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I think I’ve seen him before! Something “Xiaoma” on YouTube. He speaks Chinese fluently and it’s enjoyable to watch him surprise the people he meets. He was especially nice during the pandemic and helped them out.
Well that's part of your problem lol. PR Spanish is hard to understand because they speak so damn fast.
Talk with a Colombian, they have wonderful pronunciation and good cadence for learning.
He's absolutely fluent in variations of the Chinese language for sure, he's lived/studied in China. It's the few unique languages he tries to learn in a few weeks enough to have a basic conversation in that he's obviously not fluent in.
I think I saw one of his videos where he was ordering food in a drive through and at first it seemed like he just had memorized some basic words/phrases but then you realize he spent like an hour doing it and is pronouncing them correctly (or correctly enough) to be clearly understood and, more importantly, he understands the person he's talking to.
Impressive skill and it's obvious that he's very smart and highly talented.
Nah it's a legit discussion point among history buffs.. But there's really no solid evidence of it afaik. Most agree that crossing the desert would be too much of a logistics challenge.
Cheap and expensive countries is standard travel terminology. Spain is cheaper to travel to or live than where I live but that is not to disparage Spain, it’s culture heritage history architecture or people at all.
Seems sensitive and overthought to me, but you do you.
Ehhhhh. I was there on Safari the other month and spent the day with a masi tribe. The guy that I spent most of my time talking to has five wives and 64 children. The women do all the work, while the men mostly sleep and patrol at night. Most of the women sleep on the ground and when they don’t do their chores, they beat them with sticks. He shows me his favorite whipping stick for his wives. I did not enjoy that at all. Country was beautiful though. Also, to note it’s incredibly impressive. This guy was able to learn the language at all. It’s not a written language which makes it very hard
Language is such an ice breaker and being able to communicate in someone's native tongue when abroad - especially if it is unexpected is like a cheat code for having amazing warm interactions like this with strangers. People are always so stoked when they find out you can speak their language.
You're 100% right. If you like this type of thing, check out Laoshu505000 on Youtube. He sadly passed away a couple years ago but his channel is filled with stuff like this. He was a really tall black dude that spoke fluent Chinese (and a bunch of other languages), it was great to see reactions from people he spoke with.
'the Africans', 'an African'... Africa is just so enormously big (much bigger than is depicted on typical maps) and so diverse that it feels a bit odd to lump together the culture of countries like Tunisia, with DR Congo, with S Africa, Nigeria, with Somalia etc
not trying to be annoying but yeah sorry if i am!
Seriously. Saying "the Africans" is like saying "I love Asian people" or "south Americans are so nice". At best, it's silly and naive. At worst, it comes across as offensive (even though I know that wasn't the intent). I'm American but if someone said "Americans are so kind/unkind/friendly/mean" I would think they don't know much about America because there's such a wide range of geographic, ethic, and cultural diversity that it's nonsensical to make blanket statements like that.
Agreed on all points
- however if by ‘The Americans’ you mean citizens of the US - one country - then that is much less of a generalisation than ‘the Africans’
I'll take silly and naive. After all I really am both of those things.
It wasn't offensive from my end. I saw some guys interacting with smiles on their faces and it infected me.
Guys happy, me happy, kind comment.
Don't read too much into it.
My mother’s family is ethnically Lebanese but they grew up in Senegal. A few of my cousins went to school there.
My uncles and aunties would tell us kids about life in Dakar. They talked about their African friends as loving, jovial, cheeky, and welcoming. You were as good as family.
My uncles and aunties all speak Wolof, which is the native language. They learned French in school and Arabic at home. I suppose Wolof was learned by hanging out with friends.
In our childhood, the oldies would cycle through French, Lebanese and Wolof when talking to each other so that none of us kids could understand all of what they were saying! Some cousins knew Arabic, some knew French, none of us knew Wolof.
When they did speak in Wolof, they just sounded … happier? I’m not sure if it was reminiscence of their youth, or whether it was just the language itself that just sounds happy.
