Mexican Spanish and What Makes it NOTORIOUS
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00:00 Sponsor shoutout
00:15 Introduction
00:31 Brief history of Mexican Spanish
01:40 Features (general comments)
02:03 Seseo
02:49 Yeísmo
03:40 Grammar
07:51 Vocabulary
09:09 Words from English
10:03 Words from Nahuatl
12:28 Mexican slang
14:34 CRUDE slang
15:20 The Question of the Day
15:36 Recommended Spanish course
16:06 Patreon shoutout
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Great video you should do one on andalusian Spanish peace
So glad you've done this video on Mexican Spanish, Paul! I've been using Pimsleur Spanish (Latin American), and am sometimes surprised by things they don't explain. For example, the use of the letters "v" and "b". "To drink" is "bevir", but the "v" is pronounced "b". But once in awhile, the two Spanish speakers in the audio do actually use the English "v" in certain words, but unpredictably. Why is that? And now I am surprised that there are so many differences between regional varieties of Spanish! This project might become even more interesting than I expected.
Where’s the link to the slang video that you promised?
Video oriented to english speakers: exist Mexicans: Esto me interesa
It's also approved by a turtle
¡Exacto! :D
Hahaha
Si cierto cómo sabes ?
@Lucio Martínez Same. I only know what my parents taught me and two years of highschool spanish.
Every Mexican watching this video: A ver, como chingados no voy a saber?
Igualito jjjajajaja
ysi jajjaa
A webo
Así mismo pues...
Right!?
As a Mexican I can't believe you can actually study the Mexican slang so academically. I'm very impressed. Les quedó de poca madre su video (Your video turned out really great).
Una mas: "sí está vergas"
Que tal ..no que passo.. mi habla Co accentos de Puerto Rico, Tejano, Castilliano, y parts de Mexico...what gets me is some folks can't understandz otra accentos..or lingual basicas..
Mis padres son de Jalisco pero usamos palabras españoles y no tanto Mexicano? Por ejemplo Nosotros decimos búho y no tecolote.
@@angelgjr1999 whitexican alert🚨🚨
@@foodgeek. Yeah haha
I’m Filipino and I learned Spanish in Canada. Mexican Spanish is by far the easiest Spanish to understand, also the accent and slang is so cool
that could have an explanation, when spanish conquered Filipinas, they brought a loooot of tlaxcaltecas to fight there, tlaxcaltecas were one of the tribes that helped spanish to defeat mexicas. so, when filipinas was taken the culture mixed with spanish and mexican natives.
random fact, filipinas has a mythological monster based on a mexican monster thanks to that mix we had, here is called tlahuepuchi and there you have manananggal
That's right my pinoy brotha u know waz up, I also know un poco de pinoy yo soy Mexa✊️
@@ViktorMarkez I grew up with Filipinos. They always felt close with Hispanics than other Asians. Much love to my Filipino brothers. You are family.
yes because you guys speak a lot of Spanish Already because the influence of spain in philippines too I work with a lot of Filipino co-workers. My boss is Filipino and she was married to Mexican. So she speaks a lot of Spanish. And I and I've been working with Filipinos for 17 years now. And I cannot use a regular broom to sit. My floors no more. I love the Filipino Brooms As well as Pork double lumpias and And pastries, they're so delicious just like the drinks.🤤 Except the stinky fish that's one of the things that I will not try no 😅
You forgot about the therm “ahorita”, a middle point between “right now” and “never” 😂😂😂
speaking in spanish needs feelings y soy muy huevon para explicar
lmao
@@paulogarcia9557, lo sé perfectamente, el picante debe fluir 😂
I always understood "ahorita" to mean "this instant", "right this second". Is this wrong?
@@cellgrrl Not inherently wrong, it does mean that, but we use it as a way of avoiding to do something that we were asked to do, it's like saying: "i'm going to do what you asked me to, but not right now"; without actually saying that because it would be disrespectful. Obviously there are situations in which it is included in a sentence with the purpose of making the request all the more urgent. So basically, if you ask a Méxican to do something and they answer with: "ahorita" or "orita" they have no intention of doing it soon or even doing it at all.
As a Mexican, watching "wey" perfectly written as "güey" had more impact that you could ever understand.
Right?
@@smoketj4830 ajá xd.
Buey / Güey / Wey / We se usa para muchísimas cosas, igual que "ahorita" u "órale". Originally, if they called you "buey" they were telling you "You are as dumb as a cow" and was a crude or bad word for "stupid". In less than two generations it became so widespread that it turned into a way of calling a "guy" or a "dude". CRUDE WORDS ALERT. Level of insult: @@@@@ Very hard insult (assh*ole) @@@@ Hard (idiot / stupid) @@@ Neutral (dummy) @@ Weak (more similar to be surprised or shocked about something) @ No insult at all ("A dude" / "A guy" / "A gurl") *Cuando un wey (@) ha sobrepasado el límite y quieres insultarlo. @@@@@ ¿Sabes qué, güey? ¡ya bájale de huevos! / ¡Y todo por culpa de ese pinche güey! / Ojalá que a ese pinche güey lo alcance el karma. *Para decirle a alguien que es estúpido con énfasis, sin llegar a insultarlos por completo @@@@ No estoy seguro si los terraplanistas tienen algún problema psicológico-cognitivo o si de plano nomás están weyes. / "El que por su gusto es wey, hasta la yunta lame" (mexican proverb). *Para indicar que alguien es tonto. -Estoy bien güey, se me olvidó el pasaporte. @@@ -¡¿Se te olvidó el pasaporte?! ¡ESTÁS BIEN WEY! XDD @@@@ *Para un desconocido. -¿Quién es ese wey de allá? -No sé, un wey... If he/she isn't listening to you: @ (dude /guy) If he/she is listening to you: @@@@ ("Who's that idiot over there?") *Para el novio o pareja de alguien con quien tienes: o mucha confianza, o ningún grado de relación en absoluto. @ Mi hermana está de malas porque se peleó con su wey / Yo conozco al vato de la foto. Era el wey de mi mejor amiga. *Para expresar sorpresa o alegría @@ ("in a good way"). ¡Wey! ¡Qué bueno que consiguieron boletos antes de navidad! *Para expresar pena o algo negativo @@ ¡Wey! La extraño :( *Para expresar dolor @@@ *Te machucas con el martillo* ¡AY WEY! *Para expresar susto o espanto @@ *Someone scares the sh*t outta you* ¡Ay güey! ¡Me espantaste! *Para expresar sorpresa o admiración @@ *Your bff shows you the diamond on her wedding ring* ¡AY GÜEY! ¡Qué anillote! *Como copulativa @ Eh, we, ¿Tú sabes qué son los dank memes? *Como adversativa. @ Fuimos a la fiesta de Pepe y, wey, vive lejísimos. ¡Espero haber ayudado a quienes tratan de aprender castellano! Salu3.
por que escriben wey como güey?... arruinan la informalidad de la misma palabra con su ortografía toda meca...
