New York City, how many languages do you speak?

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  • Опубликовано: 24 мар 2023
  • Today we visit New York City, USA and ask strangers how many languages they speak.
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Комментарии • 1,9 тыс.

  • @TheNewTravel
    @TheNewTravel  Год назад +212

    Drop a comment with what city you'd like me to visit next 🐢

    • @michaelewing6522
      @michaelewing6522 Год назад +15

      Chicago

    • @srinivasashree0000
      @srinivasashree0000 Год назад +4

      ನಮ್ಮ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು

    • @youtubeuserzzzz
      @youtubeuserzzzz Год назад +4

      Go to the Oceania Continent. Visit Suva (Fiji), Noumea (Nouvelle Caladonie OSST of France), Christchurch (New Zealand) , Katherine (Northern Territories, Australia), Port Vila (Vanuatu). I love that Continent. Hope to be there soon and forever.
      I'm from the US. I started my University studies at l'Université Laval (Saint-Foy Québec). I lived in a couple of Countries in Europe, as a Teen. Mexico (Puerto Peñaco) is a gem too. Love it there.

    • @deltakid0
      @deltakid0 Год назад +3

      Bogotá, Colombia

    • @kevinremache8259
      @kevinremache8259 Год назад +7

      Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • @landri5027
    @landri5027 Год назад +3436

    Everyone feels like a main charecter in NYC.

    • @TheNewTravel
      @TheNewTravel  Год назад +125

      Haha so true!

    • @sakuraa2008
      @sakuraa2008 Год назад +151

      I get a different vibe of NYC everyone is just minding their business no one really cares about you
      When you go to places is just business
      It gives you suffocating freedom.
      If you compared to places where everyone is more sociable and open to conversations.

    • @sakuraa2008
      @sakuraa2008 Год назад +51

      It feels kinda lonely I New York City

    • @karalynne7616
      @karalynne7616 Год назад +65

      ​@@sakuraa2008 I see it as both. We mind our business when it is appropriate or are trying to get someplace (takes time to travel around such a large area!).. but many people will also strike up random conversations when the timing is right or opportunity is presented! I love both & live it every day!!

    • @felipefeldman9149
      @felipefeldman9149 Год назад +22

      @@karalynne7616 exactly! New Yorkers are a social creature; it comes with riding the trains and brushing shoulders with so many different people. I moved here a year ago and never wanna leave!

  • @acerai4470
    @acerai4470 Год назад +1669

    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

    • @TheNewTravel
      @TheNewTravel  Год назад +78

      Actually now that I think of it, I'm not sure I got any Italian speakers in this video! Surprising, because I know that's a big part of the culture in nyc.

    • @michaelrabich9635
      @michaelrabich9635 Год назад +62

      @@TheNewTravel previous generations are aging, their kids usually don't speak Italian

    • @peaceways8183
      @peaceways8183 Год назад +6

      And of His (Allah's) signs is the creation of the heavens & the earth and the diversity of your languages & your colours. {Quran}
      :)
      'Allah does not look at your bodies, nor at your appearance or wealth, but rather He looks at your HEARTS & ACTIONS.' {Prophetic Words}

    • @thomasgrabkowski8283
      @thomasgrabkowski8283 Год назад +12

      @@michaelrabich9635 Yeah, and due to lower percentage of immigrants from Western Europe, and their kids not speaking their previous languages, languages such as Italian, Irish, German and Dutch are declining in the city for example

    • @trien30
      @trien30 Год назад +14

      I speak Cantonese at home, used to speak to my wife, who's now my ex-wife, in Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Vietnamese. I also used three of the four languages/dialects as part of my previous job. I used to interpret in Spanish for Chinese coworkers. I learned some Norwegian Bokmål as part of my trip to Norway. I learned Greek and Spanish in high school. I also learned some French while apartment -sitting for my grandparents and saw my grandfather's French grammar books. I was also somehow able to connect to a French music channel from Canada on my grandparents' TV way back when. I also learned some Tagalog when a high school classmate brought a Tagalog grammar book and showed me in school, so l learned some words. I also learned some Russian as part of some jobs. Had one high school substitute teacher who taught us Russian and another high school substitute teacher who taught us French. I also learned some African words from some people I worked with from Ghana.