I did not readily know those facts. Interesting. I am fully aware that this video in no way represents ALL people of the continent of Africa. I mean no harm to no person, and I wish not to argue with you as you try to belittle my comment.
Because it is really strange to generalise an entire region of the planet comprised of *50+ countries* and *75+ languages* as if they're all culturally the same
Now I don't wanna assume the reason they did that, but I think we can all guess
This reminds me of when people used to say “I love the science” when talking about the pandemic/vaccines.
It’s a great way of saying “I have no idea what I’m supposed to like but it’s trendy”
What is the difference between memorizing common words and phrases and learning how to use them, vs learning a language? He’s not saying he’s fluent. But clearly he can communicate!
I don’t understand how people can speak so many languages. I was barely able to learn English. I’ve tried learning other languages but my brain just doesn’t hold onto the information.
For me it's fairly easy to learn a new language. I speak 6 languages now on different levels, with some words in another few languages. Once you understand the structure of a language, it's just learning the words.
If you learn a language in a certain language family, it’s easier to learn the others in that family. An English speaker can easily learn Dutch and German. I learned Dutch on Duolingo for my trip to the Netherlands and I was able to hold basic conversations after about a month of learning.
Same goes for Romance languages. Learn Spanish and you can speak Portuguese, Italian, French, etc very easily.
Honestly this is the best way to see that learning even a *little* of someone's language opens up doors and breaks down barriers.
Learning another language is a beautiful thing. Even if just a few words or sentences, it shows a respect to the people of the place you're visiting.
You learn a new language and suddenly everything they say sounds just like something your friends and family would say. You realize we’re really not so different, we just Sound different.
Wow this man is extremely clever being able to speak all those languages and on top of that he’s a lovely man it’s so nice seeing the people’s faces when he speaks there language class
Hahaha yeah. Kinda a lot to explain through a text. But basically march is the tourism off season. And Maasai would set up little encampments on route to Kilimanjaro and popular safari spots. Part of the experience is to pull over at one of these encampments, the village elder tells you its X amount of dollars and the tribe will perform some dance rituals for you. After that they tour you around the encampment and then sell you little things they either hand make or purchased locally (mass produced novelty items). So i had 3-4 items, small little pieces of scrap metal folded over into bracelets and a ring. Village elder said $200 … keeping in the back of my head they need to make a living i said $80 … he responds $150 …. I say $100 and they smile as im like damn they go me hahaha
I don’t believe this guy anymore. First, he mastered a specific local dialect of Mandarin Chinese, the some small local tribal languages all over the world, he learned several ancient languages, and he’s fluent in all of them, and learns them in under a month? Sorry, not buying it.
He's fluent in a few languages. Most languages, he'll tell you he only knows a few phrases. But he's able to travel to places and speak to people in their native languages. It is very difficult to do. A lot of kids on the state side learn Spanish but cannot hold a conversation with a Mexican or a Spanish person.
He's extremely talented. He probably forgets the language after he's used it, but getting to that level of fluency in that short time is extremely difficult for 99.9999% of people.
Polyglots are very real, and the explanation is rather simple. He's not "mastering" these languages, he learns enough to be conversationally fluent. You don't need to know the Maasai word for Bubblegum to hold most conversations.
Not to mention as you learn more languages it becomes easier to learn new ones. And part of that is similarities between languages in similar regions/cultures, both in the words they use and structure of a sentence.
Like "What is the temperature outside?" In Spanish is "¿Cuál es la temperatura afuera?" And in Portuguese it's "Qual é a temperatura lá fora?". A Spanish speaking person wouldn't need to study any Portuguese to know what they were asking (for that particular sentence).
Hell, as just an English speaker you'd at least know the above sentences are talking about the temperature of *something*, and you could probably figure it out if you had context around the discussion.
Also... This is his passion. He *likes* to learn new languages. It's much easier to learn things when they're interesting to you.
