Chinese People Gossip About My Tattoo, But I Know Chinese 

Amazing invention!

Would this work for Japanese as well? Any dictionaries upcoming?

@@jonharbeck2763 Hi Jon! Thanks a lot for your question, yes, we´ll soon be adding more languages including japanese in the following updates ;)

@@calvinhoward3808 Thanks a lot😉

Can it read vertical Chinese script?

Giving me Spiderman vibes 🤣

I want to be like that so bad! Where people are so happy to see me ❤️

@@flylikeabutterfly951 hey man just put yourself around the right people and that will start to happen, just make sure they are being genuine. I’ve seen both sides and it is devastating to know that some people do it out of pity. Seriously just surround yourself with good people and real friends. You will eventually get to the point where when you see people they are happy to see you too. Don’t know if that’s what you needed to hear or anything but just wanted to give you a little advice. ❤️

I was about to say the same thing! That's his people now. Been watching his videos for a few years now and it always surprises me how many people know him and don't know him. He can walk into a place and at least 1 person knows who he is. I remember this one video where he went into a restaurant and the dude in the back cooking the food came out and was all like, "You're Xiaoma!" Amazing stuff.

That is why I believe he needs to be the UN ambassador.

😂😂

That guy was trying to be nice and it was sweet to see

That linguistic love could be felt through the screen hahah

Yup. That are the friends that you would want in your life. The balance. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lmao laying on the facts though. We all need a dude like that in life to set us straight.

I was rooting for her. Get that bank

Grandma is on that hustle!

grandma's grind never stops

They love doing that. Any compliment for a sale hahaha

That’s exactly how China is as a foreigner 😅 I constantly got told how handsome I was by ladies working in stores

😂

So the guy was ment to be a office worker lol

Ngl I'd go get the chairs

and then everyone clapped

​@@halo7554you forgot to mention that the guy they were talking to was named Albert Einstein

Could you imagine someone who thought that tattoo was of something else just so confused why every kept saying king pao chicken around them.

I always love seeing people making nice compliments of his perfect chinese 💚😀🌈 he interacts so naturally with people

the more amazing part is how many people know him. he is running around and at least 3 people run by and " hey Xiao ma" :D

Or the people who recognized him..."Hi, Xiaoma."

Imagine someone went to America with “Big Mac” tattoo

Fisheye lens

@@cookncrook6902 nah, thats just 360 camera

When he was talking to that guy he had the most tilted head😂😂😂

@@kellykel4472 dude same

RIGHT😭

😂😂😂

It always has me dying 😭 my humour is broken

definitely😂

Was looking for this comment because it's so dang true 😂

When his face went like this 🌛 i laughed my ass off 😂🤣🤣

Professionals have standards

tried very hard to save himself haha

True

I guess because so many people speak English, that when a non native speakers language skills are brought to attention, it considered very rude, so it’s surprising to see others do it. But it’s a different situation since it’s more unusual to learn Chinese.

Absolutely

I love their reactions, they’re always very nice people too, never nasty even if they do have a chuckle at the white guy 😂

...as much as I want to be a hater of the "cookie-cutter", Polyglot reaction content... I cant stop watching it

Wait is the tattoo fr?

@@growingsoul30 Really. Really?

His language was more correct/specific than that of typical tattoos where Americans get Chinese letters on them of things. The dude explains it well.

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@@growingsoul30 I'm wondering if it was real too. Pretty big for a joke tattoo!

The meanest looking mf turned out to be the sweetest person

⁠@@juanblanco7898that’s usually how it goes

yea it looks like he's never looking at them

Hah, me too.

Haha was literally just thinking that

He's like your friendly neighborhood spiderman but his power is languages lol

soon he won't be able to make videos about surprising chinese people around his neighborhood

I also love how no one sticks around awkwardly like in some streams ♡

We can all get a glimpse on how ridiculous the Chinese tattoos must look to them, even if they aren't food-related, by looking at their increasingly western-themed clothing. There it's basically the other way round: they'll wear shirts for example with completely meaningless English sentences. For example, "THINK LESS. STUPID MORE." - which is probably a messed up translation to the tune of "follow your heart" or "don't overthink, have fun".

