Moses McCormick
Moses Monweal McCormick (March 12, 1981[2] – March 4, 2021), also known as Laoshu (from Chinese: 老鼠; pinyin: lǎoshǔ, transl. mouse) or Laoshu505000, was an American polyglot and YouTuber.
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| Born | Moses Monweal McCormick March 12, 1981 Akron, Ohio, U.S. | |||||||||
| Died | March 4, 2021 (aged 39) Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. | |||||||||
| Nationality | American | |||||||||
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| Website | imabouttolevelup | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2008–2021 | |||||||||
| Genre | Education | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 1.22 million[1] (October 2021) | |||||||||
| Total views | 197 million[1] (October 2021) | |||||||||
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Updated: April 26, 2021 | ||||||||||
Language learning
McCormick gained popularity by speaking several languages with native speakers that he met in public places, and uploading the videos on his YouTube channel.[3][4][5] He called this activity leveling up.[6]
McCormick taught language lessons remotely over the Internet,[7] over time developing his own language learning method, which he called FLR (Foreign Language Roadrunning).[8][9]
The foreign language in which McCormick was most fluent was Mandarin Chinese. He also spoke around twenty languages at a basic conversational level, including Japanese, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Korean, Somali, Spanish, and Swahili.[3]
Death
McCormick died on March 4, 2021, in Phoenix, Arizona, from a heart complication.[8][7][9]
References
- "About laoshu505000". YouTube.
- Moses McCormick on Twitter
- Ha, Thu-Huong (May 8, 2017). "An American conversant in 20 languages delights strangers in their native tongues". Quartz. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
- Kim, Eddie (July 9, 2019). "How This YouTube Language Wizard Taught Himself to Speak Dozens of Languages". MEL Magazine. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
- Lewis, Benny (June 21, 2015). "6 myths that prevent people from learning multiple languages". Business Insider. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
- Lewis, Benny (July 23, 2012). "Language leveling up: Moses and Benny speak a dozen languages in Columbus Ohio". Fluent in 3 Months. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
- Thalen, Mikael (March 6, 2021). "Popular language YouTuber 'Laoshu' dies". The Daily Dot. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
- Ke, Bryan (March 8, 2021). "YouTuber Laoshu505000 Who Spoke Over 20 Languages Passes Away at 39". Yahoo! News. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
- Thobejane, Lethebo (March 5, 2021). "Professional Polyglot, Moses McCormick Has Passed Away". Latest News South Africa. Retrieved July 23, 2021.