  • @tatianakuzmenok6327
    @tatianakuzmenok6327 10 месяцев назад +422

    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

    • @going_to_the_river_Neva
      @going_to_the_river_Neva 9 месяцев назад +38

      My native is Russian, I can speak English, Italian, and now learning Turkish. Iyi sanslar!

    • @randomcamus9445
      @randomcamus9445 9 месяцев назад +14

      if you don't speak spanish you miss out on the good life

    • @Enrico_374
      @Enrico_374 9 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@going_to_the_river_NevaBravo bro,non sono molte le persone che sanno parlare l'italiano quindi ben fatto🗿

    • @user-successdiary
      @user-successdiary 9 месяцев назад +7

      i really agree that metaphor, “it’s like living several lives in one”.
      it’s so amazing experience to have several identities through language

    • @z.yukler
      @z.yukler 9 месяцев назад +19

      @@going_to_the_river_Nevamy native is turkish but im learning russian and i know english dutch and arabic also. Russian is such a beautiful language!

  • @lugano1999
    @lugano1999 Год назад +346

    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!

    • @Dah42
      @Dah42 Год назад +5

      May I ask what languages you speak? Also, I have always heard that translators get paid very little.. Is that true?

    • @icecat2164
      @icecat2164 Год назад +2

      @@Dah42 все о деньгах🤣🤣🤣👍

    • @paolamurphy5726
      @paolamurphy5726 Год назад +1

      @@Dah42 YES! you can make good money but it means that you have to work your ass off, and I mean it!

    • @aperson1004
      @aperson1004 Год назад

      Is it still worth is becoming a translator in the future ?

    • @daria3328
      @daria3328 Год назад

      What languages you speak?

  • @xxslayerxx7358
    @xxslayerxx7358 Год назад +748

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

    • @TheNewTravel
      @TheNewTravel  Год назад +151

      It really is the second language there! Common to see Spanish on signs around the city as well

    • @jamesjohnson1050
      @jamesjohnson1050 Год назад +98

      Spanish is very prevalent in New York. Many of the ads around the city are written in Spanish.

    • @andersonrodriguez3188
      @andersonrodriguez3188 Год назад +32

      ​@@jamesjohnson1050Not only in new york if you go to San Diego and texas you become crazy haha

    • @ulysse9471
      @ulysse9471 Год назад +35

      @@TheNewTravel - I live in Boston and Spanish is prevalent here as well. Prior to living in Boston, I lived in LA and there, one was more likely to hear Spanish or Korean (I lived adjacent to Koreatown), rather than English. While living in LA, I had neighbors from Russia, and I was able to speak some Russian with them. (I had three semesters of Russian at a university, and was able to use basic Russian, which is now mostly gone. Surprisingly I can still read Cyrillic, but very, very slowly.)

    • @deutschmitpurple2918
      @deutschmitpurple2918 Год назад +43

      Me gusta aprender espanol

  • @rsoft7469
    @rsoft7469 Год назад +139

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

    • @TheNewTravel
      @TheNewTravel  Год назад +23

      I felt very lucky to have met so many interesting people!

    • @LuvThyMind29
      @LuvThyMind29 Год назад +6

      I notice this about New Yorkers. People say they aren't friendly or personable but my (limited) experience with them is that they communicate well.

    • @KristinaRjazz
      @KristinaRjazz 11 месяцев назад +4

      Of course ! They are New Yorkers ! 🩵

  • @dofire5767
    @dofire5767 Год назад +410

    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

    • @maximmoore46
      @maximmoore46 Год назад +7

      I noticed that as well when I visited.

    • @davew4998
      @davew4998 Год назад +6

      Yes, because if you knew which they were you could pretend not to understand them.

    • @JustinaZenOnDVD
      @JustinaZenOnDVD Год назад +12

      So many learned french, but don't have occasions for practicing. It seems declining.

    • @user-fw8xi5tr2f
      @user-fw8xi5tr2f Год назад +19

      they speak very little french for sure, but they are proud way too alot. this is just a broken amurican culture and education.

    • @KilianLoyn4089
      @KilianLoyn4089 Год назад +12

      Я вас удивлю но даже в России знают францкзский и изучают его. Даже я немного знаю. 😊

  • @TH-lu9du
    @TH-lu9du Год назад +22

    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.

