Polyglot Speaks 8 Languages in NYC in 1 Hour
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- čas přidán 8. 08. 2020
- Go to BuyRaycon.com/xiaomanyc for 15% off your order! Brought to you by Raycon! Today I went out with my friend Kevin, a hyperpolyglot who speaks at least ten languages conversationally, has studied dozens, and is very fluent in several of them. We went around New York City’s incredibly multilingual borough of Queens (especially Jackson Heights and Astoria) and we (by which I mean mostly Kevin) spoke English, Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi, Urdu, Tibetan, Japanese, and Portuguese.
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"Is your phone in Korean?"
"Currently yea."
Wow, didn't think a language flex was possible
Anyone can use a phone in a different language. Everything is still the same, just in a different language, Should then be able to trace your steps backwards and match the language to english.
i thought the exact same thing lolol
@@cattameme still, the point is he changes his phone’s language so frequently that it’s “currently” in Korean.
@@cattameme it's also one of the language learning tips people say when you go and live in another place and want to seriously learn the language too.
I went to elementary school with Kevin in Shanghai. He showed up in our class in 1999 (4th grade) not speaking any Chinese. By 2000, he was scoring 98/100 in Chinese class.
Wow his iq is way up there
only 98/100
@@genericusername4206 lmaoooo
wow, 98/100, hope he survived the beating from his parents...
@@genericusername4206 :D
Just checking in to see how many people are still surprised he said wife
Right?! I was like, huh he's married? All this time I thought he was a single guy living in a lonely NYC apartment by himself
he said it also a few videos ago but i refused to believe it 😖😭😭
For real. Maybe she'll pop up in the future lol
It was so casual too. Lets get a wife reveal for 2.5M subscribers
czcams.com/video/sqcWf8wdiOs/video.html his wife is in this video
Everyone thinks their native language is hard to learn. Truth is, every language is hard to learn but not impossible if you actually try.
No? I have seen way more people saying their own native language is easy
O O give me an example of a language someone thinks is easy to learn. If anything, the difficulty of language you learn depends on the languages you already speak. For instance. English speakers can pick up spanish pretty quickly.
Yoshi Kim I didn’t say they don’t. I’m just saying that I have heard way more people thinking their own native language is easy, which is the contrary of what you said. I am not saying what they’re saying is true. We all know that’s false and the difficulty of learning a language varies depending on where you’re from and how similar your native language is to the language. I am merely just pointing out that people do say that and it would make sense since it is their own native language that they grew up with.
O O thats why i’m asking for an example. I’ve never heard a native speaker of any language say their language is easy to learn when a foreigner speaks it.
@@zcpyoshi Really? Literally all the languages I have learned, native speakers always say that their language is easy. If I was to learn, let's say Mandarin, I would place my bet that there would be a Chinese guy would say like, "Oh, you can do it, Mandarin is easy." I don't know why you would ask me for an example, because I'm pretty sure anyone could imagine that.
Xiaoma should learn Japanese. It’s a hard language so it would be so fun to see him learn.
YES I'm learning Japanese right now and I can agree. Its way harder than korean 😭
cielo514 speaking it isn’t harder than Korean but write it is lol
@@sacredtemmielb yeah I guess you're right
cielo514 but they are both very difficult 😌
cielo514 Writing and Reading, Japanese is harder. Speaking and Grammar, Korean is harder (IMO)
the conversation between one polyglot and another fascinates me - the way they can compare and contrast specific language's linguistic and grammar styles and fully understand what the other one is referring to is amazing
imagine the uber driver listening to them casually switch languages in the back
😂😂😂😂😂
As a Brazilian I gotta say that his portuguese is very good. I understood everything he said. A little more practice and he'll speak effortlesly.
As a spanish speaker i understood too. 😂👀
To me his accent sounded like a mix of Portugal, Brazil and Asian. Not bad. I'm currently learning Portuguese as well (I speak Spanish)
@@jsphat81 No it's not, i mean it is like a perfect with kinda slang portuguese. He cut some words like braziliam! I'm braziliam also.
@@6iancarloa Brazilian portuguese and European Portuguese have some differences in pronunciation, but the vocabulary we use is almost the Same. Every now and then some words change, but nothing we can't handle. PS: brazilian is not a language 😂😂
reparei na mesma coisa...