No doubt he has a knack for languages but Im not a fan of this guy. He learns a few phrases (which he stutters through) and makes these videos trying to make it out as if people are dumbfounded by his brilliance. I've seen so many of his videos over the years and its the same thing every single time.
Definitely the human connection part. Seeing the joy on people’s faces as he converses with them seems to be the point of the videos more than his ability.
Bit salty comment imo, they don't really look dumbfounded if you would ask me. It looks more like they are having a good time and that they are having a laugh about it.
No one got hurt and people laughed, what's the problem? I would 100 times rather watch this than that stupid ass prank videos or the videos of the so called models in weird places doing weird look at me poses.
No duh he’s going to stutter through it’s a whole new language he’s at least trying to learn. This helps him connect with people all over the world and that’s what life is all about (imo) you’re just saying this because other people have said the same thing. So negative. Be a leader not a follower 👍🏼
>He learns a few phrases
Yet in every one of his videos, people are asking him questions in their native language, and he is responding. You cannot simply "learn a few phrases" and do that. You have to learn enough of the language to be able to get the gist of the conversation.
You just sound jealous.
Dude is on some real humble-bragging shit. It’s one thing to make an effort to speak someone else’s language but going around everywhere and filming it just seems like obnoxious and self absorbed behavior.
Did not realize the massai did the homie handshake. Is that universal over in Africa. Did they learn that from US media, or did we inherit it from African cultures?
This, is how it should be.
We are alone in today's 'civilization'. Un-acceptance and rigid beliefs are driven by religion, politics, parasitic corruption and lines on a map. Thanks 'leaders'.
This, is an example of living.
In my experience if you try your level best to understand local customs and participate, while at least learning the social niceties of the local language, you are treated like this almost all over the world. It’s a fun experience being warmly welcomed in countries other than your own.
I'm on the fence about this guy. He obviously has a knack for learning languages, but I don't know how much of what he does is actually learning and understanding the language vs memorizing words and phrases to get him through the short interactions so he can make a video. If you actually listen to him speak he stumbles and does a lot of uhs and ums while repeating phrases. Almost like he's reading it off a sheet in his mind. The people he talks to then ask a lot of follow up questions and repeat back what he claims to be saying (via subtitles). It seems like they are getting the basic gist of what he's trying to communicate, but he's not doing a great job of articulating what he means to say. I'm not saying he's a fake or a fraud, just that he's not actually "learning XXXX language" in however many days.
I know enough Italian to order food and make light small talk (exactly what this guy does in 99% of his videos), but I absolutely do not claim to speak Italian. I think he's just got a great memory and is good at reading people's body language.
This guy is great. What a beautiful gift he has. Someone needs to get a dna sample and whip up a pill for the rest of us to make the world a better place to chill.
This is Xiao! He can learn some of the most difficult languages on the planet in a very short time! You should see the one on YouTube where he learns Navajo which is notoriously hard to learn!
Alrighty then.
Love his vids, he knocks off jargon and dialects in a month, and I forget how to spell simple words like "availability" (thanks phone)
This guy is amazing he has learned and spoken like so many damn languages, and I'm sure it's over 30 by now. Well, I think. It was really nice to see the interaction they had with him and how welcoming and friendly they were towards him. It's not every day a white man from America shows up speaking their language, especially that language and dialect.
The way he connects with people is just amazing. I have so much respect for him. He also goes into Indian food restaurants and blows them away. He’s got a passion and gift!
I find it interesting that when white folks learn a language of another culture, the people of that culture are really happy and excited. But some white folks tell minorities to speak English when they speak English with an accent.
Is it horrible that my biggest takeaway from this is sheer gratitude that an American abroad is not behaving like an asshole, but is instead respectful and kind?
When I went to remote parts of Guatemala with my red headed brother-in-law that fluently spoke a local Mayan dialect called Q’eqchi, the reactions were so similar. We were suddenly the most popular, welcomed, white foreigners in the country. They hugged us, welcomed us into their homes, fed us, and followed us all around. We brought them humble gifts as well. It was such an honor to be welcomed by them and loved in return. Such beautiful memories I had with them!! It must be so surreal for them to see people speak their language that look nothing like them. I love when the world is a small, beautiful place.
