How Well Do Students at this Elite Interpretation School Speak English?

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Today I’m at one of the best translation and interpretation programs in the US where I’m interviewing students to see how well they speak English and see if they have any tips to share. Let’s take a look.
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[@Rozonkomo]

It always amazes me how fluent they are and how nervous they are about how they sound. If any of them find this video - you guys all sounded great! Those were some fun vocab choices though.

[@miao4884]

Yeah, “the lost in translation” affects vocabulary choices

[@til_valhalla16]

I lost it at "full time mother?" 😂😂

[@hoowang9962]

that dude got jokes 💀💀💀

[@kratos8873]

I accidentally read your comment before I saw it, made me cry when I saw it 😂

[@bruhinthewild]

"White lady" was also funny.

[@averageabove714]

I died when I heard it 😂 had to rewind and laughed even harder

[@jjl1032]

哇 看到他们口语那么好 而且还是没有很多英语母语朋友 感觉被激励到了 自己口语不好不能归结到外部原因 每天半个小时跟自己用英文对话 我也要学起来！！！ 谢谢老马的视频 另外那些会说中文的外国人也很impressive

[@Amanda-pz1rr]

haha I got the "wheelbarrow" and the "forklift" ! I learned them from teaching my 3 year-old son English. Your vocabulary of everyday life objects would expand quickly once you have a kid. stroller, scooter, wagon, etc. I also freshened up my knowledge on "coral reef". I had no idea what that is until I read one book of "magic tree" series (chapter books aimed at 6-9 kids, which i will never read if it weren't for raising kids) that I came to know that a reef is consisted of numerous coral skeletons. wow. feel so proud of myself.

[@evertspies3345]

Loved this. Studying Mandarin for over a year and really like it when you surprise people with you Beijing Chinese accent although I find it difficult to understand sometimes. Guess its the speed at which you speak. Loved the selection of participants in this video.

[@Rexodia]

The shuddering before the "full time mother" at 6:18 was so comical! 🤣🤣🤣

[@bryantgeorge4552]

mysoginistic!!!!! 😂😂😂

[@michaeltagor4238]

don't forget the immediate "a white lady" too, I mean if it was me I would've said the same lol

[@DSparksable]

🤣

[@vonSmash]

Hahhaah xD I laughed so hard when he said that, so unexpected and he looked so serious too 😄

[@Fluxje]

As a non native english speaker, I was surprised. Either by the fact that they didnt know any or most of the examples, OR that I actually knew how to name them all myself.

[@Druuuuuuuuu]

i didn't even know some of these and I was born and raised in Canada lol. The pressure of getting the answer right definitely affects the result.

[@kopxpert]

Surely u got that "fulltime mother" correctly though :)

[@iatemyphonegaming]

I work in a warehouse and wanted to learn spanish related to my job. One of the first words I learned was forklift.

[@LaomaChris]

Love it!

[@lbthingsstuffmore9513]

They sound like a native speaker or at least someone that has lived in the USA for a longtime. They sound great!🌹🖖

[@kimberlyfennell7689]

"a white lady" got me dying 🤣🤣

[@geekimusprime]

“Full-time mother” is on point 😂

[@stevennevins6643]

I love her response at 6:36. Such a great sense of humor.

[@droidgeist]

1:29 Damn, I'm in love - she's so elegant.

[@chrisreimer]

So many nice people, and amazing English skills

[@jasonshadowsong7145]

I quite like this. I studied at Bath (a British version of Monteray) and my teacher said this: tho you may all have scored a 9 in IELTS speaking, but you gon struggle in a restaurant when you order food. I had both my undergrad and masters in English speaking countries so these things can't get me. My theory is quite simple now: these schools (Bath, Monteray, New Castle) teach you translation and interpreting, but they are not where you acquire English.

[@happy_camper]

My dad used to microwave eggs! Can make an egg sandwich with it when you make them like that. But he would put them in the microwave after they were cracked of course 😅

[@Sammy_Onyango]

One of the most hilarious videos I have ever watched...laughed so much😆

[@williamhearn7365]

I miss Monterey. Never got to see the college this video was taken from. I was at the other major language school in that area. I graduated from DLIFLC for Russian.

