American orders in forgotten Mayan language in Mexico?!
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- In Mexico I spent some time learning the Yucatec Maya language, which is indigenous to the Yucatán Peninsula and has been spoken in this area for thousands of years by the Mayan people. Even though lots of people still speak it, the younger generation is forgetting it and it was really interesting to go around and try and speak what I could speak. If you are interested in learning to speak the amazing Mayan language and help preserve Mayan culture, or just if you want to learn Spanish online or in-person with good local organizations, you can check out the schools I learned with here:
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She’s like, “bro just stop, you goin buy tamales or not”
She’s like, “I want to make money, but I don’t speak that language.” Is more accurate
Nah, u like that, over here getting offended for other people situations
"Si si... ¿cuantos tamales quieres, guey?"
On god😂💀
@@KhamTVinc 😂😂😂😂 she’s like “Deja de ser mamon guey”
imagine going to rome and greeting them in latin
some guy on youtube called scorpiomartianus does just that with roman legionairy cosplay 😂
I’m sure they’d at least humor you lol
😂😂😂😂😂
@@god6384I was just going to comment that lol. And the best part is the Italians understood him 😅
It’s not the same lol. There’s a shitload of Mayans still around speaking the language in Mexico. He just guessed wrong that she would
“And I can’t understand him” she tore out his heart like he was a sacrifice💀
LOL! Best comment
That is how we do it on this side of the river
hillarious !
She just needed a cenote
lmao
It’s hilarious how she was more bothered than amused 😂
That's cuz mexican living in touristic areas are used to people speaking in other languages, she just wanted to sell not trying to make friends with a tourist, lmfao
@@rubired00910 true and maya is a Language that we do not use 😅 only a small group of people know that because is not used often
Why does she kind of look like a Japanese man?
@@saitama9529 todavia hay mayas carnal, no se han extinguido aún.
@@timbatee7433 she doesn’t look but I can see it why you say that just by the eyes
Imagine if someone came to the U.S. and just started trying to speak Cherokee to everyone they meet.
Haha, never thought of it like that
he didn’t just go to a random city in mexico lol, he went to a mayan area
@user-nb8fm3zb8b and I live in Oklahoma and it would still be weird here.
@@cameronphenix2096😂
dfkm 😭😭
credit lady for recognizing a 'forgotten' language.
Maybe her parents or grandparents speak/spoke it, or perhaps there are a few ppl in her town/village that know a few phrases or can converse with some difficulty. That's how it is with these languages that solely survive for cultural/heritage reasons and aren't really of administrative or political importance :(
@@jonaskatona7136 I understand the cultural significance and reasons. If she remembers, it isn't really, by definition, 'forgotten."
Mayan is definitely not a forgotten language, most elderly people in our communities grew up speaking mayan, and most of us, the younger generations know at least a decent amount of mayan. Of course this varies along the region, but for the most part, it still is a prevalent language in our communities.
It’s understandable for some to not know it. Some people tend to not teach it in Mexico because their natives are looked down upon on and are treated bad
She's at that point of knowing the language where I think a lot of second generation immigrants also experience. The ability to actually understand the language but somehow can't spit out the vocabulary for it. I know that feeling a lot and can make it a bit awkward when visiting my own relatives.
My family is from Yucatán and My dad and older family members speak Maya fluently and it’s so beautiful hearing them speak and have a full conversation in Mayan dialect❤I love that Yucatán is teaching their students Maya in school so it doesn’t get lost throughout the generations❤I wish I was thought maya growing up but unfortunately since being in California for most of my life I didn’t get a chance to.
Is it a dialect or language?
same
@@nheghasiajani-mq5fc language
That's too awesome! I encourage every peoples to learn your language!
You can still learn it. There's resources out there
This is like going to Taco Bell and ordering in Spanish
Pretty good chance someone in that Taco Bell speaks at least enough Spanish to help you is the big difference
lol !!
😂😂😂
It would be if she was running a franchised chain fast food store that sold mass-manufactured processed pretend cuisine.
