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Hi there, Steve Kaufmann here today. I'm going to talk about how I learned Spanish. Uh, if you enjoy these videos, please subscribe. You can click on the mail and get the notifications. So I've done some video. I did one on how I learned French and another one on how I learned Mandarin Chinese. So I thought I would do one on how I learned Spanish.

Spanish has been with me for 60 years. You know, I started thinking about it. When did I first... what about what about my first encounter with Spanish? When did I first... what about what about my first encounter with Spanish? And so I entered the McGill university at the age of 16 and not really knowing what to study. I took, uh, two courses of English, two courses of French and one course of Spanish.

Each of the two years, I only stayed at McGill for two years. Then I basically hitchhiked on a boat going across the Atlantic and ended up studying in Europe for three years. But in the first year, you know, I have to hand it to the professor we had, we just started right into reading. Aber im ersten Jahr, wissen Sie, muss ich es dem Professor geben, den wir hatten. Wir haben gerade angefangen zu lesen. Pero en el primer año, ya sabes, tengo que reconocérselo al profesor que tuvimos, empezamos directamente a leer. I remember we had a story called La Barraca by Blasco Ibáñez, about these agricultural workers, very tough conditions, somewhere near Valencia

if I remember correctly. He was a very pleasant man, you know, relatively young professor, like in his thirties in those days. 彼は当時の30代のように、とても気持ちの良い人で、比較的若い教授でした。 And, uh, we pick our way through it. そして、ええと、私たちはそれを通り抜けます。 而且，嗯，我们选择了解决之道。 It was painful because you know, every second word you didn't know, but there was a sort of a glossary there. 这很痛苦，因为您不知道第二个字，但是那里有一个词汇表。 And, and so I thought that was a great thing to do. そして、それは素晴らしいことだと思いました。

And I can't remember what we did in the second year. Uh, mostly I remember that, uh, near the university, there were two places that I would go to, uh, once every couple of weeks or so. One was a, um, sort of a bar cafe near the university where, uh, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, maybe there was a guitarist playing a Spanish guitar music, and I would order a cup of, uh, Sherry.

And I thought I was very, uh, you know, international or something. Uh, and then there was another place called La Asociación Española, nearby where you walk down and it was dark. А потом было еще одно место под названием La Asociación Española, неподалеку, куда вы спускаетесь, и там было темно. And there was these, these men in their forties and fifties, uh, Who would always be there playing Dominos. Byli tam mężczyźni po czterdziestce i pięćdziesiątce, którzy zawsze grali w Dominos. And for me again, I'd go there and have a beer A dla mnie znowu, poszedłbym tam i napił się piwa

and I think while I'm kind of in Spain. So that was kind of my first introduction to Spanish. And then I have, I had he's since passed away, but I had an uncle who lived in Chile. そして、私は彼が亡くなったのですが、チリに住んでいた叔父がいました。 E depois tenho, eu tinha, ele já faleceu, mas eu tinha um tio que vivia no Chile. And when he heard that I was studying Spanish, he started cutting out newspaper clippings from El Mercurio, which was maybe still is, そして、私がスペイン語を勉強していると聞いたとき、彼はエル・メルクリオから新聞の切り抜きを切り取り始めました。

uh, one of the main newspapers down there. And so again, I would be trying to read these articles from El Mercurio, underlining words that I didn't know, which was a lot of them and looking them up and again, very painstaking, but it again connected me to Chile another Spanish speaking country, obviously. 繰り返しになりますが、私はエルメルクリオからのこれらの記事を読み、私が知らなかった単語に下線を引いて、それらの多くを調べ、何度も何度も非常に骨の折れる作業をしましたが、それは再びチリに別のスペイン語を接続しました明らかに国を話す。 I znowu starałem się czytać te artykuły z El Mercurio, podkreślając słowa, których nie znałem, a było ich wiele, i szukając ich, i znowu, bardzo żmudne, ale to znowu połączyło mnie z Chile, innym hiszpańskojęzycznym krajem, oczywiście.

