Being black is not a nationality, so if you´re black, it doesnt mean you have to speak english only, you can learn as many languages as you can. I´m dominican, and obviously I speak spanish, I´m also black, but I decided to learn english and now I started learning french.

The one where they call everything “Mexican music” is sooo accurate 😂😂

I’ve been learning Spanish on my own for almost a year. I can relate to everything in this video. My family be like “boy you know you black right?” But they always want me to translate 😂😂😂

It was absolutely discouraging when someone told me "you're trying to hard. You're not Spanish" when I tried to speak Spanish at work. Whats so discouraging is that I am actually part Hispanic and I take pride in learning more about that side of me but ppl are so negative.

When he said "stop trying to be Mexican" ...I felt that. We're not trying to be anything we're not. We just want to learn another language and culture. Thank you👏🏻

I’m Mexican and I gotta say that don’t worry where you are from, don’t worry if you are black or white, gay, trans, hetero, etc. You can learn whatever you want and go wherever you want. It’s stupid just think that you have to survive in the place you where born. ✨LIVE YOUR LIFE✨

“I don’t know whats your obsession with Spanish” but then they need me to come translate 😭

Since I started learning Spanish I’ve been so obsessed with the culture

"I just hope this is a phase cuz he need to know that he black" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Much love Capt!

This is so true! Learning Spanish came natural to me tbh. When I started learning Spanish my family joked a lot about me wanting to be Mexican. Then I started ordering my food in Spanish and they got used to it. I moved to Florida and they came to visit me at work. Majority of my clients were Spanish and my fam was in awe to see me communicate with people in Spanish as if it was my native tongue! Never let anyone deter you from your goals! Soy un afroamericano que puede hablar escribir y leer español. No soy correcto 100% del tiempo pero me sigo aprendiendo todos los días.

"Who you yelling at? I will come cha cha my way to your room right now boy" that part took me out lmaooo 😭

Man the number of times family has either said “you wanna learn Spanish because you wanna be Mexican” or “oh you trying to get you a little Mexican girlfriend huh, not into black girls”. And you can tell them over and over I like the music and I wanna learn something new. It took a while and lots of schooling but they accepted it.

When I play reggaetón in the car, my sisters like it but after like three songs they get tired of it cause it all sounds the same 😂😂🤦🏾‍♀️

My family racist so I already know what's going in my granma head. My mom at first was like "Why are you learning Spanish? Are Mexicans talking shit to u at work?" Then my brother made fun of me. Even I had doubts continuing Spanish bcuz I just had bad experiences with certain Spanish speakers but I try to keep an open mind and understand that not all of them act in a certain way. I had to remind myself why Im learning this and it's cuz I have a goal of learning different languges. It's almost a year now and sometimes I catch my aunt even jamming Spanish music and my mom asking me why I "stopped" when i take a mentalbreaks. Im filipino btw.

Same exact thing happened to me. Then you have the family members who see your progress and say they want to learn but never start. Good video man

Lmaooooo the first few seconds is pure facts. Black families, honestly. My family is black.

2:07💀had me deaddddd “I will come cha cha to your room right now boy”😂

Spanish speaker in here! Don't ever get discouraged by people, we do appreciate the effort 🙌✨

I'm the only teacher that speaks some Spanish, other than the Spanish teacher. Made fun of me when I was learning, now we have students that don't speak any English now they need me to speak to the student and his parents.

When I wanted to learn English my mom's denial got to toxic levels when she started saying that I wouldn't use it, or that I would forget it. Until she finally convinced my dad to stop paying for the courses and get me out of there. Luckily for me, I had the basics already, and I had the internet to learn on my own. I also learned how to teach myself a variety of skills, and now I am learning other languages as well.

"Kiki you are not Puerto Rican. You black". Random jibberish with "taco" and "sombrero" thrown in there. Then it's the rolls eyes "You like that culture stuff" Sarcastically "You are so cultured". It's all good though.

When I tell you this is soooo true!! I love it. I'm still in the first phase. One thing that annoys me is anytime they hear someone speaking Spanish they say "WHAT ARE THE SAYING SINCE YOU KNOW SPANISH?" like mf I don't know!!!

I felt this 😭because (I have a couple light patches on my face I don’t know why . I just do) My nephew dead ass looked me in the eye and told me “the reason why you have the light patches is because you keep thinking that you’re different races so your skin is getting confuse”. All I wanted is be a polyglot and learn about different cultures 🥺 I’m black and I know I am (and proud of it) I just want to be a multilingual black person is that so hard to understand 😭😭🤷🏽‍♀️

I’m more in the acceptance category👍🏾!! When I told my family I was learning Spanish (Its been 4months now) they were happy I was being diverse and would care that I blast Spanish music EVERYDAY!!!😭😭😭 Even my grandma supports me by texting me only in Spanish.

