How To Do a Spanish Accent // Sound Like a Native Speaker

[@hernan722]

Guys let's switch the language. You are trying to learn Spanish and I'm trying to learn English. Haha!! Thank you so much for choosing this beautiful and romantic language!! Best success!!

[@whatthefuck8401]

Bahahaha I’m also trying to learn English through Spanish

[@KMO325]

The rolled r is definitely the hardest thing about Spanish.

[@Neseku]

No lo es.

[@QuietResolve1]

@@Neseku ovio que no lo es duh

[@MoisesAntonioZavaleta]

Idk, it isn't that important to sound like a native speaker. I mean we are already happy that more people are trying to learn the language.

[@yasmina1496]

KMO 325 it’s hard for me to roll the r when I’m talking in Spanish and I’m MEXICAN

[@harleenquinzel9271]

for Russians it’s so easy :)

[@carlosreo-dero9527]

What do you find the most difficult about the Spanish accent..?? Me: The Spanish accent..!!. :-/

[@Trey80898]

It's easy tbh

[@Kevin-ox3db]

@@Trey80898 Hahahah. You would never manage to get a good Spanish accent, to be honest. But some native spanish-speakers actually do get a very good English accent.

[@therodchannel]

Nothing. One of the easiest accent..

[@chloesworld9913]

It is easy if you keep on listening and practicing

[@josegabrielvizuete3071]

Try listening “Sammy Perez” from “XHDrbz” program and you’ll see that Spanish accent is easy to understand compared to SAMMY...

[@kristian5434]

I'm a Filipino and learning Spanish is fun for some reason. It's a bit familiar already because of the loaned words we have but also challenging. Duolingo is certainly making it fun.

[@leidytriana2634]

Hi, I'm Latina and if you have difficulties with Spanish, we also have difficulties with English, especially to say the words well, because for us it is not easy.

[@Robertsson]

Super teacher! I speak 3 languages and try learning Spanish by myself. Your English has a very clear american accent, which is cute, and your Spanish (as far as I can tell) is crystal clear. Thanks for this video, everything you presented is simple and useful, and I mean EVERYTHING! ¡Buena suerte!

[@szarrlja]

I'm Filipino from The Visayas region from the Philippines, and surprisingly most of these exist in my language. How similar and interesting... 💯👌

[@enricakgym1491]

Philippines and Spain have the same vowel

[@spotlight9269]

¿De verdad?

[@kelvinstinct]

si

[@contresillodenettur9828]

@@spotlight9269 si caballero

[@jtepville4111]

Yes its true, about 40% to 60% of our of the words we're using (except from english) came from spanish words, thats why we have the same vowel as well as some pronouciation of the letters😊

[@akunn1634]

indonesia too

[@GlobalAdventurer]

This was really helpful. Still have problems with the rolling R😭

[@ajaybibi6576]

Brah the RR is giving me hell...lol...i had to come here and see how it's done

[@josuerodriguez5351]

For me it's Soo easy 😂

[@alexito5281]

It's easy man i can speak spanish becuase is my native language

[@epicmathius1]

Its errrre

[@chanelramirez7413]

Same and I’m actually mexican

[@rjcalderon5501]

OMG I can't believe how true is this, for you guys who speak english as a first language is difficult to pronounce consonants like "r" but is the same for us (spanish speakers), some sounds are difficult. The most beautiful thing about languages is to learn, I do it every day with my bae (who doesn't speak spanish). My name is Renata, just imagine how difficult is for him to pronounce it haha.

[@busologyy]

her: rolling your r’s is very hard me (when i was 4) for the first time: *rolls r’s like a champ*

[@burntbeansoup]

I used to be able to in like preschool for some reason but now I can't and I'm dying inside

[@myk1137]

Well,actually most of the kids can't pronounce r properly until they are 5-6 years old. You are a real champ.

[@musicislifeline6351]

we speak all the R's in Urdu which is my native language so it wasn't hard for me

[@charisma-n1r]

When you speak spanish fluent but your watching this

[@cyndaquildelpasado9574]

Elegante

[@adh2413]

Hahah

[@pech9641]

1:18 never EVER say “puelto lico” no one does that we, usually say “Puelto Rico”

[@josegabrielvizuete3071]

I agree with you... but You actually say “Puelto Jico”... I mean... your rolled R sound is not so stressed and almost sounds like a Spanish J sound... Btw... ambos hablamos español y te comento en inglés... 😂🤷🏻‍♂️

[@anthonyramirez8038]

Si lo dicen..yes they do

[@Enriquez2222]

I think my tongue is having a stroke with the “rr”

[@youtubesucks9595]

Tia Enriquez ha...ha...ha...

