They Gossip About Foreigner, But He Speaks Their Language FLAWLESSLY
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- Опубліковано 18 тра 2024
- My half-African, half-Chinese friend June Mu @hysteau2s who grew up in Beijing speaks 100% flawless Chinese with a perfect Beijing accent, but also due to his genius linguistic talent speaks French, Spanish, various African languages, and somehow also pitch-perfect English that makes him sound like a New York local (he only came to America and learned English a few years ago). Because he doesn’t look very Chinese, we recently went out to some Chinese markets and people were STUNNED by his perfect Chinese - they thought he was a foreigner and didn’t believe him when he told them he actually grew up in China! And when they gossiped about him behind his back, he was able to reply in perfect Mandarin!
Check out his channel here: / @hysteau2s
0:00 Introduction
0:45 They gossip about us foreigners but we know Chinese
2:11 Street vendor selling crab
2:55 They think I’m from China!
6:36 “I thought you said this was $3!”
7:25 Speaking Spanish and Chinese with Latinos
8:21 They give me free stinky tofu when I speak Chinese
9:17 Ordering shaved ice in Chinese
10:04 Vendor gossips about him but his reply is FLAWLESS Mandarin
13:36 “Congratulations on having such good Chinese”!
14:42 How is his Chinese so perfect?!
16:01 His story
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How did you post this comment 15 hours ago when it was posted 9 minutes ago???? 💀
@@fetihh the video was enlisted and xiaoma sent him a link so he can see the vid before we see it.
@@erraticentertainmento ok
Man, how tall are you?
A lot great moments in this video. Really enjoy it 💯😂
I love the interaction with the old man. How he jokingly "threatned" to hit them multipule times. Really brought the fun and loving grandfather out of him.
As an Asian, that was the most Asian thing I've ever seen in this video. I downright loved it!
That was really really funny 🤣🤣
😂 where I’m from elders do this too it’s funny 😂
I'd have a very difficult time interpreting his body language.
@@hieronymuswiesenkraut3628 pretty normal in Lao culture. The fake spanking is playful.
The old man seemed to really like you both. It was amazing.
Yeah that was so great to see! :D
great sense of humor
Very handsy, that one
@@frequentsee3815 thats just an old person thing. Maybe there is a cultural element too, but in my experience even elderly americans do this, especially men. It's just an extra way of communicating and showing affection/camaraderie. Older generations had less expectation of personal boundaries (for better and worse) so that manifests as them being handsy when they are excited and happy about something.
He seems like an uncle you've known for a long time.
“As soon as I realized I could communicate with you guys, I became very happy.”
This.
i love stuff like this man, always makes me smile
my favorite part too.
this is so much deeper than it looks
Just goes to show how inherently social human beings truly are as a species.
The energy June brought to the video is impeccable. We need more of this, please.
Agreed, very charismatic and likable. Great attitude!
Yea he's definitely built for this kind of content
Yes, please!!
definitely. ive watched this countless times now..love it.
that old guy was wanting to smack yall like you were his grandsons 🤣
He was cool
I really think it's so great that you don't just talk to and film these vendors for their reactions but also actively support their businesses by buying food or items you might not really want or need at the time, and also give them free advertisement. It gives these videos such a positive vibe.
Laoshu was the OG in doing this.
@@siliconiusantogramaphantis2122 damn dude I miss laoshu 😢
@@Harry_Blotter rip the og :(
Rip laoshu man, his heart was so pure
June is a chameleon when it comes to accents. Quite an astonishing set of skills. Close your eyes and he sounds like a native Beijing kid, a native French speaker and a New Yorker all rolled into one.
Well it’s hard for the natives French speaker part as French is spoken in many places around the world but with different accents. If you mean French accent from Paris, he does not have that. I’m pretty sure if he trained he can do that too 😂
Im not sure you quite understand what it means to be a native speaker@@hellowkittiies
His Spanish accent was actually crazy good too lol
@@GabeE3195 I think he's one of those few people who can do perfect IPA pronunciation. Xiaoma is fluent in so many languages but always has an accent whereas June aims to sound like a native.
People that speak many languages are always impressive, but when you pronounce things like him it adds an extra layer to the wow factor. Anyone in NY that hears him would think he grew up in New York but he arrived at 16 years old lol
it was crazy learning that june learned english only just a few years ago wtf?? absolutely perfect american accent and sounds like a native speaker, literally incredible
dude is actually talented
2-3 years understanding some advanced vocabulary is pretty common with such extreme immersion. but nothing like that level of fluency, much less with such a spot-on local new york accent.