This is a small business and not so close to that. :p
I remember trying to speak Chinese in Hong Kong and the vendor didn't have the patience to deal with it so he just shouted "just speak English!"
"Dude I'm from Detroit"
I once did the opposite and the guard spoke mandarin back to me because that was an area full of mainland Chinese tourists and I was Chinese💀💀💀
@@spilledsoju03loved that scene from karate kid
😂😂😂
😂😂😂
She trying to run a business and you over here playing ✨guess that language✨😭
Lmaooooo
She dont speak Maya but her mum yes.
@@kicubu Es de bien educado ir a un sitio y hablar su idioma. No me parece que se las de de Moctezuma. Siempre una mosca cojonera zzzzz zzzz zzz
Not everyone is uptight
No hay nada mas hermoso que un extranjero aprendiendo el idioma local especialmente cuando la mayoría de nosotros no lo sabemos
This video was filmed in a village where many people do actually speak Mayan. The lady was able to recognize it, and likely was calling for someone who did know how to speak it. This isn't some random restaurant in Mexico City
It’s not forgotten, my partner’s family speaks fluent Maya
The parents of several my students in Los Angeles only spoke Mayan & didn’t speak any Spanish or English. Parent conferences were mostly sign language because no one in the district spoke their language.
Oh thats cool its still a forgotten language its listed as a ancient language
@@medpackpapi_ymg4556 there are 6-7 million native speakers in the world, but nice try.
@@maureen9115I used to believe maya was a forgotten tongue too, that’s what they teach us in America and honestly no one speaks it openly there. But moving to Mexico opened my eyes to a lot of different cultures and tongues
@@moetheindigomusic true so I'll respectfully restate my comment it's a ancient language but not forgotten 💪🏿
She’s like “Bro, this aint Apocalypto, you want some tamales or not??”
Lol
😂😂😂 #gold
This made me laugh so hard 😂
If this was back in Mayan time they would’ve sacrifice him to the sun
LMAO
Lady was like "dude, just speak Spanish FFS. You want tamales or not?"
This is *houla comoe extas* but with academically more steps
😂 for real
Lady literally said “neighbor, this dude here is talking Mayan but I don’t understand”.
I don't think so. She seem to nice!
Wtf does ffs mean
the Mayan language is so pretty
Yeah I thought the same
There are so many different Mayan languages that it's hard to say what a Mayan language sounds like. There are many distinct languages (not dialects)and most arent mutually intelligible
Unfortunately a lot of languages in México like this one is dying because of the lack of teaching and speaking, and really it’s basically like Latin, but it’s very heartwarming seeing some people preserve it ❤🇲🇽
Don't they have school for that we have that here in the United States?
One of our secondary language is learning Spanish..
@@janiebrewer5159 You see these are languages from old Mexico, way before Spanish was even a thing here, there are 50 or so all different languages if I’m not incorrect so that’s the reason people just don’t learn it or speak it anymore since Spanish is the national language and English is a language that everyone is trying to learn.
And then people in the comments are complaining as if theyre not white and monolingual 🙄
@janiebrewer5159 English and Spanish are both colonized languages. The mayan is one of their own old indigenous languages so there's a big difference I think.
As there were systems put in place to force generations to not speak it
@@gilly_axolotloh la me amigo tey gustah taco? Lol
Lived in the Yucatan for two years. Loved learning tidbits of mayan. Beautiful people, I really miss it. Eat some panuchos!
I spent 6 months on a college archeology project in the Yucatan 15 years ago. The locals are awesome, and there's so much culture there that's never reported on. It's really sad that much of Mexico has a lot of crime. Even where we were, we we were escorted by armed guards just to go into town to get supplies.
Xaiomanyc never ceases to amaze me. Ari is a special guy.
@Miles Doyle what the heck
💯💯 I've been living in Merida for 3 years. I love it when I occasionally meet a Yucatecan that speaks Mayan.
@@guytansbariva2295 Merida is one of the safest cities in mexico but true, still need to be aware of your surroundings!
