CHILEAN Spanish and What Makes it Unique!

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  • This video is all about the varieties of Spanish spoken in Chile, and their special features and influences. 🚩Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101: bit.ly/pod101spanish.
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  • @Langfocus
    @Langfocus  Před 2 lety +545

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    • @maildeuscsiant
      @maildeuscsiant Před 2 lety +14

      You should definitely make one for Peruvian, Argentinian, Colombian and Caribbean Spanish 😃🙌. These dialects are very different from each other, that is what makes Spanish an amazing language!

    • @ariverbythesea
      @ariverbythesea Před 2 lety +5

      Hi Paul, i mean, Paolo!

    • @andymetternich3428
      @andymetternich3428 Před 2 lety +3

      Guagua(sounds like wawa)is a bus or baby carriage for Cubans. Now I know why, lol

    • @user-xo9ig8kc3u
      @user-xo9ig8kc3u Před 2 lety +1

      Does the Pod101 have Peninsular/European Spanish available?
      I just really, really prefer Spanish without Seseo.

    • @ruinainevitable3
      @ruinainevitable3 Před 2 lety +4

      Da BEST! Chilee

  • @sr.patata8817
    @sr.patata8817 Před 2 lety +9044

    Chilean Spanish can be difficult to understand, but the "huaso" accent that is often found in rural areas is absolutely on another level...

    • @seid3366
      @seid3366 Před 2 lety +185

      It's a descendent of Spanish

    • @maniestacio9245
      @maniestacio9245 Před 2 lety +401

      @@Ericson-vk6bx Are you a native English speaker? Because I find the Aussie accent to be pretty forgiving. Now, some deep bayou Louisiana accent or a Scottish highlander accent, those can be quite hard...

    • @diegodelperu409
      @diegodelperu409 Před 2 lety +293

      Huaso spanish is direct descent of andalucian spanish, specially people of field. Compare both, similarity is amazing

    • @posteador
      @posteador Před 2 lety +102

      @@maniestacio9245 I also think Scottish accent is way harder than Aussie accent.

    • @brianfrommars
      @brianfrommars Před 2 lety +47

      @@maniestacio9245 Yeah, personally I’d argue African Diaspora Vernacular English can be the hardest to understand (I’m looking at you Black Londoners).

  • @juanpablomac-lean8515
    @juanpablomac-lean8515 Před 2 lety +3178

    As a Chilean-Scottish guy, I can tell that Chilean accent is like the Scottish accent to English speakers

  • @Waja999
    @Waja999 Před 8 měsíci +580

    As a Chilean, I deeply appreciate the effort put into this video and how accurately it represents our language. I can also confirm that most Chileans are aware of the distinctions in our Spanish dialect compared to others. When necessary, we make an effort to 'standardize' our vocabulary to ensure effective communication. However, when someone resides in Chile for work, study, or any long-term commitment, we also strive to help them become fluent in our unique dialect. We view this as a way of welcoming them into our culture.

    • @GEEMELLOW
      @GEEMELLOW Před 7 měsíci +18

      It’s funny you say that. As an Aussie Chilean , whenever in Chile I tend to adapt my way of speaking , depending on where and who I’m talking with. When I talk to other Spanish speakers who aren’t Chilean, I tend to speak clearer and slower.

    • @carolinagavilan3620
      @carolinagavilan3620 Před 7 měsíci +11

      I'm from Chile too, and I think we are also kind of embarrassed of our distinctions xD

    • @miguelangelmiranda8460
      @miguelangelmiranda8460 Před 7 měsíci +24

      ahora dilo en español, wn

    • @naxo8894
      @naxo8894 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@miguelangelmiranda8460 XDDD

    • @Imae08I
      @Imae08I Před 6 měsíci +4

      por ejm "ya tómatela al seco wn" jajaja

  • @Kerenthar
    @Kerenthar Před rokem +1232

    De todos los extranjeros que he escuchado hablar sobre el español de Chile, esto es sumamente preciso

    • @elclaustrocl
      @elclaustrocl Před 7 měsíci +29

      ...sospechosamente preciso, zionooooh!?!?!?

    • @shagof
      @shagof Před 7 měsíci +26

      sospechosa la wea

    • @hectormunoz8097
      @hectormunoz8097 Před 6 měsíci +1

      🤣@@shagof

    • @alejandradiazpainen6506
      @alejandradiazpainen6506 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Misma reflexión.... Sospechosa la wea 🤔

    • @ImNoobOnO
      @ImNoobOnO Před 6 měsíci +1

      aweonao, los videos llevan un largo proceso por detras investigacion sobre todo (como en este caso), no es como que el tipo este se desperto con una idea y en menos de 4 horas hizo el video, probablemende llevo dias investigando el o su equipo las diversas cosas que tiene la lengua chilena, saco wea

  • @felipev.625
    @felipev.625 Před 2 lety +2294

    the frase "el weon weon, weon" has a complete meaning in chilean spanish and is perfectably understandable. It can be translated to "el tipo es super imbécil, amigo" or "the guy is an dumbass, dude"

    • @xflofyx
      @xflofyx Před 2 lety +465

      "el coso que va en el cosito del coso"

    • @BackBellow1
      @BackBellow1 Před 2 lety +401

      "ooooh el weon weon weon, la wea de la weaita va en esa otra wea weon, la wea" if you understand that, you pass the Chilean test

    • @NeXorYx
      @NeXorYx Před 2 lety +131

      Yo soy Chileno y creo que decir 3 veces la palabra "Weon" es un poco exagerado, yo creo que el maximo es decirlo 2 veces, osea, "el weon weon"

    • @enriqueperez2829
      @enriqueperez2829 Před 2 lety +99

      @@NeXorYx wéon (el) wéon (tonto), wéon (tu).

    • @NeXorYx
      @NeXorYx Před 2 lety +33

      @@enriqueperez2829 si, pero la mayoria usa el "el" al principio para después decirle "weon" a alguien

  • @clementbourgade2487
    @clementbourgade2487 Před 2 lety +6280

    Fun story :
    I'm French and I visited Chile for a quite long time and I even worked there. I learned the language spoken there obviously.
    I really thought I was learning standard Spanish...
    One day I met a Spanish tourist and I spoke with him. He didn't understand me and I realised I've not been learning standard Spanish ^^
    Que fome... Pero igual me ayudó ver series con doblaje neutral pa aprender el idioma normal.
    Besos a todos los chilenos.

    • @Alejojojo6
      @Alejojojo6 Před 2 lety +289

      As a spanish speaker myself, I can 100% tell you that there is no "neutral spanish". Also people can understand chilean somehow. The only problem would be if you learnt and use a lot of slang with people from other spanish speaking countries. To that you must add that the chilean variety is the most distinct of all the spanish varieties out there (sometimes as well hard caribbean spanish accents). But usually there isnt that much of a deal. We know how they speak and have heard/ learn through media that they use po, cachai etc and what it means. Just avoid using slang and prefer more standard words and you'll be fine.

    • @misaellos9190
      @misaellos9190 Před 2 lety +182

      @@Alejojojo6 El español neutro como tal si existe y es el usa cuando hablas sin ningún tipo de modismo palabras que generalmente son habladas en otras partes de hispanoamérica
      Aún que la verdad esté español no es muy útil en chile para hablarlo con otros extranjeros pues el problema
      radica en nuestra pronunciación y la rapidez del habla y no mucho en palabras (Que también)

    • @TonyBittner-Collins
      @TonyBittner-Collins Před 2 lety +3

      😘

    • @vistared
      @vistared Před 2 lety +38

      jajajjajaj bacan tu historia .

    • @a.pereyra3875
      @a.pereyra3875 Před 2 lety +42

      Final inesperado 😂

  • @Vaskonga
    @Vaskonga Před 7 měsíci +254

    Como un chileno estudiando un grado en lingüística inglesa y española (en menor medida), apruebo este video con toda violencia. La info es tremendamente precisa, quedé sorprendido

    • @stgo.s.4067
      @stgo.s.4067 Před 6 měsíci +10

      Nada más chileno que sacarse su referencia a Los Simpson, 10/10👌💕

    • @PP.Antartico-Chile
      @PP.Antartico-Chile Před 5 měsíci

      Si apruebas esto "con toda violencia" es porque eres un ser limítrofe con cero habilidad de análisis básico. Este tipo habla puras estupideces. Decir que los españoles impusieron el idioma a los araucanos (dónde quedó la guerra de 250 años?), decir que los chilenos tenemos influencia andalusa (los andaluces llegaron en 1920). Ya con eso te das cuenta que este pobre gil se guía por periódicos peruanos.

    • @NABUCODONOSORV
      @NABUCODONOSORV Před 4 měsíci +1

      No hay forma más chilena de decir que el video es bueno

  • @Ioannis_Moraitis
    @Ioannis_Moraitis Před rokem +221

    While I was doing my master in Granada, Spain I met a lot of Chileans. One of my roommates, she was from south Chile, and the other was a Colombian. I also met Chileans from Santiago, Viña del Mar and Temuco. Me encanta como hablan. Su acento es bacán y para mi es el mejor de Larinoamerica. Les cachaba al tiro po weon! And I'm Greek haha

  • @partigianotere
    @partigianotere Před 2 lety +2122

    Me sorprendió lo bien estudiado que tienen el español chileno.

