Analysing Javier Bardem's Spanish (Castilian Accent)

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[00:00:09]What did he just say? In this video, we're going to break down what Javier Bardem just said in that little clip, and we're going to focus on three main things: word reductions, word connections as well, and sound softenings. As you know, in fast native Spanish, there are main things that happen to make it fast. And these are the three things that I've just said, amongst other, but today we're going to focus on these three. So, how words reduce and are shorter than we expect, how words connect with each other, and so they slightly change, and also how sounds are very, very, very reduced and we can barely hear them. And so, by the end of this video, we'll understand exactly what Javier Bardem has just said there. Let's start. First sentence, first part of what he just said. I'm going to show you just I'm just going to show you the clip. It's a nomination and with this I'll finish. It's really, really fast. Let's slow it down a little bit just to be able to analyze it.

[00:01:15]First thing he's saying What is that?

[00:01:25]This is entonces.

[00:01:33]But, what do we do a lot of times? Just saying "toes". By the way, Javier Bardem is from Spain, if you didn't know, so he has a Castilian accent.

[00:01:43]Same as mine. Um, so we're going to focus on that one today. "Toes" is "entonces". Okay? So, you can record that in your brain that whenever you hear "toes", "toes", "toes", very like fast and not really emphasized, it means "entonces". And then, what else he say?

[00:02:04]esa esa nominación This is just esa nominación.

[00:02:15]esa nominación esa nominación esa nominación nominación Okay, so esa nominación.

[00:02:33]But then notice how here the connection "i", like the "e" of "and", always goes with um always goes connected to either the word before or the word after. So, you could say "esa nominación ni" "esa nominación ni con" you know, "esa nominación ni". So, connected to the In this case, if if you can connect it to the previous one, to the to the last word, just connect it to the last word.

[00:03:01]It's not "esa nominación i" You could if you're emphasizing, but if you're speaking fast "esa nominación ni con eso acabo" "esa nominación ni" Okay, so "esa nominación ni" And then let's see what happens here at the end.

[00:03:25]Should I put it slower?

[00:03:31]i con esto acabo con esto acabo like This is the word "con".

[00:03:39]But what happens here? It's a very It's a word that it's expected, common, um not key to understand the whole meaning. So, "esa nominación i con esto acabo" We can just reduce it a lot. Say it very very not much enunciated. Very little enunciation here. So, it's con esto acabo. This is a con esto acabo. I con esto acabo.

[00:04:11]This is quite clear.

[00:04:15]Well, this is since I'm his drunk but a bit faster now.

[00:04:23]con esto acabo esto to acabo esto acabo connection of words esto acabo we have the o and we have the a wa con esto acabo con esto acabo. Basically, what is he saying? Entonces, so con esta nominacion with this nomination he's starting to speak about his point about this this nomination that I got to the Oscars. And then a parenthesis y con esto acabo and I'm finishing with this.

[00:04:57]Like this is the last thing I'm going to say.

[00:04:59]Entonces con esta nominacion y con esto acabo.

[00:05:02]Entonces Entonces, esta nominacion y con esto acabo. Okay, fast. Let's hear it again.

[00:05:11]Entonces, esta nominacion y con esto acabo.

[00:05:13]Fast, flowy, continuous, soft. acabo acabo acabo Notice that he's not doing acabo or acabo but acabo acabo very very soft.

[00:05:25]acabo Next one.

[00:05:30]si es verdad si es verdad What does that mean?

[00:05:34]si es verdad What do you hear?

[00:05:39]si es verdad si es verdad He's basically saying si si es verdad It is true. C es verdad.

[00:05:52]But notice the connection here. C es verdad. C es C es C es verdad.

[00:06:00]Ver Not ver but ver. Notice.

[00:06:05]C es verdad. C es verdad. C es verdad.

[00:06:08]And then the D uh uh verdad verdad. And something very common in Madrid, words that end in D ending them in s like Madrids verdad.

[00:06:19]C es verdad.

[00:06:20]C es verdad. C es verdad. C es verdad.

[00:06:24]verdad verdad C es verdad.

[00:06:29]It is true. It is true. So, we have So, with this nomination and I'm finishing with this.

[00:06:36]It is true that we could have said or he could have said es verdad but he said C es verdad to emphasize. It's like an indeed. Like it is indeed true. C es verdad. C es verdad. But connect it. C es verdad.

