- Hey guys, Ron White here coming to you today
from my home in Fort Worth.
I want to talk to you today about
how to become fluent in another language.
Learning another language and the best ways to do that.
First of all, the best way to do that
is really just immersion,
go live in that country
and surround yourself by it all the time.
If you can't do that maybe you can stay in your country,
but you can watch it on TV,
listen to the language in the radio,
get a course like Rosetta Stone,
which is really good about simulating
an immersion experience.
Now, I teach memory training seminars.
I'm a two time USA memory champion.
I used to hold the record for the fastest
to memorize a deck of cards.
And I will tell you this,
memorizing a language
is not the best way to learn a language.
However, if you can memorize maybe 100 or 200 words,
core words in a language and then it will accelerate
the speed at which you can learn the language.
So, memorize a core group of words,
100 or 200 words or 50 words,
and use them as the foundation to learn the language.
In this video, right next what you're going to see
is me and my former assistant, Sarah,
who's a good friend of mine,
which she speaks Spanish fluently
and we created a video on how to memorize Spanish words.
So, this video is goofy, it's silly.
We're being really corny in the video and I know that,
but we're trying to have fun.
So, watch this and get some tips
on how to memorize words in a foreign language.
This is me and Sarah with some Spanish words.
Check it out.
(upbeat music)
- Hola, amigo. (speaking in foreign language)
We are going to teach you how to memorize Spanish.
My name's Ron.
- And I'm Sarah.
- I'm a two time USA memory champion.
- And I'm here to make sure he pronounces everything right.
- Okay, so the first word we're going to memorize
is (speaking in foreign language)
and it means to choose.
- (speaking in foreign language)
- Whatever she said.
So, (speaking in foreign language) sounds like
it's cold there.
Hey, it's cold there.
- Brr.
- Choose a coat.
Which one do you want?
It's cold there.
To choose.
You choose a coat when it's cold there.
(speaking in foreign language)
- (speaking in foreign language)
- So, Sarah, do you know what you call
four Mexicans in quicksand?
- What?
- (speaking in foreign language)
- That's ridiculous.
(laughs)
- The next one is (speaking in foreign language).
- (speaking in foreign language)
- And it means to leave.
(speaking in foreign language) sounds like
salad in your ear.
(speaking in foreign language), salad in your ear.
- Oh no, you don't.
(laughs)
- See, I tried to put salad in her ear and she leaves.
(speaking in foreign language), to leave.
Now, the next word is (speaking in foreign language).
- (speaking in foreign language)
- Okay, (speaking in foreign language) means to read.
So, we're going to lay our ear.
(speaking in foreign language), to read.
(speaking in foreign language), lay ear, to read.
- (speaking in foreign language)
- Close enough.
(beep)
So, what does pinata mean in Spanish?
- Pinata.
- All right, the next word is (speaking in foreign language)
- (speaking in foreign language)
- That's what I said.
And (speaking in foreign language) means food.
So, the way we're going to remember this,
I happen to have some food in my back pocket.
The way we're going to remember this
is you comb it and then you eat it.
Comb it, eat it.
(speaking in foreign language)
- That's disgusting.
- (speaking in foreign language)
That means food.
Comb it and eat it.
- (speaking in foreign language)
Oh!
(laughs)
- [Male] Javier.
(laughs)
Javier. (laughs)
(upbeat music)