Muchas gracias a todos por ver el video! Me encantar hacerlos para ustedes 🤗! Don't forget to check out our Free Training where we reveal our 3 Biggest Secrets to become fluent in Spanish... Check that out here 👉speakspanishfaster.com/youtube
Muchísimas gracias por el vídeo! You mentioned about how Puerto Ricans pronounce syllable final -R as -L, just as many Caribbeans and southern Spaniards, yet there's something (I think) exclusively Puerto Rican you didn't mention, which is the throaty pronunciation of RR or initial R-. Interestingly this is something to be found in Portuguese too, not in other varieties of Spanish. 😁 Anyway the word "Puerto Rican" itself in Spanish shows exactly these two phenomena typical of the island: pueLtoJJiqueño 😉 (sorry Idk how to spell that throaty sound of RR 😅) Keep up the good work! 👍🏾😃
Muchacho = 'acho o 'chacho Guillado = guilla'o Guillada = guillá' Enfogonado = enfogona'o Enfogonada = enfogoná' Enfogonado(a) = enojado(a) ¿Qué es lo que hay? si No ¿Que es la que hay? Ahorita = 'horita Beer = birra Está palabra no la he escuchado en Puerto Rico, y sí la he escuchado mucho en la ciudad de Nueva York. Pelado = pela'o Acicalado = acicala'o (En los años 60's acicala'o significaba estar bien vestido y presentable) Autobus = guagua Parquear = palquear = aparcar o estacionar Truck = camión o guagua Al garete = desastre o desorden Bochinche = chisme = cotilleo Cafre = kafre Esta palabra surge del árabe Kafir (pagano). Se refiere a cafrería una antigua región del sudeste de África o a sus habitantes.
YAY!!! Finally a Puerto Rican teacher XD XD I'm studying Spanish and I'm trying to learn the PR accent since my family lives on the island. I want to learn more about my culture and the Spanish dialect they speak as well.
Our PUERTO RICAN dialect sounds different to alot of latino countries, cause we have TIANO words, African words, ENGLISH AND SPANISH. AND WE MAKE UP WORDS TOO. PROUD TO BE DIFFERENT, AND GLAD THAT YOUR TEACHING OUR CARIBBEAN'S culture. BORICUA FOR LIFE.
jaja sí! We have words from everywhere. It's what makes it so beautiful and of course, in my opinion, the best Spanish jaja. But obviously I'm biased. "YO SOY BORICUA PA K TU LO SEPA!!" JAJA
Also, PR was severed from Spain in the Spanish-American war (1898), so it went straight from being directly governed by Spain under the King of Spain, to being a U.S. Territory with an autonomous government, fairly recently.
I’m Puerto Rican and Mexican. My grandparents are native to Puerto Rico and my dads from Mexico. I didn’t grow up learning Spanish unfortunately and I get a lot of hate for not knowing Spanish. I could learn either Mexican Spanish or Puerto Rican Spanish but I wanna learn Puerto Rican Spanish because it’s just so unique and different. Hoping to learn more with you. Great work.
Knowing basic Spanish first could be easier and then the slang words after. The slang words and our pronunciation is what someone would use to differentiate a Puerto Rican from a Mexican.
Same here my pops is PR/Haitian and my mother is black and no one knew how to speak it except for my grandmother but she passed before I could become more fluent and I get so much crap for not being able to speak it
It's never too late to learn. I'm American, my boyfriend is Puerto Rican, and he tells me that I speak more Spanish than some of the Puerto Ricans in our neighborhood.(well our old neighborhood, we've since moved to GA) I'm passionate about learning and I learn something new everyday. Good luck
@@SpeakSpanishFaster Certainly more videos like this! If it were purely up to me, I could use more advanced listening exercises with Puerto Rican Spanish. I'm at a fairly high level by now, but the Puerto Ricans in my area are still a challenge for me to understand and I'm interested in anything that could help me. The listening exercises you've already done are cool but a little easy for the level I'm at now. But of course, I'm just one guy! Not gonna expect you to tailor a video just for me! :)
@@SpeakSpanishFaster Quizas tambien hacer videos donde hablas de temas diferentes pero solo en español y con tu acento puertorriqueño 😍. Gracias por el video por cierto hermano. Veo que eschuas las sugurencias de tus siguidores. Apreciamos eso mucho!!
The word "chavo" comes from old Spanish "ochavo" which was a coin used in Spain and its colonies, PR being one of them of course. So that's why we PRs still use it to refer to money. Same reason we use the word "peso" instead of dollar. I learned this years ago in Spanish lit class when I went to the University of PR in the 90s. I didn't see gufeo/gufeao/gufeá which was very popular in late 70s and through the 80s and GenXrs and maybe early millennials probably still use. 😊🇵🇷
Damn I worked with mexicanos for 9 years and learned a lot of mexican spanish, I changed jobs to another company and we're getting some puerto rican guys, I thought I would be good with the language barrier, but damn puerto rican spanish is wayyy different, I got a lot to learn!
I was born from 2 Puerto Rican parents my dad doesn’t speak any Spanish but my mom does a lil bit and she tried to teach us but my father refused so 18 years later I’m tryna get closer to my heritage with the language and dances and other stuff and your videos are helping a lot I’m still a beginner tho💛
I'm Puerto Rican too and my parents are fluent in spanish but never taught me or my brothers. Now at 19 im trying to learn the language and get connected to my culture. We're in this together homie
I hear you!! Both my parents speak Spanish. I asked my pop why he didn't make us speak Spanish. He said, you will learn Spanish at school. In middle school we had the option to learn a different language in 6th grade. I chose the beginner option, which was, French, German, and Spanish. I passed French and German with A's and Spanish-a 70. (They were teaching me Mexican Spanish) Two different languages without my knowing. The cool thing with learning you Puerto Rican Spanish....some of our words are unique to us because of our Taíno heritage. We are a unique group of people. Keep learning!! 💖💗❤ Keep searching!!