@@carlosbalderas3638 salu3 o salu2?
Mexican Spanish has very clear pronunciation. Very comfortable to understand for foreigners. 👍
That's true. I think that's because mexicans tend to do small pauses between words whereas we, spaniards, don't. Also, spaniards tend to mute the intervowel d in the second to the end position of words, which makes listening harder.
😆😆😆🤡
Mileage may vary depending on state, people from Tabasco for example are worst than Chileans when they speak amongst themselves
Tabasco? don’t get me started with Yucatán!!
@@fsrr4409 that’s also a good one, especially since there are Mayan words in it, for me coming from the center it’s so hard
As a Czech, I note that our former Yugoslav friends still use Spanish in their daily uses. This is because they used to watch Mexican films during Titoist rule, hence sometimes Croats and Serbs used Mexican slangs.
I didn't know that it's very interesting. Which slang they still use?
@@jorfe0076 I don't know. Because my country wasn't a member of Yugo at all. But in Yugoslavia, there was a Yu-Mex genre, it was popular and it is still being sung by older generations in these countries.
Mind blowing! What phrases so they use?
@@tedkaczynski2616 Well, taco, hola mama, que tal, well, they are some few words. But they adopted to Yugoslav circumstances so I don't understand their meanings.
I heard about this as a Mexican I couldn’t believe it , amazing,, I found out they even had mariachis there ,, would love to know more on the subject ,, saludos 🖖
Estudiante extranjero de intercambio en México: "¿Cómo te fue en el examen?" Estudiante mexicano: "Bien mal" Estudiante extranjero: o_O???
A huevo
Jajajaja
jajajajaja (argentino de no intercambio en casa cagándose de risa) :-b
Yo: ._.XD
A huevo güeeey!
Spanish (Spain): "He hablado con mi madre esta mañana" Mexican Spanish: "Hablé con mi madre esta mañana" A TRUE Mexican: "Hablé con mi jefa en la mañana"
Jefa could mean wife though
@@michaelcombs5287 Never heard a Mexican call his wife "Jefa." There is only ONE jefa and that is your mother.
@@michaelcombs5287 No way, in mexico the slang for "my wife" is "mi vieja" wich literally means "my old lady" hahaha indeed in south America (for example Argentina) they use "mi vieja" for "my mother" and "mis viejos" for "my parents"
Chingon tu ejemplo 👍👍👍👍👍
Yo digo mamá, si le llamo jefa a mi madre me da una cachetada
"bien cara" is more colloquial while "muy cara" would be the not only the most formal but the standard way. As a Mexican it's amazing to see our slang studied by other cultures. Loved this video!
I’m from Uruguay 🇺🇾 - the other side of the continent and I knew all of the examples shown here. That’s because back in the days we would watch a lot of telenovelas on TV. All of them were broadcasted in the ninetieth. To me Mexican Spanish is unique. It’s easy to be understood and also the accent is very peculiar. Somehow it seems to denote good vibes.
Ya entiendo porque nos reconocen tan fácilmente 😅😂
Especially watching El Chavo Del 8..lol
Me, a Mexican Spanish Native Speaker: Ah, yes. Very interesting and new info.
When I was a kid I learned some spanish by playing video games and here's a list of what i remember -Chinga tu madre -Puta -Orale -Gringo -Kokaina (pronounced ko-ka-i-na) -Loco -Como esta -El soy -amigo -Garcon -muy bien -chazzer -maricón Im Malaysian btw
@@adude8424 what kind of games were you playing 😂
@@Kai-yaam probably GTA lol
@@Kai-yaam Most of it came from the game Scarface twiy on PS2. Mom hated it so I used to tell her "Okay Puta" or "hey cabron just let me play"
Callese a la verga wey
American: I finally learned mexican spanish Mexican: Tengo frijolito en las patrullas
jajajaja, mejor, así no te rugen las panteras. jajajajajaja
maravilloso nuestro idioma, pero también otros tienen su encanto.
Weeeey, con este comentario si me sacaste una carcajada
hey que significa la frase completa? soy de guatemala y aquí por culpa de su pinche doblaje la mayoria tenemos un hablado parecido al de ustedes jaja. lo que no entiendo es lo de "frijolito" acaso vendria a significar frio? patrullas = patas (mmmmm patas 7w7)
@@marvingomez9564 jajaja asi es, frijol/frijolito = frio y patrullas = patas (pies/piernas) saludos!
As a foreigner, Mexico's and Peru's accents are the easiest to understand. The former's colorful vocabulary is the most expressive hands-down! 🤩🇲🇽
Middle-class sorts of Colombian Spanish are quite easy to understand as well, for me.
Peru?????? Yara ga pe causaaa
Mexicanos preguntando "que es un Perú we?" 😂😂😂
Peru sucks
I started watching a Mexican show the pronunciation was so indistinct, the speed of speech even on 0.5 was way too fast. I was quite discouraged till I had my audio session with 2 wonderful Ecuadorian señoras at the eye doctor:s office. I could understand everything perfectly. That's how I know they were from Ecuador.
I am German learning Spanish. The advantage of Mexican Spanish is that they do pronounce all the syllables, which makes pronunciation easier.
Tienes razón.
In México the word “luego” means “later” But “luego luego” means “immediately”.
and ''Ahorita'' means ''Now'' but Ahorita can be now, later or never
Literally " ahorita" can be in 50 years xD
In México we could say the same word two times in order to make more soft the expression but with emphasis. "pasale pasale" "siéntate siéntate" "No, nada nada" etc
don´t forguet ahorita, that means now or watever the time you think... amazing word
true hahahahaha
In Mexico we don’t say "you smell bad", we say "te chilla la ardilla", which means "your squirrel is crying" and I think that’s beautiful.