[@meepter1542]

I just can't make that noise

[@Neutral_Tired]

Meepter a trick I learned is just say the r multiple times, if you keep practicing your tongue gets used to it and starts being able to do it faster

[@fareskhzouz]

Why do I find it easy

[@tgsquadforlife9684]

Sama

[@jonathanestrada9729]

For Filipinos like me, it is hard to grasp how LL (the double L) has come to be pronounced the ways native Spanish speakers do now. We can definitely do the modern pronunciation, but it will definitely annoy us. Lol. We've always pronounced it as /ly/, exactly like Portuguese LH and Italian GLI. They say our pronunciation is archaic.

[@vlgeller]

Jonathan Estrada it is archaic, tho. But that's not a bad thing, I think it's pretty cute and historically interesting. Filipinos pronounce LL like Sephardi Jews in Ladino.

[@jarrellreyes8761]

But for words like cebolla(s) and caballo, we pronounced them like y that's why we have sibuyas and kabayo, and not sibulyas and kabalyo. I just find it weird why we pronounce it like ly in several words (e.g. Kalye/Calle, etc.)

[@siquieresmasdamas2108]

I'm Filipino and i speak chavacano as well. I am sooo confused by the LL... It just feels 'different' when I try to pronounce it like J or Y. I GET SO CONFUSED 😭 Nakakastress talaga

[@Alvar2001]

Pronounce the LL and the Y like the english "J", word of spaniard, greetings.

[@Alvar2001]

I don´t know italian, but spanish LL=LH portuguese, and spanish Ñ=NH portuguese, greetings from Spain

[@rogeriochamorro1146]

Not only in French. In Portuguese, accents change the vowel sounds. We have 13 vowel sounds in Portuguese: 5 closed vowels, 2 open vowels, 5 nasal vowels and schwa sound as in English.

[@procastination_is_my_passi4182]

She's so good at explaining things!

[@youmadhoe_3150]

Who else took Spanish in high school even though it’s there first language just because it’s a easy to pass if u already know the language

[@myk1137]

I'm taking Arabic and English(I used to go to the English class in 5th,6th and 7th grades,so I'm fluent in it.).

[@stormcloud9932]

I do voice acting in my spare time. I have to voice a character with a Spanish accent so this is quite helpful. The rolled r is kind of hard though 😭🤚

[@rajk.9098]

4:00 we all used to this in childhood

[@baljeetsinghsando7123]

You are a splendiferous teacher. You made learning Spanish much easier for me.! 🌟

[@gswgsm5303]

In the Philipine particularly in Visayas and Mindanao in grade school our teachers are teaching that Spanish 5 vowel A, E, I, O, U.

[@laurikun_]

I'm spanish and I really love to watch this kind of videos 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jessr3593]

I always said that if you never learned the rolled R sound, it is impossible. After about 5 years of INCREDIBLE frustration, i can now make the sound correctly . And yet I still find it almost impossible to incorporate into speech because of the anxiety of wondering if it will com out right - which makes my tongue not relaxed or dry and then I can’t do it . I have spent countless hours and hours - it took months of making sounds like a baby would before I could even get the air to make my tongue vibrate at all. And it practically required that I be yelling! So I gave up after that because I decided it was impossible to say in a word - and combined with other sounds before and after. A couple years later after my Spanish was much better I decided to try again out of sheer determination. And it was a long road. Singing along to songs in order to practice helped me a ton. But my tongue literally didn’t have the right muscle strength. So, while instructions on how to make the rolled R are nice and all - I think that for many people you need to be aware that it’s a long road ahead, filled with tears and frustration, and wanting to give up. It would be like saying “here is how you do 50 push-ups : “ and then you do 50 push-ups - to someone with no upper body strength... Just saying, don’t underestimate the difficulty of that sound - there is a LOT going on with it and everything has to be just right with the air flow, tongue position and level of stiffness/ relaxation .. ayyyyyyy it’s the bane of my Spanish-speaking existence !!

[@juancarlos2470]

I'm a native Spanish speaker and I find this too interesting!

[@paulbraunstein2290]

This was amazing!!! I find it so difficult to master the rhythm and flow of phrasing when speaking

[@ismaelsedoc4947]

Yur are a powerful teacher! Great job! Me gusta este lección!

