ASMR The Spanish Language (soft spoken, map tracing)

[@TheMentorOfMomos]

Because the book is from the 60s it was made when Spain was still under the fascist dictatorship, so the regions are different than how they are currently. León, Castilla La vieja and Castilla La Nueva don't exist anymore, having been merged or divided. They currently are Castilla-Leon, La Rioja, Cantabria, Madrid and Castilla la Mancha. Also, the book doesn't show the canary islands, much more south, next to Morocco's coast

[@MelangeASMR]

Ah I didn't think of that, thank you for mentioning it!

[@gregoryjones7712]

Not fascist Falangist

[@TJ__821]

I started feeling sick yesterday and have been feeling ill all day today. Seeing that you uploaded this video has really lifted my spirits. Thank you!

[@MelangeASMR]

Wishing you a speedy recovery! 🧡

[@futureSydney]

Your voice + your hands + a map = ASMR heaven 🤤

[@MelangeASMR]

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[@NortheasternP.T.S.]

@@MelangeASMR I have a cool idea. You should trace a ski map!

[@MelangeASMR]

@@NortheasternP.T.S. That is a cool idea indeed; I did one last year for the advent calendar series :)

[@NortheasternP.T.S.]

@@MelangeASMR that’s awesome!

[@IsItOrNot]

Me encanta español, one of the rare languages you discuss that I actually have a basic understanding of 😁 And what a lovely map!

[@MelangeASMR]

Muy bien!! My Spanish is extra basic haha, but I'm very glad you enjoyed it! 😊😊🥰

[@isabelgalindo2098]

The map of Spain that you show is the predemocratic one, after the democratization of Spain in 1978 we changed the map a bit. For instance a part of Castilla la vieja+Leon is actually Castilla y León. Nevertheless I am so surprising with your interest in my lenguage. Thank you so much ♥️♥️

[@MelangeASMR]

Yes, my mistake, it didn't even occur to me to check whether the map had changed. It's a bit of an Austrian bias - here, it's completely unimaginable than anyone could change the borders of the regions, I think people would revolt. 😅 That's very kind, thank you 💓

[@sofiabecerracalvino6220]

OMG FINALLYYYYY muchas gracias reina, i've been waiting for this one! ❤️❤️❤️

[@MelangeASMR]

Hope you liked it!! 💖💖

[@sofiabecerracalvino6220]

@@MelangeASMR I did indeed!

[@dooooodeses]

Love the quality work you put into these videos it shows!

[@MelangeASMR]

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[@sosyopolitan9593]

I am very interested in maps. I grew up in atlases and maps from a young age. I've been following your channel for a month, each of your videos is beautiful. While I'm writing an article on history, I'm constantly listening to your videos in the background. It's very peaceful. Loves from Türkiye.

[@alejandroparedes9156]

Información correcta, interesante, y no sólo eso, sino también un ASMR muy bien logrado. Realmente excelente video. Felicidades!

[@jlugoholt]

Hi Melange, I think you did an amazing job! I know you said you knew not that much of Spanish but you have pronounced every word on point, and you're right, if you know Italian and French, you've done half of the lesson, mostly Italian helps you a lot to understand Spanish. I love all your videos, and the way you guide us through time and space with your beautiful voice and your hands. Greetings from Colombia, in South America. Danke schön!

[@acreisbroken]

Your videos are so relaxing and I love your accent. Also Brazil/portuguese video when 👀

[@MelangeASMR]

Thank you, Francisco! I can't give you a date yet, but Brazil is high on my list :)

[@tarkanyibalazs]

How about a “following the Orient Express” video in the future? I love to watch your train/subway videos ☺️

[@MelangeASMR]

That is an excellent idea, I just need to find the right map :)

[@katieherger4928]

Officially caught up! What a pleasure it has been to watch all of your videos. Definitely my favorite KZbin channel. I love your work. Can’t wait for your next video!

[@MelangeASMR]

Katie, do you want send me an email or a dm on instagram? I think we should celebrate that!

[@katieherger4928]

@@MelangeASMR I will dust off my instagram account and send you a message! Thanks!