Yooooo... here’s my experience Mi y mi esposa fuimos to el restaurante con las primas. Soon as we started speaking Spanish we could feel the hate. The “I have Spanish in me, pero no habla.” The staff were vibing with me and my wife but gave my cousins the 🥶 shoulder. All that being said. We still haven’t given up and now COVID gave us the time to practicar juntos.

" I just hope this is a phrase because he need to know he's black" that got me dying lol

Oh God, I can relate!! Sometimes my mom finds a regatón song on the radio and say, “there’s your music, Tiffany. What are they saying?” Another thing she does is she’ll call me and ask how to say something. My whole family thinks I’m also a hit on Christmas. “Oooh, she can speak that Spanish.” 😂🤦🏽‍♀️

My mom always jokes about the time Bush Jr. said, “I don’t speak Mexican.” 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🇲🇽🇲🇽

This exactly how I feel as a black man learning for about a year , everything you’ve stated is true. I needed this🙏

It's funny because growing up I was really into japanese because of anime, but around 18 I switched to Spanish because I realized it would be way more practical, I use it in my job as a pharmacy tech, my family never really ragged on me about it, they always saw it as useful growing up in california and now living Texas

“Cut that out, you know i don’t speak that ” my mom 😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It’s strange how some people in the United States will get so annoyed hearing a different language or finding out you want to learn a different language. I plan to try to become more consistent with learning languages and plan to teach my daughter and nephew Spanish. I feel self conscious when trying to learn Spanish around family. They get confused and unsure why I would even want to learn it. Thankful for the Internet at least I can find others who can relate or find people to learn with.

My family is just the opposite they are happy that I’m learning Spanish. When I go to their house and watch Telemundo my dad ask “Are you learning anything?” Or he will ask “what are they saying?” And I try my best to explain what I know. 😁😁

My family and friends say *your just learning so you can flirt with Spanish girls* 😂 doesn’t acknowledge the fact that I just like the language I want to interact with a different culture. Viajar algún día y leer memes en español

But my country azz cousin was glad I was able to help this Mexican guy buy stuff in his corner store! Ha!

I’m learning Spanish because I like it and my parents always tell my “what do want from this language you will not get any benefit from it you better work on your English”

I'll be honest. I don't think I'm at the necessity part... And I think my family accepts it... but it still feels very tense when I speak it around them. And not Spanish, but Japanese too. So most of the time when I'm doing exchanges I just go to another room. I've accepted that certain members of my family are simply just intolerant of other people. That's not gonna stop be from pursuing fluency though. This was hilarious! 😆😆 Funny how people be cracking on you till they need you. 😂

Me : Learning Spanish for 3 years still taking spanish lessons. My Family: Why are you taking lessons? Don't you already know spanish??

Lol I had a similar experience to this when I was learning Arabic

Your family definitely are not Californians. I told my family I’m learning Spanish, and they said good, I’ll call when I need you😂

I never thought about this much, but now seeing your video makes me realize that a lot of that did happen to me with my parents and friends. Parents started with telling me Im wasting my time, then my Dad caught me watching novelas in my room with a notepad (writing vocabulary I didn't know yet) and he was not happy. A friend told me, "Learn from me, dont commit the same mistakes as me. I went thru this whole phase youre going thru, I thought I wanted to be Mexican too, but trust me, you're NOT Mexican and this is just a phase, you should just be who you are." Well, 16+ years later, I never expected this but now Ive been married for 12 years to my husband who's from Mexico and speaks only Spanish (he's had a chronic illness so we've focused on survival instead of being free to focus on him learning English with me). 95% of my daily life is in Spanish. I think in my head in Spanish, thinking out how Im going to say such and such to so and so, and then realize "Oops, wait, I don't need to be planning in Spanish to be talking to my dad today." 😅 Fun video, thanks!

