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Caption: Are you moved in Colombia just because of Maria
sometimes it looks like that you look sad unhappy and i hope i'm
wrong anyway i wish you you guys
to be happy wherever you go
um gosh um it's been a while it's
been a while since i've been in a video i mean
i've been in some vlogs here and there but as far as actually
being in a video by myself it's been a quite a while if
you want to know why, I made a video a while back about that
it's right here and we'll put a link in the description
down below if you want to watch that video earlier this week I
posted a question for you all and that was about if you
had any questions for me about my Spanish or life here in
Colombia and yeah so now in this video i'm going to answer all those questions so let's get started
so a lot of you probably know that in
Colombia right now it's kind of a crazy
time with the protests stuff you've been
seeing in the protest because they're getting kind of
out of control and violent and stuff like that and there's clashes
with police and kind of a crazy time here so a lot of
you had questions about that maria and i are fine we
haven't really seen much of that stuff it doesn't really not a lot of that
happens around where we live thankfully it's been going on
for a while now I think a lot of people like Colombians in general are kind of
getting tired of it and ready to just move on I'm not going to
speak too much on that if you want to know more about it I'll
find some links to some newspapers I'll put it in the description down below
so you can read more about it if you're interested so along those lines another question was
should I come to Colombia right now for tourism and in my opinion I
would probably hold off and kind of just see what
happens I think you'll probably be okay if you did come
I'm not sure if I would want to like move around the country I would probably just kind of
stay in one area there's going to be a presidential election coming
next year so maybe protests kind of flare up around
that i would say hold off for now and just kind of watch the news
como es el ciclismo en Colombia? cycling here is huge
probably the second most popular sport after football
or soccer here in botha for example there's lots of cichlid rutas
so you can go from one end of the city using the cichlid ruthas
so it's just bike paths on sundays they're ciclavia and that's just like where they close
down certain streets all over the city and you can just ride your
bike other than that too if you get outside of the big cities you get in these
little towns a lot of these towns are famous because they have
famous cyclists colombian cyclists that were born there and so you see a lot of people out
riding their bicycles there up in the mountains and things like that a good
example of this we went to pipa and it's a town it's famous for its
cyclists everywhere you looked there were people riding their bikes I
mean fancy bikes all they were all decked out they looked
like they were about to go do the you know the tour de France
it's what it looked like to me and you know they were just riding up in the
mountains and Maria and I even rented bikes ourselves however Maria
and I couldn't make it up the hills we had to get off and walk
in this hill we're walking up with the bicycles it goes on forever this is insane
that's how far we've already walked and there's Maria.
How far we still need to go was it difficult to leave your comfort zone and start talking with native speakers if so how did you deal with it it was and still is difficult to
go up and talk to native Spanish speakers for me I have to do it on a daily basis
now because uh here in Colombia you know I guess I
kind of have like a social anxiety because I don't really like to talk to
people especially like groups of people and things like that so
for me I just kind of have to like throw myself into it I just kind of have
to put myself in the situation and sink or swim
sometimes I do well sometimes I do terrible sometimes you just gotta
just put yourself in the situation and figure it
out and sort through it so that's what i'm kind of doing i don't know
like if it ever goes away like being nervous
chatting with native speakers i've met some people who are you know
really awesome at spanish and they still get nervous when they talk with native
speakers but at the same time i guess the more you do it the more you're
here and the more you put yourself in that situation it
probably has to get easier that's what i'm telling myself anyway so hopefully you know
as time goes on hopefully that kind of goes away but
yeah it's it's it's not fun i i totally get it do you feel safe there any plans
on expanding the family in the future any thoughts
about that yeah I totally feel safe here in Colombia they have an expression
here it's like no dog papaya what the heck does that mean don't go
talking on a cell phone walking around don't go walking around with
a camera around your neck you might be fine you might be fine but there is a chance too
you're asking for trouble so yeah it is safe here but definitely you know use caution,