Got your pocket picked
Going to Mexicans expecting them to speak Mayan is funny as fuck💀💀 especially when the lady is literally talking to you in Spanish. She was not impressed and just wanted to go on with her day
Depends where you are. In some places in the south, you still got a decent number of people who are gonna be able to speak Tsotzil or some of the zapotec languages, especially among the older generation
Well she wasn't upset or anything, if you come to Chile and speak mapudungun people won't really understand much but it will be funny as shit. So yeah
He went to the maya regions
@@antonioaguirre9295 that’s probably why the old ass local lady didn’t speak with he language
why did this video upset you so much lmao
I dig this video as someone who loves different cultures it’s fun to watch somebody hone their skills and experience these things. Very cool!
I admire all these people who can speak multiple languages. I really hope I can do it in the near future.
I went to a taco place where not a soul spoke English. I thought I'd go in confident and use every bit of Spanish I remember from high school. I said 4 words and the cashier starts talking a million miles an hour. She could see the panic in my eyes and asked the cook to come over to help me order 😅
That's really how I feel. Its stressful. I try my best because damn it the food is worth it. I'd move mountains to get a nibble of a taco
ive had the same experience but a bit different. ill say pieces of spanish i picked up over the course of my relationship,& suddenly they think im latina. i feel so bad bc they probably get embarrassed too lmaoo. it happens everytime i go to get carne asada. ill even meet ppl on tinder and they ask if im latina😭 NO IM WHITE STOP
@@user-jp5zj7hk6m good girl
That’s why you have the interact all Spanish speakers had a million times you go up like 👋 English? They’re be like yes a little as everyone on earth learns English in school and they’ll be like do you speak Spanish and you just be like si poquito boom you can work it out from there
Dude same, when I was like 13, 14 i would go into this taco place called Jaliscos, nobody in there spoke English and always looked at my white ass funny when I walked in there but knew enough words like lengua, tacos and how many CINCO! Lol they would always have a big grin on their face but the nicest people!!
This is like going to Puerto Rico and trying to speak Taíno
I fucking hate that we weren't taught much from our original language. There are more available resources out there, I've found some local dictionaries available online. Yet, we weren't taught much beyond a few words.
It's sad... I think I remember reading there are less than 100 Taíno/arawak speakers in the Caribbean.... Its so fucking sad 😫😭😭😭
@@kuririvera973 The Taíno language has long been extinct
Arawakan languages are still being spoken though
@@kuririvera973 Why you'd only be able to communicate with like a hundred people
@@spilledsoju03 taino isn’t spoken but languages related to it are
Dude you fricken rock for speaking Mayan 😢 touches me heart. ❤
It's amazing that you know these hidden languages as a Mexican I would love to know these wonders 😅😅😅❤❤❤
This guy made it harder for the lady and himself just to flex.
That’s what I’m saying 😂
He likes to smell his own farts
I don't think he wanted to flex...people actually appreciate when you try to speak their language while visiting their home. His problem was assuming she spoke Mayan lol
@@BizzzyBee He assumed Mayan and when she began to speak in Spanish and he keeps speaking Mayan? He's showing off straight up.
@@BizzzyBee nah, in that case he would’ve spoken spanish, people from yucatan might understand some mayan but most aren’t fluent so idk why he’d assume she was, especially considering she was speaking spanish.
As a Mexican, I don't have anyone in my family that knows Mayan just spanish. I would love to learn the forgotten language of my culture.
cuánta gente de alli que se sigue quejando de los españoles habla algún idioma indígena
It’s not ur language … ur language is Spanish n u have aexican latin culture
@@neznamtija8081 Most people of Mayan descent live in Mexico therefore making it ok to say that he’s from Mayan ancestors. It’s totally his culture, Mexico still has a lot of ancient mesoamerican culture in it. The same way that Mexico has over 60 different languages spoken in different places and at this point in time it wouldn’t be totally incorrect to say “I’m going to learn how to speak Nauhatl because it’s something that my family has forgotten about our culture” or “I’m going to learn Yucatec” for the same reason. The same way that Spanish is MY first language, if I learned Nauhatl, I would also be able to say “this is the language of my ancestors and their culture. I wish to immerse myself in a bit of it through the language.”