    • @ElTioAleYT
      @ElTioAleYT Před 7 měsíci +51

      respeta mas la raices de nuestra lengua ( el español chileno es muy alegre y lo quieren dejar neutral desde que tengo memoria :D) que muchos de aca mihmo xd

    • @Amiyuu0
      @Amiyuu0 Před 7 měsíci +32

      a mi tambien, aunque igual faltaron varios terminos, como por ejemplo "llevar facha" que viene de fashion (o que puede ser alguien de derecha, un facho cuyo origen no conozco) tambien los pacos, obviamente el "weon/wea" que se utiliza para aun mas cosas que cachar, tambien estan pajaron, mermel, gil, sacowea, ubicate, los usos de chao y otras palabras en diferentes situaciones, comerse, flaite, roto, choro/chorizo y sus usos, cuico, "me cayo la teja", hacerse pebre, dar un piquito...
      ...cabeza de pollo, cabro/a, cabro/a chico/a, culiao, chuta, pucha, ay ella, fresco, cabezadura, agarrarse a combos, volado, curado, patudo, tufo, pal gato, como el ajo, hecho crema, rajao, raja, enredado, peludo, ah, chua, partiste, pulento, tincar, hinchar, pasarla chancho, pasarse, pasao a ___, nica, "ha pasado ene veces", caleta, le faltan palos pal puente, salta pal lao, sapo, guaton, gallo/a...
      y esos son como maximo un tercio de todo XD voy actualizando cuando me acuerdo de alguno

    • @Revench94
      @Revench94 Před 7 měsíci +9

      @@Amiyuu0 hermano, el chao viene del italiano chao que es utilizado tanto para saludar como despedirse

    • @barnysaurd4474
      @barnysaurd4474 Před 7 měsíci +1

      ​@@Revench94pero se utiliza más en chile

    • @alvaromedinagarcia
      @alvaromedinagarcia Před 7 měsíci +25

      Nos tienen entero cachaos

  • @wviampero
    @wviampero Před 2 lety +1791

    You might also be interested in the epitome of Chilean Spanish, the sentence: "Me voy a ir yendo", which features 3 conjugations of the same verb.

    • @ElLudens
      @ElLudens Před 2 lety +152

      eso es español estándar

    • @IBMboy
      @IBMboy Před 2 lety +402

      the epitome of chilean is using weon in various forms into the same sentence. for example: "oye weon que e' weon este weon"

    • @flpm1453..
      @flpm1453.. Před 2 lety +58

      @@ElLudens obvio, pero la conjugación hijo

    • @Carambanoazul
      @Carambanoazul Před 2 lety +31

      @@flpm1453.. se usa en México, me imagino qué tal vez en otros también

    • @Ralki
      @Ralki Před 2 lety +147

      @@IBMboy "El weon weón, weon" translate to "The dude dumb, dude", the ultime version.

  • @rossiebaby
    @rossiebaby Před 7 měsíci +59

    As a Chilean I can say that this is the first time I can understand the way we talk from the grammar perspective, and I find it amazing how people in the comments are saying how cool and how beautiful it sounds. Also, you made an incredible job at portraying and showing our native slang from such an educated and very well researched side.
    And before I go , I saw someone in the comments say that if you learn Spanish in chile, you could possibly understand Spanish anywhere in the world, and I couldn’t agree more.
    Keep going! And thank you for showing the world and explaining our slang in such a perfect way❤

    • @johnmilton9211
      @johnmilton9211 Před 6 měsíci

      @rossiebaby an american once told me that using "can" is incorrect if you are over 4 years old and you are not impaired physically or mentally understand concepts

    • @marcelaoyarce5384
      @marcelaoyarce5384 Před 6 měsíci +1

      ​@@johnmilton9211no need to be rude, instead you could help her providing some words she CAN use

  • @aobeso25
    @aobeso25 Před rokem +73

    I am originally from Spain and have no issues there, obviously. I traveled for work during many years to just about all Latin American countries, and have easily adapted to all. Even learned Portuguese in Brasil through the "sink or swim" method. Then I went to Chile to supervise the buildout of a new building in Santiago. OMG. It took me 3 days to *start* understanding anything that the blue collar workers were saying to me. Then probably another 2 weeks to understand then when they were speaking with each other. Chilean is fast, mumbly, and is unlike anything I have ver heard!

  • @nicolaslamoliatte3627
    @nicolaslamoliatte3627 Před 2 lety +3338

    If he had explained the words “weon” and “wea”, this video could have lasted (at least) 1 hour. Te salió bacán el video eso sí, felicitaciones.

    • @sylvandoggo4416
      @sylvandoggo4416 Před 2 lety +94

      Not really, wea (weá) is basically the chilean version of "it" and weón (huevón in the rest of LATAM) indeed has a few different meanings, but that applies to languages around the world so is not that "unique" (but chileans tend to abuse the usage of weon and derivations 😂)
      Está de sobra decirte porque respondí en inglés 🙂

    • @KagamineNachy
      @KagamineNachy Před 2 lety +324

      @@sylvandoggo4416 Disagree! It depends on where you put the accent.
      wéa means ‘stupid’ or ‘testicle’
      “Me pegaron en las wéas”/“They hit my nuts”
      “Eres saco de wéas”/“you are stupid/a bag of testicles”
      “El wéa”/ The imbecile
      This has more to do with the original word ‘huevón’ = 'huevos’ = ‘testiculos’
      And when it’s on the a, weá, it’s it, or basically any word that you don’t remember the name of.
      “mira esa weá”/Look at that’
      “Qué weá paso?”/what happened?
      “Estoy chato de esta wea”/ I’m tired of this thing.
      Weón, as everyone knows, can mean stupid/dude or just be used at the end of a sentence to add More Feeling, usually preceded by “po”
      “Pero mira esa estupidez po weon”/But look at that stupid thing, dude.

    • @MrPampito1
      @MrPampito1 Před 2 lety +103

      @@KagamineNachy based

    • @mkkyanosuda
      @mkkyanosuda Před 2 lety +47

      @@KagamineNachy based x2

    • @D.Walker514
      @D.Walker514 Před 2 lety +59

      Mora has lasted this video if he explains "washo culiado maldito po weon"

  • @ratanasorn8080
    @ratanasorn8080 Před 2 lety +1513

    I remember someone called Chilean the “Scottish” of Spanish 😂

  • @boohoonn6446
    @boohoonn6446 Před rokem +59

    My dad is chilean but my mom's language was always dominant in my life. As I moved out to a Spanish speaking country, and my Spanish was getting better, somehow I developed an accent mix of chilean and Spanish. Me and my sister were wondering why I was speaking that way but watching this vid I realise it comes from hearing my dad speak Spanish in my childhood haha.

  • @user-gg4wo3ek2z
    @user-gg4wo3ek2z Před 9 měsíci +15

    I met a Chilean guy during an international event years ago. I speak some spanish but now I know why I just couldn't understand him one bit. He was of indigenous ethnicity from a rural area. He was a very kind man and gave me an artefact I have kept till this day. Saludos Chile!

    • @kurookumura774
      @kurookumura774 Před 6 měsíci +1

      did he gave you an indio picaro? xd

    • @pollito769
      @pollito769 Před 5 měsíci +1

      ​@@kurookumura774 o un tostador....el tostador también es chileno xd

  • @itzamateama
    @itzamateama Před 2 lety +3364

    Soy de México y cuando era niño veía un programa chileno llamado “31 minutos”. Recientemente conocí a una persona chilena y “caché ” todo lo que me decía, de hecho ella se sorprendió porque cuando ella hablaba con otras personas no chilenas, le era difícil que la entendieran. Gracias 31minutos

    • @cristobalbalbi6002
      @cristobalbalbi6002 Před 2 lety +276

      31 minutos ayuda mucho la verdad a entender los fundamentales del acento, además de ser una serie extraordinaria.

    • @Raul-ir8zh
      @Raul-ir8zh Před 2 lety +25

      Lmao same

    • @multiversosdeleo3864
      @multiversosdeleo3864 Před 2 lety +169

      Lo mismo me pasa a mí, chileno, que vi el Chavo del 8 de niño. 👍🏼

    • @gutroll8857
      @gutroll8857 Před 2 lety +73

      Todo un grande bodoque

    • @MissMBA
      @MissMBA Před 2 lety +36

      31 minutos es lo mejor 😍

  • @waddleds665
    @waddleds665 Před 2 lety +1120

    Honestly as a Chilean guy, i didn't even realized we had THAT many unique words in our Spanish vocabulary

    • @Champol
      @Champol Před 2 lety +117

      And they only mentioned a few!
      Cuático, brígido, tuto, carrete, copete, chanchullo, sapear, patudo, pelúo, papa, choriflai... oof, there are a lot

    • @Steven-sh8fe
      @Steven-sh8fe Před 2 lety +23

      Así es, tienen un friego de "slangs" y además agregale con lo rápido que hablan.

    • @vendettasapiens1542
      @vendettasapiens1542 Před 2 lety +49

      @@Steven-sh8fe naaaaa pa na, el washo seco pal idioma y la labia = no eso no es verdad, el chico es bueno para los idiomas y la fonetica

    • @artux1629
      @artux1629 Před 2 lety +10

      Me estai weando

    • @SunshinePIRRATA
      @SunshinePIRRATA Před 2 lety +8

      @@Champol Pico tula, también. XD

  • @TheBold1994
    @TheBold1994 Před 8 měsíci +85

    As an American from Los Angeles that lived many years in the Canary Islands in Spain, I absolutely love the Chilean Spanish. The accent sounds similar to Canarian and I absolutely love the typical Chilean vocabulary words they use. Chile has always fascinated me and I’d love to visit. I see it as the California or British Colombia of US and Canada! Much love Chile!

