Learning Taishanese (Part 3)

[henryalg]

Wfor me is like kaiping lol

[AAMLfan]

Wow, I speak Cantonese and I don't think I'd have any problems conversing with a Taishanese person! So similar! I always thought they sounded totally different until I saw your videos...

[AsiaMs]

The girl in this video speaks my kind of Hoisan Wah. I also say gem sik , but i have heard other hoisan people say gim sik for gold. My parents say that's how they say it in the next village.

[XxMayanaLiuxX]

I'm From Taishan But I Speak Mostly Cantonese And Taiwanese And A Little Taishanese, I Don't Know Why But To Me Taishanese Sounds Like Cantonese With An Accent :D

[TheManGuyDude]

isn't green cheng sik? and lok sit is.. purple?

[GuMdRoP135]

I don't know why but it is very difficult to speak Taishanese because I mostly speak Cantonese when it's basically the same thing ! My mom side is Toisan and my dad's side is Canto . I can only understand Toisan but not speak it . WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR MEEEE UGHH lol .

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[jaychow21]

@GuMdRoP135 what part is difficult? i know the most difficult is the ``thl`` sound at the begining of the word example thlam = 3

[GuMdRoP135]

@jaychow21 Likee EVERYTHING is hard whenever I try speaking it I end up speaking Cantonese lol

[jaychow21]

@GuMdRoP135 You just need to be around Taishanese speaking people for abit to get the accent OR keep practicing. Yeah Taishanese and Cantonese is so similar that they both end up sounding about the same lol

[SHUTUPNOOB654]

Lol. I speak Taishanese too, and brown translates as cofee colour in it. Kinda funny name for brown

[rosalia987]

some of ur pronunciation is wrong. just saying cause im taisanese and i speak it like very often so... yeah...

[zenithdoom]

sat is more towards hakka while sik is closer to cantonese, because taishanese is closely related to hakka and cantonese, the influences are there

[anbncejksg]

except for gold color, my accent sound almost exactly alike. it is gum sik for me. cafe/fe for brown & puergee for purple.

[miaka91395]

I say "sat" o.o'

[SHUTUPNOOB654]

@miaka91395 I say set o-o

[fanofyaoi888]

it is very similar to cantonese

[VJtheDJ]

"geng sik." I have always known gold as "geem sik" (pronounced with a hard "g" as in "goat"). Depending on the tone, "geng" to me meant ginger, neck, or scared. There is a YouTube user by the name of YanStevenUT. His pronunciation of "hoy san wah" is dead on with what I grew up hearing and learning. Thanks again, Jay!

[jaychow21]

well the girl pronounced it "Gem Sik"... the Yanstevenguy would have pronounced it as "Gim Sik" because i am part Hoiping myself and my mother prounces the word Gold as "Gim" which sounds like Korean "Kim".

[flywithvicky]

I would say Gold is like saying the word "sword" in cantonese. VJtheDJ's comment is dead on with "geem"

[VJtheDJ]

I don't know if you can really say what "standard" Cantonese is, unless you're referring to "thlahm yeet wah." Keep in mind there are over 300 different dialects in the Chinese language, so there's always going to be a little variation from one village to another. In terms of color, I had always heard of "sik" myself and never "sat" in my years growing up in San Francisco's Chinatown. I did find the pronunciation of gold interesting in that Jay said (more)

[GladiariaAlata]

I say sat too.  D=

[ChanH415]

ive heart sat insteaf of sik b4 as well

[Xsubs]

Hi. Isnt The color brown called "dong sak"?

[jaychow21]

sak? don't you mean "Sik". I never used Dong Sik before... maybe you could be right, who knows. But in my family we say "Cafe Sik" cuz brown looks like coffee lol

How is it pronounced in Standard Cantonese ? Maybe that might help, because both Taishanese and Standard Cantonese share almost most of the time about the same pronounciation.

[ChanH415]

yeah, ive never known brown as any OTHER than cafe sik. Now, how do you say purple? i know some hoisan say do sik, as in pie do (grapes). but our hoisanwah grape is pie gee, so do we say gee sik? (and thats gee with a g, not a j)

[sciphyqrl]

isn't purple "tzee sik"?

[Yeahitzbop]

In the hood(villages) we say gai see sat (Chicken shit color) lols

[jaychow21]

Sat? lol r u sure it's not Sik for colour?

[Yeahitzbop]

Nah i say sat man.. sik is canto

[jaychow21]

not really lol We say Sik in my Taishanese dialect..

[ChanH415]

yeah we say sik as well