New York City, how many languages do you speak? 

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Everyone feels like a main charecter in NYC.

I remember when I first moved to NYC, walking down Canal St, I heard primarily English, then Italian & Spanish, then Mandarin & Cantonese, all in the span of 1 mile. So many different languages and cultures; very much shows how special it is here

I can speak Belarusian, Russian, Polish, English and I learn Swedish. It's so cool to be able to understand and speak different languages, it's like living several lives in one

Incredible how Spanish is much more important than I thought in New York. Even that it is my native language.

As a native French speaker, I'm very surprised by the fact that so many people can speak French in NYC, it's very interesting

It's amazing how all these people is very articulate with great social communication skill

i am a native New Yorker and am a professional translator. I am fluent in 5 languages and speak bits and pieces of another 10 or 12. That said, I have all the local merchants in my neighborhood (Brooklyn Heights) trained to teach me new phrases in their languages (when they are other than English). I do the same at my gym where I work out every day and which is exceptionally diverse. I love the linguistic diversity of NYC!

8:00 I think Danielle is the type of person who says I don't speak language X but then is able to hold a conversation in that language just fine.

I think you make people feel heard, which helps bring out their voice in these short clips. Some cities I'd recommend : Beirut, Marseille, Sarajevo

slavic languages are so underrated...if you knew one of them, you would understand all other slavic languages 70-80%

Back in the 1930's you would have heard alot of Yiddish spoken in NYC like you hear Spanish today.

These people are all beautiful no mater what language they speak. The video reminds once again that we are all the same on this planet and i like it. Привет из Барселоны.

I speak Mongolian, Russian and English and live in New York City. I think it’s a unique place because of a diversity 😊

About 35 years ago, before I started traveling the world, I visited NYC with a friend from rural North Carolina. I was amazed by the many languages we could hear while riding the subways and that no one looked up as all the different words, and tones and rhythms came out. It was cleary nothing out of the ordinary for anyone. BUT WHEN my deeply Southern accented friend spoke up everyone on the train looked up from their newspapers & books (this was a pre-cellphone era) to see who was talking this strange language.

The NY accent is alive & well buddy.. Come thru to Staten Island. We're holdin it down 🇮🇹 🇺🇲

The Brooklyn accent has drastically declined, but if you go to certain parts of southern Brooklyn like Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, and Dyker Heights, you can still come across the Brooklyn accent speakers especially the Italian and Jewish communities. Northern Brooklyn, forget about it, the Brooklyn accent is all totally gone in those sections as they were replaced largely by African American, Caribbean, Latino, and Hipster populations; except in some parts of Williamsburg you may still come across some Brooklyn accent speakers from some of the remaining Italian and Jewish populations.

Your channel is so simple in nature, but it becomes quite interesting to watch, and see all the different people going about the cities on any given day. I like it.

This is easily my favourite video about New York on RU-vid. So easy-going and smooth, I feel like it really represents what the city is about

growing up in the NYC area i never realized how linguistically diverse it was relative to the rest of the USA. It was only when I went away to university out of state and used certain slang words that are quite common back home that I found that out, as many of them weren't necessarily slang words but just loan words from other language groups in the NY area that became slang words.

Brilliant video! I am a native New Yorker, grew up only speaking English, though I can read some Hebrew, and studied Latin in high school. In college, I started learning Russian and have worked many years in Central Asia in the former Soviet Union (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). Therefore, besides Russian, I learned intermediate Farsi (Persian)/Dari/Tajik (all very similar) and at one point I spoke intermediate Uzbek (Turkic language). When I was first learning Russian years ago, I used to stop people on the street in Manhattan if I heard them speaking Russian, so as to practice. Now, you can hear Russian on every street. However, I do stop people if I hear them speaking Tajik or Farsi, and if Uzbek or Turkish.

I made it to the end and really love this video. The things these people say that they love about New York are the things I also love about it, especially the diversity. As someone who grew up hearing two languages, it was my goal as I grew up to learn as many as I could. Like the lady toward the end, unfortunately I don't have a chance to practice so I've lost much of the languages I learned. It was great to see this. Thank you for making this video!

sou do Brasil,muito bom ver um brasileiro nos representando !

So many different languages, people from different countries, different cultures and they live together, next to each other, peacefully - I wish it could be like this everywhere in the world, because as you can see it's possible...

