Queens NYC, how many languages do you speak?
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- čas přidán 24. 12. 2023
- Today we visit the Queens Borough of New York City and ask strangers how many languages they speak.
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Queens has been cited as one of the most ethnically diverse urban locations in the entire world.
I think London might argue. There are 250 languages at least spoken in London. Even back in the 1970s when I lived near by there it was normal to spend a whole trip without hearing English spoken with an English accent and to hear several other languages. A lot of Eastern europeans there then.
wrong@@helenamcginty4920
@@helenamcginty4920 The person said one of. So there isn't really any need to argue.
@@helenamcginty4920Queens is the most ethnically diverse county in the world with more than 180 languages spoken. London is a city and metropolitan area of more than 10 million. Queens has 2 million. No comparison.
Queens is the most diverse county in America. You can visit, the Caribbean, asian, europe, africa, the middle east, the medditterean and more all in one day.
You can visit all of them but none of them in the same day. It is the same in many international cities. They are all the same because everyone is different. New York City is not an American city it is an international city just like London and Berlin.
Much like Queens many people inhabit London now. It is not a British city anymore it is only 36.8% English. If you have seen one international city, you have seen them all. There is nothing culturally unique about them.
@@leviturner3265 lol berlin and london are NOWHERE near as diverse as NYC. In NYC, you can find a significant amount of people from literally any country on earth. In London, it's mostly black carribean, black african, and south asian. very few from latin america or east asia. in Berlin, its mostly Turkish, Arab, and eastern European. very few from south asia, east asia, or latin america.
So you're wrong, if you visit NYC/Queens, you will find a lot more cultures that you cannot find in London or Berlin or any other major city in the world.
I live in London, it is nothing like NYC. London is filled with people from South Asia , they all understand Hindi, with variations. There is no representation of Latina America or even other parts of Africa. @@leviturner3265
Middle East is Asian
Diversity isnt a good thing. preserve European culture
Born and raised in Queens - it is very common there to speak more than one language. I learned three. I ❤ Queens.
Pretty impressive! Seemed like EVERYONE was at least bilingual, most spoke more than two, except perhaps for the last guy who spoke Spanish, but seemed to understand English to a certain extent.
Yeah, I think being bilingual nowadays is getting more usual than before thanks to the globalization and the internet. For example my native language is Spanish but I understand English (not sure if I can speak it fluently)
he’s only gonna include the people who are multilingual for this kind of video
@@kavinxavier4552yeah makes sense, It would be kind of boring seeing only people who can only speak english
@@kavinxavier4552 Could be true however NYC is very diverse. Just picking random people can yield these results Just thinking of a handful of my friends right now and I'm the only one with one language. One is French Canadian, another speaks Spanish, my roommate speaks Haitian Creole and another speaks Russian. My upstairs neighbor speaks Mandarin Chinese Everyone except the one from Canada was born in USA
Queens is the most international place in the US.
It might seem like such a simple concept, but it's magic. I absolutely love seeing lots of different people from different backgrounds smiling and wishing each other a nice day and happy holidays. The whole political stuff in recent years has become so gruesome, that such videos full of all these wonderful people just answering a couple of simple questions work a total miracle and make all the difference. Way better and more real than all authorities' official speeches. Thank you, Dan. Happy holidays and a fantastic New Year 2024!
Penso da mesma forma. Thanks, Dan.
Another reason I like this is because of how it shows how friendly New York is. I just like that since New York always gets a weird representation for being rude.
As a conservative, I agree. It’s sad seeing politicians try to abolish this. There must be an immigration reform to fix this. Our world and especially our country has always been very diverse and international
@@Alaskan-ArmadilloI still think it’s very rude lol. I’m from Texas
8:00 they say (something like..) "if there are 3 Bangali people it'll be 2 political party/ideology". .. look how they cutting each other off so naturally & how willing they are to keep the conversation going, next thing they'd ask you which Football (Soccer) or cricket team you support while inviting
(literally forcing) you for a cup of tea to the nearest tea stall & WALA BOOOMM .. before you know, you have to pick a side for those two newly formed political party or ideology. .. left you wondering how come an innocent conversation about language turned into a conversation about a soccer match between Argentina & Brazil or Manchester United & Arsenal (regular Argentinians & Brazilians didn't even know about Bangladesh till the last world cup)... turned into violent political ideology.
Learning many languages is part of personal development
The woman who spoke Mandarin was interviewing you 哈哈🐢🐢
She was a great interviewer, too!
