@CityHunter84 What does "grsh" mean? Anyway, Cantonese actually has more tones (6) than Mandarin (4). But the differences between the tones are rather subtle, so much that it can be pretty difficult to hear them. Even with 2 more tones than Mandarin, Cantonese doesn't have the sharp falling tone (the 4th tone) in Mandarin. It also have considerably less homophones compared with Mandarin, thus tones are often approxmiated or even deliberately altered and people would still understand by context.
i have NEVER used good afternoon or good night in cantonese in my entire life. you can survive on hi, bye and good morning. also gou mang a is only used if youre being raped or robbed or something. if you use it in non-emergency situations, youre like calling 911 because you cant find a penny you dropped.
Thanks for the video! Cantonese is a fantastically rich language, with so much slang and imagery. @DiabloMercy: Saying Cantonese is not part of China's rich heritage is unbelievably ignorant. Please read up on the subject so you don't embarrass yourself by making these stupid comments. There is a real danger that Cantonese will become like Welsh when the English persecuted Welsh speakers - the world would be a much poorer place without Canto and Mandarin is no substitute. 支持廣東話!!
Don't forget 'wei' is 'hello' when answering the phone. This is decent lesson but I've decided to stick with learning Mandarin as it appears to be easier and almost all Chinese can speack Mandarin.
Cantonese is AWESOME! I love the intonations! Unlike English, which sometimes could be a bit flat, it has more ups and downs. The writing is even cooler, for I have been taught that Cantonese is more like a slang, which many of the sound does not have "normal" Chinese characters XD And by the way, Chinese is one of those languages with long history, comparing to English which borrow most of the words from Latin, Greek, French and the Germanic family, maybe it was English who borrowed their words
My wife's native tongue is Cantonese but I gave up trying to learn it. I am sticking with learning Mandarin. I know a few Cantonese words and phrases but most Chinese I know only speak Mandarin. If I moved to Honk Kong I would try to learn it fast.
Hans Chinese mainlanders are known as racists against Cantonese from the South. Cantonese need to search for their identities and independence from communist China, their ethnic background is Yueh or Yuet from Nam Yueh ( Nam Viet). When the Southern Annamese regained independence from China, other ethnic Yueh werea left stranded in the other side of the mountain. Fight for the Republic of Cantonia for the Cantonese.
I'm really really regreted that my first language is cantonese
cantonese is such a most useless language in the world, cuz we can't even use it out of H.K. please do not think you might use this language in Quangdong.Their accent has a little bit different but it could mess it up as well.
@yuen5566 That's not true. I live in California, I'm an ABC, but I have perfect use for it. There's a lot of Chinese here that speak Cantonese, and an extra language is really useful. I speak both without an accent, it wouldn't affect anything, it's just good to have an extra language. I understand about the dialects, but I can understand Zhongxian dialect...
I don't know if that's how you spell it, I can't type in Chinese. 0.0;;
@yuen5566 Yes Cantonese may not necessarily be as useful as Mandarin but actually you'll find that a lot of migrants who have come from Southern China speak it all over the world and I'm in NZ. It's an utter shame that you would regret learning Cantonese.
@yuen5566 sorry, not just HK, I'm from Malaysia, and Cantonese is very much alive here, and I speak it since child and interacting with other Chinese unless it's from another states. It's just that most Chinese syllabus is based on Mandarin nowadays. Which I think it's kinda waste on my view because Cantonese is much more flexible, but oh well, Mandarin is the heaps now because of the economy, so it's like chinese saying " where the winds heading is where our heads focusing "
@yuen5566 You're 15 if your profile info is correct and up-to date. I think it's sad to hear that kind of comment. Regardless the number of speaker and its practicall use, your mother tongue is part of a culture you inherited, should be proud of and keep alive. I hope and I'm almost sure you will change your mind while growing (as I did myself).
as a native romanian speaker, i find it difficult to understand how people can understand such subtle tones, and also, the quality and low number of consonants scares me.
Sounds great, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't sound like a language to me.
As a non native speaker of Cantonese and Mandarin. I find Cantonese to be the more understandable and more beautiful sounding language. It's not singsong like mandarin with all the rising tones etc. and if the spoken with eloqution can sound very pleasant and calm.