@@automaticwriting4220 it’s a very nationalistic way of thinking tbh… in the long run it divides people of the country
Many more native tongue in Mexico that just Mayan! All so beautiful and sad they are almost forgotten!
Glad he’s enjoying himself.
Starts conversation in Spanish and switches to Mayan.
Bro Messed up so Hard he Had to Add that One Piece Sound Effect💀💀💀
I can imagine this is like going to a hotdog cart downtown and ordering in latin
Ordering pizza in italian
that’s a completely different situation. Latin is a dead language and hasn’t been spoken casually for hundreds of years. The Mayan people and their decedents make up a good chunk of the population of Guatemala and southern Mexico, their language is still actively spoken in various communities
I think there are still some speakers in that area and he was just unlucky
@@Drowningindisappointment I can believe that I work with a oldhead that speak mam
Nah, it’s pretty common for ppl to ask how much is this or say numbers in Mayan to everyone even if you don’t know Mayan you do know those words but he mispronounced and that’s why the lady didn’t understood lol
I like these type videos. If I had a chance to choose a superpower it would be that I could speak, read, wrote and understand every language in the world as I heard it spoken to me. Amazing.
This is actually crazy. Dude is inspiring af. These are the type of influencers I want my kids to follow.
When you speak Maya but not even the locals speak Maya. A classic. 😌
Weird vicarious flex
That’s what colonizing seems to do..
@@lifewk Man of knowledge is never a flex. Just one of knowing.
@jacob small, local, ancient groups taking eachother over is very different than major colonial global powers that continue to create the biggest atrocities known to mankind, sorry to burst your intentionally created bubble!
@Miles Doyle hail Satan
I like how she understood him the first half and was like man fuck this shit I ain’t reading all that
Amazing h9w you speak Maya with such a strong American accent
Her smile is infectious.
God bless you ma'am.
Seriously! i dont care what language anyone's speaking, i just wanna know about that lady's tamales! 🤤 i trust her already, just shut up and feed me.
Would
Little tip to get your Spanish accent sounding better. When stalling Spanish people will no say umm, or stuff like that. They will say puuueeeesss.. or buueeenooo.. or extend the word they’re stalling on so, Ayer meee.. me voy al supermercado paraa compraaaaar, frutas.
Instead of 'um', we use 'em', or end on a high pitched note before looking like we're thinking. We don't really stall in that particular way too often in Mexico.
Esteeeeeeee aaaaaa
I don't hear people saying "puesss" or "bueno" when people don't know what to say, the things I hear often (including myself) are "eee" or "aaa"
yeah sometimes we also use the filler phrase “como se dice”. we say it pretty quick in between words while stalling for time as our brains turn :D
@@paulamamani4272 they were just using different words and phrases as examples of their point
I admire your ability to speak muti languages it's amazing! 🎉
Both of these two were so cute! Love this video!
When I went to Mexico one time I had a Mayan tour guide, he learned Mayan as his first language and that blew my mind
Same lmao
Why did it blow your mind that your Mayan tour guide learned Mayan as his first language?
@@TheBHNetwork I didn't know that people still grew up speaking Mayan, I thought it was a dead language (or family of languages)
@@beaub152The classical Mayan culture was very expansive and relatively cohesive too. Also, the Spanish conquerors wanted to rule them (not just kill them) so the populations survived. Up until the 1880s you could do your court documents in Nahuatl.
@@beaub152 millions of people still speak indigenous languages in latin america. Its not dead at all !
Not forgotten fully, in Merida and other parts of Yucatán it is still spoken, specially by Mayans, but growing up in Merida (where there are still a lot of Mayans) mayan and Spanish are both spoken together like one language, i grew up thinking many mayan words where actually Spanish haha, that was a big culture shock when i left Merida, honestly props to you for learning mayan and for helping keep the language alive :)
yo currently in merida right now visiting family! Unfortunately not many of my mayan-speaking relatives are still alive but i also grew up thinking some words were spanish but just mayan LOL. i remember using it with only spanish-speaking people and seeing them get all confused, only to find out it was never spanish at all. Just super cool to see someone else with family in merida and in a similar situation
Thank You for resolving my question as to how she recognized it was Mayan! I think it is amazing to know. it is still spoken! Much respect for your culture and languages!
