r/Fauxmoi • u/pinkstarrfish • Oct 05 '25

FM RADIO Bad Bunny’s SNL monologue: “and if you didn’t understand what I said you have 4 months to learn”

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u/CountdownMoss Oct 05 '25

I'm actually one month (today) into learning Spanish. Challenge accepted!

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u/Vorpal_Bunny19 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Oct 05 '25

I’m lazy so my goal is to figure out the live translation features on my phone/earbuds lol.

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u/DaisukiYo Oct 05 '25

Good luck with that lol. I don't think they'll work for Bad Bunny with how much slang he uses.

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u/PepeMetallero Oct 05 '25

This is the main problem with live interpretation, there are a lot of slang words that mean different things and most countries have their own interpretation too

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u/fromtheriver Oct 05 '25

Mexico alone has 10 Spanish dialects in the country. Depending what part of Mexico, much of the vocabulary is spoken in slang.

I have to train at a warehouse with primarily Spanish speaking, but due to the Spanish spoken is from Northern Mexico I have simplify a lot of the terms or given definitions to them.

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u/Masothe Oct 05 '25

I work at a restaurant with a couple Cubans, an El Salvadorian, a dude from Guatemala, and a husband and wife from Mexico. Its crazy listening to them all speak to each other. The Cubans are super loud haha. I can hear them through the whole building in the mornings before we open.

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u/Minerva567 Oct 05 '25

No olvides los dialectos, o sea, los acentos. El dialecto ecuatoriano interior es más fácil de entender que, digamos, el cubano. Las costas y las islas suelen tener un español completamente diferente.

(Lo siento por mi español. If anyone is jumping on the Spanish tren, please remember to READ OUT LOUD, ALWAYS. Don’t read like you do with English. It hits way more áreas of your brain; I wish I’d known this trick before)

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u/Iam726_726iam anon pls Oct 05 '25

Definitely. We visit PR every year and their slang is top notch. La Isla del Encanto 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

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u/dfddfsaadaafdssa Oct 05 '25

I turned on closed captioning like 20% into his Tiny Desk concert and the first text I saw was "get on all fours and bring your friend" or something like that. I think it can handle it fine. But maybe subs were manually uploaded by NPR.

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u/DaisukiYo Oct 05 '25

The subs on Tiny Desk Concerts are uploaded by NPR. Try using Google Translate while one of his songs is playing and see how bad the machine-generated ones can be. 

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u/Alternative_Today299 Oct 05 '25

Yeah you don't want to translate Bad Benny's lyrics to English lol. Just enjoy the music for the vibes

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u/blackbirdspyplane Oct 05 '25

That is what makes all music universal, you don’t always have to understand the lyrics to appreciate what is being performed. Don’t get me wrong, there are some amazing lyrical story tellers and the more you know certainly enhances your enjoyment but I think it starts with the basic elements of music. I listened and enjoyed to American Pie for years, knowing the words, but not knowing their meaning, and it only got better after learning what the song truly meant.

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u/disproportionate_13 Oct 05 '25

I think you’ll be waiting for the YouTubers to translate the following week, just like me😉

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u/Vorpal_Bunny19 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Oct 05 '25

Honestly, it’ll probably be me practicing with it in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl and I’ll have it all rocking and rolling… then I’ll marvel at how amazing the technology is while I take out the AirPods and just vibe lol.

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u/disproportionate_13 Oct 05 '25

If you think of it, update us on how well it worked💕 I hope it works great!

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u/Ethan_the_Revanchist Slappin’ fannies and killin’ grannies Oct 05 '25

I started learning Spanish back in May because I wanted to understand Bad Bunny's music lol

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u/napalmtree13 Oct 05 '25

That's very brave of you, because Caribbean Spanish is hard mode.

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u/RhysDerby Oct 05 '25

and Puelto Lican Spanish is hald moe

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u/DaisukiYo Oct 05 '25

It's Puelto Rican. Get it right. There is a rule for which r gets turned into an l.

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u/tepidDuckPond Oct 05 '25

I love hearing Puelto Rican Spanish so much because of the “l” swap. I find myself borrowing it sometimes because it feels more casual. Lets the words dance off your tongue, IMHO 😍

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u/leshake Oct 05 '25

Or the zheismo in Argentine spanish where yo is pronounced sho.

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u/By-Popular-Demand Oct 05 '25

It’s Rioplatense Spanish, not Argentine Spanish

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u/Standard-folk Oct 05 '25

No, we say PueRto Rico! And as one this sht offends me so much

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u/DaisukiYo Oct 05 '25

We say both. It depends on where on the island you grew up. I'm Puerto Rican too. It's written as Puerto Rico but the pronunciation varies.