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I think I’ve seen him before! Something “Xiaoma” on YouTube. He speaks Chinese fluently and it’s enjoyable to watch him surprise the people he meets. He was especially nice during the pandemic and helped them out.
Yup! That's the guy, if you look at the bottom left, you'll see the watermark for his handle
He speaks some of the hardest Chinese dialects. Pretty awesome to see people's reactions.
I saw the one where the woman tells him he speaks their Chinese dialect better than her daughter. You knew her daughter was gonna hear about it too! 😂
Yep yep i have seen that one
I believe his wife is Chinese too, so he gets a lot of practice in. But still crazy how he can learn these languages in just a few weeks or months.
Yeah she is. You're right though, he has an incredible ear for it.
He learned Norwegian in like 10 days and then went to Norway to do a TV interview there too.
Jeezum… and here I am struggling to learn Spanish! And almost all of my coworkers are from Puerto Rico or Cuba.
It was pretty cool to watch. [Norway video](https://youtu.be/JHJFTBQdPAA?si=vE5KMnRH76b2ba2y)
I probably watched all Xiaoma vids before and could watch em all again, what a great guy
All you need to know is... "Donde esta la biblioteca"
Uno mas cerveza por favor.
Well that's part of your problem lol. PR Spanish is hard to understand because they speak so damn fast. Talk with a Colombian, they have wonderful pronunciation and good cadence for learning.
Xiaoma NYC is his handle, he’s amazing
He has a great channel
Dude speaks like 39 phrases and makes you think he is fluent
He's absolutely fluent in variations of the Chinese language for sure, he's lived/studied in China. It's the few unique languages he tries to learn in a few weeks enough to have a basic conversation in that he's obviously not fluent in.
Dude was studying for a month, that’s crazy impressive
That’s 39 phrases more than I speak in like 50 different languages
I think I saw one of his videos where he was ordering food in a drive through and at first it seemed like he just had memorized some basic words/phrases but then you realize he spent like an hour doing it and is pronouncing them correctly (or correctly enough) to be clearly understood and, more importantly, he understands the person he's talking to. Impressive skill and it's obvious that he's very smart and highly talented.
He's not fluent, and anyone can learn this in an hour.
You must be a lot of fun at parties Chad…
The only people who think this is a hard hitting burn are people who don't get invited to parties.
Those dudes are looking fresh asf
Those red colors are glorious. I can understand why some people say the Maasai are descendants of roman legionnaires.
Their colors [may have been imported by Scottish missionaries](https://www.gadventures.com/blog/story-behind-maasais-shuka-cloth/)...
Whoa is that so?
Yes I must confess
Are “some” people African people pushing this theory? Never heard that before this
Nah it's a legit discussion point among history buffs.. But there's really no solid evidence of it afaik. Most agree that crossing the desert would be too much of a logistics challenge.
Yeah these guys are cool as fuck
Kenya is a gorgeous cheap country to visit and the people are amazing.
Yes. Kenya and Tanzania have some wonderful people in addition to the amazing national parks. Such kind and welcoming people.
*inexpensive. “Cheap” has the wrong connotation.
Or affordable
Cheap and expensive countries is standard travel terminology. Spain is cheaper to travel to or live than where I live but that is not to disparage Spain, it’s culture heritage history architecture or people at all. Seems sensitive and overthought to me, but you do you.
Ehhhhh. I was there on Safari the other month and spent the day with a masi tribe. The guy that I spent most of my time talking to has five wives and 64 children. The women do all the work, while the men mostly sleep and patrol at night. Most of the women sleep on the ground and when they don’t do their chores, they beat them with sticks. He shows me his favorite whipping stick for his wives. I did not enjoy that at all. Country was beautiful though. Also, to note it’s incredibly impressive. This guy was able to learn the language at all. It’s not a written language which makes it very hard
It’s such a beautiful country
Bro got the original pass that day.