@@dead-claudiaexactly!! i know many people who are immigrants who’ve lived in america for a longer time than june, and while their english is good, it’s nowhere near as perfect as june’s english. i hope june is learning more languages because like you said, he is talented.
Yeah. For the lack of a better description, it sounds like he has multiple first languages. If he spoke to me in English I would have never guessed he is fluent in Chinese and vice versa
I assumed he had been speaking English his whole life based on his accent! Crazy good.
well this is new, i thought he was native damn
Please let this grandfather man take you around. He looked so happy and looked like he felt seen for the first time in forever.
So, I grew up bilingual in a place where most people are monolingual and growing up my mom (who is also bilingual) told me "never ever talk sh!t about someone in front of them because you think they dont understand your language. You have absolutely no idea what languages people speak based on what they look like."
I took it to heart. Stuff like this makes me realize my mom was right.
100% percent agree! I worked in customer service at Macy's in the women's shoe department. Even if someone's English wasn't good, I'd try my best to communicate with them and help them, but I can count numerous times where I'd try to communicate with people who clearly did speak English as a second language, but spoke in their native tongue to make my shift harder; insulting me directly to my face because they knew I couldn't understand their language. but I've always been really good at reading body language, and believe me, you can tell when someone is insulting you while smiling, looking you directly in the eye, knowing full well you don't speak their language.
Unfortunately, I don't have an ear for language, BUT I can 9/10 times peg the language, and I would ask them if they're speaking ----- language. Surprised, they'd generally ask me how I knew, and I'd tell them that I can generally identify the language by the cadence and musicality of their speech.
I could never imagine talking shite about someone in front of them, even if I knew they didn't speak English. The complete discourteously astounds me.
After hearing his life history, it’s June’s English ability that really shocks me. A few people that learn a new language after 17 will have the absolute fluency and native-sounding diction that he has in English.
that old man at 2:56 is such a character lmao i love it
He is china mafia in my opinion
The troublesome uncle
The cool uncle
Only by dropping the language barrier can you go from getting scammed to sharing a cup of shaved ice. I love it
Meh, it depends on what culture. I been to Japan, and even though I was a foreigner, they never tried stuff like that.
The inner grandpa came out in that old man when he saw how easily he could communicate and engage with you guys love to see it
I'm sure the translation has a part in it, but I really liked that the older gentleman very straight-forwardly said, "as soon as I realized that I could communicate with you, I became very happy."
I loved this too!
@@PlanetAscensionTV Will have to check out your channel, it seems really cool!
Just imagine if he learned english, he could communicate with so many more
it wouldnt be the same as his language he has known for his whole life though, that's a much deeper communication@@crackpippi
@@crackpippihe's like 70 years old you know how hard it is to learn a language at freakin 70???
ive always wondered why asians can never seem to tell when someone is half asian, yet to the rest of us its extremely obvious, the guy literally looks like a chinese guy with a tan and braids, but they just think hes fully black
asia is huge continent, only part of east asian seemed hard to tell since they are mostly dealing with only one ethnicity every day. it's different if we talk about south east asia, we mostly lived together with others different ethnic
Yea , asian genes are so strong too. Like every half asian I've known has an asian face wether they are mixed with black and white even quarter Asians have asian faces. It's the strongest gene there is
@@bellacortezapparently african genes are as strong if not stronger it seems
Yeah especially considering he has a perfect accent. If I heard someone talking with a perfect English accent, I would immediately assume they were born and raised in an English speaking country. I guess the difference is that it's much less common to see other ethnicities living in China compared to in America, Canada, Australia and the UK.
If you are living in America, there's no one that "looks American". A lot of Americans have European ancestry, but somewhere around 40% don't, so in America MOST people are going to assume that you are American until there's evidence otherwise.
Similarly, in America, you meet every conceivable "mixed" ancestry. You become used to seeing lots of different mixed ethnic backgrounds. We can pick out those backgrounds from features, sometimes, because we have more experience seeing them. But countries like China or Japan are almost entirely ethnically homogeneous. A person there has very little experience seeing people that are not part of the monoculture of their country.
Them comparing their skin color will heal the world 😂
June is great! Not only speaks those languages expertly, but he obviously likes people and they like him. He makes others smile and feel good, including me and I'm sure other fans of your site. Please have him back as a guest on the channel!
This is a good lesson to the older generation that maybe the days of talking about people behind their back are over because you never know who can speak what.
Imagine thinking people are foreigners when you're the foreigner.