I have never seen a polyglot successfully read an Urdu newspaper (even 12-14year old native have problems understanding) your Urdu vocabulary is amazing to understand such niche/ political words. Pronunciation isn't 'exactly' native but that's the best a non-native can get.
I'm impressed how good your Portuguese came out. I could understand every word. Keep it up!
O português dele é mto fofo Kkkkkkkkk
È muito boa kakakak
Sim kkkk
Over 600 languages spoken in NYC, certainly the place to be if you want to become a hyperpolyglot
Los Angeles...
Be blessed
Or if you want to learn to speak a few sentences in a lot of languages to impress your youtube fans.
@@theultrawarrior7448 los angeles is not walkable.
@@greenmachine5600
Neither is New York 😅 the difference is, the traffic here is worse.
Blessings
This guy be speaking 8 languages while I can barely speak 1 lol
really? i'm surprised by that. I thought Americans learned atleast English and Spanish. In the Netherlands we learn 4 different languages in school and optional even more.
Dude we dutch bois learn 4 languages but I dont think I'll ever be fluent. I'll only ever be able to do dutch and english, maybe frensh if I push it.
@@silentios7336 Being Belgian from Flanders, our second language is french offcourse, German is our 3th language and well english easy enough, i also do understand and speak a bit of Italian and Spanish.
English, then Spanish, and then Japanese. I've found Japanese to be the easiest
@@silentios7336 You have really high standards set for Americans lmao
His serbian pronunciation is so good, but I was a little confused when he ordered just the kajmak😂
It was really good, I loved it cause I could understand what he said lol. And burek
Yeah same here.
Yeah hahah nobody orders just kajmak😂😂
Kajmak bez čevapa! Svetogrđe!
Kajmak is just so good with everything😁👌🏼
Xiaoma ; you need to do a video with your WIFE.
He needs to wear a ring if it’s true! Frankly, he has quite a few gay friends, so I sort of assumed he was gay. Maybe he only uses the term “wife” when it’s his bf??? 🤷♂️
@@dbrel no, he's got a Chinese wife.
@@taylorjones82 isn't she jewish I might be wrong
No, not THAT kind of video ;-)
Agreed
He said my wife and my heart went 💔
His married 😳
Same lol.
Greetings from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Loved hearing Kevin speaking Portuguese. Xiaoma, you should learn Portuguese as well ;-)
That is embarrassing the Chinese guy speak more Hindi and Urdu then me and I am Indian born in Canada.
Im an indian born in the United States and English is the only language i speak. Well at least u can speak some hindi. I cant speak any.
Wow, he spoke Serbian really good! That's awesome.
This is amazing!
I am currently self teaching my self Korean and looking at these videos tells me that it is possible to learn more than one language❤
I love your videos! Thank you for introducing us to the rich heritage and languages around the world.
Notice how the Serbian woman was just dead on, waved her hand when he said he didn't want the food, and constantly spoke in English. As much as it is cool to learn and speak foreign languages , during this time as an Asian , many non Asian business owners have hatred for them as they lump every Asian as Chinese and so many lost a ton of money and face hardships paying rent and stuff. I know it may be hard to believe as someone who doesn't know body language, analysis of vocal tonality, etc. and is not Asian but it definitely is there. I live in NYC too and many times when I speak Spanish , instead of feeling happy and surprised, many take offense thinking you think they do not speak English and just have a general disdain to Asian people.
This was apparent where I worked , there were many Hispanic ladies that did cleaning services and they did not like it when you spoke in Spanish to them. Often when I order from Hispanic food trucks I get stared down and I even heard mutters of "chinito" just few months ago, often times they charge more too. I remember a while back I tried ordering chalupas but the Hispanic guy in line made fun of my accent and his buddy snickered. Kind of pathetic because they were both like 5 inches taller than me and 50 pounds heavier construction workers in their 30s. I am not an SJW by any means I actually am fluent in Korean, learned basic mandarin , spanish, and now Russian conversation, just throwing it out there to support Asian businesses first during this time.