[@chuloyo650]

The girl in the purple sweater with short hair reminds me of my friend. They look identical down to the same smile, hair and also personality.

[@tonysofla]

A handful Chinese beauties seen and smart too.

[@robinsnyder858]

I enjoy all of your videos, but this was the best! I love the fun and friendly reactions. :)

[@daisyxu3050]

It's Interesting to find such a college, and it's great to know some very talented students from your vids!

[@ryN0515]

Um... Excuse me. It's not Janitor. It's "Dr. Jan Itor". Have some bloody respect, folks. 😂

[@KingoRichie1990]

He's an acquaintance of Dr. Acula. 😆

[@lrae1785]

'Full time mother?' Perfect

[@k-kayla]

The girl in the purple sweater is so funny 😂😂😂

[@chieyongsem]

So motivated after I watch it

[@lupenaumati]

tha guy that said "full-time mother" LMFAOOOOO

[@phantomx2003]

Lol, you're giving me Duckie vibes from Pretty in Pink when you have your glasses on.

[@roseviolet4147]

Hat guy is Chinese Joseph-Gordon-Levitt

[@ben122]

How about going to defense language institute in Monterrey and asking finding mandarin/canto students and see how good their Chinese is after x amount of time in program.

[@sonderous4115]

Hey Laoma! Great content as always! I’m aware that you currently have English speaking class available. But I was wondering if you also provided help for English speakers wanting to learn Chinese. Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated. 😅

[@LaomaChris]

My wife has her own channel where she teaches Chinese! I collab with her from time to time as well. Called Rita Mandarin Chinese. Check it out if you’re interested!

[@sonderous4115]

@@LaomaChris Awesome! Thank you so much!

[@marLamaDeo]

Awesome video, they were all so wholesome lol

[@winters4960]

Good to know i am not the only one keep mixing "G" with "J" and vice versa

[@wallywally6236]

Chinese students are easily to mix these two pronunciations as well. LOL.

[@real_dddf]

I thought of eating eggs raw (they do that in Japan) but definitely learned the new cooking technique of "throwing it against the wall". On another note, I forgot that the lizard was a chameleon (but tell me "color changing dragon" and I'd know), but what surprised me was that they don't know forklift, wheelbarrow, one guy didn't know what a pitchfork was. They should all go work at home depot for a while I guess.

[@paulreeves8251]

He wasn't wrong - throw an egg against the wall and it will certainly be scrambled.

[@BlindTouch2506]

有两个小姐姐好漂亮😂

[@TheWabbitSeason]

Since you were in Monterey, CA, did you visit DLI Monterey? I was an Arabic linguist at DLI but I had many friends in the Chinese program.

[@checopacheco420]

Buen trabajo saludos cordiales ...😀🍀🇲🇽🙏

[@Amanda-pz1rr]

actually i think if you show them 变色龙 instead of the picture，all of them may answer correct.

[@sezaku85]

The wheelbarrow really got me there.

[@yongdeng1813]

Those students arent bad at all. Some of the pictures i drew blank when i saw them and i live in the US for 36 years!😬

[@LaomaChris]

They’re all gonna be great interpreters!

[@jp2508]

"A white lady 😌" killed me

[@douglassharafanowich8605]

Great fun!

[@spencercurtis86]

Full time mother , sent me😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@BruinWalker90]

Is that Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California? From the intro (you did not mention the name) just showed an arial video shot. But from the arial shot I can see an address and a school logo. I wonder why you didn't say the name of the school but you say it's the number one training school for interpreters and translators in the world?

[@rsmith02]

Because it's not a sponsored video?

[@BruinWalker90]

@@rsmith02 if it's not sponsored. why is the school logo visible?

[@ashtond6390]

He mentioned it at the end of the video

[@truthconsequence]

Eat it raw... throw it against the wall, I don't know 🤣🤣🤣

[@dmang0]

Everyone's English is a 10!

[@JesterUrTomcat]

Does anyone know what school this is?

[@nillu5536]

To be honest, I did not expect these students, who claimed to have an IELTS score of 8, and supposed to be future interpreters, to have such a limited daily vocabulary.