I definitely hadn't had anyone 'reject' my learning Spanish, but there's definitely been doubting that I could actually do it (albeit expressed in a round about vague British way)

Especially being black and having gone through this when I started learning spanish 11 years ago this video was spot on LOL but not just family a lot of peers too

Happened to me the same way not the Spanish part cuz my family is Hispanic and I speak Spanish myself but I was learning Italian, Portuguese and French my friends made fun of me but I learned to live with it and I laugh I even joke about it myself so I make myself laugh. Your videos are awesome

This happened to me alot when I started taking spanish seriously. Most of my trouble came at school. My story is a bit weird in that biologically I am mixed. My grandfather on my mom’s side was dominican, but I only met him when I was a baby after that, not at all. I found out more about him while in high school when I started taking it seriously so I had even more motivation. People in my Pre Ap Spanish 3 class always made fun of me 😂😂 especially some of the mexicans(prolly just jealous but it’s all love) I was the best student in both Spanish 3 and AP Spanish 4 and always got called a tryhard (but they were asking me for help on their homework🤦🏽‍♂️) As far as at home, definitely had some of the same things. He sido escuchando a reggaetón y bachata desde 2016 y todavía recuerdo esos momentos cuándo estaba en el baño y bajaba el volumen porque ya sabía que me estaban escuchando 😂 y ahora cuándo vamos de vacaciones soy el traductor... Diablo 😂😂

My mom always thought it was stupid for me to learn Spanish because "everyone around here speaks English". Good thing I stuck with it, because lo and behold, there are people who speak Spanish as well.

I get treated like this to, they just be mad because they wish they had the patience and persistence to do the same. This was funny 😄

I got this from my family and I'm actually half Panamanian! They be like "You're BLACK"😑😑😑

“Cut that out you know I don’t speak that!” 😂😂

My family makes jokes & they say the taco burrito stuff to me all the time. They say my music sounds like carnival music (listening to banda) & they’re always like “do you even know what they’re saying?” They also always say they wanna learn but when i try to help them they reject me saying “i don’t speak that” I’m like how you gonna learn if you don’t let me try to show you? 😂🙄 thankfully tho my fam has been extremely supportive of it for the most part. they always say “have you done a dna test yet?? Bc all of that came from somewhere! Idc what anybody says, you got some Mexican in you SOME WHERE” 🤣 turns out ancestry said 2% mexican lol!! & my family was like yup we knew. 💀 but this was spot on. Anytime someone is speaking Spanish some where it’s always “Shelby!!! What did they say??” 😂 but overall my mom brags on me a lot telling everyone that i can speak Spanish & that Ik how to dance the way Mexicans do lol.

This is so true I used to be so ashamed of there behavior it was so annoying they used to say to people “she thinks she puertorriqueño or turn that mess off when I listen to Spanish music but now I understand it was just a lack of understanding and it’s been ten years since then and they actually tell people and are proud that I speak Spanish !!

My mom doesn't like my Spanish music whenever I listen to it in the car or whenever she's around. I have a few cousins who speak Spanish though and I'm encouraged to keep learning. And I can help the kids with translations when they are learning Spanish

It's the "IDK now you need me" for me!😂😂

Este video es tan cierto. Mi primo me pregunto porque todo está en español en mi página de Facebook. Y la gente en mi trabajo salen de la habitación cuando estoy en mi almuerzo y respirar duro aveces para hacerme incómodo y saber que no les gusta . Me encuentro esos muy chistosos. Gracias a ti por compartirlo 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

All of that is so true! I get nervous now listening to music in Spanish or Netflix shows because I’m afraid of ridicule. It’s been holding back my progress, so thanks for this video! I’m black to, ‘see picture’ lol and my family doesn’t get it 🤷🏾‍♀️

“Who you yellin at” lmaoo

Here in California there a lot of folks of Mexican ancestry that do not speak Spanish. My grandparents generation didn't teach their children Spanish in hopes they wouldn't be discriminated against. My grandparents tell stories of being disciplined in school for speaking or translating Spanish. Learning Spanish is still on my bucket list. Speaking a second language can give you an advantage in a job over someone who only speaks one language. Enjoyed the video!

I actually started learning Spanish because my parents would speak it around me as a kid as a type of code, and it would frustrate me that I couldn’t understand them. It’s mainly my extended family that acts some type of way about us speaking Spanish, but we just talk about them (or pretend to talk about them) in Spanish immediately afterward. 🤣🤣🤣

When i was first getting into spanish it was most definitely the first few stages with my family as well as people i went to middle school and high school with. There were times I felt discouraged because it felt like you were not "black enough" or that you were" trying too hard to be hispanic" when in actuality I wanted to go beyond textbook spanish and actually experience the different cultures and how different spanish speakers live outside of what is shown in media. After a while when they see you know so much and can order things and communicate in spanish , then you are "cultured" and finally they start listening to some of the music you listen to and try the foods from other spanish speaking countries that you like to try.

