Thank you Helix Sleep for sponsoring! Click here https://helixsleep.com/xiaomanyc to get 25% off your Helix mattress, plus two free pillows. My friend Ben McMahon https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu2Wf0XLrTpDL5VRFPL4gbg woke up from a coma years ago speaking fluent Mandarin, and you can watch the story of that full encounter here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-KxTycwD1w but anyway today we're here in New York City Chinatown surprising people by speaking Chinese and seeing what they think of his coma-induced Chinese! Helix has great Cyber Week deals available through the end of the month, so keep an eye on their website to catch these special offers! If you miss these limited time offers, you can still get 20% off using my link! Offers subject to change. #helixsleep 0:00 Intro 0:38 Sponsored by Helix Sleep 2:28 Buying bok choy in Mandarin 3:43 He overhears us speaking Chinese...! 4:01 Sugarcane street vendor 5:28 Stranger explains vegetables to foreigners 7:03 Speaking Mandarin and Cantonese with a vegetable vendor 8:28 Speaking Mandarin and Shanghainese at a newspaper stand 10:36 Buying fish heads from street market 11:42 Trying an "American" sandwich 12:50 "Foreigners can't handle this!" 14:24 Ordering diebiang from a Fuzhounese street vendor 15:46 "Wait, how can you speak Chinese too?!" 18:07 Helping a Chinese man read his medicine bottle 18:41 Conclusion 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 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