" Te rugen las bisagras "
Encontré al chilango jajaja
" Cuando se te acabe el perfume , regálame el frasquito "
MEMEOOOO
JAJAJAJA
To me (Guatemalan) Mexican Spanish is a bit like their cuisine, very intense and enjoyable but it's also pretty spicy and not for everyone. I actually love the people and culture(s) of Mexico and Mesoamerica. Un abrazo desde Guatemala hermanos
Bro, eres de guatemala, literalmente eres de una extension de mexico.
I work with Guatemalan people in the Barn area of the racetrack in California It sounds like it's street and basic beginning Spanish Maybe it's because of the negative influence of Mexican Spanish But Guatemalan people are good people
My Guatemalan friend and Mexican friend one day were arguing, almost ready to fight, over the pronunciation of corazon. 😂 It was actually a hilarious exchange.. Guatemalan said - cora-th-on Mexican said - cora-zone
Como brasileira, sinto o espanhol mexicano como o mais claro e natural pra nós. Talvez a parceria sbt/televisa tenha influenciado nossa percepção 😂
Entendí lo que escribiste sin traducir
También yo @@jorgeisaiasgarciapedraza9960
Aver mami
Realmente depende de que parte de Mexico y de que clase social vienen. En Estados Unidos es mas comun oir a Mexicanos que vienen de la clase baja y para un hispano hablante de otro pais es un poco dificil entender lo que hablan porque usan tanta jerga. El espanhol de Mexico que pasan en la televisa muchas veces es modificado especificamente para que sea mas entendible para los otros paises hispano hablantes, entonces por eso que se le puede entender mas facilmente.
@@marketingmajor8126si eres hispano parlante y no entiendes el español de un mexicano, aunque sea de ‘clase baja,’ algo no está bien contigo. Es el mismo idioma 😂 En las comunidades mexicanas en EEUU, muchas veces los hombres usan mucha jerga en los trabajos, pero las mujeres no. En el día a día y en comunicación de negocios, no se usa jerga. Exageras.
i love how many slang words in mexican spanish can be both an insult and a compliment
That is correct ! You just nedd to be careful and understand Mexican sarcasm too since it's very random and odd compared to others outside
@@MacMac1313 I can see why many people will have trouble with context on conversations, I'm fine tho, I'm Mexican lol
There is a saying here in Mexico, and it is pretty much true. If someone insults you with a smile, he considers you a friend. If someone talks pleasantly to you with a scowl, you're in the way.
It's a lot like English in that respect
"What fart, my man?" "Very well."
No one: Mexicans: * learning their own language again *
Pa' que no se nos olvide
Pus pus pus sí
Obvi
A huevo!
:)
A forma de falar dos mexicanos e mais compreensível para nós brasileiros
No hablo portugués y sin embargo te puedo entender a la perfección, me encanta 👍
No hablo portugés, pero si entendí esto xD
O mesmo acontece com o português do Brasil e com o prtgês do Portugal , nós entendemos melhor a vocês do que os portugueses
que loco lo bien que entiendo
Paul, i'm mexican and I want to express My admiration for the knowledge that You have, it was not only interesting but well informed and accurate, thanks.
I'm brazilian, but living in Mexico for almost 3 years made me love the country, the language and it's slangs and nuances. My favorite is: "Oye guey! Sabes orar?" "¡Si!" "¡Pos órale a la verga!" I miss Mexico so fucking much!
Me too man, me too. 🇲🇽🇧🇷
Jajajaja, un clásico.
alv un clasicazo xD
Me voy a robar esa mentada de madre xdd
Jajaajajaj que buena
As a Brazilian, sometimes I can understand Mexican Spanish even better than European Portuguese
Sem duvidas nenhuma, o espanhol do México com certeza deve ser um dos mais limpos (pros brasileiros) de muitos outros da américa latina.
É o mesmo para mim, entendo e prefero o português brasileiro que o europeu
Is it true that Portuguese speakers can understand Spanish without much issues?
@@user-qv4np3ur5w then learn it
Then learn the language.
As a Mexican, I really liked how you included slang and both nahuatl and english borrowings, very accurate!
Some 30 years ago my anthropology professor told us the "l" in Nahuatl is always silent. Is that still correct, or yet another reason my immense student loan debt should be forgiven?
Wow I'm Mexican and you did an incredible job explaining it all. A toda madre!
Saw a funny meme translating "Órale" into English Órale - I agree with you Órale - Come on! Órale - Bring it on! Órale - Yes Órale - Hurry up Órale - That's amazing Órale - I'm flabbergasted Órale - There you go Órale - Ok Órale - It's your turn Órale - Go ahead Órale - I'm waiting for you
100% accurate
Also, "look what we have here"
En España sería como polla
Allow me to introduce “bet”
@@applesaucemd x2
Usa: Spongebob, Mexico: Bob esponja, Argentina : Bob esponja, Chile: Bob esponja, Brazil: Bob esponja, Perú; Bob esponja, España: las flipantes aventuras del señor cuadrado y sus amigos de fondo de traje de baño
Jajaja doblaje de España bad rianse PD: no soy español
De hecho, sin ironía en España Bob Esponja se llama Roberto Estropajo.
@@imad5398 en serio¿¿ JAJAJJAJA
@@imad5398 Hmmm... Tiene sentido. Bob es el apodo de los Rob, que es el diminutivo de Robert. Y Estropajo es sinónimo de Esponja. Quizá no suene muy estético, pero es una adaptación correcta.
xddddddd
Soy peruano, pero me agrada el acento Mexicano como que es mas agradable al oído.
Asi es.. Salu2 amigo, mira la comedia Mexicana, El Chavo Del 8 especialmente, pero yo se ke ya lo conoses..
Impresionante el nivel de conocimiento del expositor. Felicitaciones desde Mérida en México
Once I used the word "coger" in Mexico. I didn't know it had a different meaning there XD.
It depends on the context that you're using for the word ''coger''.
What did you say?!?
Cogiste la onda de volada? XD
En Argentina igual Equis de XD
Lol, I've done that too!