Would be even funnier if he added a price.

@@graealex chinese ppl have a sense of humor

@@graealex "THINK LESS. STUPID MORE." definitely could see someone wearing that, even in the U.S

Kinda like the French who "don't care about what you say, really, as long as you pronounce it correctly".

Americans trying to explain the concept of a tattoo: "Okay so imagine a burger.."

@@Verac1tyNo, he is explaining how it would be funny if the roles were reversed.

​​@@Verac1ty someone who isn't American trying to find any reason to hate on Americans:

"It means 'Peace'" "It's chicken!"

LMAO That part got me

LOL same!

where

@@mememanfresh 8:00

@@mathscichic thank you

Only works outside the US tho

@@biolt90 Do you mean if a non English speaker goes to the USA, learns English then speaks it, no one's impressed? Never thought of it like that but it's true.

@@Portrait-in-Black You also got to realize that Americans also don't gossip about people "behind their backs" in English because they assume everyone knows what they are saying, and it's true 99% of the time.

were all the same

I'm married to a canto chinese man and I don't speak very much Cantonese, just the bare minimum to be a Canadian (please, thanks, thank you, I'm so sorry)and people relax around me instantly when I speak it. They tell me how good I am and try to help me learn and give me encouragement, even when they're strangers haha.

Plus the 4.7m YT subs is a nice perk...lol

@@LMBC6Brian I'm sure it helps. However, being in a community talking their language fluently will have recognition as a side effect with or without RU-vid videos.

@@paulrichardspencer Agreed. He’s a very interesting/ inspiring guy.

Because he is white and talks chinese he is deserving of being liked amongst the community? Hm kinda weird

@@antepa112 hmm no one mentioned anything about race but you.. kind of weird dude

What does it mean

@@OfficiallyJayleen Its his name

@@OfficiallyJayleen lmaoo

@@yoannbernardin9299 most names have meanings

@LurKing @Yomomma It means "little horse" in Mandarin.

I think that's the kind of fan that every famous person wants. A chill person that just says hi like they're all human too. Good stuff.

@@BWTECH0521 100% agree

@@BWTECH0521 I mean they ARE in nyc

Timestamp?

@@reganmckinnon3328 10:11

To be fair, New Yorkers tend to have a very "I'll stay out of your business, you stay the fuck out of mine" attitude. Saying hi to someone on the street in NYC is the equivalent of running up and hugging them anywhere else.

@@BeinIan Well said 😂

@@BeinIan Pretty big city, they've seen it all, everyone's stressed XD.

Same here in Vegas

that's new york respect

Hes famous. Even my Chinese teacher knows him😂

@@applesauce.6011 my Chinese teacher showed one of his videos to our class 😂

Guy was shook when he seen him instantly grabbed his girl 😂

I love that too, I wonder if he likes that or not.

I mean I'd do that too. No bad in boasting a bit about your skills.

same! it gets a funnier reaction out of them for more video content 🤣

but, when u go to the place of origin... ACCENT etc, cmon now lmao

he's just saying that's how he learned it initially. generally that's what people want to know.

Its because he still has a year ones skill level

隨便寫幾個字 traditional or 随便写几个字 in simplified. Go do it!

胡乱找的字/随机翻译的中文/

Awesome idea.

i got a tattoo which says "whatever" cause it's funny. It's been two years and it still is funny saying it to new people

This is the real play

yeah, they were very excited to be selling him a magic stick that disappears fat for fifteen dollars. the last people making a video gave her thirty, and it made her very happy, she says.

@@entropicflux8849 I think they are the guys in 9:34. Dude literally said they were overpaying them.