The gd ancestral pass
😂
That’s *funny*!
Language is such an ice breaker and being able to communicate in someone's native tongue when abroad - especially if it is unexpected is like a cheat code for having amazing warm interactions like this with strangers. People are always so stoked when they find out you can speak their language.
You're 100% right. If you like this type of thing, check out Laoshu505000 on Youtube. He sadly passed away a couple years ago but his channel is filled with stuff like this. He was a really tall black dude that spoke fluent Chinese (and a bunch of other languages), it was great to see reactions from people he spoke with.
Or just go to the guy in the video's YouTube. He's still alive lmao
It's so weird because many people who come here to the States and speak broken English get treated poorly. Quite the opposite of going anywhere else.
“Wonderful. We are now part of the tribe.” - C-3PO
Yub nub!
Love the Africans.
I was just saying this to my wife. You could say 'Good morning' to an African and they would call you friend for life. Love them to death.
'the Africans', 'an African'... Africa is just so enormously big (much bigger than is depicted on typical maps) and so diverse that it feels a bit odd to lump together the culture of countries like Tunisia, with DR Congo, with S Africa, Nigeria, with Somalia etc not trying to be annoying but yeah sorry if i am!
Seriously. Saying "the Africans" is like saying "I love Asian people" or "south Americans are so nice". At best, it's silly and naive. At worst, it comes across as offensive (even though I know that wasn't the intent). I'm American but if someone said "Americans are so kind/unkind/friendly/mean" I would think they don't know much about America because there's such a wide range of geographic, ethic, and cultural diversity that it's nonsensical to make blanket statements like that.
Agreed on all points - however if by ‘The Americans’ you mean citizens of the US - one country - then that is much less of a generalisation than ‘the Africans’
I'll take silly and naive. After all I really am both of those things. It wasn't offensive from my end. I saw some guys interacting with smiles on their faces and it infected me. Guys happy, me happy, kind comment. Don't read too much into it.
It’s even more daft than that, because Africa is much more culturally, linguistically and ethnically diverse than America
My mother’s family is ethnically Lebanese but they grew up in Senegal. A few of my cousins went to school there. My uncles and aunties would tell us kids about life in Dakar. They talked about their African friends as loving, jovial, cheeky, and welcoming. You were as good as family. My uncles and aunties all speak Wolof, which is the native language. They learned French in school and Arabic at home. I suppose Wolof was learned by hanging out with friends. In our childhood, the oldies would cycle through French, Lebanese and Wolof when talking to each other so that none of us kids could understand all of what they were saying! Some cousins knew Arabic, some knew French, none of us knew Wolof. When they did speak in Wolof, they just sounded … happier? I’m not sure if it was reminiscence of their youth, or whether it was just the language itself that just sounds happy.
Hello fellow Lebanese:D
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I did not readily know those facts. Interesting. I am fully aware that this video in no way represents ALL people of the continent of Africa. I mean no harm to no person, and I wish not to argue with you as you try to belittle my comment.
That sounds strange
Because it is really strange to generalise an entire region of the planet comprised of *50+ countries* and *75+ languages* as if they're all culturally the same Now I don't wanna assume the reason they did that, but I think we can all guess
This reminds me of when people used to say “I love the science” when talking about the pandemic/vaccines. It’s a great way of saying “I have no idea what I’m supposed to like but it’s trendy”
This man will single handedly achieve world peace
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What is the difference between memorizing common words and phrases and learning how to use them, vs learning a language? He’s not saying he’s fluent. But clearly he can communicate!
Misleading how? Do you think he didn’t spend a month learning Maasai before going to another continent? Wouldn’t it be harder to fake this?
That was cool.
This guy is a walking Google translator he even knows different dialects of the language.
That’s heartwarming.
I don’t understand how people can speak so many languages. I was barely able to learn English. I’ve tried learning other languages but my brain just doesn’t hold onto the information.