Idk how I came across this channel but I’m glad I did. It’s teaching me a lesson in my own language. I’m not Mexican but my Spanish is slightly different. There’s this comedian that I follow from Mexico, she’s something else. She speaks the real Mexican language from the streets. I will research more information about this channel. Nos vemos pronto 👋🏼
You forgot to mention that there are dialects of Mexican Spanish (Central, Southern and Northern), each one with different accent, intonation, lexicon and pronunciation. For example, Northern Mexican Spanish is the dialect with the least indigenous influence and it has some features like (in Northwest Mexico) pronouncing "ch" as a "sh" sound ("sharro" instead of "charro").
"Ya voy saliendo" actually means that they'll probably be on their way in about 15 to 60 minutes.
So true 😂
Mostly 10
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Y "ya voy llegando" xDDDD
Or “ahorita” 🥸
In Indonesia we say "awas" for watch out or be careful. It's pronounced the same as "aguas" and have the same meaning too!
Yeah, I noticed that! It seems the two words are not related, though until I looked it up I thought they must have been.
I was going to say that too, but you beat me to it! 🤣
Wow that’s fascinating! As a native Mexican Spanish speaker from the USA I love strange factoids like these. Question: I understand it’s apparently a coincidence and the two are seemingly unrelated but is there a possibility that it came to Indonesia through the Philippines? I’m not 100% sure but I was under the impression that in some regions (or possibly more widespread) they also use the expression “aguas” with the same meaning as a loan word from Spanish during their colonization. Actually now after having typed that out I think I may be confused because I’m just now realizing that “aguas” in that specific context is exclusively a Mexican expression and not at all used in Spain as far as I’m aware. I apologize for my rambling overly complicated question/comment. I should have prefaced it with “AWAS…” lol
wkwk
It’s probably borrowed from the Phillipines ,a former Asian Spanish speaking country!
HI everyone, a mexican here, I''m from the southeast of mexico, and this video is a pretty good introduction to most of mexican spanish, but Mexico is so big, and as we don't have official language, we still speak a lot of indigenous languages. Therefore through every state of this breautiful country we have our own local slang. If you go to lets say Chiapas you may hear someone call to the yougest child Chunco, or if you come to the Yucatan peninsula you might hear mayan words in the everyday speaking, like puch which means splatted, pek which means dog. And that was something i wanted to point at, you can have an introduction, but learning mexican spanish is very difficult even for us, as it is a very big and diverse country. greetings adn have a nice week
In Welsh-English, we say "That's well expensive!" to mean "That's very expensive!" all the time. It's funny that Mexicans came to the same idiom in a different language.
The french also use bien to substiture très. je suis bien arrosé, meaning they drank a lot already.
Yes, in the peninsula as well but not as a norm, only for certain things.
Same in English English
In Jamaican/Caribbean English in general, we use well a lot too. This is interesting!
I have the very crude impression that this somewhat common in Germanic languages. Maybe some native English speakers can confirm the following observations in German for their English's: 'ein guter Esslöffel Zucker' - 'a good table spoon of sugar' (as in a recipe which advises to add slightly more than one). Similarly for 'ein guter Meter' - 'well over a meter' (apparently, German has this adverb Sometimes as a solitary adjective?) 'da war gut was los' - 'there was well something going on there' (an understatement saying that a party it was very crowded)
We still use the terms "usted" and "ustedes" but it's more formal and usually used when referring to elders in a respectful manner.
Also when referring to people you dont really know. At least i do
I find it happening more depending on the location. For example most people from the north east of Mexico like Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Coahuila they use usted, ustedes, in everyday conversations
Also many kids are still taught to call parents and grandparents by usted.
It's also used to convey affection. My mom always uses it when speaking to her children.
Ustedes se usa como plural independientemente de la situación. Solo se considera formal si se usa "usted" en lugar de tu. Pero no sé dice solo a adultos mayores, si no a tus maestros, tu jefe, y algunos incluso a sus padres.
Es impresionante todo lo que se puede estudiar sobre el español de México, incluso creo que terminé aprendiendo cosas que no sabía de mi lengua madre. Excelente video!
I can only imagine how many languages you speak. As a Spanish speaker, this video was pure gold. I had to notice your English was really clear as well.
I was in Colombia once, the guy told me to catch the bus "cogemos el bus?" I was dying of laughter. My Mexican side came out that moment.
I had a puerto rican tell me once " te voy a cojer a las siete mañana" i got all defensive and told "como que me vas a cojer cabron yo no soy puto" he then explained thats how they say to pick up in their spanish i laughed my ass off when he told me that
Lol when I learned Portuguese, most of the students in my class were Mexican, our teacher was from Brazil. “correr” (to run) is pronounced just like ‘coger’ in Spanish. Our teacher was using it in examples, “corremos nas montanhas, corremos na rua.” All of the Mexican students were laughing and she got very confused. 🤣
@@lsanchez198030 OMG same happened to my Mexican mom. Her PR friend said “coje eso” when she asked her to pick up something on the floor for her that she couldn’t get and my mom was like 😳.
I think the “horny” side came out.
@@nefarious559 nope, it's literally a slang word that is used for sex. A crude one at that.
Couldn’t stop laughing that “A huevo” was actually being explained intellectually 😂 10/10
hahahaha same
I wish this example would have been used: “Ya llegaron los Mexicanos” “¡A huevooooo!”
Huevos!
A huevo, wey!
@@elaeiffel pu + o xD
Paul..I am always so impressed by your understanding of the subtlety and perfect pronunciation of other languages slang .
I’m a Brazilian learning Spanish, and it still shocks me how Brazilian Portuguese in general appears to be closer to Mexican Spanish (and Latino in general) than to European Spanish. Some of the differences found in Mexican Spanish when compared to it European variant also appears in Brazilian Portuguese (as the use of “bien”, “bem” in Portuguese, to express “very”, and the use of simple past). I have a suspicion this also has to do with the influence on the Andalusia region in Brazil’s colonization as well (I know some of the common slangs and grammar come from there), but it’s hard to affirm it. sadly the Spanish influence in Brazilian history is highly downplayed and poorly acknowledged, even though they’re the 3rd biggest immigrant population in Brazil (behind Portuguese and Italians), and more Spaniards made it to Brazil than Japanese and Germans combined (heritages generally considered to be strong here). This is likely due to the stigma of Portuguese x Spanish America, but as someone with a bunch of Spanish surnames, it pisses me off a bit
The very first part of your comment is right. I work as a nurse and once in a while get Portuguese patients. I can understand 85% of what they say. The language is similar. I can’t speak Portuguese but understand it is much easier. Something bad humans must have done for us to deserve the fact that there are many languages on this earth. Let’s not talk about Chinese, Korean, Japanese. We are punished aren’t we?