@@untitleddocument9299 I’m in the same boat bro lol, just started learning. I would be down if we all started a group chat just so we can practice Spanish together or just for motivation lol
My family is Italian. The neighborhood I grew up in was half Italian/ Puerto Rican. To this day most of my friends are PR. I know Italian, I know Spanish from hanging around my friends houses. The 2 languages are so close if you know one the others no problems. I picked up ALL the PR differences .Dropping the D, LLs as J, Dropping the S. All that. I worked with a guy, Jose, from Guatemala, my Spanish made him crazy.
Hey Gary thanks so much! Italian is another language close to my heart. I also speak Italian. Now I'm trying to learn Napolitano! I've always loved Italy and it's by far my favorite country in the world... and the debate is not even close. But yes, learning Italian was easy because it is so similar to Spanish :)
Funny you should mention this...I’m writing a book-two main characters are Italian and, you guessed it-Puerto Rican. Problem is, they’re very young, and it’s 1958 in Brooklyn, NY. -yeah. Ppl weren’t as open-minded or tolerant as they are now. I’m neither ethnicity (☘️🍺🥨), so these videos really are indispensable.
The lls as J sound is not exclusive to PR. You will hear it also in Andalusia and other countries too. It probably stems from a lot of immigrants coming to the islands from when they were exiled 😊
Man, I wasn't taught Spanish growing up, but my family is from Puerto Rico, and when my mom/uncle's/grandparents would speak in Spanish, I always felt it sounded different from other people who spoke Spanish. Really glad I'm not crazy, and I'm looking forward to learning Spanish now! Great video!
This was great! I’m half Puerto Rican and half Armenian. Grew up speaking Armenian and never practiced Spanish until high school. Finally trying to dive in this year and these videos have been so helpful!! Thanks!
Being fluent in Portuguese since a child, and being half puerto Rican is like a tease. I understand so much but just can't reciprocate the notion. This is helping me Alot.
I'm part Puerto Rican. Born and grew up in San Diego to a mixed family of Mexican, Filipino, and white. Just moved to Florida and people say and ask me things in this dialect since I look the part lol, so i'm here to learn some of my culture. Thanks for the video.
I love these Puerto Rican spanish videos! My goal is to speak fluently in this dialect. I am part Puerto Rican from my fathers side of the family who are from New York, however I am from Arizona. I took spanish throughout elementary and highschool, but being in Arizona its more of the Mexican dialect. I can read in spanish perfectly (although most the time i have no idea what im saying 🤣) I can understand some spanish when im listening if its spoken slow enough, and i can order my food. Thats about it. I dont know enough to have a long conversation, but i can "get around" if I need to. I just bought your 7 day spanish program! Im super excited because i want to speak fluent spanish! Please do more Puerto Rican spanish lessons 🙏 thank you for everything!
@@kanorysvelez2896 it is a dialect, those are slang words yes but Puerto Rican Spanish is completely different. We drop S’s. Change R’s into LS, drop D’s.
I was raised around Spanish from Mexico and Guatemala. And we have a bunch of people who’ve moved here for work from Puerto Rico and I have a hard time understanding them sometimes. This definitely helped. I’ve definitely heard some of these words. Lol I’ll definitely be practicing them. Thank you!
Thank you for this!! I come from a Mexican-Purto Rican family, and many of these words I do know because we use them around the house, but when my family comes from PR from the holidays this will be really useful! I appreciate all of your videos, they have actually significantly improved my Spanish and Spanish listening!!
THIS video is a godsend, since I'm actually writing a romance novel between two young ppl-one Italian and her boyfriend, Puerto Rican. The problem is, it's set (initially ) in 1958 Brooklyn when ppl were not as tolerant or open-minded...since I'm neither ethnicity and don't speak a word of Spanish, this has been HUGELY helpful. Big ups to you! 👍🏻
I am moving there also. The podcasts help a lot, like chente and Molusco, but the subtitles are always auto and inaccurate or nonsense due to the dialect. I found a site that has people talk in the dialect and then you can read along for the specific PR dialect. I’ll post it next here in a reply. And these vids are a huge help.
Oh, also, there is a woman who does vlogs from PR. She does a great job of explaining the etymology of our Puerto Rican words. It really clicked for me why we use certain words: from the Tainos, and African roots!
This right here is a public service. Thanks for doing it. Regular Spanish classes are more confusing than helpful when it comes to trying to talk to family on the island that don't know a lick of English. They never understand the Spain or South American Spanish words I learned in school so might as well speak English to them lol... this is really helpful!
My mom sold our house and moved to Puerto Rico 20 years ago... I've had a few set backs and am going to move in with her for a few months. I know some Spanish, the the PR dialect has always eluded me, and she has difficulty as well even though she's been there so long. Any suggestions? I'm trying to learn vanilla Spanish but when I go down there, it sounds like people are speaking a foreign language.
After living a total of 25 years in Arizona, and a 2 year stay in Madrid, Espana, I feel like my Spanish (slang) is so mixed up. So, I stick to the basic “Castellano” so I can communicate with any Spanish speaker. My daughter just started learning Spanish in High School, where she could only learn Latin at her school for middle school. I’m excited for her to learn, but being a native nuyorican, I miss hearing a lot of these words you’re teaching! Love it! Of course, I’ll have to wait until my girl gets a good base before throwing these sayings at her, but when I take my family back to PR, your video will be priceless!! It made me nostalgic to hear some words my grandmother used to say like revolu!!! 👍
Thanks..I appreciate this. i was talking to a dominican chick that likes the puerto rican accent. I'm puerto rican but sound closer to a dominican..lol great job!
Haha, I'm glad I found this. I'm a lousy Puerto Rican - my father was from Cabo Rojo (he was part Yugoslavian/Polish/Russian, in fact, which is why I have a weird ass name for a Rican) and my mom was from San Juan (Spaniard/Taino) - and I can barely speak the language.