don't go around like you're on vacation like you're on a cruise ship
or something like that you know be very aware of your surrounding any plans on expanding
the family? No. I don't want kids Maria doesn't want
kids so yeah no no no kids in our future the only thing we're going to add
to the family is more street dogs what is the food culture
lacking in colombia were there any products similar to what's sold in the US
do you miss American food as far as food culture goes at least here in bolton
you're going to find anything you can possibly imagine as far as food goes
from like arabic food, indian food, and it's actually really
good there's really great restaurants here so if you're kind of like a foodie person
i think you're really going to enjoy you
know the capital, Bogota, I don't really know about getting like the same name
brands that you get in the States because that would have to be imported so it's going to be a little
more expensive like for instance i found this i know fruity pebbles
are like terrible for you and whatever but this is like my guilty
pleasure on my cheat days uh so yeah i found fruity pebbles at the grocery store
uh I already ate them all actually
I don't really miss anything from the states you can get pretty much
everything you can get in the states here
you know like you know your hamburgers and hot dogs i do miss like
Thanksgiving and stuff like that because it's like impossible to get turkey here
at least you know like you would there in the states other than that yeah everything's
the same similar you can find it are you
moved in colombia just because of Maria sometimes it looks like
that you look sad unhappy and I hope I'm wrong
anyway i wish you you guys to be happy wherever you go um gosh
um this stuff really is annoying i mean i understand i don't think these
people like mean bad things about this but these comments really
do get on my nerves you know maria's nerves all
these comments like you look sad you look skinny you look sick you look fat
What the hell does it matter what we look like?
For this answer like I look sad maybe that's just how I naturally look,
because i am not a person who's like super
emotional and excited and whoo that's just not who I am pretty serious person
pretty not really emotional person i'm guessing
you're referring to some of the vlogs because i saw some comments like that and yeah
i mean that's just i'm just like that that's who i am i mean i'm
happy i'm fine anyway um as far as the move here in Colombia am i here because
of Maria i mean no if i didn't want to move to
Colombia i would not move to Colombia i wanted to move Colombia
i'm happy here in Colombia if it wasn't i wouldn't be here i mean it's that simple i mean
life is too short to be unhappy so i would not be here that's that that simple
i don't know why people write comments like this i mean i know you
probably meant something nice i'm you know i'm not trying to beat up
on you but i mean for goodness sakes guys like cut it out with
this kind of stuff it's just ridiculous. But you know? whatever that's part of being on the internet right? everybody can say whatever they want but you know, whatever.
En fin... is in other parte de Colombia um yeah definitely oh by the way
hello Sharon I'm pretty sure this is Sharon
from espanol en Uso so, shout out to Sharon definitely I think
I would probably want to go to like the coffee triangle and live there
we visited the coffee triangle or one of the cities in the coffee triangle i
don't remember... Salento! and I just really liked it there um i
don't particularly like hot weather so like here in botha it's kind of like
eternal fall so the coffee region is kind of like a
similar climate it's not exactly similar so i would definitely probably do
the coffee truck are you more confident in your spanish skills
yes and no it just kind of depends on the situation so like the other
day i went to the barber shop got this you know
fresh hairdo here and i was chatting with the barber everything's going great
i was asking about his life he was asking about mine we were just having
a good conversation while i was getting my hair cut and i was like man i'm
like the i'm like the spanish master i have got
this down i am awesome and then he asked me something about cejas
and i was like what what what in the
world does he want to do like i didn't get it he was basically wanting to cut my eyebrows
he said they were too long i didn't understand and then
eventually through you know trial and error we figured it out and yeah so I
got my eyebrows cut too so that was that was kind of
cool i've never got my eyebrows cut that was weird didn't know that was
a thing but anyway so yeah it depends on the day yes and no sometimes i'm confident
sometimes i'm not it's like a like a roller coaster this question is like wondering
if i've ever kind of experienced anything
negative towards being a foreigner here in columbia and no i've not really experienced
anything i mean the only thing you might run into is
they might try to raise the price on you this is espanol i am not the spanish teacher
that is the other part of the channel. That's Maria she's the Spanish teacher.