As a Brazilian I noticed my Spanish is way Mexican. 🇧🇷💞🇲🇽
Mexicanos e Brasileiros 🇲🇽❤🤍💚🇧🇷
No homo 👀
Proximity theory
I loved the little bit of Brazil I saw and the people. I loved having them on any tour anywhere as they bring a vibe and they are very, personable. Ive been to Spain and mexico and speak more a Mexican/south American way. The mexicans thing is they speak very fast. Spain speaks like europeans. They are pretty proper and slow. Mexico, Caribbean, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador are pretty one group to me. Peru, Paraguay, and bolivia was kind a different and Uruguay and Argentina was way more catalan, the language of eastern Spain like Barcelona amd the Mediterranean Spanish island. Way more Italian and older Latin in it. Drove across the Portuguese- spain border and said gracias. I got a dirty look and told we dont say gracias here. So I asked to find out. Each region in spain was a little different from bon dia, buena dia, Buenos dios or BOM dia is Portugal. You had to get it right or they.....were not as friendly. In south America you can say any anywhere and people were cool. I will say some areas seem to use one or the other. Buena dia or Buenos dias, even bon dia like north west of Mexico City. San miguel area. Then other you hear all of them. Well except for the Chileans which me nor even the Spanish speaker for other places could understand.
its the best spanish tbh
When you're a Mexican-American who's parents are both from the same state in Northern Mexico and both use different words because one of them is from the city and one of them is from "el rancho". 😂
te hace falta mas rancho
Quedate con los de la ciudad. Ya hay muchos 'Mexican-Americans' rancheros en USA, hace falta mas 'Mexican-Americans' cosmopolita, culto, y educados y menos rural. Saludos!
@@bhs3871 La verdad yo preferiría hablar como un ranchero que como un wey del Edo mex 😷
@@eskeleeer Jajaja en ese aspecto si! Me referia al no ser ni muy ranchero, ni muy de barrio. O sea, un poco mas culto, minimo. XD
@@eskeleeer Jaja, igual. Yo soy del centro y casi siempre utilizo español neutro para hablar justo porque no me gusta el slang aquí.
Of ALL the many KZhead channels dedicated to languages and language learning ... YOUR videos, Mr. Langfocus, are absolutely the very BEST - For one thing, you're absolutely not a bullshitter just like so many others.
Hey, im from Mexico and i do think your video is really informative and fun to watch, congrats
An old lady once said, "Your parents put a lot of effort to give you your name just for your friends to call you wey."
Jajajaajajaaaa
In my family we've never been fond of the word "güey", and growing up the adults used to say to us that "anyone who likes being called "güey" admits their mother is a cow"
Y entonces yo le dije, que le valga verga
@@larissaortega2306 white people be like:
Neta, wey 😜
me a mexican who knows fluent mexican spanish: Interesting...
Same lol
:v
Same
Me a spaniard living in Spain: aaaa, ahora tiene sentido
What about the native people in Mexico who don't know fluent Spanish
This guy is so on point it's amazing I'm completely blown away at his knowledge. Thank you very much your work is most appreciated ❤✌️💯🇲🇽
I think you’re overestimating me, but thanks! I work hard to make each video as good as possible.
¡Bravo! This video sheds light on numerous little linguistic mysteries for which I've long been unable to obtain clear answers -or even unclear answers!
I'm Dutch, and I can tell you that none other than our own king (he was still a crown prince then) has made a big mistake by speaking Spanish in front of the Mexican press. He was trying to make an expression at the end of his speech, but he wasn't aware that what he was going to say means something different in Mexican Spanish. The translations into Spanish of what he wanted to say were given to him by people in Argentina, and he also did some exercises together with his fiance (at that time), princess Maxima, who is born an Argentinian. What he said was: "Camarón que se duerme se lo lleva la chingada." It turned out they didn't know that the last word should have been replaced by 'corriente'.
As someone who grew up hearing that expression, that's hilarious. 😂 In his defense, your king has a point!
Well actually, thats the meaning, at least he was sincere ✋🤠
As a mexican I'd die of laughter for sure 😆
I remember that incident! It was hilarious, and kind of endearing. We do love when foreigners say something in our slang, especially if it´s an albur (double entendre), almost as much as we love to tell them the salsa is not spicy when it is likely to burn a hole in their tongues XD
Your king was exceedingly sincere ;) What he said is true, though. (You also made me fall on the floor while laughing) %D
One nice feature of Mexican culture and language: "ahorita" (literally "little now"). It's a limbo in time that could mean right now, in a moment, later or actually never, depending of the context.
We Central Americans, especially Salvadorans use that a lot, I thought the entire Spanish world used it until a friend of mine from Ecuador pointed it out to me that we Salvadorans use "ahorita" and that South Americans don't.
I always thought Mexicans would use "ahorita" quite literally, while here in Costa Rica, we use it very often and it's only used for things you're doing later or about to do next.
Ahorita, al ratito, ya merito... “limbo time” muy cierto 👏👏👏
I’m Guatemalan and we use it to mean “right now”. To my Puerto Rican friend it actually means “in a while”.
famous last words from my father, "ahorita voy/llego" and it becomes an eternity.
I was born in the U.S. but was raised in Mexico with my grandparents in 90s and moved to US in 2000s so Mexican Spanish was my first language. Now living in the US I can connect with native born Mexicans because of the dialect I have which is from the motherland of Mexico herself which, if you learned Spanish here is going to be a little different. I’ll always be thankful and proud of the native tongue from Mexico. It’s helped me a lot in professional career as well.
As a Canadian who picked up Spanish from parents who immigrated from Spain and who vacations a lot in Mexico, this video is great. Although I have picked up a lot of the differences when corrected in Mexico, it is great having a lot of the examples in one video and also some additional ones that I was not aware of or heard but was not 100 sure the meaning in terms of the slang. Thank you.
Meanwhile us Mexicans meeting someone: * tu cara me suena *
Jajajjajaja cierto
Que se traduce perfectamente con "your face rings a bell"
Es me acuerdo de tu cara?