[@digletttexano678]

*Esta leccion

[@l_monsquizzy5691]

Gohan Definitivo it’s called typo babt

[@irinka1094]

Exactly 🙌

[@originalnomore]

This somewhat helped, as a Mexican who grew up in Californa I needed this

[@xaviervigil5527]

I took Spanish clsss back in the university as it is part of our curriculum. I hardly use it, but know some basic conversational lines. Anyway, recently some customers of mine (i am a call centre agent) tells me they like my accent. I do not know how i sound so i asked. They said i sound kinda like french or latin. If i listen to both, what i see similar is the somewhat nasal sound. Also, i have this air sound everytme i end a sentence.

[@V21IC]

I like this video. I connect with the teacher as she seems so natural and clear in her speech!

[@jakethestatefarm]

Hello, aspiring actor here. I've been casted in my first ever serious play. No more primary school christmas musicals. I want to do him justice with a Spanish accent to make him stand out and establish that he's not your run-of-the-mill Charming. (We were encouraged to make the characters our own so I took it and ran).

[@camrynbourne9092]

For me it’s hard to say the v sound in Spanish because it’s so close to the b sound and I end up just doing the b sound instead. Awesome video!!

[@arianam9977]

Camryn Bourne What?? "V" in Spanish has literally the same sound as "b". Both letters are pronounced the same exact way 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

[@carlosd4027]

If you end up doing the same /b/phoneme you end up doing It right, as that's the way the should sound in spanish.

[@camrynbourne9092]

Oh thanks. Sorry if I offended, I didn’t mean to. I’ll keep that in mind when I’m speaking.

[@Sovayer]

"Cho Co Latte" hey, that's how i accidentally Pronounced Chocolate as Indonesian

[@tylerlimtey49]

If and only the Philippines did not stop speaking Spanish, I think that Philippine Accent might exist right now hahahahahaha. What do you think?

[@draxi859]

Actually almost every filipino still speaks like that though

[@saeedbr5423]

Thank you for explanations.

[@secrettruth7739]

Nice way to teach something. You're a nice teacher and watching your first video I'm hopeful that you're gonna teach me spanish fast.

[@saritasanmartin1578]

I have been using Rosetta Stone for about a month. I do enjoy learning the names of different things. However, they don't explain how to use pronouns and things of that nature. I sort of guess as I go along. You have taught me many valuable lessons in such a short time (30 min). And I am sure they will help me to excel in my learning of this beautiful language. Gracias maestra!

[@_-x1]

I hate that I was never taught or encouraged to speak my native language. When I try to talk in spanish I sound like an idiot. This video is very helpful

[@5Ducklings]

This is so helpful. Thank you so much. It's very helpful to see and hear how you enunciate.

[@martini9853]

Im expecting filipinos to be good at this cause some words in our language (tagalog) are spanish

[@megaraph5551]

@KIL unless you're trying to replicate the Spain Spanish then that is a different story. Most Filipinos who speak Spanish have the accent of Mexican Spanish.

[@whalegod2411]

Im Filipino but just need the Spanish accent for acting lmao

[@myk1137]

@@whalegod2411 Really?Nice!

[@RandomUserOne]

Yh

[@kon_radar]

In Polish we have 6 vowels, A E I O U Y. Spanish Ñ is Ń in Poland. Polish H and CH are similar, H is like a silent breathing (like in the English word "holy"), and Polish CH is like Spanish J - throat a little more closed. However Spanish CH sound like Polish CZ. We say Czekolada. We don't have soft volwels like Russian has, (Я Е И Ё Ю, in cyrillic, which sound like, trying to write it in English: Ya, Yeh, Yeeh, Yoh, Yuh) For me, living in Central-Eastern Europe, I'm thinking of learning German, French, Russian, or Romanian. :)

[@cainhopkins66]

I sound like a weed whacker trying to roll my r’s.

[@kreamykookiee344]

Thank you so much, I have a test coming up and I need to memorise a full paragraph about my holiday, I also plan on talking Spanish for gcse, thank you 👏

[@sarahdrio4623]

Thank youuuu so much for this. I'm learning Spanish! watching from the Philippines! Gracias!