Senzu You’re completely wrong about the Serbian woman. Serbs, especially the older generation do not fake smile or have the same idea of politeness as people in the US. She did switch to English, but caught herself doing it and started speaking Serbian again: ”sirom, meso i spanać”. The fact that she switched into English might also have to do with the fact that he ordered kajmak (fermented clotted cream) as a dish which made it seem like there were language barriers once he declined it.
That fucking sucks to hear, dude. Just know that there are people out there who’ll always have your back and will stand with you against bigots ✊✊✊
Idk about the serbians but I know this happens to me and my mom. My mom immigrated from Argentina so I grew up soaking spanish but we both look white af. My mom worked as a housekeeper in a nap and for ostracized by the other Hispanic woman for a while because they just assumed she didn't speak Spanish. When I try to order in spanish at the local shops no one responds in spanish even though they are speaking it to each other.
It's a bit disheartening, I grew up with this language too. But my mom and I both get ignored a lot. It sucks worse for her since it's hey native language so it's far easier for her to speak it but she'll still get ignored sometimes.
She was actually very polite. Sometimes the Slavic mentality can be misunderstood
His Serbian was great! I mean WOOOW I’m so impressed! 😱😁
This is such an awesome video, growing up in New York I always wanted to learn other languages to connect to the different cultures but my mother was old-fashioned and thought that learning another language with my dyslexia was going to cause me to fall behind in life.. but I’m on the journey now!
Love your videos!
Did he actually say wife?!
Yeah i heard that 😄
Ya I've heard him say it many times in different videos and I'm all like wait? He has a wife??? Lol
You make me want to delve into language more! My mom is an Iñupiaq translator (it’s her first language- 2nd:English )
"I'm at the point where I don't necessarily have a next language ... I'm just going to pick 12 of them that are most important" ahh yes, the first-world language problem of "I know too many languages and need to cut some". If I know half my languages as well as this person knew Serbian I would be very happy.
I’d love to see you try out some ASL! Definitely a very different and wonderful language.
bro, you should learn Russian.it's fun to learn that language and speak it.
Трудно для иностранных
thats true! initially i wanted to study serbocroatian but was being told i should instead rather go for russian first, thus having an easier time switching into other slavic languages. I am glad I did so. And as you say Anantha, russian is very satisfying to speak somehow, I would've never guessed.
хорошего дня)
Да пожалуйста!!
wdu1 я американец и это язык оченьь трудноо
@@MrMemeGaming этот
3:35 RIP Pop Smoke 🙏🏽
Okey okey
3:35 love how F.N was playing
when he spoke portuguese he had my heart LOL
this is truly amazing
6:49 *BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE* , my mother tongue. 🇧🇷👏🏻🔝
Learn to sign! Would be interesting to see if a polygot could learn a non spoken language! I'm awful at spoken language but can sign 6 different types
Hearing Serbian in Xiaoma's video is crazy. I feel damn happy!
Notification bell not working, thank goodness its in my recommended!
Wish I got to hear more of his Japanese!!
I aspire to learn new languages but my anxiety and shyness hinders me from doing it.
`1. Learn 1000 words and some basic phrases in your target language. (2 months)
2. Then go to language exchanges and test your skill in using the basic phrases and understanding the conversations. (2 months)
3. Read a small article every day and listen to a pod cast in the target language. (2 months)
4. Do 1-1 language lessons for at least one month. (1 Month)
In 7 months you would have enough confidence to use the language frequently.
I've been playing with Duolingo. It's game-oriented and I've learned a lot but I don't think I could hold a conversation. I've got a couple of people online that speak Dutch. I'm too shy to practice with them but they're happy when I say Hallo and Truste. I've ordered some Dutch for beginners books, hoping to improve my conversational skills. I'll be nowhere nearly as fast as Xiaoma but I am comfortable with setting my own, slow, methodical pace.
Ah strolling through Astoria and LIC I see! Nice!
Perfect place to practice Greek ;)
xiaoma's videos give me serotonin
I'm impressed with his portuguese, so cool, I could understand averything. You should learn Portuguese too xiaoma 😂.
Best advertiser ever. I never sit through commercials lol. Your entertaining lol
keep it up bro ly vids ^^
Try to learn Xhosa! If you succeed, please do a video breaking down how to combine to the clicks with vowels... it’s so tough! I love to learn languages too and this one is a real challenge for correct pronunciation (at least for me)!