@@BrandiWL more like "your face is familiar"
*tu cara me suena DE ALGÚN LADO XDDD
As a Filipino its interesting to see that our Spanish Loanwords are all from Mexican Spanish rather than European Spanish. We even use Kamote(camote) for sweet potatoes!!
😯🤔🤨 interesante
That's really cool. It's nice knowing that different cultures have "links" with each other.
I think the one that shocked me the most while hanging with Filipino friends was champorado (from champurrado) because not even all Mexicans know what that is.
or chicharon, that you pronounce very similar to chicharrón and is the exact same thing
i had no idea, thats cool
Awesome new details! Thanks so much.
U are an amazing speaker. And cool for saying the slang words. I've heard but never really knew.
I'm from Argentina and to me Mexican Spanish sounds like the standard Latinamerican Spanish, since most of the dubbing in movies and cartoons are produced there. I think it's beautiful.
I'm Argentine and it's very difficult to define which accent is standard. The accent of the dubbing doesn't represent the actual speech of Mexicans. Compare a dubbing film with a Mexican series (like El Chavo, ¡No Manches Frida!) or better a children's series like Soy Luna, where the cast abuses Mexicanisms.
The funny thing is, the dub we used to make in Mexico (today, the best dub is made in Chile) should be neutral. At least in international series (Dragon Ball, Dexter's Lab and many examples more), so technically, if you see mexican slang in a series, is a bad example of dub. Unless, of course, you mean Live-Action series or movies (lile El Chavo), wich they DO have a lot of mexican slang
@@smoketj4830, yeah, I'm Mexican and I think sometimes they abuse so much the use of mexicanisms. That's why I prefer sub.
@@DarionKinomori To be honest. Dub isn't neutral. It's funny how Mexican studios translate English words to a notorious Mexican Spanish. An example. The word "soda". Mexican dub keeps the anglicism of that word whilst many Spanish speakers in the Americas use the word "gaseosa". Soda is just "water with gas" for us. Also, not to mention how those studios translate American slang or swearwords.
@@urielmartin7970 Actually, most studios will translate as "Qué idiota" (what an idiot). At least most do. Even if the original dialogue said "Mother Fu**er", usually dubbing studios will dub it to a simpler, more "clean, family-friendly" version, so the movie or show can be seen on any movie theater and TV channels. You can find movies that DO use expressions like "pinche c*brón" and "hijo de p*rra / p*ta" ocassionally, but they are mostly C/D rating movies (+18 age), more an exception than the rule. And BECAUSE of that, you won't usually see them in TV or movie theaters (most cinemas only show movies up to B15 rating), so is not very profitable.
Ahora imaginen la confusión con los memes de michis diciendo: "la dormición, la limpiación, la morición", etc.
Te rayaste. (Eso no lo explican en el vídeo.)
La pozolación... La roscación XD Extranjeros preguntando: que es un michi?
Jajajajaja!! Y sí!
@Iván Emilio I agree
@Cristopher Castro La palabra Michi es de origen Peruano, además jamás se mencionó que fuera México eso de la terminación.
Hablo español y estoy aprendiendo muchas cosas en este video 🙏🏻.
Well explained 😊Mexican Spanish is a mixture of many languages only in Mexico are more than 68 plus words from English and more ❤
Mexican: ira, ven a ver pa que veas. Foreigner: 😵
Iralo!
¡Ira nomas!
¿qué significa "ira" en ese caso? jaja
@@lopez7947 significa mirar.
@@drarbdrarb gracias
Me, a mexican: "The heavy use of swearing and the excessive and multiple meanings of the word "wey".
No we
@@luiscarlosfelix4988 obvio si, no seas wey. Jaja
Eh we IDK what you talking about the different meanings of "wey" if we have "pedo" or "verga" those are otro pedo xD
Así es, wey
And many countries of LATAM also copy those, for me and a good percentage of people i know, it started with Jake from Adventure Time Funnily enough, the show's ratings dropped a fair bit when they changed Jake's voice
México have 68 natives languages. Each region speak an different Spanish. For example: in Tabasco, Yucatan, the South of Chiapas and Campeche, words like "xix", "pozol", "topén" are words that come from some language Maya (Yokot'an, Bats'i K'op, Maya, Tseltal).
i wish i had this video a few months ago! great work! it took me a long time to explain this stuff to my friend who is learning spanish. i should have just shown him this video!
Me a mexican bilingual seeing this video: Que Curioso
Fascinante
What curioso
Tu icon hace el comentario 10x mejor
interesting xd
hahahah same here!!!
Mexican Spanish for me being German is the easiest variety of Spanish to understand.
My German partner has said the same thing to me!
Same with my SO, but then again, have you really been exposed to a lot of types of Spanish? Costa Rican and Colombian might be easy to understand, and I've had little trouble understanding any Spanish spoken in the media, such as news shows, except for certain regions of Spain.
Bolivian Spanish in the andes is also nice. Fairly slow and easy to understand.
Ich kann deutsch und spanisch auch.
@@smoketj4830 I think it's partly because in American schools one of the few times we hear german is when we're learning about world war 2, and we hear a speech from a overly enthusiastic german man who happens to have a funny mustache (hitler)
This video is AWESOME, i am from México and can not do nothing more than stand and aplause. God bless you guys!!
“Aquí” is also used in Mexico. The difference is that “acá” is related to motion and “aquí” is related to a place. For example: “Ven acá” (come here), but “estoy aquí” (I’m here).
Interesting. I've heard some vids of dads calling their children with the phrase "ven paca" with el cinto
@@ClydeDatastruct paca is an abreviation of "para acá"="hacia aquí" that means "to here"
*¡Exactamente!*
@@ClydeDatastruct *¡Este vato! xd*
I've heard "ven aqui" out here in Tucson for "come here"
Hermanos mexicanos, un abrazo desde Andalucía 🙂
Yeah, who knew? I was surprised at that. I wondered why we didn't use vosotros.
saludos desde baja california, mexico hasta andalucia :)
Saludos! No conocía la estrecha relación jaja
Saludos desde ciudad de mexico hermano
Mejor que descanselucia ya debe estar cansada de caminar
que buen video hermano, estuvo con madre!
