| Moses McCormick | |
| Birth Name: | Moses Monweal McCormick |
| Birth Date: | 12 March 1981 |
| Birth Place: | Akron, Ohio, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. |
| Channel Name: | laoshu505000 |
| Years Active: | 2008–2021 |
| Genre: | Entertainment |
| Subscribers: | 1.24 million |
| Subscriber Date: | November 2023 |
| Views: | 216,847,350 |
| View Date: | November 2023 |
| Silver Button: | yes |
| Silver Year: | 2018 |
| Gold Button: | yes |
| Gold Year: | 2020 |
| Stats Update: | Jan 19, 2022 |
Moses Monweal McCormick (March 12, 1981 – March 4, 2021), also known as Laoshu (from Chinese: c=老鼠|p=lǎoshǔ,) or Laoshu505000, was an American YouTuber and language coach.
McCormick gained popularity by speaking several languages with native speakers that he met in public places, and uploading the videos on his YouTube channel.[1] [2] [3] He called this activity leveling up.[4]
McCormick taught language lessons remotely over the Internet, over time developing his own language learning method, which he called FLR (Foreign Language Roadrunning). 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."[5]
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.[1]
McCormick died on March 4, 2021, in Phoenix, Arizona, at the age of 39, reportedly from heart complications.[6] [7] [8]