She was the one I liked least, seemed very artificial, almost aggressive
@@Livingtree32Dang, hating on someone you don't even know
I loved that. She seemed to have great conversational skills. She was having a conversation with him instead of just being interviewed by him.
Stopping to say I love this :)
New york is the world most linguistically diverse city, so this makes sense
So glad you made it to Queens! Loved growing up in this diverse borough.
this last guy from colombia was really nice
I wish people would understand how much better it makes us to be diverse.
the first one is from my country he speak The Berber language, also known as the Amazigh language or Tamazight
I went to Morocco 2x and I heard them speaking it too
yep, it was Kabyle, which is the Berber dialect(or language) from Kabylia in Algeria.
I was in Agadir and nearby towns 2 weeks ago. Lots of Berbers.
I'm kabyle speaking 4 languages also
growing up in queens i grew up knowing ppl from all countries, specifically in flushing where im from where everyone is an immigrant of child of immigrants lol. me personally i speak russian, english, spanish, and a little bit of arabic but ive picked up a few different phrases here and there from others
The people are amazing! With kindness in the eyes and soul language is not a barrier 🐢
I absolutely love this. What a great depiction of America.
People exudes positivity and goodwill. Makes you want to believe in humanity.
1:33 most impressive eyebrows I have ever seen in my entire life and I am 40 years old. Bravo.
The man who said he liked the Philippines the most seemed really kind. Such an unexpected answer.
OMG what a cool Christmas gift to us! I have family in Jackson Heights, Queens & literally every few blocks go from Little India, Little Nepal, Little Mexico, to Little Colombia, Little Bangladesh, Little Guyana.
Always love these videos
I made it to the end as I always do! Great video. The people are amazing.
I love being humbled for your videos, thank you for content i truly enjoy it. Merry Christmas and good holidays.
Love these videos!
Hello again. Another great video. Queens is an amazing and dynamic place. If you are still in the New York area, I would strongly recommend heading to any of the public libraries there during the day (and, if open, on Sunday) and check out the children's section. It is absolutely packed with young families from ALL over the world finding books, listening to live stories, playing, sometimes napping!
"How many languages do you -"
" Shhh! This is a library!"
haha
I rode on the SNB (SchnellBahn) once. A family from Czechoslovakia came on in Augsburg. I spoke with the two adults in German. The son spoke Russian which I also spoke. The mother said I was lying that I was an American.
Love your videos 🐢
Hi from Venezuela , I love your videos, I'm learning English and French❤
Loved it ❤
Greeting to my Moroccan buddies in Queens NY . From another one in Montreal ❤
My hometown boro. Thanks for highlighting. I indeed learned spanish at 25 yrs old and have since added 2.5 more.
Another great video Dan, happy holidays, 🐢 🐢 🐢
Love it man! Feeling even more blessed to have had that multicultural experience of living in Queens, NY. Shoutout to Middle Village! Forever in my heart.
Dan- Love these videos! Everyone is so open and warm. Such a salve after the unavoidable vitriol and bad behavior of the rest of social media. Thank you for that.
btw- have you recalculated NYC’s average after visiting Queens?? We gotta know!
🐢 You don't know how much I love your engaging compilation of "How many languages do you speak?" videos. Keep it up Daniel, I hope you had a wonderful time during these holidays.
Thank you! You too!
People were really friendly in this video 🐢
Ayyyy I'm from Queens 🥰 I speak 4 languages(english,spanish,french,portuguese)! And also yankee Jamaican patois 😅
Your videos make me feel so motivated to create language-based content like yours! Absolutely love your work and fan of your videos! Keep spreading awesome vibes about the diversity of languages in the world!
Hi Dan - This is relevant to me because my daughter is moving to NYC next summer to be a special education teacher. Thanks for doing this.
awww
As a nyc special educator who lives in queens, Welcome!
That was a lovely video 🩷
Wow you filmed it in my neck of the woods, I see Astoria Park and Steinway Street
Your Christmas gift to us. Thanks. 🐢
Love your videos i recently found your channel been binge watching so fun to watch :)
Loved the woman interviewing him back.😄
Meery christmas u vide inspire me the very prompt year will learn french and german thanks to make this kind of video so special
I love Queens! And your videos 😊
Thanks!
I am 75. I grew up in NY [mostly Brooklyn]. Even back then everyone spoke more than one language; it's just more diverse today. Thanks for the great memories.