[00:06:52]Next one. Que ayuda a eso, ¿no?

[00:06:54]Que ayuda a eso, ¿no? Que ayuda a eso, ¿no?

[00:06:59]Que ayuda a eso, ¿no?

[00:07:02]Here there is no Que ayuda a eso, ¿no?

[00:07:05]Que ayuda a eso, ¿no?

[00:07:07]What we have here is a lot of word connection. Que a yu da e so, no.

[00:07:13]Que a que a yu da a eso no So que a Not que ayuda but que a que ayuda and then ayuda a ayuda this a forget about it.

[00:07:34]eso So, que ayuda a eso, ¿no?

[00:07:39]To us is like one of like um kill one.

[00:07:45]Que ayuda eso, ¿no? Que ayuda que ayuda eso, ¿no?

[00:07:52]Right?

[00:07:53]Um Si es verdad, it is true that helps with that.

[00:07:59]¿No? Right? Next one. A reconocer el hecho de a reconocer el hecho de A reconocer el hecho de A reconocer el hecho de What we have here sounds softening. A lot of sounds happening.

[00:08:12]Uh or at least just one important one.

[00:08:16]A reconocer el hecho de A reconocer el hecho de A reconocer el hecho de So we have a reconocer el hecho de A reconocer el hecho de but notice here the a reconocer but this r he's doing it very very soft. Whenever I put a tiny t underneath a symbol, it means that it is lowered, softened.

[00:08:43]Try to hear this. A recon a recon a recon a recon A recon a recon a re a re It's not a reconocer but a reconocer a reconocer. This r is almost not there. A reconocer el a reconocer A reconocer el hecho a reconocer el hecho de Also the d el hecho de de de super soft. A reconocer el hecho de Okay.

[00:09:12]To recognize the fact that So, let's recap. Entonces, so twice.

[00:09:18]Esa nominación that nomination y con esto acabo and I'm finishing with this.

[00:09:25]Si es verdad, it it it does it is true that helps with that, ¿no? That que ayuda eso, ¿no?

[00:09:34]A reconocer el hecho de to recognize the fact that el hecho the fact that next one what which fact Okay.

[00:09:50]This is the longest one but this is very connected. There's a lot of connection here. So let's hear again.

[00:10:06]word connection here de que el actor becomes de que el to s fulminate one of those They cannot exist to k l k l that the actor Let's put it a little slower. Notice a bit of a word reduction here.

[00:10:37]not t this a from he's not saying tiene he's saying tiene not tiene por que ser when you say it fast is not tiene por que ser but not tiene por que ser not tiene almost so should have learned it like that like not not tiene por que ser meaning no tiene por que por que ser this d like should have put like a tiny t here like this one I didn't put it but it's very very soft.

[00:11:24]See there's no d not tiene por que ser el lugar What he's saying here is del lugar but this d he's just not saying it. not tiene por que ser el This D the D's and get so get so soft that they tend to disappear.

[00:11:42]So, softening sound here.

[00:11:48]Notice here the r not r but r.

[00:11:53]To recognize the fact that the actor the actor doesn't have to be the r from the place the r r another very soft but r r r r Notice how in these 10 seconds Javier Bardem has said two r's and none of them have been r r r or r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r super soft r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r super soft as well.

[00:12:38]r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r that the actor doesn't have to be from the place that he represents.

[00:12:46]In this in this video Javier Bardem is talking about minorities and you can watch it all. It's just 1 minute.

[00:12:55]It's a really good one to figure out what he's saying like to have a whole speech that begins and ends and have the whole meaning. It's a it's a good one. So, I recommend that you work if you haven't seen a video of how to learn Spanish with audio. I'll link it somewhere here.

[00:13:12]So, you can watch it and see this is a good video to use with that method that I proposed in that video.

[00:13:20]So, you can go ahead and practice. So, let's watch again Javier Bardem's clip and see if you can understand a bit more now that you've broken it.

[00:13:41]Okay, watch it as many times as you need. This takes time. It's not just a one-time thing, but you need to analyze, uh, notice all these connections, all these reductions, and yeah.

[00:13:54]Let me know if you like this video and if you like more of these, if this is you think it's useful, and I'll make more.

[00:14:03]Ciao.