00:00Me llamo Lucy Fink y esto es Cinco Días de Español.
00:04Well, five days of learning Spanish.
00:12Buenos días.
00:14This week I'm challenging myself a little bit differently.
00:17Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language in the world after Mandarin.
00:20And fun fact, 18.2% of New Yorkers speak Spanish.
00:24I studied it in high school, but I've definitely lost my touch
00:27and have forgotten most of what I've learned.
00:29I actually took a couple of Italian classes in college,
00:32which really messed me up because now I'm speaking like Spitalian-glish.
00:36And I really need to start from square one.
00:38My plan today is to recap the basics.
00:41Numbers, colors, tenses, conjugations, fruits, vegetables.
00:45So earlier this morning I took a post-it note and a marker and I labeled my life away.
00:50These are pretty much the everyday objects
00:51that would be one of the first things you learn when taking a language class.
00:55It is slowly coming back to me,
00:56but I think that putting down these labels on Monday is great
00:59because now it gives me five full days to let these words sink in.
01:03As Dora the Explorer says,
01:05Come on, vamanos!
01:07Everybody, let's go!
01:14I'm home from work early today because I wanted to come back home and continue quizzing myself.
01:18When I started yesterday I was feeling so energized.
01:21I was ready to go.
01:22I felt like it was going to be a piece of cake to pick this back up.
01:24I'm coming to the conclusion that relearning a language is not like riding a bike.
01:28These past two days have kind of gotten me back into that mental flow of being a student again.
01:33I haven't studied for a test in two years
01:35and I feel like challenging myself this way has enhanced my communication skills in my outside life.
01:40Learning a new language is supposed to improve your memory, enhance your listening skills,
01:44and improve your ability to multitask.
01:46Is it possible that I already feel more well-spoken and engaged in my outside life
01:51just from these two days that I've spent studying Spanish?
01:54Dos días!
02:01Happy Miércoles!
02:02So I'm picking up on sentence structure, I'm relearning the vocab words,
02:05but I think a huge part of learning another language is being able to enunciate and pronunciate the words properly.
02:11Today I'm sitting down with Hilde, a Refinery29 employee.
02:14She's from the Dominican Republic, Spanish is her very first language.
02:18Hopefully she can teach me some tips and tricks to make sure that I am rolling my R's right.
02:23So the importance about like knowing where to stress the word or if to stress it or not
02:27is because if you don't stress it, some words mean different things.
02:31Whoa.
02:32The neighborhood I'm from, el barrio de donde soy, barrio, means neighborhood.
02:37And then you can also, oh I'm sweeping today, barrio hoy, it's sweeping.
02:43So barrio y barrio.
02:47Barrio y barrio.
02:49Barrio y barrio.
02:49The R.
02:55Barrio.
02:56Barrio.
02:58Barrio.
02:58Audible.
02:59Audible.
03:00Tree.
03:00Yes.
03:01Where's the accent?
03:01The A.
03:02Good job.
03:03There's the T one.
03:04Me gusta tomar té with an accent on the T.
03:07Here you're throwing your tongue out.
03:09Te.
03:09Te.
03:10There you go.
03:11And you almost like put your tongue in the back of your mouth teeth and push it out.
03:14Yeah, exactly.
03:14Te.
03:15Wouldn't that move my teeth?
03:17Are my teeth gonna start to move?
03:23Speaking with a friend who's fluent in Spanish was really, really helpful, but I need this
03:27cultural immersion all day long.
03:30So look at what I'm doing today.
03:31My cell phone is an item that I use all day.
03:34So today I'm gonna change its settings so that it speaks to me in Spanish.
03:39Change to Spanish.
03:41It's cambiando en mi idioma.
03:43It's done!
03:45Whoa.
03:46I'm hoping that changing my phone to Spanish will help me become more conversational with
03:49words that are part of everyday culture.
03:51There's so much that goes into learning a language.
03:54It really takes time, dedication, practice, and repetition to get it right.
03:58And I want you guys to stay tuned for Friday.
04:01Tomorrow when I do my closeout, I have a very special surprise for you.
04:04Hint, hint.
04:05I'm gonna speak Spanish.
04:07I've been practicing it all week.
04:13Hello!
04:14¡Feliz Navidad!
04:16J.K.
04:17J.K.
04:18¡Feliz Viernes!
04:19Esta semana practiqué español.
04:22Han sido muchos años desde que había estudiado.
04:26He aprendido mucho español y también he aprendido mucho acerca de mi cerebro.
04:33Nunca se debe dejar de aprender.
04:36Porque conocimiento es poder.
04:39Este fue un gran experimento.
04:43Estoy muy feliz.
04:45¡Adiós!
04:46¡Chao!
04:47¡Hasta luego!
04:49¡Paz!
04:50¡Adiós!
04:50¡Adiós!