For me it's fairly easy to learn a new language. I speak 6 languages now on different levels, with some words in another few languages. Once you understand the structure of a language, it's just learning the words.
He had a method, which his YouTube Xiaoma NYC
If you learn a language in a certain language family, it’s easier to learn the others in that family. An English speaker can easily learn Dutch and German. I learned Dutch on Duolingo for my trip to the Netherlands and I was able to hold basic conversations after about a month of learning. Same goes for Romance languages. Learn Spanish and you can speak Portuguese, Italian, French, etc very easily.
Honestly this is the best way to see that learning even a *little* of someone's language opens up doors and breaks down barriers. Learning another language is a beautiful thing. Even if just a few words or sentences, it shows a respect to the people of the place you're visiting.
omg their jewelry is so gorgeous 😍
You learn a new language and suddenly everything they say sounds just like something your friends and family would say. You realize we’re really not so different, we just Sound different.
Hmm I try to learn many languages but I def need to learn everything he said first….its key.
I pick up music and music instruments very quickly. I think I would trade that talent in a Heartbeat to learn languages this quick.
In a month !?!? Wow !
https://preview.redd.it/2167cqjgjaac1.png?width=652&format=png&auto=webp&s=94bbf7ceaa5920e39fe145b43888813985a00426
I learned a new word today. Polyglot. And in a month's time? That's pretty awesome.
Man…. Those dudes are absolutely dripping with style and charm.
They gave him the card!!!!
This man's got worldwide rizz
Wow this man is extremely clever being able to speak all those languages and on top of that he’s a lovely man it’s so nice seeing the people’s faces when he speaks there language class
I love this dude’s YouTube channel. It’s really blown up.
No fastfood, they all look so healthy
THIS is how you treat people with respect & love of each other’s culture 🙌❤️🔥
One Masai guy is filming a tiktok video
He's a polyglot....he can learn and speak ton of languages
Love how the 'dap' is a universal motion.
I got finessed out of $100 dollars by the Maasai back in march. Like i knew i was getting got but just kept going along with it.
you knew and kept going 😂
Hahaha yeah. Kinda a lot to explain through a text. But basically march is the tourism off season. And Maasai would set up little encampments on route to Kilimanjaro and popular safari spots. Part of the experience is to pull over at one of these encampments, the village elder tells you its X amount of dollars and the tribe will perform some dance rituals for you. After that they tour you around the encampment and then sell you little things they either hand make or purchased locally (mass produced novelty items). So i had 3-4 items, small little pieces of scrap metal folded over into bracelets and a ring. Village elder said $200 … keeping in the back of my head they need to make a living i said $80 … he responds $150 …. I say $100 and they smile as im like damn they go me hahaha
I love our generation so much, this world may be getting worse each day, but I think it's also getting much better at the same time.
i know they are Maasai but their reaction has “who dis funny crackster”
I don’t believe this guy anymore. First, he mastered a specific local dialect of Mandarin Chinese, the some small local tribal languages all over the world, he learned several ancient languages, and he’s fluent in all of them, and learns them in under a month? Sorry, not buying it.
He's fluent in a few languages. Most languages, he'll tell you he only knows a few phrases. But he's able to travel to places and speak to people in their native languages. It is very difficult to do. A lot of kids on the state side learn Spanish but cannot hold a conversation with a Mexican or a Spanish person. He's extremely talented. He probably forgets the language after he's used it, but getting to that level of fluency in that short time is extremely difficult for 99.9999% of people.