Cantonese lost to Mandarin by one vote when deciding which of the two were to be made the national language of China. Most of the founders of modern China were Cantonese speakers, like Sun Yat Sen.
interesting how mandarin lost all consonants at the end of their sillables but m, n, ng and that 'r" thing which is pretty much a vowel in my book. I realized Sun Yat Sen wasn't a mandarin speaker when i saw that "Yat" word right away.
Cantonese lost to Mandarin by one vote when deciding which of the two were to be made the national language of China. Most of the founders of modern China were Cantonese speakers, like Sun Yat Sen.
haha shes techincally wrong on the thank you do za is more for like when someone gives you a present or something very big. mhhh gouy is more of a comon thank you for small things like when someone opens the door for you :) yet she used it for please haha
@Jendrax2006 mhh gouy is thank you u can use it kinda for excuse me but it would be part of it rather then just the 2 words i doubt im wrong cause my parents are from hong kong and everytime i say mhh gouy when someone gives me a present would get scolded
@darrens888 It's pretty successful in Hong Kong, you know, one of the leading financial hubs of East Asia and the home of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the busiest port in the world, with one of the world's highest GDP per capita and the nation-state with the highest average IQ in the world. Needless to say, the standard of living there is very high. And it's all Cantonese.
i can't stand Cantonese because i know mandarin. it's quite annoying when certain sounds are so similar but just a bit different. it feels like as if someone is purposely mispronouncing the words (kinda of like how some Americans can't stand British accent, except even worse)
Every country has it own time line towards perfection. Since we don't all start at the same time, it is unfair to compare directly. On July 2, 1776, the US declared independence. 60 years later, US was still having slavery. Economy was unmentionable.
@kienez China is easily divided before the communist government is formed. The is because of the crazy growth rate of Chinese population. It is common for Chinese to have 6 or more children back in time. As a result, in 1800s theres 4000 million people;1900s 8000 millions; the projection for 2000s would be 1.6 billion but thanks to one child policy, it is expected to be 1.4 billion in 2015. It is common for american to think that CPP is bad, but for Chinese, it is the best so far.
There are so many dialects being used in China. Many Chinese have all made the efforts to learn how to speak Mandarin so the whole country can be united.
As long as Cantonese people are willing to learn Mandarin, I really have nothing to complain about.
They need to remember that Cantonese used to be regarded as cheap laborers in the US.
If China and Taiwan had never become powerful economic entities, Americans would continue to look down on the Chinese in the US.
@Artharrex123 Taiwanse people speak Mandarin, Minnamnese, Hakanese and languages of indigenous tribes. Minnamnese is often referred to as Taiwanse, not Mandarin. People in Taiwan write in traditional Chinese characters, not an attempt to complicate the system but preservation of tradition. It is China that simplified the Chinese characters. Your last sentence might be offensive to a Taiwanese, so don't say that to a Taiwanese. Anyway... Cantonese sounds great in songs!!! (L)
i wonder if this is right or not, cause my friend, she speaks cantonese, says that when you speak to older people, you use "ni", and to ur friend or younger people, you use"lei". is that right?
@JessVu Wrong actually... the only "ni" particle in Cantonese is 呢, and this particle can also be pronounced as "ne", which is more common. It's not a term that means "you". For speaking to people, the correct term for "you" is "nei(你)", and for the purpose of showing respect, you use honourifics. "Lei" is so-called the lazy pronunciation of of "nei".
@TaiGekTou Oh there are simply too many lazy people in Singapore.I find jyuping translations all over saying 'nei' and people around me saying 'lei'.Thanks a lot!
The "yes" and "no" phrases are tricky in Cantonese because you can't use "hai" and "mmm-hai" for every yes/no question. For example, "do you have a dog?", responding with a "hai" is strange. When asked, the question sounds like "do you have or do not have a dog?", so you would respond with "I don't have one" or "I have one" instead of a simple "hai" or "mmm-hai". There are a ton of questions that can't be answered with a simple yes/no...=\
@dynamo116 I agree with you. In my native language, we speak Hmong. It has many words that comes from both Cantonese and Mandarin. What you said about the "yes" and "no" meaning is absolutely true in my native language as well.
english word" HELLO" in cantonese = NAY HO,mandarin=NEI HO,potunghua=LEI HO. its kinda tricky ha?if u want to learn d language u should atleast have d endurance to twist tounge.
