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American YouTuber (1981–2021) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 YouTuber and language coach.
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McCormick in May 2020 | ||||||||||
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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. | |||||||||
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| Website | imabouttolevelup | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2008–2021 | |||||||||
| Genre | Entertainment | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 1.24 million[1] (November 2023) | |||||||||
| Total views | 216,847,350[1] (November 2023) | |||||||||
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Last updated: Jan 19, 2022 | ||||||||||
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] According to his YouTube biography, "When I first began language learning 20 years ago, I noticed that most language books and classes did not teach students how to prepare for real world conversations. In an attempt to solve this issue, I developed my own method, The FLR Method."[10]
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]
McCormick died on March 4, 2021, in Phoenix, Arizona, at the age of 39, reportedly from heart complications.[8][7][9]
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