@@SpeakSpanishFaster I work at a Starbucks where we have lots of Latino customers. I try to use the Spanish I know when I can to practice. It’s nerve wracking when your Spanish is so bad hahaha
So glad I found this channel. I’m not new to Spanish but I’m still not fluent. I started off learning Spanish from my Puerto Rican friend. I also use to listen to raggaeton a lot even before I knew Spanish. So when I did start learning it i automatically spoke it with a Puerto Rican accent. Even they use to be amazed at how good I sounded. But it’s easier when you hear it being spoken everyday like I did. For some reason I always understood more than I could speak😂😂😂
Yes please more Puertorican Spanish dialect videos. I’m tired of learning Castilian Spanish from Spain and not being able to understand Bad Bunny or Jhay Cortez lol
I've never heard "birras" in PR. We say "cervezas". And for "brutal" I've mostly heard it with "estar" like "esa pelocula estuvo brutal". But I can see "fue" being used
Hi! I appreciate you teaching me P.R....I'm P..R myself and I knew the language pretty good! When I_9 yr.old. iehad a stroke. Then in in comma 11 day.I didn't know how to talk, walk,write ect ..I lost my Spanish since then. I' m glad I found you.! I was going to see if you could us a favor and everything word you said in Spanish.make like a game. Like a mmix puzzle to see which one that you said is correct.put 1 side English the other Spanish. If that take to much of your time then I'llunderstand. Have a blessing day!
Some of the words/phrases you mentioned do have more than one or two meanings to them that should be mentioned... good work sir and thank you...blessings
Hola papi. Gracias por tu vídeo. Supe unas palabras/frases pero quisiera más vídeos sobre español puertorriqueño. Me encanta el acento y quiero vivir en PR algún día. Necesito practicar más para mi primero viaje. I want to be fluent and speak to locals porque yo soy Boricua adoptada pa' que tu lo sepas. WEEEPPPAAA!! 💖🇵🇷💖🇵🇷💖🇵🇷
jaja si claro! Voy a ti! Tu puedes hacer todo lo que quieres no te preocupes. All you have to do is consume all Puerto Rican input. Listen to nothing but Puerto Rican shows, interviews, etc :)
Tu no eres una “boricua adoptada “ tu eres Una gringa so No , pr doesn’t need anymore gringos moving to the island either. We have enough gringos colonizing the island !
Wow, So much slang & words specific to PR - this is why so hard for me understand Puerto Ricans compared to most others from central/south american countries. 3 yrs Castilian Spanish in high school, a semester in college, would listen to gospel music in Spanish for many yes after (when kids growing up, they're grown adults now) & in past few yes improved my Spanish listening to Spanish & bilingual preaching on RUclips & in person services. Still easier for me to understand Latinos fr central & south America than Puerto Ricans. I see why now from your video. I also see native non PR Spanish speakers commented same, lol - thanks! Phrases helpful.
❤Finally I have found someone to teach me Puerto Rican language. I’m mixed black Puerto Rican, American, Indian, and white. Everything is regular Spanish, I don’t want to learn that! I want to learn my heritage, it’s so hard to find that. In books, or on the apps for different languages.. I also am interested in learning from Cherokee Indian. That’s also my heritage! Having a deep cultural, I want to learn my cultures. Indians say don’t say u have a percent in my culture, show me! That has stuck with me, so deep! 💪🏽❤️🔥🔥Thank you for taking time out for the ones that want to learn ! 🙏🏽❤️🔥Just hit that subscribe button! 🎉🥰super excited 😊
¡Hola Maestro! Yo soy de Malasia y yo estoy aprendiendo español. Me gusta escuchar dialectico de Puerto Rica. ¡Qué fantastico! 🇨🇺 Muchas gracias Maestro.
Ty for your videos I’m a little older and finally going to visit back home in Puerto Rico. Always visited every few years, this will be my first time on my own to visit with the other side of my family that I didn’t grow up with and genuinely want to make a good impression so I’ll be studying your videos for the next 5 weeks to get the accent right. It’s funny because today someone at my job asked me where I’m from because my accent was different lol. So I’m genuinely going to work on it. Ty for your videos. Also nice to relate to American Puerto Ricans still trying to keep the language and culture alive
Rocky!!!! These tutorials are fantastic, I’m taking my little gúero babies to Puerto Rico this year to see where grandma Rodriguez is from… Thank you bro these are fantastic
This is awesome! I have Puerto Rican ancestry and I only learned Spanish as an adult, other than 1 Christmas song in Spanish and how to count to 20 in Spanish growing up. Any help I can get is great! I also listen to mostly Reggaeton Spanish songs.
Just did some research and the Caribbean Spanish came from the Spaniards who settle in Puerto Rico, Cuba, DR and Venezuela who came from the grand Canary Islands their accent is the same. The word wawa is a Taino word for transit.
Thank you so much.. I think your teachings are great. I would love the link you have to learn more Spanish please because I want to learn more and be efficient so I can teach or interpret for people in need. I never ever comment on people u tube channels this is the first time ever, but your teachings really inspired me too!
This helped me so much!!! I struggle with my Spanish since I was born in Puerto Rico but moved away at such a young age and im ashamed of it. Moving to an english country def did not help my Spanish at all, in fact, when i was little i was fluent in Spanish but it just went away with the time. I can still understand VERY well but when its my turn to speak i need help with most words. I wanna learn more about my culture and to communicate with my family members in fluent Spanish!!!! gotta say now i can sound a more puerto rican with these words and phrases 🥲😅
Haha, I didn’t know the first phrase was an actual saying, but I immediately recognized it from Ivy Queen’s song, Yo Quiero Bailar, where she says “Mujeres, pa’ la disco a bailar; ven demuéstrale a tu man qué es la que hay” 😆
This is perfect I’m Mexican and Puerto Rican but grew up with my Mexican side but I only listen to Puerto Rican music, so when I hear Don Omar songs I ask my family what it means and they never know. The words I ask about are every single one covered in this video
Amigo la palabra Guagua se creo en Cuba como una forma de reducir el nombre de la compania de transporte Wa & Wa Co. Inc. (Washington, Walton, and Company Incorporated) que llevaban las primeras guaguas llevadas a Cuba por los americanos. No sabía que en Puerto Rico se usara también esta palabra. Aquí en las Islas canarias también la usamos, así que ya tienes otro lugar para añadir a la lista. Saludos desde Gran Canaria.