Older generation? So far a lot of people in his videos do that and they’re ALL ages. Maybe this is a good lesson to everyone not to be ageist either. 😂
@@DangerRussDayZ6533 yeah that's what gets me, the gal to move to a different country then call people foreigners is ridiculously stupid.
I was with a friend in an elevator in Madrid. My friend was visiting from the states and I an American, living in Madrid at the time. Some latino from the US made a horrible comment about my overweight friend, and I turned around gave this man hell, I mean hell. The other people in the elevator were cheering me on.
@@multilingual972 happens a lot in the states too. Talk about ya right in front of you and then get mad when you ask them if they wouldn’t mind conversing in the language we all know. They always say it wasn’t about you. Find out later tho that it was. It’s rude.
Xiao was outclassed here 😁...just this once but make more together..great energy together 😎
"Let's quote him 500, he probably can't afford it anyway" 😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
lmao that was the most racist gossip I've seen on xioma's channel for a bit
@@FlamingFox211 LOL
Very ignorant man, but understanding Mandarin ended his stereotype thinking fast, so that was a good comeback instead of returning a verbal attack.
@@FlamingFox211why is everything racist😂 he could’ve said that because of his dress sense he could’ve said that about a white guy or anyone
@@Teekz.283because no one has said that about xiaoma in all his videos? lol if you don’t think chinese are unbelievably anti black i have bad news for you son
When a old Chinese man starts to affectionately beat you, you’ve just made a friend for life 😂 learned from experience.
This guy is great. Such a people person and knows the Chinese idioms and sayings. Bring him back more!
Wow funny how the vendor tried to rip him off for the jade, then had to apologize when the found out his chinese was better then his own
not really, he was insulting him about not being able to afford to buy it. Later he apologized for it.
Actually the jade is expensive and common in chinese culture, so he just throw off a number thinking ge won't know the value of it and just buy it as a necklace
I been to China before and this is very very common on foreigners. You can easily get scammed which is the reason I stopped going there for travel
@@darksector1389 I am sorry for your experience. Things have changed fast here in China in the past decade and much better than before. Almost everything is fixed price
We need more videos with this guy. This was really great.
This video had me laughing out loud like a crazy person. It was both funny and beautiful as well. The positivity June both created and maintained despite a little bit of negativity was world class. The shirt vendor guy with the red jacket, Y'all gotta visit him again he was sooooo happy to talk with you both. Thanks Xiaoma and June, I just subscribed to your channel. Awesome guys!
Coming from a frenchie, June's French is immaculate ! It is so rare to hear non-natives speakers have this good of an accent, and this much fluidity. Very impressive !
Pourquoi mentez-vous ? Son français a clairement un accent et, il fait une erreur sur sa fin de phrase " Les français vous pouvez tiper en commente "
@@jamesbrowny9488thanks for telling the truth. Hate when ppl lie
@@jamesbrowny9488 Certes, il y a une très légère trace d'accent, mais comparé à n'importe quel anglophone essayant de parler francais, ici la trace est très minime. Pour la faute en fin de phrase ca s'appelle un anglicisme et, surprise : la plupart des francais font des anglicismes tout les jours.
Je vous retourne donc la question : Moi je "mens", mais vous, pourquoi êtes vous aigri ?
@@astro_mimi j’ai exactement dit la même chose « il a mélangé l’anglais et le français », il faudrait apprendre à lire avant de donner des leçons.
Et surprise, ce n’est pas parce que les anglais font de l’anglicisme que cela devient grammaticalement correct. Il faudrait arrêter de booster l’égo des gens…
@@jamesbrowny9488 je prendrais même plus la peine de répondre après ça, vous êtes juste qqn d'aigri qui apparemment ne supporte pas l'idée que des cultures et langues se mélangent. Vous êtes ce qui rend la France triste et terne,
(Pas) cordialement.
I don’t speak Chinese, but I think it’s so funny how you can kind of hear people doing an exaggerated Beijing accent to be silly in the moment. The first time I noticed it was when the nail salon owner lady did it. I watched that part so many times just giggling. Thanks ari!
Edit: after seeing the end! I’m mixed too and I didn’t realize I wasn’t white like everyone else until I was 6 or 7 😑
Sorry, another edit: 7:41 I worked in Tijuana briefly and there is actually a significant Chinese population there due to expanding railroad and irrigation system construction in the late 1800s/early 1900s
Good catch, people tend to switch to standardized mandarin since dialects are so different. But how xiaoma speaks sometimes is actually closer to a Beijing accent, they add "-er" sounds at the end of many words/phrases! 😄
this last march I ordered chinese food (in TJ), in spanish. Was a little surreal. We had a good conversation. Taked about how long she'd been here, etc. Me (white as snow) from the states.
