American Tourist in Italy Speaks No Italian, Only NEAPOLITAN?!
Xiaomanyc 小马在纽约
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I'm Xiaoma, a polyglot who has studied dozens of languages. Until the age of 18 I grew up speaking exclusively English, and then I got the chance to learn Mandarin and live in Beijing for a year where I fell in love with Chinese food, language, and culture. This expanded my appetite to learn about cultures, foods, and languages from all around the world and now I share this passion with all of you! You can learn more about my language journey on my language learning channel ariinbeijing: https://www.youtube.com/user/ariinbeijing And if you want to learn a language with me: https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/
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Go to https://buyraycon.com/xiaomanyc to get 15% off your Raycon purchase this holiday season! Brought to you by Raycon. In 2009, while I was in college, I decided to spend a year in an overseas language program in Beijing to learn Chinese. Not only did I get to try squat toilets for the first time in a Chinese university’s international students dormitory, I was also randomly assigned as a roommate this handsome Italian man named Ciro, and I learned a lot from his debonair Italian ways. He a rough around the edges punk rocker from the gritty streets of Naples, I an introverted bookworm from the leafy suburbs of New York, as a match it actually worked surprisingly well. Since leaving China 15 years ago I’ve missed him quite a lot, but since I am a professional language learner who travels the world these days Ciro offered to teach me the Neapolitan language of Naples which contrary to popular understanding is not a dialect of Italian but a language which differs from Italian as much as Spanish does. Stay tuned to find out what happened when we reunited in Naples. I don’t speak any Italian so it was quite funny for Neapolitans to encounter an American tourist who only spoke English and Neapolitan. If you want to get in touch with Ciro to learn Italian, Chinese, or Neapolitan or have a job offer for him (he's looking for work currently) you can get in touch with him on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciro-d-esposito-1aa87b140/ 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Sponsored by Raycon 2:04 Meeting my Neapolitan friend 2:41 Ordering pizza 4:20 Looking for a midnight snack 5:33 Boozy Neapolitan coffee 8:45 Don't “cheers” with coffee! 10:48 Speaking Welsh and Neapolitan 11:43 Trying wallet pizza 13:17 Going to Piazza del Gesù Nuovo 14:37 Buying “naughty pasta” 15:46 Shopping for souvenirs 17:04 Vendor speaks Neapolitan and Chinese?! 18:31 A romantic dinner LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc
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