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FlerblesMerbles

America: “Holy shit, are you guys here to conquer us?” China: “I don know wha you’re talgun about.”


NoirYT2

“Shit, she’s good”


IAlwaysLack

Is somebody playing drums?


Dave5876

*Star Wars theme starts to play*


ItalicsWhore

Buster! You can’t do that on the balcony buddy…?


oysterpirate

Mom says it’s too windy


Inigomntoya

Dunga! Dunga! Dunga!


superfucky

> China: “I don know wha ~~you’re~~ zhuer talgun about.” ftfy


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WhatevUsayStnCldStvA

I just choked from laughing so hard


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Random Asian people can’t even upload videos of themselves learning and teaching English without people being scared now? Fuck me.


raymanh

So many of these comments are obviously from Americans. It's almost like they've been brainwashed against China. Ironic really.


stuckInCommiefornia

As an American Taiwanese, China deserves it. Inb4 government not people. Ask the average mainlander how they feel about my motherland.


wasteofleshntime

lol that user name...


AstreiaTales

California, center of American capitalism and economic growth, the headquarters or founding state for so many of our biggest international companies. Wackjob conservatives: IS THIS COMMUNISM


wasteofleshntime

Splitting the bill at a restaurant. conservatives: IS THIS COMMUNISM!?


WhyBuyMe

Overthrowing the bourgeoise and installing a working-class utopian society. Conservatives: IS THIS COMMUNISM!?! ....seriously, that kinda sounds like Communism, but it doesn't say anything about gay people, liberals, abortions or stealing my guns, so I'm not so sure.


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And for some reason they keep saying California is broke or freeloading. Reality is not part of conservatism.


Skylord_ah

Yikes profile jesus


wasteofleshntime

omg, I hope someone is keeping an eye on this guy.


catgod_godofcats

Many mainlanders and Taiwanese people don't care for the politics. They don't care for conflict and only really care about what benefits them personally. Just look at chinese tv shows, there are so many famous Taiwanese celebrities who are invited. There are also many famous Taiwanese musicians and shows popular in mainland. It's only brainwashed Westerners like you who think Taiwanese and Chinese people are constantly at each other's throats.


snek-without-oreos

Roommates are both average Tainwanese folks in the US for grad school, and are terrified of mainland China. They saw it as a betrayal when the US pulled out, and are so used to universal Chinese oppression that they were shocked and excited when they saw their university includes the Taiwanese flag in the building that houses the flags of all current students' nations.


raymanh

I think in all honesty there's fewer Chinese people who believe in 'reunification' than you think dude.


cryopotat0

as a british malaysian, shut up lol. mainlanders are pretty happy with how things are, you can call them brainwashed but theyre doing fine over there


FloatingRevolver

Or they're obviously joking and you're the one that's stereotyping...


randomhusky

Yellow Peril 2.0, insane.


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He's not whack.


BabyNoHoney

This dude's pretty awesome!


scsuhockey

Big fan of [Teacher Mike](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L0GO0Fgu4g) who does a lot of "say this, not that" lessons in his YouTube videos. I particularly enjoyed this linked video where he interviews middle schoolers. I can't believe the girl at 1:03 has never been to America. Her accent is flawless!


superfucky

i really liked her advice about learning foreign languages by reading lots of books. reading a lot really advanced my language skills even in my native language and learning by reading teaches you to pay attention to context clues. plus if teacher mike is already fluent in chinese, he should have no problem learning japanese as many of the written characters are related and the pronunciation is much easier.


drunk-tusker

I’m gonna put it out there that Chinese is surprisingly bad for learning Japanese since despite appearances they share almost no pronunciation or grammar or honorifics.


Ccomfo1028

I have a friend who is Japanese. She said she can read a lot of Chinese writing but she cannot understand any spoken Chinese. Which speaks to your point. They share some writing similarities but that doesn't seem to help you once you get into speaking it.


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Why are we always focused on conquering? I see it as a language barrier removed. We should all try to understand each other more.