I speak English, Lithuanian, Russian and Spanish. I live in Spain, and what happens that when I go abroad to a country I don't know the language of, something mixes up in my brain and I start using a weird mix of Spanish and some Russian words even if Russian was never the language I used a lot. It's a blessing and a curse at the same time. :D

I’m so grateful to share earth with these people. So many different cultures that I get to experience, so cool

Great to see you’ve visited my city. Yes, Spanish is strong here, not as much as in Miami or El Paso but it still holds a significant presence. There are neighborhoods where it’s spoken more than English like Washington Heights, Inwood and Corona. NYC is 28% Hispanic/Latino and about a quarter of the city speaks it.

I love NYC beautiful city❤ I work there Every single day since I got here, I’m really Grateful with this country ❤❤❤

You meet such nice people everywhere you go. That's an art!

New York City has tons of languages spoken other than English like Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, etc. just like Chicago, where I am from.

Love this series! Keep up the good work!

Thanks for making a wholesome, positive video. So many travel-tubers have discovered that trashing a place with overtly nit picky negative comments and doom-splaning gives them views that it's rare to see content that it's just focus on what makes a city a city: the people.

this video is produced beautifully dude thank you for putting out such quality stuff

I've been to New York Yity only once, in February 2001. What surprised me - it was the New York City you see in movies and series, and it really was the same. I kind of felt like being home and was in awe. Such a long time ago! I'd love to visit again one day. Btw, I went from there to Montreal by bus to see a friend :) Loved Montreal too! but it was very cold in February, the river was frozen. Come to Berlin, my home at the moment!

This has definitely been my favorite so far. Would love to see Chicago on one of these one day. Heard there’s a lot of Polish, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Europeans in Chicago.

Very interesting, and people are cooperative answering your questions. One can feel the city

Nice upload. Great interview to a strangers asking them how many languages they can speak. Interesting to watch till the end. Tnx4sharing.

Beautifully done Dan! I partly grew up in New York City and can agree about the amazing diversity of people. I then came back and earned a graduate degree from New York University. Wonderful city and school.

Love this. New York seems scary to an outsider (me) but you met a lot of interesting people that make it seem less scary.

Love what you do…interesting, entertaining and makes me happy to see the variety of individuals.

I like the sound of Hebrew

🐢 Your videos motivates me to keep learning languages 'cause I was born for this (I'm currently learning German and French) :3 you rock man!

Such an enjoyable thing to watch! And inspirational.

" it goes where everything go... Away" Brilliant!

I’ve just subscribed because this was a wonderful video to share how diverse and interesting the human race is. I love languages as well and hearing the little snippets of spoken languages is wonderful. I like the surprises too, I.e. hearing about the skydiving. I love guessing which languages people speak before they say them too. 😁👍🏻 What a heart warming video of the human character. Well done. 🎉

I have lived in NYC almost all my life. You encapsulated the rhythm of the city that I am still in love with. Yes, one can be anonymous in the City, but New Yorkers have proved time and again to be there for you if you are in need.

This video made my day better, thank you so mutch from brazil 🤜

the endangered language alliance is so cool!! everyone should check it out

These videos are so interesting. I feel like an American outlier. I spoke French with my mom’s side of the family, German with my dad’s side, and obviously English in school and public. French helps to understand Spanish and Portuguese. I had a long term roommate from South Africa so learned some Afrikaans that helped with the bridge with German for understanding Dutch. My grandfather was stationed in Japan and taught me some Japanese. I took 1.5 years of mandarin. And had many Korean friends in high school that taught me some Korean. And tried to learn some Russian with DuoLingo. And I know some expressions in Arabic.

what a great watch. So candid and real.

Nice editing style, TY

The guy from Brooklyn is so funny, he still has the Brooklyn/NYC accent, and he thinks he lost it...

Great video, love seeing the diversity and also how many Americans still only speak English. I live in Italy and am slowly learning Italian.

Thank You i'm learning English with your videos !!

Beautiful video different culture different backgrounds love the diversity ❤️❤️

4:16 - I watched this video just because of the thumbnail with this beautiful girl! I can identify these beauties from my country easily (:

This video was amazing! I am a native New Yorker and multilingual, and love languages. I love walking on the streets and hearing so many different languages, it's amazing!!

Great video, Dan! 🐢

Love your videos Daniel!!!

Being able to read and understand a new language feels great. I can read and understand Portuguese, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Catalan. I know the very basics of German, as well. With the exception of German and Catalan, I can speak all the aforementioned languages if I'm allowed to commit lots of mistakes. 😂

I am a New Yorker since 1997. I speak three languages. Serbian, English and French

Thank you for being so inclusive.

Enjoyed all of the video

I have been living in Malta for 2 years already and I’ve been meeting people who speaks 6/9 languages. You should do one video here in Summer!

Great video!!🐢 It was fun to see how many people speak Hebrew in NYC❤

I spent a wonderful time watching this video.