Glad you enjoyed :)
As a Japanese, I would like you to take this type of video in Tokyo. Although many Japanese people can understand what you say and answer in English to some extent, they will say they can only speak Japanese.
That’s so true. I live in rural Japan and speak mostly Japanese to all my friends and coworkers but was shocked to find out that some of them could understand my English as well. They always say they can’t speak English but I think they just don’t have confidence😅
You should do this series in Seattle, Portland and Chicago !!
Happy new year! 🐢
Due to the large immigrant population in New York it is not surprising that first and second generations speak English and another language. It would be interesting to see how many people in middle America or in the southern states, particularly away from urban centers actually speak a foreign language fluently. It is believed, particularly in Europe , that Americans are generally monolingual.
as someone from the suburbs of a popular southern state, i can tell you almost everyone including myself is monolingual lol. i am trying to learn french and spanish tho. but also in the south there’s a large population of latin americans and of course other first and second gen people from africa and asia so as the same in this video, they’re usually the ones who speak multiple languages :)
Where I live, though not in the South everyone is monolingual unless they are a foreigner. If someone has been living in the United States for more than two generations, they speak American English only.
Other people speak at most two languages. Speaking three or more languages accounts for what I would surmise as less than 0.5% of the population. One benefit is that if you only speak English your English is way better and you are able to communicate best with other people that speak only English. When I talk to people that speak another language there is always many words they do not know, then your conversation can basically not continue without outside help.
I think it would be the same for anyone just depending on their mother language. There are people that are born here and do not even understand more complex words because they spend more than 70% of their time in another language.
What's about the third generation? Monolingual?
@@lovelyPink464 congratulations in trying to learn several other languages! Although English is my native tongue, I also speak both Italian and Spanish, and have a very good knowledge of Portuguese. When I travel in Europe many people are surprised when I can communicate in one of the European languages.. Many native Europeans speak other European languages, and most do study some English. However, they seem reluctant to speak English because they fear making mistakes in their attempts. Germans, and other Nordic countries do have a good comprehension of English and are comfortable speaking it. No doubt due to the fact that English is a Germanic language.
Yes in the less crowded parts of America, immigrants were generally more isolated. It was harder for kids to learn their languages as well growing up without peers to speak it with, and in some cases parents chose not to teach their languages to their child. Historically it was frowned upon. I'm 4th generation Swiss, but my grandfather (2nd Gen) knew none of the Swiss-French that was his mother's native language. She didn't speak it in their household and it wasn't encouraged. It's changing little by little, but when a community of speakers isn't available it's a lot harder.
Love Queens, so chill. Takes me back, lived there for many years.
Again, a beautiful video. We see and hear so much about the suspicion, and often downright hate, among people of different cultures. It is so good to hear from all these people (and you) that there are people out there still digging this big festival of diversity that is life on Planet Earth. Thanks for doing this.
The people in Queens seem very friendly.
Beautiful. The real NY that everyone should see.
Joyeux Noël Dan! 🌲 New York est une belle ville!
❤
Hello, I'm like very much your channel because help me my learn on English. Thank you very much!
You did it! You went to Astoria and Jackson Heights. If you walked around more you would have heard so many more languages. I hear 15-20 different languages on any given day in Astoria.
🐢love your videos
These guys counting Hindi and Urdu twice 😆
hahahah
🐢 Happy New Year buddy!
I like the video and also motivating to speak multiple languages when my exam finished i will definitely learn multiple languages
Spanish is so beautiful language, I'm learning English, and it's really hard, hope my next lang. will be Spanish) So nice to see how people like to just talk about something.
English is literally the easiest language ever created, and Spanish is pretty easy too, and it is just a feeling one has as a beginner as one doesn’t know the words automatically yet and doesn’t know how the new language works, so that’s why every language feels difficult to a beginner, even though the Germanic languages are all easy as they are category 1 languages and some of them are category 2 languages, so they are very easy! I highly recommend learning Icelandic + Norse / Dutch / English / Norwegian as they are the prettiest and most refined and most poetic languages ever created and are too pretty not to know, and I highly recommend learning them all at the same time as it saves a lot of years, and it is a lot more fun to learn many languages, as one naturally need to see and hear different things after a while, and I highly recommend learning from vocab videos such as the GoLearn videos that have Icelandic to English and Icelandic to Dutch and Icelandic to Spanish translations etc, which have many thousands of words! I am learning 15 languages at the moment, and I only started learning languages about one year ago, and I am already upper advanced level in Dutch and advanced level in Norwegian and upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse and German and intermediate level in Welsh and mid intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / Italian, as I am using the time as efficiently as possible, by learning words in multiple languages, so in about 2 years I will be fluent in most of the languages I started learning, as opposed to only being fluent in one, so learning one language at a time is not effective at all as it can take many decades for one to learn many languages if one only learns one language at a time, especially if one wants to learn many languages!