I am the spanish student come on get with the program Muhammad
uh no i'm just kidding um no i'm not the spanish teacher i never claimed to be a Spanish
teacher never planned to be a spanish teacher i'm just a spanish student
i'm probably the worst spanish student i would say ever, according to Maria
but uh yeah that's it i'm just a spanish student no spanish teacher
here that's maria other part i remember when you
felt a bit negative about spanish and had to take a break have you managed
to turn that all around now if so do you have any advice for people that
feel frustrated when learning with the learning process so what he's talking
about is that video i mentioned at the beginning
put a link in the description if you wanted to watch that it's kind of why i kind
of got fed up with Spanish and tired of Spanish and
stuff like that i haven't really managed to turn that completely around yet i'm still kind of
struggling with it myself even though
i'm living here and my whole life is in spanish now as far as advice for people who
are frustrated i totally get it i totally feel you
we've had people who send us emails and things like this all the time
talking about how you're frustrated one thing that i can say that's kind of reignited
we've had people who send us emails and things like this all the time
talking about how you're frustrated one thing that i can say that's kind of reignited
the fire to learn spanish was i've tried to find things that i enjoy and
try to put a spanish spin on it what
the heck do i mean by that i really like mixed martial arts it's not something that
i've really ever done as far as taking classes i've had a few
here and there here in colombia i found a guy who teaches muay thai i meet with
him three times a week he teaches me how to do muay thai kind of
boxing and stuff like that actually have like some nice bruises on my elbows because
he taught me elbows
uh yesterday not only am i learning muay thai from him but
i'm also learning spanish i'm learning new words from him i'm
learning slang just different expressions and it's kind of reignited
that that fire for me to learn spanish because
i want to be able to communicate better with him i want to know
more about some of the techniques so that i can do it better
you know generally just talk with him about stuff because sometimes like he'll
tell me something and it just goes right over my head and i don't
understand anything if you're getting frustrated maybe trying to
find some way to do something that you do enjoy and mix
spanish with it it's not really learning but it's kind of still putting myself in
the language was something that i enjoyed doing
if that makes any sense where is maria that's a great question let's go find her right maria
[Music] there's maria hey so there you go do you have any problem when
it comes to listening to native speakers that speak
relatively fast for example when i do i almost understand the first few words
and sentences then everything fades away how do you make progress with that it's
really annoying i don't see much progress to be honest yeah this happens
to me a lot like when i work with my muay thai coach
sometimes he he'll tell me something i'll understand like the first sentence or
something like that and then after that it just all goes over my head so i
totally get it it is frustrating one thing i would say to do is think about habla continua
so that's like think about it in your language when you
talk really fast you typically connect words together so for example
my coach would sometimes tell me honda's
and i'm like what what did you say he would say it faster than me
obviously but he was telling me to put on my guantes y bandas
So the bands so you know the hand wraps that go around your hand
and then the the boxing gloves they're chaining words together and
sometimes it sounds like it's one word so a really good way to help with
that is i mean it's just it's just exposing yourself to more
native spanish speakers and listening to that sound and try to catch those those
words that they string together i'm a really good way to do this that
maria says is listening to podcasts she recommends radio and volante they tell
like stories in spanish and things like that from native Spanish speakers
and they also have an app it's called lupa with that app you can find the transcripts
of the podcast and you can like click the words
see the translation in english you can slow it down speed it up things like that
and we actually work with them and we have a link in the
description down below where you can get a discount off the loop app if you're
interested it's good stuff uh we really like it here so that's why
we recommend it when it comes to the the the progress sometimes it's really frustrating
just know that this is like a long game thing and don't don't get
too frustrated with the short-term results i know it was annoying and of an
answer as that probably is also no
you're not the only one now i'm hearing colombia struggling as well so just keep
at it so what's been the hardest
thing about moving away from your country and living here what food
do you miss the most and what's your favorite climbing food for
me i mean the hardest thing about being here is being away from my
parents and my grandparents what food do i miss the most i miss my my mom's
cooking you know i mean heck it's not something that i've had in a very long time