[@singledigitdan]

Been waiting for this one, just in time for a nap! Love this series so much

[@MelangeASMR]

Aw thank you! Have a good nap! 🤍

[@Jargolf86]

Ich denke das ist bisher mein meistgesehen / gehörtes Video von dir. Einfach perfekt

[@MelangeASMR]

Oh danke, das freut mich sehr!

[@chrisgrayson2391]

Another wonderful video. Thank you for putting out such great content week after week ❤️

[@MelangeASMR]

thank you! I'm very happy that I have such a nice audience that wants to explore with me :)

[@malomitreba]

I always found Spanish the most beautiful sounding language. I usually find Italic(languages of Latin descent) languages really interesting and relaxing to listen to, that's why i have been studying Latin for 4 months and i hope to become fluent in Spanish one day❤🌸💮 amazing video as usual

[@MelangeASMR]

Oh, neat! I sometimes regret that I didn't take Latin in school when I had the opportunity; it would have been a great basis for learning Romance languages later. Do you study it by yourself or in a course? Thank you!! 💗

[@Felix-kp7wr]

I encourage you to learn spanish! you will be able to speak 500 million peoples in the world :-) Greets from Spain!

[@hectorfr]

Pues empieza ya

[@Felix-kp7wr]

@@MelangeASMR I did study latin and greek and in my case has helped me to understand cases and its use!

[@light80211]

Your voices cause my heart to melt, and worries to dissolves away for some odd reason...

[@MelangeASMR]

That's so sweet, thank you 🥺

[@mz8584]

Really tingly, thank you!! I've kind of become used to other types of ASMR videos (personal attention etc) but one of my oldest triggers, even before I knew about ASMR, was this kind of calm explanations and tracing (map tracing for instance). In this video I was particularly entranced by the tracing and your caressing the paper, but also by you reading Spanish with your pronouniciation. (You also have a reaaally soft voice, it's so pleasant!) By the way, it made me smile to see "Castilla la Vieja" and "Castilla la Nueva" - the provinces were rearranged after 1983 and so were the territories' names; now you have "Castilla y Leon" (with Leon and part of the old Castilla la Vieja) and "Castilla La Mancha" (roughly the old Castilla la Nueva). It was so interesting to see a familiar topic explained by an Austrian. You've got a new subscriber here 😊

[@MelangeASMR]

A bit late, but thank you so much for the kind words!! It's really nice to hear that this hit the spot. And I know exactly what you mean with ASMR before there was ASMR; same experience here. And I have to admit, it didn't even occur to me that the map might have changed because rearranging regions is just unthinkable in Austria 😅

[@mz8584]

@@MelangeASMR Well the context was a bit particular, end of a dictatorship, brand new constitution five years prior etc ☺ Hâte de découvrir ta nouvelle vidéo, j'y vais tout de suite 🥰

[@elcuriosoermitano3720]

Interesting and relaxing videos with the maps, the oldest castillian lenguage rests found are in Burgos and La rioja, las glosas silenses y emilianenses.

[@LoFIJak]

Another fantastic video to drift off to. It really helps me so much 😴❤️

[@MelangeASMR]

I'm always so happy to hear that. Sleep well!

[@SereglothIV]

Loved it! The colonial period has been one of the most interest for me lately :)

[@MelangeASMR]

Thank you! I realized again how little I know about it - guess I should make some videos about it 😅

[@stuartrichardson9004]

Another wonderful video. I love your historical and language videos particularly. The French, German, English and Spanish language videos are all brilliant. Could you tell us the name of the wonderful Atlas you have that has so many detailed historical maps - you seem to use that book quite a lot - i would love to see if there is an english version? THANK YOU!

[@MelangeASMR]

Hi Stuart, thank you so much, that's wonderful to hear! I normally put the sources in the description, but apparently I forgot to do so this time, sorry about that. It's the Putzger Historischer Weltatlas, published by Cornelsen. Other books I use often are Hölzel Universalatlas (which is often used in schools here) and the Metzler Lexikon Sprache.

[@CorvusLeukos]

I'm 1/4 Spanish, Spain is one of the best countries of the world and the language is very good too, its pronunciation makes a lot of sense and the accents system is better than other languages', like the Italian one, although Italian is awesome too

[@oxionko]

I recommend you doing a video of the Basque language, spoken in the Iberian peninsula. One of the most misterious languages that is spoken nowadays in our world and the most ancient language that is still spoken in Europe. There are a lot of theories and information to do an interesting video. As a basque, I would love to see it!