By the way, my current levels are...
- upper intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / German
- writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish
- upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian
- intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Welsh
- beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene
- total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / East Norse / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Alemanic / Austrian German / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc)
(I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)
By the way, what is the first language that ye were made to learn and are ye intermediate level in English or beginner level at the moment?
@@FrozenMermaid666 not easiest for russian speaker. Articles killing me. My teacher is saying that my level is intermediate but I feel like my level is beginner. 15 lang. damn, I want to know just English, Spanish and Japanese.
Every language should have both definite and indefinite articles, which are a necessary part of a language’s grammar, and without articles the sentences don’t sound right - one must use articles when necessary, to know whether one is talking about one specific thing, or any random thing etc, and it makes no sense for a language not to use articles, and normally the word for the number one is also the indefinite article in most languages, however, English has the extra words a and an which are used as an indefinite article instead, but if it didn’t have them, the word one would be used instead, same as in Norwegian and Danish and Swedish and Dutch and German and Portuguese and Spanish and Italian etc, so the words a and an technically mean one, so a light means one light etc, so it’s very easy to understand how they word and use them, since those are the logical way of saying such things!
Wow, Queens seems like such a great place to live!
It is an awesome place to grow up in for sure 😊
More people need to see this.
My father was born in Astoria, Queens in 1936. His parents, born to Lithuanian and Ukrainian Jews, spoke English and Yiddish, but they forbade their children from speaking it, presumably because they didn't want them to deal with antisemitism. But they did send them to Hebrew school, which mostly taught them how to pray and say blessings. I too have studied Hebrew, for the same reasons. I moved to anglophone Canada as a small child and had to study French from grade 4-11. In 1999, I moved to Astoria, New York, and taught ESL in midtown Manhattan to students from around the world: Japan, Korea, Germany, Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia, etc. My neighbours in my Astoria walkup spoke Serbo-Croatian, and, in exchange for all their help getting used to New York, I helped teach their mother English. I bought sushi down the street from Koreans (who asked me not to tell anyone they were actually Korean, not Japanese). One day, on the subway into Manhattan, I saw an Arabic woman studying an English grammar and vocabulary book. I saw an error in her book and tried to explain to her in English what the error was. She couldn't understand so I switched to French and she understood. She invited me to dinner at her house. I used French more in New York than I did it Canada! I also found myself learning some Spanish, mostly by looking at bilingual ads on the subways, and by watching some of the Spanish television channels I got for free (ie without cable) along with a few English ones. I've been told that the neighbourhood I lived in is the most ethnically diverse in the world. I believe it. I once saw a toddler from India run out into a major street in Astoria. Without thinking, all of us from all around the world ran into the busy street to save him. He was okay. It was a very moving moment.
loved the person at 5:08 !!! they seem so nice :D
That was a very pleasant video to watch amidst all the terrible things that are going on in the world. It was nice to see real people being friendly and sharing. Thanks for this. (I speak English, a bit of Spanish, French, Hungarian and a few words in Arabic. Oh yes, and one Russian word! 😄
Ever watch your video,because are very good. Of true .thanks per it.
Lived in Astoria Queens for 25 years. I also speak multiple languages and dialects. Love it. Never know who and when you'll run into
Great content. Most of my friends growing up in nyc were at least bilingual. I’m speaking for myself I can speak English, 3 types of Chinese, and Spanish.
I love the indian head bob, it makes me so happy. One of my favourite clips is of group of people being asked to deliberately do the "yes" head nod out of context and no one could recreate it by trying, but then they were asked a Yes or No question in passing and they all flawlessly did the yes nod without even trying. It's a Drew Binski video called "The Indian Head Wobble Explained" at roughly 0:43
These videos motivate me 🐢 I might visit NY again to experience the diversity of queens before i travel outside the country😅
saw some jackson heights shots love it love my neighborhood
Someday I will surely meet you and congratulate for your work
Because of you, I manifested my habit of learning language which was supressed in my childhood as my family wanted me to study,
As a 16 year old, I am learning my 4th language, Spanish, I am able to understand the people now who speaks in Spanish,
I am happy, I just want to learn a lots of languages, which I am gonna do from March 11th as my academics will be over.