I love this channel, everyone is so inspiring. Makes me want to do more. I love reading the comments with how committed everyone is. 🥰🥰

Dang that's messed up. Maybe its regional too tho? Since spanish is pretty regularly spoken in my area no ones had an issue with me learning Spanish. Now I when I tried to learn French my family was exactly like this tho! 😂. My dads side is Black, Cuban/ Creole. I told my dad that I was going to learn french and that man said "why on earth would you do that?! Ain't no one speaking french round here! You better learn that spanish. That's what you need to learn!" I was hard headed but he was right 😂😂😂❤

Vivo muy lejos de mi familia ahora así que cuando empecé a estudiar español no me pudieron molestar pero cuando estuve aprendiendo chino mis amigos siempre me dijeron "que haces, intentas ser asiático?"

I definitely experienced at least two of these 😂😂 My friends/family always asking me to translate words lol

Lmfao the “he need to know that he black” took me out ! This is my second time viewing the video and it still has me weak.

Hahahahaha that voicemail just took me out! 😂😂😂😂

5:37 "The NEXT example. The NEXT EXAMPLE!" (I love how you walk with passion in this moment because that is how heavy I feel inside too)

It happened to me, my family used to make fun of me when started learning English.

So my dad's side is Puerto Rican. They've been like "oh shit, that's so awesome!" My mom's side however, had no idea that I didn't already know Spanish. Don't know how or why that works like that. Got into a political argument with my southern cousin and she told me I should "go back to wherever my dad's family is from", and I said "lol, the US, dipshit" and she's since blocked me on every platform ever.

i’m so grateful because my dads supportive of it. he’ll make them offhand comments like “you remember you black, right?” as jokes, but other than that, he’s been pushing me to learn even more languages after spanish 😭. i probably will, though, i wanna learn french, italian, and russian if my brain can fit all that. i’m a teen, so this is the best time to learn languages and retain them

literally my life story bro😭 when i started learning papiamentu(Portuguese/spanish creole language) , the language of curaçao where my dad is from. But my moms side is black american and the journey was rough for sure but now it’s all love and they encourage me. Thanks for doing this video bro, this one really hit home fr. been watching your content for a while now, keep it up hermano🙌🏼🙌🏼 saludos de nueva york

Family members asking what something means hit the hardest 😂💀

I was introduced to the culture when I was younger. I fell in love with how the had the close family thing. I moved with the family for 2 years, I became family. My comprehension of the language went threw the roof

Omg, the part about being in a store and your family needs your help is so true! Lol! I love speaking Spanish to native Spanish speakers

I’m Haitian so my family says I swear I’m Dominican😂😂but some of them speak Spanish already

"Oh... Y'all just talked so much crap throughout the years I just learned to cut y'all off aha!" Never related more 😂😂

THANKFULLY i have no bad experience w my family and spanish(since im mixed !! ) BUT i have had some confusing looks from people when they hear my accent sounds like a latin caribbean accent & they ask “omg are you dominican or puerto rican or etc. “ & im like “nooooo im actually part mexican😂💀” it’s always hard to explain to them why i decided to study PR spanish vs mexican spanish but my big thing is bc i felt like i fit more w the latin caribbean world based on how i looked & just in general the vibe tu sabe😂!! no one ever believed i was mexican anyways so if they complain im not “true to my roots” ehhh it’s whatever 🙄💀

Sí! Thank you for your channel and videos. I learned Spanish as a teenager bc my best friend is Colombian and i used to hang out at her house where her grandmother didn't speak English. When i started learning Spanish I got some push back from my family also. They would say stuff like, You are not our child, I think someone switched babies with us at the hospital (like a baby knows the parents' language at birth!) They also thought my Colombian music was strange. Then......years later they were proud of me. One of my cousins, my favorite cousin worked 6 hours away in a hospital in Georgia, She called me on 2 different occasions bc she had patients who spoke only Spanish and she wanted me to tell them what the doctor was saying. it was unreal! Thanks again for your channel! You are lo mejor!

Yes! All of those things are true! My sister use to make fun of me when she heard me playing merangue . Now she wants to listening to the song about "te quiero baby",she was talking about la morena by oro solido🤣💀🇩🇴