    • @samblack-qe9tt
      @samblack-qe9tt 3 месяца назад +1

      I didn't hear a word she said. I was busy admiring her dog with beautiful eyes 😍😍🥰

  • @egolubitskiy
    @egolubitskiy Год назад +124

    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

    • @filosofiaymas563
      @filosofiaymas563 Год назад +9

      Sarajevo was a really good experience.

    • @jovanagiovanna7749
      @jovanagiovanna7749 Год назад +2

      Yes, Sarajevo, Mostar, Banja Luka

    • @blanco7726
      @blanco7726 Год назад +8

      Marseille language: French, Arabic and Gypsy King

    • @Wazkaty
      @Wazkaty 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@blanco7726so true ! Especially Algerian Arabic

  • @tianshansky
    @tianshansky Год назад +192

    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.

    • @mr.kutlugildin
      @mr.kutlugildin Год назад +4

      as-salamu aleicum bro

    • @nataliepodgainova6582
      @nataliepodgainova6582 Год назад +11

      You are so talented

    • @eliasziad7864
      @eliasziad7864 Год назад +10

      So basically you speak Soviet...

    • @nataliepodgainova6582
      @nataliepodgainova6582 Год назад +6

      @@eliasziad7864 English, Latin, Hebrew, Turkish are not Soviet 🤣

    • @gyrow1684
      @gyrow1684 Год назад +1

      Uzbek is my first language but unfortunately I have a hard time writing it because I moved from there when I was 7

  • @RAS-zs6eq
    @RAS-zs6eq Год назад +13

    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.

  • @FarFlungHeel
    @FarFlungHeel Год назад +47

    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.

    • @elbell45
      @elbell45 Год назад +4

      Пхахаха))))))) очень смешно рассказал)))))

    • @viveleroi4214
      @viveleroi4214 Год назад +5

      jaajjajjaja muy buena historia. Saludos desde Chile, aquí tambien tenemos nuestro propio acento sureño, aunque en español.

    • @fbmbassist
      @fbmbassist 11 месяцев назад +4

      Hahahah, totally would still happen now!

    • @cadicamo8720
      @cadicamo8720 8 месяцев назад +2

      That was funny

  • @CinCee-
    @CinCee- Год назад +39

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

    • @ricnyc2759
      @ricnyc2759 Год назад +10

      Still alive in Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Manhattan!
      "Tawlk, "Cawfee". ..

    • @dangercat9188
      @dangercat9188 Год назад +2

      Yup. South Brooklyn and S.I still got it lol.

  • @paniakirillina7219
    @paniakirillina7219 9 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @StrawberryFeildsforNever
    @StrawberryFeildsforNever Год назад +7

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

  • @don_peleon
    @don_peleon Год назад +1005

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

    • @hearingninja
      @hearingninja Год назад +112

      Agreed! I am learning Russian and even though I’m at a super beginner level, I can spot similarities between it and other slavic languages such as Ukranian. Very interesting to me since as a native speaker of English, there isn’t really a closely related language (I suppose Dutch maybe?)

    • @LS-Moto
      @LS-Moto Год назад +75

      @@hearingninja Dutch and German are related to English.

    • @alexandr_52rus
      @alexandr_52rus Год назад +47

      факты

    • @maruia-bv5iz
      @maruia-bv5iz Год назад +12

      west slavic at least

    • @Samed97
      @Samed97 Год назад

      bullshit. i speak Serbian and ich don't understand albania, russia, polish etc

  • @igorbetancur404
    @igorbetancur404 Год назад +62

    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.

    • @chocoflakes_queen
      @chocoflakes_queen Год назад +7

      И неожиданная вставка на русском ))
      Теплый коммент🤍

    • @elpl.atwooelektromobilnosc6209
      @elpl.atwooelektromobilnosc6209 Год назад +2

      ​@@chocoflakes_queenна рассийскам.
      У вас страна рассия а значит язик рассийский и ви рассиянє. Или ви просто безграмотние и не можите в логику

    • @donnazasgoat2274
      @donnazasgoat2274 Год назад +3

      I recognize your hello. I really miss learning Russian from a friend. I moved away.

