Manhattan, how many languages do you speak?

Today we visit the Manhattan, the bustling heart of New York City and ask strangers how many languages they speak.
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[@TheNewTravel]

Happy New Year to everyone around the world! 😎🌎 leave a comment and tell me where you are watching from...

[@WuilverytGeography]

Happy new year

[@lori-bv5ty]

Hi

[@TheLordskate]

Guatemala.

[@altairtheassassin6071]

Mutlu yıllar! It's "happy new year" in Turkish. Watching from Türkiye (Turkey). 🐢

[@henryorea888]

HAPPY NEW YEAR, Dan! ¡Feliz Año Nuevo! 🎆🍷 😉😎

[@mhlmah]

The last 2 girls were such a vibe! lovely

[@lofiblu4549]

i love how one of them asked him what languages he spoke 💛

[@Luport1]

Loved this video. I feel very privileged to be able to speak 3 languages fluently - English, French, and Portuguese. The world opens up for you when you can communicate in several languages.

[@inglesimersao4724]

Where are you from?

[@rusmoscow1971]

1:13 - The moment he said "tree" instead of "three", I immediately realized - he`s ours 😀

[@MariaJ-López]

Me alegra mucho que en EEUU, mucha gente también hable español ❤. Saludos desde España 🇪🇦...I speak a little English too.

[@malyasreechakraborty8903]

Aprendo español ❤ es un idioma romántico.Me gusta muchísimo

[@Thetopnoobpro]

J’adore votre vidéos! You help keep my motivated to learn new languages, so keep traveling the world mate. Here’s to a great year.

[@PaulW4]

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[@gruweldaad]

**vos vidéos

[@benjamindejonge3624]

I’m from Holland working in the international hotel industry so 10 languages is normal for me

[@Lalo_0242]

What languages exactly?

[@nicol004]

My guy at 7:31 regretting that he agreed to do this interview after getting stoned 😂 Your channel is amazing man, one of my favs. Keep up the good work and happy new year 🐢

[@jsphat81]

Season 3 Chandler looking dude. Yes, I agree. He was stoned outta his mind LOL.

[@graysonyang3917]

I speak Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese and English. And I really want to learn Spanish which is really difficult for me.😢😢

[@eliseolara5055]

there are lots of great resources on youtube for spanish. I am currently trying to improve my spanish also so you have my support. Buen suerte!

[@canchero724]

If you''ve learned English, then Spanish is way easier, you can do it!

[@carrascotorreseidzer9429]

Ich spreche spanisch ist viel einfach :)

[@PaulW4]

Hablante nativo de inglés, también me resulta difícil el español (native English speaker, I'm finding Spanish one of the hardest languages)

[@graysonyang3917]

@@PaulW4 Yes, Spanish is difficult.

[@courtnee1060]

I came here for 4 days to see my friend's play and the amount of languages I've heard was amazing. The city of Atlanta is similar but I live on the outskirts. It was so fun hearing languages and using my Spanish! Definitely motivates me to keep learning French

[@dangercat9188]

I'm a Hispanic New Yorker so I'm already bilingual but I'm trying to learn French and German.

[@محمدالقحطاني-س1ق4ف]

Buena suerte yo soy arabo y hablo 3 lenguas y quiero aprender muchus idiomas

[@dangercat9188]

@@محمدالقحطاني-س1ق4ف Buena suerte para usted tambien ☺ ✌

[@محمدالقحطاني-س1ق4ف]

@@dangercat9188 gracias!

[@flamingo2504]

Oh schön zu lesen, wie kommst du darauf Deutsch zu lernen? Viel Erfolg. Grüße aus Bayern!

[@dangercat9188]

@@flamingo2504 Ich denke, es ist eine interessante und coole Sprache. Und da es etwas herausfordernd ist, dachte ich mir, warum nicht. Ich liebe eine Herausforderung. Rammstein und Tokio Hotel waren ebenfalls große Ermutigungen lol. ✌ 🇩🇪 ♥

[@tammylain7754]

Most people I know speak at least three or more... and some halves. ;-) But I live in Europe. Most Europeans - except Bris and the Irish speak their own language and at least one more or even two or three. Some people I know speak 4 or 5.. as when you are able to speak a Romance Language or a Germanic- the others come easier. So if you already speak some French, Italian is easier.

[@aparicioarguinarena4483]

Genial estuvo el video Dan. Estoy mirando desde montevideo la capital de Uruguay, saludos y feliz año nuevo para ti y todos los que lean este comentario! 🎉 🎉

[@anires1195]

que bueno

[@aparicioarguinarena4483]

@@anires1195 que cosa?