Aye bro u just like me fr 😂. You look very Dominican but you African American, and I look very Puerto Rican/Mexican but my parents are from Sicily and Romania. In the last few years since I’ve gotten into high school I’ve gotten really obsessed with the Hispanic culture because at first everyone thought I was Hispanic and I didn’t really correct them all that much when they kept saying it, and a lot of my friends are Latino so when I sit with them I kind of blend in. It has also been very easy for me to learn Spanish (almost fluent now) knowing two other Latin languages and having some Latin American relatives and family friends. Lately specifically this past year, I have become even more obsessed with the culture when I started listening to more Reggaeton music after going in Italy two summers ago. When I got back from my vacation I started listening to more Hispanic music and watching funny skits about Puerto Rican’s and Dominicans. Now I know a lot more about differences between Caribbean Hispanics, South Americans, and Central Americans. I thought I was the only one that had a story like this lmao. Obviously being slightly poorer, more humble, Latin and Southern Europeans my family shares a lot of similarities with Latinos. They’ve started noticing this whole “Hispanic Phase” several months ago. They usually say stuff like “Oh first he wants to be Arab, then he’s Spanish, then he’s black. This guy wants to be everything.” Lmao 😂 But anyways bro I think we very similar and I’m very surprised but glad at the same time that someone has had a smilies experience as me. I don’t know about the whole acceptance part because I don’t think it’s that serious, Atleast not for me, but I’m currently 16 so we’ll see how good I get at this shit later on lol. They know I love cultures and they are cool with they just don’t want me to over do it and believe I’m something that I’m not. I don’t believe that I’m Latino but I do love their culture and recognize similaritieswith my own such as looks, phrases and ways of talking or acting, culture, and language wise. But aye that all man, good video, I really fucks wit your content 👍🏽

I got indifference from my immediate family. Now my aunt's would say "You just leaning Spanish for women ". I would say not only. Lol.

The title was already so relatable that I liked before seeing the video.

I learned French first. It is nice to see a video that explores and acknowledges how socially and emotionally hard it can be to learn a new language in a world that expects you to only speak your first language 😊 I can relate.

Thank you so much for this video. I have never experienced so much negativity and almost discrimination from other people. I'm trying to broaden my mind and keep learning new things, but people hate on me.

I get the same thing. At first when I would be be on the phone speaking Spanish. They would try to talk Spanish making up crazy like baby talk. Now they accept it

1. My family doesn’t usually make comments they just ask what they are saying on tv or how to say something sometimes. I did get comments on my subtitles though. 2. I hope do know the cha cha slide though 3. The video was funny.

my family is “read this read that” 😂😂

So true except in mi familia everyone is related to someone from a different ethnicity and with our Native American selves, everyone thinks my family is latina. So my family just excepted me for who I am and embraced the Spanish language with me.

Thanks for sharing. 👍These sensrios were so relatable. Although the language that I acquired was Arabic .Also, being African-American I experienced similar reactions from some of those around me.😁 One of the important takeaways I got from this video is that language acquisition is not just a linguistic endeavor but a cultural one as well.💡 Inseparable. Again, thanks for sharing.

I never had a problem with the family. I did have a strange experience at the school I workrd at. I was talking in spanish to a grandparent of a student. Co workers said I shouldn't Speak spanish because no one could understand. That didn't stop me.Excelente video.

This video hits the nail on the head. I remember when I was in high school, and the Spanish bug hit me. I was watching Univision on tv and my mother called me to the dinner table to eat dinner. We were eating dinner for about ten minutes and she said go turn that tv off it’s so annoying. I did not move, then my father said you heard your mother. I was so sad, I don’t know why my parents acted that way. But I kept going after that, started listening to the music and when I went to college I took every Spanish class I could and got great grades. People think I’m Hispanic and I don’t even have to speak. They see my reactions and when I order lunch they give me a side eye... I love ❤️ it

Jajaja love this video!❤️ I don’t have any family members questioning me like this but I am obsessed with the culture now, I watch everything in Spanish on Netflix but I am noway near as fluent as you! So glad I found your channel! x

My family does this too. Idk why they love trying to discourage me in anything I try to do, not even just learning Spanish. I'm not black still I can relate. It gets me down but I am learning to ignore them. Like you said, I'm not learning for them, I'm learning for me. Thanks for the encouragement.

I just came over from your KZfaq story and THIS IS SO FUNNY. I thought I was alone with having such a close minded/negative family. Thanks for making this! I needed it!

Thanks for your encouragement. My family thinks I’m a joke since I’ve been learning Spanish. But it’s nice to walk down the street in Ybor City and start singing Spanish songs that I recognize. It’s kinda sad to receive accolades from perfect strangers vs family when knowing the lyrics to Spanish songs. I might just get up enough nerve to go into one of the Latino clubs for my birthday😃

They keep laughing at me until this past Thanksgiving I prayed over dinner in Spanish, lol they knew I wasn't playing! Think I earned their respect 🙌 haha 😄

This is great! So fun to watch your acting talent! I'm learning Spanish and, yeah, I've got a lot to learn!

I felt that second so much. The Compresión Phase serious that’s what I’m going through. Right now.

LOL! Come on man you know you go on that Columbia trip just as quick as I would! Just buy me the plane ticket and pay for everything!

"That Spanish stuff" lol! Currently teaching myself Spanish. I love it!

Do more videos like this😂🔥🔥