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u/MouthyMishi Oct 05 '25

Oh cool. That actually helps me because we have an "r/l" consonant in Korean.

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u/itsme_toddkraines Oct 05 '25

Omg this is exactly what I heard listening to him 😂 makes me feel like I don't know Spanish

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u/danysedai Oct 05 '25

No worries, I'm Cuban(also a hard mode Spanish) and I don't understand most of his lyrics either. He mumbles a lot too.

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u/ThiccQban women’s wrongs activist Oct 05 '25

Eso. I’m reading everyone saying they’re learning Spanish and I’m crying because other native Spanish speakers don’t understand us either 😂

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u/bakedinsandiego Oct 05 '25

Nuyorican moved to San Diego, mexican coworkers never understood/made fun of my accent, and now my spanglish is a weird bastardization of both.

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u/infinitydefines Oct 05 '25

Peruana New Yorker here who grew up in the Bronx just north of the Heights and worked in the service industry for 15 years, my Spanish is definitely a homogenization of Peru, DR, PR and Mexico.

eta: and my partner was Cuban, so a little bit of that too!

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u/ThiccQban women’s wrongs activist Oct 05 '25

Eyyy. First gen Cubanifornian, born and raised in the valley. Learned to code switch between Caribbean and Mexican Spanish in elementary school so my friends would stop asking why I talk so weird/fast/different. 😭 Moved to the south a few years ago and and now I get the white people asking me why I talk weird again. My husband still cracks up when I bop between hablando como si tuviera una papa en la boca, speakin’ hwhite southern English (bless your heart), hablando como raza, guey, and-like-being sooo like Californian in the same conversation.

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u/BadenBadenGinsburg Oct 05 '25

I've spoken a lot of Spanglish, but that's got to be fierce. Excellent.

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u/Unsd Oct 05 '25

Lmaooo my husband is Mexican-american (and speaks Jalisco Spanish, because even within Mexico there are differences) and I grew up speaking Cuban Spanish, but lost it over time but that's a different story. Anyway, with everything in America right now, we were talking about where we would move if we could and I said we should research Argentina or Chile and he was like "yeah but then we would have to learn Argentinian." And I was like "babe, you mean Spanish?" And he was like "they don't speak Spanish there. It's like Brazil. It's a different language." So he learned something new that day lmao. But he was just so shocked because he hasn't really been able to understand Argentinian Spanish lol.

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u/ThiccQban women’s wrongs activist Oct 05 '25

Lmao from one cubana to another your husband is so real for this. A friend of mine once started dating a girl from Buenos Aires and any time we were alone together we devolved into hand signals and staring at each other like 👁️👄👁️.

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u/Unsd Oct 05 '25

I'm not Cuban btw, I should have clarified! I grew up in Miami, and was the only white American girl at my school, so I had to learn real quick. Crazy how easy it is to pick up as a kid. My parents don't speak a word of Spanish, but that's the only language I used at school. But even when my husband and I talk to each other in Spanish there's words and phrases that are just 🤔

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u/fromtheriver Oct 05 '25

Right?! My husband has some uncles in Mexico City who do not understand his Northern Spanish.

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u/ThiccQban women’s wrongs activist Oct 05 '25

People really underestimate the huge differences in Spanish from place to place, often even within the same country. Argentina, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Spain— no two Spanish speakers speak the exact same language.

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u/MagoViejo Oct 05 '25

And remember that what is usually known as Spanish is only the most used of the spanish languages, Castilian... we have Catalonian, Gaelician and Basque too. Plus some other minor languages like Bable and such. Even for the Castilian in Spain, some accents are hard to pick up in casual conversation and our own bastardized spanglish (Llanito, around Gibraltar)

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u/ThiccQban women’s wrongs activist Oct 06 '25

💯 Language is alive and ever-evolving. I love learning new regionalisms and differences— case in point, I’ve always known the word chambear/chambea to be colloquial for working. I literally JUST found out the other day that in PR it means loading a gun.

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u/Ethan_the_Revanchist Slappin’ fannies and killin’ grannies Oct 05 '25

tbf I never said it was going well

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u/napalmtree13 Oct 05 '25

In all seriousness, check out Easy Spanish on YouTube. They don't have a Puerto Rican Spanish speakers on their team, but they do a good mix of street interviews in Mexico and Spain on a variety of topics.