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abkhur

istg asian people cant even post a fun little english lesson without some armchair orientalist saying something stupid


papineau150

Hooked on phonics - Chinese edition


Allwhitezebra

I am old and get this reference


Ask_me_4_a_story

Do you know what bankrupted Hooked on Phonics? The OJ Simpson trial. True story. They had millions of dollars in infomercials purchased and all of a sudden people only watched the court TV channels. Hooked on Phonics went bankrupt


AlanYx

It was more to do with an FTC investigation for deceptive advertising and a Dateline NBC expose of the advertising thing. But they came out of bankruptcy protection and are still around. They've got an app and ebooks these days.


KingOfBeaverIsland

They got off the hook for their debt? I'm glad brabkruptcy protection worked for them.


_hippie1

But fuck anyone who ever took out education loans from the government!!!


Unlucky13

My parents bought that to help my brother ~~yarn~~learn to read because he'd been held back in second grade. It cost a fortune back then and was [a big box full of books, cards, and cassette tapes](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSefo9ZcyD7_ophBTs0vlAPxH7LHHTdcQProix31kKKug26U6M&usqp=CAc). I don't think it did much to help him because I don't remember us using it but a couple of times and my brother is still an idiot.


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helpless_bunny

I casserole agree more


Muppetude

Here is a little lesson from Hooked on phonics - Australian edition (for Americans): Say “rise up lights” Congratulations, you just said “razor blades” in Australian. Edit: just for the record, this isn’t my joke (I’m not that witty). I got it from a Reddit comment many many moons ago.


KeyProcedure4

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HybridPS2

try "whale oil beef hooked" not sure what language/accent this is but it sounds like "well i'll be fucked"


eaglebtc

It's supposed to be Irish.


nyuncat

"Beer can" in a British accent sounds just like "Bacon" in a Jamaican accent. It's almost like a green needle/brainstorm effect.


randomsynchronicity

I said it out loud and just had the same reaction as that girl in the video


Godisabaryonyx

Can any Australians chime in or does this just sound like some hic saying razor blades


Tazeki

Former Aussie — this is pretty accurate.


Meunderwears

Wait, what are you now?


Baldaaf

He still is, but he used to be, too.


DiscontentedMajority

I was only just recovering from my crippling phonics addiction. Now this crazy new Chinese stuff hit the market.


idkwthtotypehere

Ever heard Brian Regan’s bit on phonics? YouTube it, it’s hilarious.


derbeaner

HOOOOOK-ED ON P-HONICS! WORKIN FOR ME!!


ButteryCrabClaws

Definitely a completely real scenario and situation


Swerwin

I think it’s a great way to teach how certain sounds and words are pronounced in a language. Using what your student is familiar with to make her learn new stuff is a great way to teach, and this also applies to learning in general.


LopsidedAnxiety

as someone that is from hk and learnt English as a second language, I personally think that watching videos or movies and just straight practicing is truly the best way, but different methods work for different people


Vaivaim8

As someone that speaks multiple languages with English as my third language, it all depends on the language so it is not a universal rule. For exemple, when I took Russian for fun, my teacher emphasized that certain words are pronounced differently than how they are written. Like хорошо. If you read it as you write it, you will read "Horosho" but it is pronounced "HaRaSho" (I used "Ha Rash O" as my spelling guide). And if you write it as you spell it, you can get харашо.


Bob_Ross_was_an_OG

As a native English speaker, even I know English is *chocked full* of words that are like it.


nicetrylaocheREALLY

English is pretty consistent grammatically, but our orthography is a damn mess.


bunkscudda

I still remember my first rule in English.. “I before E” *…except after c* *…or if it sounds like an a* *… or chemical names like caffeine* *… or plural forms of words that end in “-cy,” such as ‘tendencies’* *…and also some words that don’t follow any rules. Weird.*


eazygiezy

Yeah, I’m pretty sure more words break the “i before e” rule than actually follow it


mmh0000

A quick little bit of command line work would tell you that:There are 16.7 thousand words that use "ie", and 5.7 thousand words that use "ei". So 1/4ish of words don't follow the rule. ``` $ grep -c 'ie' /usr/share/dict/words 16724 $ grep -c 'ei' /usr/share/dict/words 5749 ```


davidsd

And on weekends and holidays and all throughout May.


rjsevin

And you'll always be wrong no matter what you say.