so favorite colombian food would probably be
hiyako if you don't know what that is just google it it's delicious if you ever
get a chance can't go wrong what do i like and what i
not like about living in colombia one thing that i really like about columbia
is all the different fruits and vegetables that they have one thing that
i don't like here is electric showers definitely will probably maybe move
to the States in the future and my favorite empanada there is a
and the dough like they make this empanada with it's kind of sweet so you have
that sweetness and you put some ahi on it and stuff
it's uh can't go wrong with that what was one thing that surprised you about
living in colombia so moving here this time nothing really
surprised me because i've lived here like a few times before so i kind of
already knew but like the first time that i lived here i mean a
few things that surprised me where i mean some of the things you guys
have seen in some of our videos like the milk here is
in a in a bag and it's not refrigerated until you open it when you open the bag
then you have to refrigerate it
the eggs the eggs are brown i'm used to white eggs that's typically what
we have in the states they're not refrigerated as well
i mentioned the electric shower head those things aren't fun this is
another thing that i think might throw some people off
typically in Colombia i don't know if it's all of latin america but typically
here in Colombia when you go to the bathroom you're going to find
like a little trash can beside the toilet that trash can is you know when
you when you go and you do do do the do the dirty
and uh you throw it in the trash can you don't throw it in the toilet so some
people find that really gross i kind of thought
it was very odd at first but yeah that's something too how do you adjust things
such that you may convey the correct message to other native spanish speakers
one thing i think a lot of us struggle with is we try to speak like we would in
our native language and sometimes we don't have the
vocabulary to express ourselves in spanish that we do in our native language
that kind of hinders you so one thing that i've
started doing is i've tried to think of other ways to say what i want
to say and i try to keep what i'm trying to say in spanish as
simple as possible because when you start trying to use
this big fancy colorful language it sometimes it just doesn't work try to keep it as
simple as possible and then if worse comes to worse there's
always the acting start acting it out
use your hands and kind of get your point across i do this
a lot with my muay thai coach if i don't understand something i start to act it out and kind
of try to explain it with my hands and typically i can get my my my point across
so yeah there's that i've been feeling discouraged lately
thinking about that i wasn't making much progress uh and then
i read this post in spanish without thinking and i understand
king robert i i totally feel you on this i've had this happen to me several times
i'll be down in the dumps kind of like oh man you know my spanish is terrible
i'm never gonna learn this it's so frustrating i should just give up or something
and i'll go out to the street and just
be walking the dog or something like that and i have no idea why but
i get stopped constantly for people asking me directions
i've had people pull up beside me in their car and ask me for directions people
are on their motorcycles the other day i was just standing there
and the soldier came up to me and asked me for directions the
crazy thing is is i understand what they're saying and i'm actually able to
tell these people where to go because typically it's stuff you know in my
in you know where i live and in my body
yeah and i just tell them where to go and then after that i'm like on such
a high i'm like oh man i got this you know heck this person
just came up to me randomly and asked me for directions and i told
them where to go i just feel really good about myself so
i i totally relate to that you just got to keep at it i mean it's it's kind
of this frustrating thing you know i
i get it i get it what is the most difficult thing you found while learning
spanish everything now if i had to pick
something i would say definitely irregular verbs those kind of throw me for
a loop sometimes um and then definitely like low law that's kind of confusing
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study but good stuff you're interested check it out there'll be a
link in the description down below well that's the last question
i really appreciate you all giving me all these questions and participating
if you all do want to see me uh do a video completely in spanish well
uh smash that like button and you know if we hit like let's say if you
can get this video to like 3 000 likes or something like that
i'll make a video completely in Spanish because i know every time
I make a video that where i speak English oh my goodness people get so
like upset why i do the video in spanish but hey hit that like button
then if you want to see me do a video on spanish and i'll do a complete video for you all in
Spanish hopefully you like this video thanks for watching to the end
I'll catch you all in the next video. Chao.
Title: I Answer Your Questions About My Spanish and Life In Colombia
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