When Aditya Talwar first arrived in Singapore from India in 2016, he watched his friends play mahjong and speak a language he could not fully understand. Today, he has over 90,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel where he speaks fluent Mandarin (with subtitles too) on his videos – with topics ranging from his travels in India and Taiwan, and life when he was a Yale-NUS undergraduate. Not often do you hear the greetings Namaste and Da jia hao together from a featured video that autoplays when you visit his YouTube channel. "When I first started learning, I would receive a lot of compliments for speaking Mandarin. "But at that point, my Mandarin was very bad," the 23-year-old said when he could only introduce himself and count to ten in the language. In a Zoom interview with AsiaOne, he shared how people think Mandarin is such a difficult language, hence they are more likely to praise you if you can speak even the smallest amount. He said: "[You] speak the language, but ... » Learn More about ‘Indian Prince’ in Singapore stuns with his fluent Mandarin, aims to fight stereotypes about India