Clueless American Tourist Busts Out Perfect Chinese, Shocks Locals 

Please say, do you speak Chinese, when you are speaking English

I just found your channel earlier today and I've been watching all your videos I'm gonna subscribe

I was just looking for how to tell u I wanna learn. Please teach me

Okay thanks

Can u please tell me which form of Chinese is most prevalent in China; I am learning "Xiang"....but alot of ppl tell me Cantoñese or Mandarin. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yea that would be funny lol

That'd be amazing!

I hope he's reading this right now 'cos I can't wait to see that video. 😂

HEY! HEY! HEY! Who said you could give out incredible ideas out like that?? Because we absolutely do need this video 😂🤣💯

Clueless white guy walks into a McDonald's shocks everyone with his fluent english

Haha it’s funny to me because I imagine talking shot to someone trying to speak English to me at my work .

@@michaelkylow4411 i am a white australian guy and i liked her, she was feisty haha.

@@michaelkylow4411 asian grandma

@@michaelkylow4411 looked like she was joking

@@michaelkylow4411 if you read in English translation, its kind of rude. But when you listen directly in Chinese, actually it's not rude at all.. Its more funny.

He's just flexing.

@@Alvin_Vivian : as he should

ARE THESE U M B R E L L A S?

@@Alvin_Vivian and a poor conversationalist

“dO YoU SpEaK ChInEsE?”

Mr. Worldwide?

Life man lool

Bruh you gotta dedicate urself you probably already know some

@@Rahat-tw8vg Yes, I will if The LORD wills for me.

@@thetruthtrumpsallliesfromt4399 👍

Rogelio Gonzalez lmaoooo

Rogelio Gonzalez i read her thought in a Chinese accent lmfaooo

Rogelio Gonzalez lmao 😂😂 I love the logic the story of the mystical dragon fruit

Random Chinese vendors magical legumes

Lmao

Aj Unfazed xd hahahaha

Well, the customer is always right!

If I were to say that to a customer I would be fried

@@sarahnorris872 I know you meant fired but fries worked perfectly

@@stsalty1788 , I know you meant fried but fries works too. I actually wanted to screw that up so we could all keep it going

I guess that happens with every language. My main language is portuguese, and when I'm talking in english there's definitely a diffent tone to my voice.

I totally agree with you! I used to have a Australian flatmate who spoke mandarin, when he spoke with his parents, he sounded like a completely different person. His voice got a lot deeper like this guy!

@@matheusbarbo yep!

I noticed the same with my Finnish teacher. Completely different voice whenever she switched to Finnish

For some reason when anyone speaks like more than one language their tone changes with any language, I speak English, Spanish and German and my tone is very different in all of them.

Literally??? Omg you poor thing

@@SilverCatCat13 Lol

I thought it was quite rude but still hilarious

He's so used to doing this in New York's Chinatown, that for a split second he forgot, lol although he usually just speaks the language without asking if they speak it

in new york shes got punched in a face real quick for talking to somebody like that

X X haha right 🤣

Fr haha they were like why you wasting time?!

I love Taiwan. I wish 1 day i can go there. I wish i can speak with them.

It made sense at the umbrella store. The woman started speaking to him in English, so he just responded in English.

Or maybe "Did he speak Chinese from the start?"

Taylor Reneé 😂

Taylor Reneé LOL. Yep, people are smartasses all over the world!

Like a Chinese person asking an American in the states if they speak English.

If thats what she actually said.

I like that lady

😂😂😂 thanks for pointing the obvious !! this chinese mn is bigger😮😮😮

well he is in taiwan. some people might not speak mandarin, but just their local dialect, so have a hard time understanding him.

@@TheWolvesCurse most people in taiwan speak mandarin and taiwanese. the younger generation generally speaks both, or even just mandarin.

@@sockuraye i was just guessing, but thanks for clearing up.

Nikola Dietmar Krapp you can use the word “clarifying”

@@evvls111 their name doesn't seem American.

It's such a stupid question, its like going to iraq and asking the guy working in the local restaurant if they spoke arabic

@@hasoonnine That was just him trying to break the ice. That lady was a bit rude, tbh...