    • @jatt88
      @jatt88 Před 7 měsíci +3

      No, no, no.... Hablaste sólo con o venezolanos acá, ellos hablan como los canarios. El castellano de Chile es extremeño y andaluces.

  • @diegoflorencio
    @diegoflorencio Před 9 měsíci +88

    I'm Brazilian and I'm impressed by how Brazilians and Chileans use the same slangs even though we don't speak the same language and we are far from each other. I mean, where I live you can also hear "pô" [po], and it's used like "man/bro". Example: - Ei, pô! (= hey, man!). We also use the word "bacana" [bacán] meaning "cool". Oh, and in Portuguese we also say "computador".
    Greetings from Brazil

    • @greggallardo1039
      @greggallardo1039 Před 7 měsíci +8

      En Chile se usa la palabra "fome", pero no por hambre cómo en Brasil, sino cómo sinónimo de aburrido

    • @isidora4040
      @isidora4040 Před 5 měsíci

      The word "poh" comes from the word "pues". Ya, poh= Ya, pues

    • @TheSopaia70
      @TheSopaia70 Před 5 měsíci

      I'm from Chile and I have family in Brazil, and when one of my cousins from there came, it was so easy to understand even though we spoke different languages, but i don't know, it felt so similar.

    • @redzard2015
      @redzard2015 Před 5 měsíci

      Po isnt used as bro in Chile…

    • @diegoflorencio
      @diegoflorencio Před 5 měsíci

      @@redzard2015
      Now I know... haha

  • @wolfotumadre6969
    @wolfotumadre6969 Před 2 lety +902

    Fun story:
    I was in USA as an exchange student, and I made a friend from Mexico there. We used to talk in Spanish, and once I told her "you know, I'm consciusly speaking in neutral Spanish to you, cause if I were speaking like we normally do in Chile, you wouldn't get a thing. She didn't believe.
    Then one day we were at the campus and I meet another Chilean, and we spoke for a while. After he left, she told me "I would rather hear you guys speaking in English, because... What was that? I didn't understand a thing!
    So yeah, our Spanish is... Different. But many of us can speak a neutral Spanish if we want to, and then we don't have a strong accent like other countries do.

    • @arancibian.m
      @arancibian.m Před 2 lety +117

      Es como saber 2 idiomas para usarlos según convenga, es como los Españoles que saben catalán y castellano jaja

    • @stormi9514
      @stormi9514 Před 2 lety +1

      Tienes un acento fácil de Identificar

    • @meiyami93
      @meiyami93 Před 2 lety +37

      @@stormi9514 Yo no estaría tan segura XD. Soy profe y cuando le hablo a mis alumnos, uso un español neutro, lo interesante aquí es que muchos de ellos creen que mi español viene de Venezuela o de Colombia 😅

    • @benjajas7560
      @benjajas7560 Před 2 lety +81

      toda la razon, pero mas que saber 2 idiomas, un chileno sabe diferenciar entre ser formal e informal, esa es la gran diferencia, pienso que el chileno formal es muy neutro, mientras que el informal es otra wea

    • @alerojas2952
      @alerojas2952 Před 2 lety

      On compus not at the campus.

  • @randomgeographer4410
    @randomgeographer4410 Před 2 lety +1372

    What makes Chilean Spanish so unique is the distance between informal daily language and formal speech. In most other variants of Spanish, it is more or less the same, except for some words and slight differences in intonation. But in Chilean Spanish the difference gets enormous. They totally switch gears when talking to each other. You would barely understand anything when two good old Chilean friends talk.

    • @mesadepalo
      @mesadepalo Před 2 lety +49

      Muy cierto

    • @awertyuiop8711
      @awertyuiop8711 Před 2 lety +199

      As a Chilean, confirmo la wea

    • @V19XX
      @V19XX Před 2 lety +140

      @@awertyuiop8711 As a fellow chilean, el wn de arriba tiene razón

    • @patifuso7562
      @patifuso7562 Před 2 lety +75

      @@V19XX as another fellow chilean, confirmo está wea también

    • @Carlos-ne3zf
      @Carlos-ne3zf Před 2 lety +104

      @@patifuso7562 as a another fellow chilean, ecolecua

  • @mitosfits
    @mitosfits Před 7 měsíci +38

    somos el mejor país de chile hermano 🖤❤️, saludos de un chileno viviendo en Australia, thank you very much for your video it was excellent and everything correct👌

  • @driverosfraser
    @driverosfraser Před 8 měsíci +21

    Probably the best video ever recorded about the uniqueness of chilean accent, slang and general use. Congrats!!

  • @MD0K
    @MD0K Před 2 lety +1734

    In the early 00’s there was a chilean telenovela called machos. When it was sindicated outside of chile to other countries in latinamerica it was dubbed in spanish. Chilean spanish was so unintelligeble outside of chile that they had to dub from spanish to spanish. That is my favorite chilean accent story, particularly when you tell it to chileans cause they feel shocked and then they get it.

    • @NaitoSentineru
      @NaitoSentineru Před 2 lety +77

      We are pretty self aware of the reputation of general chilean spanish, it's only natural that others have a difficult time understanding us xd though, as mentioned in the vid, we tend to adjust the pronunciation a lot.
      PS: That fact about "Machos" was new to me, but it being dubbed in a different, more neutral spanish was to be expected xD.

    • @offonoff4304
      @offonoff4304 Před 2 lety +29

      Cause the series has chilean idioms/slangs and it would happen with every series if it had the country idioms because people outside the country are not accustomed

    • @catalinaplaza7909
      @catalinaplaza7909 Před 2 lety +4

      Damn

    • @germanmartinez6550
      @germanmartinez6550 Před 2 lety +37

      @@offonoff4304 I get what you mean, but you don't usually hear they have to "dub" a Mexican telenovela or show, despite their use of slang

    • @MatameVideos
      @MatameVideos Před 2 lety +45

      @@germanmartinez6550 That's right, but I still think they should dub some Mexican dubs because I can't stand anime characters saying "Chido padre enchilada wey" anymore

  • @Gookwear
    @Gookwear Před rokem +801

    I like to think that the Spanish of Chile is like the English of England, if you speak it formally it sounds elegant but if you speak it colloquially things change drastically

    • @MrLanternland
      @MrLanternland Před 8 měsíci +23

      Truth!

    • @milodon316
      @milodon316 Před 8 měsíci +133

      Some say that Chile is kind of like the England of south america, as in Chile we also love our tea time, not even a 6.2 earthquake would make a chilean stand from his chair if he is drinking his tea.

    • @BasedOverflow
      @BasedOverflow Před 8 měsíci +125

      @@milodon316 Chile is more like Australia, only they can understand themselves hahaha

    • @milodon316
      @milodon316 Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@BasedOverflow lol

    • @ceciliaandreaviniales9614
      @ceciliaandreaviniales9614 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Totally agree !!!

  • @countesscrows
    @countesscrows Před rokem +29

    As a chilean linguist and translator this video filled me with so much joy lol your examples and translations were spot on AND you didn't call it "bad spanish" (which a lot of people, chilean or not, use to describe it).
    Regarding your question, I lived most of my life in the "bad part" of one of the richest areas in the capital (if that makes sense). I was exposed to both "styles". I've noticed that I automatically "adjust" to how people around me speak, the same way an accent can be more or less noticeable depending on who you're talking to.

    • @Chalepastel
      @Chalepastel Před 7 měsíci +1

      "bad spanish" y "good spanish" es muy similar al concepto del "white people talk" es equivalente al lenguaje de entrevista formal de trabajo, vió?

  • @drdnyddd
    @drdnyddd Před 7 měsíci +41

    Por ahí leí que el "hacer la cimarra" viene de los tiempos de esclavitud de muchos países en américa central y sudamérica. Los esclavos cuando se escapaban y hacían sus vidas en los bosques o las selvas, los llamaban "cimarrones", quizás de ahí lo sacamos nosotros.
    Buen video!

  • @raulbaezmontanez988
    @raulbaezmontanez988 Před 2 lety +712

    I'm Spanish, and once I was in Rome with my family my brother and I were trying to figure out which was the language two guys were speaking while standing in a line. We knew it was a romance language, but none seemed correct. Imagine all we laughed and how shocked we were when we later heard them talking about Chile XD. To this day I still don't know how come we couldn't figure out it was Spanish in the first place. Simply amazing

    • @arielfontecilla5562
      @arielfontecilla5562 Před 2 lety +81

      It's understandable, since the chilean accent is one of the most excentric of the language. It wouldn't surprise me if in 200 years Chile had to declare they no longer speak spanish because the variations became too extreme and are instead speaking "chilean"

    • @NickSwe
      @NickSwe Před 2 lety +43

      it depends of the people really, I'm chilean and I lived a couple of years in Fuengirola, people there usually asked me if I was from Sevilla or somewhere near that city, I never felt the need to change my accent cause it was quite similar to andalucian spanish, once I went to Sevilla and I was surprised the dialect there was actually quite similar to chilean spanish, with the obvious differences of course, the Z -> S thing and whatnot, some words I used people there thought sounded old, while I thought some words they used sounded like old spanish to me. Anyway, some chilean people rely heavily of slang, but not all of them, not even the majority I would say, and those that don't use too much slang sound quite similar to the dialect used in Sevilla.

    • @jorgewemyssnava1661
      @jorgewemyssnava1661 Před 2 lety +44

      JAJAJAJAJAJA que buena historia 😂😂😂 Tenias que haber gritado, "Hay algun sacowea aqui cerca?" XDDD es como un llamado tipo Blancanieves, para encontrar Chilenos en el extranjero.