@@entropicflux8849 yeah fr 💀

"Goodbyekung pao chicken lol" 💀

Right? 😂

And if you don't speak it you can get bent apparently

If you speak it well of course Unlike English other languages are unforgiving and with slight mispronouncing they’ll even think you’re “stupid”

@@HonchoHundo I can attest to that 😅 I asked my mom how to say a phrase in Spanish and she told me, I repeated it, and I ended up saying "F*cking" as in having sex XD she would not stop laughing and even brought my dad to laugh at it, too. Can't even remember what I initially wanted translated...

Not in Germany though. When you are not fluent in German they will just switch to English and ignore your efforts to speak their language. :D

@@kimreni It’s like that in Scandinavian countries too. If you can’t keep the rhythm or ask them to repeat themselves, they switch to English.

Welcome to NYC; it's not rare to see celebrities on the street or the subway or wherever. Most people won't harass them, it's just a part of life there.

Why would they be disrespectful?

@@A1rPun idk maybe 9 y/o’s farting in their direction or something 🗿

@@A1rPun stopping him, invading his space, begging for pictures taken, treating him like a spectacle and not a person.

A few years ago Alice Cooper was seated on a plane right behind my wife and she was trying to get a secret selfie with him. I told her "you're from NY, act like it!.

lmao i got that feeling a lot too, like he was just casually carrying me around

Gun at 0:28 left guy pulls it on girl in front of him y'all see that?

@@kasenpoynt7195 It's his phone ..

@@kasenpoynt7195 lmfao pls check before saying this

I'm your 1000th like.

I found it funny that she wasn't afraid to tell him what it really meant 🤣 I feel like a lot of people would try to lie out of politeness, but naw she like "haha nope it means chicken"

@@OrangeC7 You can see her pause for a split second and think "ah shit I have to break it to him" LOL

I noticed that! he switched to chinese and she switched with him but she didn’t say a word about it!

They probably wanted to practice their English

@@disgustof-riley8338 ..?

Beautiful breakdown and analysis. I really enjoyed reading your comment.

Never stood still to think about this, you are totally right. This makes his videos even better for sure

@@timp1154 Absolutely! It's the perfect type of prank, because once people realize he can speak the language and understands what his tattoo means, it invites them "into" the joke, rather than leaving them on the outside. It lets them laugh along to the fact that so many non-native speakers get words in foreign languages permanently tattooed on their skin, and it's WRONG most of the time. Must be so strange to see that... T_T

@@austinjrb Thanks! 😁 It makes me so happy to see a video like this, where people aren't ridiculed or made to feel shamed as the butt of someone else's joke. The best type of prank, in my opinion.

Yeah he deceives them but it’s all in fun 😂

yea bcs trump, that one president is very sensational even in China 😆

@@AKDHFR not sure what trump had to do with anything. People were getting these long before he even thought to run for American President. My point was to talk about how doing something involving someone’s culture for a fashion trend rather than understanding their culture makes all the difference in peoples minds.

@@triciak4765 you said people were "judgemental" they are indeed "sometimes" talking about western people of course they're sometimes generalizing stereotyping just like others. Bcs of Trump, "some" chinese people do stereotyping western people = have attitude like Trump, xiaoma just didnt include it in the video.

@@AKDHFR stereotyping was a thing before Trump dood

@@AKDHFR do chinese think all americans have amnesia and stutter because of biden?

The lady in red definitely noticed. Her reaction is so funny.

she was more focused on selling to xiaoman that's why

Yeh haha I was like that guy gets it😋

I look like a straight-up 8.5x11 and I've had this happen with Spanish-speaking patients a number of times 🤣

That is the most clever way I’ve ever heard anyone refer to themselves as super white, lol

@@rivergreen1727 My boy said 8.5x11 lmao

Why not just say A4

@@rivergreen1727 SO UNDER RATED! 8.5x11! Hilarious and I would like this 1000 times if I could

idk i feel like it adds to the video 😂😭

Oooh is that what it is. Ya it's wierd

Yes, I was trying to figure it out. Some if the shots look like he's taking into a mirror and the people he is conversing with are behind him.

it feels like theyre talking to the watchers and not each other 🤣

I don't like it personally, but I enjoy the content anyway lol

That's why he had to buy the shades.

