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  • So amazing...make more...

  • Nizhoni'!!! This is so cute! What story about the coyote is this?

  • I always get a smile from watching this. plz make more, plz

  • @Spieldamelenium hey, I'm navajo and I never thought of it like that but it does. wtf haha

  • this is wonderful--both that young people speaking their living language and that this young man is carrying on stories of his people. He's going to be even better in 10 years!! Would anyone care to share the story--if that is ok?

  • yah ah teh!!!

  • awww so cute XD

  • He's WAY better than me XD

  • haha i love his character voice :D

  • how cute :)

  • Beautiful

  • How did you do this? My girlfriend and I want to raise children speaking our language too! I am so inspired.

  • @DustinRivers I'm nowhere near the age of having children, but in my Linguistic Opinion, people learn best when they're children. Teach as young as possible. They can soak up a lot of languages that quickly at that sort of age, especially through mainly Speaking/Listening lessons. It helps if you also know the second language. If not, learn WHILE you're teaching them. -My children will know at least 3. English, Spanish (for my family), and Russian (to speak only with me).

  • @DustinRivers I fluently speak Danish and my wife is American. I speak Danish to my children and my wife speaks English to them its the best way for them to learn both languages

  • Subscribing! <3

  • Make More Videos.. I'mma subscribe ya..

  • WOW!! I love it!! I love it!! I even shared it on Facebook!! Funny and so cute!! I love it, thank you for sharing :)

  • he's so cute!! makes me even more proud to be Dine'!!! i hope one day my kids will be able to speak our language this well!!

  • awww how cute is he :)

  • this is just cute.

  • He's telling a Coyote Story:)

  • @navajoboy006 Rosetta Stone has released a Navajo Rosetta Stone from the endangered language program. It costs 250$ but you can try the demo for it and I have found it EXTREMELY helpful. :)

  • Great job!!!! Thank you for posting the video... You made my day... Keep the language alive kiddo... from Mesa, Az origanally from (Smith Lake, NM) :)

  • First video I've seen without any dislikes. I'm so glad that it's a little ashkii telling a story. :D

  • Wow. That was amazing. Never heard a lil boy speak navajo so perfect. Keep working on it.! Good job lil quinton. (:

  • This is the first time I've heard a Navajo in a little child's voice. What a beautiful sound.

  • @kmj2000 I had the same reaction when I was in NYC. Saw little children speaking Chinese and German. a real nice culture-shock feeling.

  • So cute! I didn't understand a word, but he told the story so well! He's a great story-teller! His expressions and voice impression. Could you translate the story?

  • I wouldn't use the word 'cute' but I know what you mean.

  • so jealous . . . . >.>

    I can't speak navajo

  • @BaileyyRansom and are you navajo? not too late to learn. Most spoken native language on the continent. many teachers i'm sure.

  • @windstorm1000 Correction: More Natives speak Dine' bazaad than any other Indigenous language in what is now the US (about 170,000). As for the continent...in Mexico alone, here are a few Native languages (approximate # of speakers): P'urepecha (175,000), Mazateco (207,000), Otomi (240,000), Tzotzil (330,000), Tzeltal (372,000), Zapoteco (500,000), Mixteco (550,000), Nahuatl (1,450,000). As for the Native language with the most speakers on the continent, that would be Quechua (about 10 million)

  • @xicanopower13 by continent, i meant north america--looks like you are including central and south amerca.  thank you for all the numbers--i had no idea--its heartening there are so many native speakers in this generic age of language attrition.

  • @windstorm1000 Interesting...time to brush up on your geography. If we just consider NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), North America would include Canada, USA, and Mexico. Technically, countries usually categorized as "Central America" are actually considered as part of North America (not a separate continent). Be that as that may, I would argue that history has dictated that this continent (Turtle Island) includes both North and South. I agree with your sentiment.

  • @xicanopower13 I stand corrected! Let us hope that not just Nat. people, but Hispanics (who are alteast 1/2 native) everywhere learn their native lang.'s--not Span.--its Nuahatl, Huichol--u know em better than I do. There is power in langugage that can help strip away cult. genocide that cultures in the Am.'s suffered--always a possibliity of regeneration if people want to learn. There's a Nuhatl language circle here in NM for those going back to the old way. Good for them.

