Can I Learn Spanish in 30 DAYS 🇪🇸 Becoming Fluent In A Month

I am going to try to become fluent in Spanish in just one month. Yeah. I have never learned Spanish before formally, but I will come clean. I have listened to a lot of Pitbull songs, so I am pretty much fluent. Un, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, cinco, seis. That's not even Pitbull. And I couldn't be further from fluency. I can say very basic things like, Hola, me llama Sabina. ¿Cómo estás? Yo estoy bien. But that's OK, because we're about to change that. In order to learn this language, I will be using a number of resources. And this notebook is not one of them, but it has them written down. Number one, an hour of vocab and grammar every day. I will be using different apps for this. And if you haven't watched it yet, I've made a cool video. I thought it was cool. About seven different language learning apps that I really like. So check that out. It will be linked somewhere here. And you should watch it. And number two, I would like to do 30 minutes to an hour of conversation. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do that one every day, but I would like to do it as often as possible, because I think without speaking, you can't really improve your conversational skills because it's in the name. And number three, I would like to spend between two to three hours passively absorbing the language. Hmm. Day one. And I am feeling tired, but I'm starting with some Duolingo, which is kind of the easiest way to dip your foot in. By the way, before this, I did a few classes on Duolingo. So don't worry, there's still plenty left to go before I'm fluent. But I just want to be completely upfront. I just had an idea. I thought I would change the language on my phone to Spanish. I do think it's pretty premature because I don't really speak any. But hey, you know, let's live life on the edge. I hope I'm still going to be able to call my mom. OK, I speak a little bit of Spanish, but I want to learn Spanish well. I think I was really bad. She's hung up on me. Yo soy. Yo soy. No, yo es. Yo tengo, yo tengo, yo tengo. No, si. That was a long half hour. I really enjoyed the lesson, but I'm so tired now because I'm obviously a complete beginner. So that felt pretty difficult. Duolingo has been great. But one thing that I'm finding tricky is vocab revision. There's no way to do it through the app that I know of. Maybe if you get the paid version, but I ain't doing that. So I went full old school. I cut up a bunch of paper and made flashcards. And now I have like over a over a hundred over here. I don't drink wine. Yo no bebo vino. Yo no bebo el vino. Yo no bebo vino. Excellent. No, I only have like 200 more to get through. OK, we are pretty much a week into the challenge, and I'll be honest, I haven't done as much studying as I was hoping I would, but I'm trying not to let this become a chore. I want it to feel fun and exciting, which so far it does. I've been doing a lot of Duolingo. I did those fun flashcards the other day. I mean, I think flashcards are fun. So clearly my fun threshold is pretty low, but I have enjoyed it. The one thing I haven't done, ironically, is watch Netflix or really absorb any kind of Spanish whatever entertainment. What are words? So that's the only thing that slightly worries me going into what I'm about to do, which is have my next lesson with a real person. Hola, hola, que tal? Muy bien, y tu que tal? Bien, bien, gracias. De donde eres? Yo soy de República Checa, pero yo vivo en Londres, en Inglaterra. Vives sola? No, yo vivo con tres amigos. Y que haces en tu tiempo libre? Que te gusta hacer? Yo tengo mucho de tiempo libre ahora. Si, yo yo quiero leer, leer libros. Y yo no se, singing. I am finally using my Netflix binge watching skills, which, by the way, are excellent for a good cause. I've been binging on a series called La Casa de las Flores. It's a Mexican series. It's a bit tall in LA, but it's pretty good. The other fun thing I've been doing is listening to lots of Spanish songs. And there are some really, really good ones. And what I'm doing right now is I'm trying to translate a song. And then when I'm done, I'm going to look up a translation and see how close I got. To be honest, I did OK. It's five in the morning and I didn't sleep. It's five in the morning and I haven't slept anything. And then this line I was really proud of. This is supposed to be until you're mine. I will live in peace. And I said, and if you're not mine, I can live in peace. And look at that. That's a really, really complicated line. Crap face. Maybe I will be able to do this in 30 days. I don't know. How many kids do you want to have? Hmm, I don't know. I think three kids is good. Because, because, because it's because there are three. Oh, I don't know. It's too advanced for me. In the car there are