[@AaronHL168]

Me, a white Brit: gets cast as Bernardo in West Side Story "Welp, lets get this accent on"

[@maebello977]

I know almost all words she said, im lucky and thanks to my grandmas and grandpas because they're always using spanish words when talking to me

[@qiwunu]

mexicans are the best So helpful! It was hard at first, but I got it! Flipped R’s are like D’s, to make it easier I have have a tip, listen to a mexican person wile sleeping, and maybe you can get a little bit better. Like meditation kind of. Ü is like “We”

[@maribaomarymay]

I recently knew I was part Spanish HAHHAHAH then I'm trying to learn it right now.

[@sangitapaul6133]

16:56 the "RR" one....Oh my god that was really difficult😵💖

[@skindiver2]

Ok I think I did the right thing learning Spanish Muchas gracias por el vídeo me gusta muchísimo gracias de Australia 🇦🇺

[@h76tr]

Great video! Very helpful

[@thelightwecarry]

Nice Video

[@sodamndark]

Thank you! It was so helpful.

[@imnail3701]

I’m spanish while watching this

[@arianam9977]

I’m Nail Spanish?? What city are you from?

[@ToreroTorerez]

yo tmb mi loco

[@gordp8482]

I could watch her all day. :) Great lesson too.

[@alonsorojas2339]

En la explicación de las vocales, ha debido colocar mayúsculas y minúsculas. Por ejemplo, A ,a para entender la palabra "Mamá"

[@Kinobambino]

This was extremely helpful.

[@kayleighpaxton9713]

I find the rolled R so much more difficult when it's at the end of the word versus the beginning or following a constant sound.

[@B9NS-yzr6YLe]

Excellent teacher!

[@felixdom9693]

Wow this is amazing and i have trouble when it come to the roll RR, but for ñ im good at this, pretty good

[@crisdennis8523]

as a chavacano speaker in the Philippines, this is so easy for me🤣 likeeee this is how i pronounce chavacano words.

[@maryjanem9062]

Super helpful thank you!!

[@miaz845]

As an Indonesian, Spanish pronounciation is very easy for me cause we have lots of similarities.

[@sightseer1027]

I'm really interested to learn Spanish coz almost every words that we use here in the Philippines in a day to day basis came from Spanish words.

[@Eddster25]

This is an EXCELLENT video. Thank you very much.

[@machiikko9863]

In Philippines the words are like this some are 😀

[@roshii2789]

I'm pretty sure they 'R's in PR lol... just not all the time. Never have I heard a Puerto Rican say "Puelto Lico..." more like "Puelto Rico"

[@ericbrenpelayocarpio3360]

Filipinos can relate 😅. Philippine English can be similar to Spanish English (only in accent, I think)

[@emergencycorner]

i have noticed the spanish e can sometimes sound different . Like the e in bueno and the e in bien- Sometimes sounds like the english "A ".... but sometimes more like "eh"

[@glitterslime5117]

I like you, you could be the reason im going back to learning el idioma 💅🏻

[@myk1137]

Isn't it called "la" idiom"a"?Well,if it isn't an exception like el día ofc.

[@Annndokz]

me studying Spanish and picking which accent to use haha I like the accent from the center. It sounds friendly jaja

[@anar3538]

i am from dominican republic so this is easy for me to pronaunce

[@cassiusmyers5575]

Okay i cant do the R or double R its so hard

[@jamesjeson556]

DopeManOn MVP Hard for me too. Try holding your head back. Look at the ceiling. Rest the tip of the tongue on the palette just behind the teeth, not forcefully. Now play with the airflow. That'll get you started. Gradually lower your head.

[@christinaherren]

@@jamesjeson556 that helps

[@ToreroTorerez]

ok mi loco

[@musicislifeline6351]

you know it ain't that difficult when your native language is Urdu all the R's are words alphabets in Urdu we call R Ray like the Rolled R sound with E in spanish like RE thats R in urdu and the and the flipped R in spanish is also a letter in Urdu like flipped R from spanish and then E from spanish too yeah RE with the flipped R that makes RE so it was easy for me cz we have pronunciation like spanish you can check it out if you want

[@ilovemycats3392]

this is easier than i thought cause i am bosnian the r is the same and ñ is like bosnian ‚nj‘ (we also have ch (ć))

[@jesselynabarro2215]

I thought Spanish is so difficult to understand but there a lot of things similar to Filipino languages.. the vowels and consonants are the same.. sometimes there are words that i read but dont understabd but if you put it in simple way it just sounds like Filipino words.. hahaha.. i have to learn more of them.. Hi im from PH 🇵🇭

[@milkncookies4632]

I’m doing this so when I come back to school people will think I forgot English omg this will be so fun.

