Name: EASY ENGLISH VOCABULARY for Spanish & Portuguese Speakers
Uploaded: 2020-07-30T09:22:42.000Z
Duration: 15 min 42 s
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It's cool because when I was a kid, these were the books that we had to write in in

our class, and it has a map of Canada, so if you want to buy this, just talk to the

website ( www.engvid.com ) and you can buy it.

I'll sell it to you for, like, ten bucks, cool deal.

It has my notes in it too, so maybe twenty bucks, twenty dollars.

So: I want to talk to you about something called friends.

If you don't have friends, that's fine too.

It doesn't matter, sometimes you don't need friends.

I like my friends, they're pretty cool, but I want to teach you something about learning

So, many people say "Ah man, how can I learn vocabulary?

Vocabulary's so important when you're trying to learn a new language.

The first thing that I would do if I was trying to learn a new language is learn some vocabulary

Now, if you speak Spanish or Portuguese, or French, you are extremely lucky.

Because English steals or borrows a lot of words from Latin origins.

This means that if you speak Italian, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, we're stealing a lot

of your words, so you are at a huge advantage to people that don't have - don't speak a

Latin language, and you have the same alphabet, so you are five steps ahead of anyone from

countries that use a different alphabet or are not a Latin based language.

We have these things in English called "friends", and I'm not talking about your mate, I mean

friends that the words are so almost similar that it's ridiculous.

But, there's one bad thing about your friend.

Your friend has terrible pronunciation, so although these words are going to look very

similar, the sound will be similar, you have to watch out for this pronunciation, the pronunciation

of these words, so the lesson is "friends" of Spanish and Portuguese people, guess what,

You guys get to see "Oh wow, oh my God, Portuguese, Spanish, super similar", okay?

So, you guys listening or watching in Portugal and Brazil, you guys watching from Spanish

speaking countries and America as well, anywhere you are, doesn't matter.

If you're in Japan, Korea, but look at this, you can learn Spanish and English with me!

So, the first one is - so, I've thrown my book and I need the book because I need to

The first one in English, we have "accident".

In Spanish, "achi-den-te", very similar, "achi-den-te", "el achi-den-te", we say "ax-eh-dent".

Hey, guess what, you take off the "o", and you have the English word "bland".

Bland means a mild thing, usually we use this to talk about food.

It doesn't have a strong taste, it has a very mild taste.

An accident is an "achidente", an accident is when you do something by mistake, maybe

The next one, when you're telling someone to relax in English, we say "calm", and hmm?

There's an "l", we don't say "cALm", we say "cahm", so this is a very, very strange pronunciation

So, you guys have actually said it correctly.

In English, we're just like "Nah, we're just not gonna say the "l" to make it difficult",

so in Spanish you say "la calma", we say "calm".

The next one, this is hard for me, check this out.

In English, we say "de-cent", same word except look at it, just take out the "e", so you

say "de-cee-ent-eh", I get it now, there's an "e", you guys say the "e", we don't.

If something is decent, it means it's passible, it's okay.

It's not amazing, it's alright, it's acceptable.

But funnily enough, when I was a child, I had slang, and if I was like "Wow, that's

decent, man!", that meant it was really, really cool.

So, even when I was a child, I was changing our language and making things that were just

The next one is "el"... mmhmm, "ex-treme-oh".

In English, I can say, in English, "ex-treem".

You guys will hear things like "extreme sports".

Extreme means something that's very, very strong, or very, very crazy.

Look at this one, even has a bonus because it has the same spelling, yes!

Except you guys say "Fi-nal" and we say "Feye-al", so again, it's not "fi-nal", it's "feye-al".

We have to be careful in English with the "I".

You guys pronounce it like an "e", we pronounce it like an "I", so it's "fine-al", it means

"the end", but it's not the end of this ABC lesson.

You've gotta say "Wow, ten la gas-oh-len-ah", we just say "gas", it's easy.

Now, this might be a terrible pronunciation, the "h", honest in English, "Onest".

We say "Onest", we just take out the "o", easy.

"La" hm hm hm hm "eh-de-ah", "la eh-de-ah", we say, again with the "I", we say "I-de-ah",

not "eh-de-ah", we say "i-de-ah", so again we're changing with the "o" sound - with the

"I" sound and the "e" sound, we're changing it in English, so you say "eh-de-ah", we say

Be careful, the vowels, they will get you every time.