- So recently guys, I
came here to 116th street in New York city's little
Senegal neighborhood. And I was like, checking
out like the market. And there's really all
these amazing restaurants from Senegal. And like there's a whole
like West African scene here and this really incredible
West African market here too as well. You can, where you can
buy all these different like traditional crafts from West Africa. And it's super, super cool. So I had a really great
time here and i was asking around like what language
people spoke here. And turns out they spoke
a language called Wolof. So I was like you know what, what if I spend
a few weeks learning Wolof and then come back to this neighborhood and try to speak to
people in their language. And here we are today in New
York city's a little Senegal and I'm going to try to
speak to people in Wolof, which is a really rare
language from West Africa. And it's not rare in Senegal,
but you know, it's spoken by maybe like five or 10 million
people in the whole world. And most of them live in Senegal but there's a community
here in New York city in Harlem, where there
are people who speak it and I'm going to go and test
my Wolof on people here. I've been learning it for
like a couple of weeks and I'm really, really excited to try and experience this culture in person. We're gonna go buy some stuff and go maybe order some foods in restaurants and see what happens. So nervous. But let's go. Hi. Hello. Hello? Yeah. I don't know these look really cool. I want to get some of these maybe - I have this one. All of this for men - These are for men. okay - These are for men too - Oh, those are great. - You wanna try it? - Sure. Okay. (conversing in foreign language) Wow, this is great. Okay. (seller speaking in foreign language) Okay. Yeah. (speaking in foreign language) - Yeah okay (speaking in foreign language) Wow. These are really cool pants - [seller] this kinda attire - Yeah. Wow. This is great. How are you? How are you
doing hi, how are you? - [Woman] I'm fine, thank you (speaking in foreign language) - Hi, how are you? (speaking in foreign language) - What? - Wolof? Do you speak Wolof? - No no no - No .Okay - Am not from senegal - You speak Wolof? - Yeah - You've been to senegal? - No.I just learned from
my Senegalese friend. - Cool - Hello? How are you? (conversing in foreign language) - oh no no no(speaking
in foreign language) - You wanna marry another African wife? (conversing in foreign language) - Do you want it? - [Friend] Sure yeah - Okay yes (speaking in foreign language) - which one do you want? (speaking in foreign language) - [friend] Did such a good job. That was so cool You speak so fluent I wasn't expecting you to do that good - Wow Hello. How are you? - [Male seller] Am fine How are you doing - Five dollar each. - Five dollars each.
These are really cool. (conversing in foreign language) - You go to senegal? - No no I just-- (speaking in foreign language) - Thank you - Alright, thank you man, thank you. We're gonna now go for ordering in Wolof and there's a couple of really
good Senegalese restaurants in this neighborhood, and I'm
gonna put my ordering skills to the test with restaurants. Here we go. Okay. Hi. Hello? Hello? (speaking in foreign language) - Oh no no no (speaking in foreign language) Maybe coronavirus after Inshallah. Inshallah. Yes, exactly. (conversing in foreign language) Alright, thank you. ( speaking in foreign language) Oh, thank you. - You're trying - Yeah, I'm trying.
I'm trying. I'm trying. Thank you, man. Wow. All Right. You wanna, you wanna eat some ceebu jen? Like, I just got to connect with like this culture
in such a different way. Like, and it was so exciting
to see people like, you know be able to communicate with
people in their own language. And it was, it was the most
heartwarming experience for me. Now what we're going to do is a try their Ceebu jen, dish
check this thing out. Beautiful. This is like the
national dish of Senegal. Basically. It's like fish and rice and I've actually, I've actually
taken quite a liking to it. I think it's really delicious. And it has some like crispy rice here. So nice. (mumbles) a sour flavor, but we've got some nice fresh fish here. And then you have a couple of
different, like spicy sauces. You have like spicy Like a spicy sour flavor. Really nice. I love it. If you would like to
learn more about Wolof. Well, I don't really
have any advice for you. I guess it's all, it's almost impossible. Or there's this one teacher on Italki and if you want to learn Wolof you basically have to
go and learn with her. But, she's the best. Thank you so much to her on Italki . If you want to check her lessons out on Italki, you can go down to the description and click
the link (mumbles) profile. Yeah. But otherwise,
thanks for watching guys. And we'll see you all next time. Bye bye. (soft music)
lol it usually goes much better for him, I guess they're new yorkers :P
They did not seem amused, some even looked offended.
More information on Wolof.
I guess this guy gets his kicks from doing bait videos where non white people fall all over themselves to compliment a foreigner who can speak their language.
Title of this video is: White Guy Shocks African Market by Speaking Their Language. But don't let that fool you, none of them look shocked or amused. A couple of them even looked pissed because they can tell he is trying to flex on them.
Well done... thx for sharing...
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