[@MelangeASMR]

I'll try and get back to it - I kind of have a long list of topics... But it would definitely be interesting!

[@bakedzd4933]

Yay more Melange!

[@joseangelclemente5191]

Me ha gustado mucho este video, como español te felicito por todo lo que sabes sobre nuestro país. Sólo tengo que decir que las Islas Canarias se te han olvidado y tienen un idioma muy curioso, quizás para próximos vídeos. Gracias!!!

[@richardfordham931]

I found it a bit odd that the map of Spain didn't seem to indicate the region where Basque is spoken. I think it would be cool if you did a video on language isolates like Basque, Georgian, Albanian, and Armenian. Be well Ms. Melange.

[@MelangeASMR]

True, it wasn't a linguistic map this time. Language isolates is a nice idea, I'll look into it :)

[@arminxvs3372]

Wasn't the book from the 60s or so? Wasn't it the time when the Basque were really aggressive with ETA? Maybe the map did not want to show it on purpose?

[@MelangeASMR]

@@arminxvs3372 It's from that time period, yes, but it was just meant to show the regions as they existed at the time. It doesn't include any other minority languages either.

[@Gallawenn]

@@arminxvs3372 absolutely nothing to do with that. This is an old map, from 1961. ETA was just starting its violent activity in those days. This map was made on dictator Franco's time. Only provinces appeared but not Autonomies (as Basque County).

[@bgump55]

I’ve tried for a week to make it all the way through this one. Can’t do it. It’s so relaxing. Something about the Roman Empire, then I’m out. 😴😴😴

[@MelangeASMR]

What more could you wish for from an ASMR video haha 💗

[@smithiebird07]

I would LOVE a video about indigenous languages of Latin America!!

[@MelangeASMR]

It's on my list! I'm just not very quick at working my way through it....

[@Gallawenn]

Lovely video! I must say, as spanish, that there are more official languages in Spain than spanish itself. Catalonian, euskera (from Basque County) and galician are recognized as official languages in Spain. Asturian is not (I am from Asturias) but kids can study it at school anyway and it's officially used in documents inside the region. Thanks for your great work!

[@MelangeASMR]

Thank you! :) It's always fascinating to me how differently other countries handle linguistic diversity. German is very restrictive in that regard, sadly.

[@watermelonludmilla5555]

I love your language videos!

[@MelangeASMR]

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[@a.slatopolsky82]

Hey! Thanks for your video 😊 Very grateful!

[@MelangeASMR]

Thank you for watching it, I hope you like it :)

[@a.slatopolsky82]

@@MelangeASMR Yes! I love it. Thanks for your videos :)

[@hiriaith]

But many of the common given names in the Iberian peninsula do have Germanic origins. Basically anything ending in -ando, -erto, -igo, etc.

[@Gallawenn]

True. That's because visigoths invaded Spain too and they mixed their ethnic and culture with the spanish. So we are a mix of celtics, romans, arabics, visigoths, phoenicians, jews...

[@thenorseguy2495]

Gracias for this video. Una cerveza por favor. That’s the only thing I can say in spanish😝 I’ve never been to the spanish main land but I’ve been to Mallorca and Tenerife. I’ve also been to Venezuela. Awesome video as always 🥰

[@MelangeASMR]

I can say "Donde este la prossima bar?" We'd make a good team haha

[@markross9737]

Hi, richtig gutes Video, vielen Dank :) Wie heißt denn der Atlas, den du im Video benutzt?

[@MelangeASMR]

Dankeschön! Das ist der Putzger Historische Weltatlas, hier in der Kartenausgabe, gibt es aber auch in einer größeren Version mit Begleittexten.

[@christianburgos5956]

Would love to hear about Portuguese language and history soon ❤

[@foreignaustrian]

Danke fûr Deine Videos! Als Du die verschiedene Aussprachearten des Spanischen erwähnt, dacht ich gerade an Pennsylvania-Deutsch, Texas-Deutsch, oder das Deutsch der Mennoniten und Amish. Vielleicht gibt es auch da eine Geschichte und Karte dazu 😃🤓

[@tita0035]

So well prepared as usual

[@MelangeASMR]

I try 🙏

[@pepealexandre]

Oh, nice, I see my country there: Portugal!