[@hector_sh3861]

¡Feliz Navidad! Sigue con los videos, brother.

[@swicheroo1]

The Californians are weird but very typical: They hail from a place chock full of Spanish speakers. They spend their time chock full of Spanish speakers. And they wish they could speak Spanish to make their lives easier. But they just don't care enough to try. Full disclosure: I am a Californian who has traveled all throughout South America and have met tons of people like this. I speak Spanish fluently, though. And it always boggles my mind to meet people who would purposefully handicap themselves like this.

[@anires1195]

it takes hundreds of hours of practice and if they dont do it as a child, forget it. They dont have the time / effort to learn now.

[@jsphat81]

As a Spanish speaker I think not every one has it in them to learn other languages, even if they are literally surrounded by a particular language. You could say the same about many Latino immigrants who also never learn English even after living in the US 30, 40, even 50 years or more. Honestly, that boggles my mind even more than non-Latino Americans who don’t learn Spanish even if they live in heavily Spanish-speaking areas, such as Cali, Miami or some neighborhoods here in NYC (Washington Heights, Jackson Heights, Corona, Inwood)

[@PaulW4]

I've heard better things about NY than California. This isn't my opinion, I've never been. This is what I've heard from other people

[@Sam-hv9yy]

You're ignorant. Would you say the same thing about the woman who refuses to learn English because everyone that she meets speaks Spanish? That she is purposely handicapping herself?

[@JdeC1994]

"But they just don't care enough to try." Translation: lazy. 🧐🙃🤓

[@laurettecastellano2830]

The squirrels running around in the background are adorable!

[@karalynne7616]

Gotta love the well-fed & tame city squirrels!

[@skanthavelu]

I love hearing different languages! 😊

[@namlozenitram4625]

Spanish always taking the big 🍰

[@ancientmage2669]

I still have no idea why I chose Japanese as a 3rd language. I'm almost 55 and still puzzles me why on earth would I do that?😂I am a simultaneous interpreter(English &Spanish) and just kind of tired of speaking the same languages😅 Japanese is challenging but I don't expect to be fluent but to at least get by and understand basics. Languages are so fun❤❤❤

[@alinatsesarskaya684]

Glad to see Ukrainian guy Alex 😊

[@ygdos2]

Would love to have an extended version of this video. Seeing why the person may speak the language they do or how they learned the language. Great video overall

[@PaulW4]

I speak (not quite fluent) English (fluent) French, Italian, Spanish & a little Russian (I don't really have a resource for Russian). (Why?) Germany, Munich. There is a film titled Munich and when I saw the poster on the wall in a video store I read it in my head as an English word (to give you a reference or example: to pronounce it in the German language, an English speaker would spell it as "Mewnick") I had no clue it wasn't even an English word but the guy I was with corrected me. Another similar example: The actor Cam Gigandet. How I learned the language? Given that when I saw the word written, I got it wrong, I used Coffee Break Languages to listen to it spoken on a podcast.

[@sukie584]

I’m from Brooklyn, now Manhattan y solamente hablo Inglés pero si habla lentamente yo comprendo Español. Also a little Yiddish.

[@lofiblu4549]

1:49 the squirrels fighting in the background 😭

[@Yostheou]

Many people might complain that americans are too monolingual, but honestly, most of countries are the same. If you'd ask to any native brazilian how many languages he/she speaks, 98.5% would say only portuguese.

[@kansasgoldilocks]

I think you're right. Usually, the people who I've met in other countries who speak more than one language have rich parents who sent them to private schools.

[@thaizahonorato]

Well,in particular I don't agree with the statement that assumes the majority Americans are monolingual. In popular cities in the United States it is possible to find plenty of Americans fluent in Spanish. By the way, all Americans who I know manage to speak fluent Spanish. In addition, you're right when you say in several countries such as Brazil, people cannot speak other languages aside their language, Portuguese. Unfortunately,very few Brazilians are able to speak other languages.

[@victorjackson150]

I enjoyed this video. I recently moved to the Arizona in the US. I was surprised to meet so many people who speak 3 or more languages here. is people are pretty amazing!! It is not what I was told.

[@chocolateearrings]

What part of AZ? I want to visit

[@chillout914]

when american says i speak 1 and a half language they means they speak only english and maybe hi how are you in spanish lol

[@mightyfinegal]

My hometown, loved this video. Keep up the amazing work! 🐢

[@guillaume7766]

Fantastic, as usual !! 🐢 Greetings from France 😊

[@antoinesubitlescoups338]

English, Spanish and French. Apparently the only three global languages. Everyone wants to learn these three, if they don't know already one of them.

