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As Cold as The Milk: Learning Spanish with Luzu

2017-02-17 · collab / interview · Hank, Luzu · 3:56 · watch on YouTube

Topic: History & curiosities (also: Personal life) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: guest or collab, self promotion

Hank hangs out in Montana with Spanish YouTuber Luzu, who explains a Spain-only expression ('as cold as the milk') and how switching languages feels like losing levels; they do viewer-suggested activities from Twitter (Spanish, tongue twisters, kinds of cool) and talk about cold and bears.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Good morning to John; Hank introduces Luzu

  • ★★ Hank introduces Luzu, who makes YouTube videos mostly in Spanish but also in English. — 00:00:01 · YouTube

00:00:05 — Luzu's Spanish: 'as cold as the milk', his future American kids, switching languages

  • ★★ Luzu says 'as cold as milk' is an expression used only in Spain; even people in Latin America ask him what he means about milk. — 00:00:16
  • ★★ Luzu says switching the language you make videos in is like losing levels in a game, like having your Pokémon Go levels stolen and going back to 1. — 00:00:30
  • ★★ Luzu feels he can't express himself correctly in English; he speaks much better in Spanish. (hedged) — 00:00:44

00:00:57 — Twitter suggestions: staring, a Spanish lesson, tongue twisters, kinds of cool, a declined kiss

  • ★★ Hank says he asked on Twitter for suggestions of things for him and Luzu to do. — 00:00:57 · Twitter
  • ★★ Following viewers' suggestions, Hank and Luzu stare at each other intensely, talk in Spanish, try tongue twisters, discuss how to be cool, and skip a kiss because Luzu is sick. (playful) — 00:01:08
  • ★ Luzu: Teaching Hank Spanish word by word, Luzu gets him to tell everyone to subscribe to Luzu's channel. (playful) — 00:01:51
  • ★★ Luzu: After botching 'I slit the sheet', Luzu says outsiders take a long time to learn the difference between 'sheet' and other words. (playful) — 00:02:23 · I slit the sheet
  • ★ Luzu: Asked for a tutorial on being cool, Luzu says they have different kinds of cool: Hank is intellectually cool, Luzu cool in all the other ways. (playful) — 00:02:46 · Hank Green

00:02:57 — Montana cold, black bears in town, Luzu's news and goodbye

  • ★ Hank says there are no grizzlies in town, but black bears do come into town. — 00:03:17 · Montana

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description announces that NerdCon: Nerdfighteria in Boston ($60) is a week away. — video description
  • ★★ The description says Hank met Luzu, a Spanish YouTuber, at VidCon a few years ago, and made a video with him because he was in town. — video description · VidCon, YouTube
  • ★★ The description says Hank sometimes forgets there are whole worlds of YouTube in other languages that he never sees, and he likes seeing a bit of them. — video description · YouTube

Humor (dominant)

  • Luzu says in Spanish that Montana is cold; Hank asks if he said something about milk — 00:00:15

    “Oh "it's as cold as milk" yeah yeah yeah”

  • Luzu imagines his future American kids correcting his English — 00:00:24

    “You said something that sounds like penis really and you don't know.”

  • Trying the English tongue twister 'I slit the sheet', Luzu mispronounces 'sheet' — 00:02:21

    “I slit the sh*t”

  • Luzu says black bears eat beets, and he and Hank chant a line together — 00:03:24

    “Bears, beats, battlestar galactica.”

Threads in this video

Mentioned

Central: Luzu · Spanish language

Also: Works: Pokémon · Pokémon Go · The Office (American TV series)

Organizations: Twitter

Concepts: English language · tongue twister

Places: Latin America · Montana · Spain

Memes: I slit the sheet · Tres tristes tigres

Only in the description or credits: Boston · NerdCon: Nerdfighteria · VidCon · YouTube

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