Great video. Lots of time had to be given to all the research put in to it I believe. Very spot on
*Foreigner who has spent several hours trying to learn Spanish to perfection: Great! I think now I can fully understand Spanish! *My dad answering the phone: Quibole mano!
that means "sup dude!" also said short as "quibo?" which would be "sup" and sometimes we add "quibo wey?" meaning the same as the first "sup dude"
Or "'¿Qué pedo mamón? caile" :3
"Hola buenas tardes por quién vota"
Quibole is like shorten version of que hubo, as in whats up brotha
😂 😂 😂 😂
My favorite word in Mexican Spanish is “apapacho”, which comes from náhuatl, meaning to touch or caress with the soul. In everyday speech, we use it as a more intimate (sometimes even cheesy) way to say hug.
Achicopalado es la mia.
No sabía eso, y de por si ocupo mucho esa palabra... ahora me gusta más 🥺
Cuando te sientes "chipil" y necesitas que te "apapachen"
Jaja In Venezuela people also use that word, Or at least I do
Eso de la palabra apapacho no es cierto, suena bonito pero no es cierto :(. También si ves por ahí algo de que "quesadilla" significa tortilla doblada tampoco es cierto, si viene de la palabra queso.
Mexican Spanish is pretty well known across the whole Spanish speaking would. I'd say, it's between the most widely recognized, along the Spain and Argentina Spanish. Outside of Mexico, there's usually some sort or rejection from older generations when hearing Mexican slang and vocabulary being used by young people, influenced by social media. Social networks and the web has interconnected Latinoamérica as never before, and we're experiencing a wonderful linguistic mix and influence smog countries. As a Costa Rican with a Mexican girlfriend, I can say I absolutely love Mexican Spanish, it's a little harsh, bur expresive and satisfying to hear and use, at least in my case. Love u México 🇲🇽
Hey brother, thank you for your love of my Mexico.. I'm sure you're very happy with your Mexican gf n the benefits that brings.. God bless y'all..
Soy de México,,, muy educativo tu video!! Excelente!! Aprendí cosas que no sabía sobre el origen de algunas palabras provenientes del Náhuatl!!! 👍🏼
Funfact: México doesn't have an oficial language, but it recognizes 68 indigenus languages plus spanish as national languages.
Actually yes, is the spanish
Mexico has 69 national languages? edit: stop replying to me about this I know what it bloody means
@@beefyblom That's right. But that is to foster their use and to preserve them.
@@Kikyout11 they should schools to teach one of them along with spanish grammar....school's choice which.
@@Kikyout11 I know what it means, but 69 of them? nice
I learned something funny at school: the word tiza comes from nahuatl and it's used in all spanish speaking countries but Mexico. In Mexico we say gis.
es que aveces somos así de malinchistas
@Axelito Yuvis fue broma...los idiomas son fluidos y en muchos casos no hay logica. Saludos desde Cancun!
@@CancunAndy aprende malinchismo es cuando un mexicano alaba a lo extrangero por encima su pais y lo que predomina en el pais es CLASISMO NO RACISMO NO MALINCHISMO . NO SE PUEDE EXPLICAR EL MALINCHISMO A UN EXTRANGERO PORQUE POSIBLEMENTE NO HUBO SINCRETISMO RELIGIOSO EN SU PAIS .
Tambien se usa la palabra tiza,para la costura
@@alexandror3676 Mi madre usa gis para eso, y es española.
This is awesome. I served a mission for the LDS Church in Mexico and learned Spanish there. I picked up a Chilango accent in DF and when I visit for work, it comes out.
As a Brazilian who learned my Spanish growing up around Mexicans. I've always compared it to what Brazilian Portuguese is to Portugal. Both countries' slang and accents are so unique that they far differ countries that speak the same language. I would say it's because both countries are the largest in their language, and more people mean more diversity in how a language develops.
I can't believe I just fully watched this video being Mexican, but I just have to say that I'm so thankful that English speakers take their time to teach to them how to speak Mexican Spanish, and it's amazing!
Now they need to teach Mexican Spanish in American schools, because teaching Castilian in California doesn't make any sense AT ALL!
wey! same! hahaha
I am 29 years old and I am now starting my journey in learning Mexican Spanish. I don't know much as it has only been a few days but I hope to become fluent so I can speak with the Mexican people in my area of Ohio.
Same!
@@barrybusch just say "puto" or "cabron" at the end of every sentence
English is a great lenguage, but mexican spanish has some priceless exprecions like: nomames la chingadera vuela o que pedo?
English translation would be ( Only the fucking mother flies or what shit/fart😂
Chingadera*
pero es que hasta los insultos suenan muy graciosos xDD
JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA K HERMOSO COMENTARIO
I mean English has some of those slangs as Well For example. Bro, What The fuck You Talking about You tripping. En Español fuera hermano, que fornicar hablas te estas Callendo . Que en realidad fuera de que chingaus hablas estas Alucinando. Still pretty hard to translate
Ahorita is a word specific to Mexico. It’s kind of their own version of Mañana but also means other connected things. My friend used to be the Mexican Consul in Texas and was frequently asked by US immigration to confirm if a person was Mexican as they claimed, or actually from elsewhere in Spanish America. All he had to do was to ask the meaning of Ahorita, as only Mexicans know the answer.
Honestly not even us (mexicans) really know about the exact time that ahorita means, I mean it could be right now, or some time in the future, or never. Hahaha. It depends on the intentions of the one who is saying this word.
@@enriqueromeroaguilar548 Haha, true..lol
@@enriqueromeroaguilar548 Yep, it depends on the person who is saying it. I tend to use it whenever im doing something and someone asks me to do some other thing and just say "ahorita" since us (mexicans) dont know the true meaning of it, it could be any time from now or never xD.
Amazing. I am mexican from Veracruz, since I was 2 years I could learn english by myself, and to be honest was easier for me than every spanish class that I had in my elementary and high school. I see the complex of the spanish now. Of course like any language in the world has its own complexity. You're video is amazing, you can explain perfectly fine the Spanish and even tho, both spanish languages. You already got one subscription else, excellent explanation.
Meanwhile Duolingo: Mixes both the Spanish dialects and confuses it's users.
😂 Oh, no!! I hope they don't do that with other languages, I'm learning chinese and I don't want to learn it incorrectly
@@isaiasabinadisosagarcia936 They do that with Turkish that's why I quit it lol
@@maria-melek how? Which turkish dialects do they mix?