@@ronrocker7131 im pretty sure she was saying it in a jokey way

@@jckk672 exactly. one can clearly make out that she saw the humor in his question and made light of the situation.

Hahaha lol she reminded me of latin "tías" in the market

You must have missed the part ( 1:49) where she literally told him "of course I speak chinese, dummy. We're in taiwan." Imagine the blowback you'd get saying that in the US to someone speaking spanish.

@@bhuzzb0mb878 wdym?

@@bhuzzb0mb878 it's US problem if the word "dummy" with smile on the face from old lady would hurt your feelings

@@bhuzzb0mb878 that happens in the US everyday and nobody cares unless you’re overly rude about it . If you said it in a playful way nobody would care.

@@bhuzzb0mb878 that auntie was joking LOL, we sometimes in Malaysia use to be like that to, but im not Chinese.. IS JOKING SHE SMILE AND LAUGH

This put a smile to my face....Good for you....Keep up the great work!

I always learn how to say "i dont speak ___ language" first as its the most useful phrase in any language i dont speak. That at least shows some effort while letting them know you dont actually know much of anything else

Lol love your comment man, friggin hilarious 🤣

Loll

@Boyd although I haven't been out of the U.S., I've heard others say this too

she called him a dummy

Lmao she was not having it

That was really funny. LOL!!!! Of course she'd be speaking Chinese in Taiwan! hahahahahahah

Savage, lol.

You wouldn't hear a rude reply like that in latina america.

#WRECKED! LMFAO

@@Dochorahan cultural difference dude. That would not be considered rude over in this part of the world. She didn't say "dummy" btw.

Chinese people who speak English are shit on constantly for their accents, while some random white guy who speaks Mandarin is praised as a modern messiah for breaking barriers and connecting all cultures. Can't make this dumb shit up LMFAO 😂😂😂

So right

​@@flyingphobiahelpbeautiful quote

I even laughed in Chinese after I read your comment....

@BBD Design yes English is

BBD Design I’ll just call you poor for no reason.

BBD Design you right, English is an ugly and petty language

BBD Design Like English?

EVERYWHERE dude... lol

😂😂 so true

We all gonna end up like that, so lets live life to the fullest

Just like black people🤣🤣

Sumtingwong Richard black “people” lmao

Where in Europe did you live? What country?

Can confirm. At least in my bubble (younger, above average educated) we love to have the opportunity to speak to a native English speaker and practice our skills.

For your attempt is so feeble they say "let's go back to speaking English"

@@ArtStoneUS mostly the opposite.

@@GUITARTIME2024 That example was my brother attempting to speak Russian in Russia a few years ago 😆

Yup

Jesus loves you so much that He died for you:) He wants a relationship with you and wants you to come closer to Him, please repent from your sins and come to Christ❤️

@@ramel-qy4rc Dats kinda gay bruh

Idk maybe Taiwanese it is it’s own country with its own language regardless of what China thinks

@@tacoacc for a long time, the ROC still claimed to be the legitimate government of mainland China. Taiwan as a polity isn't so old that they wouldn't still speak Mandarin (which was a lingua franca of mainland China). Also, they probably need it for tourist reasons etc.. It's not going to die out. That said, I believe some (if not all, I'm not knowledgeable enough) of the Chinese languages one of the women mentioned were specific to Taiwan.

@Vladimir Putin Jesus is gay. That's why he died

Jakub Z it’s so awkward bro... I have to skip it

I am yo 600th like

Is his other language badly pronounced?

Orange language, apelsin

It's like an orgasm

Hes very humble about his Chinese and the second lady was sooo rude.

This summed up the whole video.

Say that in America to someone who doesn’t know English and you’ll Be a racist

ispumpkinking leftists aren’t dumb, just a lot of americans

So you just copy other comments but spell things wrong then? What's the point, seriously

I'll take you word for it. :)

That's how you have to speak any language. If you speak French without a French accent you can't pronounce the words right. Same with Mandarin. Of course he has to talk with a Chinese accent.

@@DueySR yeah its amazing he's like Chinese even with his laugh lol

@@DueySR The necessity for perfect dialect is usually why people over a certain age have big difficulty speaking flawless chinese. Their brain has trouble anunciating certain phonemes that dont even exist in western languages.