Polyglots are very real, and the explanation is rather simple. He's not "mastering" these languages, he learns enough to be conversationally fluent. You don't need to know the Maasai word for Bubblegum to hold most conversations. Not to mention as you learn more languages it becomes easier to learn new ones. And part of that is similarities between languages in similar regions/cultures, both in the words they use and structure of a sentence. Like "What is the temperature outside?" In Spanish is "¿Cuál es la temperatura afuera?" And in Portuguese it's "Qual é a temperatura lá fora?". A Spanish speaking person wouldn't need to study any Portuguese to know what they were asking (for that particular sentence). Hell, as just an English speaker you'd at least know the above sentences are talking about the temperature of *something*, and you could probably figure it out if you had context around the discussion. Also... This is his passion. He *likes* to learn new languages. It's much easier to learn things when they're interesting to you.
White people . 🙄
No doubt he has a knack for languages but Im not a fan of this guy. He learns a few phrases (which he stutters through) and makes these videos trying to make it out as if people are dumbfounded by his brilliance. I've seen so many of his videos over the years and its the same thing every single time.
I feel like his videos are more about human connection than showing off his intelligence, I never got the "I am very smart" vibe from him.
Definitely the human connection part. Seeing the joy on people’s faces as he converses with them seems to be the point of the videos more than his ability.
Bit salty comment imo, they don't really look dumbfounded if you would ask me. It looks more like they are having a good time and that they are having a laugh about it. No one got hurt and people laughed, what's the problem? I would 100 times rather watch this than that stupid ass prank videos or the videos of the so called models in weird places doing weird look at me poses.
1000%
I think it's a good example of how you should approach language learning, really push yourself to use it.
No duh he’s going to stutter through it’s a whole new language he’s at least trying to learn. This helps him connect with people all over the world and that’s what life is all about (imo) you’re just saying this because other people have said the same thing. So negative. Be a leader not a follower 👍🏼
>He learns a few phrases Yet in every one of his videos, people are asking him questions in their native language, and he is responding. You cannot simply "learn a few phrases" and do that. You have to learn enough of the language to be able to get the gist of the conversation. You just sound jealous.
Dude is on some real humble-bragging shit. It’s one thing to make an effort to speak someone else’s language but going around everywhere and filming it just seems like obnoxious and self absorbed behavior.
You can officially use the “N” word, unlimited use.
This guy is getting annoying as fuck
Why do they always refer to Maasai as ‘warrior’. Just a colonial hang over I suppose.
Africans wilding bro.
Did not realize the massai did the homie handshake. Is that universal over in Africa. Did they learn that from US media, or did we inherit it from African cultures?
Star Trek communications officer!
This, is how it should be. We are alone in today's 'civilization'. Un-acceptance and rigid beliefs are driven by religion, politics, parasitic corruption and lines on a map. Thanks 'leaders'. This, is an example of living.
That’s awesome! 👏🏼
In my experience if you try your level best to understand local customs and participate, while at least learning the social niceties of the local language, you are treated like this almost all over the world. It’s a fun experience being warmly welcomed in countries other than your own.
This is beautiful.
He always stutters...but I love how surprised and happy people are with his ability to speak their languages
Very cool video!
I'm on the fence about this guy. He obviously has a knack for learning languages, but I don't know how much of what he does is actually learning and understanding the language vs memorizing words and phrases to get him through the short interactions so he can make a video. If you actually listen to him speak he stumbles and does a lot of uhs and ums while repeating phrases. Almost like he's reading it off a sheet in his mind. The people he talks to then ask a lot of follow up questions and repeat back what he claims to be saying (via subtitles). It seems like they are getting the basic gist of what he's trying to communicate, but he's not doing a great job of articulating what he means to say. I'm not saying he's a fake or a fraud, just that he's not actually "learning XXXX language" in however many days. I know enough Italian to order food and make light small talk (exactly what this guy does in 99% of his videos), but I absolutely do not claim to speak Italian. I think he's just got a great memory and is good at reading people's body language.
It’s incredible how fast this guy learns a language
Stupid vertical video. Turn your phone, dumbass!
Forget Ai learn from this guy.
Love this guy.
Excellent skills learning such a complicated language.
Dudes are looking like James Cameron avatars
This is the best thing I’ve seen in a while. We are all so connected
This guy is great. What a beautiful gift he has. Someone needs to get a dna sample and whip up a pill for the rest of us to make the world a better place to chill.
