Indian woman speaking Cantonese

[MoMiangGuoSing]

Soon, the day will come when language is no longer a marker of race. I like that. But after that we must fight the hierarchy prescribed to languages through of (ultra)nationalism, media, and ethnocentrism.

[MGF201]

dam ! their contonese is good !

[Kingmanification]

Made in India Finished in China

[akavitsuma]

this is great. the more languages you learn the better.

[pronoba]

This is great. My wife is Indian and was born and raised in HK just like her Mom. Most of her family are based in HK and are Indian. Since her aunts and all her cousins were born and raised in HK, they all speak Cantonese with each other like its their native mother tongue. Ofcourse they all can speak pretty good Punjabi and English too. If you know more than 2 languages, its easy to pick up a 3rd or 4th language. Which is why Americans are pretty bad when it comes to learning a new language.

[rHychau5]

im chinese and i find this cool... my girlfriend is indian, thumbs up for her, its not easy learning chinese, trust me, im chinese too good for her (y)

[Gloombaza]

Fuckin bitch learn hindi

[1977hero]

i am also indian in hong kong and i fought against racist chinese since i was 8 yrs old... we indians team up and chase these chinese and beat them... sometime we were ambushed.. remember we caught one chinese guy and i torn his shirt... he have a dragon and eagle on his body!!

[Jaysidizzle]

I don't get all the shocked comments? Do chinese people think indians are dumb or am I missing something here?

[thekingofmoney2000]

@Jaysidizzle Yes!

[MingTheMerciful]

wow, they even speak cantonese to each other, that is something but so do asian american speaking english to each other lol.

[rivengle]

O_o. wow i'm surprised.

WOOHOO.

[MrDylanlau]

識得 "入鄉隨俗" 最重要

[myfunkychannel]

go cantonese, don't let mandarin take over

[ChizuruYui]

wow she better than me ahhahah same here i would like to be a lawerly

[kf160k160]

You gotta to be kidding me.....O.O

[lukebccb]

Oh wow I'm so shocked a human being that is the 3rd generation of migrants that has adopted the customs and practices of the adopted lands.......

Gee you never see any of that stuff in the United States where you know like how 3rd generation Vietnamese or 5th Generation Mexicans don't celebrate Thankgiving or the such.....

[Artharrex123]

Woah, so perfect accent.

[Jovitinha]

@Artharrex123 She's born and bred there, of course she'll have a local accent.

[melika999]

Awesome!! I speak Cantonese too :P soo cool they pronounce the words so good :)

[kimmyyymai]

That is so COOOL!

[ABQ2009NM]

If there were no dirty politics around the world we would had such a nice relations with each other. Guys stop critcizing each other for the differences, instead look at the similarities we have, every culture has its own beauty it does'nt matter where it originated or which came first. Spread Peace which is difficult instead of hate which is easy.

[omglolwatermelon]

my nany's indian and speaks perfect cantonese =D we sent her back to india tho =[ she was happier to be there....... we gave her pension too =D miss her so much =[

[ClamatoJuiceify]

sounds in canto are so hard 2 pronounce if its not ur mother tongue :(

[TheSenseofTouch]

Cantonese should be the international language.

[tsli1234]

No way! Sounds too much like Vietnamese. Chinese should speak pu tong hua.

[TheSenseofTouch]

@tsli1234 Cantonese sounds better than both Mandarin and Vietnamese.

[djonutube]

@TheSenseofTouch

Definitely NOT!..... have you seen the way many HK celebrities speak? Absolutely appalling!

[TheSenseofTouch]

@djonutube Sounds way better than shitty Vietnamese and Mandarin. Cantonese is most beautiful

[tsli1234]

@TheSenseofTouch Did you just say Hanyu sounds like shit?! >:( Are you even real Chinese? Or do you think that you're better than people from the mainland and call yourself "Hong Kongnese"?

[BADsinger509]

the lady at 1:09 reminds me of ugly betty

[cybershadowX]

@BADsinger509

lol ya it does

[angryaznman]

im gonna repeat myself. there is nothing impressive about the video. my english is clearly superior to her cantonese.

so go be amazed at my posts. lame ass punks.

[aznmystix]

wow impressive

[SatRai]

No big deal. Ther are about 15.000 people of Indian descent living in Hongkong.

[TestVideo2SamsPimp]

-_- DUH! india is so close to China

My mom was born in Tibet but speaks Napalian,, Hindu and Cantonese

Those people are really intelligent

[Dzongka]

@TestVideo2SamsPimp I think you mean Hindi - not Hindu.

[july071992]

wow speaking in 100% cantonese accent eventhough they don't look 100% to 1% cantonese at all. HK is becoming like singapore.

[AshleyTheUchiha]

haha that's like me... my family's from hong kong, yet i plan to major in english in college. their cantonese puts mine to shame >.>

[MsBillydkid]

does she still know how to speak hindi?

[copa8]

disregard BlackRebel. He ain't black and definitely not a rebel.

[cpssnorman]

OMG she even speaks better cantonese than me!

[Jaguarjager]

woow i never saw that .awesome

[strawberrynkiwi]

i would love to have a conversation with her.

technically, its the same thing as any immigrated family in American speaking fluent English.

