Channel Title: Xiaomanyc 小马在纽约 Channel Description: I'm Xiaoma, a polyglot who has studied dozens of languages. Until the age of 18 I grew up speaking exclusively English, and then I got the chance to learn Mandarin and live in Beijing for a year where I fell in love with Chinese food, language, and culture. This expanded my appetite to learn about cultures, foods, and languages from all around the world and now I share this passion with all of you! You can learn more about my language journey on my language learning channel ariinbeijing: https://www.youtube.com/user/ariinbeijing And if you want to learn a language with me: https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/ <video> Strangers confused by Chinese speaking foreigner Description: I went with my family to Xi’an, China to check out some of the local markets and the Tang Dynasty culture and I have to say the friendliness of the locals and the style of the city genuinely blew my mind. LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc </video> <video> I used to be TERRIBLE at learning languages... Description: I used to be TERRIBLE at learning languages. Okay, I got good grades, but I just couldn’t put a single sentence together. I would review the same exact material year after year and literally wonder what was wrong with me – was I stupid? Why couldn’t I say a single thing despite studying Latin, Greek, and Hebrew for multiple hours a day, 5+ years each? There were even times when I, frustrated at how stupid I was for not being able to say anything, resolved to sit down for an entire weekend and just RE-READ THE TEXTBOOK. (This did not work.) What I’ve realized in the course of my career as a professional language learner is that it’s all about the method. Typical language courses front-load WAY TOO MUCH – you’re learning the alphabet, colors, numbers, obscure place names before you can even say “hello”. I still don’t think I can say hello in Latin, as a matter of fact! So I’ve been working on my own language courses in Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, and German for years to teach languages the way I think they should be taught. You can check them out at streetsmartlanguages.com with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so if you don’t absolutely love them (and I think you will!) you can get your money back no questions asked. LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc </video> <video> Buying a fan on the streets of Beijing Description: So I just arrived with my entire family to China! Today I’m here with my wife in Beijing, which I haven’t been to in 15 years (although I have been to other parts of China in the interim), and I’m really excited to see how the city has changed. LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc </video> <video> Trying Chinese smokers' medicine Description: I went with my family to Xi’an, China to check out some of the local markets and the Tang Dynasty culture and I have to say the friendliness of the locals and the style of the city genuinely blew my mind. LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc </video> <video> China invented instant tea?! feat. @jessesteahouse #tea #china Description: Check out https://jessesteahouse.com/?ref=xiaoma or go to jessesteahouse.com and enter code “xiaoma” for 10% off to try some amazing tea resins! About 1,000 years before instant coffee was invented, in china people invented instant tea also known as chagao. It’s a tiny brick of tea concentrate that brews an entire pot of tea. It literally just melts away completely into water and the tea is surprisingly delicious with a warm earthy flavor. That’s because unlike instant coffee this is actually a traditional, handcrafted, and highly labor intensive product created from high quality tea leaves. Originally invented for travelers on the Silk Road and the like, these days it’s an oddly convenient way to brew high quality tea wherever you are, even on an airplane for example. No messy tea leaves when you’re done. My good friend Jesse is actually selling some of this tea which is quite rare even in china these days. So use my affiliate code Xiaoma to get 10% off the tea resins off at jessesteahouse.com LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc </video> <video> The Last German Speaking Town in America Gets Emotional When I Speak German Description: Thanks to Temu for sponsoring the video: Download the Temu app and get the Smart Ring for FREE through https://app.temu.com/k/uy3f7mxeu3k *Only for new app users with qualifying orders. T&Cs apply 50% OFF the large suitcase $36.99💰 (Original Price $74.99💰) through https://app.temu.com/k/umsjmp5fq1x (App new users only) 🔍Search my code【duw2577】or click https://app.temu.com/k/u7eqsyjkgi1 to get the $100 coupon bundle and snag the Black Friday Early Access deals Anyway, there is one town in the middle of Texas that has people who still speak German almost 200 years after their ancestors first arrived here from Germany. Yup, these are born and bred sixth generation Americans who can chat fluently with each other in a dialect of German from 1864. Today they’re almost all over 70 and there’s maybe only a hundred or so fluent speakers left but I got the rare chance to meet some of them and what I found deeply moved me. 0:00 Introduction 1:26 Chatting with strangers on the street 2:31 Meeting a elder 3:20 The last generation of German speakers 6:54 A German journalist joins us 9:50 Talking about shotguns in Texas German 11:48 German journalist’s first impressions 13:39 Emotional chat with German elder 17:12 Touring historic Texas German grounds 21:57 Trying some local German food LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc </video> <video> "Why are you learing Gaelic?" Description: Scottish Gaelic has been spoken as an indigenous language in Scotland for thousands of years, and it is as different from English as Japanese is and equally hard to learn. Once spoken in much of Scotland it is incredibly rare these days, spoken by only 1% of Scotland’s population, but I visited the remote Scottish island of Uist where it is still used to see what locals would think of an American tourist speaking this ancient tongue. A big thanks to Ann of https://www.lovegaelic.com/ for taking me around and you can check out her courses and immersion trips and also James Macletchie from https://www.igot2travel.com/ who is an amazing tour guide from the Islands (and native Gaelic speaker). Check out Yoga Hebrides here (beautiful experience): https://www.instagram.com/yogahebrides Check out North Uist gin here (delicious!): https://www.northuistdistillery.com/ Help preserve Eriskay Ponies, the rare native island pony, here: https://www.instagram.com/eriskaypony_original_society And check out James’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/jmacletchiephotography And a huge thanks to Ally (in addition to Ann) for helping me learn Gaelic! Much appreciated. LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc </video> <video> I Surprised Strangers in Every Language (The Greatest Hits) Description: This is a compilation video of some of my recent greatest hits surprising strangers in public by speaking their language, in languages from all over the world! 