Xiaoma has made a video in Mexico before where he visited various Chinese restaurants and practiced his Spanish and Chinese together.
@@smileymalaise ive seen others do the same particularly in Mexicali which has a long heritage of Chinese presence. The woman I spoke to had been in TJ only several years. either way, very interesting stories.
His English is impeccable too. What an amazing young man.
Your friend has such a rich, diverse mixture of cultures! So amazing that he embraced them and is now set to excel.
It's so awesome to see how people light up when June starts speaking Chinese. He seems like such a great guy!
You two make A REALLY GOOD TEAM. I wanna see more of you two together.🙏🙏
THIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST ONES XIOMA AND JUNE. Great cast, the "stars" and the street "guests"
This video was a breath of fresh air with how much laughter was in the video. You can tell how well you both get along and compliment eachother when talking to people.
I was literally smiling from ear to ear while watching this.. lmaooo everything about it was so wholesome. Plz do more collabs like this with June! You guys bounce off each other so well
Honestly one of my favorites so far. You got to have June on more
this video has almost single handedly conviced me to start learning chinese
facts
As a mixed person i know what it feels like when know one believes you where you really from. Respect to your friend for being so positive about it.
He's very obviously half chinese, but I definitely relate to the feeling. No one can ever tell I'm half native.
I would love to see Xiaoma go to the market and speak only in a thick Beijing accent
i think he's done that many times in his older vids
I don't normally like videos with two people, but this was great fun and positively charming! I'd love to see further collaborations.
so you only like videos with 3 or more people Good to know.
@@markvanderstelt8999😂
The old man was an absolute riot 😭🤣 this was one of the funniest videos so far!!!
Ari, you have to do a series with him, he is straight fire, people are shocked by you... he blows them away, loved this video!!
June is still under 900 subscribers, with this collaboration he'll be over 5k in a week. UA-cam fame just around the corner.🙏
The feeling you had when June spoke Chinese and French is the feeling all the people you talk to in your videos get times 10! It’s also the feeling us viewers get. Such an incredible channel. The people that don’t speak English seem so grateful of your presence.
This guy is a genius with languages, wow!
Please do more videos with him, his English sounds completely natural! This guy is absolutely amazing!
You both meshed very well like a traveling comedy show, you should make more videos together!!!
May you have a fantastic day and many more to come❤🥰
There is a definite difference when Xoima and this your man approach shops and stands. In all the videos I watch on this channel the vendors may say cheeky things in Chinese not knowing he speaks Chinese, But for this other young man I have heard them quote wrong prices and even say rude things not knowing he understands them. This video was very telling..and not in a good way. 😢
@@Jess-737 I remember Laosha well. RIP to a very kind man💕. It's wonderful he didn't experience that, but this young man is and this young man was raised in China. He was very cool about it but on some level it has to get to you.
That older gentleman was so sweet, his reaction hit so close to home, since the elders in my country speak so many different dialects, it’s almost as difficult to distinguish them as if they were languages, and when they discover you can communicate in their dialect they react the same exact way! ☺️
Love when you feature other talented people in your videos. Really cool of you to give them a platform.
His aura is so warm & kind and he’s soooo handsome! More of June please 🥰🥰🤍
Are they really surprised June speaks Chinese? He looks very Chinese to me.
Right? Only the lady at 9:35 acknowledged how he was clearly Chinese.
yeah and she was mexican chinese too@@hellohottiee
Yes, exactly. He looks Chinese to me, as well.
Him moving to America at 16, but able to have this accent is crazy
We need more videos with June! This was a lot of fun to watch!
A lot of great moments in this video. Really enjoyed it 💯😂
I love how the Chinese people are so proud of their language and ethnicity. Always a heart-felt watch, aside from being really cool. 😊
Not just his Chinese and French are impeccable but his New Yorker too 😅
I love the "donk!" sound you make when someone is so confused haha its soooo good! also love how they tried to rip you off then immediately change up and become your best friend! SO good! this is a superpower you guys have.
Please do a part 2 of this video with June or more videos with him, he's so nice and I love his energy!
I saw this guy on Frankie's channel, and I thought he had a great personality while talking Chinese 😂
Great to see him on this channel too 😁
Loved seeing you two chaps out today!! Really enjoyed this
One of the better videos lately, love the reactions and energy!