    • @MILADA_2022
      @MILADA_2022 Год назад

      @@elpl.atwooelektromobilnosc6209 Что за ахинею Вы несётe? Pоссийский язык. 😅 Мы разговариваем на русском языке, а не на российском. 😊
      ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA_%D0%B2_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B5
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language

    • @elpl.atwooelektromobilnosc6209
      @elpl.atwooelektromobilnosc6209 Год назад

      @@MILADA_2022 тьі в школе училось???
      Страна (что) - россия. Язик (какой а не чей)- российский. Народ (какой а не чей) - российский.
      Я то понимаю, что вьі тупая челядь и досих пор сидите в рабстве мозгами. Свой язьік у вас не "какой" а "чей". Та и вьі сами не "кто" а "чьи"...
      - Чьих халоп будєш? Руский...
      Рабьі они ньінче до сих пор "чьи"...

  • @RobynBellospirito
    @RobynBellospirito Год назад +36

    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!

  • @davidorozco7575
    @davidorozco7575 Год назад +14

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

  • @jsphat81
    @jsphat81 Год назад +85

    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.

    • @AlexNightOwl76
      @AlexNightOwl76 Год назад +1

      Miami is 60% hispanic but that does not mean they all speak spanish.
      That's the misconception people have about Miami.

    • @jsphat81
      @jsphat81 Год назад +11

      @@AlexNightOwl76 I read that Miami is 73% Hispanic/Latino and that 70% of Miami people speak Spanish. I’ve been down there a couple of times and that’s the impression I got. Many people don’t speak English and reply in Spanish if you speak English to them. In NYC, Spanish is prevalent only in the neighborhoods I mentioned above and even then, many Latinos are more inclined to speaking English. In Miami, Spanish is preferred over English even when people know how to speak it. It’s somehow part of the city’s culture.

    • @AlexNightOwl76
      @AlexNightOwl76 Год назад +1

      @@jsphat81 I have worked in companies where you can clearly see the hispanic heritage in them. None of them speak to me in spanish nor I hear them speaking spanish. It depends where you go.
      I live in Broward County but I work in Miami Dade County. Spanish is probably preferred by old people that came from Cuba and never tried to learn.
      I have friends living in Minneapolis and they only go out with hispanics.
      Anyways, just my opinion.

  • @Fatblue246
    @Fatblue246 Год назад +99

    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.

    • @YogaBlissDance
      @YogaBlissDance Год назад +3

      @Finnbar I"m black but I use a lot of Yiddish words LOL! LIke "kvetch" etc....

  • @notJesuss
    @notJesuss Год назад +50

    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

    • @Nevesomo
      @Nevesomo Год назад +7

      I’d love to hear your Runish. I mean Spassian! “Por favor, сука блять»

    • @inspirationeveryday775
      @inspirationeveryday775 Год назад

      @@Nevesomo 🤣

  • @michaelmccollister7482
    @michaelmccollister7482 28 дней назад +1

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

  • @agnescarciente4229
    @agnescarciente4229 9 месяцев назад

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

  • @cherrypi_b
    @cherrypi_b Год назад +47

    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!

    • @itsjustme4848
      @itsjustme4848 Год назад +1

      Ich liebe Berlin!

    • @loosilu
      @loosilu Год назад +7

      Hope you come back to NY! I was born there and lived there as a child. When I go back I can instantly feel the place. My feet know it's my place. And NY can be ANYONE's place, that's the beauty.

    • @Marshblocker
      @Marshblocker Год назад

      7 months late

  • @ingrid2562
    @ingrid2562 Год назад +61

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

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 11 месяцев назад +1

      The (language / racial) 'diversity' of New York is FAR from 'unique'.
      Do you understand the meaning of the word 'unique'?!

    • @australialife2153
      @australialife2153 11 месяцев назад +12

      @@trueaussie9230do you understand the meaning of the word “diversity” ?

    • @morgoth5460
      @morgoth5460 10 месяцев назад +1

      Did you grow up in Mongolia when it was a soviet satellite state? Forgive my curiosity, but that’s such a specific combination of languages that it instantly reminds me of the fact that many of the older Mongolians (from that time period) I am acquainted with went to Russian schools in Ulaanbaatar and thus are fluent in both Russian and Mongolian

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 10 месяцев назад

      @@australialife2153
      The language and racial diversity in Aus is equal to, if not greater than, that of New York city.
      Ergo New York city is NOT "a unique place because of a (language / racial) diversity".
      I would expect 'australialife' to know that.
      Do YOU understand the meaning of the word 'diversity'?!

    • @thxwinter4052
      @thxwinter4052 8 месяцев назад +1

      That's interesting. How did you learn Russian? As far as I know, they don't speak Russian in Mongolia

  • @brunnamaynara
    @brunnamaynara Год назад +616

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

    • @heitoremmanuel7471
      @heitoremmanuel7471 Год назад +8

      Achei!