[@erandicadena_ytb]

Come on guys! We can do this 👏😐

[@RamonaLeigh]

I just realized I'm using a middle Mexico accent. I'm kind of singing my words. Interesting.

[@Mr.Armandolu]

I`m native spanish speaker. then talk with me and practice as much as you want :)... un abrazo a todos

[@francineatasharodriguez7771]

hey lol

[@ericbrenpelayocarpio3360]

My Visayan language is a schwa sounding and has very strong R's... The reason why it isn't hard for us to learn Spanish. Plus our language already has 40% Spanish into it

[@harmniigaming1410]

Tysm I need it to impress my bf him: chxgidttdxgi me:umm...sisi

[@sweetest_fatemel1700]

This really helped I’m learning Spanish and I’m bad at the accents so I’m working on that too, thank you ♥️

[@flaviaadeladuartealvarez6597]

I'm here because I wanted to know how english speakers learned spanish, I'm learning English haha

[@yesnt850]

Who ever thought that the “rr” sound is really hard for non Spanish speakers

[@cronaman3196]

Ive noticed too that some countries treat the y as an english j sometimes

[@jeffhadley2752]

Thank you for explaining the Cuban and Puerto Rican pronunciations. I thought it was my ears!

[@riley1774]

i know how to roll Rs but i cant do it at the right time when i say the words

[@kokidchaz4790]

this makes you sound native?? i already say this perfectly nice video though, i liked and subscribed

[@kathleensmith4195]

I find the rolling r and the accent

[@mateo_ferranco]

I speak spanish fluently but still have trouble with the RR

[@casaverdefernandezjesusrau7800]

Ok crack, me alegro por ti, cuando alguien te pregunte hablas fiera, mastodonte, saludillos

[@阳求]

Hello, I am still confused with the B/V pronouciation, I know B and V pronounce the same, but I just don't know how to pronunce them, I saw your video they were pronounced like English B, am I right?

[@LightningFox7]

They sound the same. Just pronounce behave, the b sound that's how you pronounce it. And Like how you pronounce the Vi in Video.

[@marthajulian7064]

@ 2:11 There IS a 'V' sound in Spanish. Example: Octubre, No 'v' iembre, burro, birria. LOTS of 'V' sounds in Spanish...

[@jenniferrivero998]

What she means is that B and V are pronounced as the same letter, there is no difference and we pronounce it as B in English and not as V (with that vibration) xD

[@MoisesAntonioZavaleta]

There isn't a V sound in Spanish as in English

[@kendman3295]

There is a slight sound difference. Vaca for cow sounds nothing like Baca.

[@ernestoaranda5855]

It is obvious that made a mistake, she means in Latin America theres is no difference but spanish people do pronounce differently

[@mayarm6924]

What about "bebo"?

[@giselbaltazarlopez9004]

the double "rr" is really hard

[@Jinaria101]

It took me until I was 8 to master the rolling “RR” my tongue did not want to cooperate

[@christinaherren]

The r. So i,can skip them completely?

[@JohnBradford14]

Everytime I try to do a rolled "r", I end making the machine gun noise with my teeth.

[@LightningFox7]

That's how children learn actually. So your not wrong there.

[@iisusvoryvzakone7345]

Then you got it right

[@aleejoo2024]

John Bradford - A tip: practice saying PERRO (dog) and GUITARRA (guitar) several times, u can also write them in the translator and listen to the voice to repeat! Once your mouth gets used to it, it’ll come out involuntarily

[@myk1137]

@@iisusvoryvzakone7345 IKR

[@bossdog1480]

I subbed just so I can see your lovely self again. Hola! Thanks for your lesson. I do speak some Spanish but I've gotten a little rusty from not speaking it for such a long time.

[@burntbeansoup]

I think rolling your "r" is important but hard, as is pronouncing and remembering accent marks

[@catherineswift9567]

Thanks for your helpful video but there is one unsolved problem that I have and that is the pronunciation of s ! I mean when I listen to people speaking in Spanish with "spanish" accent they pronounce the s letter somehow different as if th in english but not exactly I don't know but I can't ignore this that s is pronounced in a particular way cause I really care about accents.

[@paulbrooks9546]

Yes it's taught that we English speaking Gente have been taught Not to roll the R, but that's just us!

[@musicislifeline6351]

and the double LL is in urdu too like LLE with the spanish E it makes LLE