0:00 Mandarin 0:53 Twi 1:35 Urdu 1:59 Mandarin 3:15 Yoruba 4:33 Telegu 6:06 Mandarin 7:07 Urdu 7:55 Mandarin 9:57 Maasai 12:06 Gujarati 12:59 Mandarin 14:57 Mandarin 15:29 Navajo 16:12 Cantonese 17:09 Bengali 18:14 Jamaican Patois 20:39 Igbo 20:57 Amharic 22:13 Mayan 22:49 Haitian Creole 24:54 Mandarin 26:24 Gujarati 28:07 Indonesian 28:53 Punjabi 29:34 Urdu 30:06 Mandarin 30:49 Twi 33:55 Arabic 34:50 Tagalog 35:49 Tamil 37:48 Korean 39:01 Norwegian 39:57 Wolof 41:11 Neapolitan 42:50 Catalan 44:44 Mandarin 46:02 Sicilian 47:31 Irish 48:39 Bengali LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc </video> <video> Trying fermented tofu juice In China for the first time Description: So I just arrived with my entire family to China! Today I’m here with my wife in Beijing, which I haven’t been to in 15 years (although I have been to other parts of China in the interim), and I’m really excited to see how the city has changed. LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc </video> <video> Descendant of Confederates Who Fled to Brazil STILL Speaks English from 1865 Description: Thanks to Saily for sponsoring the video! 🌎 Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code xiaomanyc at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/xiaomanyc Anyway, today I’m interviewing one of the last Confederados who still speaks English with a southern accent and even some unique words! The Confederados were descendants of Confederate soldiers who fled the U.S. after the Civil War. After settling in Brazil over 150 years ago, generations grew up in a new country, with many never having set foot in America. And still today some of them still speak English the way their great-grandparents did! If you're interested in getting in touch with Daniel Carr De Muzio for translation work you can check out his website here: https://bettertrans.com.br/ Daniel let me know that there is a slight misunderstanding in this video. He was not using "carriage" for "car", he was referring to pronouncing the word "garage" as "GAHrage" rather than "gaRAHge" as is the typical American pronunciation. The former is the British pronunciation. The point is that having left America before cars were a thing, his ancestors must have learned that word from the British they knew. By the way, it was interesting for me to learn in the process that the words "garage" and "carriage" despite sounding similar actually come from completely different (French) roots, "garage" originally meaning "to shelter" and "carriage" related instead to "carry". Cool huh? 0:00 Introduction 0:40 How did the Confederates come to Brazil? 3:53 How his ancestors preserved English in Brazil 4:46 His first time in America 7:25 Unique Southern English from 1865 9:54 What does he think about American TV and movies? 11:13 Why they don’t celebrate Halloween 12:03 Unique foods they eat 14:09 His identity as a Confederate / American / Brazilian LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc </video> <video> Rickshaw ride through the hutongs Description: So I just arrived with my entire family to China! Today I’m here with my wife in Beijing, which I haven’t been to in 15 years (although I have been to other parts of China in the interim), and I’m really excited to see how the city has changed. LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc </video> <video> Trying fresh spices on the streets of China Description: I went with my family to Xi’an, China to check out some of the local markets and the Tang Dynasty culture and I have to say the friendliness of the locals and the style of the city genuinely blew my mind. LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc </video> <video> Finding pearls in an oyster in a Chinese market Description: So I just arrived with my entire family to China! Today I’m here with my wife in Beijing, which I haven’t been to in 15 years (although I have been to other parts of China in the interim), and I’m really excited to see how the city has changed. LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc </video> <video> Rickshaw driver can’t believe I speak Chinese Description: So I just arrived with my entire family to China! Today I’m here with my wife in Beijing, which I haven’t been to in 15 years (although I have been to other parts of China in the interim), and I’m really excited to see how the city has changed. LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc </video> <video> Chatting in Gaelic with a farmer Description: Scottish Gaelic has been spoken as an indigenous language in Scotland for thousands of years, and it is as different from English as Japanese is and equally hard to learn. Once spoken in much of Scotland it is incredibly rare these days, spoken by only 1% of Scotland’s population, but I visited the remote Scottish island of Uist where it is still used to see what locals would think of an American tourist speaking this ancient tongue. A big thanks to Ann of https://www.lovegaelic.com/ for taking me around and you can check out her courses and immersion trips and also James Macletchie from https://www.igot2travel.com/ who is an amazing tour guide from the Islands (and native Gaelic speaker). Check out Yoga Hebrides here (beautiful experience): https://www.instagram.com/yogahebrides Check out North Uist gin here (delicious!): https://www.northuistdistillery.com/ Help preserve Eriskay Ponies, the rare native island pony, here: https://www.instagram.com/eriskaypony_original_society And check out James’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/jmacletchiephotography And a huge thanks to Ally (in addition to Ann) for helping me learn Gaelic! Much appreciated. LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc </video>

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I'm Xiaoma, a polyglot who has studied dozens of languages. Until the age of 18 I grew up speaking exclusively English, and then I got the chance to learn Mandarin and live in Beijing for a year where I fell in love with Chinese food, language, and culture. This expanded my appetite to learn about cultures, foods, and languages from all around the world and now I share this passion with all of you!

You can learn more about my language journey on my language learning channel ariinbeijing: https://www.youtube.com/user/ariinbeijing

And if you want to learn a language with me: https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/

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