I’m the dude in the backseat 😂, I get so stressed out 🤦🏽‍♀️

"Hace Sol!" 🤣🤣🤣 Brother, thank you for taking the time to shoot and edit this video for us. Your ability to communicate relevant content in a creative way is one of a kind.

Funniest thing is when I look back and realize how many times natives either didn't notice or didn't care enough to point out my mistakes. I'm not confident by any stretch of the imagination, but a co-worker claimed I didn't even have an accent. When we hang out she almost never speaks English, if I don't understand her she'll repeat it or rephrase it but always in spanish. It's a huge ego boost, but I still just can't get myself to completely relax.

I really love how you incorporated the skits lol it makes the situations a lot more comfortable. Thanks for the help and great video

ENJOY THE SKITS. It was very fun making this video!

I get really nervous speaking publicly and in Spanish I be all in my head

That anime skit tho 😂🔥🔥

Bro, your my hero! I’ve been studying Spanish for almost 2 years. You have always been a strong motivation for me

Can we acknowledge his accent for the driver when he was speaking english haha that was good actually

"Grammar books, I failed you again...I thought I knew Spanish." I felt that! 🤣🤣😂 Gracias chamo por el video!! MUY CHÉVERE como siempre!! 💛

I love speaking Spanish and I love how people react when they find out I speak Spanish. I do get scared sometimes because i still don't understand what people saying and still learning words.

The shame of being Latina and not being fluent held me back so many years. When I decided that was no longer serving me, I noticed my fluency jumped. The funny thing is, I realized I knew more than I thought I did. I was exposed to a lot of comprehensible input just growing up in a family of native Spanish speakers, but because of the discrimination they faced coming to this country, they did not make it a point to teach us the language. Still, there are some words and phrases that I've always used in Spanish that I've taught my kids. I just had to stop being so timid and uncomfortable with speaking outside of my home. Ricky, you're advice about just having a conversation with people, as simple as it sounds, really does take you to the next level. I enjoy your videos and the energy you bring. You did one where you broke down Bad Bunny's lyrics that was really cool because I'm a fan of his. I know you spoke of having a course coming out, I would be interested in that especially if you have a Caribbean Spanish twist with it.

3:44 - 4:55 I AM SCREAMING!!!!!!! lmfaooo THIS IS ME. I feel so called out rn 😂😂😭😭😭😭

01:41 the Anime x Spanish crossover is too good 😂😂😂 It also brings the point across in the most relatable way possible! Well done 👏👏👏

I always think of how other nationalities speak “imperfect English” and native English speakers never care🤷🏽‍♀️ So we should keep their same energy when we try to speak Spanish! Personally I fake it til I make it😂

The "Hace SOOLLL!" took me out 😂😂 Love your videos man.

Oh man, I’m so glad I found this video when I did!! My goal is to speak Spanish without switching to English, and its like I can’t make myself relax. I was speaking with someone earlier this month, and he told me I sound really tense when I speak. It’s frustrating, because I know what to say, bubt it doesn’t come out!! Your right though, no one is judging me, well except me and my brain. 😂

Respondiéndote tu pregunta del fin del video, mi experiencias hablando con los hispanos nativos me pasaron bien guey! Demasiado bien. En mi trabajo, he conocido numerosos hispanos de México o Honduras, etc. y el hombre que conocí más recientemente me dijo duespues de conversamos que yo hablo perfecto el español! Eso fue muy impactante a mí, especialmente porque mi profe de español (estoy en mi cuarto año en mi escuela) me dijo que todavía tengo un camino muy largo para hablar perfecto, que probablemente sea la verdad, pero sí, creo que nos preocuparnos más que los nativos! Solo tenemos que confiar en nosotros mismos, y recordar a disfrutarlo!!!! Todo es posible por Dios. Me encantan tus tips, ¡muchas gracias señor! Todo es un proceso. Saludos, y amor.

