Locals Gossip About Me, But I Secretly Know Thai 

You sold me with being able to watch The Office!

(Sarcastically, of course), 小马 you don't have the GUTS to learn Af Somali or Hmong, and come over to Minnesota, go to the local markets/stores/communities, and start speaking their language! *Uses glove to slap your face* I say good DAY sir! Love your rapid expansion and growth with language buddy. Keep up the incredible work!

Do Vietnamese stuff next

Hey man I'm not sure how to get a hold of you other than on here. Can you make a video about Immerse vr? It looks amazing but, I don't want to waste money if it won't actually help me learn to actually speak a new language.

Hey Xiaoma! Whats that intro song called on epidemic sound?

That is hilarious!

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Nice save!

that is so funny, and typical thai humor. i love it

I empathise with you… I attempted to tell my very traditional Sicilian father in law that he grows great fennel ( for the salad) But instead I told him that he would make a really good homosexual… Needless to say he had steam coming out his ears for a second until he realised it was just that my phrasing was a bit off… my mother-in-law and husband were rolling on the floor. She used to tease him to go to the vegetable patch and bring his boyfriend back with him so she could make the salad… I was mortified and never tried to speak Italian in front of him again.

Lmao that's actually hilarious

My friends was living in japan on base and was half japanese and can speak very well. Guess everyone over there gets bullied if they’re different

Honestly? Slay

A few western men married to Thai women suffer the same affliction (me included).

Lol

nah dude, i speak spanish, english and japanese and he just made me want to learn thai.

Wrong!!!!!!

@@leredditcommander8208 bro means people who exclusively speak English

We speak murican

I wish we all spoke the same language.

Where is Tagalog spoken?

@@beasllie6023 Philippines

I started learning Tagalog when I had a Filipina gf a few years ago. The problem was, she forgot how to speak it herself when she came to England and her accent was more northern than my own😂 I still tried to learn some for her crazy family parties, but it was so hard 😅 all I remember now is mahal kita talaga

Thai people very “mouth moi” Mouth moi: chitchat/gossip 😂

I keep telling my wife to also speak Tagolog to our kids but she just speaks English to them!

That was my favorite part lol. He went from "go sit down out there" . To "bro!!! You gotta post my sign!" LOL

He is a Chinese Karen LOL

@@HachikoThePoochInugami why?

@@myself5812 A Karen is a person (not necessarily a white woman but most were) perceived as entitled or demanding beyond the scope of what is normal. I call that man a Karen because he sent Ari away because of the durian he is eating, but when he heard him speak Mandarin, he took a 180 degree turn, became ecstatic, and had the audacity to tell him to promote his store. He is like that fat woman I saw on Cash 2.0's channel where she told Steve (the dog's owner) to get out of the market because of his dog (a huge Great Dane), but later had the nerve to ask him if she could pet it when she later learned it was not hostile. Turned out that woman was also a customer.

@@HachikoThePoochInugami No, he's not a Karen. A Karen is a self entitled, arrogant person (usually a woman) who feels superior to the people around her. Ari is the farthest thing away from a Karen. Bad use of an American term kid...

Same here! Diplomatic. Was there from 2000-2005

That reminds me of Korea. This is before the whole Kpop fad took off the last few years. I was really into Korean since about 2001 because of a kind of Daoist Korean tai chi and my first Korean gf in the states. SO I went back and forth to korea at least 6 times and ended up working there for awhile. And taking the language in college. Anyway. I was on the subway late at night maybe around midnight in Seoul and a drunk homeless man was shouting and cursing at quiet skinny 20 something me sitting on the bench minding my own business. effing foreigners and effing this country and we are evil. I just said to him something like 'sir i understand everything you are saying and you are being really noisy for everyone' he felt so ashamed and people kind of clapped.

I'm feel like you

@@Chris_yes could’ve said this without the second sentence

@@walex19 Yeah, you're probably one of those Nigerian princes off of Soi Sukhumvit (I forget which side road, if it was Soi 11 or not where they congregate)...

Yeah it's great! His accent makes him sound a bit drunken xD but still notoriously hard

Haha also he's just a funny awkward dude

I can only have one wife.... One wife hahaha

I'd love to have the opportunity to have these experiences though!

you need to study the basics, and then talk everyday, worked for me, regular visitor to LOS for 25 + years

Pom pud Thai dai nit noi. It's so fkn hard with the tones it destroys me! I don't know how people can learn so fast and especially have people understand what they're saying.

@@01DOGG01 Yeah, without being here, I really struggled. I spent about 45 minutes just after lunch talking to a random dude at a park and about 30 minutes with our neighbors just now. The only way to really learn to speak Thai is to learn to read as well because the transliteration is always close, but never right. And be in Thailand.....that's very helpful also.