American orders food in forgotten Mayan language?!?! Woow dude!! So cool! This is definitely a wholesome Pog moment!
She said she couldn’t understand your Mayan 😂
she don’t speak it
No she didn’t
She figured he was speaking Mayan and she told her friend that he was speaking Mayan
@@Jefe2Ashe speaks mayan but he butchered it so she’s having trouble understanding
@@kin5199he does not speak mayan
When I went to Mexico as a kid. My brother and I met two women who knew an old native dialect and German. No Spanish. We found out when we saw them and tried to ask which way a ranch was on the river. Brother was on leave from his German station in the U.S. Army. He asked if they spoke German. Ladies both responded "Ja" to my brothers shock. They spoke it fluently. A missionary from Germany found it too hard to learn their language. So they decided to teach them German when they were kids instead.
Mexico is littered with germans all from Germany coming from Argentina from Germany 🇩🇪
Soooo if they didn’t speak their language then how did they teach them German? 😂
@@VertoxEffect you one them special kind arent you
@@VertoxEffect ever wonder how you learned english ?
Ah I think I know who were that people, but it's surprising that two women from that community were alone so I imagine they were banished from their community
So much respect for this dude taking effort and initiative to learn other languages. Mad respect sir❤
I was in the Yucatán last year in the jungle hanging out with some Mayans in the smaller towns. Really cool people.
He tried to impress her but it failed 🤣
No he did not, she was the one who doesnt speak Mayan, he spoke it well and a perfect spanish too.
He tried to impress us too but it failed. LOL . can't folks just be themselves??
Bro tried to rizz
Spanish would’ve been the best bet in this scenario
LMAO
He knew that but he just wanted to show off
ita a video about the specific language that some people speak there. The people she called to actually spoke it
Oh that’s some skill. I always wanted to hear Mayan because some of the words sound so unique.
You’re awesome dude. These reactions are priceless.
If his mayan is like his Spanish, no wonder they didn't understand.
It was pretty good though
Ah, the typical delusional comment.
@@eatmopwho. he doesnt really speaks spanish
Broken Spanish with a bit of the tongue not being in the right place
Facts 😂😂😂
Imagine if someone went to italy and straight uo started speaking latin
There are videos of people doing that, and they still manage somewhat 🤣. What would be closer though, would be like speaking Napolitano to random people in Calabria.
That’d somewhat work but this is like going to Puerto Rico and speaking Taíno
@@detrimentalist_ No, millions still speak Mayan.
PolýMATHY does exactly that.
He has a whole series on YT called "American Speaks Latin to Italians"... in Rome..in front of the Colosseum, the Vatican etc.
Some have no clue it's Latin, some happily play along, some get really annoyed and angry, some are super impressed, some try to make him switch to English or Italian.
You could probably get away with that. Italian is probably the closest of the romantic languages to Latin. Even Spanish speakers it’s still “kind of” clear what ideas are trying to be conveyed.
wow que gusto que un extranjero hable maya!! Es lo mejor que he visto
I hope we all get to learn our ancestry 🥺🥺🥺
I used to work as a line cook with an all Latin American team that spoke Spanish. I was the only non Spanish speaker, also the only female.
Eventually I learned how to speak basic español to make it through work.
But I always mocked them and playfully joked around in my regional languages (I’m Indian 🇮🇳 ), they had no upper hand anymore hahah.
Three cooks here would break out in Maya and we’d always pull each others legs. Such a fun time to go back and forth in literally 6 different languages at once!!!!
(Later even worked with friends from the Philippines 🇵🇭 who had multiple dialects of their own to contribute!)
It’s such a beautiful thing to stay true to your roots, share it with the rest of the world, even thousands of miles away from home.
Lovely testimony of humanity.