[@antoinesubitlescoups338]

@@iancu_de_hunedoara I never said it was. These 3 are truly global languages, no matter Wh8ch part of the planet you live in

[@marcelo497]

@@iancu_de_hunedoara But the guy is right, as these 3 countries colonised so many people, their languages became more important

[@thato596]

Just only english

[@sxadsafafsdasdewwfefws7983]

@@thato596 There are more spanish speakers than English and French speakers in the world.

[@sergiovicente8823]

Spanish

[@moda4511]

I love your channel, next time: Egypt 🇪🇬.

[@rdc898]

I'm learn english and your channel help me. Thank you!

[@Alexander-rr6yn]

As an Italian I’m surprised that almost nobody in these videos speak Italian; I guess we weren’t as successful in colonizing as other Western European countries not that it is a bad thing morally speaking, but Italian is still an important language in many aspects such as music, literature, food and culture in general and it still has more than 80 million speakers worldwide so I’m a bit astonished that very few people mention it in these videos especially considering that is one of the easiest languages for English speakers to learn.

[@Daniel-pc2ov]

If you go to different parts of the city you will find more italian speakers. This was mostly downtown manhattan lol

[@scarletred8888]

Italian immigration into the US was at its height in the 1920s, there is still an Italian area in lower Manhattan and immigrants continue to arrive but they are from other parts of the world, it goes in cycles. Italian and Irish were among the first to arrive in great numbers.

[@PaulW4]

Trovo defficile l'italiano (I'm finding Italian harder than I thought it would be.) I'm finding it one of the hardest.

[@Banom7a]

@@Daniel-pc2ov visit in december and you will hear a lot italian tourist in downtown manhattan lol

[@thato596]

It is not that known. italian descendants talk english

[@stevengruenke7120]

I used to live in Luxembourg there literally everybody speaks 4 languages at least...Luxembourgish, French, German and English...in fact all over Europe most people speak 2 or 3 languages, this video isn't that impressive.

[@ThePerksdeLeSarcasmeSiorai]

Yeah. Let’s compare a country with a population of 660k people to a city of 8 million people. Sounds reasonable. 🙄

[@stevengruenke7120]

@@ThePerksdeLeSarcasmeSiorai doesn't really matter how big the place is...totally irrelevant. All over Europe most people speak many languages, it's not a big deal there.

[@teagoldleaf4137]

I like these videos 😊 never thought of Cantonese as a dialect

[@SantomPh]

Linguists and historians argue that it's not, given how different the tone structure and vocabulary is. Hong Kong and SE Asian Cantonese is also a different subdivision and even harder to understand since they insert non Chinese words in their conversation.

[@RyanGosling736]

We love your content about languages, keep it up!❤

[@remypierce9772]

Great video! Much love!

[@lalalili4197]

We, french, can be fluent in english, but pronounce words properly is so difficult to us. So many words are similar to french (as english is highly influenced by french language), but the way english pronounces those words is sooooo different from us. It makes us struggling a lot. Good channel, keep up !

[@pratosaurusrex1128]

It’s nice that you want to try to pronounce English properly but as long as you can be understood, that’s the main thing. I think most native speakers won’t be critical if your pronunciation is not 100%.

[@antoinegx-9185]

I feel like english speakers are very good at understanding people who speak with an outrageous accent like we have in France lol

[@AlphieLaFray]

The same would be in reverse, my attempts at french would sound so funny to a native french speaker. Have you heard an australian with a thick accent say Bonjour, its funny HAHA. You're doing great, we can still understand what youre trying to say so dont worry.

[@lindamaes6454]

I'm Belgian and found it hard to pronounce the English words in the lyrics of Les lacs de Connemara like the francophones do. That's the downside of being multi-lingual. It was so odd.

[@JulesTomasi]

Well, you French, should remember that when encountering an English speaking person struggling to pronounce some words in French, instead of making a super rude expression and PFT.

[@Alex-ln9on]

The girl from Puerto Rico is gorgeous ..

[@anafema333]

Alex, привіт тобі з України! 💛💙

[@franciellimartinss]

I’m addicted to watch your videos, definitely amazing job! 👏🏼 I’m watching from Brazil

[@TheNewTravel]

❤️

[@Wald4267]

I don’t know how you haven’t done LA. Its so culturally diverse you’ll have so many people speaking multiple languages.

