r/worldnewsvideo • u/PlenitudeOpulence Plenty š©ŗš§¬š • Apr 05 '23
Feel-Good š Surprising African Tribal Warriors by Speaking Their Language
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u/Sorry_Ad5653 Apr 05 '23
This dude collects languages like pokemon cards.
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u/KemikalKoktail Apr 05 '23
Iāve met the Maasai when I went to Kenya last year and they are so kind and such good people.
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u/Mightbeagoat Apr 05 '23
His YouTube channel is full of these kinds of interactions. Actually pretty cool.
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u/Menace2Sobriety Apr 05 '23
Xiaomanyc on YouTube for those curious. He's great. Also, RIP Laoshu505000.
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u/blue_i20 Apr 06 '23
What?? Did he die??
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u/JONO202 Apr 06 '23
Laoshu505000
Moses McCormick, a YouTuber polyglot known as Laoshu505000 who spoke more than 20 languages including Japanese and Mandarin, has passed away at 39. McCormick, who had 1.1 million subscribers, died on March 4 from a heart complication, according to The Daily Dot. His family has set up a GoFundMe to have the late YouTuberās remains transported from Phoenix to his hometown in Akron, Ohio.
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u/Bluest_waters Apr 06 '23
HE is a polyglot and has a natural talent to absorb languages. Some poeple can just learn languages super quickly.
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u/vo0do0child Apr 06 '23
What he does is super impressive for sure, but if you happen to speak any of the languages he uses, you get a sense after a while of how shallow his ability really is in each. Which is fair enough.
There are other channels out there of people who have instead learned one or two āforeignā languages really, really well. Those are really awesome to see.
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u/Ratathosk Apr 06 '23 edited Apr 06 '23
Is this the guy with the courses? He basically learns a lot of rote sentences very well and steers the conversation back to things he can actually answer. His course would tell you as much. He doesn't learn or magically absorb all languages, he's barely even in some of the countries he's filmed from. People usually ask him the same questions anyway.
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u/vo0do0child Apr 06 '23
Yep exactly. But it ruins the illusion for people so they donāt like to hear it.
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Apr 06 '23
This guy spoke fake Jamaican patois to Jamaicans he found in Jamaica Queens. I donāt know if Iād call him a polyglot but he sure knows a bunch of words in different languages.
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u/noosedaddy Apr 10 '23
Yeah definitely not to discredit the guy at all. But I've been living in Japan for nearly 7 years and in his videos speaking Japanese I kind of realized what you're saying now is true. He kind of has a list of go to phrases for every language he learns. From what I understand though he is fluent in Mandarin though which is a very amazing task alone.
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u/FarceMultiplier Apr 05 '23
I've seen this guy a few times and his language abilities are amazing. I'm struggling really hard to learn Spanish (I speak English and a little French). I wish I had 1/100th his ability to learn languages.
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u/claudiazo Apr 05 '23
DĆ³nde estĆ” la biblioteca?
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u/ScratchChrome Apr 05 '23
It's down there on the left innit. Sorry, I only speak English English.
And then she shat on a turtle.
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Apr 05 '23
What an amazing thing , to be able to connect with a culture so far from America like this kid did.
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u/Sure_Watercress_1645 Apr 05 '23
It is amazing. I donāt know if calling him a kid is right tho, heās 32 with a wife and child lol.
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u/inarizushisama Apr 05 '23
How many languages does he speak now? Over 10 is my guess.
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u/Sure_Watercress_1645 Apr 05 '23 edited Apr 05 '23
Iām not sure how many he speaks fluently, I know he is at least at a conversationalist level in around 20 languages or more.
His YouTube channel is xiaomanyc if youāre interested in watching more of him. Iāve been following him for a few years, his videos are pretty awesome.
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u/Milkshake_revenge Apr 06 '23
Iāve been following him for a while too, he got famous because his older videos would be him going to authentic Chinese restaurants and then ordering and speaking with them in Chinese, but not Americanized Chinese, he would speak to them in their homeland dialect. Itās awesome watching him blow their minds lol
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u/ttaptt Apr 06 '23
I see people shit on him in the comments all the time "Oh, selfish reasons blah blah" but his energy is so positive, his "gotchas" are always sweet and couched in respect. He learned a bit of... Navajo maybe? Not sure which native language, but they're one of the more complicated languages to learn as they have zero in common with Indo-European languages.
He has a gift, he uses it for at the worst fun videos, and at best bringing people together. Some people just like to shit on everything nice, lol.
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u/Gambit6x Apr 05 '23
We could learn a thing or two about these folks way of life. Instead we are busy exterminating each other virtually and physically.
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u/STEAM_TITAN Apr 05 '23
War, what is it good for?
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u/ttaptt Apr 06 '23 edited Apr 06 '23
Heās literally talking to the village warriors in the video
Not trying to be contrary, but the guys he's talking to are not in what I would call "going to war" adornment, it very much looks ceremonial. You're making broad assumptions with your statement. It's almost like looking at a bunch of guys wearing the American flag as a cape and being like, "there's the warriors."