Soy el único que piensa que el muchacho tiene acento dominicano más que puertorriqueño? Además algunos de los ejemplos tienen más de un significado. Pero buen video de igual forma.
Do you think you could recommend books written by Puertorican authors that may or may not use these terms? Currently I’m watching El Ganador: Nicky Jam on Netflix and it does help
¿ Que es la que hay, Rocky? I'm ready for my lessons when its not hurricane season I'll go to 🇵🇷 but June is my birthday month which is June 6th♊ I would love to have 🇵🇷 desert as my birthday cake like a flan or something I'm excited to learn 🇵🇷 spanish
Ahorita is my favorite. There is a comment that mentions the context of PR Spanish (mezcla de orígenes: España, Africa, y los taínos (Indígena). It’s my favorite because ‘ahorita’ culturally transcends throughout the African diaspora. Truthfully, we all have a way to say ‘I’ll see you when I see you 😂’
Thankss. Ive always loved peurto rican spanish 😍 and music of course. I knew some of these but im learning so much omg lol. now learning for a guy i like
Muchas gracias a todos por ver el video! Me encantar hacerlos para ustedes 🤗! Don't forget to check out our Free Training where we reveal our 3 Biggest Secrets to become fluent in Spanish... Check that out here 👉speakspanishfaster.com/youtube
Muchísimas gracias por el vídeo!
You mentioned about how Puerto Ricans pronounce syllable final -R as -L, just as many Caribbeans and southern Spaniards, yet there's something (I think) exclusively Puerto Rican you didn't mention, which is the throaty pronunciation of RR or initial R-. Interestingly this is something to be found in Portuguese too, not in other varieties of Spanish. 😁
Anyway the word "Puerto Rican" itself in Spanish shows exactly these two phenomena typical of the island: pueLtoJJiqueño 😉 (sorry Idk how to spell that throaty sound of RR 😅)
Keep up the good work! 👍🏾😃
You're very smart, young and handsome guy!
Muchacho = 'acho o 'chacho
Guillado = guilla'o
Guillada = guillá'
Enfogonado = enfogona'o
Enfogonada = enfogoná'
Enfogonado(a) =
enojado(a)
¿Qué es lo que hay? si
No ¿Que es la que hay?
Ahorita = 'horita
Beer = birra Está palabra no la he escuchado en Puerto Rico, y sí la he escuchado mucho en la ciudad de Nueva York.
Pelado = pela'o
Acicalado = acicala'o (En los años 60's acicala'o significaba estar bien vestido y presentable)
Autobus = guagua
Parquear = palquear = aparcar o estacionar
Truck = camión o guagua
Al garete = desastre o desorden
Bochinche = chisme = cotilleo
Cafre = kafre Esta palabra surge del árabe Kafir (pagano). Se refiere a cafrería una antigua región del sudeste de África o a sus habitantes.
@@xolang
Fist time that I know about that throaty sound that you said about Puerto Ricans when they speak Spanish.
YAY!!! Finally a Puerto Rican teacher XD XD I'm studying Spanish and I'm trying to learn the PR accent since my family lives on the island. I want to learn more about my culture and the Spanish dialect they speak as well.
Hey Cassandra! Yup I"m here now hahah! I'm happy to help you out as much as possible!
Same!
me too!! i was never taught spanish but i really wanna be able to communicate with my side of the family thats PR
¡me tambien! bueno suerto cousin🇵🇷
@@acay2282 facts
Our PUERTO RICAN dialect sounds different to alot of latino countries, cause we have TIANO words, African words, ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
AND WE MAKE UP WORDS TOO.
PROUD TO BE DIFFERENT, AND GLAD THAT YOUR TEACHING OUR CARIBBEAN'S culture. BORICUA FOR LIFE.
jaja sí! We have words from everywhere. It's what makes it so beautiful and of course, in my opinion, the best Spanish jaja. But obviously I'm biased. "YO SOY BORICUA PA K TU LO SEPA!!" JAJA
im sure that goes for all Latin America lol unless you think they all speak like Spaniards LMAO
I'm Nicaraguan and I love Puerto Rican spanish
Also, PR was severed from Spain in the Spanish-American war (1898), so it went straight from being directly governed by Spain under the King of Spain, to being a U.S. Territory with an autonomous government, fairly recently.
Dominicans and Cuban got that influence as well, but Ricans do have more taino
I’m Puerto Rican and Mexican. My grandparents are native to Puerto Rico and my dads from Mexico. I didn’t grow up learning Spanish unfortunately and I get a lot of hate for not knowing Spanish. I could learn either Mexican Spanish or Puerto Rican Spanish but I wanna learn Puerto Rican Spanish because it’s just so unique and different. Hoping to learn more with you. Great work.
Thanks so much for watching :)
Me to I was never thought Spanish even that I grew up in a Hispanic household
Knowing basic Spanish first could be easier and then the slang words after. The slang words and our pronunciation is what someone would use to differentiate a Puerto Rican from a Mexican.