Explain to me how is a language stupid? It is a mode of communication, it's a tool for expression. It isn't made to sound "good". How stupid are you to assume that?
Then again, I don't expect much from you since you're making references to WOW for a real language. Pathetic.
@Bioloser It's also not made to be efficient or capable of expressing deep concepts. They lack nouns, they lack prepositions, they lack LOTS of things.
And they make up for it by having excess ways of referring to stuff that western culture doesn't give a fuck about. Don't be so closed minded to assume something CAN'T be worse for being different.
And yet, 71 million speak it daily and it is efficient enough for Hong Kong and Macau to sustain itself. Nay, even contributing to China's growth annually. You should realize on the other hand, by being capable of expressing "deep concepts" the language is further complicated, which really goes against the purpose of a language in the first place, which is used simply for communication.
I'm an exchange student in germany from new york. Therefore when i'm watching a video that's based in english and i hear german, i notice it right away. ;P
this clip is VERY VERY misleading, she was referring to HK-cantonese. but the Ha-lo and byyye that mentions was more like the awkard chinese accent that has been fused into the word "hello" and "bye" in english, they are hardly chinese at all. more like commonly used english then so-called "cantonese"
Well, there are lots of words borrowed from English in Cantonese. English also borrowed words from lots of different languages - like "ketchup" (or "catsap") from Cantonese, for example. That's a creative part of human language.
Well, the formal and correct pronunciation of "you" is "Nay", never "Lay". (You may try to look up "你" from any online dictionary then you'll see the phonetics is "Nei").
When you hear people who read it as "Lay", we call that a "lazy pronunciation", which also happens commonly on many other words, is a phenomenon/mistake of the colloquial Cantonese. It's generally acceptable, but better not to have it in speech or on the stage. Hope this helps, I'm a local Hongkee.
thanks man, I have attempted to learn some cantonese several times, but the lay nay thing stumped me every time, the books say Nay but the people say Lay
i have a question about cantonese. I'll be going to HK in a few weeks so I wanna know as much as I can. But why is it that sometimes I hear "lay" for 'you' and other times "nay"? As in when she says lay ho ma and nay ho ma.
thanks! because i always hear it "lay ho ma" never "nay ho ma" when hearing others speak. Im heading to HK in a few days so you answered just in time!
"Lay" and "nay" are both valid. However, one of them is dialect. In Guangzhou, you'd hear people use "lay", and in Hong Kong, you'd hear people use "nay". If you're just visiting, you should probably use the one that the natives use. :]
Yes. :] My parents are from Guangzhou, and they use "lay". However, Sam Hui and Anita Mui's songs use "nay", and I'm pretty sure they're from Hong Kong. :D
chinese includes many languages including mandarin and cantonese. although mandarin is the most popular chinese language, it is not the only one!! there are many dialects and languages within the chinese language.
@ynonbo Cantonese is the older version of chinese and manderin in the newer version of chinese, if you can understand Cantonese then you ould have a easier time learning manderin.
@hepalee ...what? hell no... cantonese and mandarin are both chinese, but from different parts of china. They are known as dialects. Mandarin is used in beijing while cantonese is used in guangdong. The chinese govt wanted a standardized form of chinese to communicate, thus they started voting. Mandarin wins, thus it is more commonly used in china, it is also called "putong hua (普通话）, however, cantonese is still used in Hongkong, guangdong and even by chinese in european countries.
@ttiiyy I do not agree with this statement. They could have abolish that "One Country One Language" policy, which is very insulting to other region that speak their own dialect of millions years of history where Mandarin is just around 800 years history. They could have done better by implementing another policy that preserve that culture of particular regions while maintaining Mandarin as a form communication in China. Will this easily divided a country? Then Communist government is epicfail
@ttiiyy But we also have to respect all different dialects and that includes Cantonese. Just because one speaks his/her own dialect does not mean that that will divide the country, and in fact many people continue to learn and speak their own dialects. While it must be conceded that Mandarin is the official language of China, this does not render all other dialects invalid and defined as something other than Chinese, when in fact it originated from China.
