Things Non-Spanish-Speaking Latinos Are Sick of Hearing

This video was really funny to watch, and it shows how people still judge by stereotypes.

But is more common to now people who doesn’t think in that way anymore, and it's showing that different races and nationalities are getting more and more mixed. Exist the theory that one day there will not be more races anymore. 

Something that I found interesting, when I read de comments of the video, many people were complaining about Latinos who doesn’t speak Spanish, saying that it’s sad how they aren't interested besides their origin.  As a proud Mexican girl I think so as well, but I wasn’t born in USA, and we don’t know what kind of life this people had, so the only think that we can do in case that we know a Latino who was raise in USA, is respect his decision about not learning Spanish.

Link to the video 

Ken Tanaka meets a Caucasian Japanese man

I think the video is really interesting, personally, I've never met someone who looks like other race, maybe blonde guys but I don't think that in here there are that different. Still, I think that we aren't that used to meet someone who looks like a different race so is normal to be so curious about that person. 

Link to the video

Sid Efromocivh. 5 Techniques to speak any language

The video is presented by Sid Efromovich who introduce himself saying that he talks 7 languages and the purpose of the talk itself is to show us 5 techniques that he uses to learn a new language easily.

Those techniques are: 

1. Make Mistakes 

2. Scrap the Foreign Alphabet 

3. Find a Stickler 

4. Shower Conversations

5. Buddy Formula 

My Opinion 

1. Make Mistakes. 

I think Sid is a very sympathetic and nice person. When he say that we have to allow us to make mistakes I really liked that thought but is the same that my teachers said in class, I remember my Italian teacher in high school, she always was very patient with us and wait until we finished a reading or when we had to answer a question and then she correct us, but she never allow us to say "I don't know" We had always to say something it doesn't matter if we were wrong.

2. Scrap the Foreign Alphabet.

 What I understand about this technique was that we have to forget the pronunciation that we know and we speak, because all the languages are different and that is when we have problems to know or recognize some words in another language, so Sid is telling us that when we learn a new word we should see the pronunciation with terms that we know and that is going to make us easy to know correctly that word. 

3. Find a Stickler. 

I really like what Sid said about having a good relationship with your Stickler, that could be your teacher or your friend because then you don't have to be afraid to make mistakes or to be judged. And you can really enjoy learning.

4. Shower Conversations 

This technique was really funny when Sid explain it and I totally agree, I myself do it, not only in the shower but everytime that I am alone I always speak to myself in English or Italian and I think it's really useful. 

5. Buddy Formula. 

 This was an interesting technique, having a friend with whom you can speak in another language that nobody understands sounds fun. But is not that easy to find someone who can talk the specific language that you want to learn. Even so, I really liked this technique and I want to put it in practice.

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WLHr1_EVtQ

My results on Learning Styles quest

I found this test very helpfull.😊 I think is very accurate with my results and it's interesting to know how you can study better based in the way you learn. 

 But as the page says, I think that is better if you try both ways to learn, for example with the active or reflective learners, if you are more relfective than active, just like my result, not just stay with strategies for reflectives, but to try as well the actives strategies. Try to be in the middle of the graphic. Not just stay with one profile, because I think is better for you, it will be more easier for you to learn.