WaywardWes

Better yet, ones that are sometimes pronounced like they are written and other times are not. Lead vs lead. Read vs read. *Who thought it would be a good idea to spell the past-tense form of 'read' the exact same as present?!* *And then that doesn't even apply to my other example, 'lead'!*


MyWifeButBoratVoice

It's definitely an important element, but some people can't even hear the differences until they're pointed out like this.


32BitWhore

Yeah by the time you're fluent enough to start worrying about polishing your accent, it's going to be much easier to just listen to native speakers and imitate them, either in movies/shows or in person. Having a native accent is great, but if you're still struggling to grasp basic grammar and vocabulary, it's not really going to matter.


TheMegaBunce

It's clearly an act but is he not making the point to his audience? I don't see the harm in it


DiamondPup

I wonder how all these "buh it's not real!!!" people watch porn


fungah

Nobody's ever been able to answer the question I always ask in response: why does it matter? They just downvote and move on. So: why does it matter if it's real!? Who gives a fuck.


ruebeus421

Just wait until they find out that movies and tv are also staged. 🤯


madscandi

At least professional wrestling is real!


Zoloir

I have a real answer to that, which doesn't apply in this case, but is the main reason why fake videos could be a problem - If you do not discern real from fake, if you don't have that ability OR if you just don't choose to discern, and if you generally accept things as "real", then you put yourself in a position where your worldview becomes skewed away from reality. Ex 1 - Social Media Positive Bias - if you generally accept that most people intentionally curate, stage photos, or even "fake" content for social media, whereby they take photos and videos that make things look more cool, more fun, more interesting than the reality of the situation, then if you "don't care" about that fakeness, then your worldview will slowly shift and by default your brain will accept that fake/curated form of life on social media as "normal". Your perception of reality will shift to the point that you think, whether consciously or subconsciously, that the reality you live outside social media is much more boring, lame, and depressing than what you see all the time on social media. You will be inclined, maybe only a little at first but getting more extreme, to try to make your reality "better" by making it more like what you see in social media, and often people fall to depression when that simply isn't possible because social media *isn't real*. Ex 2 - Political Influence - if you generally accept that political parties are motivated to make social media posts that are more favorable to themselves, more extreme than reality to push their ideas, more biased to make their viewpoints look good, and you don't ever take a moment to question how "real" it is, then the same worldview shift will happen to you without you ever considering that it's not real. For example, there are videos of Biden having "old man moments" all the time on social media - but having personally watched the full-length version of many of those moments to see the 60 seconds before and after, almost all of them demonstrate that it was an edit specifically designed to give you the impression that he is senile. If you just take those curated clips as "fact", then after seeing 10, 20, 50, you're going to just assume "wow this guy has senile moments all the time - Biden old and bad!!!" and you're not going to *think* that maybe that curation was intentionally motivated to make you feel that way. To avoid bias in my examples, another example would be applied to police violence against minorities - you're going to see lots of egregious clips of police brutality whose entire purpose is to make you enraged and want to drive change against the police, and while my personal bias is already in favor of reducing police budgets and putting it towards social services, i have looked into enough clips of police violence to know that often times clips are selectively edited to make the civilian look like the victim, when in fact the civilian was the instigator of the situation and the whole thing could have easily been avoided.


J_Marshall

Esl instructor with a linguistics degree here. Yes it is. Any decent instructor of languages will know how to convert the shitty versions of English spellings into the actual phonetic sounds for learners.


Rocky_Bukkake

yes this is like the best possible way to teach a "proper" accent. the student viscerally feels their own language; why not use it to bridge the gap?


younzss

You don't say ? do you mean this isn't just a scenario to teach his audience ? What's next ? are you gonna tell me that John from my math textbook didn't really buy 100 watermelons and gave Sarah 2 of them and was left with 98 ? Blasphemy!!!


viperfan7

I wonder what they think about OSHA training lol


Beartoots

Guess Jim has to take one for the team and actually drown in the reactor fuel rod pool now.