@@chrisdavisunofficial I'm very ashamed to say that I've been in Thailand for almost 3 years now, on top of coming here many times before that, yet can't even compete with this guy that studied it for a couple of weeks. It doesn't help that the wife is Thai and we obviously communicate in English. The local corner shops speak very good English, the neighbour as well, all having spent time abroad, so every time that I actually need something in Thai I ask the wife. Horse, dog, come... Ma, ma, ma lol it's hard for me. And there are so many things much harder than that. And I haven't even started on the script... Yikes!

@@01DOGG01 Haha, yeah, you should be fluent by now. The few things I can kinda say really help people to open up. We'll both get there one day. My wife can't hear the tones, so that has made it really fun.

I find it depends on where you go. In Bangkok I barely get any reactions, although every now and then I get asked if I'm a ลูกครึ่ง (luuk-krung, half-child) even though I don't look Thai at all 555 But if I go somewhere where there's lots of farangs like Koh Samui/Phuket/etc people still get pretty surprised. Also people assume I'm an English teacher quite often too

Do you have a thai meow?

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@@baconoverflow4384 Just say you're full Thai - that's what I do. Because I'm clearly a white man they always laugh.

The way to learn anything is to try it, get it wrong, and eventually get it right.

I love that he includes those moments, it makes it very real. He is a very humble guy and it shows in the way he interacts with others when learning a new language.

I thought that was great, they were correcting his pronunciation. Soo funny, yet they were trying help.

I think they laugh cuz they like it, not many foreigner can speak Thai and they alway said he good at Thai

I’m thai,They laughed because they were impressed, that’s how old people do.

It's incredibly normal for friendly people to laugh at some weird pronunciation... also they corrected him, that's how you improve your language, learning while having a laugh. I'm from Brazil and our pronunciation is very difficult for english speakers at first, I can't count how many times I've made fun of friends but also correcting them afterwards, that's just how it goes.

As a non-Thai person who speaks Thai, definitely lol. Seems like he can speak it well but the tones and pronunciation need work for sure. Good enough for a tourist for sure though. I know Thai is hard, I grew up here so my accent's dang good.

Do you think he was asked if he was from China twice in the beginning because he’s so fluent in Chinese that his Thai has a chance accent ?

No, his thai does not sound like the chinese influenced chiang mai style of speaking. His thai sounds like somebody who hasnt listened to enough thai yet. He needs to watch 50 thai movies.

I don't think so sadly. I'm not trying to confront you or anything, but most Thais dramatically underestimate the difficulty of learning Thai as a foreigner.

I thought I was the only one who heard it!

Speaks very well of the Thai people in how accommodating they are to English speakers.

My vocabulary doesn't get beyond sawadee and kapunka(p)

There was nothing close to fluency here. He spoke Chinese 90% of the time and only said around 10 phrases in Thai. You could learn this level in 2-3 hours of study.

Do u even lift bro

Same! I’ve only known English my entire, but I’ve started learning Japanese a few weeks ago and it’s shocking how rewarding it feels to learn. I thought I was a bit late, getting into a new language at 18 but, alongside just how fun its been so far, this definitely makes me hopeful.

depending on if you have experience with any language, start there. for me it is spanish. and i have a good base in that. from there i am able to learn italian french romanian and portuguese pretty easily vs other languages

Lao loanwords are a part of the BKK Thai lexicon now as I'm sure you know. Amazing how quickly the evolution is at street level!

thats one of the problems when learning thai, all kinds of different dialects are spoken, Lao , Khmer or a mixture, difficult to know whats what at first.

It's Thai - Esarn language because my wife are Thai - Esarn

@@foodhistory1387 Many Laos and Thai - Esan peoples come to work in Bangkok. As a Bangkokian like me. I don't understand some words that they talk.

@@mhappy5084 but in the last 20 years more and more Lao words are used everyday by Central Thai people in BKK; the language is changing very quickly.

In thai culture he can have many wife. Depends on money. Mia and Mia noi.

It’s Krup not Krap

@@descendantsanddoctorwhofan5998 it‘s neither krap nor krub it‘s ครับ

@@descendantsanddoctorwhofan5998 it’s pronounced Krap though

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I think everyone's worst nightmare is accidentally doing something like that when learning a new language.

Lol she followed up with how to say the D word in Thai.😂 most people in the comment might not know but sometimes shop workers are used for other things off menu at bars or clubs. I was not expecting her to tell him that when he laughs around 4:03

@@SeeHang He said "dick" instead of "bottle"😂

Chinese food isn’t spicy at least not American Chinese , Cajun isn’t either

@@Tagg25 Sichuan style Chinese food? You can find if you know a good place, I went down to Galveston once, right on the Texas Louisiana border to have some Cajun food, they make it pretty hot, atleast if you use hot sauce. It’s not that Thai food is the spiciest, cause their is those crazy hot sauces that are made less for eating more for RU-vid videos. But that Thai food seems to have a naturally high average spice level across the cultures many dishes

@@jeremygeller9145 Indian food is the spiciest of them all, there's no comparison between the 1000+ combos of spices and other condiments in Indian vs 2-5 in others.

