Saturday, March 26, 2016

Los videos de Juan Fernandez

Are you acquainted with Juan Fernandez, @granainoinuk, on Twitter? 
If you teach Spanish, you may want to follow him on Twitter. 

Why? 
Because on a language forum that I follow, someone shared the link to his new YouTube channel with the videos he makes. The videos are perfect for second language learners because:
(1) he is a native speaker 
(2) he speaks clearly, 
(3) he speaks slow enough to give listeners time to process and understand what he is saying

Below is one of his videos:


I also like that the video DOES NOT have subtitles, but I noticed there is the option to add them if you wanted them on the screen.  Another one of his videos I watched had the subtitles, but since his speech is comprehensible to my students, I don't want the English on the screen.

In Juan's video "¡Dale la vuelta a la tortilla!", he begins with several written examples of the subjunctive used with CUANDO. After watching it, you can explain this food idiom. (The website Spanish Food Idioms has a nice explanation.)

Some of the videos are short enough that they would work nicely as Brain Breaks, such as the 2 minute video, "Cómo decir NO en español".

These videos led me to his website, 1001 Razones para aprender español with even MORE resources and the scripts of his podcasts.  Wow! I feel like I hit the jackpot this morning. 

I hope you didn't have anything too pressing today, because you may want to put your plans on hold to watch Juan's videos.  :-)  

THANK YOU Juan Fernandez for creating these videos!

6 comments:

  1. Thanks so much for sharing about Juan's videos. Looking forward to checking them out.

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  2. Wow! These are fantastic! Thank you so much!

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  3. Hi, I’m Eduardo, a pre-service Spanish teacher. Your post about Juan’s videos was very helpful. I agree with you in your comment that it’s beneficial for students to listen in onto Juan’s videos since he does speak very cleanly and at a good pace. I would also say that it wouldn’t hurt for students to step out of the normal and pause his video and respond to their computer screen with a spoken comment that they may have in response to what Juan is talking about.

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  4. Thank you so much for sharing!

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  5. I reallt think this is a great resource. I often have a hard time finding clips from native speakers that are slow enough for my students to listen to. I like your suggestions of how to use this in the classroom as well. Thank you for sharing this, I plan to use it with my Spanish 2-3 classes

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