Practice Your Puerto Rican Spanish Listening Skills

Practice Your Puerto Rican Spanish Listening Skills | In today's video we will help you practice your Puerto Rican listening ability. This will be an audio between my cousin Kevin and his wife Cristy. Special thanks to them for doing this audio for us. The Puerto Rican Spanish might be a little difficult to understand, so because of that I've done a breakdown to help you understand the text. I've also added timestamps on the video so it can help you jump from different sections of the video.
0:00 - Introduction
1:35 - 1st Listen - Test your Spanish Comprehension
2:53 - 2nd Listen - Listen and Read the Text in Spanish
4:12 - Breakdown of the Puerto Rican Spanish Words and Phrases
15:42 - Final Listen
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[@candiceespinosa1122]

As a puerto rican who is really trying to learn Spanish I truly appreciate these videos!! I am so glad I came across your channel. Thank you🙏🏽

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

You're so welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@robertestrada5987]

You just got to sound like you’re under water!😂

[@edensolielnowak4910]

Saaaammee!

[@ALyric19]

Right its so hard to find how we speak it’s pissing me off😂

[@DaniellesrealWorld]

I'm a nuyorican hehe and I self taught myself Spanish but I'm not fluent and when I type Puerto Rican spanish lessons I found your channel and I am glad I can continue learning and gaining knowledge on my Puerto Rican Spanish and thank you for educated people mostly Puerto Ricans who want to learn their Spanish from their homeland.

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

That's great Danielle! We are practically family LOL

[@Raaxshas]

I am Indian and am married to a Fiesty boricuan..this helped me a lot .thanks!!❤

[@vrivera123]

This is how we speak with one another. With another Spanish speaker, who isn't Puerto Rican, we speak differently. There is a difference between using the vernacular and the proper. I have heard the Spanish spoken on Puerto Rican college campuses. OMG!! Beautiful Spanish!!!!

[@lilosaquamoon]

please more of this!! I unfortunately was never taught spanish from my father and my dream is to move to PR. thank you for this!💓

[@chocolateinmars]

going through same thing

[@niggasinparis666]

Used to watch this man's basketball training vids way back when. So inspirational.

[@DarinAtkins]

Me too, I still got a few of his vids saved

[@sabrinasmall11]

I read your story and I’m similar. I’m Puerto Rican but grew up in NY. I know a lot of Spanish but really need to learn more. I go to Puerto Rico and literally forget all of it because I’m nervous. Tuning into your channel heavy!! Thanks 😀

[@josemelendez8549]

I used to think our Puerto Rican Spanish was not up to par however after traveling through various Spanish-speaking countries and the same goes for English each country with its different regions has within its own borders different accents and refer to things differently. Our style is uniquely ours and it is a working-class type Spanish however we all know how to speak grammatically correct Spanish when the occasion arises. The island has 93% literacy

[@Alex-tx2je]

As a Puerto Rican man I know Spanish it’s not my first language unfortunately but I could hold a conversation but I definitely wanna get better but this video is fire 🔥

[@JJAY66]

This helped me so much Rocky !! I really love this ! PLEASE do more of these. Puerto Rican Spanish is so beautiful and it’s so hard to find places to learn it. You’re like all we got lol

[@goldito62]

Thanks for the translation. As for the storyline, albeit realistic, she offers to cook for him, he wisecracks, then gets picky on the ingredients, adds his menu for the following day, then wants her to pay for it, and she has to tit-for-tat him to wash the dishes. He sounds like a real "MAMAO". Other than that, "todo chevere".

[@pacojulio5635]

I just want to say thank you, soy mezclado puertorriqueño y Im tryna learn Spanish better and you’ve been a big help

[@samanthaleigh6797]

Thank you for this! Half of my family lives in Puerto Rico. My dad never taught me Spanish and I only met his side of the family once in adulthood and couldn't communicate. I took Spanish class in high school and was decently fluent but it was a mix of Spain Spanish and Mexico Spanish so it was different. Trying to learn the accent and slang and all that from my roots. Thanks again for this!