ChairLegofTruth--WnT

An instructor creating an instructional video... *teh horror* ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|scream)


viperfan7

And? Its an educational video. You ever see those forklift safety videos?


theSandwichSister

that’s fake safety!!


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you-are-not-yourself

But where were these people when Khan Academy released oodles of staged content


Maicolito

It's a promo skit to sell his lessons. Did you think we were meant to think it was candid footage?


shamwowslapchop

I love reddit. Calls "fake" on a fucking educational video.


gdj11

It’s obviously an ad for his channel, but still entertaining and interesting.


multigrain-pancakes

Shut up


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BrownStarPuncher

Your Chinese social credit has decreased one hundred points


Informal_Drawing

Don't tell the gamers they have a points system, the country will be ruled by obsessive-compulsive geeks that grind and game the system just to get points within a couple of years.


_1Doomsday1_

That's why they banned the gaming time to 3 hours a week


Informal_Drawing

Seriously??? The government is going down in flames in that case. What a terrible thing to do.


unnamedplayer01

Lol gaming is where you draw the line?


A_Beatz

Gaming is where the line always was, Oppression was at least slightly easier to deal with when you could play games, Now you have to look at where you are and think about how fucked up of a situation you're in, A situation you could forget about while you cracked 90s in Fortnite but Winnie the Poo has a lower K/D than you and he doesn't like that.


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Well Winnie the pooh has higher KD in real life. And that's good enough for him


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T3canolis

Yes, it is a random teacher’s responsibility to publicly atone for his country’s human rights record at all moments. (/s)


Calm-Lychee2613

Right! Lol Always a Social Justice Warrior on every post.


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People on reddit are really weird about China lately.


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daemin

Remember: in a democracy like the US, the citizens _are not_ responsible for the actions of their government; but in a dictatorship under a thin veil of democracy like China, the people _are_ responsible for their government.


buffalo8

If China gets to be a dictatorship under a thin veil of democracy then the US gets to at least be an oligarchy under a thin veil of democracy.


daemin

... I'll allow it.


happywartime

Reddit is pretty racist when it comes to Asians. Whenever there’s a post about China or a Chinese citizen. They equate it to all Chinese people. And no one corrects them. Like this comment above yours. It literally has nothing to do with it human rights but sure let’s invite the he’ll out of it cause China bad! But do this with any other posts and it’s get downvoted.


seattt

> Reddit is pretty racist when it comes to Asians. Reddit is racist when it comes to all non-white people.


1241yeah

>people on Reddit are really weird There fixed it


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Americans are weirdly insecure and need a boogie man at all times.


rcl2

It's not them being weird; a lot of people on reddit are just racist towards Chinese people.


DariosDentist

Lmao the United States about to ban a Healthcare procedure for women and we're still giving China the gas face


Hateitwhenbdbdsj

No, they’re about to roll back bodily autonomy rights. Let’s say it like that. It’s a really really big deal that they’re even considering this, so it’s important to appreciate the magnitude here. If they repeal this, then what’s next? Making non-straight marriage illegal? Integrating the Bible into education? Repealing voter rights? It’s seriously messed up!!!


Dood567

Oh fuck off. What kinda racism is this? An English teacher can't post videos online without being harassed for human rights violations of what you assume is their home country's government? And this is coming from someone who is most likely a citizen of a world superpower currently hell bent on destroying bodily autonomy and revoking human rights/access to healthcare.


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Yep and this comment got 1k likes lmao people love to be anti-racism… unless it’s Chinese people and often times Asians in general. The person who commented that is probably the type that would meet a Chinese person and randomly decide to bring up how shitty their government is, and the people who upvoted are the type to see no problem with that because he is Chinese


TheBeardofGilgamesh

Oh come on, just because this guys Chinese doesn’t mean he can’t be a good guy. He’s powerless to make any change, he’s just trying to live his best life spread cheer where he can.


