The more easy and basic the better. I am not having fun trying to watch shows that were in English dubbed in spanish
I don’t know Spanish but I think we watched Motorcycle Diaries in Spanish class.
This, but ones where they speak clearly and slowly.
I can read Spanish fine, but I never understand when people speak to me. I’ve tries watching movies but I never get anything out of it because I can’t understand what they’re saying…even if I know the words.
Anyone have a recommendation for something to watch where the voice actors are super good at speaking very clearly?
Spanish phonology is wonderful but it has the tendency to kinda blur, especially when it’s spoken quickly.
My advice kinda sucks with regards to fun but I’d recommend watching children’s shows until your verbal fluency reaches a point where you can comprehend about 40-50% of the words spoken in movies or TV shows aimed at adults, then watch that with the Spanish-language subtitles on in order to continue developing your fluency.
I mentioned it above but dreamingspanish.com is so good for this. Start at your level, watch about 100 hours, then try the next level up. It takes time but it’s noticable when you start getting bored of the slow levels and then jump up to videos you couldn’t understand previously. I’m at their advanced level now and trying to jump to native tv shows. I think I still need some time with dreaming, but I can definitely understand more tv/radio than I could 6 months ago.
theres a silly sitcom style learning show called extra that i watched when i was learning. also watched pocoyo and other kids shows.
for more adult stuff… i watched los espookys recently. Idk usually ill just scroll the spanish language stuff
Agree with Extra en español. They’re all on YouTube.
I have also watched a lot of 31 Minutos on YouTube, it’s kind of like Muppets meet The Daily Show? It’s aimed at kids but it’s entertaining and there is a lot of repetition so it works even if I don’t catch everything they say.
Mfw Sam was supposed to get zapatos elegantes but he got zapatos elefantes 🤣🤣🤣
I rewatched an episode of it last year after a little over half a decade of studying Spanish and man it’s funny how slow and overly articulate they’re speaking, I get why, but I never even noticed when I was learning lmao
Los Espookys is so good, recommend that in general.
Do you watch animated shows? I find the dubbing much better/less obvious/jarring than watching a live action dub. I really enjoyed re-watching adventure time in Spanish, it felt really natural.
Simpsons is good for this too
The voice actors are really good on the simpsons
I used to get high with my roommate and watch Adventure Time in Spanish. We weren’t trying to learn Spanish, but it was hilarious lol
I used to die laughing at the sound of “Tronquitos” hahaah
lmao sounds like a good time
Seconded. Money Heist (La Casa de Papel if you’re on Spanish Netflix) uses fairly simple vocabulary and sentence structure with an easy plot to follow.
Is the movie called Money Heist?
Money Heist is the show on Netflix. The doc in that post is called Lucio and there’s a link to it on archive.org.
Because money heist is in Spanish from Spain, that particular dialect may be less useful in most of Latin America. Even as a native speaker I find it difficult to understand them.
REC is one of my all-time favorite horror movies, if you haven’t already seen it. From what I remember the second one is pretty good too, but 3 and 4 are worse.
Los cronocrimines is a good time travel movie.
REC was remade in the US as Quarantine
The US version is kinda ass though, learning spanish just for rec is worth it.
Quarantine sucks. REC is horrifying and good
I wouldn’t say it’s basic but they made a shot-for-shot remake of Breaking Bad in Colombia called Metástasis that you might be able to find on the high seas
it isn’t very good but you won’t have any trouble following what’s going on if you’ve seen the original
lol i forgot about this i need to watch that
If you’re ok with video blog stuff, I love dreamingspanish.com. lots of different regions/accents and a ton of content. I started with the intermediate level, 20-part history of Spain and enjoyed it so much that I started subscribing. But there is a ton of free content too. I’ve been listening pretty consistently for the past year and can definitely tell that I’ve improved.
Second this
IDK how basic it is, but The Platform is a great movie. IIRC it has a lot of slow exposition and it’s mostly dialogue so it’s good for learning.
It’s got good politics too
I am not having fun trying to watch shows that were in English dubbed in spanish
I would recommend watching them with the Spanish subtitles, and then later turning the show into an audio file and then listening to them passively while you do other things (e.g. driving, cleaning, walking, etc.). That way you already know what they are gonna say so you can just practice listening. Like it or not you gotta build the listening comprehension for reasonably fast Spanish.
when i was a kid i really liked Vecinos 2005 its a comedy, a more modern mex comedy series is Club de Curvos which is on netflix.
for movies i really like Estrada’s movies which are La Ley de Herodes, El Infierno , La dictadora perfecta, they are also a bit comedic and talk about the diferent era’s Mexico has passed PRI era, PAN and then the new PRI. Amores Perros is good and also Iñárritu’s first movie also its a drama and serious also Roma is good too and its from Cuaron, Also Guillermo del Toro has made some mexican/spanish movies like Cronos and el Laberinto del Fauno
Qué Dice La Gente was a class favorite.
Isabel, Cathedral of the Sea, Heirs to the Land. The latter two are on Netflix.
Put spanish dub on everything, it doesn’t matter. I learned English watching That 70’s show.