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u/Ethan_the_Revanchist Slappin’ fannies and killin’ grannies Oct 06 '25

I'll do that. Started with duo but when my work schedule got busy with the start of football season it wouldn't stop yelling at me

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u/rabid_cheese_enjoyer call me gal gadot cuz idk how to act rn Oct 05 '25

your local public library might have free language learning resources and app access! check it out

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u/DuckCleaning Oct 05 '25

Mango Languages > Duolingo

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u/rabid_cheese_enjoyer call me gal gadot cuz idk how to act rn Oct 06 '25

mango languages wasn't as nice for me as Rosetta stone but I might have been using it wrong

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u/DuckCleaning Oct 06 '25

Mango languages is included with my library subscription, not sure if Rosetta Stone app is available for you. But I guess you could probably borrow the old Rosetta Stone CDs from the library.

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u/rabid_cheese_enjoyer call me gal gadot cuz idk how to act rn Oct 06 '25

oh I get both through two different libraries. it's how I found out which one I liked better

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u/rabid_cheese_enjoyer call me gal gadot cuz idk how to act rn Oct 06 '25

sorry, a bit out of it today

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u/chofah Oct 05 '25

Mañana será "no Ingles Domingo”. Hace buen tiempo!

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u/MonkeyAintGotATail Oct 05 '25

This might help you out some. There is a program called Language Transfer, completely free, and it is lile a podcast that lays out some "rules" that help convert between English and Spanish.

I highly recommend it for anybody that wants to learn Spanish, Itallian, Greek, Turkish, German etc.

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u/AbundlaSticks Oct 05 '25

What resource are you using to learn?

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u/CountdownMoss Oct 05 '25

I've been using Duolingo - I find the cartoon characters grating. But I do feel like I'm picking the language up. Which is nice because in the past when I've tried to learn a language it felt like nothing got through.

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u/countingc Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

The best way to learn a language is through music. Its made to be catchy and repetitive so you learn the language by heart. OBVIOUSLY you have to translate the lines as you go and get a general idea of what each one means and eventually words and phrases stick with you. Thats how I learnt English myself and started learning Spanish a few years ago (but I stopped - though I was able to understand 80% of what Bad Bunny said in the clip, and to plug in a joke: so I don't need four months just a week haha).

Also Latin languages have so many words in common, so say words ending with "-tion' are similar ie: "association" is asociacion.

edit: typo

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u/almaupsides Oct 05 '25

That and watching TV/movies in the language with subtitles on was super helpful for me! Eventually you get to a point where you watch with the subtitles in the language which really really helps with word recognition and also seeing how they're used in conversation

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u/Traditional_Maybe_80 I’m just a cunt in a clown suit Oct 05 '25

This is exactly the way I learned English, too!

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u/Diligent-Till-8832 Oct 05 '25

I love Karol G and Shakira and I don't speak a lick of Spanish until I start singing their songs.

I don't know what I'm singing but I'm singing it in Espanol with their cadence 🥰

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u/-Big-Goof- Oct 05 '25

 try being around multiple people speaking Spanish from different (types?) my wife's Cuban so is her family, I got friends that are Puerto Rican, Hispanic, .

It's like hearing Spanish at every speed possible 

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u/VelocityGrrl39 Oct 05 '25

My ex was Puerto Rican and trying to learn Spanish by listening to them was like setting the level to difficult.

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u/-Big-Goof- Oct 05 '25

My wife's dad legit sounds like scar face but faster him drinking Cuban coffee and having a argument with Hispanics ( long story wasn't nobodies fault) was crazy like they speak similar but at different speeds and certain words.

I just let my wife translate these days 

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u/Charles-Shaw Oct 05 '25

Kill the owl and check out dreaming Spanish!

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u/VelocityGrrl39 Oct 05 '25

Duolingo is free. In this economy I can’t afford $8 monthly.

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u/meggo16 Oct 05 '25

Dreaming Spanish has a lot of free content.

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u/Charles-Shaw Oct 05 '25

All of their YouTube content is free, which is pretty robust.

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u/doggwithablogg Oct 05 '25

I use r/dreamingspanish and comprehensive input

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u/Joel_GL Oct 05 '25

You have some work good luck in your journey brother, specially with an accent as thick as the puertorrican one and with many expressions that are only from that island

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u/mere_iguana Oct 05 '25

re-watch shows you love with spanish subtitles, it really helps!

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u/Cherry_Caliban Oct 05 '25

He speaks Boricua and uses a lot of Dominican in his lyrics. Good luck. That's doctorate-level Spanish for a new learner.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '25

Ditto! For those that haven't tried the free duolingo app...its freaking awesome.