Social Experiment: Who's MOST SHOCKED When You Speak Their Language?

after living in Asia for over 10 years  I've noticed that Chinese Japanese and Korean people all have a different way of  reacting to foreigners that speak their language but one thing that doesn't seem to  change is no matter how much of the language you know if you speak it you always be  complimented kind of like this though it's customary in all three countries to  give compliments to people when they come as a foreigner and speak the local language the level  of the reaction the level of th

e compliment it's all going to depend on who you meet how old  they are the situation and which country it is because I've definitely noticed that it's  much more toned down here in Japan [Music] versus going over to Chinatown  where regardless of your level the reactions and Compliments  are a lot more exaggerated it's not so often that you can compare  different countries reactions in one single conversation but I think the next  clip is a really good example [Music] I wasn't speaking English

but I guess  I look like somebody that was speaking English but that was Chinese anyway one thing  I've noticed around China Japan and South Korea is that people tend to put foreigners  in kind of a box based on how you look it turns out not everybody thinks  that all tall blondes are Russians but they're probably not going to guess America  I mean how can you tell anyway but whether you're in China Japan or in South Korea and you speak the  local language how much are people gonna react to you

well having done these videos in all three  countries I can tell you nine out of 10 people don't react at all it's pretty normal especially  when you're in that country even speaking Chinese and Korea or Japan I don't get a lot of  reactions at all just every once in a while make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss any  videos like this I have a lot more languages to learn and a lot more places to go so hit the  like button and press subscribe and you won't miss a single thing because there

's a lot of  adventures coming up so are you surprised that people aren't really that surprised well if  you watch a lot of reaction videos on YouTube you might be because you're only being shown  the craziest reactions possible the ones that make the final cut the one out of 10 people that  just freaks out I actually made a video about this topic you can check out here but I'm out walking  around most of the day looking for those kind of characters that are just really funny and you  have those

crazy conversations with like this I got stuck to the chair I like melted to the chair that was truly one of those 1 in 10 really  interesting people really great conversations that I have most of the time when you speak a foreign  language you go up you order food you get the food it's over there's no reaction it's just business  as usual I will take seven days to go out and film one of these videos and only about 10 percent of  the footage actually makes it onto YouTube the rest of it can be

found on my patreon where you  can unlock dozens of exclusive videos private not found on YouTube chat with me it's been my little  secret because I've kept this community very small but now I'm opening it up to you if you want to  support the channel and talk to me about your language learning there's one group though that  I can't leave out of this video that literally is surprised when you speak a foreign language pretty  much a hundred percent of the time oh I didn't want to leave he's so cu

te so if  you if you speak Chinese or Japanese Korean and talk to kids oh my gosh they'll  just love you it's so cute they'll go right up to you he came up to me three  times in the restaurant it was adorable He didn't go to the other customers oh wait he did he went to the Chinese students in there because they spoke Chinese so if you speak the language that the kid knows  they'll go right up to you it's adorable foreign