Too bad in Mexico they don’t appreciate it. In Mexico indigenous cultures is looked down upon.
That must have been wonderful. which was your regional language or langueges? To my understanding, India has 21 official languages but still there are languages and dialects that are spoken by many.
Imagine granma comes out speaking fluent Mayan like a boss lol
😂😂😂
Naw I thought this was super wholesome and he was respectful when he realized she couldn't understand. But she obvi understood what language he was speaking. And I think it is a really fun way to surprise someone. And she was smiling.
Dude..... At this point you can create a universal language
Props to you amigo for giving it a shot
Por querer llamar la atención hablando innecesariamente un idioma cuando claramente la persona habla español? Se ve bien ridículo
@@AngelGarcia-cy5tp stop crying nobody got hurt he just wanted to speak mayan
Nah he's cringe
@@noiramakpayaso
It's not forgotten and is the largest indigenous language in mexico
Ah okay hablanos Espanol pero si es una lastima que no hablamos Nuestro lenguaje Viejo de nuestros ancestros antiguos
Bro no one speaks it just stop
@@kfiguers1166 It's a small amount but about 10% of indigenous people in Mexico speak it.
In Guatemala too
They don't teach it in school it's pretty damn close to forgotten
75 cents for a tomale?! I want to move there
Food is really cheap in Mexico, you can get some nice food at a great price wherever you go. Feel free to try the local cuisine if you ever come here
@@eduardochavez7889 O I would and be fat as a house lol
@@eduardochavez7889 yes but average pay wages is also cheaper
@@samiam7 Every expat gains a few pounds in Mexico, jajaja
@@Jay_in_Japan I can certainly believe it
When I didn't think you could impress me even more 🤯
I'm so happy knowing you know Mayan. So little people speak it nowadays just like Aztec languages and dialects. For the few that do speak it you're revitalizing their hearts and spirits! I speak Spanish and was born in Mexico but damn... You made my heart melt with happiness, someone DOES care 😭😥❤️❤️❤️
The perfect awkward and uncomfortable situation to put a random person in for a video, classic
I always find these types of titles pretty cringe, I seen people post themselves up with captions like “WHITE GUY SHOCKS AFRICAN TRIBE BY SPEAKING PERFECT WUMBO LANGUAGE”
GREEN PLANT SHOCKS MAN WITH A COOKING POT ON HIS HEAD BY SPEAKING PERFECT WEVI WAVO
@@user-ym8zp6ld4e the villiage is in shock!! They have never seen such a cool intelligent white man! “He changed their lives”
White boy orders in mandarin, waiter is speechless and jaw has fallen!
Even more with the "forgotten language" when yucatec Maya is spoken by nearly a million people. Only beat out by nahuatl in MX🤦♀️
Ima go wumbo right now
thank you for representing my culture😌🤞🏼
I have so much respect for you learning the language
🤡🤡🤡
If it makes her feel better, he doesn't speak Yucatec either. He's been called out so many times for faking being polyglot. He learns random words or specific phrases.
He himseld said that he learns words for a specific conversation for a language he doesn't speak. What are you on about ?
A lot of his videos are him spending a week learning common phrases of rare languages and he doesn’t hide that at all. He speaks multiple other languages fluently just go to his channel.
@@rustybayonette6641 I have, and many of those languages that he claims he speaks "fluently" has been debunked by not only other polyglots, people fluent in the language, but also native speakers. There's so many channels that talk about him. I'm not even just talking about these kinds of videos where he's just saying random phrases, but languages he claims he's fluent in.
@@krazykittymatt could I have an example?
@@rustybayonette6641 the little magnifying glass up to the right, that's the search bar, bud
Its like that guy that walked up to mexican born Chinese people and just started speaking rapid fire Mandarin. Dude had the audacity to say “they’re losing their culture”, when they were like 2nd and 3rd gen families lmaooo
When did he say that???