    • @mangouschase
      @mangouschase Před 2 lety +9

      @@jorgewemyssnava1661 es "hay algún sacowea por aquí" pero sí xD

    • @maos1018
      @maos1018 Před 2 lety

      @@arielfontecilla5562 excentric xDDDDDDD

  • @fitojaras
    @fitojaras Před 2 lety +640

    As a chilean, I am really surprised how well this video explains Chilean Spanish, I use almost all the features mentioned in the video. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, Chilean Spanish is very complex and almost always depends a lot on context. But a good thing is, we can use a neutral accent if we need to. I love Chilean Spanish, I find it very funny, especially when it comes to rudeness.

    • @shortesnameofalltime
      @shortesnameofalltime Před 2 lety +27

      La cgo weon yo toy diciendo garabato todo el rato por ejemplo con mi amigo y wea así pero no lo quiero insultar tampoco

    • @GiuliaGraviano
      @GiuliaGraviano Před 2 lety +5

      Is the "vos" true? I thought it was used just in Argentina..

    • @guerra092
      @guerra092 Před 2 lety +12

      @@GiuliaGraviano yeah, it is, but without the 's'.

    • @SaimonAndrew
      @SaimonAndrew Před 2 lety +31

      @@GiuliaGraviano vos is used in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. In Chile, we used it in a very different way, because its a little bit disrespectful. If you say vo'h (vos) to your boss for example, you will get in trouble. Also the word is associated with people of low socioeconomic condition.

    • @sebcsxxy551
      @sebcsxxy551 Před 2 lety

      @@GiuliaGraviano los 2

  • @louisestromback6265
    @louisestromback6265 Před 5 měsíci +18

    Spanish is my third language and I speak Chilean Spanish. When I speak Spanish to someone who is not Chilean I definitely try to adapt my vocabulary and pronunciation to make my accent more neutral, but this also takes away some of my fluency. I guess it's a matter of practice, but seeing as I've learned Spanish from a Chilean person it's definitely the accent I'm the most comfortable with.

  • @scyfox.
    @scyfox. Před 7 měsíci +16

    As a Chilean I'm so wholeheartedly happy to have "doom scrolled" to this video. I'm amazed of how do you know and also respect the way we modified the original Spanish language to our way and you not criticized it like a lot of other videos do. The thing most people forgets is that as our country is so long and, as you pointed out, vastly influenced by European countries and (I don't know how to say "pueblos originarios") the variations of the language can range a lot from slang , informal, funny, casual or formal. And some words from the north have no meaning or something completely different in the south. A "tortilla" in the north is a piece of bread. in the center its a slice of bread you use to make a burrito, and in the south it's like a "sopaipilla" but bigger xD

  • @wladfan
    @wladfan Před 2 lety +664

    Argentinian here, the Chilean accent sounds quite elegant when it's properly spoken.

    • @villa2225
      @villa2225 Před 2 lety +121

      Really. I’m Chilean and never thought about that, but thanks

    • @MrTBetrayer
      @MrTBetrayer Před 2 lety +71

      @@villa2225 why are u speaking in english if she's from argentina and why im speaking to u in english if u are chilean as me? O:

    • @wladfan
      @wladfan Před 2 lety +127

      @@MrTBetrayer ... Imagine a girl called "Ignacio" lmfao

    • @MVM127
      @MVM127 Před 2 lety +47

      @@villa2225 Mexican here. Isn't It funny we're speaking english, given that we are spanish native speakers? 😂

    • @MrTBetrayer
      @MrTBetrayer Před 2 lety +10

      @@wladfan sorry i dont even bother to read ur name :(

  • @Abyss-Will
    @Abyss-Will Před 2 lety +132

    It's so fun when I speak to Chilean people they know I'm Argentinian and they talk in a neutral way, super understandable and with such a lovely tone and
    Then when they turn to each other their speech becomes complete unintelligible gibberish.

    • @Maniafilia
      @Maniafilia Před 2 lety +8

      aw thanks! glad you think our neutral spanish have a lovely tone! I think that sometimes we feel ashamed of our spanish and when we meet people from other countries, even from South America itself, we try to speak in a neutral spanish that we feel is a "correct/good" spanish. It also happens when in our own country we have to speak to a person from the upper class sector (who practically live in their own world). It's true that to other countries we speak like "singing" (cantadito)? coz for central chilean the northern chileans are the ones that speaks cantadito

    • @Diegoouch
      @Diegoouch Před 2 lety

      @@Maniafilia southern ones too!! juiii!

    • @danico3070
      @danico3070 Před 2 lety

      hahahaha tan real

  • @PabloHernandez-dn7uk
    @PabloHernandez-dn7uk Před 6 měsíci +21

    It's beautifull to see how chilean spanish has its own vocabulary and slang. Such a wonderfull country I hope to visit one day. Greetings from Xanti-ahwo, Japan

    • @johnmilton9211
      @johnmilton9211 Před 4 měsíci +1

      I have been real close to that city, maybe you know it Kilikura it's a beautiful place.

  • @milandrazentodorovicsasmay8493
    @milandrazentodorovicsasmay8493 Před 6 měsíci +13

    I think you really managed to represent how we speak in Chile, however, i think there's 2 words that are essential to fluently speak chilean spanish, which are; "weón" and "weá", both words are so versatile and their meaning depends totally on the entonation and context of the dialogue

  • @franciscoesteban8239
    @franciscoesteban8239 Před 2 lety +1145

    si aprenden español en chile, les aseguro que entenderan el español en cualquier parte del mundo 👌🏻

    • @xz_joedilanxz4754
      @xz_joedilanxz4754 Před 2 lety +116

      eso es verdad wn, entiendo hasta los cubanos y puertorriqueños jsjsjs

    • @arielmejia7243
      @arielmejia7243 Před 2 lety +16

      Que chucha es polola?

    • @user-zz7zb5ln1c
      @user-zz7zb5ln1c Před 2 lety +70

      @@arielmejia7243 polola significa novia y su variante masculina es pololo que significa novio.

    • @arielmejia7243
      @arielmejia7243 Před 2 lety +3

      @@user-zz7zb5ln1c a ok gracias

    • @Actkqk3
      @Actkqk3 Před 2 lety +59

      @@user-zz7zb5ln1c Pero tiene un derivado bastante dificil de entender si no eres chileno... La frase "voy a hacer un pololito" puede dejar loco a cualquiera que crea que está relacionado con la palabra novio/a.

  • @dasbose4962
    @dasbose4962 Před rokem +1049

    I am German and I lived in Chile for 8 years, I would say my Spanish is really good, before Chile I lived in Spain for 3 years where I got my decent Spanish, but when I moved to Chile...FFS! wow, they speak so so completely different. It was so difficult to understand them, but at the end I managed. Now my Spanish accent is 100% Chilean and I love it! I use most of their slangs. Chileans are nice people, I would say very southern Europeans alike, like Spanish/Portguese/Italians if I compared with the rest of Latin America, apart from Argentina and Uruguay, the three are pretty much similar, but not the rest. But I would say, if you want to learn Spanish...choose another country haha. I guess their accent came from their cultural isolation from the rest of LA and is not "Spanish" is Chilean :)

  • @erickmagana353
    @erickmagana353 Před rokem +14

    The Chilean Spanish flavor is really cool. Listening to it and understanding it give me a feeling of how languages evolve and diverge becoming first dialects and then different languages over time. Not saying that it's gonna be a Chilean language in the future, but it definitely could be, one day in the long future. Or maybe we are so interconnected that that is not possible any more. Who knows.
    As a Mexican I can say that I don't always understand everything they say when I watch Chilean movies, but I'm pretty sure I'll get used to their Spanish flavor very quickly if I spend more time with Chilean people or listening to Chilean media.
    Much love for my Chilean brothers and sisters.

  • @murielarce8613
    @murielarce8613 Před 7 měsíci +15

    As a native Chilean speaker, I relate 100% to your description. I don't usually shift to a more formal variety, but I've noticed younger speakers try hard to pronounce the /s/ and /d/ we normally skip, which is good for global communication but sounds a bit weird to me. You can tell our language is changing. Thanks for your video ❤

    • @breeze9994
      @breeze9994 Před 7 měsíci

      Qué gente joven está hablando así?

    • @murielarce8613
      @murielarce8613 Před 7 měsíci

      @@breeze9994 algunos con presencia en los medios u organizaciones, en contextos formales, es verdad que no fui suficientemente clara: algunos profesionales o líderes jóvenes a veces sobrecargan las 's' y 'd' y suena artificial, es decir, poco chileno.

  • @JB-wf3ft
    @JB-wf3ft Před 2 lety +345

    Chilean accent ranks in the top of the most difficult languages to learn
    Source: Yo, un weón....

  • @felipeflores5403
    @felipeflores5403 Před 2 lety +923

    As a Chilean, I must say I'm impressed by how well you researched our flavor of Spanish. I love how you've systematized a lot of stuff we do intuitively from just growing up here, without really thinking about how we've modified standard Spanish. Beautiful stuff. Thank you!

    • @enriquegutierrez7203
      @enriquegutierrez7203 Před 2 lety +4

      Yo igual jfldkf

    • @FernandoDF
      @FernandoDF Před 2 lety +7

      I wonder if Spanish speakers from other countries have difficulty understanding the Chilean variety of the language. 🤔

    • @BorisNVM
      @BorisNVM Před 2 lety +4

      Buena onda

    • @Vicente_Moreno
      @Vicente_Moreno Před 2 lety +32

      @@FernandoDF from experience, when I hear other Latinos trying to mimic our dialect I cringe as hard as a British person hearing an American trying to mimic a British one saying shit like" can I get a ba'uh o wo'ah"

    • @newtonmourao2845
      @newtonmourao2845 Před 2 lety +8

      @@biomuseum6645 Sou brasileiro e acompanho sempre este canal. É maravilhoso.