[@daminoue]

YESSS new language video 😴 goodnight

[@MelangeASMR]

Hope you had a good night's rest 😊

[@ian4605]

gracias, youtube, por recomendarme tan buen contenido

[@MelangeASMR]

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[@patrickf.4966]

I love your content!

[@MelangeASMR]

Thank you, Patrick 💙

[@JustAsmr251]

Nice vídeo ! More videos about Spain please !

[@MelangeASMR]

Thank you! There'll be on the Spanish Habsburgs soon :)

[@antonimos3307]

Finally 😍 i loved it

[@MelangeASMR]

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[@PDXurbia]

Yayyy. I know what I’m listening to when I get home

[@teddybear9029]

20:15 Yay!!! My wife’s from the Philippines.

[@MelangeASMR]

Hallo to the missus!

[@aquirsem9357]

Finally! Spanisch! Danke sehr!

[@malitiloti]

I'm going to love this.

[@TimA3167]

Love the videos. My dad was a linguist. Have you ever studied American Indian languages such as Navajo?

[@MelangeASMR]

I haven't, but I'd love to look into them some time soon! If you know any good resources, do share 💚

[@lexis_Axt]

Que hermoso video gracias

[@Terri_MacKay]

I would love to see your bookshelves...you must have the most interesting collection of books. Love your channel. I think it would be great if you did an Q&A video. We could submit questions on your community posts, and you could do a video where you answer them, rather than a livestream. I can't be the only person that is very curious about you. How did you come up with the unique idea for this channel? How much research do you do for each video? Where do you find the books, and what comes first, the book or the idea for a video that you then have to find books for. What is your profession...I've often wondered if you're a teacher or professor because you're so good at explaining educating us? How did your interest in history, languages, and art begin? I'm just nosy, I guess. 😆

[@MelangeASMR]

Hey Terri, sorry for the late reply to this one! And you're not the only person who's curious which is why I have a done a Q&A before on my community tab, right here: kzbin.infoUgkxV-Pr6qUny6QJ-_NwHvE-zIcrlJVEk4kq In short, I'm not a teacher of any kind and since I'm a shy deer lol, I'd rather keep it vague, but my job is basically in customer service. For each video, I count about a day for preparing and filming, though it really depends on the topic. Currently, it happens more often that the topic comes first, but especially when I started, I often just went searching for interesting maps and then looked up some stuff on wikipedia to figure out what to talk about. And that's how the channel developed, frankly. It's difficult to know where the views are going to come from when you get started, and it just so happened that the map videos were doing the best. If the algorithm had worked a little differently, this could have morphed into a very different channel 😅 And as for where my interesting in these topics came from.... I don't know! I just liked languages and history at school (though not geography, funnily) and that hasn't changed - and I'm very happy that I've found a lot of people who also like these things 🥰💖

[@Terri_MacKay]

@@MelangeASMR I keep forgetting about the Community Tabs, so I never go over there. Thank you for letting me know. 😊

[@MelangeASMR]

@@Terri_MacKay Same thing, unless youtube suggests it, I don't see it 😅

[@seguimosenpie5059]

Great video from Spain

[@rsvihla]

That book is written in Deutsch.

[@merxho95]

Du bist echt einzigartig ich wünschte mir es gäbe mehr Frauen wie dich die man kennenlernen kann die so viel Interesse an Länder Sprachen und Geschichte haben ❤️

[@spark655]

Hello from Russia! :) it's fine.

[@MelangeASMR]

Hi! 💛

[@mr_gorb4834]

Can someone fill me in, what is a book box? Is it a where people put books to donate and others can come and take them for free?

[@MelangeASMR]

Yes, that's it exactly. There are a couple throughout Vienna where you can leave your old books that you don't want anymore and pick up something else. Sometimes people also leave their old maps which is great for me haha

[@amoureux6502]

Sounds similar to the "little free libraries" that have been getting popular over the years

[@marioglez2955]

Hi! Thank you from Canary Islands!

[@seraniel98]

Espero que hagas un vídeo dedicado a los mapas de latinoamerica

[@sahejdheer183]

Hey, love your videos. Will you ever make a video on Sanskrit?