[@Lilibear-1]

I’m Mexican American and we have a whole language in itself😂I always speak Spanglish, but I understood everything in this conversation. The only word I didn’t know was what Cristy meant with “chucheria “ because in Mexican/American Spanish it means “junk food” but it’s interesting how the some words in Spanish are the same and have different meanings

[@pmaldona7]

Thank you for this! As a Puerto Rican who has definitely lost his Spanish, this was so helpful to hear authentic Puerto Rican dialect! If I study your videos enough maybe I can dare to speak it to my family without embarrassing myself!!

[@TheHockeymaster4]

Really glad to see you bring back Kevin for some content. Its very hard to find educational content in regards to PR spanish, even tutors is difficult. You have my sub and notifications on because your putting out content no one else is. Muchas gracias por todo lo que haces!

[@mikeq.4020]

Thank you so much for this. I study my formal Spanish daily, but I need tools like this to help me sound and understand PR Spanish better. Poco a poco!

[@jrh1332]

Gracias Rocky por otro vídeo útil! I’m taking formal Spanish classes but at the same time learning so much more from your videos! Very helpful and I love this one.

[@annjela9702]

Absolutely loved this video. Thank you so much for making videos for all of us.

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@alyrios]

Puerto Rican native speaker here. Is it OK to point out a few mistakes in the transcription? They are teeny tiny, but as someone who used to work doing transcriptions, I caught them: Tú engranas los ganduies instead of Tú has granado gandules? which makes sense because she is asking him to take the gandules out of the pod compra lo de hoy y lo que vas a cocinas mañana (without the S in both lo) Yo me *comería* una pastita instead of Yo me comeré una pastita (comería = conditional, comeré = future) There are instances of aspired S but I didn't wanted to type the whole thing. My husband is TexMex and the first time I told him "me voy a fregar los trastes" his face, LOL 😂

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Gracias!

[@johnwheeler6839]

I was born and raised in Ponce Puerto Rico and actually how she said it was; ?Tu esgrannas los gandules? (We tend to say things technically wrong like that). Also that does not mean taking them out of the pot, it means take them out of "la vaina" (not even sure how you say it in English).

[@johnwheeler6839]

@@SpeakSpanishFaster Also it should have been Tengo que comprar unas chucherías (las tu plural?

[@randaray24]

Thanks for opening this window for us. This format is excellent! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@travel4life211]

Que trabajo brutal enseñandonos el vocabulario puertorriqueño. Gracías.

[@LordOtis]

This was an excellent lesson and method for learning PR Spanish! I appreciate your good work!

[@ReyDeLaGarzaOracle]

This is great! I moved to Caguas to be near my Tia and Prima and Puerto Rican Spanish is such a struggle for me to learn to be fluent. Gracia!

[@mexicanfluency]

Just discovered your channel. Love it, man!

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Awesome, thank you amigo!

[@miranarasanja8222]

I'm still a beginner in Spanish but after listening to this, it gives me the idea to learn Puerto Rican Spnish.

[@ShaneJBurke1]

Such a great video… when we were there this is exactly the accent of Puerto Rican Spanish.. thanks so much for this video! I wish my family taught me earlier how to speak Spanish but it’s never too late . Gracias Rocky!

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Glad it was helpful Shane!

[@LaneyaWiles]

Kevin's sentence wasn't fully translated. The one where he starts with, " Pues, esta bien. yo voy alla..." Can you tell me what those two phrases say?" I love this, keep going on please!

[@asharma7516]

thank you for this helpful vid coach rocky

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Any time! Ya tu sabes

[@sheilycolon4979]

Muy bueno El video para los que no entiende El lenguaje de nosotros los Puerto Riqueños

[@ninyawilliams9934]

Literally love you

[@codyjones3520]

Bro thank you so much this helps a lot ! Please do more of these 🙏🏽🤙🏽

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Will do! Coming soon!