  • @edhuardo81
    @edhuardo81 Před 6 měsíci +15

    Jajajaja...jamás había visto un video enseñando de forma tan metodológica nuestro acento.
    Muchas gracias 😂

  • @ortubass
    @ortubass Před 6 měsíci +6

    Man! I'm chilean and this video is so freaking accurate, even the translations and contexts. Amazing! I never imagined somone foreign and, moreover, english speaker, might be that accurate so far. Very enjoying. 👏👏👏

  • @juh.oliveira.s
    @juh.oliveira.s Před 2 lety +606

    As a Brazilian learning Spanish and a linguist aspirant, the Chilean Spanish is one of my favorite varieties. Most of the time it's easy for me to understand. I really love the way it sounds, the structures of this variety, the expressions, slangs, etc.

    • @LedsPlay
      @LedsPlay Před 2 lety +9

      Gracias. 😁👍

    • @Diego-pi7ce
      @Diego-pi7ce Před 2 lety +19

      ¿Y pa' qué dai las gracias? xD

    • @AnastasiaLUVSU
      @AnastasiaLUVSU Před 2 lety +8

      You speak portuguese. It's heavily drunken Spanish. You guys understand Spanish as well.

    • @nik021298
      @nik021298 Před 2 lety +14

      I can see Chilean Spanish being understandable for some reason. I remember going to Brazil when I was younger and talking Spanish and people could understand me but I couldn't understand them back, which was very annoying.
      Now that I'm older it might be different though.

    • @rrai-
      @rrai- Před 2 lety +4

      Asi nomas es la cosa po wacha

  • @danielsoto5517
    @danielsoto5517 Před 2 lety +394

    As a Chilean, I can say this analysis of our accent is quite impressive! Most of our neighbours (Argentina, Perú and Bolivia) say our accent is talking like singing or "cantadito". Also, it's fun some people, specially from Europe, who learnt spanish and came to our country to practice, almost got demoralized and don't understand almost everything because our accent is so particular that breaks almost everying they thought have learned from Castillian spanish. At least in my case, I try to pronounce more formal with them because I know our accent is well known to pose a challenge to some spanish learners. A japanese youtuber girl, who learnt spanish, was warned by her friends about "if you can understand Chilean spanish, then you can considerate yourself as a graduate".

    • @isaaclam6605
      @isaaclam6605 Před 2 lety +12

      es un reto para nativos igualmente haha la primera vez que fui a chile me costo bastante entender ya que usan muchos pero muchos "slangs" y hablan muy rapido.

    • @kihmeras
      @kihmeras Před 2 lety +20

      @@isaaclam6605 tinimos la mejor hablacion....nadien lo' pue' a superar en hablamiento.....

    • @driwsy2
      @driwsy2 Před 2 lety +18

      @@kihmeras Somos el mejor pais de Chile 😎

    • @gerardotorres539
      @gerardotorres539 Před 2 lety

      lo de doble reflexivo es real?
      fui a chile hace unos años a visitar a un amigo y no me acuerdo haber escuchado a nadie hablando así (que conste que solamente fui a santiago y a valparaiso)
      no sé si es regionalismo dentro de Chile

    • @airismcs
      @airismcs Před 2 lety +10

      @@gerardotorres539 es más bien un tema socioeconómico, es más prevalente en los sectores menos acomodados

  • @jsnucv
    @jsnucv Před rokem +11

    Que video tan educativo, gracias por actualizar nuestro chilensis lenguaje, ya qué desde un punto de vista muy didáctico, demuestras qué en mi país tenemos un lenguaje, gramática y acento único, que es ejemplo para todo el mundo, de verdad estoy muy impresionado por tu forna tan eficaz y sencilla de presentar el idioma de mi país

  • @hiragahotaru3764
    @hiragahotaru3764 Před 6 měsíci

    What an amazing video! This is such a master piece, and I must say that I'm really impressed of the accuracy in every single example shown. Greetings!

  • @Chisuuu
    @Chisuuu Před 2 lety +1006

    As a Chilean I laughed very hard at the native slang you showed, it was pretty embarrasing and hilarious to hear it from an educational perspective, and yeah, we use almost everything you portrayed in the video, estaba re bacan! you should definitely do a part 2, since chilean spanish is very complex and i find it interesting that the way i speak has been studied this deeply. I've been speaking like this my whole life, and no one taught me how to, it's just natural to me, so, keep up the nice work!

  • @andrewprevost
    @andrewprevost Před 2 lety +704

    After taking a few months of Spanish classes at home in Canada (with a Costa Rican teacher) and then spending two months in Peru, I was really proud of how good my Spanish had gotten, I could carry on pretty good conversations with Peruvian locals. Then I did a boat tour with a group of young Chilean tourists, and I could not follow their conversations with each other at all! Now I understand why.

    • @Jwertubroelmaspro3477
      @Jwertubroelmaspro3477 Před 2 lety +18

      Then say the ñ

    • @TheDarkDutchman
      @TheDarkDutchman Před 2 lety +38

      @@Jwertubroelmaspro3477 The ñ is a general Spanish character, like in España.

    • @tepuntopunto
      @tepuntopunto Před 2 lety +71

      Also you went to a FANTASTIC place to learn spanish, peruvian spanish is one of the most distended, easy to read, hear and pronunciate there is. Their diction is very pleasant and clear wereas we here in chile are like rappers LMAO the goals is to be as quick as can be

    • @damzz10
      @damzz10 Před 2 lety +11

      Además, hablamos muy rápido jajaja perdón 😂

    • @atackplus-rediconnt8189
      @atackplus-rediconnt8189 Před 2 lety +9

      @@Jwertubroelmaspro3477 en Canadá enseñan francés, y en el Québec hablan francés así que ellos si tienen la ñ, solo que se escribe gn si no me equivoco

  • @xXZekrotXx
    @xXZekrotXx Před 11 měsíci +8

    a very important part of chilean spanish is the use of weá, weón, wear, etc.. It's fascinating how much we use it and how much the meaning can vary depending on the context. Also, the use of "soy" (I am) instead of "eres" (you are (singular)), although I guess it comes from the Spanish spanish "sois".

    • @LordVekten
      @LordVekten Před 5 měsíci

      Yes, that's why the word is "soi" instead of "soy". In general, all the words that we use with that kind of ending, comes from the 2nd person plural "vosotros" sois, estáis, venís, etc.

  • @TheDanhiJen
    @TheDanhiJen Před 6 měsíci +8

    Yo soy Chilena y la persona que hizo este estudio de nuestro lenguaje, fue muy dedicado o dedicada haciendolo❤ es súper raro ver un vídeo si hablando de como hablamos jajaja muy interesante si a la vez

  • @ZeroohG
    @ZeroohG Před 2 lety +652

    Como Chileno tengo que decir que capaz este es uno de los mejores videos relacionado con nuestro acento.

    • @isixqueenxofxmadness
      @isixqueenxofxmadness Před rokem +29

      Revísate la wikipedia sobre español chileno, es para perderse horas, weas que uno cree normales y que son demasiado raras.

    • @PP.Antartico-Chile
      @PP.Antartico-Chile Před 8 měsíci +3

      Si dices que este sería el mejor video es porque eres un ignorante. Los andaluces jamás han influenciado nuestro lenguaje, fueron los asturianos (norte de españa). Los andaluces llegaron en la primera mitad del siglo 20, Chile ya existía 400 años antes.
      De ahí parte mal el video, lo demás son tonteras.

    • @Phosphophyllite_
      @Phosphophyllite_ Před 8 měsíci

      @@PP.Antartico-Chile hace el video vo po aweonao

    • @danlevy6928
      @danlevy6928 Před 8 měsíci +6

      Lamento informarte que en realidad ya ni se considera acento sino "dialecto chileno" lo que hablamos en Chile xd (me refiero a los últimos papers publicados respecto al tema)

    • @jatt88
      @jatt88 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Estoy de acuerdo, sólo le faltó una desambiguación de la palabra "cachar", la cual también se ocupa para decir "coger/culear", "Te cachaste a esa mina" = "Te cogiste a esa mina".

  • @cesarsantis5116
    @cesarsantis5116 Před 2 lety +488

    You are right in the last part, chileans speak “chilean” whenever we can, but we have no problem to speak “normal spanish” if the situation requires it.

    • @joseignacioaguila5474
      @joseignacioaguila5474 Před 2 lety +20

      Lo último que dijiste depende de muchos factores. No todos tenemos la "facilidad" de adaptarnos a determinados contextos y expresarnos en un español más cercano al "estándar".

    • @cabellones
      @cabellones Před 2 lety +31

      @@joseignacioaguila5474 soy brasileño de familia chilena y siempre me encanta que cuando visito a chile, mi familia habla español claro conmigo, pero, al encontrar un amigo en la calle, cambian para chilenis sin perceber..

    • @ardidsonriente2223
      @ardidsonriente2223 Před 2 lety +4

      Most of the time we don't even notice when we are speaking "chilean". And our "normal" spanish is as "normal" as any other spanish... which mean it is just a little bit less cryptic.

    • @PanchoGHT
      @PanchoGHT Před 2 lety +3

      In my experience, we chileans don't know the difference between chilean coloquial spanish and formal spanish. When you address a young person with a "hable bien", they don't get it. Even further, cursing is part of the language now which only goes to enunciate the degradation of language and the subsequent current social conflicted coexistence.