Same here my pops is PR/Haitian and my mother is black and no one knew how to speak it except for my grandmother but she passed before I could become more fluent and I get so much crap for not being able to speak it
It's never too late to learn. I'm American, my boyfriend is Puerto Rican, and he tells me that I speak more Spanish than some of the Puerto Ricans in our neighborhood.(well our old neighborhood, we've since moved to GA) I'm passionate about learning and I learn something new everyday. Good luck
im already boricua but i just love coming here and reminding myself these words exist even if i say em in a daily basis😂
I’m so sad I didn’t get to grow up on the island
Thanks dude! Would love some more Puerto Rico content when you can!
No problem amigo! What more would you like to know? I'd be happy to help!
@@SpeakSpanishFaster Certainly more videos like this! If it were purely up to me, I could use more advanced listening exercises with Puerto Rican Spanish. I'm at a fairly high level by now, but the Puerto Ricans in my area are still a challenge for me to understand and I'm interested in anything that could help me. The listening exercises you've already done are cool but a little easy for the level I'm at now. But of course, I'm just one guy! Not gonna expect you to tailor a video just for me! :)
@@SamuraiSam Thanks so much for your feedback. I will definitely keep that in mind while creating :) Thanks so much.
@@SpeakSpanishFaster Quizas tambien hacer videos donde hablas de temas diferentes pero solo en español y con tu acento puertorriqueño 😍. Gracias por el video por cierto hermano. Veo que eschuas las sugurencias de tus siguidores. Apreciamos eso mucho!!
@@TJ-og6bh Muchas gracias amigo!! Lo voy a hacer!
The word "chavo" comes from old Spanish "ochavo" which was a coin used in Spain and its colonies, PR being one of them of course. So that's why we PRs still use it to refer to money. Same reason we use the word "peso" instead of dollar. I learned this years ago in Spanish lit class when I went to the University of PR in the 90s.
I didn't see gufeo/gufeao/gufeá which was very popular in late 70s and through the 80s and GenXrs and maybe early millennials probably still use. 😊🇵🇷
Thanks for your feedback Arlene. You learn something new every day! This is awesome.
Good to know
Damn I worked with mexicanos for 9 years and learned a lot of mexican spanish, I changed jobs to another company and we're getting some puerto rican guys, I thought I would be good with the language barrier, but damn puerto rican spanish is wayyy different, I got a lot to learn!
Haha I'll help you :)
I was born from 2 Puerto Rican parents my dad doesn’t speak any Spanish but my mom does a lil bit and she tried to teach us but my father refused so 18 years later I’m tryna get closer to my heritage with the language and dances and other stuff and your videos are helping a lot I’m still a beginner tho💛
Lmfao, I’m no where near being Puerto Rican (I’m Norwegian), lmfao
Yo fax same
I'm Puerto Rican too and my parents are fluent in spanish but never taught me or my brothers. Now at 19 im trying to learn the language and get connected to my culture. We're in this together homie
I hear you!! Both my parents speak Spanish. I asked my pop why he didn't make us speak Spanish. He said, you will learn Spanish at school. In middle school we had the option to learn a different language in 6th grade. I chose the beginner option, which was, French, German, and Spanish. I passed French and German with A's and Spanish-a 70. (They were teaching me Mexican Spanish) Two different languages without my knowing. The cool thing with learning you Puerto Rican Spanish....some of our words are unique to us because of our Taíno heritage. We are a unique group of people. Keep learning!! 💖💗❤ Keep searching!!
@@untitleddocument9299 I’m in the same boat bro lol, just started learning. I would be down if we all started a group chat just so we can practice Spanish together or just for motivation lol
My family is Italian. The neighborhood I grew up in was half Italian/ Puerto Rican. To this day most of my friends are PR. I know Italian, I know Spanish from hanging around my friends houses. The 2 languages are so close if you know one the others no problems. I picked up ALL the PR differences .Dropping the D, LLs as J, Dropping the S. All that. I worked with a guy, Jose, from Guatemala, my Spanish made him crazy.
Hey Gary thanks so much! Italian is another language close to my heart. I also speak Italian. Now I'm trying to learn Napolitano! I've always loved Italy and it's by far my favorite country in the world... and the debate is not even close. But yes, learning Italian was easy because it is so similar to Spanish :)
@@SpeakSpanishFaster they’re sister languages..
Funny you should mention this...I’m writing a book-two main characters are Italian and, you guessed it-Puerto Rican. Problem is, they’re very young, and it’s 1958 in Brooklyn, NY. -yeah. Ppl weren’t as open-minded or tolerant as they are now. I’m neither ethnicity (☘️🍺🥨), so these videos really are indispensable.
The lls as J sound is not exclusive to PR. You will hear it also in Andalusia and other countries too. It probably stems from a lot of immigrants coming to the islands from when they were exiled 😊
Man, I wasn't taught Spanish growing up, but my family is from Puerto Rico, and when my mom/uncle's/grandparents would speak in Spanish, I always felt it sounded different from other people who spoke Spanish. Really glad I'm not crazy, and I'm looking forward to learning Spanish now! Great video!
This was great! I’m half Puerto Rican and half Armenian. Grew up speaking Armenian and never practiced Spanish until high school. Finally trying to dive in this year and these videos have been so helpful!! Thanks!
Being fluent in Portuguese since a child, and being half puerto Rican is like a tease.
I understand so much but just can't reciprocate the notion.
This is helping me Alot.
I'm part Puerto Rican. Born and grew up in San Diego to a mixed family of Mexican, Filipino, and white. Just moved to Florida and people say and ask me things in this dialect since I look the part lol, so i'm here to learn some of my culture. Thanks for the video.
Acho ese video estaba brutal!!!.....God Bless you my brother!!
Muchas gracias Arnaldo!!
I love these Puerto Rican spanish videos! My goal is to speak fluently in this dialect. I am part Puerto Rican from my fathers side of the family who are from New York, however I am from Arizona. I took spanish throughout elementary and highschool, but being in Arizona its more of the Mexican dialect. I can read in spanish perfectly (although most the time i have no idea what im saying 🤣) I can understand some spanish when im listening if its spoken slow enough, and i can order my food. Thats about it. I dont know enough to have a long conversation, but i can "get around" if I need to.
