[♪ BigBong playing guitar ♪]
♪ When I saw her ♪
Hi everybody, BigBong here
And today's video is very special because I dedicate it
to my Spanish speaking subscribers
Indeed, today we're gonna be talking about a language
that's very dear to my heart and it's Spanish
If you don't understand English, activate the subtitles please
And I'm sorry if my Spanish is not perfect
I'm still learning the language and I wanna improve even more
All right then, let's go!
If you're following my channel, you probably saw the video
I made with my Colombian friend Mateo
in which we compare which language sounds more romantic
between French and Spanish
But I need to confess something...
Deep inside my heart, I think it's Spanish
Yes, I have a soft spot for Spanish
and the Latin American culture
And I don't want to spread stereotypes but
I love spending time with family, partying and dancing
Now when I have conversations about the Korean language
and culture, the topic of K-pop often comes up
But unfortunately, I've never really felt drawn to it...
I don't know why, maybe if I were to live in Korea again
I'll probably look into it
But the thing is that, it's the complete opposite
when it comes to Spanish and it's commercial music
I have to say, I'm addicted to Reggaeton man!
I'm really addicted and sometimes I can't get the melody
out of my head, it's crazy right?
But it did somehow help me learn Spanish
even though I was mostly able to say sentences like
Hi Sweetheart, I have to be honest with you
and say that I wanna spend the whole night in your bed, my love
So what do we do?
So not always useful in daily situations
But in my defence, there are a lot of efforts
to bring different languages and cultures together
in some songs
♪ And move your head ♪
And this is also what this channel is all about!
By the way, I also saw that Daddy Yankee's "Dura"
was going viral in China
That's pretty amazing, Chinese people learning
and singing in Spanish
[♪ BigBong singing "Dura" with a Chinese accent ♪]
That's so cool!
Well done, we love you guys!
Though sometimes people don't speak the language
but they still wanna sing along and that's pretty funny
[♪ BigBong singing "Despacito" with made up lyrics ♪]
I really heard a French guy singing in a club like that once
Not with the guitar of course
and lucky for him the music was loud
But hey, does it really matter in the end?
The guy was having fun!
And that's what this music is all about
But this raises another question, I'm very curious about
What happens when Spanish people sing Latin American songs?
Would they sing it in their accent or in the original one?
[♪ BigBong singing "Hoy voy a beber" in a Spanish accent ♪]
If you're Spanish from Spain, please let me know in the comments
because I really wanna know
And that's precisely what I wanna talk about today
Now I started learning Spanish from Spain back in Europe
and I was strictly taught to speak like that
A beer please, thank you very much
But since I started living in Canada
I mostly met Mexicans, Colombians, Guatemalans
Peruvians, Venezuelans, in other words
many Latin American people and even though I know
that the accent is completely different from
one Latin American country to another
my accent did grow apart from European Spanish
Well actually, it's also pretty much what happened with my English
Although I have to admit, now it's a bit confusing
because when I hear a word, I'm not quite sure
if I have to write it with an S, a C or a Z
"Una cela, los zapatos o calzados"
You know what I mean, right?
Now listening to reggaeton, I was mostly influenced by
Puerto Rican Spanish and by analyzing the accent
I noticed that sometimes the R was pronounced like an L
[♪ BigBong singing "Hoy voy a beber" ♪]
And from what I understand, there seems to be
a lot of Latin American people who aspirate their S
So for example, the sentence "estamos listos después"
I don't even know if this sentence makes sense but
I believe some people might say "tamo' li'to' de'pué'"
Of course, I'm exaggerating and maybe I'm totally wrong
In that case, please let m know in the comments
because that's also how I can learn
But I wanna take it to the next level by asking you guys
who come from a Spanish speaking country
to send me an audio recording of the most popular expressions
from your dialect, gathered in one sentence with your accent
Apart from music, I'm also used to Mexican or Colombian
Spanish because of movies and TV shows
and for example, if you're from Mexico you can record
something like "ay no manches, la neta que si" etc.
in a sentence that actually makes sense
But please let's avoid swear words
So record yourself with some explanations
included in the audio or by typing a message
to help me with the pronunciation
You can also leave me your name if you want me
to give you a shout-out and you can send everything over
to my Facebook page or Instagram
And of course, you can follow me on the way
If some of you are also learning Spanish
and wanna know what I'm doing at the moment
I've started this new Netflix show called "One Day at a Time"
It's about Latin American families living in the US
It's mostly in English so I put Spanish subtitles
But it's really well written with plenty of good references
and the cast is just amazing
Plenty of small lovely things like how Rita Moreno
humorously winks at her former role in "West Side Story"
shot more than 50 years before
Don't you like being in this country?
Of course...
I like to be in America
That's pretty amazing if you ask me!
So here you go, that's pretty much my journey
through the Spanish language so far
I can't wait to read your comments and messages
And of course, to learn even more!
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A warm hug and I'll see you, ciao!