@@richardtodd6843 exactly it's pretty obvious lol

He's slowly starting to lose the element of surprise cause more and more chinese people recognize him on the street

That's why he's getting tattoos, next is his face tat...

Especially when the mask bull$hit is over. But hey this is NY so it may never end

Is it fake??? I couldn’t tell and was genuinely curious the whole time

@@nicanz1500 no...?

im gonna make your cheeks sore alright

​@@nicanz1500yes all the Chinese people in this video are fake.

Cheeks sore ?

Did u go to China Town? Lower east side is the place to go

wait that wasnt filmed in China? thought he talked about NYC in the end of the video as a joke... damn

Its not just like this in nyc. America has a bunch of spots like this.

@@phreshpresh this is Flushing

What's disturbing about this: all the anti-Asian attacks in NYC, and anti-Chinese sentiments. Only Asian pages talk about it, no one seems to want to address it.

I thought the same hahah

does anyone know their channel i wanna see the video lmao 😭

@@luhraee aaaa i want to see it too!

DOES ANYONE KNOW THE CHANNEL LOL

Lol same

Which languages?

Me too!

What are you trying to learn

So you're a hyper polyglot alpha chad in training.

i tried learning Chinese and i gave up after a week hope u keep up whatever u learning

Well it may be differences in how a culture takes a compliment. In china compliment responses are usually rejection. Not that I don’t think he is humble!

always a good idea to stay humble

So humble.. 'clueless WHITE guy speaks PERFECT chinese'

It's a very genuine Chinese way to reply "Just a little bit". It's a proof that he knows Chinese culture well, not only the language.

In china and certain other countries it’s really expected of everyone to be humble especially foreigners

Feel like i'm gonna puke =)

Horrible camera

It’s a fish eye, folks... 🤦🏻‍♀️

@@melindamercier6811 It still sucks.

omg yes, me too :D i keep bending my neck :D

It looks so strange

Stando Powa!

Stand user: Xiaoma Standname: Kung Pao chicken requiem Stand ability: able to summon an infinite amount of chickens

Two rules in jojo... don’t shit talk the hair... and don’t disrespect the chicken

Mandarin is hella difficult and requires a lot of work and consistent practice, xiaoma has been learning it since 2008

Maybe start with something easier, like Spanish. Easier to learn and still lots of application

@@qwertyasdf4081 Totally agree! I'm a native Spanish speaker BTW ;) But I get the point of starting with something easier. I just think is pretty cool to connect on that level, speaking their language :)

@@NormanVsNorman damn, if you can speak English and Spanish then you could probably a lot more. I can only speak English, but I’m guessing knowing two languages makes learning others much easier

@@qwertyasdf4081 not the case with Finnish, the only other language Finnish could help me with is Estonian or Karelian 🥴 though I do know Swedish as well, so Norwegian would be the next step for me probably.

He did say so one of them that he was doing it to see peoples' reactions to it.

Literallly the typical white guy for some XD

@@itzadedmeme no usually people get a tattoo that says Kung Pao Chicken and think it means Live Laugh Love 😂

Wait what? He said it was for a video around the 7:00 mark

It makes it funnier when some of the people don’t seem to realize that he switched to mandarin until after a few back and forths. Kills me everytime he jumps from english to mandarin or cantonese.

Pretty sure they were just being nice because they realized he can speak their language. Notice how all the conversations started off with them laughing and/or poking fun at his tattoo.

@@h91rex100 I get that. The lack of disdain though really surprised me. My parents are super against tattoos so it makes me think all older people are. But none of them criticised his choices or berated his intelligence. It really took me aback.