    • @Diegolima-ui1uz
      @Diegolima-ui1uz Год назад +8

      Verdade👏

    • @jsphat81
      @jsphat81 Год назад +37

      Por que muitos brasileiros sempre dizem que falam espanhol quando na verdade só entendem e nem tudo? Entender e falar são duas coisas diferentes.

    • @heitoremmanuel7471
      @heitoremmanuel7471 Год назад

      É por que brasileiro é burro; e por causa de entender 6/10 palavras de frases simples, como comprimentos, acha que consegue entender tudo.

    • @ThiagoPeixoto16
      @ThiagoPeixoto16 Год назад +6

      0:38 e o cara tem uma barba linda! 😅

  • @G4BR13L_
    @G4BR13L_ Год назад +3

    Love this series! Keep up the good work!

  • @officerkd6-3.76
    @officerkd6-3.76 Год назад +188

    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.

    • @JdeC1994
      @JdeC1994 Год назад +34

      I've lived in Chicago for the last 33 years, and I've met many Eastern Europeans here. Chicago was attracting Eastern Europeans 130 years ago. However, Spanish is-by far-the most spoken foreign language in Chicago. This even includes a decent number of Spaniards.

    • @SenhorKoringa
      @SenhorKoringa Год назад +9

      @@JdeC1994 definitely the polish are still here but they’re dying out partially.

    • @eliasziad7864
      @eliasziad7864 Год назад

      Theres only Russians there.

    • @H_kicinski
      @H_kicinski Год назад +3

      We still here, but moved to many nearby suburbs instead of traditional Chicago enclaves

    • @wiktoriaodwazna4538
      @wiktoriaodwazna4538 Год назад +18

      Little interruption here: Poland is in central Europe. Actually it's right in the middle, so not Eastern Europe

  • @josephr9551
    @josephr9551 Год назад +21

    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.

  • @chase1678
    @chase1678 11 месяцев назад

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

  • @BoydXplorer
    @BoydXplorer Год назад +1

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

  • @winterbear5134
    @winterbear5134 Год назад +22

    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...

  • @TheCompleteGuitarist
    @TheCompleteGuitarist Год назад +4

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

  • @soupedujour
    @soupedujour 9 месяцев назад

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

  • @RobertJohnson-uf3ej
    @RobertJohnson-uf3ej Год назад

    Such an enjoyable thing to watch! And inspirational.

  • @lizzimia5479
    @lizzimia5479 8 месяцев назад +3

    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. 🎉

  • @aaronfasshauer1622
    @aaronfasshauer1622 Год назад +11

    🐢 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!

  • @__-fu5se
    @__-fu5se Месяц назад +2

    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.

  • @beyond.economical.repair6376
    @beyond.economical.repair6376 Год назад +91

    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.

    • @beyond.economical.repair6376
      @beyond.economical.repair6376 Год назад +1

      And learned some Vietnamese insults lol

    • @luluzinhayamaguchi1D2010
      @luluzinhayamaguchi1D2010 11 месяцев назад +1

      Amazing,so you know seven languages and understand three others,from what I understand 👏👏

    • @JaneMorg...
      @JaneMorg... 11 месяцев назад

      You're really cool

    • @user-mv2dd9dg9x
      @user-mv2dd9dg9x 9 месяцев назад +1

      Вы большой молодец , полиглот, так мы говорим

    • @eriktabbers3599
      @eriktabbers3599 8 месяцев назад +1

      Bruh it's funny how none of the people knows Dutch in NYC while it was new amsterdam at some point. 😂

  • @Romelefty
    @Romelefty Год назад +17

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

    • @JBguitar-cj8pc
      @JBguitar-cj8pc Год назад +3

      Every other English speaking country is like that though. English is basically the world default language which is why a lot of native speakers don’t put much effort into learning a second language because it’s kind of pointless unless you’re moving to a non-native English speaking country. If so then yes, do your best to learn some said country’s language.

  • @davidstivenescobarescobar4143
    @davidstivenescobarescobar4143 Год назад +1

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

  • @rafaelduvalbraga4557
    @rafaelduvalbraga4557 4 месяца назад

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

  • @helengeng1349
    @helengeng1349 Год назад +3

    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!

