I’ve been secretly learning Tagalog over the past three weeks, and today I am out here in New York City’s Filipino neighborhoods, including Little Manila of Woodside Queens, to surprise my Filipino friends by speaking their language. Time to see Xiaomanyc speaking Tagalog, friends!!!

In this video I actually do meet Jackie Chan — what an incredible experience! Xiaomanyc 💖 Jackie Chan!
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這幾位女明星真的太難選了啦！
大家心目中的女神是誰呢？

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This week I attempt to learn to speak German solely from Google Translate. By using a combination of Google Translate’s built-in speech pronunciation and the flashcard app Anki, I memorize a bunch of sentences in German in an efficient way with spaced repetition and then try and have a conversation in German with Anja from @Learn German with Anja. This was a super crazy language challenge that honestly changes my opinion on how to learn languages – totally nuts!

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A few weeks ago I spent a couple days working with @Cisco @Webex going around New York City to film this incredible commercial and I'm so excited to finally be able to share with you guys! Idea is it's about the life of a polyglot in New York City who speaks Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Italian, and French – you might be seeing it on a screen near you soon! Let me know what you think! #futureofwork

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Go to https://buyraycon.com/xiaomanyc for 15% off your order! Brought to you by Raycon. Today I’m talking with Julien Gaudfroy, who in my opinion has a pretty strong claim to having quite possibly the best Chinese of any foreigner ever. He has been a host on Chinese radio and television for many years now, has acted in Chinese movies, and has also been a performer of Chinese crosstalk comedy xiangsheng which is known for being extremely difficult linguistically. And on a personal level I’ve been jealous of his Chinese for at least a decade now! During this interview we spoke together in Chinese and English about how his Chinese got so good, what was his xiangsheng (Chinese crosstalk) training like, how that impacted his Chinese abilities, his experience in the Chinese media world, Dashan (Mark Roswell), and his training as a classical musician.

You can find Julien on social media here:
Julien's new vlog Youtube channel (under construction, many videos soon) : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU9s0d_3Sl-tSkTel24Ugzg
Julien's personal cello videos channel : https://www.youtube.com/c/JulienGaudfroy
今日头条 vlog channel : https://www.toutiao.com/c/user/token/MS4wLjABAAAAENgVnkDdKJi8X3hkjwA9jr0tJ7-1ZfaaZdm1HrRzIaNApfuvHAgWZPy-WCyqUr0O/
西瓜视频 vlog channel : https://www.ixigua.com/home/3830347248712782/
Bilibili vlog channel : https://space.bilibili.com/1577120264
Julien performing Xiangsheng (crosstalk with Risteard O Deorian) : https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjY2ODA0MzY=.html

0:00 Sponsorship
1:09 Introduction
2:00 Julien introduces himself in Chinese (with subtitles!)
14:20 We switch to English
15:22 How Julien got so good at Chinese
21:08 Julien’s story with xiangsheng (Chinese comedy)
34:47 Is Julien a “white monkey”?
36:16 Discussing China’s most famous foreigner, Dashan (Mark Roswell)
40:49 Censorship in China and the evolution of the media landscape
48:31 Life in China vs. France
56:11 Do musicians learn languages better?
1:04:19 Julien’s advice for people who want to learn Chinese
1:09:01 Conclusion

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