@@SpeedyOwl if he didn't know mandarin though they might have continued to make fun of him

@@HighlightHeaven and it would be justified lol

@@HighlightHeaven I don’t know if it’s necessarily making fun. More of a confused funny thing because if someone had the same thing but in English that’s how I’d react at first

OHHHH

The xiaoma cinematic universe

yeaaa i was thinking that too

Anyone have a link to the other guys videos?

... You've enlightened me. 🤯💀

I was literally crying so hard from that

SAME

3:55

And his hands look like a T Rex!

Me too omg

Learning and speaking a language can be very hard if you're introverted, and I've had difficulty in feeling confident enough to speak Spanish with other people. My main tip to you is just try your best, and even if you get some words wrong, most people who speak Japanese would be happy that you were giving an effort and trying to learn. Maybe you could try talking to people online in lessons or just trying to find Japanese speaking individuals? It's less stressful to try to speak when you're anonymous over the internet lol

Try something like Italki, easier to speak with people through video call - especially when you pay them they have to be nice

Obviously something in you is screaming to bring you out into the world and interact without fear. Sounds like your life’s mission is to stop fighting that inner voice and learn to accept embarrassment and failure as part of the experience. Good luck👊

Sorry I rambled so much (٥↼_↼) I remember the app HelloTalk being pretty good for talking w/ ppl in other languages;; I remember there also being a pen-pal app that could also be helpful Even if you don't go out to talk to ppl, you could try to find some ppl to talk to online, it can probably help a lot - but also remember to be careful! I say this but I'm also too shy and don't rly do that either 😅 I'd personally recommend trying to think in Japanese (and any other language you're learning) more often [be careful of being lost in translation tho! 😅] and if there's any particular activity you like that can incorporate the language then try to do that (I find it helps watching e.g anime/jdramas w/ Japanese subtitles (occasionally Chinese subtitles include Japanese - never rly officially learn to read Chinese (few yrs of Chinese school on Sundays but I could kinda already read/speak decently by then + never rly stuck w/ me since I still suck at writing 😭), it was mostly thanks to subtitles (somehow) (*˘︶˘*) I remember always seeing 四川大地震 on TVB and it was just stuck in my head for a ve~ry long time) ANYWAY, yeah, try to find sth comfortable for you! I'm currently reading a lot of manga on Jump+ - I still find katakana difficult even tho a lot of English speakers seem to find katakana easier than hiragana.... BUT ✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧ for kanji I've got my CN knowledge and occasionally furigana.....and I occasionally use a translator + a quick google search (I seem to keep on forgetting 怪我 since I keep on noting it down...) [I just remembered sth and kinda wanted to say "mangas are nice, but light novels are also kinda rly good" (been kinda hooked on Spy Classroom and NPC village, but I'm reading them in ENG) ...I keep on forgetting that I have a (light ?) novel version of Satsuten from that rly awkward trip to Osaka - maybe now I can finally read it w/ ease!! (◍•▿•◍)✧*。- never actually finished reading that...... also never actually started watching the anime either - I prefer manga Rachel over game and anime because the artist was like obsessed w/ drawing her hair and I loved it] yeah I'm tired so imma stop here before i don't. ....... but I also rly wanna say it kinda helps watching Japanese RU-vidrs: Satomi-kun (St. Pri)'s playthrough of mama ni aitai (I think) was pretty good, and he voiced all the dialogue so it was rly easy for me to understand;; I also watch Colon but....idk..;; oh yeah, I love Jel's 遠井(Toofar) series♡ ;; Riinu's cute. ... Riinu's cute. I like Riinu but I don't rly watch their channel much... ;; Oh, and I rly like Root-kun's songs~ [just didn't feel right to not mention everyone 😤 ...(minus the purple bunny)] Retort (レトルトさん) [I'm still finding it hard to believe he got a collab w/ CrayShin] and honestly probably all SaiOre members are a nice choice (I kinda only watch him and Kiyo tho) since they used and kinda still do, play a lot of dialogue heavy games : I rly like that majority vote death game~~ (対数判決デスゲーム) [Occasionally, they do tend to skip some dialogue {and I find it a little annoying since I'm the type who reads everything} but it's kinda fine for me] I rly like Hanae Natsuki's 'Darkness' series w/ Ono Kensho and Eguchi Ta- - they even managed to have an UNO button made! (˃͈ + ˂͈ ༶ ) [花江夏樹、小野賢章、江口拓也 and most guests on his channel are voice actors, so if you watch anime, you might be able to recognise them (''' ˊᵕˋ ''') - Eguchi's currently voice acting as Loid in SpyxFamily] Obey Me! - the fanbase is super quick;; honestly haven't been playing the game since it does use quite a lot of storage, but it's a pretty good otoge;; I usually only tune in to the livestreams, but they also have a radio podcast and other fun stuff~ Honestly, I like VTubers, but I rly don't have the time to go through all those livestreams so I wouldn't know who to recommend, but a lot of them are bilingual if not more SoraTheTroll : er...helps to know what you probably shouldn't do I love songs so I follow quite a lot of artists including utaites and vocaloid producers - I find songs to be an easy way to learn once you find sth suitable [Royal Scandal series is so good - Rahwia (hope I'm not remembering the wrong person, I don't remember illustrators well enough 😣), 奏音69 and Luz (also ft. Megurine Luka) - I rly liked the word play and the stories (+ OBNN's cover of Queen of Hearts did hype it up a bit for me) Also Deco*27's recent Mannequin album 😍 Oh, and Ado's White Day song!! (永遠のあくる日 - eien no akuru hi) It's literally like a reply to GiraGira that released on Valentine's a yr (or two?) ago]