  • @halawat739
    @halawat739 Год назад +12

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

  • @mohamedcherifmoubiene
    @mohamedcherifmoubiene Год назад +1

    Beautiful video different culture different backgrounds love the diversity ❤️❤️

  • @GreenInvasion
    @GreenInvasion Год назад +2

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

  • @saulchapnick1566
    @saulchapnick1566 Год назад +13

    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.

  • @supertrouper
    @supertrouper Год назад +326

    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.

    • @edbrown4800
      @edbrown4800 Год назад +21

      I never understood why it’s call the Brooklyn accent, they just call it the Italian American accent because that’s main people who had that accent.

    • @weekender8839
      @weekender8839 Год назад +41

      @@edbrown4800 sorry but it wasn’t just Italian. heavily influenced by Jewish and Irish and a few others. You listen to a Jewish kid from a blue collar neighbourhood in Brooklyn 30/40 years ago….

    • @edbrown4800
      @edbrown4800 Год назад +3

      @@weekender8839 I said main people.

    • @weekender8839
      @weekender8839 Год назад +23

      @Andrés Fernández people don't call it the Italian American accent because the dialect was just as widely spoken in Blue Collar areas of Brooklyn/NYC with Jewish and Irish communities. I would respectfully disagree that it was mainly Italian.

    • @scarletred8888
      @scarletred8888 Год назад +1

      Yes i would have liked if the guy gave an example of the Brooklyn accent, for those of us outside the US!

  • @jimmybond6825
    @jimmybond6825 Год назад +2

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

  • @smc5200
    @smc5200 Год назад

    Thank you for being so inclusive.

  • @sebastianarias4001
    @sebastianarias4001 Год назад +3

    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!

  • @michaelewing6522
    @michaelewing6522 Год назад +32

    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.

    • @youtubeuserzzzz
      @youtubeuserzzzz Год назад +4

      Chicago has the 2nd largest Polish Community outside of Warsaw. There's Ukrainian Village. Roger's Park and West Roger's Park has Indians, Ethiopians, many West African Country Men/Women. I lived in Chicago for 33 years.

    • @michaelewing6522
      @michaelewing6522 Год назад

      @@youtubeuserzzzz Don't forget Little Village, Pilsen, Back of the Yards and Humboldt Park also.

    • @jamesjohnson1050
      @jamesjohnson1050 Год назад

      Arabic is the third most spoken language in New York behind English and Spanish.

    • @itsjustme4848
      @itsjustme4848 Год назад +1

      During the 2020-2021 school year, ELLs in NYC public schools communicated in 151 languages other than English. Over 61% of ELLs are Spanish speakers, followed by students who speak Chinese, Arabic, Bengali, Russian, Urdu, Haitian Creole, Uzbek, French, and Tadzhik.

    • @JdeC1994
      @JdeC1994 Год назад +2

      @@youtubeuserzzzz "Chicago has the 2nd largest Polish Community outside of Warsaw."
      No way! That cliché is totally archaic. Just stop it.

  • @DarthVix501
    @DarthVix501 9 месяцев назад +1

    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

  • @ozancabadag9692
    @ozancabadag9692 11 месяцев назад

    what a great watch. So candid and real.

  • @yw8905
    @yw8905 Год назад +3

    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!!

    • @yu_li_yayu182
      @yu_li_yayu182 8 месяцев назад

      You are lucky ☺️ I love this beautiful city so so much (visited only once) so, yeah..❤

  • @westhoboken8167
    @westhoboken8167 Год назад +80

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

    • @loosilu
      @loosilu Год назад +17

      And that's why New Yorkers use so many Yiddish phrases!

    • @arielfidel
      @arielfidel Год назад +5

      Still today! And even more - it is spreading out around.

    • @checkcommentsfirst3335
      @checkcommentsfirst3335 Год назад

      @@arielfidel how?

    • @dagmarvandoren9364
      @dagmarvandoren9364 9 месяцев назад

      And german. Yiddish is an eastern European dialect. Of german. Schleppen...

  • @alpharaon3560
    @alpharaon3560 Год назад +1

    I spent a wonderful time watching this video.

  • @fselva5222
    @fselva5222 Год назад +1

    Love your videos Daniel!!!