    • @peladohdp8304
      @peladohdp8304 Před 2 lety +5

      @@joseignacioaguila5474 Literalmente tu comentario esta en español estandar. Osea, sin modismos, y no conozco a nadie que no pueda.

  • @JazminVegana
    @JazminVegana Před 5 měsíci

    This must be the most thorough and accurate video on Chilean Spanish I've ever seen, thank you for posting it! I'm Chilean and I often struggle trying to explain some particularities of Chilean Spanish to my Dutch boyfriend and this is just gold! Great work!

  • @franciscomackenney7664
    @franciscomackenney7664 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Ajajajaja bacán el video. Les dejo algunas particularidades adicionales del idioma chileno:
    1. "Weá" es una palabra que significa casi cualquier cosa, dependiendo del contexto:
    - "Esta situación me tiene loco" -> "Esta weá me tiene loco".
    - "Me salió una protuberancia rara en la piel" -> "Me salió una wea rara en la piel".
    - "¡Dime una palabra que sea!" -> "¡Dime una weá que sea".
    - "Este objeto tiene una cosa pequeña adentro" -> "Esta weá tiene una weaita adentro".
    2. Palabras terminadas en "ada" se pronuncian como si terminaran en "á" o "aa" (se omite la 'd'):
    - "No tengo nada que hacer" -> "No tengo ná/naa que hacer".
    - "Estás pasada a ala" -> "Estay pasá/pasaa a ala".
    - "Estoy organizando una completada bailable" -> "Estoy organizando una completá bailable".
    - "Esta es la bajada a la playa" -> "Esta es la bajá a la playa".
    3. "Para" se abrevia "pa' ":
    - "¿Para dónde vas?" -> "¿Pa' dónde vay?"
    Saludos desde Chile ✌🏼

  • @ElJosher
    @ElJosher Před 2 lety +207

    I love how spanish has evolved in every hispanic country giving it a unique aspect in each one, yet we are able to comunicate flawlessly using “formal”/dictionary speech when we need to. That is what makes it amzing.
    Saludos a todos los chilenos desde Puerto Rico.

    • @diegodaly
      @diegodaly Před 2 lety +10

      This is very true! Saludos de vuelta bro

    • @awertyuiop8711
      @awertyuiop8711 Před 2 lety +6

      Oye, en todo caso wn. No lo había pensado así.

  • @SebastianECastro
    @SebastianECastro Před 2 lety +445

    As a Chilean, this video is absolutely spot on and summarises the quirks of our Spanish dialect. A couple of caveats: the kind of Spanish Chilean will depend on your social economic status, but also if you live in a city or rural area, it will be different if you are from the South or the North.

    • @gustavovelasquez3207
      @gustavovelasquez3207 Před 2 lety +15

      Do you really say, "me voy a irme"? hahaha

    • @Apnael
      @Apnael Před 2 lety +31

      @@gustavovelasquez3207 thing is, the chilean informal speech comes in magnitudes, even the "high class" citizens speak an informal slang, the one you named is mainly used by poor citizens.

    • @javihuertadonoso
      @javihuertadonoso Před 2 lety +19

      @@gustavovelasquez3207 I personally say "me voy a ir yendo" as a way of making fun of it not in a serious way, when I'm with people that isn't close to me I say "me voy" or " me tengo que ir"

    • @Maniafilia
      @Maniafilia Před 2 lety +12

      @@gustavovelasquez3207 yes, and we also say "me voy a ir yendo ya"

    • @ferwolfs9372
      @ferwolfs9372 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Maniafilia Or "me voy a ir yendole ido" xD

  • @hisuckers6705
    @hisuckers6705 Před 9 měsíci +1

    amazing video! would love to see a part 2 of chilean spanish!

  • @margaretirarrazabal2272
    @margaretirarrazabal2272 Před 6 měsíci

    Me encantó! 👏🏻 Muchas gracias por la dedicación 😊. Saludos desde La Serena, 🇨🇱

  • @enoceliasperezmatias7089
    @enoceliasperezmatias7089 Před 2 lety +97

    I'm mexican and I grew up watching a chilean TV program called "31 minutos" and now I understand better some words and phrases that I didn't.

    • @TheNachoOne
      @TheNachoOne Před 2 lety +16

      I always wondered how much kids from other countries could understand from 31 minutos

    • @leonardomurillo8069
      @leonardomurillo8069 Před 2 lety +4

      Haha awebo fuimos de esa generación

    • @filosuu
      @filosuu Před 2 lety +6

      Que felicidad saber que hay gente de otros países que creció viendo 31 minutos. Debe ser nuestra mejor exportación.

    • @raelk2631
      @raelk2631 Před 2 lety

      Especially Juan Carlos, he had one of the thickest chileno accent of the show

    • @leonardomurillo8069
      @leonardomurillo8069 Před 2 lety

      @@filosuu si desde luego, yo primero solía leer las historietas de Condorito que era famosas aquí en México y después vi 31 minutos

  • @tlanohoecr
    @tlanohoecr Před 2 lety +415

    The Finnish word for baby is "vauva", which is pronounced almost exactly as "wawa" in the indigenous languages mentioned in the video. What a crazy coincidence.

    • @filosuu
      @filosuu Před 2 lety +93

      I was thinking about it, and it may come from the crying of the babies. Basically an onomatopeia of the cry which is the same no matter where you live. "Waaaaaa waaaaaa"

    • @equinoxstudio3568
      @equinoxstudio3568 Před 2 lety +17

      When I was in Finland, I could swear that some people were talking in Chilean, but it was Finnish. Pretty similar accentuation in some words. After a few corrections I was able to read a couple sentences in Finnish and get understood by the locals.
      Believe it or not, there’re tons of similarities not only in language, but in culture with the people of the North.
      You can even compare the Kultrún of the Mapuche to the Sámi drum, the Norns with the Machis, the Irminsul/Yggdrasil with the Rehue, etc.

    • @francopavez5293
      @francopavez5293 Před 2 lety +14

      actually the word "guagua" comes from quechua language "wawa" and means son or daughter

    • @PLATONU
      @PLATONU Před 2 lety +18

      sure, in Chinese, wawa means "little child" and can be used as "doll"

    • @axelaguirre5014
      @axelaguirre5014 Před 2 lety +13

      What if native american languages and finish are connected?

  • @unviajemas17
    @unviajemas17 Před rokem

    Que buen material. Gracias 🥰

  • @sergioguzman8846
    @sergioguzman8846 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Los ejemplos están bien usados y la explicación es muy clara....viva chile!

  • @Bas232G
    @Bas232G Před 2 lety +99

    You missed one important thing. In Chile we use a lot of english words on the everyday vocabulary, formal and informal.
    Examples: Mall, Break, Sticker, Marketing, E-mail, Check-in/out, Cheesecake, Catering, Hit (referring to music), Light (referring to low calorie foods), Sandwich, among others.

  • @maldito_sudaka
    @maldito_sudaka Před 2 lety +571

    I LOVE Chile!!
    Soy brasileño y mi sueño es visitar a Valdivia y Puerto Montt. Saludos, hermanos! Viva Violeta y Víctor! Viva Latinoamérica!

    • @benjaperez5256
      @benjaperez5256 Před 2 lety +9

      Son muy bonitas esas ciudades, saludos desde Chile!

    • @baldergg
      @baldergg Před 2 lety +5

      saludos desde puerto montt

    • @aldotorres6058
      @aldotorres6058 Před 2 lety +8

      Wena po shoro saludos desde Chile 🖐

    • @mangouschase
      @mangouschase Před 2 lety +11

      hace frío, te aviso.

    • @aguagou
      @aguagou Před 2 lety +11

      Comunista, no gracias.

  • @M4tzi
    @M4tzi Před 7 měsíci +3

    wow, que buen video, ojala algun dia conocer chile, saludos desde Talca, suiza

  • @kytan13
    @kytan13 Před 2 lety +118

    You forgot to mention the great amount of animals used in conversations, like " hacer la vaca" , "eri sapo", "se me hecho la burra/yegua", "gallo" or "galla", "pajarito nuevo", "picao´ la araña", "chicotea los caracoles", etc.
    As a Canadian born with Chilean parents, when i came to Chile, i found this quite amusing, po.

    • @cnervip
      @cnervip Před 2 lety +17

      loco, si comenzamos, no paramos con los chilenismos XD

    • @pwao
      @pwao Před rokem +15

      "chicotea los cuyes" "es carne perro" "quedé como chaleco de mono" "hicieron perro muerto" "caballo" "se mandó un condoro" "durmió la mona" "se te fueron las cabras pal cerro/monte" "es ladrón como gato e´ campo" "erís terrible pavo" "es picaflor" (colibrí)

  • @pablostraub
    @pablostraub Před 2 lety +144

    As a native Chilean who has worked with people from many nations, both Spanish-speaking and otherwise, I can tell you that you really nailed it.
    One feature of Chilean voseo as opposed to voseo in other countries is that it's considered substandard to the point that voseo is never written, except when quoting a dialog.

  • @marcoarriagadadiaz9183
    @marcoarriagadadiaz9183 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Amazing video! Muy completo...

