- In the video, he instructs his student on how to pronounce the phrase “I don’t know what you’re talking about” with an American accent.
- He tells the student not to pronounce the letter “T” in the words “don’t,” “what” and “about.” He then replaces the words “you’re” and “talking” with Chinese characters that phonetically read as an American pronunciation of the words.
- His “How to sound American” series currently includes eight parts under “Speaking Tips.”
- The latest video to go viral, in which Mr. Yang teaches the phrase “I’m about to go to sleep” in an American accent, was uploaded on Nov. 10 and already has over two million views. Mr. Yang teaches the phrase “I’m about to go to sleep” in the way Americans would supposedly say it.
- “Firstly, cool people in America like to say ‘finna’ instead of ‘about to,’” he says in Chinese. He also tells his student to say the expression pronounced as “shiet bro” before reading the phrase.