@@infinite5795 I love Indian food, and maybe I just haven’t had truly authentic (haven’t been to India) but I find the sauce parts you see in a lot of Indian take the eve off the spice But then add a different flavor. Combination wise nothing beats Indian food but raw heat, not so sure

Yup, my mother's side is Chinese via Thailand (she was born in Bangkok's Chinatown so this was especially cool for me to watch) and she liked to emphasize the over-simplicity of English by saying Thai has "44 letters - and 22 vowels!"

@@awibs57 Yep, and there’s lots of vowel sounds that we don’t have in the English language that English speakers don’t hear unless you point them out

They were correcting him saying 'mak prao' or 'ma khao' instead of 'ma prao'/มะพร้าว

@@awibs57 on top of that, vowels can be put together like friggin legos. it's absolute nuts.

same scenario.. 10 years with my wife who's born Canadian origins from Laos and even Laotian and Thai is slightly different, the number of time i try to say something and deff not the right tone

Mai chai actually means that something is incorrect, like if someone asks you "Are you Thai?" then you can answer with Mai chai, meaning that no, I'm not Thai. Mai ao means no take, meaning that you won't take/accept something (ao means to take/get/accept, and can be used as a slang for f*ck as well)

*briefly and out of focus 😁

Many shops have large fine for durian. Same same taxi and hotels. Not allowed because of smell.

“ consumed before passengers enter the Singapore Metro system, unless they want to pay a $500 SGD ($380 USD) fine. A similar ban exists across Bangkok public transportation.” Bruh it’s extremely strong in smell the guy was polite abt it

He's not really Thai. Because real Thai people will not do that. Indicates that he is from China rather than Thai. i am real thai. Real Thai people don't do that. would be considerate and respectful and friendly than chasing guests like that.

I think that is normal for China, they want people to advertise their shop, not product from someone elses shop in front of theirs. It's a cultural thing

Dream come true

"Allah tu n'es rien" Ou une petite association : "Il n'y a de dieu que Bouddha, Shiva et Le dragon Kabyle" Il m'arrive rien ...Parce qu'on t'a menti, Allah c'est l'invention d'un poète mythomane du 7ème Y'a pas d'allah, y'a pas de châtiment de la tombe, pas d'âne volant, rien Sinon la Mecque serait protégé contre les tempêtes, les accidents mortels . Les taux de guérison des maladies graves dans les hôpitaux musulmans seraient plus élevés que dans les hôpitaux athées. Mais ça marche pas comme ça, on est tous soumis au même lois physiques. Si on joue au foot, t'aurais ni plus ni moins de chances que moi de te fouler le pied, que tu aie fait 150 prières avant ou pas. C'est statistique. La seule différence c 'est le prisme par lequel on va analyser ce qui arrive. Si je me foule je dirai : J 'ai pas eut de bol , toi tu diras "Ah c 'est Allah qui ..." Alors pourquoi est ce que Mohammed aurait inventé tout ça ? Parce que comme Rael il a compris que les humains ne demandent que de croire en quelque chose de supérieur qui réponds à toutes leurs questions existentielles. Et il a compris qu'en jouant ce rôle de messager, il allait avoir une vie bien plus épique que celle qui lui était promis Donc il a pris le livre juif et il a brodé un truc autour Si tu commences à analyser les choses sous cet angle la, tu verras que tout prends un autre sens. (Profite en les "Djinns" sont enchainés pendant ramadan ) Par exemple : Pourquoi est ce que Mohammed dit que le pire péché c'est l'association ? C'est bizarre non ? juste ne pas être convaincu par les arguments de Mohammed serait plus grave que de trucider des gens ? L'explication est simple : Ses pires ennemis étaient des polythéistes donc pour galvaniser ses troupes, les motiver à prendre les armes, il a inventé cette histoire "Le polythéisme est le truc le plus grave selon Allah" et tous les mecs autour de lui avaient la bave qui coulait en mode "On va les démonter" Ou pourquoi est ce qu'il a descendu ce verset (coran 33:73) dans lequel il est dit qu'Allah lui donne l'autorisation d'épouser la femme de son fils adoptif ? Parce que Mohammed assumait pas d'avoir envie de sa belle fille et qu'il fallait qu'il s'envoi un petit message divin pour officialiser tout ça . Ou pourquoi Mohammed a dit "si Allah vous éprouve c'est parce qu'il vous aime" C'est parce que les péons qui le suivaient se sont vite rendus compte que malgré qu'ils suivent le messager divin, il continuaient de leur arriver des malheurs (maladie, accidents) Et Mohammed a dut justifier ça et il a sorti la phrase qui le sortait du pétrin "Si il vous arrive des trucs c 'est parce qu'Allah vous éprouve"

Fr drugs = cool 😎

*_"I recommend to everyone that when you’re learning a new language to not take reference from the languages that you’re already familiar with."_* 100% - you have to replicate the sound, not try and make it like a word in your native tongue.

even better Scots accent, from Glasgow of course!

My ads are pure madness. Since I've been studying Chinese for a year now, every social media algorithm now thinks I'm a Chinese student in my own country. 🤣

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