[@kc156]

As someone who goes to this school, I can tell you the video is a bit misleading. We have two separate programs related to translation: one dedicated to Translation & Interpretation, and one focusing much more on Localization Management with translation at the periphery (and zero interpretation). I personally know a lot of the people who appeared in this video and most of them are in the latter, meaning they're studying to be future localization managers, not interpreters, yet the video paints them as translators and interpreters. It would've been more accurate had all the students he chose actually been in the Translation & Interpretation program.

[@nillu5536]

@@AJ-fo2pl Are you sure these words are categorized in "low frequency vocab"? I reckon they are all common words known by a 10-year-old kid and can be easily found in children books. chameleon/janitor/bark/wheelbarrow Not to mention the ways of cooking an egg, which are definitely high-frequency words when dining in a restaurant. I don't deny that they speak fluent English and I assume they have already learned a bunch of what you called low-frequency words to get a high mark in TOEFL or IELTS. My point is clear that the video shows that they don't know many daily words that are supposed to be learned by native speakers at their early age. It is quite common for ESL speakers but in my opinion they should be doing better than others considering their major.

[@tonysofla]

is that Asian Joseph Gordon-Levitt?

[@indyspotes3310]

The wheelbarrow was invented in China around 2000 years ago and has been in use there ever since. And yet China Bro only knows it from horror flicks...

[@alexsani4050]

Una escuela de ingles para chinos? La escuela esta en China o eeuu?

[@alexsani4050]

@@jerryli6763 gracias.

[@jamesgasper7559]

Can you swear in a foreign language

[@CeleryCarrots]

Yay!

[@lamajol]

full time mother 😂😂😂

[@lihao7142]

哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈 我都考了5.5

[@strawberrychoc93]

I am not a native speaker and I got all of them correctly…

[@gll2677]

You should always share their ig or fb~🎉

[@hangzhoucity]

老马什么时候回北京啊

[@fantasticlife1960]

回北京做核酸吗

[@sy5763]

这些词确实我家孩子会，我认识但不会说

[@data.monoid8785]

06:35: a white lady 😂😂😂

[@skingtan2469]

唯一认识的就是叉车

[@Bentutu]

你是不是物流行业的？ 哈哈

[@skingtan2469]

@@Bentutu 以前做过

[@joevexotic]

LOL have friends 15%.

[@kaiarevalo2952]

Full time mother wtf hahahah

[@bryantgeorge4552]

虽有的美女喜欢你

[@MaiUsername]

Those are egg rolls not springs rolls. zzzz

[@wewenang5167]

only American call it egg rolls , lol

[@MaiUsername]

@@wewenang5167 What do you call rolls with Rice Paper? Lmap

[@环游世界的西班牙胖鼠]

I am so embarrased about my self, I just know all of the answers 100% but I still bearly got a 7.0 on my IELTS exam.

[@k-kayla]

You're doing great! Keep working hard. You got this. (:

[@zackmc9102]

第一個第一個

[@artmshroud]

"a white lady" absolutely killed me

[@StrategicGamesEtc]

She wasn't wrong.

[@henryc1000]

6:30 she’s got a great sense of humor🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@winterworld]

Lot's of good moments but "white lady" was my favorite, wasn't ready for that! 😆😆 💀💀

[@exit1368]

🤩 So funny, what a great time!!

[@BlameMyMuses]

This was so cute XD The girl who said she talked to herself, can confirm, it helps get you comfortable in a new language. Also talking to pets. They won't judge your bad grammar or weird accent. :)

[@nsxdarin]

love your vids...on week two of learning Mandarin and I can concur that talking to yourself and just describing things you are doing or seeing makes learning the language easier.

[@CantoMando]

Hahaha this was fun to watch

[@LaomaChris]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@zackzou1441]

I can immediately answer forklift as it is one of my kid’s favourite toys, so when you grow up with all the stuffs named in English it would be natural to speak out their name without any hesitation.