I just bought your 7 day spanish program! Im super excited because i want to speak fluent spanish! Please do more Puerto Rican spanish lessons 🙏 thank you for everything!
Puertorrican spanish it isn’t a dialect, those are simply slang words.
@@kanorysvelez2896 it is a dialect, those are slang words yes but Puerto Rican Spanish is completely different. We drop S’s. Change R’s into LS, drop D’s.
You look pretty black to me
Wow amazing
I was raised around Spanish from Mexico and Guatemala. And we have a bunch of people who’ve moved here for work from Puerto Rico and I have a hard time understanding them sometimes. This definitely helped. I’ve definitely heard some of these words. Lol I’ll definitely be practicing them. Thank you!
Thank you for this!! I come from a Mexican-Purto Rican family, and many of these words I do know because we use them around the house, but when my family comes from PR from the holidays this will be really useful! I appreciate all of your videos, they have actually significantly improved my Spanish and Spanish listening!!
Thank you so much for the kind words Analayah! I'm happy I could be of some assistance :)
Same girl im the same mexican and puerto rican
MexyRican here too!
THIS video is a godsend, since I'm actually writing a romance novel between two young ppl-one Italian and her boyfriend, Puerto Rican. The problem is, it's set (initially ) in 1958 Brooklyn when ppl were not as tolerant or open-minded...since I'm neither ethnicity and don't speak a word of Spanish, this has been HUGELY helpful. Big ups to you! 👍🏻
Thanks so much for the kind words! I'm happy you enjoyed it!
West side story backward ?
I am moving to Puerto Rico in January. I'm so excited, I only know Bad Bunny lyrics and nothing that will actually help me speak to people.
Lol I recommend start watching some Puerto Rican stuff on RUclips. Look up MoluscoTV!
Also use Pimsleur app 15 a month can have you talking in 2 months and having full convos in 5 months
I am moving there also. The podcasts help a lot, like chente and Molusco, but the subtitles are always auto and inaccurate or nonsense due to the dialect. I found a site that has people talk in the dialect and then you can read along for the specific PR dialect. I’ll post it next here in a reply. And these vids are a huge help.
@@Sfeliciano4 What's the site?
Language transfer Spanish on RUclips helps a lot !
I’m Cuban and Puerto Rican and I love my people❤️🔥❤️🔥
Oh, also, there is a woman who does vlogs from PR. She does a great job of explaining the etymology of our Puerto Rican words. It really clicked for me why we use certain words: from the Tainos, and African roots!
what is the channel name?
My dad side is partial Puerto Rican but I didn't grow up with them , thank you this really helps
Moving to Puerto Rico tm, I'm trying my best to learn the language, thank you for this helpful video
You can do it! Muchas gracias por ver!
That's correct all those graces are teach in Puerto Rico public school. they belongsto the gangas,you said it.
Este video fue BRUTAL!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥 Este tipo de info es EXACTAMENTE lo que necesito para mejorar mi espanol coloquial. Asi que, MUCHAS GRACIAS!!! 🙏👏🙌
De nada Vonni!!
This right here is a public service. Thanks for doing it. Regular Spanish classes are more confusing than helpful when it comes to trying to talk to family on the island that don't know a lick of English. They never understand the Spain or South American Spanish words I learned in school so might as well speak English to them lol... this is really helpful!
Thanks so much Des!
Acho also means like "dang" or "damn"
Gracias Coqui! Sigue agregando palabras si quieres :)
Thank You!!! Been living in PR 3 years That was a recent new word thats I was working out meaning for thanks for making it clear!!
Chacho!😂
My mom sold our house and moved to Puerto Rico 20 years ago... I've had a few set backs and am going to move in with her for a few months. I know some Spanish, the the PR dialect has always eluded me, and she has difficulty as well even though she's been there so long. Any suggestions? I'm trying to learn vanilla Spanish but when I go down there, it sounds like people are speaking a foreign language.
I’m half white half Puerto Rican and get a lot of hate from my family for not knowing Spanish and this is already helping a lot
same
Acho is also used when something goes wrong as a short of diache(diantre) sometimes also said Sacho.
Very true, thank you!
LMAO. "Yo, that's fire!" Rolling! 😂 I knew exactly where you were going too. Too good.
After living a total of 25 years in Arizona, and a 2 year stay in Madrid, Espana, I feel like my Spanish (slang) is so mixed up. So, I stick to the basic “Castellano” so I can communicate with any Spanish speaker. My daughter just started learning Spanish in High School, where she could only learn Latin at her school for middle school. I’m excited for her to learn, but being a native nuyorican, I miss hearing a lot of these words you’re teaching! Love it! Of course, I’ll have to wait until my girl gets a good base before throwing these sayings at her, but when I take my family back to PR, your video will be priceless!! It made me nostalgic to hear some words my grandmother used to say like revolu!!! 👍
ACHO yes I’ve heard this many times living in the Bronx
I know you put in a lot of effort to all your videos but the 🇵🇷🇵🇷Spanish is the one I wanna learn can you please do more of puertorican Spanish
Thanks..I appreciate this. i was talking to a dominican chick that likes the puerto rican accent. I'm puerto rican but sound closer to a dominican..lol great job!
I'm so happy I found this channel. This is helping me big time with learning real words/phrases that I can use for my trip to PR in January.
Thank you so much, my husband is Puerto Rican and I don’t know Spanish at all when he comes back from the army I want to surprise him
I visited Puerto Rico and fell in love with a Puerto rican man, I must learn 😂
Lol you got this!
My husband is Puerto Rican and our kids are Black and Latino, so I want to learn it.
