My husband is a native speaker and I am not. I can understand maybe 50% of Spanish that is spoken to me but my actual conversational ability is not good. My daughter is five and up until she was three, she was in my MIL’s care where Spanish was primarily spoken to her 9 hours, 5 days a week. Once she started Pre-K, she started losing some vocabulary and now it’s to the point where she’s lost all conversational Spanish.

I’m so sad about it because I wanted my children to be bilingual. I absolutely see the importance of her knowing Spanish for both her future and appreciation for her culture. I’ve tried my best to drill it into my husband’s mind that he needs to be talking to her primarily in Spanish but he tells me English is easier. It’s at the point where I think I need to spend more time studying the language so I can help.

Can someone please provide me with advice or share their success stories raising bilingual children? His family is already jokingly calling her a “no sabo” kid 😩

Hi. I was learning Spanish for a few months pretty seriously and then I got a new job and now I’m putting in 60 hours a week and my time to myself has greatly diminished. Are there ways I could learn without using an app or physically studying all the time? I’m outside all day and being on my phone isn’t an option unless it’s with my headphones.

I’m hoping someone else here who works a lot has some way they’ve learned Spanish.

so im currently learning spanish with sentences/phrases and i use anki for memorizing. im looking for some useful resources so that i can really step up my level. i thought about getting some autobiographies in spanish and memorize each of the sentences that way but yeah.

LMK, thanks a million!

I was born in the US to both parents from Mexico. I learned Spanish as a second language. I would say I’m really good at speaking giving directions and just explaining myself formal. But i feel like I’ve always spoken to my parents and my siblings never spoke Spanish. I could speak very very well but when it comes to speaking to peers. I feel like I’m falling down the stairs. And honestly my experience with speaking to other born in the us Spanish speakers has always been negative. Like even when I speak very well, I always get made fun of for having an accent or sounding “too fresa” or even like when I don’t know a slang word or phrase and I’m like 😃 what’s going on

And I hate that so I want to change it. So pls give me podcasts and YouTubers so I can improve my language understanding.

TLDR - Online music lessons from my wife's native country.

So, this may not work for everyone, but it's really been great for my kids. During the start of the pandemic we were looking for something to keep our kids busy and we (boys about 9 and 12 at the time) decided to get back to music lessons (one drum, one guitar). We looked into online classes and found they were still really expensive. My wife had a thought and remembered the son of a friend who gives drum lessons in her native country. Of course cuz of the pandemic he was doing his own classes online as well, so it was easy to get our kid set up with lessons a couple hours a week. Soon after he recommended a friend that gave guitar lessons, so our other kid got set up for classes too.

4 1/2 years later and both our kids are still going strong. The lessons cost about a third of what they'd cost from any school here in the US, and on top of that the kids get exposure talking to native speakers from my wife's home country (the classes are all in Spanish of course) with youngish adults (late 20s) that are just way more plugged into modern speech and happenings there.

Total win-win-win for us, again, ymmv!

Diego: Tu centro de gravedad. Al ser alto, es más alto. Tienes que flexionar rodillas y bajar el tronco para tener estabilidad en los giros.

Should it not be flexionar tus rodillas?

Diego: Es tu arma. Con tu tamaño, protege el balón mejor que un bajito. Usa hombro y brazo para cubrir mientras regateas.

Is "usa hombro y brazo" fine here?

Luis: Siempre pensé que regate era puro toque corto.

Should it be el regate?

Does anyone have suggestions for online platforms for learning medical Spanish for someone who has learned Spanish but is just rusty? I learned Spanish in high school and forgot how to speak but I understand it well since I speak Italian at a high level. I think I just need to recover my skills. I have heard about doc Molly and canopy. Do you guys have any experience with them? Any of you guys in my situation who can recommend what worked for you? Thank you.

I am leading a language school teaching Spanish to English speakers and English to Spanish speakers. Some of my teachers would like to take on more students. We offer lessons for 8 USD per hour. DM me if you are interested.

Dirijo una escuela de idiomas en la que se enseña español a angloparlantes e inglés a hispanohablantes. Algunos de mis profesores desean aceptar más alumnos. Ofrecemos clases por 8 dólares la hora. Si está interesado, envíeme un mensaje directo.

I keep seeing ya being said all the time even when it doesn’t mean already. What I’m thinking is that it’s being used to add emphasis or smth along those lines. I ya know that it has a few other meanings, but I don’t think that’s what I’m noticing

I'm trying to learn Spanish and love listening to Reddit readers (AITAH, insane parents, confidently incorrect, etc) and true crime in the background while I work. It's just dawned on me that I can listen in Spanish to practice hearing it. Hoping to get more slang and casual conversation into my vocabulary so I don't sound like the formal "I just learned Spanish" speaker that I am. Any suggestions?