If the interaction with old guy doesn’t inspire people to learn languages nothing will.
Such a wholesome interaction where he spoke to you like you were lifetime best buddies.
Amazing 🤩
He is amazing. What a beautiful person and story. They made a beautiful child!!! These videos are a blessing. Bringing people together so beautifully. I love the happiness they bring, to the people in them, to us watching them.
This is the best one yet! love the energy in this video!!!
That's one of the best of your films for ages xiaoma. Really enjoyed that one! I'd love to see some more with June, he's a great character and brilliant on film, and that film had me smiling from beginning to end.
The reactions though, I now know from my own experience. I've only been here 6 months, and recording my language journey... and I get the same reactions, even if I'm just ordering something to eat!
I don't secret film though, otherwise, I'd capture some great ones, where you can see all the staff looking for the best English speaker to serve me... then I order in Chinese, and usually, the people who walked away just will start laughing, and saying I didn't think he would speak Chinese. It simply because not many foreigners can speak much if anything. I think it's a shame, as learning Chinese is so damn interesting.
Same
Where are you Sean?
I find both mainland and Taiwan amazing, fun, safe, and as soon as you speak any Chinese at all, get a great reaction, just like xiaoma and other youtubers. Seems strange in a way because in England, we never say, 'wow your English is great!' to foreigners. @@seanroberts381
Good video Let go!!! June keep up the great work 💪🏾😎
As a French, I can attest that June seems to be fluent in everyday French, even if he has a foreign accent. But I could clearly hear that his syntax and vocabulary are natural (not like mines in English, for example).
also he's an African-French speaker. I don't know if there's a difference in accents, but I would guess so
@@Liwaj42 : Well, I'm used to hear different African accents in French and I don't think his foreign accent is African. And I don't know how much French he speaks, as he only used everyday sentences (from France, without African expressions), but that seemed pretty fluent to me.
@@JeanChordeiles I see!
@@JeanChordeiles On an unrelated topic, does Gims/Maitre Gims rap/sing with an accent? I'm slowly learning french, but I love his music. Just wondering if the contractions that he uses are normal outside of music.
@@callumlavigne2463Nop, he doesn’t have an accent :)
One of the best videos yet!!!!
Really loved the energy that Junes brings here. Please more videos with him
This is probably one of the best videos in a while! The people were so enthusiastic and passionate. A lot of fun and laughs !
Been watching you for years and I can’t said I’ve smile more to one of your videos, the vibes were amazing!
Thank you both for the video & keep up the great work 👍🏻
This episode was brilliant. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
What a lovely talented young man 😊 Love his laugh.
Bring this guy back for more videos. He's great.
This episode was one of the best yet! 💪🏼🔥✌🏼💯
This duo 🔥🔥 June's vibe so good n positive !! Needa see him in more vids
I feel a bit sad that nobody believes he’s Chinese… because he is truly Chinese just because he is mixed with black does not make him less Chinese 😢
June is truly a linguistic master. Such a great vid.
Please do more videos together. Yall have great energy and he jokes just enough to keep the people on their feet!
Absolutely _love_ these longer videos.
I really like to see nice people get along. It makes my day more than anything.
In this atmosphere of tension between ethinicities it is simply beautiful to see how different people with different background can interact with one another with true curiosity.
I love your channel man
i love these interactions, so wholesome
My favorite video here by far - this video is so impactful and important!!! Thank you both of you!!! Many blessings 🙏🙏🙏
Really enjoyable vid like always. June seems like a cool guy. If you ever travel and do videos he'd be a great addition to take along. The more the merrier plus today you can't have enough people with you for safety reasons. Strength in numbers and all that.
Perhaps one of my favorite videos you’ve made. Much love
Agreed. Very wholesome.
You two guys make such a great team, we want more!!!!
I enjoyed this a lot. I just love people's genuine reactions.
I love the energy between June and the woman @1:19. She's giving off some serious Auntie energy, giving him a hard time with a wink and a smile.
this guy is gold. wanna see more with him xiaoma. he´s a nice guy!
Really enjoy the longer videos. So good!
June is a beautiful pure spirit full of love ,forgivingness and humor !!! He's a total vibe !
I loved that June used so many slang, and "sayings", that made the most of it, look at reaction of that bottle seller starting at 15:00
His french is great
these videos are SO MUCH FUN to watch!! I love love love it! language brings people together!
Really like how confident, laid back and outgoing he is when talking with people. And people liked when he was teasing them :)