Man this is one of your best videos from beginning to end! The skits were engaging, funny and entertaining, the advice relatable and valuable and the production quality is on point! From thumbnail to background music to video and audio quality. 8 minutes passed in the blink of an eye and I watched the anime skit 3 times 😂 Well done 👏👏👏

I have studied for a year so far, and I feel like I do not know anything , I listen to shows in Spanish and I can tell when most words begin and end now, Its not just all blended, I am lucky to understand 2 words out of 10, when reading I can maybe go 3-4 out of 10 words, ... , I know I'm making progress from week to week but its very slow, I am finding out a language is much bigger than I thought , I will never quit , I guess that is what matters.

One of the things I realized to learn a language was that I had to get over myself. Drop the ego and realize there is no way to be perfect and I’m going to make mistakes and I shouldn’t be embarrassed about it.

So, I gave an interview on public radio in SPanish. My Spanish is lower intermediate. All of the four ladies (native speakers of Spanish) that were participating in the interview understood what I meant and only corrected me (in the most subtle ways) if what I said was super wrong. It was super fun and I loved it. They were interested in my journey towards learning their language. This is kinda a brag (for myself) but mostly it's to say that making mistakes is fine.

Lol this literally had me cracking up! 😂😂😂 it's too relatable! 😅😅😅

Bro ,you are amazing. 'Stop caring' is amazing advice not literally ofcourse but forgive yourself because learning a language is just that "learning a language" it's not life or death. Bilingue Blogs esta maravilloso!

I have been learning Spanish for 3 years now. A few months ago i decided to challenge myself and call customer service and press 2 to speak to a Spanish Rep. let me tell you, the sweat was POURING off me, and the convo was a little messy but we got through it and she understood the transaction. That was a proud moment for me. To get more confident you have to challenge yourself and get out the comfort zone ! You can do it guys 🙌🏾

Thank you for the motivation! This video made me laugh. I am way too hard on myself and just say Sí and Bien to everything. 😂 My husband is from Mexico and I want to converse with his family, so I love the idea of remembering why I'm learning... and then just going for it and not caring about mistakes. Work in progress!

I want to be more comfortable speaking with others! Ugh that's my issue.Thanks for sharing!!!

Estoy como el ejemplo dos y tres en serio. 🤣😂 si, es lo peor. Pero intento a trabajar poco a poco en mis metas. Primero, solo quiero hablar con la gente sin miedo. Este video fue una excelente demonstracion de lo qué pasa con los estudiantes de español. Los consejos son buenísimos también! 😎

This has to be the funniest most relatable video in the history of KZfaq.

your videos are so good !! the skits killed me 😭😭 so relatable lol. new subscriber !

Your funniest, most entertaining and informative skit. You keep getting better keep it up bro! Please!🤣🤣🤣

I live in a part of the world where there is basically 0 interaction with Spanish speaking people. So naturally my speaking and communicating abilities are quite low. The most I used my Spanish was while working at a hotel but then I got real nervous a lot of the time and still reverted to English. Over the years I've become a bit more confident but still there's a long road ahead of me. Espero que algun dia voy a hablar mas tranquilamente pero ahora estoy muy feliz que entiendo este lenguaje tan bella.

I love your channel so much! Your contribution to my spanish learning is incredible! Thank you so much for your wonderful content. Love ❤️ from Australia!

Hey thanks for all you advice. Thanks to Italki i feel more confident speaking Spanish in general. You’ve seriously helped me open up about my heritage and the language barrier with someone I do hold dear. Thank you, thank you 😊

Always remember how long it took you to learn your first language, and ask this as a question to any native speaker who mocks your ability or lacks patience with you.

Omg the stop caring tip is one of the best tips I’ve ever heard! One of the reasons I struggle with talking to a native speaker.. Thank you for your videos they’re always the best! ❤️

Señor cuchillo, I love your humor

Necesitaba este video! Me encanto! Sigue rompiendo Rickie!

Yes! I do all of these things !!! This inspires me to have more confidence and not take it so seriously.