I am just learning about gerund in Spanish, which from what I understand is basically like -ing ending words in English, so "walk" becomes "walking", "caminar" becomes "caminando" etc.

I Googled "Spanish gerund" to read up more about it and the AI response said gerund in Spanish isn't used as often as it is in English.

Is this referring to, for example in English it's more common and proper English for someone to say "I like walking", while in Spanish you would say "Me gusta caminar" and not use the gerund form?

Or does it mean people generally don't use the gerund form of verbs as often in Spanish as they do in English?

So I’m Colombian but not fluent (trying to be, one of my parents is Colombian but only spoke in English) and my husband is Mexican but from the US. Whenever I ask him what these words mean he says he doesn’t know the literal meaning. I can’t really find much on the internet that makes sense. - guache (sounds like watch-ey). When I look this up it means rude, but I’ve only heard it in the context of talking about children. And not ever really in a mean context. - mamores (mah-mor-ehs… seriously don’t know how to spell this one). Used as a word of endearment and my MIL says it all the time to kids— usually in a baby voice.

have heard these words for years and I am still confused. 🫣

So, about 10 days ago I shared my little project , a site where you drop in a YouTube link, and it spits out a flashcard deck.
I thought maybe a dozen of you would check it out. Instead, literally thousands of you visited the site. Y'all gave me some love, brutal feedback, and ran up my API bill.

In the process you also exposed every bug I had buried in there. Thanks for that.

So, I’ve been pulling late nights, breaking things, fixing them, breaking them again…and here’s where we are now:

Languages

• Chinese learners: pinyin support is now built-in.
• Japanese learners: the system now recognizes Japanese videos and builds full decks with interactive transcripts. They don’t always line up perfectly, and honestly, please don’t ever ask me to touch Japanese again because it's janky.
• Turkish learners: Turkish is now a supported language
• Hindi learners: Hindi is now a supported language
• English learners: This works as long as you have your native language set in your profile, otherwise it returns Albanian flashcards. Don't ask me why.

Flashcards & Decks

• You can suspend cards you don’t care about, and re-activate them later.
• Added deck sorting (by date or language).
• Added a delete deck button (finally).
• Added manual card creation & editing so you can make your own.
• Added copy/paste support long-press to grab text straight from a card without flipping.
• Flashcards now have better status indicators (new, learning, mastered).

Study Sessions

• The SRS scheduling got a total overhaul: tricky words repeat until they stick.
• The progress bar only goes up when you hit “Good” or “Easy,” so you get a real picture of mastery.
• The spacing between reviews for “Good” and “Easy” is smarter now.
• You can pick between classic SRS review and a gamified review mode.
• Fixed the bug where clicking “Again/Hard/Good/Easy” too fast would mess up counts.

Progress & Tracking

• Added streaks and daily activity tracking.
• You now get visual charts (line chart for study activity, pie/bar chart for mastery breakdown).
• On the “My Decks” and “My Progress” pages you’ll see clear breakdowns of new, learning, and mastered cards.

Transcript & Word Selection

• Word selection in transcript now translates full strings, not just single words. You can also jump straight to that moment in the video or add it to your deck.
• Improved error handling when YouTube doesn’t share transcripts - you now get actual instructions on how to grab it manually and still generate your deck.

User Accounts & Access

• Guest mode is live: you can now make decks, save them, and keep progress without an account.
• Fixed the bug where guest mode was throwing a 403 error.

General Improvements

• Website is now way more mobile responsive (so it doesn’t look like hot garbage on your phone).
• UI tweaks: better tooltips, cleaner loading states, footer cleanup.

Staying Free

I completely f***faced myself with costs. So I added two cheap subscription tiers. The free version is still fully usable (deck creation, progress tracking, etc.), but if you want to support the site and keep it alive, and get way more vocab decks every month to learn real vocab in context that’s how you can.

That’s the current state of the app. Still scrappy. But its ours and now slightly less broken.

What I’d love from you all:

• What’s still missing? what would you love to see?
• I was thinking of adding book/PDF support.
• What about a section where I add movie screenplays that you can go through and get it based on your language?
• I was also thinking of paying for whisper api access so this works on youtube videos without captions and also podcasts.
• What would make you actually stick with it for daily study?

