How Harvard Students Actually Learn Spanish
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- Опубликовано: 26 окт 2024
- I took Spanish classes at Harvard, and it was great to see the techniques top universities use to teach languages. I shared the books, films, and resources we used from my Harvard Spanish classes in case any of them are helpful to you in your language-learning journey.
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About me
Hola a todos 👋🏽 I’m Jerry, I learned Spanish from 0 to fluent, have taken the Spanish C2 mastery exam, and I make videos to help you learn Spanish and connect to the people and cultures that surround this beautiful language. Whether you're just starting out or want to keep improving, I've got something for you, so come aboard and join this Spanish adventure! 🥂
I'm super stoked to be back sharing on RUclips (thanks for all the kind messages 🙏🏽). I also built an app to practice speaking Spanish that people might find useful: apps.apple.com/us/app/langtalk/id6478437989
I hope everyone is doing well and having fun with languages this year 🙌🏽 Hasta la próxima
this app is really cool
@@sethledsings love to hear that! Let me know if you ever need any help with it 🙌🏽
You passed the C2 exam. You should be proud! That's a great achievement.
Did he?
Thank you! 🙏🏽 Well worth the effort
Congratulations on graduating from Harvard and on all your accomplishments.
Thank you! Doing my best to honor the opportunities I've been granted 🙏🏽
I’ve been in a slump these last few weeks with self study 😢 feeling like I’m not making any process and self doubt settled. Thank you for reminding me how important it is to learn a second language and remain curious about it. While I’m not past the slump stage I’m experiencing right now, I am hopeful that things will change in the coming days and weeks. You’re Awesome! 🎉
You're so kind 🫶🏽. I used to keep a little chest of things to look at to re-spark my love for the language back when I hadn't made much progress. It was simple-mainly fun shows, songs, and people I liked that had also learned the language as non-natives. It was a good little motivation boost I'd use whenever I lost steam.
Wow, what an inspiring journey! I'm currently learning spanish and I've taken so much from listening to your experiences. Thank you so much for sharing and all the best!
Really happy to hear that :) Let me know if there's ever something helpful I can make for your language journey - I'll build some more things after finishing with LangTalk for speaking practice.
Extremely happy to see you back, bendiciones 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Thank you! I had to take care of family for a bit, but I was missing this a lot 🙏🏽
I really appreciate this video. Thank You. And congrats on passing the C2 exam.
I'm glad you liked it 🙌🏽 And thanks! Very worth the effort
You speak with a lil Spanish accent now too 👌🏾🙌🏾
Haha I spent some time practicing with Mexican friends to neutralize my Spanish a bit, but the Spain influence slips out sometimes 😄
@@JerryRegistre love it ❤️
Algorithm is a funny thing; i havent seen one of your videos in a while and then this one appeared. What a great and joyous video this was to watch. It was even exhausted learning all the work you had to do over those 4 years at Harvard. Congratulations! You really learned so much and gave it your all.
I was fortunate enough to take two French courses at the Harvard Extension and they were superb. Both teachers were amazing and I learned so much. That was about 30 years ago. I cant imagine how much it would cost today.
That means a lot! I'm sure we all had our unique trials and tribulations at Harvard-it was certainly a humbling experience that pushed me beyond recognition, and I'm incredibly grateful for it. Much of it was a labor of love, and the rest was a valuable trial by fire that helped me build resilience. I'm happy you enjoyed the courses you took-I'm contemplating starting a new journey to learn French next year if I'm able to finish adding some features to the language app by year's end. Thanks again for your encouraging words 🙏🏽
Great video!
Thank you for being an educator!
Amazing drive and accomplishment!
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Me parece de lo mejor lo que has hecho en tu vida universitaria. Saludos desde Ecuador.
Opino igual; ha valido la pena y lo volvería a hacer. Por cierto, tengo muchos ganas de visitar Ecuador. Saludos desde NY.
So Proud of you , Thanks for sharing 😊
Always! 🙌🏽
Jerry, solo quería agradecerte por todos los recursos y la valiosa experiencia de primera mano que nos has compartido.
El placer es mío. Me alegro mucho de que te hayan servido de ayuda.
This is helpful... so insightful. I'm inspired. I'll definitely try to read and watch the works you were exposed to at Harvard. Thanks or sharing! Certainly Spanish comes from Spain and it's important to know that, but I live in Los Angeles and most of the people I meet are from Latin America. Plus, that Spanish accent is a doozy.