My guy apologised to his grammar books 🤣

I am a Bulgarian, born in 1986. Back in the day it was not so common for everyone to learn English. But as both my parents spoke English, used it for work and have been abroad so it was natural for me to learn it at some point, however: My first WHY was that I wanted to understand the cartoons on the Cartoon Network! As funny as that sounds it was a big enough "why" for me. I was about 7-8 years old (1st or second grade in school) and being only a few years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and Communism new TV channels and cable TV were entering in Bulgaria but most of the foreign ones were not translated and had no subtitles. And I remember around the same time I knew enough vocabulary and grammar to read, write, speak and understand a bit of English, however I have not yet really spoken it to anyone other than my tutor. So me and my mom were on Oxford Street in London and we went to this amazing cafe where they had some freshly made sweets and cakes. I asked my mother for one piece and she said to me: "You can get anything you want but you have to order it yourself" She gave me the money and sat down and I was left staring at the display of amazing cakes. I was a bit shy but my desire for cake was stronger lol. I remember going to the counter and after I ordered the man behind it smiled and asked me something and after that we had some nice conversation and I remember that he was from Poland. I don't remember if the cake was good but I was so happy with the overall experience and as you can see by the length of this comment - I like to express myself lol. So Bilingue Blogs is right! Find your why and practice speaking in low risk situations. Do you really care what a random stranger thinks about your Spanish? I am starting to learn Spanish now and one of my reasons why is that for the past 3-4 years I have been dancing Salsa (LA & Cuban) and Bachata and I go to international dance festivals and I want to dive deeper into the Latin American culture, understand the lyrics of the songs (I do not know if that is such a good idea for some songs lol) and I would like to one day travel to Miami, Cuba, The Dominican Republic and other Spanish Speaking Countries and living in Bulgaria and being part of the EU Spain itself is close. And when I travel to a place I want to live in and feel the actual culture of the place - not just the English Speaking Tourist Traps. Wish you success in your Spanish learning!

You are so awesome! I'm so motivated!

Appreciate your videos man!

Love the videos and love the new haircut!

Wonderful advice! I just found your channel and subscribed!

muchas gracias por tus videos !! tienes tanta razón. hay que tener confianza

not only was this vid SO informative but also hilarious too 😂😂!! my confidence has def skyrocketed after watching your vids(now i Can talk w friends !! ) but i still am trying to step out & speak to strangers but AYE new year & new vid from bilingüe blogs that encourages being confident in spanish?! YA TU SABE most def gonna step out more 🥳

This was great! So funny and helpful!

Thank you, I needed that🙏🏽

Bilingüe Blogs hace muy buenos videos. Lo mejor de su videos es Rickys divertido y inteligente. Gracias Ricky para tu mucho trabajo y las paciencias a ayudar nosotros aprendamos español rápido.

Another great video by one of the best to do it on KZfaq. Im not confident by a long stretch, but the more that I practice I know that will come with time. I tell myself practice what I know and build from there. Gracias nuevamente por tus videos y por ser un gran maestro. Even though I haven’t taken lessons in a while 😬😂

You the man! Love your videos, so real and truthful!

This was a great video. I really like the skits you add!

Nice video ! Good thoughts on the approach to learning Spanish..

Absolutely love this! To see how your Spanish, identity and confidence in it all has grown is inspiring👏🏾👏🏾 #ogsubscriber

I think something that helps is to not focus on your accent/every single word and to focus on what you want to say/the emotion associated with what you're saying like if someone speaks in perfect English with a monotone and has nothing interesting to say, you're not necessarily going to want to talk to them someone with broken English who says interesting things with enthusiasm is a lot more appealing I smile and move my hands and vary my stress and intonation and I think that helps :3

I love that you are open about it. I heard you on a podcast with two Mexicans and you mixed ser and estar but then caught yourself and corrected it and kept going. It shows us that you’re juman lol and sometimes you also think in English (which is normal) since it’s your first language like a lot of us.

Hola....jajaja #2 y #3 soy yo....me gusta este video y los consejos. He estado aprendiendo español por 4 años y tengo suficiente vocabulario para una conversación pero no tengo confianza. Yo sé el gran problema es que me presioné a mí mismo. Cuando hablo con una persona en español y su inglés es mejor or estoy teniendo problemas recordar una palabra o gramática, vuelvo a inglés. Odio cuando hago esto. Pero tu tienes razón, es una conversación, no es cuestión de vida o muerto. Voy a recordar este video la próxima vez hablo con una persona en español.