  • @luciddream4892
    @luciddream4892 Год назад +5

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

    • @mohdadeeb1829
      @mohdadeeb1829 Год назад +1

      If you see a white person with Asian features, he is definitely a Ukrainian
      If you see an Asian person with White features, he is definitely a Kazakh

    • @user-op1qb7fn5w
      @user-op1qb7fn5w 2 месяца назад

      Та наших же за кілометр взнаєш

  • @JohnDoe-io7wi
    @JohnDoe-io7wi Год назад +14

    I like the sound of Hebrew

  • @justinjoseph4952
    @justinjoseph4952 Год назад +2

    im a big fan of this series!

  • @Aoshik777
    @Aoshik777 Год назад +2

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

  • @RogerRamos1993
    @RogerRamos1993 11 месяцев назад +15

    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. 😂

  • @alluneedislove7460
    @alluneedislove7460 Год назад +10

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

  • @simonyricools
    @simonyricools 11 месяцев назад

    This was a beautifully edited video.

  • @olivia.8152
    @olivia.8152 11 месяцев назад

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

  • @pneron2032
    @pneron2032 8 месяцев назад +5

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

  • @sherlynescobar129
    @sherlynescobar129 Год назад +6

    🐢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 💗

  • @user-ph5mv8tl4g
    @user-ph5mv8tl4g 2 месяца назад

    Nice editing style, TY

  • @jamesfry4058
    @jamesfry4058 Год назад +2

    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

  • @yoonmoonly
    @yoonmoonly Год назад +9

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

  • @sabirsal
    @sabirsal Год назад +7

    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.

  • @GoodlifeInvestor
    @GoodlifeInvestor Год назад +1

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

  • @nicoler.6309
    @nicoler.6309 Год назад

    Great video, Dan! 🐢

  • @aqua6613
    @aqua6613 10 месяцев назад +6

    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.

    • @eriktabbers3599
      @eriktabbers3599 8 месяцев назад

      Wait so, I'm Dutch but you say that there is something like dutch Amish? 😂 I thought that was German only.

  • @Dah42
    @Dah42 Год назад +35

    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.

    • @nadiab7764
      @nadiab7764 Год назад +7

      Arabic music is even better.

    • @TheoTattaglia
      @TheoTattaglia Год назад +13

      Arabic is in my opinion the most beautiful language. From the way it sounds to the way it looks.

    • @bigploppa154
      @bigploppa154 Год назад +4

      i wouldnt know but i could see that being the case. i decided to learn spanish while my brother learned french and we can rarely understand much of what the other one says. that being said if i hear people speaking italian i can pick up a bit of what they are talking about. portuguese, not as much but i think its mostly because im not used to brazilian accents yet whereas i grew up around a lot of spanish speaking latinos and italians

    • @2o2k78
      @2o2k78 8 месяцев назад

      Arabic is absolutelu beautiful language, in my opinion the most beautiful ❤

  • @Rcoal
    @Rcoal 10 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @Miami_tree_house
    @Miami_tree_house Год назад +2

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

  • @aaronlaserna8830
    @aaronlaserna8830 Год назад +4

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

  • @josuaerick9670
    @josuaerick9670 Год назад +7

    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

  • @realmadridworld1688
    @realmadridworld1688 Год назад +1

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

  • @tommarino1056
    @tommarino1056 Год назад

    Love the video. I’m originally from New York and recognized the area.

  • @dcollege1
    @dcollege1 Год назад +7

    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!

    • @daylightmoon7285
      @daylightmoon7285 Год назад

      That's myth. I don't live in NY and speak 3. What confuses people is that we can travel 2,500 Km and only use English. However, we speak more languages than people know.

    • @spoton95
      @spoton95 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@daylightmoon7285, Knowing a little bit of an other language isn't speaking it fluently

  • @wesleybraga8193
    @wesleybraga8193 Год назад +7

    🐢 Oh I miss NYC! But I think Montreal will be my next destination :p

  • @chimaera_2330
    @chimaera_2330 8 месяцев назад

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

  • @aloncohen87
    @aloncohen87 Год назад +1

    Wow, I really liked the video, I even got a reading recommendation( 1:39), I'm always looking for writers who write well about New York

  • @mp1578
    @mp1578 Год назад +5

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

  • @JuliaSochnikova
    @JuliaSochnikova Год назад +6

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

  • @FlyingMonet
    @FlyingMonet Год назад +2

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

  • @ololo.
    @ololo. 7 месяцев назад

    I really enjoy seeing how intelligent and interesting these people are

  • @saradanese7808
    @saradanese7808 Год назад +7

    I’d be interested to know how people learnt the languages. For example, at home, at school, through duolingo, by having lived in a different country etc.