[@scoopybenz]

This channel needs more and more content from your brother Kevin, the boricua flow in him is unmatched, he reminds me of those guys from Daddy Yankee’s movie Talento De Barrio 🙌🏾💎

[@vonni-phenomenalrisenwoman4419]

Este video fue brutal!🔥Gracias infinitas por compartir! 👏

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Gracias Vonni :)

[@user-jh3di2bn7q]

This is amazing! I've watched a handful of your videos over the last few days and I've learned more than I have in the 3 years I've been living on the island. I'd love to know a little bit more about why in Puerto Rico the diminutives are added to everything: the -ita and -ito. I'd also love more videos on pronunciation. Knowing how the sounds work is helpful because I get lost in conversations due to not recognizing what I'm hearing. Finally, if you offer any courses, tutoring or small group instruction I'm definitely interested in learning more. Thanks again for your videos. They are EXTREMELY helpful 🙏🏾

[@cruzin7661]

Wow!!!! I’m so glad I found this channel!

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Us too! Thanks for watching :)

[@soyjun9895]

Sus videos de lecciones de español pr son los mejores !! gracias por siempre buenos vídeos

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

:) Muchas gracias

[@Natalieperez2424]

I am Puerto Rican! But I was raised by two German and Irish parents! My Spanish sucks! Glad to be here to learn!

[@shanemillard608]

Guau, increíble. Es bien difícil a comprender. ¡Gracias por la ayuda!

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Sí muy difícil jaja gracias por ver!

[@Julia99471]

Awesome

[@josephmeetstravel9762]

love it!

[@DreamcastQ]

Great video thank you

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@LipstickNerd]

Ty!!!!

[@diegosilvamedia]

Miss you coach rock from ILOVEBASEKTBALTV. Hope you're doing well!

[@DarthMR]

Con razón está lloviendo. Technical translation may be "with reason it's raining" but the correct translation is: No wonder it's raining. It's important to translate the THOUGHT, not each word of a sentence; otherwise it will sound somewhat odd.

[@melvinbarnes6652]

Me gusta!

[@adayah30]

For me being Nuyorican, they always said my Spanish was bad. I understood everything said in this video. I always speak broken and my grandma always used to say watch novelas if I want to learn better...lol.

[@liannalacuriosa5813]

Omg me encanta!!! I just stumbled upon this, I feel like I'm listening into my in laws conversations, bello jajaja. I have been trying hard to understand my I have some to tone def issue make learning audioeven harder, but I'm pretty good at reading it ,

[@Gappyyx]

hey thanks for the video it was very nice ,enjoy it a lot. was wondering if you know of any portorican series to watch and to practice

[@lottakeyss]

Coach rock with another win

[@LatinNY7]

It was fun, I had to pay attention to what they were saying.

[@davidalen2590]

Good video. I vastly prefer PR Spanish to this Mexican style I hear all the time;makes me proud to be Caribbean! Thank you!

[@chrishernan4490]

Lol I’m Mexican and I agree 😅

[@jamesgarcia6966]

I prefer the Mexican Spanish Puerto Rican spanish sounds like trash

[@jman8021]

Can you do a mock date in Spanish? Or asking someone out in Spanish? Please???

[@feisalabbasi9265]

Coach rock!

[@feisalabbasi9265]

I love your basketball vids to even as a big man PF for my school you've helped me with my shooting

[@marvyST]

I'm puerto rican. currently trying to teach myself to talk in Spanish and have tried other apps. They have helped but I know I could earn faster and better then what I've been taught. I feel like this learning style is more for me.

[@lovelyrosepeatals9020]

What apps have you used?

[@ariela_]

As always, this is a great video but I’m convinced I’ll never understand or speak Spanish😩 it’s sooo difficult my brain can’t comprehend the different congugations of words and their meanings and the way people pronounce it

[@danamiller2233]

My bf is puerto rican. This video is so helpful.

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Glad this was helpful! Thanks so much for watching!

[@troytim3]

Idk how this popped up but I’m happy it did ! Yo quiere arroz y gandule con pollo frita Hope I got that right 🤙🏼🤙🏼

[@tyriqburtton6265]

Tengo una amiga de honduras y ella me dijo que no puede entender a los puertorriqueños. Y le pregunté “cómo así? Eres de honduras.” Y me dijo que hablan muy rápido. Así que yo traté de hablar con un puertorriqueño y no pude entender nada. Y español es mi segundo idioma, lo hablo con fluidez. Muchas gracias por el video fue muy bacano.