[@MelangeASMR]

Hey, thank you! I'd love to do a video on Indo-European history as well as on the Eastern branches, and Sanskrit will fit in nicely with that. I just can't give you a date yet...

[@soniasevilla8632]

Hello. I'm from Huelva, Andalucía and i am a history teacher, so, this video is fantastic. One mistake, in the north we have the Cantábrico sea, not the Atlantic ocean, the ocean is in Portugal, to the left. Thank you for discover my country to other people.

[@MelangeASMR]

Thank you for the kind feedback 🤍 I think I'll have to get a better map again next time haha.

[@invisible-user]

Hii from France 👋🏼

[@MelangeASMR]

Hello there!

[@mihomoni2729]

When she started with the map, I was getting a headache😅 because something didn't add up to me. It was the autonomies and I remembered what year the book is from🤣🤣🤣

[@MelangeASMR]

Ahaha sorryyyyy, it just didn't occur to me that the map might have changed in the meantime 🙈

[@Мир33]

You have lovely nails! Aswell as a lovely voice! 🙂

[@MelangeASMR]

Thank you 💖

[@rodrigomdlh5240]

Un saludo desde Valladolid (castilla y león) España. I think you missed the andalucian accent. But nice video.

[@MelangeASMR]

Aah you're right, I wanted to mention Andalucian in the context of Latin-American pronunciation, but I must have overlooked that note. Oh well...

[@sunnyrivero7343]

I would have done much better in history if you had taught me! Haha thank you this is wonderful

[@soupertrooper3864]

Oh yeah 👍

[@xavierhenriques1116]

My peeps!😂 Thank you, Ms!

[@cloudsingh3147]

🙏

[@MelangeASMR]

💜

[@Splatoni]

Yay, I'm from Spain and although my first language is catalan I'm excited for this.

[@mufasapop]

Delightful

[@lexis_Axt]

Beautiful quisiste decir

[@mufasapop]

@@lexis_Axt no.

[@DWL_PL911]

Mensch da pennt man ja ein 😊🥰

[@MelangeASMR]

Schlaf gut!

[@FredKaczynski]

Never knew Nick Fuentes wrote a book

[@eddie7893]

Great

[@diadepiovorno]

How about Italy? 🇮🇹👋

[@MelangeASMR]

Will do, but it'll take a bit :)

[@gilessb]

Maybe that textbook was meant to be used in a classroom setting rather than as a standalone learning aid.

[@MelangeASMR]

Probably, yes! I just find the difference to design standards in current textbooks pretty striking where they avoid that "wall of text" look. In my Norwegian book, for example, everything is broken up into little dialogues with pictures, grammar boxes, example phrases, a few tests and exercises etc.

[@lonelyfireband7758]

FINALLY

[@manjirosano4582]

Italian language? 🥺

[@MelangeASMR]

Sure, I have it on my list, it'll just take a bit :)

[@manjirosano4582]

@@MelangeASMR Ty 🥺❤️❤️

[@echosaxea]

@@MelangeASMR Oooh, I am looking forward so much! I studied italian philology so it would be nice to refresh that knowledge or learn new things:)

[@Koexistence13]

Mic placement has changed

[@adareadorou4965]

I can't believe you spoke about Asturleonés but not even mention Aragonese..

[@MelangeASMR]

It happens. I usually read up on the topics I want to present the week before and in the case of Spanish, there was a lot of reading to do. So sometimes I run out of time, or I overlook info that would be important enough to include, or sometimes I just forget a thing or two while we're filming. It's not out of disrespect, it's just that I have limited resources, and I always appreciate it when people add to the topic in the comments.

[@adareadorou4965]

@@MelangeASMR I understand what you say and I want to apologise if my comment has been harsh. It's not your fault that region tends to be forgotten or its history mistreated. You do a difficult job (and you're very talented!) but no ome can be an expert in everything. Sorry if my comment hurt you.

[@MelangeASMR]

That's very sweet, thank you! And no worries, your comment wasn't hurtful. It's an important language to you and now I know about it too :)

[@nayaraq7606]

i love u

[@hiriaith]

Do Portuguese now!

[@teddyQuake]

:)