Lmao da when he say that
@@PhongExpat this uploader didn’t it was a tv interview I believe
@@SunsetBlvd13 ohh ok
Yeah I guess that makes sense. Damn though Mexican chinos very cool I love Asians mixed with Hispanics. I saw a two Asians at our retreat. One hombre looking obviously chinito and a Mujer very attractive by her ojos asiaticas and there was also a Azteca looking guy that's cool to have such attractive looks I wish I was born with more distinct features as in my face which I was I look Japanese in my photo of some type of Asian which is weird idk why but yeah there's few family that have Asian gene in mixed 100% different genes in Hispanics are most inclusive than any other ethnic group and so diverse which is awesome. Not in a woke way right not as in to force but it's a loving way of conservativatively mating different breeds of human there's only raza de humanos! Pero muchos colores differentez me gusta las asiaticas hispanas but I preferred mabey a pure Japanese to mix in more I'm totally fall in love 😍😍😍😍 you know I'm tired of the latina Mujer am bored! Me go to Japan! For wifey! Jajajajaja
Pretty awesome that you can speak mayan bro!
Imagine the old lady comes out looking right out of Apocalypto
It is good that the whole world is beginning to speak the same language, it is also good that some learn the old languages and remind us to remember them.
You understand that that “same language” is most likely going to be English or Chinese, right?
@@automaticwriting4220I feel like more likely than not it’ll be English, although not everyone speaks it, most people are exposed to it in some way regardless of what country they are from.
Read Genesis 11 and see what God did when people spoke the same language.
@@automaticwriting4220 I'm a fluent speaker of both, but in what world is that "same language" gonna be Chinese :D
@@automaticwriting4220 almost no one speaks Mandarin outside of China.
Mayan is still widely spoke among Mayan people but it may be weird to speak it to a foreigner because it is there native and underground language and they were colonized to speak Spanish. They will gladly teach you words in Mayan and also much of their culture is preserved from the food to the language.
YES, Mayan language and culture is not forgotten and your point of colonized language is 100% true.
That’s not true man don’t believe everything you read on the internet buddy ….
@@Cisco.94357 I live in Mexico
💯True
Exactly
I think it's a wonderful thing you are doing! Look how many people you make smile!
It's amazing that you speak so many languages
Wow. She went to go get someone who speaks Maya instead of just saying "uh. What"
I don’t get the point of this comment? Not everyone speaks the native language of their ancestors from hundreds of years ago? I wouldn’t go around speaking old English and expect the first person I saw to know somebody who speaks old English then go fetch them for me.
@@isaburntcake This language isn’t from hundreds of years ago. Not any more than Modern English is, anyway. There are millions of people in the world today who speak Mayan languages. Old English hasn’t been spoken for centuries. Old English is long dead, whereas the Mayan languages are very much still alive. He wasn’t speaking Proto-Mayan.
I think that I feel sorry for that lady there.
Why
@@jeanrodriguez2078 As she looked to not have understood him speaking that ancient language and was getting very puzzled.
@@Enthusiastic-Trainspotter-BNE its not an ancient language (millions still use it today) he just doesn't speak it well.
For those who don't know. She kept speaking Spanish not knowing what he was speaking. Without the proper accent, it is hard to know if your not listening for it.
As a Mexican, this is amazing
Cringe...if she was speaking to you in Spanish, then speak to her in Spanish. You could've asked in Spanish if she knew Mayan instead of making an assumption.
I bet that woman doesn’t care as much as you do.
The lady is smiling
The dude in the video is probably smiling
Why are you grumpy?
@GK not disagreeing but she's also trying to sell tamales so she's not abt to get after him abt it lol
Woosh
@@getampedmiku12 exactly she was probably impressed
There’s more than one dialect and some regions can’t understand the others language. This is because natives were decimated by the Spanish and catholic priests and were forbidden from speaking their native tongue along with practicing their religion. This caused the isolated groups language to develop differently. What’s worse is even now folks that speak a Mayan language deal with prejudice and and even regarded as an embarrassment holding the country back. But a white guy speaking it is cool, lol, seriously. A lot of Red Cross and Salvation Army foreigners learn it and fall in love with the culture. Side note, Germany has one of the only texts containing ancient history and language along with many artifacts they refuse to return to Guatemala and only agreed to return them as of 2021 but I’m not even sure if they’ve fallen thru. Where Dr. Henry W. Jones when u need him 😢
True. I learned a few words from a friend from Yucatán. I asked a friend from Guatemala about the same words, and he explained that it's not one language. They are dialectos with a lot of variation.