[@charnestours1948]

I think Americans don't speak second languages because they don't need to. You can drive for days in the US without ever leaving the US. In many parts of the world you don't have to go far to find different languages.

[@shraddashradda]

Yep native English speakers (the British couple) generally only speak one language …English 🤭

[@ernestorevollar3632]

New York City is a fantastic place where you can find a lot of people from any kind of backgrounds, and any language is spoken right there. There are several spots to be at, views to be appreciated by everyone, and more things to engage with. I don't want to die without ever having known that wonderful city. I'm sure that any opportunity to visit it will be coming out one day. I'm crazy about these kinds of videos. Thanks a million for bringing them to me, Dan. ❤🤗

[@karalynne7616]

The City will be waiting for you! I hope you make it here as it is clear you understand it is a special place:)

[@ptrsrfns]

Cantonese is not a dialect

[@ChrisJacobs-r2o]

Philadelphian here (i.e., 1.5-hr. train ride from NYC). Just thought I would show my fellow Americans (and others) that they, too, can learn languages by stating that I am fluent in four languages (English, French, Italian, Spanish) and functional in three others (Portuguese, German, Catalan). Both of my parents and all of my grandparents were born in the U.S.; all of them only speak/spoke English. I decided to break the mold by learning more languages to communicate with more people and to get more out of my trips. Only time will tell how many languages I will learn! I know that you, KZbinrs, can do the same! :)

[@gipsy9129]

Muy interesante, como siempre en tus videos

[@TheNewTravel]

gracias!

[@xamela1]

🐢 from me and baba

[@Tatsuji_Tatchan]

I'm kind of surprised to hear Chinese people who consider Cantonese and Mandarin to be dialects of the same language as opposed to different languages.

[@mirae9163]

Almost all the Chinese people consider that in China . Yeah, what a shame. Cantonese and Mandarin are definitely two different languages

[@MissCristina]

Hi there! For those who say that Spanish is difficult, well, it is UNTIL you realise that the main difference from English is this: English is an adjectives+noun-based language, while Spanish is an adverb+verb-based language. So, what you need in Spanish is to change your strategy: aim to talk about the 'action' rather than the 'thing' that happened. As a native Spanish speaker, I realised the source of my struggles after long consideration. So now, when speaking in Spanish, focus on the main verb. In Spanish, you can tell a story without mentioning the subjects; therefore, using the passive voice while communicating in Spanish will feel natural. So, in Spanish: Verbs / passive voice In English: Nouns / active voice Saludos!

[@dielsonvt5827]

Cadê os br?

[@JosemarFaustino]

Puerto Ricans don't speak Spanish... Spanish speakers barely understand them

[@sonderexpeditions]

Okay Puertoriquenos 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@rumbleice9467]

Hay muchos puertorriqueño aqui en Nueva York y siempre quise aprender algo de español puertorriqueño

[@ThiagoSouzadeOliveira-x7l]

This kind of video are amazing for me to try my listenings skills for english

[@WTFuc4]

Proudly I’m able to speak English, Spanish and Portuguese, by being a Brazilian

[@erichani1]

Happy new year 2024

[@TheZackBriggs]

Still waiting for Pittsburgh or Philly.

[@aidagholampour100]

New York is the best, I’ve been dreaming live there

[@user-lz2un5uv7o]

(Mahadsanid) that's mean thank you in Somali

[@cqaniclahi3532]

WxN isLahaa keligaaba soMali daawadaa😂

[@user-lz2un5uv7o]

😂

[@serkankorkmaz196]

çok iyi ya gerçekten çok iyi ya

[@yavuzdagc3741]

Bence de xD.

[@svitlana212]

Ukrainians from the west of Ukraine speak at least 3

[@kppaulaa]

Happy New Year Everyone! I'm Hungarian, watching your videos from France. Always waiting to hear someone finally say that she / he speaks Hungarian ... but I'll keep waiting!☺

[@islanddon865]

4 languages: English, French, Ukrainian, Russian.

[@lencomua]

Happy to hear Ukrainian ❤🐢

[@AAA-od1vp]

Он еле еле на нём говорит, потому что русский язык роднее

[@Ролтун]

и видео ни разу на русском не попросил - предубеждение @@AAA-od1vp

[@Emmas375]

What beautiful people!

[@gustavocresta5904]

You must not ask only or mostly tourists or residents born abroad. You have to ask to USA citizens with at least two generations living in EEUU., then you´ll see that at least 90% speaks only english.