  • @lucasrojas265
    @lucasrojas265 Před 6 měsíci +1

    This is amazing, i dont know how i get here, but coming across to a channel that knows more than me about my language amazes me xD

  • @lucasjararamirez5285
    @lucasjararamirez5285 Před 2 lety +870

    Somos el mejor país de Chile hermano

  • @victorhugotoledocofre1366
    @victorhugotoledocofre1366 Před 2 lety +1663

    Hi Paul; a Chilean linguist and teacher here. Thank you for accepting the challenge I proposed in your Mexican Spanish vid. Let me go a little pedantic here: 04:40 with regard to Chilean voseo, the forms "tení", "teníai", "erí", etc. are supposed to have originally included a final -s sound, so it's more accurate to say "teníS", "teníaiS" (notice the approximation to peninsular Spanish) and "eríS", but, of course, these final -s sounds get also dropped. It shares a common origin with the rioplatense (Argentine) forms "tenés", "querés", "podés", etc. In Argentina they pronounce an "e" before the -s, and in Chile we promounce an "i". Also, the form "voh eríh" (meaning "you are") is, believe it or not, considered to be a little more "formal" or "polite" than the more everyday form "voh soi", derived directly from peninsular Spanish "vos (vosotros) sois" of old time. Since Spanish is a pro-drop language, in Chile you may hear expressions like "soi weón" (meaning "you are an idiot"), but that "soi" (originally "voh soi" = "you are"), with no subject mentioned, can be confused with "(yo) SOY" (regular Spanish for "I am"). As you can easily gather, context can help you out in that matter.
    While enjoying your previous videos on a multitude of other languages, I spent years waiting for you to post a video on Chilean Spanish, in order to test the accuracy of your research. Now I can assuredly say your work is absolutely accurate and comprehensive. I'm not wrong when I recommend your videos to my students!!

    • @jorgebarrientos106
      @jorgebarrientos106 Před 2 lety +27

      Similarly “po” also included the original s as in “pos”. Even though it sounds essentially the same when spoken, it looks odd to me without the “s” as it is written informally now.

    • @TheZenytram
      @TheZenytram Před 2 lety +50

      funny enough, in brasil we are in the process of putting a "i" before "s" in a lot of words,
      "nós" (e) became "nois" .
      "mas" (but) -- "mais", making it to mix with the "mais" that is plus
      and in almost every place that end in "es".
      also Italy already passed through all of this centuries ago and dropped the "s" making all those words ending "i" in a diphthong. Noi, Voi, dai . . .

    • @xolang
      @xolang Před 2 lety +24

      yes, and you also hear the -s which sounds like an -h before a consonant.
      so "tenís que ..." sounds like "teniHki..." instead of just "teniki...".
      even in the example in the video you can hear "si teniH tiempo libre.." (NOT just "si teni tiempo").
      btw, Chilean voseo conjugation is also to be found in the Cuyo region in Argentina.
      In Cordoba for example they say ehtái, soi, sabíh, etc.

    • @DieterRahm1845
      @DieterRahm1845 Před 2 lety +11

      No estoy para nada de acuerdo contigo. El voseo, para empezar, está presente en toda América, y prácticamente en todos los países. De tu comentario tal vez se podría colegir cierta relación especial entre el argentino y el chileno, que no existe. El origen común, naturalmente, es la matriz cultural del continente: España.
      Que se suponga deba haber marcado las eses finales tampoco lo creo. En Andalucía, de donde vino, no se pronuncian y acá tampoco.
      Que el "vo erí" sea más formal que el "vo soi", me sorprende sobremanera. Lo único que podría relacionar, de alguna remota manera, con tan peculiar postulado es que, efectivamente, el "vos" fue, en sus orígenes, un uso de mucho respeto. De hecho, se usaba con reyes y emperadores. Sería interesante que lo explicaras mejor.
      Llego, viendo este video, a una conclusión exactamente opuesta a la tuya. Siempre consideré muy interesante lo que el autor decía de otros idiomas. Ahora no me fío mucho: si en el que conozco mejor descubro tantos errores y superficialidades, cómo será con los otros.

    • @DieterRahm1845
      @DieterRahm1845 Před 2 lety +2

      @@jorgebarrientos106 Where did you get that? In my opinion, given the way we and the Andalusians speak, it's quite obvious that the "s" you mention was never pronounced.

  • @romandariofuentesbustamant3305
    @romandariofuentesbustamant3305 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Really deep insight into our language. Great video!
    I usually use exclusive Chilean features when in informal contexts such as at home, speaking with friends, on the street, and also on the job or at university. I think I usually use formal features when speaking to high rank officials such as teachers, police officers, work bosses and the like, or when speaking to the elders.

  • @inescarvajal7097
    @inescarvajal7097 Před 7 měsíci

    Excelente trabajo!

  • @bananapantsu8855
    @bananapantsu8855 Před 2 lety +633

    Como chileno, estuve esperando a que hablaran de la palabra "wear", aún así me gustó mucho el video.

    • @alvaroarayamorales5341
      @alvaroarayamorales5341 Před 2 lety +39

      se necesitaria un video entero pa la wea

    • @Doggy-dy8lt
      @Doggy-dy8lt Před 2 lety +17

      Le faltaba la palabra weon po o wea

    • @hectorzapata7626
      @hectorzapata7626 Před 2 lety +21

      a webiar a otro lado con tus weas po weon

    • @7eo166
      @7eo166 Před 2 lety +7

      igual que iba a mostrar esa wea si la wea es entera complica de explicar y vo queri que este weon aprenda la palabra wear? que wea hermano

    • @eudaldrodriguezcastell1248
      @eudaldrodriguezcastell1248 Před 2 lety

      ¿Qué cojones es wea? 😂

  • @TheSaltube
    @TheSaltube Před 2 lety +263

    Brazilian here. I speak reasonable Spanish. When I was in Chile I didn't have much communication problems. Of course, many times seeing them talking to each other, I understood almost nothing, but when I spoke directly to them, we understood each other well, when they spoke slowly.🇧🇷🇨🇱

    • @Momazos_Namso
      @Momazos_Namso Před 2 lety +34

      That's because when we are speaking with a foreigner our way to speak turn into a more "neutral latino spanish" so they can understand us better, we are used to people from other countries not understanding us, and we know how to speak neutral spanish because our tv programs, ads, series, documents, etc. Are in that idiom. (Not as Argentina who use their own idiom in all their things)

    • @mangouschase
      @mangouschase Před 2 lety +18

      yeah, Chile is kinda like a machine gun speak, but then when we notice that the other isn't understanding, we slow down. And don't worry about not understanding first try, even ourselves don't understand each other sometimes.

    • @TheSaltube
      @TheSaltube Před 2 lety

      @@mangouschase Asi es. Muchas gracias.👏👏

    • @matiasvancandia264
      @matiasvancandia264 Před 2 lety +3

      Los chilenos podemos hablar mas neutral y por eso cuando te hablan nos entiendes, de hecho yo tengo una tía que es brasileña y tenía que cambiar de acento

    • @cuycuyi2831
      @cuycuyi2831 Před 2 lety +2

      I am from Chile and what I know is that when we are talking to a foreigner, we speak more slowly so that he understands us, but among us Chileans speak differently with our native language

  • @erronblind4235
    @erronblind4235 Před 7 měsíci

    Re weno el video, bro. Really cool❤

  • @StrawHatsAreFashionable
    @StrawHatsAreFashionable Před rokem +3

    I'm Chilean-German, with my dad being from the deep south of Germany which made me grow up with the thickest Bavarian accent as well as Chilean accent making me unintelligible outside of both Chile and southern Germany, but I wouldn't have it any other way x)

  • @scorpiocolor
    @scorpiocolor Před 2 lety +560

    Soy Argentino. Particularmente me encanta como hablan los Chilenos, a pesar de que muchas de las expresiones no se entienden si no conocés bastante el dialécto y los modismos. Cuando un Chileno no quiere que lo entiendan sabe como hacerlo, weón... cachai...? 🙂

    • @carlahubbard7251
      @carlahubbard7251 Před 10 měsíci +17

      Tení razon! 😊

    • @scorpiocolor
      @scorpiocolor Před 10 měsíci +12

      @@carlahubbard7251 a la wea... Que estai hablando? 😝

    • @dieglhix
      @dieglhix Před 9 měsíci +43

      tai vio choro que el mote es asi

    • @MrChileno13
      @MrChileno13 Před 8 měsíci +15

      Usaremos lenguaje de la cárcel después de que todos aprendan nuestro idioma 😐

    • @KuroSys
      @KuroSys Před 7 měsíci +8

      ​@@MrChileno13 en el video ni siquiera puso "lorea" que sí efectivamente es inculto informal coa.

  • @paulaandreafm5131
    @paulaandreafm5131 Před 2 lety +154

    As a Chilean, I can say that the amount of idioms we use depends a lot on the context or type of conversation, obviously with friends and family we usually speak as the video appears and with many more slag and phrases, but for example at work, With strangers or formal situations, a more neutral Spanish that practically any Spanish-speaker can understand, in fact it is like a "barrier", when you already speak "freely" with someone it is because there is already trust.

    • @IBMboy
      @IBMboy Před 2 lety +2

      I can tone down the chilean accent but the idioms are hard to get rid of, we use them a lot

    • @Imaworldstar-jw3yj
      @Imaworldstar-jw3yj Před 2 lety +2

      Isupport studied English with this
      I restarted English after 10 years
      I am a beginner studying English with asmr.
      Please come and take a look and .

  • @jemsar2
    @jemsar2 Před rokem +4

    I lived in Chile for 6 weeks and I can confirm many of these colloquialisms/unique features in Chilean Spanish are used. I also learned some I didn't know. BTW, voseo (as I learned in Chile when I was there) was not used in Santiago. In fact, it was considered offensive to say "vos" and the term was explained that it was only used when you were instigating or being part of an argument or looking for a fight.