@@Atillatzke For example Thank you sometimes they put it as "Teşekküler ederim" other times "teşekkür ederim" and then there's "Teşekküler". I would also say Duolingo is more of an app for those who have some knowledge in the language one is studying/wanting to learn even for beginners. I've learned that with Spanish I'm trying to improve my Spanish and that's what I noticed while practicing Spanish one Duolingo.
I’m realizing that now after watching this video. I’ve been getting a mix from every method I use to learn Spanish and I’m just trying to learn Mexican Spanish!
No puedo creer que acabo de ver una clase de 16 minutos acerca de español mexicano cuando soy mexicana, btw, fue una clase muy interesante y completa.
Igual, pero me causa curiosidad ver como enseñan mi idioma materno en otros lugares
x2
Simona la pedorrona
same
@@Usuario-tw5zu cierto cierto
What a fantastic video!!!!
Very enlightening. I have a B.A. in Spanish/Political Science from San Diego State University but I learned a lot from the video. Thank you.
Only when you dominate and understand all of the uses for “pedo” and “madre” just by the context of the sentence, can you say you speak Mexican Spanish
And all things "chingar/chinga/chingue/chingo/etc" Mexican Spanish es muy chingón!
And huevo/huevón/huevonear/hueva etc.
Pedo just has four meanings right? A flatulence, a problem, an event/happening, or the state of being drunk. Heh, I guess you're right that might be too much at first for a learner.
@@afz902k pedo can also mean to be scared (sacar un pedo), bad quality (estar pedorro), a greeting (¿qué pedo?), a good/bad person (ser buen/mal pedo), a way to say "oh well" (ni pedo) or "no freaking way" (ni de pedo), etc. The amazing podcast No Hay Tos has an episode on 12 uses of pedo, it's their Episodio Especial #29 - worth checking out.
Y "verga" 😂
I'm Brazilian, I learned Spanish by myself last year and yeah, definitely Mexican Spanish is the easiest one to understand, due to the very clear way they pronounce the words. Also I think it's the funniest one (in a good way), because they have really colorful expressions. The singsong feature is amazing too and I love it!
I'm Mexican American and I had to learn Spanish in school... Spanish Spanish... I honestly thought my teacher was fucking with me because they spoke as if they had a mouth full of marbles. And everything was so formal too, are Spaniards still living under a monarchy or something?
@@guy-sl3kr actually, yes, they're living in some sort of monarchy, like Great Britain, Denmark etc., but I don't think that's the reason of the formality, but the use of the language itself maybe, because I have the same feeling about European Portuguese and the thing is that they use some phrase constructions that we no longer use, so we perceive them as archaic or something. I think the same goes for British English, right?
@@ivomoreira42 Yeah they definitely still have a queen so I guess that's why their English is so much more "sophisticated" than in other places. Well, at least the dialect of English that's spoken by nobility. I guess it's the same deal for the rest of Europe too.
@@guy-sl3kr Yeah, I don't know what you tried to do here, but you trying to bash Spain is really obnoxious and uncalled for. Imagine thinking you own the language and other varieties are wrong. Damn, if anything, Spaniards where the ones who created the language, so maybe we can say we are the ones who don't speak it well? Besides, Sweden, The Netherlands, Japan and the UK are monarchies and are amongst the most developed countries, so what the hell were you trying to do??
@@brolin96 ngl I like being flippant about Spanish because the only reason me and my family speak it is because our people were colonized. I didn't choose to speak this language, it was forced upon me. Also maybe put 2 and 2 together and figure out why those countries have the resources and advancements they do.
Hey I'm from Venezuela. Mexican Spanish it's quite diverse within itself but the variety from Mexico city "chilango" it's regarded as the main Spanish variety in the world given how many speakers there are and their influence through arts specially novelas, films, and the music industry. Also most of dubbed films in Latin American Spanish are done in an Mexican accent or at least something close to it even if the dubber himself is not Mexican.
Because of this many of Mexican slang are used generally in the Spanish speaking world and it's quite easy to recognize words even if not used in the rest of latinamerica.
The slang portion was so funny to me 😂😂 great job explaining!
Mexicano: "No sea codo". Foreigner: "Don't be Elbow" 🧐 (Don't be stingy).
Jajaja y sí 😂
Qué significa codo en México?
@@robertrdlc5278 alguien que no comparte
@@robertrdlc5278 tacaño
@@alejandroolvera724 es como duro o tacaño entonces
An example of how insane the Mexican slang is: the verb “mamar” officially means “nursing” or “breastfeeding”. However, it’s often used as a slang for fellatio. Meanwhile, its adjective “mamón” is used to describe a rude, unlikable person. Another variant, “mamado”, is applied for someone who is very muscular and strong. The feminine variant “mamada” can mean that something sounds exaggerated, or refer to a fellatio again. And “mamar” takes another meaning when you change it and add a pronoun “el mame” (banter, joking). The popular expression “no mames” can mean “you gotta be kidding” or to express shock at something incredible.
someone "mamón" more than someone rude, though yeah, could, it's gist is snobby. but even coloquial spoken and around, -like indeed the slang all around -, -so that it fits and you don't have to be all the way, like in English, a snob, or freaking posh! - "está mamalón". it's "cool". you see... combine it with the other meanings. it's a -very specific - way of saying that it's cool. like with the very last one, it impresses, (and they may look at it like ohh, quite different or some shit.) se la mamó, te la mamaste. he/she, you, either did something impressive or he fucked up (as if as if embarrassingly). ... se mamó, also, specially at the latter meaning. and yes, Spanish speakers, you can say the last 2, etc to women too, they won't even realize!😂 mamado, the muscular thing he said, in an old Spanish like XVIIth century, ever meant, apparently, to be drunk. ... funny!!! hadn't thought about that!! hahahaha. *arrives at the freaking... what were they called? * I'm thirsty. fancy all of that.
In Portuguese we use it the same way and it means exactly what you put on your post
Mi inglish Is not good but i confirm this comentari
Eres mamado: 💪😎 Eres mamón: 🤬 Eres mamador: 🥵
The meanings for the verb "mamar"(to suckle), as well as the sex act (to fellate) and the noun "mamada" (fellatio) is the same for all hispanic countries.