So, you know, very early in my Spanish connection was this sort of fascination with countries where they speak Spanish. ですから、私のスペイン語のつながりの非常に早い段階で、スペイン語を話す国々に対するこの種の魅力がありました。 Of course it was very painstaking to do that. It's not like LingQ where you can go into our Spanish library, find, you know, something of interest maybe or bring in, you know, import an article from El Mercurio and start looking up words automatically, click through the flashcards, all the different things that we can do at LingQ. LingQのように、スペイン語ライブラリーに入って、興味のあるものを探したり、El Mercurioの記事を取り込んで、自動的に単語を調べたり、フラッシュカードをクリックしたり、いろいろなことができるわけではありません。

Uh, it's just night and day. ええと、それはただの昼と夜です。 Uh, bring things in from YouTube, whatever it might be. YouTubeからいろいろ持ってくるんだ。 It's, it's very different from what it was like back in those days. あの頃とはまったく違う。 In those days, you worked very hard. 当時はよく働いた。 In fact, I would say that, uh, I, one of the major motivations for me to create LingQ was that I have a number of books, particularly in Spanish and German. In fact, I would say that, uh, I, one of the major motivations for me to create LingQ was that I have a number of books, particularly in Spanish and German.

I had a number of books at home, uh, in the say, call it, uh, you know, and the, uh, late nineties, but, but I had had them for a while and I would try to read them. 家に何冊も本があったんだ、90年代後半にね、でも、しばらく前から持っていて、読もうとしたんだ。 And always there would be 10, 15 words per page that I didn't know. そして、私が知らなかったページごとに10、15の単語が常にあります。 And it was annoying and tiring to look them up in a dictionary. So slowly, that was sort of the genesis of LingQ. それがLingQの始まりだった。 At any rate. Jedenfalls.

I went to Europe, I studied there for three years. And during the, and I would hitchhike all over and during the, uh, particularly the Easter holidays, I would hitchhike into Spain. W tym czasie jeździłem autostopem po całym kraju, a w szczególności w okresie świąt wielkanocnych jeździłem autostopem do Hiszpanii. And so I think it was 1964 when I hitchhiked into Spain for the first time. And I can remember, uh, carrying my rucksack and, uh, getting on a bus in Barcelona and the people were so friendly, so friendly.

And where are you from? And, and of course I started speaking, whatever Spanish I had. And then they invited me to this bar where they shared wine with me, you know, which we poured out of this sort of container, jug sort of thing that had this long beak. 然后他们邀请我去了这家酒吧，在那儿与我分享葡萄酒，我们从这种容器中倒出了酒，这种酒是那种长喙的东西。 And, and I would always go, I would, whenever I had the opportunity, I just loved going to Spain and hitchhiked down through Southern France.

Nîmes , Perpignan, Montpellier, into the, the Costa Costa Brava. And, uh, worked my way down as far as, uh, you know, different occasions, Cádiz, uh, and all these cities were just amazing, like, uh, Córdoba and, uh, and, uh, you know, all the, all the cities of Spain and, uh, Marbella before it was developed, uh, Seville of course.

And of course, Barcelona and so forth. Ve tabii ki, Barselona ve diğerleri. So it was just a fascinating... and I would sit and if someone picks you up, when you're hitchhiking, they want to talk. Çok etkileyiciydi... Otururdum ve otostop çekerken biri sizi arabasına alırsa konuşmak isterlerdi. That's why they pick you up. それが彼らがあなたを迎えに行く理由です。 Bu yüzden seni alıyorlar. And so I would be talking, I don't know how I managed or what I had to say, but, uh, hours on end, I would be talking to truck drivers or people who picked me up and. だから私は話していたのですが、どうやって管理したのか、何を言わなければならないのかわかりませんが、ええと、何時間も続けて、トラックの運転手や私を迎えに来た人々と話していました。 Ve böylece konuşuyordum, nasıl başardım ya da ne söylemem gerekiyordu bilmiyorum ama saatlerce kamyon şoförleriyle ya da beni alan insanlarla konuşuyordum.