[@lovelyrosepeatals9020]

Hey, how did you become fluent in Spanish?

[@tyriqburtton6265]

@@lovelyrosepeatals9020 im not sure how to explain it i dont really remember exactly how i did it but i have pretty good memory that helped and watching youtube vids studying and looking up things that js randomly came to mind. I also listen to spanish music all the time and talk to native speaks. I also took classes. Started learning it in 4th grade then i started taking classes in school in 6th grade and didnt start speaking it till 9th grade. Im currently in 12th taking ap spanish and ill probably take it in college too hope that helps

[@lovelyrosepeatals9020]

@@tyriqburtton6265 yeah thx, I’m in 11th taking Spanish 2. But I have a hard time making friends who speak Spanish. Could I practice speaking with you?

[@marcuscrockett129]

Bendiciones amado Rocky, espero que estes bien. Es posibile tu puedes hacer un video sobre la letra "g"? Porque muchas vez por mi la pronuniacion es dificil, Yo se, Ga, Ge (Hay) Gi (He) go-gu, pero es dificil saber cuando es el tiempo correcto usarlo y ademas Gue-Gue, tu puedes explicar tambien cuando es necessario pronouncar G o h? I hope my question makes sense in spanish. Could you do a video on the letter G in spanish the prounciation and when the g is pronounced ga and when it requires the h sound. Dios te bendiga, un fuerte abrazo.

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Thanks for the question Marcus. This is a great idea. I will be sure to get to work on it my friend!

[@lefamofokeng8291]

Hey. Just began your videos and they are ¡brutal! Lol. Uhm is there like a written script of this conversation so that I can read it out loud from time to time...

[@catherinemurry2324]

A grocery store trip for chicken dinner arroz con grandule y en pollo frito. Okay también quieren una pasta y ella va a pagar I understood the gist of the conversation immediately. I’m Mexican

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Great! I love that response because many people are afraid to try to learn a type of Spanish because they believe they won't be able to understand other types of Spanish. But we all understand each other well, especially when speaking amongst each other.

[@megga95]

Need some more of this content because this is the dialect I love so I'm focusing on Puerto Rican Spanish

[@vlo_will2857]

Good videos, Con razón = No wonder

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Gracias!

[@sjt66]

Can anyone clarify the sentence where Kevin says “ Yo voy allá atrás que ahí está el palo cargadito.” And the next one at the end, “…..mira, acabaditos de sacar del palo.”

[@rosejohn6267]

Can you do a lesson on ordering food at a restaurant?

[@backwardsnyfit]

Que Brutal! voy a eschuchar a este video muchos veces! No es divertido ser puertoriqueno perro no hablar espanol muy bien...

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

No te preocupes, voy a ti!

[@benben6054]

Easy to understand if you know Spanish very well

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Sí! Gracias por ver!

[@robertitooquendo9173]

You're the GOAT

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

:)

[@jaycetheaceman9135]

Hacho tas duro eso es mi favorito todavía

[@apuertorican1773]

Do a video with your cousin teaching the caco slang lol. I’m Rican from NY and learned Spanish from grammar books, but got a boy from the island that teaches me some slangs like guillaera , kafre, yales, fantasmeo, nebuleo, etc. Teach that regaetton slang lol

[@ron61584]

Question, he said fuiste la que invitaste a mi. Shouldn’t it be fuiste la que invitó a mi? A professor told me that when you say el que/la que/ quien, then the conjunction is always 3rd person.