three. I understand. It's very practical. I'm a practical girl. 30 minutes with you is good. One hour is also good. But very difficult for my head. Oh, no, I got to be honest, you guys. I haven't studied Spanish in about a week or maybe longer. I don't know why. I think I just put too much pressure on myself initially. And now instead of doing a little bit every day, I just have this impending sense of doom. These feelings of guilt that I'm not doing enough. So my recommendation to you would be if you're trying to do a similar challenge, don't overload yourself. Do it for as long as is tolerable and is fun. But don't do more than that because it will just make you dislike it. And that's a shame because I love Spanish. Spanish is so cool. And I am lowering myself back in gently, gently with a bit of Netflix, which I like. One thing that I found really helpful while learning is just like going about your daily life and pointing at things and saying what they are in Spanish. Amigo, gringo, Samuel, Samuel. OK, let's let's try this. Nosotros cocinamos juntos. We're cooking together. Aceito, azúcar, sal, sal, pimienta, pimienta, sal. This is annoying. What do you mean it's annoying? You're learning new skills. La cuenta, por favor. Si, el dinero. Sam, que nosotros cocinamos? Unos, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, cinco, seis. Now what are we cooking? La. La carne. Italian. La carne italiano. No, Indian. La carne Indian. Yo quiero mucho, mucho viajar ahora, porque no es posible. Nosotros queremos que no. We want what we don't have. Que no tenemos. Nos queremos lo que no tenemos. Hola, chicos. Como estas? Hoy es el día 30 de mi reta y yo soy muy feliz. Yo soy un poquito, poquito cansada, pero muy feliz. Yo creo que mi español es bien. Mi acento no es bien, pero es mejor. Y yo soy muy feliz que yo puedo hablar 30 minutos, una hora sin problemas. Yo creo que es muy bien. Claro que no es posible aprender un idioma después de un mes. No es posible aprender español perfectamente después de un mes. Pero yo soy feliz. Yo creo que mi español es bien. Y yo creo que español es muy fácil para gente como yo. Gente de Europa o América del Norte. Y yo espero que yo puedo hablar español perfectamente muy rápido, muy pronto. Honestly, I really am happy with the level of my Spanish after 30 days. I do think that one thing that really helped me personally is the fact that I speak some basic French. My French is actually horrible. Like I would say my French is probably worse than my Spanish now. But the fact that I learned it in a structured environment in school and the fact that it's a Latin language as well probably gave me a bit of a boost. But overall, I would recommend Spanish to anybody that is, you know, European, North American, like I said earlier in Spanish, because I do find it to be quite an easy language to pick up initially. I do think things are about to get harder, but I am definitely going to continue because the journey has just been so much fun. I wanted to share four things that I found really, really helpful throughout this process. The first has definitely been Duolingo. This is not sponsored, but Duolingo is probably the most downloaded app ever for like language learning. And that's for good reason. It is a really good resource, especially for these more popular languages. Resource number two for me personally has been Netflix. I really enjoyed learning by listening. I can't just like pick up what they're saying, but I'll put on English subtitles and listen. And I have found that really helpful. My tip number three or the thing that I found really helpful has been music. I love music. Music is actually how I learned English as well. I just love listening to stuff. It really helps you pick up the accent. And you kind of get these set phrases into your head, which I think is just such a massive boost. You know, already having that sentence kind of ready somewhere in here. En tu cabeza. And number four, and this probably has been the biggest boost that I received throughout this month, is talking with people. I personally used italki. My teacher, Estefany, was incredible. I am linking her profile in the description below. So definitely check her out if you're interested. She's from Venezuela. She's so lovely. She's such a great teacher. But there are thousands of teachers on italki if you want to... italki, I never know how to pronounce it, if you want to find somebody else. But yeah, this has been an incredible challenge, probably the best one I've done yet. And I hope you guys enjoyed watching it as much as I enjoyed doing it. If you have any ideas for future challenges, you'd like to see whether they're language related or something different all together, I would love to hear them. So let me know. This is it. Hasta la vista, baby. Where's that from? Like Arnold Schwarzenegger.