Well to be fluent in any language your accent must change.

That's a great idea! LOL

The “other guy “ you know he has a name

Yeah, they should hook up, and in the middle of Shanghai argue in Mandarin about which sports team in Japan is better. I'd watch their RU-vid banter like a giddy schoolboy as if I was kissed by a girl for the very first time.

Good idea

agentofchaos1 dude yes!! Lollll I’m dying just thinking about it

Perfect

He needs to see this

BUMP

That's brilliant.

Lmfao I was literally waiting for this

That is because the first language of 99% in San Francisco will be Spanish.

@@stingerbee8346 Oh man you're so funny. Really good humor there 👌 So good. The best. You must have been to SF 100 times to come up with that one. So good. Edit: Wait, I meant to say you're an idiot. My bad.

I think even more impressive would be for an American to bust out in perfect English.

@@justanotherguy469 ha ha

I read it as Engrish, I'm going to hell

It's hard work making videos. You're having to constantly script/brainstorm video ideas, haul your equipment to locations, film a shot several times before you get a good take/remember your lines, and then the lengthy editing process at home. It's fun as well, but I have no doubt it's hard work too.

It does except the learning languages part ;)

language* he's learned one foreign language and a few dialects. cool, but not really impressive.

Shiftless Lazycrat hows your Chinese? Because mine sucks!

​@@chegadesuade riight, learning fluent chinese as an american is not impressive. making videos about it which millions of people are consistently interested in, is not impressive. being a common troll/hater however, is really impressive?

There is a saying in China that is the equivalent of "I wasn't born yesterday". they say "Wo bu shi san sui ren" meaning I'm not a 3 year old.

LMAO ROOOOAAASSSTED

@Caleb He's filming in Taipei. That was literally the first thirty seconds in the video

@Caleb when u fail at tryna be a dickhead

I audibly laughed

Lol, I loved that response.

Honestly thats exactly how id respond if some asked be about english

That lady was Rude.No business for Her!

@@raydoan8325 she said it with all smiles lol clearly she was joking. Lol

Ray Doan ok snowflake

Alex S she was so funny

hes taking some liberties with the translations all over the video, she didn't say dummy

I fell out I thought that was so funny

They can also speak minanhua which is the local dialect, or better said the main local dialect. So there is a chance they speak another dialect or may not even speak good Mandarin whcyih was more prevalent pre 2000.

That was my favorite part too. I immediately thought "There's an old lady like this in every town all over the world"

And "No"

Yes

Thomas Kao American pop culture is extremely pervasive.

@Thomas Kao good

@Thomas Kao German here. We did too. Decades ago. I

Saoirse O'Reilly bruhhhh

Saoirse O'Reilly bruhhhhhhhhhh

He totally should. And then chime in if they start talking about him

The word for fat in Vietnamese sounds like the English word mop

Omg yes

Moms Spaghetti ^^

Ooo you play overwatch?!

Same

Yup

I am

when you speak other people's languages, your words go into their hearts.

Haha they love him it's awesome

Not that second lady Lol!!!!

@@amarimorris1653 Yeah she was a B****. I worked Luxury Retail in Downtown Chicago to put myself through college and I never treated foreigners who couldn't speak english like that. I've been all over the world and I'd say America is hands down one of the least racist places I've set foot in.

@@mattmcclellan4011 People who do not travel always believe the nonsense that America is "racist." I worked for many years as a French interpreter for USAID, and I worked with people from almost every African country, many of whom had visited or studied in the U.S. Not ONE of them ever encountered racism in America.They all spoke glowingly about Americans.

@harhsjjdafgadfsg cursed language?

Foreigners like it when you show interest in their culture

@@JeremiahGodard It's probably more so that when he's speaking Chinese they don't have to concentrate on just trying to understand him. The rate of information exchange becomes much higher when he's speaking Chinese.

@@JeremiahGodard Except that he's the foreigner in this video.

@@JeremiahGodard but then he is technically the foreigner... but i get what you mean

Lol what a guy

I wanna see this 😂

@@foofer22 对不起，我不明白你的意思

@@foofer22 抱歉，我用過谷歌翻譯

Dude that's some Twilight Zone shit right there 😂.