  • CUTE!!! Keep tellin those stories!

  • Will this be put out so people who do not speak navajo can understand it also?

    I posted this on my page and had a person ask me...

    Wado

  • I couldn't understand a word he said but that wasn't important. He was very animated and engaging. Hope he continues to tell his stories!

  • I love this video! He is a great story teller! Quinton is going to be a very special person in our world! Keep it up Quinton.... a fan from Houston, TX (originally from Crownpoint).

  • @Mrskimmie8569 hey just to let you know that im from Crownpoint NM i grew up there and now im at Arizona...

  • very adorable thanks for sharing

  • Jealous i didnt learn to tell these stories untill i was in boarding school :-) haha great lil ashkii keep it up

  • He's my hero!

  • Great Story teller. Keep it up.

  • HAHAHA!!! akon'e akon'e dish'nii'ne!!!anaso'ahwi'dzaa

  • I love it!!! He's adorable!

  • Awesome... he speaks Navajo very well... i like the end "...and all i know" lol

  • Awesome little dude... Two Thumbs up!! Tell Quinton, Great Job!

  • HAHA THATS SOO AW3SOM3 ;)))

  • Awww... Hes just cuuuuute!!!!

  • maybe could put translation of the story

  • Awesome

    

  • That is sooo cute! ^.^

  • WOWW!! BILINGUAL KID FOR THE WIN!!.. please dont let him forget his navajo language, im losing it :/

  • Awesome lil man!! My spirits rise with hopes of the young natives talking like this cool young dude. Im Navajo myself and ive never ran into a young kid like him talk with such pride. I love this video and i hope to see more of young Quinton. Thats realy awesome i saw this video two days ago at work,

  • I love it. That's sooooo cute.

  • Aww how cute haha. Too precious

  • so precious <3 love the navajo language.

  • so precious <3 love the navajo language.

  • much props to da lil dude, he can teach alot of people to talk, good insperation, like to c when my people talk there own language.

  • hahah he's jus cute lol

    nice story

  • Yaa he is so cute, i remember talking like that when i was in kindergarten, i can understand him........... in some parts i get stuck lol. this so awesome, wish lil kids can speak our language like this.

  • YAY! good job! it's so important to keep langauge alive!

  • I thought he is speaking albanian.

  • MayB we shud teach our children the jokes first then everything else wud follow??They mite pick it up faster...??

  • omg....this boy sure can speak it fluently =) i m 18 and dnt speak it to fluently....good job...haha made me jealous jk

  • A cousin of mine told about this little navajo boy telling story on YOU TUBE and I decide to check it out. It turn out, it was funny story he told in Navajo :)

  • Jo Nizhoni la! ayoii at'e. t'aa akot'ao ei yaah alchini yazhi bee yajilti! nizhoni nizhoni nizhoni!!

  • I <3 this video :) just shared it on my FB .... awesome!!! Fans in Tempe stretching to Abq NM :)

  • jusst Cutee !! litto Boy Talking In Navajo .

    . dammm !! 2'Thumbs Up 

  • The best Navajo speaking kid i have ever heard!

  • Thank you. YAate'. I still remember some Navajo. My Missionary dad by adoption preached in the Navajo language. Jesus AYO ashoni. Not sure if this is the correct spelling but it means Jesus loves me. Can someone PLEASE interpret the story so we may enjoy it further?

  • nizhóní shidá'í yázhí...! naadzólní! :-)

  • Lol, such a cutie pie! Its great to see him speak his own language so well! He'll be such a blessing to all!

  • i didnt understand what he said, but i followed his gestures...i love his enthusiasm while telling the story..it sounds beautiful!

  • I am Apache and I show my son this and he loves it! Good job to the mom and dad, well done, your son is a blessing!

  • Love this sooo much! I didn't understand the language, but the child's rendition of coyote here was soooo understood. Thank you for the laughter!!!

  • This boy is gonna grow up smart! Kudos to his family for teaching him the language & sharing with him the culture! Keep it up! ;)

  • That is so awesome!!!