    • @Androbott
      @Androbott Před rokem

      no

    • @_SammyJankis
      @_SammyJankis Před 6 měsíci

      Es cierto, el voseo se usa en contextos mas conflictivos.

  • @javbooficial
    @javbooficial Před 2 lety +107

    Thank you for letting me help you with this video!! It was an honour to represent my country! 🇨🇱

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  Před 2 lety +16

      Thank you for your help, Javier! 🙇‍♂️

    • @Nerivean
      @Nerivean Před 2 lety +21

      De verdad que estabas ansioso por contarle a todos que fuiste al mall 🤣 Que xuxa te compraste wn?

    • @mohamedm9591
      @mohamedm9591 Před 2 lety +6

      @Javboo your accent is beautiful my guy!

    • @ChichKrav
      @ChichKrav Před 2 lety +2

      Javier, no te salio ningun ‘weon’ jajaja. Great job!

  • @Just4Kixs
    @Just4Kixs Před 2 lety +318

    Facts: Spanish is still the coolest language ever!
    ¡Saludos desde Filipinas!

    • @jonathanherrera4900
      @jonathanherrera4900 Před 2 lety +15

      Gracias primo de asia!!

    • @eltilol8775
      @eltilol8775 Před 2 lety +16

      bacán wacho, erí entero vio...escuxa marcianeke.
      a lo vio siii.

    • @dialmightyspartangod6717
      @dialmightyspartangod6717 Před 2 lety +1

      Não, Português 👑

    • @Pabloto-dq3sx
      @Pabloto-dq3sx Před 2 lety +1

      @@dialmightyspartangod6717 xd

    • @ulical
      @ulical Před 2 lety +20

      One of the tragedies of the modern era is how Spanish was eradicated from the Philippines after the USA took it over. Imagine if instead of eradicating it, the USA would have introduced English but still allowed Spanish to flourish. That would have meant that a Filipino today could speak to around 2 Billion people around the world.

  • @jimenaojedarowe6074
    @jimenaojedarowe6074 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Excellent explanation! I am chilean and all the expressions explained are absolutely accurate! I feel proud of my Chilean culture! We can talk with other spanish speakers but also we have our own family country slang 😆

  • @RodrigoDavy
    @RodrigoDavy Před 2 lety +262

    As a foreigner living for a few years in Chile, I started using a lot of the local vocabulary and even got a bit of the accent. I should probably speak more neutraly to people from other countries, but I prefer to speak as I always do and give people a lesson of Chilean Spanish when they don't understand something, it's way more fun and I do feel proud of the way we speak here :D

    • @Pao234_
      @Pao234_ Před 2 lety

      Que nice jajajja, de donde eres originalmente?

    • @RodrigoDavy
      @RodrigoDavy Před 2 lety +3

      Brasil :)

  • @Inkgraphite
    @Inkgraphite Před 2 lety +81

    My grandmother was chilean, listening the chilean accent feels like home to me, I love it

  • @bastiancepeda7666
    @bastiancepeda7666 Před rokem

    Great video and one that honestly made me laugh hearing our slang words and where they come from though I feel there is still a lot more that can be taught about our accent and in fact I'm sure you could even make a part 2, also the part at the end that he mentions that Chileans are aware of our accent is also accurate , Ive lived in in the US since I was 5 and thankfully never lost my accent but with that being said I realized very quickly that when I spoke to Hispanics from other countries I had to change my accent and speak more formally because if not they wouldn't understand me especially since I've heard from everyone that we speak too fast, something else that wasn't mentioned in the video but overall great video, I genuinely enjoyed it.

  • @schoof51
    @schoof51 Před 2 lety +135

    We had 6 Chileans in our class back in uni (in the Netherlands) 20 years ago, and that was when I first heard of their peculiar slang. Even our Colombian friend got confused when they started using Chilean lingo 😄

  • @enriqueceretti1826
    @enriqueceretti1826 Před 2 lety +70

    The word 'ya' as used by Chileans is believed to derive from the German word 'ja', hence it's meaning in Chilean Spanish: "OK".

  • @user-od7il5dx1e
    @user-od7il5dx1e Před 8 měsíci

    native chilean spanish speaker, i love this video, very well done, i do think you should do a part 2! especially because you didnt include some of the most used words in chilean spanish like "wea", "weon" and its variants, they are very informal but theyre so widely used i found it weird to not see them here, also some other variants of chilean slang like changing the order of the syllables (completo as "tocomple" and so on), and the many loan words we use from COA too that became normal slang already, like cuico/a and so on
    again great video! id love to see a part two!

  • @JavierSjavieg
    @JavierSjavieg Před 5 měsíci

    Nice work!!

  • @rockingrollin425
    @rockingrollin425 Před 2 lety +300

    As an Argentinian who's visited Chile many times I can say we can definitely understand each other's accents pretty much perfectly, although we might have some problems depending on the particular social groups we come from (which can also happen with people who live in your own city anyways). In fact, some of the features explained in the video can also be seen in many parts of Argentina (like the "re"). Having said that, it might get tricky to understand some Chileans when they write online because they use a lot of contractions. As an example: We use "huebón/huevón" in Cuyo (Arg.), they use "weón" in Chile, but sometimes they write it as "wn". When not referencing a person you can use "huebada/huevada" here or "wea" in Chile. It's easy to see that it might be hard to understand if someone writes: "'ta fome la wea wn, cachai poh?".

    • @darkhope97
      @darkhope97 Před 2 lety +9

      Es siempre con cariño ;)

    • @NickSwe
      @NickSwe Před 2 lety +17

      once I went to argentina and asked for a box of cigarretes in the chilean way, a "cajetilla de cigarros", the guy selling them started to laugh very loud, he explained to me cajetilla in argentina meant whore... I thought it was weird.

    • @javierfuentes515
      @javierfuentes515 Před 2 lety +3

      we also write awnao (aweonao - ahuevonado) at least i do lol

    • @francocordero32
      @francocordero32 Před 2 lety +2

      @@javierfuentes515 ajajaj jamás he escrito ni he visto escrito la palabra aweonao así Xd

    • @rockingrollin425
      @rockingrollin425 Před 2 lety +1

      @@NickSwe It is actually cajeta that means vulva.

  • @mit5oner
    @mit5oner Před 2 lety +330

    This video is WAY too correct. Never seen such an accurate description of the chilean spanish before. Amazing work!!!

  • @karenc7039
    @karenc7039 Před 8 měsíci

    Well informed, excellent video

  • @supahotfire8026
    @supahotfire8026 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Most accurate video about chilean spanish ever, great work coxino kl👏🏼

  • @andresfloressiles6428
    @andresfloressiles6428 Před 2 lety +162

    I'm from Costa Rica. I grew up watching a couple TV shows from Chile and I remember little me trying to immitate the accent. It is so unique! I can perfectly understand standart chilean spanish but there are for sure some varieties that are harder to understand, subtitles come in handy when I watch documentaries. Greetings to every chilean reading this, you people are amazing!

    • @rootzjunkies
      @rootzjunkies Před 2 lety +8

      Pura vida hermano tu tierra es hermosa por eso todos están felices que manera de.pssarla bien 🤟

    • @ledekcccp158
      @ledekcccp158 Před 2 lety +3

      Soy chileno y soy genial solo por nacer...gracias XD

    • @Ag.mar.
      @Ag.mar. Před 2 lety +3

      Which shows did you watch? I didn't know other latin americans watched chilean shows hahah

    • @ricardorodriguez9587
      @ricardorodriguez9587 Před 2 lety +14

      A Costa Rica llegaron muchos chilenos exiliados tras el golpe de Estado del 73, muchos de ellos se dedicaron a la docencia y la cultura, toda una generación de costarricenses tuvimos profesores universitarios chilenos y por eso tenemos mucha simpatía por Chile.

    • @danielrojas-db9nq
      @danielrojas-db9nq Před 2 lety +3

      Ty friend greetings from Chile

  • @giacomomoscatelli3145
    @giacomomoscatelli3145 Před 2 lety +208

    I’m Italian but I lived in Chile. I’m in love with the people and the country, and it’s like Chilean is my native accent when speaking Spanish (something I’m very proud of). Great content as usual.
    One of the most peculiar features of Chilean is the way the pitch gets higher towards the end of the sentence.
    Ah, and don’t forget to stretch your vowels!
    Excelente video como sieeeempre po weon
    ¡Viva Chile!

    • @leonardocartes1253
      @leonardocartes1253 Před 2 lety +8

      Gracias hermano! Sí, nuestra forma de hablar es muy peculiar, pero super entrete. Debo decir que el italiano es uno de mis lenguajes favoritos. Viva Italia!

    • @Ammoroso29
      @Ammoroso29 Před 2 lety +4

      Benny tambien nos hace famosos

    • @rofigueroa08
      @rofigueroa08 Před 2 lety

      Not really , Chilean Spanish sounds pretty bad , sounds like a dialect 🤮

    • @PabloPerez-ed9gp
      @PabloPerez-ed9gp Před 2 lety +3

      Y a todos nos gustaría aprender italiano en una semana 😢😢😢🙂

    • @giacomomoscatelli3145
      @giacomomoscatelli3145 Před 2 lety +1

      @@rofigueroa08 well, I guess it just comes down to a matter of taste. I personally love it

  • @SPINETTA_69
    @SPINETTA_69 Před 7 měsíci

    HERMNO' TE SALIÓ DE PANA EL VIDEO 🙌🏻