@ENiTiscool Why did you use the word concede? Is it really that painful to learn Mandarin? Give me a break.
It's really difficult to promote the Chinese language. If all Chinese people want to refer their own dialects as simply Chinese, people around the world will never be able to figure out what the hell we people are talking about.
@ttiiyy With all due respect, I think that Mandarin is a very graceful language and that it is beneficial to learn it. However, it should not be the only language we focus on learning. Having more than one language under our belts is often advantageous.
Also, why shouldn't people refer to their own dialects as Chinese? If further clarification is needed, what's the problem with calling Mandarin Mandarin and calling Cantonese Cantonese? As far as I can tell, there is no mixing up the two.
every language has its dialects, that are more or less inteligible. Mandarin dialects could be called different languages because of the lack of intelligibility. They are all cool, and teach us a lot of stuff about how languages work and evolve. I speak romanian, and am proud of my local dialect which has special features in it.
And i also think one should speak his local dialect in one's area, know the country's language fluently, and know one other language as well :)
@ttiiyy Before 1997, Hong Kong was not part of China. Most immigrants that came to the United States were of Cantonese origins. That is why Cantonese is more popular than Mandarin in America. I think a statement like "A divided country can never earn any respect from anyone" is crazy, seeing how 99% of our items are "Made in China".
lol , help. thats more informal and that would be for calling for help as if you're in a life & death situation .. if you're asking someone for help you wouldnt say that ..
i laughed at bye bye
mathgeekphysics 4 months ago
wow she is teaching improper cantonese. FAIL
spike378 4 months ago 2
speaking slowly my ass!
k4ze7 8 months ago 4
I don't know why people are complaining about the background music. If your in Hong Kong you better listen closely as it is a very noisy city.
WeiFischer 9 months ago
is cantonese less tonal than mandarin? i don't hear any of the "grsh" when listening to cantonese.
CityHunter84 10 months ago
@CityHunter84 What does "grsh" mean? Anyway, Cantonese actually has more tones (6) than Mandarin (4). But the differences between the tones are rather subtle, so much that it can be pretty difficult to hear them. Even with 2 more tones than Mandarin, Cantonese doesn't have the sharp falling tone (the 4th tone) in Mandarin. It also have considerably less homophones compared with Mandarin, thus tones are often approxmiated or even deliberately altered and people would still understand by context.
TaiGekTou 9 months ago
i have NEVER used good afternoon or good night in cantonese in my entire life. you can survive on hi, bye and good morning. also gou mang a is only used if youre being raped or robbed or something. if you use it in non-emergency situations, youre like calling 911 because you cant find a penny you dropped.
polarmerr 10 months ago
I would just like to note how funny this sounds if you understand both languages.
petz578 11 months ago 2
Thanks for the video! Cantonese is a fantastically rich language, with so much slang and imagery. @DiabloMercy: Saying Cantonese is not part of China's rich heritage is unbelievably ignorant. Please read up on the subject so you don't embarrass yourself by making these stupid comments. There is a real danger that Cantonese will become like Welsh when the English persecuted Welsh speakers - the world would be a much poorer place without Canto and Mandarin is no substitute. 支持廣東話!!
redleafgold 11 months ago
Der Status des Kantoneſiſchen ſollte aufgewertet werden.
HamitVucutcu 1 year ago
Don't forget 'wei' is 'hello' when answering the phone. This is decent lesson but I've decided to stick with learning Mandarin as it appears to be easier and almost all Chinese can speack Mandarin.
WeiFischer 1 year ago 3
Cantonese is AWESOME! I love the intonations! Unlike English, which sometimes could be a bit flat, it has more ups and downs. The writing is even cooler, for I have been taught that Cantonese is more like a slang, which many of the sound does not have "normal" Chinese characters XD And by the way, Chinese is one of those languages with long history, comparing to English which borrow most of the words from Latin, Greek, French and the Germanic family, maybe it was English who borrowed their words
josva0012 1 year ago
My wife's native tongue is Cantonese but I gave up trying to learn it. I am sticking with learning Mandarin. I know a few Cantonese words and phrases but most Chinese I know only speak Mandarin. If I moved to Honk Kong I would try to learn it fast.
fischman26 1 year ago
Comment removed
DiabloMercy 1 year ago
@DiabloMercy I think this may be the most ignorant comment I've read on this site, and that's saying something.
ixat00 1 year ago
@ixat00 oh im so hurt! omg!! ......