Thanks again,
Vocablii.com

For reference I learn spanish as a part of the IB program, i've done it for around 5 years now (my reading is pretty good i think), I'm around a B1 level, but my speaking and listening is quite weak in comparison. I live in a Chinese country so essentially no one around me speaks it (Except my school teacher, but that means at home I can't practice). How can i improve my speaking and listening? Are there any good shows/movies suitable for me?

I’ve been talking to this insanely gorgeous Colombian chick for a little while now and every now and then she’ll say “Que churro” or “estás muy muy churro” “te veías bien churro hoy” and she hasn’t really told me what that means i always thought it meant i was edible LOL. can anyone tell me before i start thinking more ridiculous things ?

Hello!

I developed an interest in learning Spanish and now I want to buy some textbooks to start studying.

I found the Practice Makes Perfect books and I think they’re what I need. However, I see that there are books for Pronouns, Verbs, etc and then there it is this Complete Grammar Spanish book. Should I go for the last one or the others?

Also, if you have any other recommendations for studying resources, I’m more then happy to hear them

Thanks!

Once in a while a phrase in Spanish links up just right to a phrase in English. Every time I hear this song by Bad Bunny, I think of Eric Cartman.

The title might be self explanatory, but a girl recently moved to my high school from the Dominican Republic and she knows very very little English. We’ve talked through translating apps and she seems really nice and I’d like to be her friend, but don’t know enough Spanish to hold most conversations. My school has maybe one or two Spanish classes, but they’re not sufficient and we live in a very rural, very white area with very few people who speak Spanish at all. She is one of 2 people in the entire high school who speak it.

Any advice to find a way to quickly talk to her outside of translating apps or at all would be greatly appreciated!! I would prefer if they don’t cost money, but I could definitely shell some out to learn.

Hello! I am going to college with a bachelors in Spanish and I was wondering what jobs are options for this field?

I would say I’m advanced enough to know proper grammar and ways to conjugate but I also feel like when the time comes for me to actually preform my words get mixed. Is there a way for me to practice speaking so that I can flow and sound better. In a few weeks I am going to be student teaching in a literacy program and asked to work with Spanish speaking students grades 2-5. I want to be able to help the students to the best of my ability.

Hello guys, the following is a Tamil song. It has a couple of Spanish lyrics in its prelude. Can you please translate it? Thank you.

P.S. I have already tried ChatGPT, but no use

song name: Mona Gasolina, song link:

youtube : https://youtu.be/lBKHAaq--FA?si=0oi0HwRQ8q9Fvppa
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/20HQHyw0ECooEf2m4JrFpJ?si=84685eee8b7a4615

Is there a way to help remember words from Spanish to English? I have just been connecting words such as el cartel to wanted poster to poster

Hey, I hate to be that one person, but I'm having trouble collecting spanish resources aimed at italian speakers and/or in italian
So far I have been able to achieve at finding a basic textbook and some youtube videos/playlists, however I'd like to hear other's reconmendations. I am between an A1-A2 level, I know not much grammar but I am able to read and listen to spanish at ~A2 or slightly above level

I struggle to learn in the beginning if there is not a well-structured course, i struggle. Any reconmendations would be helpful, and preferably free. I am capable of english and german as well, so if there is a resource you would very highly reconmend, feel free, I just would very much prefer italian

Thank you everyone for your help, if it matters, i am learning only with the ideal of going to mid-B2 and mainly for fun + to talk to people

I took Spanish in high school, but due to it being through online multiple choice assignments, I didn't really get to speak it. A few months after graduating, I'm now entering a relationship with someone whose grandmother and extended family does not speak English and only speaks Spanish. Their family is extremely kind, even though we cannot verbally communicate. I want to learn and improve my Spanish so I am able to actually talk to them.

My only issue is when I try apps like Duolingo, it's often the casual versions of words and it doesn't have a whole lot of speaking. I can read a bit of Spanish (although a bit rusty), but my main issue is with speaking. It also has to have formal options as I'm not trying to introduce myself to their Grandma with informalities.

So does anyone have any resources that fit this? Or am I out of luck in this case?

So I’m beginner Spanish and listen to a lot of reggaeton. When I read the lyrics and I can’t hear them pronouncing the S in their words.

I asked my Mexican and Salvadorian friends if that’s a slang thing or a Puerto Rican thing. They didn’t know.

I just got done watching the movie Caught Stealing at the movies today and Bad Bunny was in it.

He spoke Spanish and they had English subtitles. He said the words “pitola” (pistol),“trite” (sad), “etupido”(stupid), and “donda ta” (where is it?). Even one of the characters mocked his Spanish and said “pitola.”

Tell me I’m not hearing this incorrectly about Puerto Rican Spanish.