Algun dia voluntad seguramente conocerte y felicitar para tus trabajas.
(If I made mistake, can you help me correct it by typing)
Queens NY! My home town!
One of the things that makes NYC dynamic.
Wow . Why travel outside of U.S. Spring time I hope to fly , from Cleveland , Ohio and visit the world in Queens . 20th century invention of electric , auto , ac , affordable air travel , and computer has set the course of the New World . Thanks for the video .
Thanks! 🐢
Dan you've come to the place where I was born. I'm from Queens. My family lived a short drive from JFK airport. It has changed so much. In a good way.
Queens is a big place divided by neighborhoods. I was born in Rosedale, which was known as a little rough at that time. I had family and friends in Richmond Hill, Ozone Park, Howard Beach and Laurelton.
At that time I didn't say I was from "Queens". I said I was from "Rosedale". People identified with their specific neighborhood. But, for outsiders that's a bit hard to understand.
When I was growing up I knew people from Puerto Rico, from Haiti, and there were still some people around who spoke Italian, Russian and a few other European languages. But Queens has become much more multicultural in the years since then.
It must be remembered that Queens is where Archie Bunker is from. And Donald Trump who was based on the character of Archie Bunker. The push back against progress. The hatred of anything that isn't white European. Not to mention the home of the characters from "Goodfellas". I knew those sort of people. Not that I'm proud of that.
I'm happy to see where Queens is today. I haven't been there since my grandmother died in the early 1990s.
Today I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil which is sometimes referred to as the New York of Latin America. Very multicultural. But at the same time very Brazilian.
The pizza in Sao Paulo is almost--but not quite--as good as the pizza in New York.
lol Rosedale was never rough, it just had Black people and racists made that assumption. Statistically, Rosedale has some of the highest Black 6-figure income earners on average.
@@Roma-SRyan I can't speak for what happened to Rosedale in the decades since I left.
I never met anyone who earned six figures. Everyone who lived in Rosedale earned five, and the first figure was almost always "1".
And it was more than a little rough around the edges.
@@Roma-SRyan I had a childhood friend from Rosedale. Good family from Barbados. Most of the children went to private school and the parents were strict and hard working. Dad was a lawyer. The parts I saw never felt rough but the suburban quiet of it was a bit unsettling for me as a kid who only knew downtown brooklyn.
It's amazing how many can speak 3 or more languages. and im here just can speak one (spanish) and a litle bit english.
people in Asia and Africa are polyglots
Another truly wonderful set of interviews. One day you'll say you're from Montréal, Québec, instead of Montreal, Canada. On that day we'll know you have become more of a local. 🤣 It did surprise me a tad that you told the Minneapolitan you knew cold because of living in Montreal when you could have said Winnipeg, a MUCH colder place in the winter than those eastern cities, no?. Lo que sea. 🐢
this made my heart buzz
I speak portuguese, my mother language and i'm almost fluent in english. Now I'm learning spanish and french
I plan queens nyc south Jamaica this year. I only been to both queens airport and pepsi cola sign. This year I plan to go deep in queens. Solo explorer ❤
I have also been a girl from Minneapolis living in queens ! :)
I speak English, Bronx and Brooklynese.
It was nice that that Chinese girl actually asked you back. Most people dont 🐢
Nice!
This very impressive indeed. It would have interesting to only show their faces and ask,
"Can you guess how many language they speak"? Most would fail the quiz.
I'm from Venezuela but I live in Colombia, I'm learning English and I like watching your videos and It's a little strange to hear some people speak in Spanish. Greetings.
Ha! You’re in my neighborhood in Astoria. Lots of Arabic, Greeks, Eastern European (Croatians, Bosnians etc)
That chick who spoke mandarin was vibing on you, bro.
Beautiful.
I was born in Queens. I want to go back and see Jackson Heights for its diverse neighborhood.
What a nice bunch of people 🐢
You have to do a food tour of Queens. There are so many great international food choices within only a few square miles of where you were.
Exactly what I would expect in New York.
beautiful people-
Impressed that the two Bengali guys knew the most languages.
If the world’s population were destroyed, it could be re-populated from Queens, NY. It is the largest, most varied ‘international’, population in the world.