I can remember one truck driver. 一人のトラック運転手を覚えています。 Bir kamyon şoförü hatırlıyorum. He had a dog who sat on top of his cab. 彼は彼のタクシーの上に座っていた犬を飼っていた。 Taksisinin üstünde oturan bir köpeği vardı. And then that night he slept in his, in his cab and it's warm enough. そしてその夜、彼は彼のタクシーで眠りました、そしてそれは十分に暖かいです。 Sonra o gece taksisinde uyudu ve yeterince sıcaktı. I just slept in the ditch. Ben sadece hendekte uyudum. Uh, the next morning he got back in with him. ええと、翌朝彼は彼と一緒に戻ってきました。 Ertesi sabah onunla birlikte geri döndü. We kept going and I was speaking Spanish. Devam ettik ve ben İspanyolca konuşuyordum. I remember I went to, uh, the Fiesta de San Fermín in Pamplona, then run with the bulls. パンプローナのサンフェルミン祭に行って、雄牛と一緒に走ったのを覚えています。 Pamplona'daki Fiesta de San Fermín'e gittiğimi ve boğalarla koştuğumu hatırlıyorum.

But, uh, I was, you know, going to, you know, bars and. Ama ben, bilirsin işte, barlara gidiyordum. Yucking it up with people and having a great time. Sich mit Leuten anfreunden und eine tolle Zeit haben. 人々と一緒にそれをやっつけて、素晴らしい時間を過ごします。 Met mensen op de proppen komen en een geweldige tijd hebben. İnsanlarla eğlenmek ve harika vakit geçirmek. And so to me, Spain was, especially in those days, it was so friendly. Bu yüzden bana göre İspanya, özellikle o günlerde, çok arkadaş canlısıydı. So relaxed. Çok rahat. Uh, the tourist business was just getting started. ええと、観光事業はまだ始まったばかりでした。 And then when I left, um, Europe. Ve sonra Avrupa'dan ayrıldığımda. I mean, I went to  Sciences Po in Paris and then I graduated and I started working for the Canadian government and I essentially had no contact with Spanish whatsoever... until, when I started my own business, Yani, Paris'te Sciences Po'ya gittim, sonra mezun oldum ve Kanada hükümeti için çalışmaya başladım ve aslında İspanyolca ile hiç temasım olmadı... ta ki kendi işimi kurana kadar,

uh, my wife and I decided to visit Spain. Eşim ve ben İspanya'yı ziyaret etmeye karar verdik. And I remember on one occasion in particular for my 50th birthday, she arranged for a big meeting of a lot of friends from Sweden, from Canada, from France, people... friends, business acquaintances, and we all met. Özellikle bir keresinde 50. yaş günüm için İsveç'ten, Kanada'dan, Fransa'dan pek çok arkadaşla büyük bir buluşma ayarladığını hatırlıyorum, insanlar... arkadaşlar, iş tanıdıkları ve hepimiz bir araya geldik. I didn't realize that she organized it without telling me, and my uncle from Sweden, uncle and aunt.

And of course my son, the one son who could come. And we did this in, uh, in Marbella. And so I've always pleasant associations, but struggling, struggling with my Spanish. Und so habe ich immer angenehme Assoziationen, aber ich kämpfe, kämpfe mit meinem Spanisch. 因此，我总是很愉快的交往，但是我在西班牙语中挣扎着挣扎。 And then I, uh, bought, I decided I got to read a book in Spanish. So I bought a book called  El Bosque Originario by a Basque writer called Jon Juaristi