DiabloMercy 1 year ago
@DiabloMercy wtf is your problem? you dont belong to the rich heritage of china!
thestalkingfreak 1 year ago
@DiabloMercy I know you're fat inside.
cladimere 11 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
If you want to marry an Russain women come to us gettop5.info
PeteJernigan 1 year ago
I love Cantonese. Those Tones ^^
Crazy93SG 1 year ago
I love the sound of Cantonese.
craigfromnewcastle 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Hans Chinese mainlanders are known as racists against Cantonese from the South. Cantonese need to search for their identities and independence from communist China, their ethnic background is Yueh or Yuet from Nam Yueh ( Nam Viet). When the Southern Annamese regained independence from China, other ethnic Yueh werea left stranded in the other side of the mountain. Fight for the Republic of Cantonia for the Cantonese.
chinkykong 1 year ago
rue that cali. ppl has most canto speakers. espically in the bay area . not much mandarin speakers . but there is much taiwanese speakers
iflyouup 1 year ago
I'm really really regreted that my first language is cantonese
cantonese is such a most useless language in the world, cuz we can't even use it out of H.K. please do not think you might use this language in Quangdong.Their accent has a little bit different but it could mess it up as well.
yuen5566 1 year ago
@yuen5566 That's not true. I live in California, I'm an ABC, but I have perfect use for it. There's a lot of Chinese here that speak Cantonese, and an extra language is really useful. I speak both without an accent, it wouldn't affect anything, it's just good to have an extra language. I understand about the dialects, but I can understand Zhongxian dialect...
I don't know if that's how you spell it, I can't type in Chinese. 0.0;;
sharyberrii 1 year ago
@yuen5566 Yes Cantonese may not necessarily be as useful as Mandarin but actually you'll find that a lot of migrants who have come from Southern China speak it all over the world and I'm in NZ. It's an utter shame that you would regret learning Cantonese.
chinafirexo10 1 year ago
@yuen5566 sorry, not just HK, I'm from Malaysia, and Cantonese is very much alive here, and I speak it since child and interacting with other Chinese unless it's from another states. It's just that most Chinese syllabus is based on Mandarin nowadays. Which I think it's kinda waste on my view because Cantonese is much more flexible, but oh well, Mandarin is the heaps now because of the economy, so it's like chinese saying " where the winds heading is where our heads focusing "
kienez 1 year ago
@yuen5566 You're 15 if your profile info is correct and up-to date. I think it's sad to hear that kind of comment. Regardless the number of speaker and its practicall use, your mother tongue is part of a culture you inherited, should be proud of and keep alive. I hope and I'm almost sure you will change your mind while growing (as I did myself).
qrsx66 1 year ago
bye byee
bubblez987 1 year ago
as a native romanian speaker, i find it difficult to understand how people can understand such subtle tones, and also, the quality and low number of consonants scares me.
Sounds great, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't sound like a language to me.
oh, and i do speak some mandarin.
De4sher 1 year ago
As a non native speaker of Cantonese and Mandarin. I find Cantonese to be the more understandable and more beautiful sounding language. It's not singsong like mandarin with all the rising tones etc. and if the spoken with eloqution can sound very pleasant and calm.
Graddee 1 year ago
Cantonese lost to Mandarin by one vote when deciding which of the two were to be made the national language of China. Most of the founders of modern China were Cantonese speakers, like Sun Yat Sen.
ForwardIntent 1 year ago
@ForwardIntent
interesting how mandarin lost all consonants at the end of their sillables but m, n, ng and that 'r" thing which is pretty much a vowel in my book. I realized Sun Yat Sen wasn't a mandarin speaker when i saw that "Yat" word right away.
De4sher 1 year ago
@De4sher you got it right. Dr. Sun is actually a Hakka, his mother tone is Hakka.
hakkawarrior 9 months ago
@ForwardIntent Agreed, Cantonese was around way before Mandarin was!
chinafirexo10 1 year ago
Cantonese lost to Mandarin by one vote when deciding which of the two were to be made the national language of China. Most of the founders of modern China were Cantonese speakers, like Sun Yat Sen.