  • Omg!!! *Standing ovations*... i love his serious "Cheii" look.. lol

  • That is sooo adorable!

  • we lyyk urr storyy :D an inspiration tu keep our ppl qoiinq Ha'

  • awesome :)

  • This child will probably be a comedian. But I would rather he grow up and teach his children Navajo too. This child deserves so much, he's so precious.

  • boy u deserve a movie role u better than james and ernie ha ha

  • He's so adorable!! :)

  • We LOVE Quinton! I've played this clip for my entire family (we are Jicarilla Apache, and your language and ours are essentially the same - both Athabascan), and my aunts and uncles and my mom all LOVE Quinton! You must be so very proud! He may have some acting in his future - he's so animated and expressive! BEST VIDEO EVER!

  • it sounds better when a kid tells the story lol

  • wow! this is sooooooo impressive! i dont even know Navajo that well! Nice Job Quinton!!!! Im so proud of him!

  • this video was AWESOME!!! i started tearing up because NEVER not once have i seen a 6yr old talking so much Diné Bizaad. this sad because i'm 24 & he's already far more Navajo than me & how much i can speak.

    i'm proud to be Navajo though regardless of not being fluent in Navajo. keep up with the Navajo studies & Navajo joke telling. question how did you teach him Navajo? i would LOVE to watch the youtube teaching videos of whoever taught him how to speak Navajo. i would even pay for the videos.

  • MENWI! GOOD!

  • this is awesome... way... should make more hahaha

  • Hes so adorable!!

  • Wow!! Completely awesome!! U should be proud..

  • I remember this story.. He tells it so much better! Wow! (Applaud'N whoever taught him NAvajo) Im 28 and he speaks better Navajo than we do. The YazzieHomes Family!

  • This is excellent. But I have to say, at one point he changes language for a second, "right ear, left ear". It's like listening to KTNN where they are giving ads in Navajo "whatever whatever Chunky Chicken 3500 Main Street Toh Tah whatever whatever". I love it.

    Maybe he can grow up to be one of the "KNDN" ;) announcers. Then he would not just preserve the language, but _broadcast it_. A good thing for which to hope.

  • Two Asian guys at the malls food court can tell me that xD (animas valley mall)

  • here we are watching the lil man telling his story again..the kids can now understand a little of his story.thanks for posting......

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  • der is still hope foe all of us da five fingered earth ppl...ur language.culture and stories all we have..rite on little dude...

  • oh my goooddness there hope for our language tell your son i said keep it up please!!! we need more parent like you to teach them and more kids like him to learn ... lol i love the way he talks he just cute>>>

  • Badass.....i cant speak lik that..

  • Wow, this is amazing, glad to see some people at his age know the language so superb. He must be very fluent by now.

  • NICE. good to see he's learning the stories and how to speak our langauge

  • i keep showing my family and they love it!!! they are asking how old is the child? they say he will be the next top comedian... like Vincent Craig. Where are you all from?

  • @KrazyLykeYou glad you likes =] quinton is 7 years old now, he was 6 in this vid. we are from steamboat az, black streak people and edgewater clan.

  • @mrjero696969 Tell little Quinton keep speaking Navajo! He's super cool already! :D

  • HOW CUTE.

  • the boys is amazing...

  • glad some kids still wanna learn our langauge cuz i cant speak it either but i can understand it fully...i wish i could and i feel bad too....he is lucky tho, keep it up kid cuz i DOnt want our lang. to die out too...

  • that is asome can you do it to?

  • Watch this child prodigty will be a well loved actor. I bet he will be in the big screen. Very classy video, I am a navajo and this kid has shown me what I lack. Great stuff.

  • this is so awsome lol i wish i could talk like that but im still learning lol keep it up little boi ur awsome. lol

  • Haha this is so cute!!! He is really fluent, man i wish i could talk like that in Navajo. Good story Quinton, couldn't have said it better myself or at all. Keep learning and pass it on, we need kids like you to keep our language going. I only understand but cant speak it. Please give more videos of him there so adorable. Thank awesome video.

  • omg!!!! i luv this..... im am so jelly!!! im 14 n i stull dont know how to speak navajo that fluently!!!

