skin colour. Native Americans or brown people as you called them did not invent the Latin culture. And they are called like that just because they are Americans who speak a Latin based language.

[@Nich-ib7xv]

@@yowhatsdis Sure but im sick of people in the US that believe "hispanic" and "Latino" as race just because they speak spanish or portuguese but nit with the anglophones

[@gabrielbarrios9024]

@@Nich-ib7xv Well, you'll live frustrated for a long time if your ease depends on what they say. You shouldn't care, everyone knows they are not very cultivated individuals. By the way, Latin America and Latin Europe are strongly related culturally speaking. They are mainly Catholic societies that speak intelligible languages and share values as to considering paramount their families and their proclivity to celebrate more, such things... I'm not sure whether both regions are too different... For the vast majority of Latin American countries, who were viceroyalties obviously linked to Spain (and Portugal) for 300 years clearly they inherited very specific traits and their culture. I'm Mexican and I can tell you that some of my best friends are from Spain. I don't feel they are too different, but rather as if I were talking to other Mexican buddies when I'm with them. Cheers

[@abiturspanisch6316]

Growing up IBEROAMERICAN

[@Tamiguchi]

He's not American.. LatinAMERICAN is called that because it was conquered by Latin people. Spaniards are Latin and the reason why Latin America has that name

[@mangorumble2114]

He is not latino…

[@migspeculates]

He is European, not Latino.

[@gabrielbarrios9024]

He is Latin European. Not Latin American if that's what you mean. Nonetheless that doesn't make him less Latino since Latin culture comes from Europe.

[@yowhatsdis]

@@gabrielbarrios9024 gracias Gabriel esperemos que los gringos dejen de sembrar ignoracia por el mundo algún dia

[@kj-pd6bw]

Latino? Get your labels right.

[@yowhatsdis]

Latino yes latinoamerican no

[@iraides6573]

Spanish are not latinos lol

[@ivanrodrigoup9608]

Yes they are

[@chrism2451]

No they aren't

[@ldgam3441]

Latino refers to people that use a language derived from Latin.

[@Dualidity]

@@ldgam3441 Latino se refere a persona de latino america.

[@ldgam3441]

@@Dualidity Pero, ¿por qué se llama Latino América?

[@eb.3764]

HE'S NOT LATINO

[@agcm6869]

Stop putting Spaniards!!! We ain't the same!! Ellos son tan frios como el polo norte!!! Nada que ver con nosotros los latinoamericanos!!!