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Welcome to my channel
I have a guest today
Her name is Daria
And we actually studied at the same school
And now working together
And she's in Linguatrip as well
And if you're calling us sometimes
You probably talking to her
And Daria is also
bilingual, trilingual
She speaks Russian, English and Spanish
And today I wanted to ask her tips and tricks
how she learns Spanish
because it took her a little time to learn it
And now she's proficient
And she's going to share her experience with us
You started learning Spanish when you went to University, right?
Yeah
16, 17 something like this
And this was your second foreign language
after English
Tell me when did you feel that
your Spanish is getting better
and you actually can start speaking Spanish
Well, maybe it was after half a year
Firstly because when you're in the university
you start with
phonetics
some theoretical things
Actual speaking starts a little bit later.
It took me half a year just not to be shy
because when for example you speak one foreign language
at rather good level as English for example
it's impossible for you to understand O my God
I'm starting to learn a new language
and I'm so rabish
I make stupid mistakes
I'll rather keep shut up
It was a little bit difficult
After a half a year it was okay for me
Then I went to Spain
for a language course
Something changes in your mind
when you can go to a country where you can actually speak language
And then there was no problem
Okay
You learned Spanish for a year
and then you realised you wouldn't be able to improve it
Well, I had an experience of a language exchange program
with English
Something really changes in your head
when you speak English in native country
I decided maybe it would be the same thing with Spanish
My groupmates and I
decided to go to Spain to improve our Spanish
break this barrier
And it helped actually
You took 3 week course
It was something like a 3 week course
Not much but it really helped
because on the third day you realise that you
you're not translation from Russian into Spanish
But you actually talk
like a normal human being
and when you're surrounded by people who speak Spanish
you just think a little bit in a different way
it really helped
From the 3 day it worked okay
When you came back, what did you do to improve your language?
Was it just university?
University and watching movies in Spanish
watching serials
reading books as well
Great tip was watching euro news
Euro news has a website in all the languages possible
I watched it in Spanish
Then I read just the Spanish transcript
If there were some things I didn't understand
I could put on Russian version
That's it
Many people who think that news produced by their own country
somehow biest
expresses a different point of view
you can just watch in other language
Yeah, cool
Can you recommend any films that you watched?
Some my university works
on movies
I watched lots of
but in Russia we have
google it
I like the movie Azuloscurocasinegro
What else?
You can just google film director, I don't remember him
You'll find lots of movies
he made and we'll post it below
If you have a movie already translated into
your native language
If you watch it in your native language
you can just watch it in Spanish as well
If it was Spanish originally
Some people find it easier to watch like if you're American
and you have an American film translated into Spanish
The translation will be easier
They'll use like American idioms, phrases
translated into Spanish
and try any tv series that you watch now
and watch them in Spanish
because the culture will be familiar, I think
Or you can watch Spanish serials as well
They're not so nice but
What did I watch?
The website is telecinco
It's a Spanish channel
They have lots of serials, you can choose what you want
And antenna free I guess
Something like this
You can google it, download and watch online
And there are torrents
It's not good to say it
We'll cut it out
Okay, you can just download that
Okay, you know how
If somebody wants to go to Spain
or Mexico, that would be a different language?
It would be a different accent I'd say
That's important when you go to the classroom
with teachers and everybody
they speak to you in castellano
That's Spanish that is spoken in Madrid
just the central part
the right one
In Mexico, no
If you're talking about Spain, yeah
In Spain teachers have a standardized version of Spanish
In Mexico or Latin America
that would be different
They have their own not only accent
but the version of language
When I worked with Spanish language
I was translating I don't remember the country
it was some serial from Latin America
And were moments like "what the hell is that?"
I contacted my friend from Spain
like I have a problem with my work and need help
what does it mean?
He said: "I have no idea".
Just google it please
Maybe there is some different between
Spanish in Spain and Spanish in Latin America
That's not great. If you want to improve your language
just some skills and some vocabulary
any destination you like
If you're in Europe
of course it'll be easier for you to go to Spain
In you're in other parts of the world
Maybe Latin America
That's really no difference
If you're in the States, go to Miami
or to San Francisco
everything in two languages
Exactly, in the Bay area
When Daria came to California
she said all of the names are in Spanish
Los Altos
Yeah
It was a part that spoke Spanish
What really suprised me
you see some, I don't know, even in shops
some writing in Spanish
In Spanish districts
Go on and practice, you don't even have to travel
If you want to learn proper Spanish
that has to be a proper language school
somewhere like in Mexico
or in Spain and then
you go out and experience real language
Yeah, that's even better
because in the crowded classroom you have classes
standard language is very standard
When you go out on the street
you brain starts working in different manner
and that's a good practice
When you understand 30% of all the information
but you hear really language
it's really good for you
And choosing the destination,
the best in not the popular one
like Barcelona
In Barcelona everything is for tourists
If you know English, nobody will speak Spanish to you
Everybody wants to practice English
Go to some not very remote places but
just not so popular
in your country
The best way to practice Spanish is to do it without
people who speak your language
When you meet people who speak your language
It's impossible not to talk to them
Choose not very popular destination
and that would be okay
Did you stay with a host family?
No, I stayed in a flat share
and in a residence
Did you have a chance to speak Spanish?
Yeah, we had our neighbors
In Spain everyone is friendly
if you're going to some school in Spain
you have lots of parties
some class activities
and everything will be with your professor and activity leaders
You'll make lots of new friends
friends of your professor
and everyone
My last question - how did you beat the fear of speaking
a foreign language
to a native speaker?
My English is I hope quite okay
But I practiced my Spanish not so much
as I want to
And unfortunately I really have this fear
The only way to beat it
is just go and speak
Go to Spain and tell some native speaker
like you know I studies Spanish and I can speak a little bit
In this very moment he'll start speaking Spanish with you
And you have practice
The only way - just start speaking
Just go there and speak Spanish
And it's the best way to learn it
beat the stress
Cool
Thank you so much Daria
Thank you for your advice
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