He's just talking to the village leaders and adult males of the community.
Every civilization "goes to war". But I don't think the guys he's talking to are plotting raids against the neighboring village.
EDIT: Okay, okay, re-read the title of the post,Sorry, sorry. But I still disagree with the characterization. Seems... presumptive.
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u/jjepddfoikzsec Apr 06 '23
do even the tiniest bit of research about the maasai people ā¦ they are some of the most feared warriors and no, not just ceremonial. They are facing eviction from traditional lands and violently defending themselves.
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u/mynameisblanked Apr 06 '23
Every army in the world has ceremonial gear, doesn't mean they never actually do any fighting.
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Apr 06 '23
Reminds me of when people criticize the Conquistadors for how they treated the Aztecs.
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u/Gambit6x Apr 05 '23
Nobody is saying they canāt be assholes. But as opposed to us, they are not consumed by bullshit and constant fabricated division. They donāt attempt to constantly exterminate each other and are also not busy poisoning the rest.
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u/Gambit6x Apr 05 '23
Simplicity. How about just that. I donāt want the whole pie but I do want a slice.
I donāt think in absolutes.
And why compare one completely different groups from another? For starters, they are not slaves to phones and manufactured bullshit.
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u/myboogerstastespicy Apr 05 '23
I love seeing connections form through learning the language. That was awesome.
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Apr 05 '23
Learning a foreign language is such a remarkable thing to do and people who speak the language you learned almost always show you a different level of respect and courtesy.
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u/-GenghisJuan- Apr 05 '23
The hand shake after the guy said he's looking for a maasia wife was great.
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u/Tosser_toss Apr 05 '23
This is a fantastic video! So cool to see effort made for a rad cultural interaction.
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u/LOUDPACK_MASTERCHEF Apr 06 '23
This dude is cool but why do you gotta call them tribal warriors? Those are just guys
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u/badbunnyjiggly Apr 05 '23
All I can think about is how nice their teeth are compared to mine. And I have insurance
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u/FreckledFury86 Apr 06 '23
Man this guy has to have like the universal language perk or something. Been watching his videos for a long time and there is no more wholesome of a channel on youtube.
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u/ScratchChrome Apr 05 '23
I love this dudes videos, and I'm in complete awe of how easily he picks up languages, plus he seems like a genuinely nice, respectful person. Int enough of those anymore is it
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u/burgernoisenow Apr 06 '23
Plenty of African people learn white people languages but no one gives a shit about it until a white guy does it then everyone's like "Oooooo what a guy! So talented!"
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Apr 06 '23
The downvotes are hilarious. We Americans consider it a given for a foreigner to know English, but we--ok, let me be honest, white Americans--demand praise for knowing any other language than English.
How to tell OP is a typical monolingual American: he thinks knowing a language other than English is somehow noteworthy.
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u/burgernoisenow Apr 06 '23
Just like when the royal family of England's kids were praised for learning a second language when kids of color are regularly bilingual
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Apr 05 '23
And this is what happens when you are nice and learn the language of where you are travelling to before you go.
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u/AppropriateVictory48 Apr 06 '23
Wanna be someone's friend? Speak to then in their language. Wanna show someone you're not interested in being their friend? Insist they speak yours.
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u/Plenty_Tap_4383 Apr 06 '23 edited Apr 06 '23
Itās amazing, when he speaks their language the interaction becomes a universal reflection of behaviour of laughing, high fiving and back slapping as if they were guys on any street in the world. You really see the personal interaction which is so different when interpreters are used.
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u/wombat_kombat Antartica š Apr 06 '23
Reminds me of my schizo father I never knew. Fluent in 5 languages and had to similarly amaze people in a few countries.
Only know English and Spanish but that can be difficult to recall even though Iām with those who speak it everyday. Not sure if Iām doing life right or just need to get out more.
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u/Babrahamlincoln3859 Apr 06 '23
It's amazing what speaking someone's language can do. It shows you are dedicated to learning from them.
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u/Thin_Illustrator2390 Apr 06 '23
never gets tiring to see this kind of connection, and the best part, no matter where you go or who you talk to anywhere in the world, if you can make a connection like this, youāll make friends instantly.
except maybe those hostile uncontacted tribes
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u/Alikbader Apr 06 '23
The same has happened a few hunder years ago, with skin colours being switched. Things didn't go like that lol
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u/LeftAngleProductions Jun 11 '23
Just throwing out that these arenāt Maasai warriors. Their warriors are the only ones allowed to have long hair. They have long braids. Once they graduate to elder it is shaved off as well.
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u/1littlemanta Jun 30 '23
This sounds a lot like Swahili? Can anyone confirm? I only did a few classes, but I definitely head some terms I know, but Swahili also tends to overlap with a lot of other African languages, so that could also explain why it sounds familiar?
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