Quiero grabar un video en español con mis amigos.

Quiero is the first-person singular (yo) form of the verb querer (to want) in the present tense.

The pattern is:

• querer + infinitive = to want to do something
  
  • Quiero grabar = I want to record
  • Quiero comer = I want to eat
  • Quiero estudiar = I want to study

You cannot say yo querer grabar in Spanish. You must conjugate the first verb:

• ✅ Yo quiero grabar un video…
• ❌ Yo querer grabar un video…

Using yo is optional because quiero already implies “I”:

• Quiero grabar un video… = Yo quiero grabar un video… (same meaning; the first is more natural in conversation).

In Spanish:

• grabar = to record (audio, video, etc.)
• recordar = to remember

So:

• Quiero grabar un video = I want to record a video.
• Quiero recordar este día = I want to remember this day.

Using recordar for “to record video/audio” is always wrong in Spanish.
If you want to emphasize filming with a camera, you can also say:

• filmar un video (to film a video)
• grabar un video (to record a video) – this is the most common and neutral.

Yes, but there’s a nuance:

• grabar un video – focuses on the act of recording (using a camera/phone).
• hacer un video – more general: to make a video (planning, recording, editing, etc.).

Both are very common in Latin America.

Examples:

• Quiero grabar un video en español con mis amigos.
  I want to physically record it, probably right now or soon.

• Quiero hacer un video en español sobre mi vida.
  I want to make a video project (idea, script, recording, editing…).

In Spanish, video (often written video in Latin America) is masculine:

• el video – the video
• un video – a video
• los videos – the videos
• unos videos – some videos

So you must use un, not una:

• ✅ un video
• ❌ una video

In normal, neutral Spanish, you need the article here:

• ✅ Quiero grabar un video en español.

Saying “grabar video” without un sounds incomplete or unnatural in standard Spanish, because video is a countable noun here (one video).

There are some patterns where you can drop the article (especially in some technical or informal contexts), but for a learner and in this sentence, always use:

• un video

When you talk about the language you are using with verbs like:

• hablar (to speak)
• escribir (to write)
• or with en (in) to indicate the language of something

Spanish normally drops the article:

• Hablar español = to speak Spanish
• Un libro en español = a book in Spanish
• Un video en español = a video in Spanish

You would use el español when talking about the language as an object or topic, more “abstractly”:

• El español es un idioma muy hablado.
  Spanish is a widely spoken language.

So in your sentence the correct form is:

• ✅ …un video en español…
• ❌ …un video en el español… (unnatural here)

In Latin America:

• español is by far the most common word for the language.
• castellano is also used, but less universally, and can sound a bit more formal or regional.

In many places (and in most everyday contexts), they are treated as synonyms:

• Hablar español = hablar castellano

For a learner focusing on Latin America, you’ll be completely fine using español almost all the time.

Because here your friends are companions, not direct objects.

• con = with (indicates company / accompaniment):

  • Quiero grabar un video con mis amigos.
    I want to record a video with my friends.

• a is used:

  • as the personal “a” before a human direct object:
    
    • Veo a mis amigos. = I see my friends.
  • to indicate direction:
    
    • Voy a la casa de mis amigos. = I’m going to my friends’ house.

In your sentence, you’re not acting on your friends; you’re doing something together with them. So con is correct.

mis means “my” for plural nouns:

• mi amigo = my friend (singular)
• mis amigos = my friends (plural)

In Spanish, possessive adjectives agree with the number (singular/plural) of the noun:

• mi libro / mis libros (my book / my books)
• mi amigo / mis amigos (my friend / my friends)

You don’t say míos amigos before a noun. The stressed forms (mío, míos, mía, mías) are used mostly after the noun or alone:

• Son amigos míos. = They are friends of mine.
• Estos son los míos. = These are mine.

So in your sentence:

• ✅ mis amigos
• ❌ míos amigos

Yes:

• amigos – a group of all males or mixed gender
• amigas – a group of all females

So:

• Quiero grabar un video en español con mis amigos.
  -> male group or mixed group.

• Quiero grabar un video en español con mis amigas.
  -> only female friends.

This gender rule is very regular in Spanish for people and many animals.

• un video en español = a video in Spanish (language)

  • The video’s audio / subtitles are in Spanish.

• un video español = a Spanish video, i.e. a video from Spain or related to Spain (nationality/origin), not Latin America.

So for “a video in Spanish (language) with my friends”, you must say:

• ✅ un video en español…
  not:
• ❌ un video español… (this sounds like a video from Spain)

Change quiero (I want) to voy a (I am going to):

• Voy a grabar un video en español con mis amigos.
  = I’m going to record a video in Spanish with my friends.

Structure:

• ir (voy, vas, va, etc.) + a + infinitive
  expresses a near future / planned action.

Compare:

• Quiero grabar un video…
  I want to record a video (desire).

• Voy a grabar un video…
  I’m going to record a video (intention/plan).

Use Me gustaría (I would like) instead of Quiero:

• Me gustaría grabar un video en español con mis amigos.

Nuance:

• Quiero… – more direct: I want… (neutral, common)
• Me gustaría… – softer, more polite: I would like…

Both are fine, but Me gustaría… sounds more courteous in many contexts.

Approximate pronunciation (Latin American):

• quiero → KYEH-roh

  • qui ≈ “ky-eh” (like kye in sky + eh)
  • Stress on -e-: KYEH-roh

• video → bee-DEH-oh

  • In Latin America typically vi-DE-o, with the stress on -de-: vi-DE-o
  • v is pronounced like a soft b.

• español → es-pa-NYOL

  • ñ = “ny” as in canyon
  • Stress on the last syllable: es-pa-ÑOL

So the whole sentence sounds roughly like:

• KYEH-roh gra-BAR oon BEE-de-o en es-pa-ÑOL kon mees a-MEE-gos (very approximate).