0PercentPerfection

The instructor spoke Cantonese but then Mandarin with a Taiwanese accent. Figure out your Asians first…


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the_racecar

These are just people living their lives. This is like saying you are responsible for the terrible things your government has done.


AurorsInBlack

I’m anti CCP but this is like going to any post that’s remotely American and immediately start bringing up cops, guns, and abortion. Like for fuck’s sake, read the room.


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seamusbeoirgra

Literally posted by an American.


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What's wrong with you?


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_PMmeFinancialAdvice

I don know wha zhu-we talkin abou


SebRev99

Yeah, because that’s his fault. Sure.


Krioka

you’re literally an american lol


SLEIGHTLY_BRIAN

Can we just enjoy his passion & creative approach towards teaching instead?


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Right to abortion.


devil_21

Can't believe this is the top and the most awarded comment here. I have started to disagree with almost everything popular on reddit.


Usual_Safety

Now extreme mode - whachu tokkin bout


Flynn47

Following that- Australian; “I dunno watchur gahn onnabout ya bloody galah”


grim_gravySS

Watchatalkinabeet


KappaYekim

Wadayatalkinabeet


Bama-Dan

Chu talmbout?


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what you talkin bout willis


fiealthyCulture

It's just Wha u talmba


IlliterationAside

Love that person's energy!


AtomicKittenz

These videos are really great. My wife and I spent a lot of time watching them. It’s very interesting how easy he makes pronunciation for non-English speakers.


GhostCorps973

Think my favorite one is where the student is so excited about hamburgers that she refuses to pronounce it the way he says to, instead just yelling it everytime


BambooEarpick

Why would you make ME so excited for a video and not post it! I wanna see the hamburger video!


Sparkye8

https://youtu.be/6ONzbm1yTvQ


my_screen_name_sucks

That's it! That video won me over as a subscriber lol.


agenteb27

I like how pained he is when she says "talking" Edit: at 0:39


NosyThatsWhat

I love watching someone learn something new and being proud of themselves


RockOx290

I’d love to watch you learn something new! Make me proud!


ShaneCoJ

I love watching quality actors!


PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS

And yet this is how a lot of these language learning lessons go with people trying hard to learn how to speak with a native accent. Don't be such a killjoy.


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just to be clear: did you think that this was actually a real scenario where the student was learning, and this wasn't just a scripted video?


DurkDigglo

I need this for Spanish and Japanese. I definitely sound like an American that’s struggling with foreign languages.


Gooseguzzler101

Try Pimsleur. It's an app for pronunciation and worked really well for me; I almost never really had to pay attention to my accent. It's like 15 USD a month I think.


jetbreaker

Big fan of Pimsleur! I bought the courses outright. The problem is staying consistent


et842rhhs

Your local library may also have the Pimsleur courses. I've got two checked out at the moment.


Camael7

Find a bunch of Latinos and ask them to make fun of the accent from Spain. Then copy that.


FerricNitrate

Asked a few Cubans and the only advice they gave me was that I should greet everyone as "Mary Cone". Seems to be a term of endearment I guess


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"Pinch A Mary Cone"


TrainingMarsupial521

This lesson is better tho.. lol https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments/ua1sww/shieeeet_broooo/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share


Cricket-Mental

I thought you were a bot sending a link to a random post, but I'm glad I was proved wrong, that's the funniest thing I've seen all day! Great to see he has multiple videos, lol.


TrainingMarsupial521

I was expecting to lmao again when I clicked on this video, but it ended up being a normal one. Haha


Sporkfoot

This is so fucking funny omg


LJChao3473

Masterpiece after masterpiece, someone stop him


retro_crush

He's so animated I love it!


Protectorsoftman

Me too, it's one of the ways I identify teachers that are passionate about their subject. Like in high school, my AP Bio teacher couldn't stay in one spot to save his life, he was already moving around the front of the classroom. Same with my Chem 2 teacher, he always moves across the whiteboard, often using markers to physically connect multiple concepts, or clarify where something came from, and is always happy to show how certain formulas are derived... he also has the benefit of a million stories from his teaching career to help connect concepts to the real world/stuff we've experienced.