Nick Gars He probably still has an accent

I do this when vendors try to sell me stuff here in Indonesia. Reply in Indonesian that I don't speak English :)

goobiehoobie he does but he could be from somewhere else!

He could be German or Polish or anything

Abcde he’s American..

What did you expect 😂 If someone is able to speak your native language than ofcours you will understand him better because there is no language barrier

Just as you would... Basic human behaviour :D

Of course. For some People its verry annoying to "speak" with someone but the language barrier makes it annoying and just not a pleasant time. And if someone speaks your language, its a whole other thing.

I feel that's huge with making connections

OH DID YOU REALLY??!

Best thing is; Everything is ready in just 10 minute.

Same

Yeah cow

They just hear beef and say the only thing that for them would be convenient (him asking if this is beef). I wouldn’t risk hearing another language that I hardly understand and answer what I would like the question to be.

Mark Cornell In America they called that fast food lol

Zesc is here ! You jealous bro ? Go take some lessons

Lol the salt

keep flexing then

He’s like people in most other countries. A lot of people speak multiple languages. Primarily Europe where all the countries are so close

Congrats for 1000 likes

bigswolejah It’s tastes like.... he’s trying to be a man of culture as well

a lot of older chinese and korean people talk like that

Everybody says oh it's not like a certain language lmao

@@sloth3039 ohhh,I didn't know that.But I never say it.

Edward McLaughlin ohhhhhhhhh u don’t say it much?well guess what...an average American says it ten times a day

Better than most people’s comedic timing

There is no need to speak in English in the first place. He's just showing off.

Meh

@@sarthborade7865 meh

@@sarthborade7865 it’s for the videos man, it causes a reaction. If there was no reaction then the videos wouldn’t be as entertaining.

That made me laugh. Her reaction was quick and she smiled at the same time.

"No sorry, I only speak spanish."

Hahahahahaha! That gave me a good laugh.

Yeah dummy... 😻love that chinese woman 😻

Chinese people are kind. If I go to the 🇺🇸 or 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 nobody will tell me” your English is great”. In China 🇨🇳 everyone congratulates that young man for his Chinese skills. That is really awesome when people appreciate your effort. Chinese people are so nice, their kindness motivates me to learn their outstanding language. It is awful when you go to a country and everyone speaks to you in English due to your accent. In China, you have to open your month and speak only Chinese.

I don't think that lady knows what being embarrassed is

Don’t think she was embarrassed just didn’t feel like dealing with someone who was just gonna ask a bunch of questions and struggle to explain.

@@robmitchke8034 lol true

@@robmitchke8034 yeah heard the English and didnt want to mess with a tourist 😂

She was hard at work and he asked questions in English so she choose to keep working .....she only responded with dummy because obviously he tried to play her for one ......to me she is next level savage...

Singaporeans are trying to erase their native languages

@@appleslover we have a native language. Its singlish 🤣

Gsxr Squid makes me super disappointed in the class I took

Yeah they instantly become cautious realising he is kind of one of them. But that applies to any culture and language really.

Shrek Shrek Taiwan is not China...

Mandarin

Donald Fowler well according to China it is😬

Tell that to someone from Hong Kong or Taiwan and you'll get an earful lol. :b

BlazinNSoul thought Taiwan always claimed themselves as Chinese anyways

Joshua Gayou, Author because Americans film everything

Great. Thanks for spoiling this video!

@FEAR The Walking Don In what way is this a prank? I'm not sure you do get the premise of the video. It's to capture the reactions of Chinese locals when an american is fluent. This video does that hence why he chose to upload it. Whether or not they were 'shocked' is a discussion about clickbait which is something else entirely

I believe they appreciate it. Yeah they’re not shocked for sure but I bet they appreciate a “white guy” speaking their tongue.

​@FEAR The Walking Don why are you so negative? nobody cares for your input.

Pretentious xD

99th like

Is he wrong tho

This guy has the ultimate Flex speakin fluent Chinese

*toots in chinese*

Frost Rusher ok

It just goes to show how intolerant they are of foreigners, but they'd call you a racist if you pulled that same stunt in your country

Jack Venom yup

That made me giggle 😂, she’d mean it in a joking way too

Edward Alcala hey jack, how did you see intolerance from that clip?? I saw people who were pleasantly surprised that he could speak the language. The younger people didn’t even seem to react that much. The older People interacted less with him when speaking English as They had little to no English themselves.

