A Cantonese speaking chap in Trindad, Cuba

[MrCollazoprojects]

It is amazing to be able to see this video. My great grandfather was chinese, and do to the prejudice of the cuban society back them, my grandfather changed his last name from Pei to Morales! It still visible in my kids the oriental fixture in them!...Thank You

[Jennyyx3Lovee]

he was saying Hoisan/Toisan, not hok san(student). a lot of toisanese ppl went to cuba working in sugar plantations

[wtfcowbbq]

@Jennyyx3Lovee yea he was speaking hoisan alot of people who dont know it might just think its canto but its not but it is related tho some words are very similar but there are words that are just plain different

[bigfatdick5000]

He's hella high from the Cuban blunt and starts speaking Cantonese.

[SQLO]

NO.

El no habla Cantonés, simplemente sabe algunas palabras. Muy bien de todos modos.

[iRocKiCoke]

at 0:50 I think he says "I have been to Vancouver". COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOO0000000000000000000000­0000000000000000000000L.

[sopranods]

I was in Heshan few weeks ago. The taxi driver told me that so many of Heshan people moved to Cuba and Chile long before the War. He seems very frail and I think he says he's 92.

[WYtjai]

He looks so sweet.

[Lemit]

He sounds like he's speaking in that modified Cantonese that my mum uses whenever she doesn't want me to understand. >.>; (Though it's similar that I can pick up a few things anyway.) Anyone know the name of it?

[Delphiki]

@Lemit I think you're talking about Toisanese, which is really similar to Cantonese.

[filorice]

@Lemit youre probably thinking of another dialect. Hakka probbably?

[Shineefan98ify]

He looks very old, seems like he hasn't spoken it in years. I'm Cuban and have mixed Chinese ancestry, and I only know very few words in Chinese.

[spike378]

yea seriously trinidad or cuba? Sounds like he doesnt use canto very much

[realamerican2580]

That is very funny. When you got to go, you got to go. I don't understand the old man talking about.

[infinera06]

This guy does NOT speak Cantonese!

[Shiftee88]

is this Trinidad or Cuba, i dont get it?

[mjay22]

I think this guy has mixed Chinese and African Cuban parentage because they are plenty of them in Cuba.

[123username1232]

I think I heard him say something along the lines of

"Yes, I can speak a little, How old are you? Anos? I am 82 years!"

Genius!

[123username1232]

JAJAJAJ! He switches from Cantonese to English!!!!

[nnnnnsssssssssllllln]

my god I can't believe they kept the cantonese language alive in his family considering most of the chinese immigrants intermixed with local cuban residents... wow just wow... well we have also kept the french language well and alive in cuba also especially in mi familia...

[sopranods]

I'm of Heshan descent as well. My dad says his maternal grandpa immigrated to the US. Some of his paternal families moved to the south / central America and lost in touch. So this mister could be my long lost relatives!

[444gerald]

嘩!!!!!!!!!!!佢曬到 gum lun 死黑!!!!!!!!!! 黑過古天樂

生皮膚 cancer

[stephenharperbest2]

holy crap thats rare

[ThisISNahby]

It isn't rare actually. Cubans have a lot of Chinese heritage/ancestry, but many people overlook it for some reason to acknowledge the Spanish and African ones.

[darko123456]

thank you for sharing

[cmmndrblu]

that is coool

[msane4XX]

he started mixing cantonese and spanish

ni shing ma....ano?

[MiSTAAAHMEK]

lamo i am 82 no wait 88 no wait 82 !!

[ruantengyi]

wow, a Cuban speaks canto. very impressive!

[douglastytam]

@ruantengyi

he's an ethnic chinese cuban from hokshan, a town in kwangtung province of china... somehow he's very tanned

[drew86]

我相信他不是想小便.哈哈

[Tommy12435]

wouldn't call it fluent but pretty interesting

[bunchiemaster1]

@Tommy12435 its cause he's old.

[m3rkur1o]

What did he say? Can you tell us the history that is behind the video?

[saikitchng]

He said he came from a Chinese city of Heshan and knew some Cantonese phrases. I bumped into this gentleman in Trinidad, Cuba.

[m3rkur1o]

Trinidad, as far as I can tell, was a beautiful city, at least en the old colonial center. I never went to "El Valle de los Ingegios" (Valley of the Sugar Mills). I guess he meant his forefathers were from China. I think the Chinese went to Cuba en the second half of the XIX century; thus his age does not add up. Anyway a great history and an amazing thing he can speak Cantonese.

[cubanboy740]

@saikitchng I guess the people near Barro Chino can speak a bit?

[Jiehengs]

@saikitchng i guess he meant鹤山..