  • @inuwolf4 me too I can speak Navajo like that

  • how old is he? I'm jealous xD

  • Lil Quinton telling a Coyote Story in Navajo... :) Just cute!

  • ma'ii... ma'ii... mai'ii. hahahaha kid's just cute <33

  • that was awesome!!!

  • Awww... he's just adorable.

  • That's a nice story lol. Understand still WOOHOO

  • wow, i love it!! :)

  • CUTE!! I WISH MY KID COULD TALK NAVAJO..YOU KEEP YOUR LANGUAGE ALIVE. ALOTA LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY FROM ALBUQUERQUE!

  • my son actually goes to school with this kid ha its a small world

  • -haha. i remember talking this much navajo. =)

  • beautiful story teller!

  • he is super Cute lil boy! i love this video.! im speechless on his fluent navajo, jus WOW!! Gotta love the children of NavajoLand! :D Ur a inspiration to everyone lil buddy ;D

  • Ashkii yazhi t'obaadlohasin. Nizhooniiyee' shiyazhi! Hayooii, dinek'eji yanlti'!

  • cute! this made my day!

  • I love it, Go Quinton!!!

  • am at work an about choked up...he is awesome! i love it!!

  • this video brought my grandmother and uncles to tears. they said its been awhile since they've heard a child speak our native language. =)

  • ᎠᏌᎹᏘ ᎤᏬᏲᎵ. :)

  • Yes! Very proud of grandson!!!!!

  • This video just made my day.

  • Cool..nice to see our language strong with our young generation. These stories were like movies when my grandpa would tell them back in the day. I passed these on to my daughter and family to keep the teaching strong. Great job..

  • Amazing....a star in the making....

  • ahhh. masani's love. cute, always love watching this video.

  • awww... HE JUST MADE MY DAY!!!

    Hes so cute!

  • Guess that shows to not be naughty or your ear will be cut off, lol

  • A true story teller :) Loved all the voices and gestures haha! Perhaps one day I can learn Navajo! Then I can truly enjoy 'lil Quinton's" story :)

  • This little boy is soo cutee!

  • I love this story its Coyote and lizards

  • He is so awesome!!

  • Omg! i am so jealous, I cant speak just little Navajo. Amazing, (not to mention he so cute doing the voices)

  • This just brings a tear to my eye. He makes me hopeful for the future. Thank you so much for sharing this...

  • this lil dude is my hero

  • this is sooo cute!!! i love this kid

  • Gotta post some more videos! to funny. inspires me! subscribed!

  • HE is so cute!!! So much power to him, keeping the tradition going :) 

  • Absolutely beautiful! I love how he tells it with all his expressions!

  • WoW!! This is great! Its great to see our younger generation speaking fluent Navajo and telling our stories. Keep it up Quinton! Nizhoniye!

  • I absolutely LOVE this!!!!! From one Navajo to another, thanks!

  • THIS LITTLE BOY IS AWESOME!! i love the fact that i can understand him and he speaks navajo...he cracks me up with his impressions

  • He is just so cute... Good Job to the amazing parents of this lil boy...

  • Akoonee

  • please...........more videos!

  • Love it!

  • wow i'm so proud of this little boy...he made me laugh today...he shows us that the Navajo language is very much alive within our youth...

  • @nativerica He is absolutely adorable.

    However, based on my experiences on the Navajo rez, I'm worried many of the youth of apathetic or unable to learn about their culture and its language, and I think that needs to be changed. (Growing up as a kid there, I didn't know anybody younger than 40 who was fluent in Navajo.)

  • Wow. He got all the expressions down and all.  Love this video.

  • awesome video....awesome job....

  • That is way too cool!!!

  • totally awesome!!

    

  • That was so cute. Thanks for sharing. Tell us more in Navajo. 

  • That was beautiful! Awesome parents! Keep the language alive

  • This wonderful, smart, cute storyteller should serve as an inspiration to all Dine about the importance of teaching our sacred language to our youth. Kudos to his parents! Job well done! I absolutely loved it!

  • This wonderful, smart a

  • nizhoni !