ForwardIntent 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Create a profile and search a naughty lady mworld5.info
hwishmika 1 year ago
haha shes techincally wrong on the thank you do za is more for like when someone gives you a present or something very big. mhhh gouy is more of a comon thank you for small things like when someone opens the door for you :) yet she used it for please haha
CancorseTV1 1 year ago
@CancorseTV1 no she isn't it's basically the same word for it, mhhh gouy is like excuse me or something like that
Jendrax2006 1 year ago
@Jendrax2006 mhh gouy is thank you u can use it kinda for excuse me but it would be part of it rather then just the 2 words i doubt im wrong cause my parents are from hong kong and everytime i say mhh gouy when someone gives me a present would get scolded
CancorseTV1 1 year ago
please print these words. i have a hard time understanding this women under the music.
CupisHomines 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
shut the fuck up cantonese assholes. Your language sucks and fails!
darrens888 1 year ago
@darrens888 It's pretty successful in Hong Kong, you know, one of the leading financial hubs of East Asia and the home of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the busiest port in the world, with one of the world's highest GDP per capita and the nation-state with the highest average IQ in the world. Needless to say, the standard of living there is very high. And it's all Cantonese.
gariadara 1 year ago
i can't stand Cantonese because i know mandarin. it's quite annoying when certain sounds are so similar but just a bit different. it feels like as if someone is purposely mispronouncing the words (kinda of like how some Americans can't stand British accent, except even worse)
Casshyr 1 year ago
@Casshyr its the same thing for me from canto to mandarin since i speak cantonese most of time haha but it helps me learn mandarin :)
CancorseTV1 1 year ago
help
kong mei yaaa
i love chinese drama
kakitembak23 1 year ago
god cantonese is so much different than mandarin!
RichieRich1489 1 year ago
@RichieRich1489 And Taiwanese Mandarine is different than the Mainland Beijing dialect.
Evilenlil 1 year ago
Thats slow?? Sounded regular speed to me. Still OK vid though. Thankz.
TheEdumacator 1 year ago
Its not a good idea to put background music under these kind of clips...
PrinceBejita 1 year ago 25
@TheLegionsofChrist ..by weird noises, you mean pronounciation?
Totaly14 1 year ago
she's hot XD
OtuzBesAsker 1 year ago
you're so asian...
LSDcheeseburger 1 year ago
no one would say ng orn for good afternoon -.-. just "dim ar", or ...
irmb5teS 1 year ago
can someone tell me what "pok guy hat qua" is? it's cantonese btw
dracula1202 1 year ago
@dracula1202 it basically means "fuck u black guy"
MrDomosan 1 year ago
Every country has it own time line towards perfection. Since we don't all start at the same time, it is unfair to compare directly. On July 2, 1776, the US declared independence. 60 years later, US was still having slavery. Economy was unmentionable.
danielairy 1 year ago
@kienez China is easily divided before the communist government is formed. The is because of the crazy growth rate of Chinese population. It is common for Chinese to have 6 or more children back in time. As a result, in 1800s theres 4000 million people;1900s 8000 millions; the projection for 2000s would be 1.6 billion but thanks to one child policy, it is expected to be 1.4 billion in 2015. It is common for american to think that CPP is bad, but for Chinese, it is the best so far.
danielairy 1 year ago
The global way of azn communication that connects all is: xD
Chronos17 1 year ago
@Chronos17 i can't take anybody seriously who still uses azn. grow up
skibxskatic 1 year ago
@skibxskatic Haha... coming from someone who doesn't even capitalize sentences. Grow up. People use short forms everywhere.
Chronos17 1 year ago
There are so many dialects being used in China. Many Chinese have all made the efforts to learn how to speak Mandarin so the whole country can be united.
As long as Cantonese people are willing to learn Mandarin, I really have nothing to complain about.
They need to remember that Cantonese used to be regarded as cheap laborers in the US.
If China and Taiwan had never become powerful economic entities, Americans would continue to look down on the Chinese in the US.
ttiiyy 1 year ago
I prefer peter chao speaking cantonese!