I think it is. And it's because I'm interested in the subject of, of ethnic groups and the origins of different, different ethnic groups and so forth. そして、それは私が民族グループの主題や異なる、異なる民族グループの起源などに興味を持っているからです。 So I bought that book and I just fought my way through it. それで私はその本を買って、それを通して自分の道を戦いました。 And, uh, without the aid of anything really leaving a lot of words that I didn't know, but I was quite familiar with the subject and therefore a lot of the vocabulary was also familiar to me, and it gave me a great sense of achievement. そして、ええと、何の助けも借りずに、私は知らない言葉をたくさん残しましたが、私は主題に非常に精通していたので、多くの語彙も私に精通していて、それは私に素晴らしい感覚を与えました達成の。

Uh, so I'm trying to remember. So with that, I, my, my Spanish slowly improved, uh, then with LingQ, I started, you know, we have, you know, audio books, uh, Trafalgar, I think is one of them. I can't remember. Uh, just continued reading and listening. I remember I used to listen to, um, there were, uh, there was a podcast called El Grupo Risa, which I listened to.

It was kind of funny. I didn't understand it at all, but... so it gradually improved. I'm going to, at the end, I'm going to suggest a couple of videos where I do speak in Spanish, but I think the key thing with my Spanish is, such as it is, and it's one of the languages that I speak the best. I think after my top four, which are English, French, Japanese, and Mandarin, Spanish comes right next to those. 英語、フランス語、日本語、北京語の上位4つに続いて、スペイン語がそのすぐ隣にあると思います。

And I think why I've enjoyed Spanish is wherever, whatever my level was in Spanish, I was happy. そして、私がスペイン語を楽しんだ理由は、スペイン語のレベルが何であれ、どこにいても幸せだったと思います。 Uh, if I was fighting my way through La Barraca, I was happy. If I happened that, if there happened to be a Spaniard in that, uh, you know, a bar in Montreal and I could say three things to him, I was happy. もし私がその中にスペイン人がいたら、ええと、モントリオールのバーで、彼に3つのことを言うことができたなら、私は幸せでした。

Uh, when I was hitchhiking through Spain, I was obviously making a lot of mistakes. I was happy at every step of the way, and I think it's important to enjoy, you know, I've never had to write an exam in Spanish. I never had to worry about how accurate my grammar is, I just enjoyed the language, listening, reading, speaking, whatever it might be.

I just enjoyed it. And I think that's a good attitude to have in a language. And I've enjoyed my... oh, I should mention, I also visited Mexico and we spoke some Spanish there, of course. And we were in Peru and in Argentina. So I'm continuing to have this very pleasant, enjoyable connection with the Spanish language.

Something that I will continue to have and people will point out that I don't get this right or don't get that right. And I don't speak as well as this person or that person, doesn't matter at all. そして、私はこの人やその人と同じように話すことはありません、まったく問題ではありません。 It doesn't matter what my level is in any language. Uh, you know, my German is not as good as my Spanish and I, having an interview with a person in German,

so I decided to read some German books. And I, one that I bought a while ago called Gelassenheit beginnt im Kopf, and it means like an attitude of just take it easy, enjoy it, begins in your head. So it's not the circumstances outside you that decide whether you're going to be uptight or calm. ですから、あなたが緊張するか落ち着くかを決めるのはあなたの外の状況ではありません。 It's how you take

these circumstances. So similarly with language learning, whatever you are doing in the language, enjoy it. You decide you're going to enjoy it. あなたはそれを楽しむつもりだと決めます。 It's not the language, it's not other people that decide whether you're going to enjoy the language. それは言語ではなく、あなたがその言語を楽しむかどうかを決めるのは他の人々ではありません。 You decide if you're going to enjoy the language, if you're going to appreciate what you have achieved in the language, which I do. あなたはあなたがその言語を楽しむつもりであるかどうか、あなたがその言語で達成したことを感謝するつもりであるかどうかを決定します、それは私がします。

So with that, I'll leave it. And I'll suggest a couple of videos that you can listen to in Spanish. Uh, and, uh, you can send me any critical comments that you may have. Bye for now. またね。