(Croatian) Svaka čast Kevin! Ugodno sam iznenađen s tvojim izgovorom. Samo nastavi tako!
Damn Xiaomanyc
learning to many languages 😌😌😌😌
yall guys should do the amazing race!
Kaymak is a kind of cream. This word is also used in Turkey.
Burek is also known in Turkey. There it is called börek.
I love rewind of the video 5 times or trying to pause it just to see what the subtitles say. Keep them up longer! 1:52
That's awesome I've been to Sarajevo in Astoria
Everyone else: OMG this guy is so talented, i wish i had his skills!!!
Me a Latino American: OMG HE ORDERED A REFRESCO DE MARACUYÁ!!! 😂😂😂😂👀
I don't get it lol
@BatJoker mmm nope, i've always bought fresh "Maracuyá" 🙄🙄🙄
LMAOO SAMEE MY BRAIN DIDNT EVEN REGISTERED WHAT LANGUAGE HE WAS SPEAKING TILL HE SAID REFRESCO DE MARACUYA JAJAJAJAJAJ
@BatJoker ohh ok ok i didn't take into account the written form of Maracuyá in Portuguese 😂
@@analedesma1890 jajaj Portuguese tho :v
I'd loooove for you to learn to speak Dutch. Im curious how hard it is to learn for you😄
Yo so i'm trying to start my second language; would you recommend : Mandarin, Japanese(where I want to go 1st) or Cantonese ??
Xiaoma be looking fit 🙌🏻👌🏼
1. Hindi: 1:28
2. Mandarin: 2:18
3. Urdu: 2:40
4. Mandarin x2: 3:32
5. Spanish: 3:43
6. Serbian Croatian: 4:55
7. Portuguese: 6:57
8. Japanese: 8:51
The fact that comments like yours aren't on the top of the comment section makes me upset.
@@shekelboi good
I´m glad I met Kevin last year at the Polyglot Conference last year in Fukuoka. About your Portuguese, it would be more correct to say ¨Eu não tinha certeza¨(You said ¨Eu não estava seguro ¨ but that sounds like the literal translation of ¨I wasn't sure¨. もっと日本語を聞きたかったのに。。。
The man saying Bonjour at 5:42 was pretty wholesome
he just makes it seem so easy, like "yeah i can speak a little bit, im conversational",,, like, ive been learning german with an actual teacher in school for 2 years and im not barely conversational
Muito bom o português. E ainda falou português brasileiro. Impressionante.
I don't speak any languages besides English but I would love to hang out with you guys and just eat different cuisines all day lol. What a way to live.
Holy shit that guys pronunciation in Serbo-Croatian was amazing.
chai in russian also "chai"
That was cool. I am still waiting for Irish (Gaelic).
they went to one of my favorite Japanese markets in queens!!
I love that Bosnian restaurant in Astoria!
these guys brains are wired in the most advanced way possible it’s insane
Wait that's cool i met Kevin on a polyglot video chat! wow .. he knows Xiaoma? :OOOO
amazing
7:18 Portuguese and Spanish aren't the same thing. São línguas irmãs, até que bem próximas comparando com as linguas irmãs Italiana e Francesa, mas são diferentes. I am a native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese and I can understand very well who speaks Spanish but the opposite is more difficult. Português tem mais sons fonéticos e uma escrita mais rebuscada que o Espanhol hahaha Awesome video, Xiaoma. Thank you!
Rapaz não não vc acha que pode entender completamente o espanhol e desculpa! Não vc não pode, até pq aqui em ny tem espanhol do mundo inteiro, o que eu quero dizer é que! Como no Brazil vc não entende certas coisas no Sul e Norte, eles aqui mesmo falando espanhol eles mesmos não sabem. You can't understand very well cause it's impossible good spanish in brazil! Did you get it!?
@@maurobrand Não amigo, quando eu disse que entendo bem o espanhol é porque consigo entender mais de 80-90% e não completamente todas as nuances da língua até porque nem nós entendemos todo o regionalismo, gírias e trejeito que o nosso português tem mundo afora. A verdade é: ninguém sabe tudo de nada só o suficiente pra dizer que sabe algo. Yeah, I did it! Abraços!
