Another great anime crossover.

"I didn't really try to listen to myself too much because I didn't want to become too self-conscious and I think you got to be little careful in terms of an accent if you spent too much time listening to yourself"

props to xiaoma. he inspired me to learn English seriously. back in 2014 when I saw one of his videos in which he was giving his viewers tips and tricks on learning languages. I think at the time he was learning Cantonese, my mother tongue. during that video he brought in a radio set, a real one and said that he would turn it on to listen to a radio station in that language whenever he was at home. inspired, I went to to buy one ,that radio is still at my home. the only English station that I could tune to was the BBC world service channel, that covered world affairs, in the area I was residing in. no, it didn't work at the first few months, when I was starting in around May, I think, in that year even though I had been learning English for time stretching over almost twenty years on and off. I could not even understand a single word over the radio until when the station was covering the so called Occupy Movement that was also happening in the district I was living in. then, I could pickup some words with the background information about the related events. now after around 6 six years of very intensive studying, I can understand around 90% of what I hear. I'm venturing to learn new languages too. thanks to xiaoma.謝謝小馬哥。

This is huge. Epic. Two of my favorite KZfaqrs.

Great to see two people I sub together :))

Two talkative happy people. Glad to see them connect.

小马 has a great charisma! I've seen others do the same kind of videos and no one is like him. His personality helps so much! Thanks for the interview!

Great interview, pleasantly surprised how thoughtful and insightful XiaomaNYC was

Its always fun seeing people react to his Chinese.

Steve did a great job interviewing. I love seeing you both in one video. I just started learning chinese so this is very helpful.

Thanks for the video, Steve!

Wow you've leveled up Steve! Thanks for the great video.

I miss Ari's language videos so much! So glad to see him!! Thanks, Steve!

Having lived in both cultures, East and West, I have to agree with Xiaoma about differences in the reaction you get when you tell people about learning and knowing other languages. In the West, people seem to show some kind of admiration if they know you can speak a certain number of languages. They would say something like "Wow, you can also speak French? How many languages do you speak?...." In the East, people's reaction is usually quite bland, or indifference. It sometimes goes like "Okay, so you know these languages.... and?" The unspoken part is "What's the point of doing it?"

Epic! XiaomaNYC and Steve.

Amazing both of you are my biggest motivations in terms of learning Chinese and I love both of your videos and finally you guys did an interview tgt :)

4:48 enable subtitles for the carrot race

It is very interesting. I my look toward the Chinese later on. Thank Steve.

Love you two!

Awesome interview

I follow both masters! Language connect people!

Many thnaks! Very interesting and useful. Your videos are extremely inspiring and truly motivating

It's nice to see them both but i feel like they are kinda arguing gently lol

This is the crossover I didn’t know I needed

I am very happy to see my two favorite Chinese-speaking people in the world together in the same video.

Super inspiring

I don't think languages are hard I think foreign concepts are hard to comprehend but once you do it expands your field of view

These two are the jedi masters of language learning.

Let's have an interview soon! Stay tunned 🖖

10:11 go check out some audio recordings of Einstein, he had a very thick German accent when speaking English.

Great ! Love both

Steve, I agree with Xiaoma. Chinese people view the learning of foreign languages as a pragmatic endeavor. For them, it's a means to an end. But for many Westerners, the study of foreign languages is often an end unto itself. We're fascinated by languages and we're far more likely to learn a new language for its own sake. Aside from enabling them to function adequately in a foreign country, any advantage that their bilingual status affords them is regarded merely as an incidental benefit. I have found the Chinese perspective to be shared by virtually all non-Westerners.

Hope Xiaoma speaks with Laoshu

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Why someone can give a dislike?????? How comeeee 😁

Xiaoma!

I disagree xiaoma saying that in China people are not amazed at how many languages you can speak. Many people in China admire that too, just like elsewhere in the world. The thing is that for Chinese people, they have to learn English first as English is the most important one in the world. Most people struggle and there are still a large room left for improvement for English, no time or energy left for other languages, man. Speaking multiple languages are considered to be cool, of course, this applies to everywhere in the world. However for Chinese people, (I’m from China btw), we need to give English the priority and English alone take up most of our time so there’s really no time left for other languages. However for a English native, if they want to learn another language, the motivation mostly lies in , well, interested in the culture, history, or whatever. Not for practical reason, but for fun or for curiosity. English is the most powerful language in the world, so non-English native need to learn that for practical or economic reason. That’s the reason underlying in that.

史蒂夫和小马的频道我都很喜欢。

I'm trying to avoid politics. I'm into foreign language learning and hope one day can promote cultural exchanges.

He said he got conversational after a few months only. dude, that's something

13:19 I think that's primarily because somewhere close to 90% of the internet is written in English, so naturally it wouldn't blow up on it. That combined with the fact that seeing an Asian in the States is less rare than seeing a Caucasian in China.

The whole world starts to learn chinese but most of the Singaporean Chinese are proud not to learn chinese. LMAO

My problem with Chinese is that is hard to maintain, I have to read books and watch goofy Tv shows to keep it fresh.

Which of them speaks better Mandarin?

哈哈哈哈哈哈哈居然在这里看到小马😂😂😂

Would be cool if xiaoma and steve could speak fully in mandarin in this video

Anyone know what his level is in Chinese (~C1?) and how long he studied it? Was it the full 12 years since ~2008?

Ni hao!

Can you guys speak some Chinese next time, I think it's would be interesting for us, and Steve I really wanna make some video conversation with you, peace!

How do you spell the "shung shung" comics?

I think is that most Asian countries, especially China, was very poor just a couple decades ago, so they have a very utilitarian mindset compared to the average Westerner. Everything has to have a purpose, including learning languages.

I would attribute Ari“s success to his ability to communicate with people very effectively, his emotional expressiveness,gestures etc. That is the case with pewdepie and many other successful youtubers. Of course there is an inspirational effect as well ,but if it wasnt for his overall charme and (physical) appeal, he wouldnt be as successful.

I could have sworn in one of his videos, he said he was adopted and grew up in China. 😂😂😂

Am I the only one who thinks xiaoma is not that good? I can hear his 老外accent from miles away, he also messes up a lot of tones.

I could be wrong, but didn't he have a video about claiming to become fluent in Mandarin in two months?

Honestly I don't like how some polyglots/language learners try to "inspire" when they're really just trying to show off, especially when they do one of these things: 1) When two polyglots talk to each other in languages that are not their native ones, which is clearly showing off and doesn't make any sense to use a language when neither person is a native speaker. 2) When polyglots talk in front of a camera (regardless if there are subtitles or not) in multiple languages where they have a main message and break each section in a different language (i.e. saying one thing in Spanish, something different in German. something else in Chinese). If there are English subs but the viewers don't understand it, they're walking away from the video having understood just one or two pieces of the whole message. 3) When (phrasebook) polyglots (maybe with someone recording them) go around engaging (potentially disturbing) random people and starting and trying to maintain conversations with them just using them for practice when they could be busy. 4) When languages learners exaggerate their proficiency in a X number of languages (i.e. when someone says they can "speak" a language but can hardly converse freely for even two minutes or just spout some phrases they memorized) 5) When language learners aim to take exams which are basically bragging rights on paper and nothing more.

He better watch out for the CoronaVirus.

"XiaomaNYC Uses His Fluent Chinese to Connect Cultures" sounds like White Savior syndrome. :-D

xiaoma, you give polyglots a bad name. stop using " you know, like" in every sentence!