I'm a Filipino and this is the first time that the word "PESOS" or "PESO" are from Spanish.
She doesn’t speak Mayan not everyone in the peninsula does, I lived there for a while and besides the beautiful territory the people are just incredibly nice and I’ve never lived in a place where I felt safer, lowest crime in the country by far, sadly I couldn’t handle the weather the heat and humidity it literally hits you like a wall as soon as you step out of the airplane.
Is amazing to see this guy talented speaking in Mayan what a privilege it is to be able to speak such ancient words full of history and culture. 👏🏼
lol this dude was struggling to speak Mayan and she was having none of that
"it's okay, I speak Spanish too"
Bro can barely ask how much for some food, and acting like he's fluent. 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀
His Spanish is spot on. He was trying a language that is pretty much dead which is why he had a hard time. Cut homie some slack
No se dió cuenta que le preguntó el precio en maya y ella responde en español, es una maravilla el cerebro como interpreta los lenguajes.
This reminded me if the time and old lady but her heart and head into making a understanbke sentence in Spanish (i speak both English and Spanish) and she had a hard time but she made it and i appreciated the gesture but then told her i speak both but she did a good good in learning the language and making the effort so i feel it
She is so awesome and happy!
Cómo Mexicana puedo decir que es muy raro que encuentres a alguien hablar las lenguas indígenas. Nos hemos acostumbrado tanto al español que las olvidamos.
She has such a kind, beautiful face.
Porqué tanto gringo resentido en los comentarios? Lo que hace este hombre es admirable. Le deseo lo mejor y que siga así 🙌🏼
This made me cringe like damn, just make her life easy and tell her how much you want, doing the most.
Bro calm down maybe he thought she spoke Mayan it seems like he’s a in a little town and there’s towns that speak Mayan
@@kin5199 clearly she didn't, you can see that after he asks the first question in mayan
I did the same thing in Osaka Japan. They have their own dialect of Japanese. The locals would get so happy when I spoke it.
This is the equivalent of going to someone in England and speaking to them in Anglo Saxon Old English
the problem with some natives idioms, is that they are only used in rural comunities and when older generations try to teach it to younger ones they sometimes don't do it because the idiom is pretty difficult and because it will be almost useless
The natives languages from these foreign countries are dope. I’m from Peru and in the mountains they speak Quechua and some parts speak Aymara.
Bruh this a very weeb thing to do like if you went to Japan and started speaking Japanese to talk shit.
Is not weaboos who invented native language contact with the locals bruh,even in the middle age German nobles tried so bad to speak hungarian to hungarians people of the Kingdom of Hungary
Maya is not a forgetting language. You can argue its dying sure but far from forgotten. And also not every brown person in Yucatán is mayan. Indigenous ppl like everyone often migrate for various reasons. There are ppl that migrate to Yucatán to make more money in touristic areas. So its possible she only knows Spanish. Its possible she also speaks náhuatl or zapoteco or mixteco or insert one of the various indigenous languages spoken in Mexico.
The fact that she knew it was mayan was lit
She's like "weird flex whitey"
I think everyone should speak the oldest known language for a region whenever they go. You'll either make some people really happy or really confuse them. Catch me speaking Latin in Italy or Gaelic in England. Right banter.
Difference is that there are many native speakers of mayan languages in central america. Classical mayan is dead but I think it's less different than Italian is from Latin
@@sycration I know, but I think it would be funny if you just did that everywhere.
@@SpeedyOwl This guy does
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Why Gaelic in England?
@@rustybayonette6641 i mean, in my area the original language would've been closer to Scottish gaelic or Manx, but ur right, Welsh celtic or cornish would probably be closer approximations to old pre-roman invasion English in general.