Arieh Smith, a.k.a. Xiaoma is a polyglot who has studied dozens of languages. He has an internet presence, and has been for several years, surprising people from different cultures and generations all around the world with his dialectic fluency in speaking their mother tongue. It’s a lovely thing to see when people light up and warm up to him, all because they can converse in the same language and get to understand each other. Great YT content.

See how Xiaoma fares with an auditorium of Gen Alphas:

Generation Alpha are people born between 2010 and 2024. All cliques have their own shared language, and Gen Alpha is no different, with slang consisting of internet-based vocabulary and internet-influenced acronyms, some familiar, some fr delulu, but to each-generation their own.

I don’t know what ‘goober’ means other than a family member calls me that from time to time, like it’s meant to get a rise out of me for having failed at something in their eyes, lol.

If you want to know how many languages Xiaoma speaks, he has provided chat with a googledoc spreadsheet: https://tr.ee/10MQ2q3SBh

I’m Xiaoma, a polyglot who has studied dozens of languages. Until the age of 18 I grew up speaking exclusively English, and then I got the chance to learn Mandarin and live in Beijing for a year where I fell in love with Chinese food, language, and culture. This expanded my appetite to learn about cultures, foods, and languages from all around the world and now I share this passion with all of you!

https://www.youtube.com/@xiaomanyc/ / https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/