[@muhammadvalere1105]

Can you please tell me the meaning of fumeteo in Puerto Rico because I hear a lot of people from Puerto Rico use it

[@sergiosanchez3734]

Puelto Lico

[@Bjoqmspngmwo17639]

Just came across this random video. Your face rings a bell to me and I realized I saw you a video about basketball skills. haha what made you change your career? hahaha

[@j.m.6007]

I'm 🇵🇷 & 🇩🇴 which one do I consume?😊

[@eddyzermeno5571]

I need the Dominican version of this

[@k88811]

My man I’m black but was raised by Puerto Rican, I lost my ability to speak Spanish due to a head injury, can you put a video up focusing on how l, replaces the double r in p.r. Spanish, I’m reteaching myself to speak it

[@SaleemAli-ke4ro]

I understand more when I read it than when I here it cuz they be intentionally leaving syllables off and talkin fast on purpose. They know we took Spanish in middle school and high school but we don't know know the vernacular 💯🎯💯

[@SeanDay22]

Can you translate this sentence for me? It was very hard to understand. "Yo voy alla atras que ahi esta el palo cargadito. Yo esgrano los gandules y se los echamos acabadito de sacar el palo".

[@lizzygutierrez1]

I am going out back, because there is a bush full of peas( cargaito). I will take out the peas from the pods( engranar) and put it on the pot directly from the bush.

[@patriciabarron3323]

Está hablando de toda esta PR comida, ya tengo hambre hahaha🍻

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Yo tambien LOL!

[@johnwheeler6839]

Are you coach rock (basketball videos)?

[@axelaquino1901]

wsp coach rock

[@alanquatermain82]

Link to purchase the course?

[@SpeakSpanishFaster]

Hola! You can visit speakspanishfaster.com/products to see all our courses. Gracias!

[@kendallsanders4298]

Is that coach roc?

[@burdmann24.7]

Me: Work real hard on trilling your tongue for rolling R's Puerto Ricans: ¿Pa que?

[@lucio.martinez]

Ay bendito, 'chacho! I'm Mexican born and US raised. Vengo a aprender el idioma boricua, que a veces no les entiendo, ni madres! Luego no hablan ni inglés! (Trust me--I've met many of boricuas that don't speak English)

[@kalibkukus8888]

Is this coach rock from I love basketball TV

[@amgooder]

This is colloquial language and expressions( informal words, phrases, slanglish words) or argot...language used by a particular type or group of people...➡️Puerto Ricans. This is NOT standard Spanish. All Spanish speaking countries, which obviously includes Puerto Rico, must abide by RAE, Royal Spanish Academy. Use this argot among friends, not in a job interview🤓 Slang 🇵🇷words that only we get🤣: Bembé- party Cafre- ghettoish,vulgar,trashy Chapucería- shoddy work Candungo- large wash bowl Chota- snitch Elembao- distracted Embrollao- in debt Estofón-bookworm Escarceo- uproar Feca- lie Fufú-sorcery Gendió- drunk, wasted Jeva/jevo- girl friend/ bf Jurutungo- far away (place) Josear/joseador- freeloader Jukiao- hooked Katimba- a beating, hammering. Lambón- brown-nose Patatú- faint/ heart attack Panas- friends, buddies Pitorro- moonshine rum Tecato/tecata drug addict/crack head Yal - ghetto/ hood female Tráfala-a loser Sato/sata- mutt, mongrel Revolú / Bayoya- a mess,riot Quitao- piece of cake (something easily achieved) Prieto- black person Rampletera- a hussy Mongo- weak Chola- head Chavos- money Afrenta'o- greedy Arrancao'o- flat broke Bochinche- gossip Chumbo(a)-flat buttocks/ bottom...bum And many more...

[@edgonzalez186]

50 / 50 also said: "miti miti"

[@UncleChase25]

You teach Spanish and basketball!?

[@maestrosavage1359]

¿Qué quería decir con “palo cargadito”?

[@xfxrxmxt1981]

Tenía entendido q en Puerto Rico decían cocinal en vez de cocinar o bailal en vez de bailar 😳

[@williestubz7957]

Wait, is this the basketball dude? Hes puerto rican? 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷 heeeeck yeah!!!

[@geo-the-great]

just say brrrrrrr uah

[@geicothirtynine]

Hey it's the guy from ILovebasketballTV; I was wondering what happened to him.

[@edgardonieves387]

👍🏽🇵🇷👍🏽🇵🇷👍🏽🇵🇷👍🏽🇵🇷

[@securethebag1613]

klk a mi gente

[@marklepka2927]

Kevin: Puerto Rican Spanish