Bro this is crazy cuz I used to watch u to learn basketball and jumping and now I’m learning Spanish from u
Yes, please more with the puerto rico things🙏🏽
I'm Puerto rican/Peruvian and I'm really trying to learn Spanish because my parents never taught me
More Puerto Rican’ Content! Lovely
Haha, I'm glad I found this. I'm a lousy Puerto Rican - my father was from Cabo Rojo (he was part Yugoslavian/Polish/Russian, in fact, which is why I have a weird ass name for a Rican) and my mom was from San Juan (Spaniard/Taino) - and I can barely speak the language.
This is so helpful! I’m half Puerto Rican and my Spanish is pretty bad lmao. Although I’m trying to learn, I want to learn Puerto Rican Spanish too!
Don't worry each day you can get better!
@@SpeakSpanishFaster I work at a Starbucks where we have lots of Latino customers. I try to use the Spanish I know when I can to practice. It’s nerve wracking when your Spanish is so bad hahaha
Guagua is used too in Canary Islands, Spain
So glad I found this channel. I’m not new to Spanish but I’m still not fluent. I started off learning Spanish from my Puerto Rican friend. I also use to listen to raggaeton a lot even before I knew Spanish. So when I did start learning it i automatically spoke it with a Puerto Rican accent. Even they use to be amazed at how good I sounded. But it’s easier when you hear it being spoken everyday like I did. For some reason I always understood more than I could speak😂😂😂
Yay I'm rican and trying to learn our dialect but it's hard to find many resources
Hi my husband is pureto rican, i would love to learn more words to speak to him in his language. Love your video😊❤
Yes please more Puertorican Spanish dialect videos. I’m tired of learning Castilian Spanish from Spain and not being able to understand Bad Bunny or Jhay Cortez lol
I've never heard "birras" in PR. We say "cervezas". And for "brutal" I've mostly heard it with "estar" like "esa pelocula estuvo brutal". But I can see "fue" being used
Here for all the Puerto Rican content 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
I can't thank you enough. I've spent more years around Mexicans so I sound like that. I needed this! I miss my language.
Hi! I appreciate you teaching me P.R....I'm P..R myself and I knew the language pretty good! When I_9 yr.old. iehad a stroke. Then in in comma 11 day.I didn't know how to talk, walk,write ect ..I lost my Spanish since then. I' m glad I found you.! I was going to see if you could us a favor and everything word you said in Spanish.make like a game. Like a mmix puzzle to see which one that you said is correct.put 1 side English the other Spanish. If that take to much of your time then I'llunderstand. Have a blessing day!
Boricuas rlly b like “que la qué hay”
Some of the words/phrases you mentioned do have more than one or two meanings to them that should be mentioned... good work sir and thank you...blessings
Thank you for watching :)!
I’m Mexican native and Spaniard. I love the Puerto Rican culture.
Hola papi. Gracias por tu vídeo. Supe unas palabras/frases pero quisiera más vídeos sobre español puertorriqueño. Me encanta el acento y quiero vivir en PR algún día. Necesito practicar más para mi primero viaje. I want to be fluent and speak to locals porque yo soy Boricua adoptada pa' que tu lo sepas. WEEEPPPAAA!! 💖🇵🇷💖🇵🇷💖🇵🇷
jaja si claro! Voy a ti! Tu puedes hacer todo lo que quieres no te preocupes. All you have to do is consume all Puerto Rican input. Listen to nothing but Puerto Rican shows, interviews, etc :)
Tu no eres una “boricua adoptada “ tu eres Una gringa so No , pr doesn’t need anymore gringos moving to the island either. We have enough gringos colonizing the island !
I'm PRican and I didn't know we currently use the word birras for cervezas 😅
Wow, So much slang & words specific to PR - this is why so hard for me understand Puerto Ricans compared to most others from central/south american countries. 3 yrs Castilian Spanish in high school, a semester in college, would listen to gospel music in Spanish for many yes after (when kids growing up, they're grown adults now) & in past few yes improved my Spanish listening to Spanish & bilingual preaching on RUclips & in person services. Still easier for me to understand Latinos fr central & south America than Puerto Ricans. I see why now from your video. I also see native non PR Spanish speakers commented same, lol - thanks! Phrases helpful.
This is great! Thank you. Please do another video on words like "no cojo lucha" "pa'allá fuera", these seem to be common phrases used daily.
Great suggestion I will definitely try to cover these!
❤Finally I have found someone to teach me Puerto Rican language. I’m mixed black Puerto Rican, American, Indian, and white. Everything is regular Spanish, I don’t want to learn that! I want to learn my heritage, it’s so hard to find that. In books, or on the apps for different languages.. I also am interested in learning from Cherokee Indian. That’s also my heritage! Having a deep cultural, I want to learn my cultures. Indians say don’t say u have a percent in my culture, show me! That has stuck with me, so deep! 💪🏽❤️🔥🔥Thank you for taking time out for the ones that want to learn ! 🙏🏽❤️🔥Just hit that subscribe button! 🎉🥰super excited 😊
¡Hola Maestro! Yo soy de Malasia y yo estoy aprendiendo español. Me gusta escuchar dialectico de Puerto Rica. ¡Qué fantastico! 🇨🇺 Muchas gracias Maestro.
¡¡'Tamo activo rocky!! gracias por un otro vídeo de nuevo bien hecho cómo siempre .
Activo como siempre ya tu sabes!
Chevere, pai! Millones de gracias!
Muchas gracias hermano!
Can you make more videos on Puerto Rican words. I really enjoyed this.
Thank you for making this video. It helped me and other lost Puerto Ricans!
Glad it helped Kamaya!