JESSE KIM hahahahaha 😂

L - Logic

He said Hidrophobic. It is not the same as waterproof..

@@pabloandresarenas being moist is scary though😂😂😂

well you know when you have to shake your umbrella out, and leave it at the front door since its still really wet. with this, the water bounces of and doesnt soak into the fabric as much.

I recently moved to China. "ahhhhh" and "oh oh" is something I hear all the time at the end of sentences in Chinese.

The English equivalent is "Uhm" and "Uhh"

The french do the same thing. They do this low grumbling sound.. “urrrggh le gáre”

Repeated use of certain words is used to show enthusiasm of the subject. Manners are also huge and saying thank you or just being appreciative is also common.

The way it was explained to me was that the "ah" particle is for emphasis, basically the equivalent of saying what preceded it 3 times.

lmao thats good

🤣🤣🤣

Lol I can assure u it’s right

They're probably saying "look at this round eye tramp, rip him off as much as you can ".

That’s what I think. It’s kind of messed up that he speaks English first. Even when they don’t really know what he’s saying.

Faithful member of the party. Sure, troll.

@Faithful member of the party. 忠實的黨員， 我個人認為你應該要學中文！

@Faithful member of the party. lol boy

@Faithful member of the party. I can speak 4 languages . English just part of it.I'm eager to learn more.sure you'd never learn anything other than english. Pity you.

@Kevin R A lot of americans do too.

.maybe that's because they are able to have a conversation, no one wants to just stand there saying words in different languages without a clue as to what is going on.....

Asian countries are typically very proud and astute about their own culture and language... it’s caused superiority complex issues in the past

Saying 'took the time' about learning a language is like saying you mildly lost a 5 million dollar bet

Sir CoCoNUT What?

好好笑

Yeah that made me LOL!

官月明 u speak Chinese?

She was a salt factory. Lol!

@@Fixflex1 Of course.Speak perfect Mandarin.

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Lmao i was thinking the same damn thing😂...i can speak fluent profanity but im not running up to sailors asking them dumb questions just to impress them with my vocabulary

@@charlesjones32787 I enjoyed that one, here, take a like.

@@ScuffedLife 😂

Toot toot

At 6:37 he nearly threw up.

Ken Kennington 9k that’s because people from other countries and nationalities often speak two languages; their first language, and English. It’s not unusual. Usually American English native speakers are too lazy to learn another language.

@@eeeelayna it's not a matter of laziness, it's a matter of necessity. It is often _very_ useful for non-native speakers to learn English and only marginally or situationally useful for English speakers to learn another language. That's what happens when you're the dominant culture. In Europe at one point just about anyone with pretensions to civilisation needed to speak Latin. The Romans didn't need to speak barbarian (note, the word barbarian derives from the fact that the Romans heard "bar bar" when the strange northerners spoke and so decided to name them barbarians). Similarly later on pretty much everyone of any education spoke French (I know, a dark time in our history). Then came the stages of empire with the French, Spanish, and English competing to be the preeminent western civilisation (with an honourable mention to the Germans, Dutch and Portuguese). The English won out in the end. So now, just as back then, it is more beneficial for the less dominant nations to learn the language of the more dominant ones than vice versa. Laziness has nothing to do with it. The fact that we're all lazy entitled snowflake ingrates is an entirely separate issue.

@@eeeelayna yeah i wouldn't necessarily say lazy. but most places in america don't teach a second language class until high school, and at that point it can be a LOT more difficult to pick up a language to fluency. There's also hardly any chance to use and practice those languages outside of the classroom if you live in a homogeneous area, so people end up losing those classroom skills too. at least from my experience & observations!

no no yes, that’s true. There is a lack of necessity. I guess that makes the english-speakers who go above and beyond to learn a language they don’t necessarily need to a little more respectable. Haha, I’M a “lazy” English speaker. I don’t have an overwhelming desire to learn another language but I really respect anyone who does, English-speaking natives or not

@@eeeelayna I have the desire, but neither the facility nor the endeavour. I'm stupid and lazy in other words.