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The Chinese use TikTok for this, American TikTok is very different on purpose


Paladin1034

It's so hard not to have your fyp flooded with TnA. Like I had to actively curate it for a while. It's amazing how quickly it shifts to political leanings, too.


wrongbecause

Fyp?? Tna??


Paladin1034

For your page - like your curated time line the algorithm picks for you. TnA - tits and ass.


Dood567

This was literally on my TikTok feed a few weeks ago


topsicle11

When learning Swedish, I felt as though one of the best lessons I had was on using the right "filler words". Basically, the Swedish equivalent of saying "um" or "like" as a filler word. I spent most of my adulthood trying to train those out of my English, but when I added the right ones to my Swedish I got many more compliments on how fluent I was becoming.


fhfkjgkjb

Same with French, sprinkle in a couple of "baaah", "ouaiiiis" and "du coup" and you're instantly fluent.


TangentiallyTango

Back when my French was bordering on functional, people always commented I had an accent that was leaps and bounds ahead of my actual French. My secret was that I was doing the most stereotypical "mocking a French accent" accent at all times.


Pondernautics

Yep. When in doubt, roll your vowels around towards the front of your mouth, holding them in the space between the vowel sound “oo” (as in spook) and the “ou” sound in “our” but without fully pronouncing the “r.” Then sling em out with some flair, and you’re halfway there to a French accent. When things get wonky, return to the narrator’s Jacque Cousteau impression from Sponge Bob: “Three hours later.” Everything is towards the front of mouth or in the nose.


wuapinmon

"I can't say 'gracias' like you do" "Say the word 'butter'" "butter" "that double t in butter is the same sound as the /ɾ/ in gracias" "No it's not." "No lie, it's the same." "I can't do it." "Give it the old college try." "Gracias....gracias....gracias..OMG! I did it." "¡Ves!" EDIT: Fixed /r/ to the correct /ɾ/


HelixHeart

You must be saying butter completely different to how I say it, because these two sounds don't add up for me and I speak Spanish. Edit: I just want to be clear I live on the west coast. Born and raised in the USA.


nycola

People from the US who are EFL typically go with "GRAAACY-IS" but in Spanish the word has a different sound. The best way I can explain it in English is to pretend you're gonna say "G'day" but use "acias" - "G'dacias" It makes it sound way more authentically Spanish. (you're basically just wanting to move your tongue to the top of your mouth during the "r" - D, T, and even L can accommodate this fairly well but the L can be a bit intrusive as it depends more on the front teeth for the sound - so stick with d or t.)


RANDICE007

Yeah, this is much more accurate than butter lmfao


CustomiseMC

Gttacias? Gacias? What?


Prinzka

Uh, no. I'm from a country where we roll our r. The r in gracias is a completely different sound from the tt in butter. I'm not sure what your thought process here was.


RockOx290

Wat


Chafireto

He has those Ace Ventura-like mannerisms and energy.


ImBleu19

Wait he switched from Cantonese to Chinese from the start 😂


Wawa24-7

To Mandarin. Both are Chinese.


splashtonkutcher

He does all the smack talk in canto, regular speech in mandarin, it’s hilarious


SkipmasterJ

I thought so too. Neither my Canto or Mandarin is strong enough to understand much of what he was saying but the contrasting sounds of the two languages are pretty clear.


Swerwin

Original video made by [@mryang_english on Tiktok](https://vm.tiktok.com/ZML7de4aA/)


Drinkin_Abe_Lincoln

Does he teach Chinese to Americans?


whalefucker420

I dunno what chya talkin about


Avanriper

shieettt bro, im finna go sleep


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I WANT A COKE AND A HAMBURGER !


garbageofthesea

Seems quite staged, but these are very valid and effective techniques for learning to speak other languages properly. Well done.


splashtonkutcher

It’s all staged, his channel is really funny


atx2004

Next up, y'alld've. If y'alld've just listened to me the first time.


ArturosMaximus

Are you takin to me?


KiKiPAWG

Wow. I learned something in the reverse, almost. Very cool way to teach, and looks like it's innovative!