Babyxoxoxoful 1 year ago 3
peter chao speaks cantonese
BASSPLAYA1112 1 year ago 60
@BASSPLAYA1112 so do i
ProdigyofHappiness 7 months ago
is taiwanese and mandarin same??
twinerds 1 year ago
@twinerds They are similar but not the same language.
yamazakiRyu33 1 year ago
Comment removed
Artharrex123 1 year ago
Comment removed
husohome 1 year ago
Comment removed
husohome 1 year ago
@Artharrex123 Taiwanse people speak Mandarin, Minnamnese, Hakanese and languages of indigenous tribes. Minnamnese is often referred to as Taiwanse, not Mandarin. People in Taiwan write in traditional Chinese characters, not an attempt to complicate the system but preservation of tradition. It is China that simplified the Chinese characters. Your last sentence might be offensive to a Taiwanese, so don't say that to a Taiwanese. Anyway... Cantonese sounds great in songs!!! (L)
husohome 1 year ago
For god sakes CHINESE ISN'T A LANGUAGE...Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai, and Vietnamese are.
Enemest 1 year ago
sounds very similar to vietnamese...
CannibalKev 1 year ago
@CannibalKev Cantonese is used a lot in vietnam too. Does it really sound similar?
yamazakiRyu33 1 year ago
Cantonese chulipi shukininotto
SAMMYMAN7777777 1 year ago
haha i can just image a load of people using "gau mang ah" to as for help during little incidents! seeing as it literally means "save my life"!
blixt619 1 year ago
lol my friend think it funny that i say "hello" for hi for cantonese =P
YourNaisho 1 year ago
i wonder if this is right or not, cause my friend, she speaks cantonese, says that when you speak to older people, you use "ni", and to ur friend or younger people, you use"lei". is that right?
and the video is very useful, thank you.
JessVu 1 year ago
@JessVu Wrong actually... the only "ni" particle in Cantonese is 呢, and this particle can also be pronounced as "ne", which is more common. It's not a term that means "you". For speaking to people, the correct term for "you" is "nei(你)", and for the purpose of showing respect, you use honourifics. "Lei" is so-called the lazy pronunciation of of "nei".
TaiGekTou 1 year ago
@TaiGekTou Oh there are simply too many lazy people in Singapore.I find jyuping translations all over saying 'nei' and people around me saying 'lei'.Thanks a lot!
igiveyougoodtime 1 year ago
@igiveyougoodtime These "lazy" people are everywhere, even in Hong Kong. Even myself... sometimes I say "lei" when I speak to quickly...
TaiGekTou 1 year ago
The "yes" and "no" phrases are tricky in Cantonese because you can't use "hai" and "mmm-hai" for every yes/no question. For example, "do you have a dog?", responding with a "hai" is strange. When asked, the question sounds like "do you have or do not have a dog?", so you would respond with "I don't have one" or "I have one" instead of a simple "hai" or "mmm-hai". There are a ton of questions that can't be answered with a simple yes/no...=\
dynamo116 1 year ago
@dynamo116 I agree with you. In my native language, we speak Hmong. It has many words that comes from both Cantonese and Mandarin. What you said about the "yes" and "no" meaning is absolutely true in my native language as well.
vangstaz 1 year ago
english word" HELLO" in cantonese = NAY HO,mandarin=NEI HO,potunghua=LEI HO. its kinda tricky ha?if u want to learn d language u should atleast have d endurance to twist tounge.
samanta1133 1 year ago
@samanta1133 nah, "hello" in mandarin (putonghua) is "ni hao".
ppw8626 1 year ago
@samanta1133 isnt hello in chinese " ni hao ma " ?
ianidinuse 1 year ago
@ianidinuse That's in mandarin
elainexinsane 1 year ago
@ianidinuse "ni hao ma? " is the mandarin pinyin.
yamazakiRyu33 1 year ago
i understand this but i speak my canto more different is it cuz i'm from mainland china 0.o
YourNaisho 1 year ago
Is this the version they speak n Vancouver BC?
ytsolarus 2 years ago
Lol... hi in cantonese is "nay ho"....
game2heart 2 years ago
in mandarin its pronounced ni hao and in cantonese its lei ho.