O idioma galego é la unión perfeita entre as dois linguas jajajaja
okay but you can have 0 knowledge in potuguese and still understand a text (if you speak spanish)
@@ed4999 Yeah, cause portuguese and spanish have similar spelling but they have different phonetics
i think it's dope that xiaoma is committing himself to learning other languages, though i'd be lying if i said i didn't come to this channel basically entirely to see him speak mandarin; his level of skill at mandarin is so beyond impressive that it never gets old, whereas the other languages he's learned thus far (save for other chinese languages) are not only much easier/more common for foreigners to speak, but his level of skill will also be relatively much lower for a while.
tl;dr i respect the passion and the studies but this feels more like a laoshu video than a xiaoma one, as have the more recent xiaoma vids in general
Fun vid. You really jog often.
This was a pretty low-energy episode
Yes I agree. It was a little difficult to hear with the masks on. And Xiaoma's friend doesn't seem to have the same energy level he does. But still an interesting video.
But not necessarily a bad thing
As an introvert, mellow / lower laid back energy is totally my vibe, not the "HELLOXAIMAHEREBACKFORANOTHERVIDEOHEREINCHINATOWN" all the time. But people's reactions were definitely underwhelming. Serbian / Slavic languages are extremely difficult, idk how the lady had no reaction at all.
This dude is incredible
His Portuguese was good. haha I'm impressed.
ele já aprendeu o português carioca, agora só falta aprender o resto das línguas do Brasil kkkkkk
Your videos are so rad i dont even mind the shameless plugs
Xioma para que fue más difícil aprender chino o español??
DUDE wtf i'm brazillian and that guy's portuguese is SOO GOOD, really
everything he said is grammatically correct and our grammar is VERY hard
you should learn Hebrew, people that speak it get so excited when you speak it and the food is amazing
Su español tiene un acento muy neutro!
You’re way better than Laoshu. Better video quality, and very humble. Keep it up 🔥
Hello from Bosnia and Herzegovina
You made my day broo
Pozdrav 🇧🇦🇧🇦
Xd the raycon sponsers are all the same “at half the price” lmao I’ve heard that 5 times today, but they are pretty good tho.
I had to return mine twice before I got one that worked properly, in both cases the right ear bud wouldn't charge in the case. And I think my ears are shaped weird cause I couldn't get them to stay (even changing the ends). But that's probably not the ear buds fault. I seem to have problems with a lot of buds. So I mostly use over the ear ones
Kevin G oh lol I stand corrected. F for your right earbud :(
Sorry I wasn't necessarily disagreeing. The sound out of them was incredible, especially for a wireless earbud. I just had some issues with them
Have the original price set at twice the market value then drop to 50% and advertise it as 'discounted hot deal'. Oldest trick in the book
@@AnimeOverdose1 that's how Canadian Tire does literally all their deals! That or they mark something way down to get a whole bunch of people in, but dont tell you they only have like 3 for sale.
As soon as he said he has a wife my 💔
A Serbian is here! Let's learn Serbian Xiaoma, then you can understand people from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, a lot of Slovenian and Macedonian!
Macedonian is basically Bulgarian. Change my mind.
@@rubenleejohnsen2037 Won't even try heh. That just means we can add Bulgarian on the list above? 😁
Da da super
That pop smoke at 3:44
Real ones heard the Pop Smoke and Lil Tjay in the Uber.
I heard Kevin use the word, (Serbian/Croatian) "Jeden" and the lady said "one" so I understood that word from Polish.
One in Serbo-Croatian = Jedan
One in Polish = Jeden
@@dajiaozi5217 Thank you.
My video froze and while he was explaining the situation with the Chinese Consolate, the subtitle said “Hold my chai” lol
Anyone watching from 🇵🇰 Pakistan... Urdu was amazing ❤️
One of the best Superpowers!!!
I'm waiting for you to speak Portuguese!!!
You were his date, be impressed.
Yesss
4:13: me not listening to anything they‘re saying just the music 🤫
Me, a Pole: Who orders just kajmak? lol
Wow you’re Bosnian/Serbian is really good
That dude reads better Urdu than me... omg very impressive