Bro your videos have helped me so much and inspired me to keep learning more Spanish and teach myself. I’m currently traveling in the DR so this video really helps with talking to locals

Buen video, Rickie! Gracias por el tiempo que invertiste en hacerlo. Yo estaba como tu. Al principio, me dio pena hablar porque tenia miedo de cometer errores, pero ahora estoy mas tranquila. Mi filosofia es si no estoy cometiendo errores eso significa que no estoy retandome. Los nativos siempre han sido muy pacientes conmigo y me corrigen cuando me equivoco. PD: Me he atrevido escribirte en espanol porque me acorde de un comentario que hiciste diciendo que la gente no te escribe en espanol.

I’m not confident at all, and I’ve studied graduate courses in Spanish. I know I need to do better with my confidence and speaking in Spanish daily.

Gracias I needed this confid booster😉

So relatable!

Lee Haggard Cuando estoy hablando español con mi maestra o mi amigo yo hablo bien pero con otras personas me siento incómodo o tímido. Entonces después de ver tu vídeo, voy a tratar de conectar con más gente. Creo que esto va a darme más confianza en mi español. Mil gracias por ayudarnos a mejorar nuestro español!!

Manin uno de tus videos mejores. Por las últimas dos semanas me encuentro perdiendo un poco de motivación de practicar pero esto video me ha dado inspiración para seguir adelante. Muchas gracias por tu esfuerzo mano 💪

Rickie, hace par de años que te sigo en KZfaq y otras redes. Me acuerdo de aquellos tiempos en los que no tenía confianza para expresarme en español. Hasta puedo encontrarme en los comentarios de tus videos más viejos equivocándome al escribir. Pero tus videos siempre me daban ganas de seguir esforzarme en la gran meta del fluidez. ¡Sigue con tus proyectos hermano! Quiero que algún día nos hagamos panas, haha. Saludos desde Colorado de un fanático fiel, Ryan.

Genial video y super gracioso especialmente en el carro 🤓

This is so me. I need to just speak it!!

My reason to learn spanish is to be able to speak to mi abuela and family in DR. Too many years passed by where I have barley been able to at least keep up with an conversation. I plan on putting an end to that.

Number 2 was so me, but I am trying to face that fear and talk more.

I KEEP coming back to watch the dramatic part 😂😂

Me gusta este canal mi loco!!

Disfruté muchísimo este video! Me hace sentir mejor en cometiendo errores

Rickie, this was great. I studied Spanish for 2 years in high school in the mid-70's. I didn't use it very much at all until 1989 when I took a job in a clinic that cared for "trabajadores migrantes." This was in Indiana. As I worked alongside colleagues who were native speakers--some Cubana, Puerto Ricana, Mexicana, Tex-Mex, and others, I began to pick back up some of my Spanish from school. I'd give an instruction to a patient at times, though, and they'd go to the reception desk and ask, "Do I have to do what she said?" And I'd be like, "What did I say???" LOL. I moved up in this workplace to become a Nurse Practitioner for Women's Health. I learned to do a medical history and physical exam, and much of the needed teaching without an interpreter. I'd ask one of the native speakers to double check that I hadn't confused them too much. But heaven help me if they wanted to discuss the weather! (Just as well there aren't many Spanish speakers in England where I live now. Weather is the favourite topic of the British people!) So now I have just one friend at church who is a native speaker and who is now a Spanish teacher. I hope to learn more from her once the lockdowns are over. Meanwhile, I enjoy trying to understand what you're saying when you speak Spanish. Why am I working so hard to try to become more fluent?? Good question! I'm 62 years old now, and it just feels like something that I left dangling and never finished. I would probably benefit more from learning Romanian, French, German, or Urdu. I live near a multi-cultural city. Pues, es todo para ahora. Muchas gracias. Tus videos son graciosos. (I hope that means fun or something like that. LOL)

Tan útil. Trato de recordar tales cosas cuando hablar cualquier idioma extraño y tus ejemplos/escenas ayudan mucho. Además, han sido divertidas.

Ricky you da man. I just finished a spanish tutoring class and mentioned your vlog video in Guayaquil. This video should be a must listen for every spanish language learner. I'm 4 years in and in some situations I still feel a little nervous at first but once I start talking and they hear I don't have the typical "gringo accent", it be like a family reunion lol.