struggling w the same thing 😭 i havent tried it (learning more basic convo skills) , maybe going on jp servers in vc if your into gaming

Lmfaooo mad lad😂

漢字 (Kanji) is the borrowed alphabet from the Chinese writing system for Japanese writing. Chinese characters are called 漢字 (Hanzi) not Kanji. In other words, Japanese characters are called Kanji, and Chinese characters are called Hanzi.

That’s hilarious.

I've seen a "geri kuso" tatto before.

@@therumtumtiger thanks for clarifying! I'm learning Japanese and didn't know.

omg

holy sh*t that make sense!

I noticed that!

Sounds like a side quest from an RPG

HAHAHAHAHHA

Yeah that makes more sense

He has another video with the same idea, except it was winter so he couldnt do the tattoo instead its a shirt that says "Foreigner" Its just as funny! Titled Chinese people gossip about white guy.

That would be hilarious!

OH MY GOD HE SHOULD TOTALLY DO THAT HOW DO WE GET THAT MESSAGE THROUGH TO HIM

I admire that too. Well done, Xiaoma!

Tbf, speaking doesn't mean he can read it! (just to be clear, obviously he can)

Yeah, what Cara said. Speaking and reading are two very different skills. That's why analphabets exist. They don't have trouble communicating, they just never learned to read for whatever reason. I went to school with a kid whose parents immigrated from China. Obviously he spoke his parents' language fluently (I think it was Cantonese), but had to go to a chinese school in order to learn how to read it.

@@wohlhabendermanager This is true, i can speak/understand korean pretty well but am basically illiterate reading for the same reason as your friend. And korean actually has an alphabet so you can sound things out, i can only imagine how much more this would be a problem with a pictograph language.

@@caratownsend1166 Ain't that the truth 😭 Half my Anki deck is familiar words I have to separately learn how to read because the writing system is bad. Japan should've had a kanji banning dictator too.

Sometimes people don't notice when they change back to their first language, because it is too natural. I'm from Brazil and had a childhood friend whose first language was Spanish. There where MANY times in which he spoke sentences or words and Spanish and thought he was still speaking in Portuguese. Also, my mom once was reading a magazine at an airplane that was written in English in one page and in Portuguese on the other. She was reading it in English to improve her vocabulary, but as she turned the page, she continued to read in Portuguese and it took her minutes she noticed it.