[sleeevy]

In Singapore and Malaysia you see some Malays and Indians who know some form of Chinese. But seeing this multiculturalism in Hong Kong, wow! Shows how people have given up their life in a country to go to another, very different land, for the sake of their family and the future generations.

[hongkongsmartboy]

Singapore, Malaysia, India and Hong Kong were British excolony.

Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong consist of Chinese and Indian culture.

[angryaznman]

@hongkongsmartboy

HAHA nice try you retard. HK has nothing to do with CHA

[surenbig]

Im malaysian indian, so many malay or indian speaks cantonese here, even my brother and father speaks cantonese

[maxgraff]

if you meet chinese from india same story...they are so well spoke in Hindi and the local languages sometimes better than most locals....thats the beauty of mankind co-existing with tolerance.

[skyflame000]

Holy shit ... really fluent Chinese and they even practice the traditions and customs. But as she stated, she's a third generation Chinese Indian so no surprise.

[nitcan]

OMGGG never!

i have never seen this in my life!

wow...we are multicultural

great!

[CID2112]

That because Hong Kong is known as a international city.

[maincrap]

many Indians & Malay from Malaysia

speak Chinese ( Mandarin ) ....

very fluent ...

[auman01]

That was pretty cool to see. Just don't see that here in the US.

[hbonli]

My mom taught indians in chinese medium schools before..and more surprisingly it was at the insistance of their parents

[denu12345]

--->hehehe as i am an indian myself..

[denu12345]

WOW! An hong kong indian...never knew! Makes me wanna go to Hong Kong to learn Cato to! Would be soo cool..or just go to UBC and take a class..either way...funnier to go to HOng kong though.

[neoguy9090]

This is awesome!!

[Komaoala]

WoW! Seeing this is amazing. You know, if more people can speak each other's languages and understand each other, this world would be MUCH more peaceful.

[sydneygp]

fantastic!!

Good to see her assymilating to the local culture.

Seems like a nice girl as well.

Much better than some indians i know here in the UK!

[trent8002003]

Joanne is quite a linguist. She has COMPLETELY mastered cantonese, which is one of the hardest dialects to master.

[cantehk]

What are you talking about? She is born in Hong Kong and so has her parents, and her grandparents. How is this being a linguist?

For goodness sake, her mother language is Cantonese. Go up to a white dude in America and say, you're a lingust - you've mastered English!

Please don't make her out to be gifted because she is speaking her mother tongue.

[trent8002003]

Hey, take a chill pill, you. Aren't you all worked up for nothing. So I was impressed by a foreign-looking person speaking Cantonese, even though that may have been her mother tongue. That's allowed. And how do you know cantonese is her only mother tongue. What makes you so sure that she ain't fluent also in an indian dialect. If she is bilingual, she would be quite a linguist, won't you say?

[straylight777]

Because she said in the beginning that she was a third-generation Hong Kong national! If she were able to also speak Hindu fluently, then I'd be impressed.

Also regarding her Cantonese, it's not enough to be able to speak the language w/o an accent. DOes she speak intelligently? Have a vast vocabulary so she can use words precisely and accurately? You may be surprised to find that even a lot of HKers are not masters of their native language.

[trent8002003]

You're right on HK people not being the greatest linguist. In fact, HK people are notorious for their poor verbal communication skills even in their mother tongue. That's partly because Cantonese is a difficult language to speak because of its loose grammar structure. Kinda like a software that doesn't do much for you but require you to do lots of organisation. Unlike say Mandarin, which with its being more structured, doesn't need the speaker to do so much organisational work.

[bigbossloke]

@trent8002003 Again, what are you talking about? Cantonese is one of the most ubiquitous dialects in China (namely through media) and is commonplace amongst the overseas Chinese people. Its phonetics are not all that complicated vs the spectrum of dialects spoken in Southern China.

I dare say Wenzhouhua is undisputedly the hardest Chinese dialect to learn and master; I for one certainly can't make sense of a single word of it.

[trent8002003]

@bigbossloke Ubiquitous??? It's spoken only in a small part of ONE province out of China. How's that ubiquitous? For cities, only HK and Guangzhou use it. Even within the Pearl River Delta, many regions speak their dialets, not Cantonese.

[bigbossloke]

@trent8002003 heard (again, namely thru media), not spoken; and relative against the other Chinese dialects. Mostly because HK produces movies/songs that has garnered significant interest from the rest of the Chinese population. It is the most "well-treated" dialect in this sense (the other being Taiwanese), while other dialects are at risk of being lost thru the govt's push for Mandarin as lingua franca. I am Cantonese myself.

[trent8002003]

@bigbossloke Afraid you still live in the 90's. The influence of Cantonese has waned significantly on the mainland. Yes, when HK's TV dramas and Cantopop still reigned supreme over a mainland that was just opening up in late 80's and 90's, Cantonese was THE hip language to learn. But now with the mainland's rise both economically and culturally, PTH is again dominant. That explains the drastic shrinkage of the Cantopop market back to only HK and PRD. BTW, I am cantonese too. Born, raised in HK

[bigbossloke]

@trent8002003 Ok... not 90's though. Mainland, with limited access to youtube :)

[xsh3bbyx]

true!!

[qwertytrewqwer]

asia is one, the himalayas divide only to unite :)