You really highlighted well some of the fears of (primarily) English-speakers who attempt to speak a foreign language. For myself, overcoming that fear of making a mistake is always a struggle. But like this video highlights expertly, true language process begins when we are humble enough to accept mistakes, learn from them, and move on. That 3rd skit about "grammar Nazi" was really hilarious but true about perfection-centered language learners; they do not want to lose face. But in my experience, I enjoyed a vacation a few years ago in Portugal when I stopped caring how many mistakes I made and rolled with it.

Bien brutal🤝 me encanta la energía

Bien hecho 👍 y tienes razón los nativos con quien practico el español cometen errores tambn especialmente cuando escriben. Me gustan tus videos. Sigue haciendo cosas buenas

Thankyou for this - I needed to be reminded to enjoy it and not take it soooo seriously :) and that mistakes are ok.

We all already know this but I'm just so impressed everytime, ur accent when u speak spanish is SO good!😫

I only speak Spanish with my patients, but it's because I will likely never see them again 😂😂 so I don't care if I embarrass myself. However, I refuse to speak with my coworkers. They try to talk to me in Spanish, but I panic and freeze.

The number 3! Oh my goodness! It’s sooooo hard! You’re correct, just have fun.🤩🤩🤩🤩

Oye Ricky hablas súper bien! Ojalá que un día puedo hablar así.

Thank you

Ive been speaking spanish for 2 1\2 years and I used to be nervous about mistakes so bad. Until i went to work and spoke with some older domincan women in spanish and they told i speak very well. I was so hung up about the subjunctive until i realized even native speakers don't use correctly. Also another tip to other learners you can simplify your spanish and still be understood. Remember its all about effective communication not complex sentences. I once forgot the word zapatería so i said "voy a la tienda de zapatos" and my puerto rican friend understood me just fine.

I can´t even talk to my friends😂 I go blank hahaha

Pues vivo en Mexico. En cuanto pise por aca me costaba bastante entenderle a la gente. Pensé que mi español fuera mejor de lo que era. Hablaba yo a lo pendejo y lo que decía la gente me pegaba como un chorro de agua fuerte por la cara. Ahora; un año y pico luego, me he mejorado ya que hablo todo el tiempo pero lo que me ayudó y ayuda un chingo es consumir mucho contenido en español lo cual no hacía tanto antes de mudarme acá. Cuando tienes seguridad que se puede entender lo que diga eso se baja la ansiedad mientras se habla con desconocidos. Pues animo wey y gracias por las vibras buenas.

Broooo, You Are Super Creative! To You It May Be Nothing Major, But Like Albert Einstein Said; Simplicity Is Genius! 👌

Love the new qualityyyyy

Lolol that last one. Got me. 😂

Este video es mi favorito 🤩

Me gusta esta forma de vídeo 👍. La verdad pues aquí donde yo vivo la gente te dice, donde aprendiste español, si puedes hablar un poquito. esto ayuda a uno bastante especialmente en el principio.

This was funny af and true😂 helped a lot too yo puedo relacionarme mucho con las situaciones qué el estaba explicando porque yo no puedo hablar español con fluidez y todavia suena como un gringo poquito pero esta bien yo se qué un dia voya agregar la idioma🙏🏽

Ufff Buenos consejos , gracias!!

Hace Sol! Oh déjame quitar esa chaqueta entonces...Clarrro! I used to have the same fears speaking until one day I stopped thinking too hard and caught myself “flowing” in spanish with native speakers. Being fluent is not so much being correct word for word but mostly that you are understood in a conversation...

bahahaha these freaking skits lmbo GOLD!

So I moved to Madrid about 3 months ago, and kind of similarly I only really feel confident talking to people who know I'm from the United States and not a native speaker. Where as I'm honestly still afraid to have random conversations or for example speak up and ask for help at random places because I feel like I would be "exposed" as not being a native speaker. Slowly I'm realizing nobody cares half as much as I do lol but still part of the process, but reminding myself that I'm here for a reason and to capitalize on any situation is something I need to do more of!

Those sketches were jokes! Loved it

Gracias por el video Ricky, a veces siento como la persona con quien estoy hablando me va a matar si no hablo perfectamente. Pero no es tan serio. Que te vaya bien