That's part of the beauty of Spanish-you get so many flavors of it from different countries around the world. I hope it goes well practicing with the people around you in LA! If my Spanish practice app (LangTalk) can help, let me know if you run into any trouble with it 🙌🏽
@@JerryRegistre Yeah, I’m considering plunking down $30ish bucks to get the most use out of it. However, I noticed the AI generated response to my message was unintelligible. I took a picture of it. It wasn’t Spanish. It was gibberish.
Let me take a look at that for you (can you ping it to LangTalkApp@gmail.com?). I think I might have seen that bug (it hopefully shouldn't show up much, while we're fixing it).
How funny this video came up on my feed. I just finished my associate for transfer in Spanish. I am now going to get my bachelors in the language at the university. The problem now is that I do not know what school to choose, Cal State Fullerton or Cal Poly Pomona. I understand that CCP is the better option academically however I am also taking other things into consideration. I am happy that I will finally get to focus on my major and got the general education classes out of the way. It was really discouraging taken classes in high school again at the college. My whole time at the jr college I only took two Spanish classes, had to take statistics, US history, geology and other BS. I was wearing me out so much I wanted to drop out.
I remember starting community college and not knowing what what to major in. I went to through economics to commercial airline pilot and finally after seeing that I did not like any of that, I landed on Spanish. I figured out that I love it. The languages is so much more easier than English in it's reading and writing. (This should be the universal language, much more user friendly than English) I plan on getting my masters in Spanish and then once I am done with Spanish I plan to get learn ASL.
Good luck with diving back into school! Everyone's experience will be unique, so take mine with a grain of salt and make your own call freely - my bias after going through uni is to go to the place where classmates (and perhaps professors) inspire me.
I spent most of my time at uni with my classmates, and it was special getting to be around people I wanted to be more like in some way. As for the academic content itself, it mainly fell on me to learn at the end of the day, and I supplemented the content I got from uni with my own research, so I think I could've learned the material anywhere, but I can't say the same for finding the people I met there.
But as they often say-it's sometimes easier to take a decision and make it perfect than to take a perfect decision. So I suspect you'll have a bright future regardless of the decision you make if you put your all into it. Excited for you! 🙌🏽
¡Buenas, mi amigo😊!, ¡que sigas así, ánimo!
Gracias Adil! Siempre un gusto 🙏🏽
Pues, que padre! I'm glad you received your language citation and have learned Spanish.
Thank you so much! It's a beautiful language, with many amazing cultures and people surrounding it. Saludos desde NY 🍎
Bravo👏 Jerry 🇭🇹
Thank you!
Hello Jerry! I'm curious to know if you also speak French. Will you be sharing some of your video clips when you talk about cooking vocabulary? You seem like a great teacher.
I speak Haitian Creole but not French-but I've been thinking about taking up French as my 2025 goal. If I do it, I'll share the journey and any helpful resources I use along the way
¡El que pudieras aprobar tal nivel,el cual ni siquiera todos los nativos son capaces de dominar,es realmente increíble!
Muchísimas gracias por el apoyo 🙏🏽
I learned french the same way, by diving into the french culture.
That's awesome 🙌🏽 I hope you're getting to use it a lot. I have a lot of French housemates that just moved in, so I'm itching to start thinking about learning the language.
Hey what's up welcome back. Can you take a look at langua talk since your into ai language learning. It would be cool to see a review of them or even something that's like it
I'm making a list of new language apps and tools to review, so I'll add this to the list to check out! (it might take me a bit of time to get through it since the list is long)
thank you
Thank you. I'm trying to encourage someone to learn a language as therapy for PTSD.
Wow, that’s amazing. Learning Spanish made me feel like a kid again, rediscovering the world a second time in another language-it was nice to get that sense of childlike curiosity again.
I really hope it all goes well for your friend. If you end up trying out LangTalk, the app I made to practice speaking Spanish, let me know and I’d be happy to pay a month for your friend. That’s a really cool thing of you to do for them. Un saludo 🙏🏽
Thanks Jerry! When Latinos speak English interviewing,could you put Spanish subtitles? Excuse me that is without this video.But,when you talk only Español with them whom don't understand English ordinary, subtitlos en Ingles por favor!
Definitely! I usually hand write subtitles for the interview videos. You should be able to select the subtitles/captions option and select English (not the auto-generated subs) for those videos
Any chance you could share those syllabi? They look so cool!