[@xogmaster]

This was a fun video to watch! I would have loved to additionally see their reactions and realizations of the words they missed, such as Wheelbarrow. It's such a random word in English, even as a native English speaker I recognize Wheel and understand that, but Barrow? That portion must have originated from somewhere unique, and to know it I would have to go research it specifically. There's no way to make the word from a translation, as far as I know. I've never seen it used outside of wheelbarrow. Compared to things like "Tree Skin" to "Tree Bark" which are more familiar to translate over, or even "Color changing dragon" to "Lizard .. Camouflage (french) .. chameleon" is difficult and a stretch but very recallable if it's in your memory because both the creature is unique and the word itself is interesting to piece together so it sticks in your mind. Or maybe I just process language in a weird way. If you do something like this again, maybe you can start dropping hints in chinese when people are struggling. Like for wheelbarrow, you can say in chinese, "The word for this contains the english form of 'wheel' in its name, what's the missing part. Wheel, Blank." It would be humorous to witness some creative thinking on their end and could imagine someone coming up with "Wheel mover? Wheel wagon? Wheel bucket?" I'm willing to bet many of them knew the words, but couldn't recall or remember them for these things, but remembered and realized it when/if you told them the word. I would have liked to see that part. Thanks for the content! Edit: For those curious, I looked up the origins of Barrow. It allegedly originated in Old English from around the 5th to 7th century and a really old version of German (around the same time) which used a word that loosely meant "to bear with me" - so it's describing the shared weight between the person and the tool being used, the 'wheelbarrow'. Like, 'The wheel and tray and I are sharing the weight of a heavy object so that it's movable.' Interesting! .. and now I'm curious if Borrow has a similar relationship to it within its meaning. Language is so fun!!!

[@MK-gq8fr]

That was way funnier than I expected it to be. Some great humor on these guys.

[@jamesrimes2870]

When you don't know a word in English, The best line is: I'm not even sure how to say that in my native language 😅

[@yongdeng1813]

Which is true sometimes. Just like forklift, i really dont know how to call it in chinese!🤷🏻‍♂️

[@fernandocatediano878]

Hola Cris soy español y vivo en España desde hace bastante tiempo que veo tus videos que aunque no hablo inglés y tampoco lo entiendo me gustan mucho tus videos un saludo y un abrazo grande gracias

[@thisismossop]

It's funny seeing you 'be' American. I watched your earlier videos in 2020 and you were very different when you first arrived back in the US. You seemed to be quite 'up tight', but you've relaxed in the past 2 years. More waiter/barista videos please. 👏👏👏

[@icyboy771z]

I got all correct but I'm a native English speaker lol

[@Nanospear]

6:19 got laid flat on the floor dying over this

[@hansel2001]

Interesting video. I can’t comment on their english, but what i can gather from each of them is that they are all intellectually curious. They all have very good senses of humor and are very charismatic.

[@kmax1189]

I give it to fork lift car. Close enough lol

[@choerryIover]

I literally died at 6:36 😭😭 that was the funniest BEST comedic timing of all time, and it’s crazy that she did it in her second language!

[@That_dude_who_knows_some_stuff]

Oh my gosh! This was top notch entertainment!! Love it! Code switching on them is always hilarious! Lol😂😂

[@MrDonkerblauw]

Super good video! I hope to improve my Chinese this next year

[@callmebigpapa]

I thought they were all fantastic, except that Chris dude ...........j/k

[@sharkymelone]

I was just in Monterey until yesterday! I wish I knew you were there so I could have practiced my Chinese and spanish😭

[@k-kayla]

Are you learning both languages at the same time?

[@martinraxyz]

Ask them about American TV....no issues there! 😂😂😂

[@humudu]

6:19 that one got me hahaha

[@LaomaChris]

😂😂

[@snipingspy1731]

full time mother!🤣🤣 a white lady!🤣

[@Magikarped]

“A white lady” 😂

[@stephenkywong]

I am at 1.5 generation/native English speaker and I got the coral reef wrong, I thought it was an aquarium.

[@Tconl]

I'd be totally awesome if somehow you could do a follow up with the same people in X time.

[@ferdinandhe5239]

I know few guys scores an average 110 on toefl, theirs English still sucks

[@philipthao8527]

my mom do microwave eggs. well they're cracked Ina bowl though. haha

[@lilybinoya7514]

When that forklift showed up I definitely didn't know what it was lol.

[@darkalligraph]

9:32 Yess IPA!!!

[@winters4960]

Much more sense using IPA, kuddos to the team whoever created it.

[@donyzac]

Hahah for carrying the dead bodies…

[@zarmedrano8990]

6:18 "Full time mother" lmao