Finally ! I want to learn PR Spanish my in laws are Puerto Rican. I grew up around Mexicans and Salvadoran
Ty for your videos
I’m a little older and finally going to visit back home in Puerto Rico. Always visited every few years, this will be my first time on my own to visit with the other side of my family that I didn’t grow up with and genuinely want to make a good impression so I’ll be studying your videos for the next 5 weeks to get the accent right. It’s funny because today someone at my job asked me where I’m from because my accent was different lol. So I’m genuinely going to work on it. Ty for your videos. Also nice to relate to American Puerto Ricans still trying to keep the language and culture alive
Rocky!!!! These tutorials are fantastic, I’m taking my little gúero babies to Puerto Rico this year to see where grandma Rodriguez is from… Thank you bro these are fantastic
This is awesome! I have Puerto Rican ancestry and I only learned Spanish as an adult, other than 1 Christmas song in Spanish and how to count to 20 in Spanish growing up. Any help I can get is great! I also listen to mostly Reggaeton Spanish songs.
Just love it...! Even do you guys forget the letter "R r" .... Also you guys are always smiling when you talk. Fondly, from North Carolina 💙👣🐏
Gracias Rocky por este vídeo!! Pero... necesitamos más 😂😂😂
Jaja ACHO no te preocupes, sabes que "I got you" lol
Just did some research and the Caribbean Spanish came from the Spaniards who settle in Puerto Rico, Cuba, DR and Venezuela who came from the grand Canary Islands their accent is the same.
The word wawa is a Taino word for transit.
You help improve my Spanish for a beginner like me I’m start a little to understand pronouns of word I could understand in Spanish
Thanks man. I could tell that u know allot because you're able to communicate to us effectively
I learned from my Dominican brother in law that revolú is "tollo" to them. Haha. It's amazing how many variations one language can have.
¡Voy a compartir este vídeo con mis alumnos; estoy seguro de que les encantará muchísimo!
Muchas gracias :)
Learning Songs by bad bunny has been incredibly helpful!
Yes!!
@@SpeakSpanishFaster hombre e’ brutal!
Thank you so much.. I think your teachings are great. I would love the link you have to learn more Spanish please because I want to learn more and be efficient so I can teach or interpret for people in need. I never ever comment on people u tube channels this is the first time ever, but your teachings really inspired me too!
So happy I could help you and thank you soo much for commenting :)
My fiance is Puerto Rican, she is fluent. I am learning so I can take here to PR for our honeymoon. Gracias mucho~
Gracias por to'o lo que hace y por compartir con to'o' nosotro'. ¡Sigue con el buen trabajo!
Muchas gracias Antoniu! lo seguiré!!
This helped me so much!!! I struggle with my Spanish since I was born in Puerto Rico but moved away at such a young age and im ashamed of it. Moving to an english country def did not help my Spanish at all, in fact, when i was little i was fluent in Spanish but it just went away with the time. I can still understand VERY well but when its my turn to speak i need help with most words. I wanna learn more about my culture and to communicate with my family members in fluent Spanish!!!! gotta say now i can sound a more puerto rican with these words and phrases 🥲😅
Same man. I’m so sad I didn’t get to grow up on the island. I don’t even look Puerto Rican which makes me get rejected more by women or people lol
I agree finally a Puerto Rican teacher
Haha, I didn’t know the first phrase was an actual saying, but I immediately recognized it from Ivy Queen’s song, Yo Quiero Bailar, where she says “Mujeres, pa’ la disco a bailar; ven demuéstrale a tu man qué es la que hay” 😆
I’m watching these videos so I can understand my Puerto Rican bf when he speaks to me in Spanish
My grandfather told me a lot of Italian people moved to Puerto Rico in the past that is why some of the words are sound Italian like Birra
Gracias mano!! Más videos así por fa 🙏🏽
This is perfect I’m Mexican and Puerto Rican but grew up with my Mexican side but I only listen to Puerto Rican music, so when I hear Don Omar songs I ask my family what it means and they never know. The words I ask about are every single one covered in this video
Amigo la palabra Guagua se creo en Cuba como una forma de reducir el nombre de la compania de transporte Wa & Wa Co. Inc. (Washington, Walton, and Company Incorporated) que llevaban las primeras guaguas llevadas a Cuba por los americanos. No sabía que en Puerto Rico se usara también esta palabra. Aquí en las Islas canarias también la usamos, así que ya tienes otro lugar para añadir a la lista. Saludos desde Gran Canaria.
La palabra guagua es de las Islas canarias
@@PGUNNA201 No lo es, infórmate mejor.
@@alpacamale2909 no es cubana es de islas canarias y en P.R se usa de generación en generación la palabra guagua
@@estrellafugaz3400 vivo en canarias, la palabra guagua es cubana y se trajo a aquí de cuba como mismo se llevó a pr de cuba
@@alpacamale2909yo creo q el idioma nació en Cuba!!
Soy el único que piensa que el muchacho tiene acento dominicano más que puertorriqueño? Además algunos de los ejemplos tienen más de un significado. Pero buen video de igual forma.
Do you think you could recommend books written by Puertorican authors that may or may not use these terms? Currently I’m watching El Ganador: Nicky Jam on Netflix and it does help
Iam so glad you put this class I been wanted to learn puerto rico
¿ Que es la que hay, Rocky? I'm ready for my lessons when its not hurricane season I'll go to 🇵🇷 but June is my birthday month which is June 6th♊ I would love to have 🇵🇷 desert as my birthday cake like a flan or something I'm excited to learn 🇵🇷 spanish
Really helpful trying to brush up on my Spanish and lingo I missed growing up so I can teach my kids , planning on taking a trip to PR in two years.
This video is a music for my ears!
Yes! Thanks so much!
Ahorita is my favorite. There is a comment that mentions the context of PR Spanish (mezcla de orígenes: España, Africa, y los taínos (Indígena). It’s my favorite because ‘ahorita’ culturally transcends throughout the African diaspora. Truthfully, we all have a way to say ‘I’ll see you when I see you 😂’
Thankss. Ive always loved peurto rican spanish 😍 and music of course. I knew some of these but im learning so much omg lol. now learning for a guy i like
Great video! Prepping for my first time to PR, these phrases will definitely help this gringa out!
i hope you had good time in my island 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