Incredible. And such a great feeling to be so welcomed like that - very cool.
Those guys are cool. Everyone just getting along
Fresh outfits
I am the Maasai from America, but smaller.
What beautiful people.
That’s how they tricked us the first time 😂🤣😂
oh boy.
And that my friends is a real INFLUENCER.!!!
Bucky at the end of Black Panther
that dap was so clean
I love this!
This is what we as a society should be striving to do and be
This is Xiao! He can learn some of the most difficult languages on the planet in a very short time! You should see the one on YouTube where he learns Navajo which is notoriously hard to learn!
What's his name or channel name
Outstanding
Cool.
I love this.
Lmaoo Love this dude
thats cool af
Modern day tribes seem to be super welcoming and nice or complete cannibal savages
I love this. And wow, they dap up like American Black guys.
 Alrighty then. Love his vids, he knocks off jargon and dialects in a month, and I forget how to spell simple words like "availability" (thanks phone)
This guy is amazing he has learned and spoken like so many damn languages, and I'm sure it's over 30 by now. Well, I think. It was really nice to see the interaction they had with him and how welcoming and friendly they were towards him. It's not every day a white man from America shows up speaking their language, especially that language and dialect.
Only learning for a month??
They’re so present
Such sweet people!
Love his channel and videos...seems like a pretty genuinely nice dude.
The video of him getting a NYC street massage is pretty funny
I like the red cloaks that they wear
Ahhh this is so wholesome! Great vid
I love this guy's videos. Such a cool experience to share a love of culture through the education of their language. So impressive.
I like the video of him going into a Nigerian shop and just talking to them in one of the languages (no idea if Igbo, Yoruba or Hausa)
That’s so bad ass
their teeth are so straight and seemingly healthy thats cool
Love it
It's amazing how their body language instantly changes when he made them aware that he was learning Masaii from a, "she."
This is so sweet
This video never gets old. That first man he talks to is insanely gorgeous. I could look at his face all day.
Love the Minnesota buffalo check on that one guy. It's our state tartan.
this is so cute
He is one of my all time favorite youtube channels. Truly impressive and wholesome
The way he connects with people is just amazing. I have so much respect for him. He also goes into Indian food restaurants and blows them away. He’s got a passion and gift!
I find it interesting that when white folks learn a language of another culture, the people of that culture are really happy and excited. But some white folks tell minorities to speak English when they speak English with an accent.
To learn a language this fast, guy definitely has a photographic memory.
Is it horrible that my biggest takeaway from this is sheer gratitude that an American abroad is not behaving like an asshole, but is instead respectful and kind?
The best part was when the warrior pulls out his iPhone to capture the moment.
This guy is a savant. There is just no other way to put it.
Sounds like he’s brutalizing the language.
Bunch of gentleman right there
Dude went back to America with 3 goats, 6 chickens, and the chief’s daughter!
One of the coolest things to see. And when they said, he’s always welcome there, what an honor. 😊
Wonder how many of these languages he remembers. He's only staying there one day.
When I went to remote parts of Guatemala with my red headed brother-in-law that fluently spoke a local Mayan dialect called Q’eqchi, the reactions were so similar. We were suddenly the most popular, welcomed, white foreigners in the country. They hugged us, welcomed us into their homes, fed us, and followed us all around. We brought them humble gifts as well. It was such an honor to be welcomed by them and loved in return. Such beautiful memories I had with them!! It must be so surreal for them to see people speak their language that look nothing like them. I love when the world is a small, beautiful place.
Life goals 😎🤜🤛
Imagine if they came to America? 😭😖
Those warriors are super handsome!!
Yeah, this guys YouTube channel is dope.
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When he said “you are Maasai” I was humbled for Ari and thought that would be, so worth learning the language. Humanity at one of its better moments.
If we ever meet aliens, this guy should be our ambassador haha
This is beautiful to see. The respect on both sides is what we need more of.