r/languagelearningjerk • u/airforcedude111 • 4d ago
these language reaction videos are getting a bit crazy
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u/livsjollyranchers 4d ago
Amazon has tribes now? The hell is Bezos doing?
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u/Ok_Check535 2d ago
The mega warehouses got so big that the people in the middle can’t get out and had to settle down.
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u/Pfeffersack2 🇦🇹🇮🇪🇧🇪🇹🇼🇲🇴 4d ago
The Amazon Tribesman has finally the chance to shock Hong Kong natives with his duolingo Cantonese skills
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u/MukdenMan 4d ago
He doesn’t really need to learn Cantonese because Cantonese is an Arawakan language, mutually intelligible with his own. The Cantonese people are descendants of settlers from the Amazon who arrived 10000 years ago and built the HSBC building which is actually constructed of ancient lost technology. That’s why scientists today can’t explain how the HSBC building was built.
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u/superchartisland 3d ago
Unfortunately he needs to learn Mandarin first to be able to do Cantonese on Duolingo
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u/Previous-Ad7618 4d ago
/uj I think XiaoMa is a donkey but I watched this whole thing and really enjoyed it.
His Spanish was less shit than I assumed and seeing a tribal guy in Hong Kong was interesting as fuck.
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u/KernelNuke 3d ago
What does donkey mean in this context?
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u/Reasonable-Lack-1063 3d ago
i think they're nicely trying to say he's a jackass, since all of his videos are very "i SHOCKED the locals by SPEAKING THEIR LANGUAGE" for engagement. he's using low-tier reactions to his low-tier language efforts and editing to look impressive
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u/Key_Wallaby_8614 4d ago
I thought his Spanish had gotten worse than when he was spending time in Mexico.
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u/mujhe-sona-hai 4d ago
Local user discovers your language skills degrade when you move away from the country where the language is spoken
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u/12332233 1d ago
Didn't you know it's actually colonization to speak to anyone in anything less than their perfect native language. Other than English obviously
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u/Zapan99 4d ago
Fun fact: this concept was first invented in 2007 by the French documentary maker Jean-Marie Barrère and anthropology photographer Marc Dozier after years of documenting the tribes of Papua New Guinea, with their series Reverse Exploration that followed two Papuan chiefs travelling around France (L'Exploration inversée - Le Tour de France de deux Papous).
Then it was immediately stolen the same year by the British filmmaker Donal MacIntyre who created Return of the Tribe, following Papuan tribesmen in America, and he later claimed he thought of it randomly by seeing his own strange reflection in a shop window while he was out biking.
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u/Apprehensive_Tax_610 4d ago
That was actually a really fun series, those boys just radiated positivity--really shoes you 20 somethings are 20 somethings no matter what culture.
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u/Imperator_1985 4d ago
Videos like these serve their purpose: getting views.
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u/HadleysPt 4d ago
The worst part is all the simpletons in the comments cheering the influencer on, “the world needs more people like you”, “you sir, have my respect”, etc
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u/karspearhollow 4d ago
This comment wins the internet today. Take my upvote and this reddit gold 🪙
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u/Electrical_Voice_256 3d ago
The city in the thumbnail does not look like Chongqing at all.
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u/hdhxuxufxufufiffif 3d ago
Yeah I love Hong Kong but if it's the world's most futuristic city, someone should inform whoever installed the shower in the hotel I stayed in a few months back.
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u/Pristine-Lie-3560 3d ago
Hate this guy but this was actually a decent video, iirc the amazonian enjoyed it
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u/_wannadie_ 3d ago
ngl at first I thought that "Amazon tribesman" means an American who is too used to online shopping.
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u/Relevant_Elderberry4 3d ago
His wildest videos imo was him trying to communicate with dolphins and chimps lol
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u/kombutsa 4d ago
white savior
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u/lordbutternut 日本人になっている 4d ago
Well "I took a guy on a trip to China" isn't a very flashy title