    • @rafiullahqallander
      @rafiullahqallander Год назад +1

      Either you drastically in need to learn a new language or you're heartily interested to learn a new language; in both cases, it doesn't matter what opportunities you have at hand, you will find a way to learn the language. Off course, the methods and means of learning languages differs from person to person and have great dependence on age.

    • @rafiullahqallander
      @rafiullahqallander Год назад

      Either you drastically in need to learn a new language or you're heartily interested to learn a new language; in both cases, it doesn't matter what opportunities you have at hand, you will find a way to learn the language. Off course, the methods and means of learning languages differs from person to person and have great dependence on age. Besides other scientific methods, the easiest way is to have an environment where all of 5+1 senses are involved and you hear, you see/watch, you read, you write, you speak, and at last you think in new language.

  • @thenaturalyogi5934
    @thenaturalyogi5934 Год назад +16

    Well it seems like my parents made the right choice for putting me in a trilingual school (🇬🇧, 🇨🇳, 🇵🇭) and me as well for learning (🇵🇹, 🇷🇺, 🇲🇫 )
    so what I'm missing is Arabic. 😅 It sounds beautiful, so now I realized that I choose languages based on how pleasant they sound to me.
    Also where are the Filipinos at? 😂

  • @robertbourgeois9565
    @robertbourgeois9565 Год назад +1

    Great video Dan, as always. ❤ from Montréal.

  • @1hinita
    @1hinita Год назад

    I visited my old college roommate in NY last year and i had a great time. its very beautiful and diverse and though it was only 3 days, I had so much fun!🐢

  • @user-pz6nk6em3q
    @user-pz6nk6em3q 8 месяцев назад

    Wow! Super information. I speak English, Japanese, a bit of Korean, and now since the past 2 days working on French

  • @ratking927
    @ratking927 Год назад +33

    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.

    • @KiraDaBeastNY
      @KiraDaBeastNY 10 месяцев назад

      As a Brooklynite born and bred, yeah, the type of Brooklyn accent that was from Jewish, Italian, and Irish immigrants is really mostly seen in older folks usually in South Brooklyn. Bensonhurst, Gravesend, etc. A lot of us Black and Latino immigrants have our own version of it that is mixed with whatever english dialect (as many of us Black folks are West Indian/Caribbean and us or our parents often speak whatever dialect of english from the island/country they originated from though younger immigrants will often speak in the aforementioned comboed Brooklyn accent) that our parents speak or language in some cases. I have a friend who is Bangladeshi and he speaks english in a strange Bangla accented Brooklyn accent.

    • @dagmarvandoren9364
      @dagmarvandoren9364 9 месяцев назад

      Germans were there too.....many.

    • @dagmarvandoren9364
      @dagmarvandoren9364 9 месяцев назад

      You will get even more. They all.leave south America. To.go to the "promised "land...in a prepared.bed...
      And come with all.of there culture....that is the future. No it's and buts....its all okkkyyy

    • @eriktabbers3599
      @eriktabbers3599 8 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@dagmarvandoren9364where the dutch at though? NYC used to be new amsterdam

  • @nandari6260
    @nandari6260 11 месяцев назад +8

    I love when a lot of Brazilians say they can speak Spanish, too. Maybe "Portunhol"? 😅(Brazilians will understand me) I am not sure about that, but it is so nice that Brazilians abroad can speak more than two languages and some really are fluently in all of them. ❤
    P.S. It's not just Brazilians who say they can speak Spanish, I've tried talking to some Americans in Spanish and the truth is that many aren't as fluent as they say. "Fluency in a language means speaking easily, reasonably quickly and without having to stop and pause a lot."

    • @camillabarros8074
      @camillabarros8074 10 месяцев назад

      Brasileiros sempre dizem que falam espanhol pra gente é muito fácil compreender essa língua, mesmo que não seja fluente 😅

    • @chrisr4407
      @chrisr4407 10 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@camillabarros8074but the accent is different and it's not always understood...my neighbor is from Brazil and when he speaks in spanish it sounds like portuguese and can barely understand

  • @JayLaufvded
    @JayLaufvded 3 месяца назад

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