Thank you for a nice video. Hopefully back to NYC soon😊

0:43 A Brazilian who looks Bengali and sounds Pakistani ;)

I enjoyed hearing from many type of ppl in NYC & seeing the different types of NYC nabes (midtown, Bryant Park, SoHo, etc.) I think I saw the street vendor that sells outside my bldg!

im a big fan of this series!

me watching from a small a city in Iowa ..man i haven’t been to NYC hopefully one day ..but every-time i travel to other places im always amazed at how many people there are ..each with their own lifes and struggles.. that answer or reason the arabic speaking guy said really hit the spot

'She will teach me Thai tonight'😉That's the best part

🐢can’t wait to go back to nyc. This video encouraged me to study harder, I speak 3 languages and it’s amazing how you get to connect with other people and learn about other cultures through language 💗

This was a beautifully edited video.

5:11 great setup brother, you are a great wingman!

My mom is a New Yorker. I think a big reason the accent is going is because you don’t have the same immigrant populations anymore. You don’t really have as many first generation Jewish and Italian immigrants. Now it’s Latin American immigrants who are the vast majority and I think you can hear that just walking through NY.

Eastern Slav girls can be seen immediately. And when they start talking in English, you already understand 100% where a person comes from😍🥰

I really enjoy seeing how intelligent and interesting these people are

This is one of my favorites you've done. I'd love for you to return to New York again someday 🐢

New York City is so fascinating to me because it's the molting pot of people from all around the world in just one small area

Arabic sounds like a beautiful language. I don't understand the Senegalese guy who speaks French and says that he struggles with Spanish. It was my understanding that French speakers had an easier time learning Spanish. Now, I'm a Spanish Speaker and for us Spanish speakers isn't that easy to learn French mainly because French pronunciation is kind of unique when compared to other romance languages.

Currently slacking on trying to learn (Brazilian) Portuguese. But vids like this help me wanna stay consistent

7:29 you are so bright :) thank you for the clip

Respect to the woman who brought up sign language

You managed to get a good cross section of NYC. Besides English and Spanish i would say that Hebrew, French, Chinese, and Polish were the next most common. If you would have gone to Brooklyn you would have found many Russian speakers too.

love the pacing and the way you edited this!

Love your videos man. Thank you for representing Canada and our French language! Enchanté ✌️

I like when you ask people to say something in a language other than English.

Maravilloso Nueva York! Gracias por el vídeo. Fue entretenido!!

I´ve just stumbled upon this channel and I absolutely love it!

Nice video!, I stumbled as a lot of my channel viewers seeing this channel: )

The guy at 4:36 looks so much like the Spanish tennis sensation, Carlos Alcaraz!

As a truck driver who grew up in Germany, I love speaking the French I learned whenever in Quebec or Louisiana. I learned Spanish from two cooks I used to work with in California who were Puerto Rican and from my Mexican friends in Texas. I don't get to speak much German here, but I love listening in on the Dutch Amish when I get a chance because it's so similar. I tried to learn Finnish because it was Tolkiens inspiration for the Elvish language in Lord of the Rings and its so melodic. As a teen I did a school exchange with Denmark so I do appreciate the other Scandinavian languages. Ofcourse anime will kind of get your foot in the door with Japanese. I had a lot of turkish and Italian class mates and Italo pop was popular in Germany in the 80ies growing up which played into learning Latin from 7th to 10th grade. I barely graduated because Latin was so difficult. Ofcourse I understand more than I can speak, but I love the instant connection you can achieve by just displaying a few phrases to a native speaker of whatever language. Last week I sang a Turkish song with someone from turkey in Wisconsin 😆. Lots of Slavic people and Russians in Chicago. I feel being a truckdriver plays right into my sense of adventure and connection even if they are brief and superficial, but I always get surprised looks because of the stereotype that truck drivers are uneducated or something. Due to the recession of 2008 there were a lot of highly educated people who had lost jobs and resorted to driving a truck for various reasons. Even met a rocket scientist once 😆. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to drive a truck tho.

NYT did a piece on most international cities based on number of languages overheard while spending 2 days walking the streets and #1 was NYC (21) followed closely by Panama City, Panama with 19 different languages overheard

Yessss! I’ve been waiting on a nyc version!

I loved this video! It shows that - if the people who spoke are typical - Americans are primarily and exclusively English speakers (no surprise given the dominance of English in most of the world). Great program!

eu imagino um dia ser parada na rua por você kkkk I speak two languages. Portuguese 🇧🇷 and English!

Your video really have that kind of New York Vibe.

Thank you so much for showing everyday people making the US great! I will simply leave it at that!

It’s unbelievable how we people are similar and how we are different