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 um
there's a whole like west african scene
here and there's a 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 just spent
a few weeks learning wolof
and then came back to this neighborhood
and try to speak to people in
their language and here we are today in
new york city's little senegal and i'm
gonna try to speak to people in wolof
which is a really rare language from
west africa it's not rare in senegal but
you know it's spoken by about maybe like
5 or 10 million people in the whole
world and most of them live in senegal
but there's a whole community here
in new york city in harlem where there's
people who speak it and i'm
about to go and test my wall off of
people here i've been learning it for
like a couple weeks
and um geo really really excited to try
and experience this culture in uh in
person we're gonna go buy some stuff and
go
go maybe order some food some
restaurants and uh see what happens
so so nervous but let's go hi hello
yeah i don't know i uh these look really
cool
i want to get some get some of these
maybe
these are from them okay oh those are
great
sure
okay
wow these are really cool fans it is
kind of hot today yeah
wow this is great how are you how are
you doing
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um
oh
which one you wanted
i wasn't expecting it to be that good
wow hello
how are you i'm playing hi
how are you doing
five dollars each these are really cool
this one's kind of cool
what is that one yeah
thank you we're gonna we're gonna now
we're gonna go order in olaf
and there's a couple really good
senegalese restaurants in this
neighborhood and
i'm gonna put my my ordering skills to
the test with restaurants
this is how we do here we go okay
hi hello hello um
ben ben ben ben
all right
thank you man okay wow
all right you wanna you wanna eat some
you wanna eat some chebychen days 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 uh try
their chebuhn dish here check this thing
out it's 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
which is so nice it's not like a sour
flavor
but i got some nice fresh fish here
and then you have a couple different
like spicy sauces you have like spicy
like a spicy sour flavor really nice i
love it
okay if you would like to learn more
about wolof
well i don't really have any advice for
you because it's all it's almost
impossible to learn there's
there's one teacher on italki and if you
want to learn volatile you basically
have to go
and learn with uh with her but uh but
she's the best and thank you so much to
to her talk if you want to check her
lessons out on italki you can go
down to the description and click the
link to see your profile
um yeah but otherwise thanks for
watching guys and we'll see you all next
time bye
you