[@abigailgerlach5443]

I live 1500 miles from another country! Why learn another language? Even if I learned another language, how often am I going to get any practice?

[@crankymcgee]

Dude in the thumbnail looks like the guy who stole Pelosi's podium during the Capitol attack 💀

[@alanf8120]

Please do Seattle, Portland and Chicago 🙏 awesome content

[@boothbuilder]

I love this video, thanks. 谢谢。

[@reymiyan]

Come to Santo Domingo pls😊

[@GGG-f1b2f]

How: look at a variety of videos, on a slower setting, repeating segments, just a few minutes at a time, no pressure, a favourite song in that language, stories for kids, etc.,start back if you take a break. I heard Yiddish growing up, but am not fluent, I speak English, my 2nd language is French, 10 years + learning Han Yu (Mandarin as a 2nd lang.), and in recent years, learning ASL.- Please check out ASL- it's dynamic, inclusive, also, actually a lot of fun,

[@Rosette-zr5gh]

UK. Speak English, French, German, Spanish and Russian 😊

[@AFLAM-h5y]

And You My Friends 👉 How Many Languages Does You Speak?

[@Lysandra-8]

Asking tourists how many languages they speak😅 You should ask locals only!

[@oevers]

0:12 “Only“ three

[@mehmetakifgul1674]

I think he can just speak french and a little bit of other languages. He's not native in English and other languages.

[@EnriqueSebastian-vd9uo]

A lot of cultures intermingling. Yup. You got it. That's NYC 🗽

[@juliewillard1367]

I liked New York but could never live in a city. I live in a lovely village in England but with great access links to cities.

[@ocvbnm6]

I need a puerto rican woman now

[@trinito97]

I don’t think I could live in such a crowded city

[@yavuzdagc3741]

Definitely agree, me too. I don'tt like too much people and noisy. So let's live in Nebraska or Wyoming, right? :D

[@sonderexpeditions]

Thankfully Manhattan!=NYC

[@Ahn-mu3db]

This is not all of NY duh this is Manhattan​@@yavuzdagc3741

[@dangercat9188]

And they wanna make it even more crowded with the migrants 🤦‍♂️

[@TheAccidentalViking]

I have to laugh a bit at the girl doing her best to speak Norwegian.

[@WeeWalks]

The girls at 8:52 remind me of the show Broad City

[@ranestorypictures1738]

I speak 4. English, and menu French, Italian and Spanish.😂

[@zoson-os9rd]

I studied French for 2 years, but don't remember anything in French.

[@fckfck4181]

Love that first french guy that was myself 3y ago could chat in English super fluently but orally it was bad😂 for french people some English word are very hard to pronounce even being fluent in English

[@Dohaarra9]

🐢🐢🐢❤

[@pomme800]

Re: #1 french speaker.....Effervescence of the city.......

[@farahjoseph]

I love that French guys accent it’s so sexy!

[@ЮрийДягилев-ы1ф]

Thank you for your video 👍🤝

[@lofiblu4549]

5:41 omg who is she 💗

[@wizardscrollstudio]

I stopped watching at the Manhattan part.

[@nathalyperez3628]

first

[@personal_1ntegration]

Go into any NY Uniqlo and half the store will speak Hebrew and

[@YoussefZemzoumi]

As always an entertaining Video, thanks. I do speak German and French but i struggle with my english i almost can't speak it, if someone native would like to trade it for German or french it would be great, i'm in my late Fourties and would prefer SO's age starting from late thirties upwards, thank you!

[@poisonevie6667]

1:50 I really thought these two were Scandinavian!

[@sonderexpeditions]

This is so cool. I'm looking for French friends in nyc. I literally joined Alliance Francais to find them 😅

[@lichi1244eva]

There are so many French people here! I'm not a French native but worked for a French company years ago. I had also joined Alliance Française to brush up on the language and meet even more people. Bonne chance!

[@sonderexpeditions]

@@lichi1244eva yea I hear lots of French around in Brooklyn especially but it's different making friends.

[@BeautyGirl-e9c]

I love your videos ❤

[@manuelluna5695]

Spanish is pretty important actually.

[@ashfly3118]

Why not SIGN LANGUAGE people?? It's a full language and its beautiful

[@TheNewTravel]

In my most recent video (in Iceland) I had arranged to interview someone who knows Icelandic Sign Language and to share some knowledge about this language. Unfortunately due to timing issues it didn't work out. But I would love to showcase sign language in a video sometime

[@jxni2540]

The girl from Puerto Rico is beautiful

[@relatemusic2552]

why do the french always do that little breathing thing lol