That's an interesting idea! I could reach out to see what permissions I'd need to share them. I might need a bit of time, but would it be helpful to have the syllabi?
Can you say more about your very first Spanish class? Did you truly have zero Spanish exposure and then take a literature class taught fully in Spanish? Asking from a pedagogy perspective (am a native speaker and teacher of HS Spanish). This seems counter to language acquisition so I’m wondering what your actual level of understanding was at the start of the course. And is that level (reading authentic literature from day 1 the “standard” for Harvard? Thanks so much! Great video of your journey!
I did have some background when I started Spanish @ Harvard - I had taken Spanish classes in middle & high school and was likely at a B1 level by the time I got to uni. There was a class for absolute beginners at Harvard, but even that class worked up very quickly to speaking in Spanish for most of the class time; speaking seemed to be emphasized throughout all the language classes.
If helpful, I covered my full Spanish journey from 0 to now here: ruclips.net/video/YsH3B9qVShE/видео.html
Keep it going little brother, that's how you learn, by putting a little effort into it!!! You'll be at an advanced level before you know it!!!!
Do you speak fluent French if you are from Haiti? Or is that language not that widely used throughout Haiti anymore??
Haitians do speak French. I moved before really starting school, so I only learned Haitian Creole, unfortunately. But I'm thinking about pursuing French as a 2025 goal to potentially, so there's hope 😆
@@JerryRegistre Nice, I lived in Latin America for 2 years, but still don't have C2 level spanish but I am comfortable conversing, maybe like B2 level, I am trying to read more books to get my Spanish to the next level but unfortunately rarely get to speak it in Australia. I also am learning Portuguese which is maybe B1, I did live in Brazil for 11 months though which helped even if I didn't get to speak as much of it as I would of hoped as well as started learning Japanese a month ago which is really fun to learn albeit more challenging, I learnt French in school but was terrible at it! 😆
You're a globetrotter 🙌🏽 That's awesome that you've gotten to dabble with so many languages. I'm still adding to LangTalk, but maybe it'll become a good app to get some extra speaking practice in - if I can get the French part set up, I'm thinking of taking it for a spin to see how far I can get with French in the coming year
When people say that learning a second language won't be necessary because of AI, they surely mean if English is your first language. Let's see if anyone dares to say that learning English won't be necessary anymore...
Also, do they expect ALL businesses to rely on AI devices in order to interact with some of their employees and customers? It's such nonsense. Learning a second language is now, and will always be, one of the best things you can do in order to improve your life.
Those who say that it won't be necessary anymore are usually people who are not even into learning languages to begin with, so they feel like they finally found a good reason to excuse their laziness. I picture them as the kind of people that, after having learned English, would still watch an American series in Spanish if it was dubbed, instead of enjoying the language that they learned, because they talk about languages like they are just tools.
You raise a lot of great points here. As somewhat of a tech nerd, I hesitate from saying "never" with regards to technological capabilities we'll have in the future with AI.
But as someone who loves languages, I wouldn't bet that we'll see learning multiple languages disappear anytime in the next few decades.
what took so long? I thought you quit RUclips lol
I got a little gym injury, then parents needed my help with their health, and then I was building LangTalk (app to practice speaking Spanish). It was one thing after another, but I missed RUclips - really happy to be back 🙏🏽
Sigh. "Harvard student" referring to Harvard as an "ancient" university. Ancient is something that predates the middle ages. Harvard is not ancient.
He obviously did not mean it in a strict historical sense but that it is just the oldest in US.
I used "ancient" synonymously with "old" in this case, but, as somewhat of a linguistics nerd, I like the focus on the precise definition (which typically refers to things that are old and no longer exist) 🙌🏽
Interesting but not very informative to me
What kind of information would be helpful to you? I have lots I could cover
@@JerryRegistre I guess what I was expecting when I clicked on the video was that you were gonna break down what methods they used and what the lessons were like. I was kinda curious on more what of what homework was like to. Something else I was expecting, was that you were gonna include what sources they used, like if they used certain text books or work books. Another thing was that you included that segment of what it was like for you in college, which I did find interesting but not relevant. I honestly forgot it was a video about learning Spanish for a second. It was pretty cool you lived in Spain for a while. I plan on doing something like that but for a few months. But anyway, I hope to see a video going over that. Congratulations on hitting C2 btw