QuackersQ 2 years ago
@QuackersQ I know that. Lei or nay is appropriate. Kind of in-between sound.
game2heart 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
nao what? wtf she is talking about, u are going to break you tongue trying to spell it, fuck dat
Almarian4eg 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
stupid language tbh sounds like a murloc voice from wow :D
Almarian4eg 2 years ago
Explain to me how is a language stupid? It is a mode of communication, it's a tool for expression. It isn't made to sound "good". How stupid are you to assume that?
Then again, I don't expect much from you since you're making references to WOW for a real language. Pathetic.
Bioloser 2 years ago 48
@Bioloser It's also not made to be efficient or capable of expressing deep concepts. They lack nouns, they lack prepositions, they lack LOTS of things.
And they make up for it by having excess ways of referring to stuff that western culture doesn't give a fuck about. Don't be so closed minded to assume something CAN'T be worse for being different.
shaddowkarate 1 year ago
@shaddowkarate Not made to express deep concepts?
And yet, 71 million speak it daily and it is efficient enough for Hong Kong and Macau to sustain itself. Nay, even contributing to China's growth annually. You should realize on the other hand, by being capable of expressing "deep concepts" the language is further complicated, which really goes against the purpose of a language in the first place, which is used simply for communication.
Bioloser 1 year ago
wow!!!! u look like my friend isabel jia!
KristaTheSinga 2 years ago
Taiwanese or "Taiyu", usually refer to Hokkien spoken in Taiwan or some Minnan dialects. It is different from Mandarin and Cantonese.
benzvd 2 years ago
A very beautiful voice
MrOrbitum 2 years ago
It would be helpful and they were written as well./
Thanks :)
AjikanPanda 2 years ago
Yeah, I think it too!!
PostihBorka 2 years ago
Gou mang ah! :3 lovely lovely lovely nice to hear people can speak both chinese and english properly :D
MissyxAkunai 2 years ago 3
great! A lot of useful and practical Cantonese words and expressions. It would be helpful if they were written down, too.
crazyhanyu 2 years ago
Omfg, 0:28 ! She spoke german,
"genau so" = "just like"
That's so cool (: I wonder how many languages she knows.
MatMorrisInGermany 2 years ago
How'd you hear that? o_O
yondaime297 2 years ago
I'm an exchange student in germany from new york. Therefore when i'm watching a video that's based in english and i hear german, i notice it right away. ;P
MatMorrisInGermany 2 years ago
she says 'and also'
bigoulpuzylipz 2 years ago
@MatMorrisInGermany Sorry but she says "Can also"
Shentukai 2 years ago
That doesn't sound like "can also" at all.
If you know german, you'd know what I'm talking about.
MatMorrisInGermany 2 years ago
wow your Englsih is so good! 5 stars!
hoholilimama 2 years ago
this clip is VERY VERY misleading, she was referring to HK-cantonese. but the Ha-lo and byyye that mentions was more like the awkard chinese accent that has been fused into the word "hello" and "bye" in english, they are hardly chinese at all. more like commonly used english then so-called "cantonese"
blvk3 2 years ago
Well, there are lots of words borrowed from English in Cantonese. English also borrowed words from lots of different languages - like "ketchup" (or "catsap") from Cantonese, for example. That's a creative part of human language.
crazyhanyu 2 years ago
@blvk3 <<< He's right. In pure Cantonese, we don't use "Hello" or "Bye" directly in the English form. We use "nai ho" or "joi geen".
game2heart 2 years ago
please do, I'm in serious need of some more youtube clips with cantonese :)
filmjolk 2 years ago
maybe i should start posting cantonese lessons on youtube too
nickz83 2 years ago
i agree with what others are saying - the bkg music is taking over the tutorial and it needs to be lowered way more, or just omitted
mercatorblue 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
she has ugly crossed eyes
VictorTranVlogs 2 years ago
I m confused
hdenyz 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
LOL cantonese sounds retarded
GuardianDemonX 2 years ago
so does english
speedstakerguy 2 years ago
yeah what grimbitter said about the background music
carlosmontoyay 2 years ago
The background music makes it difficult to hear some of what she's saying. Why did you guys include background music on a language tutorial?
grimbitter 2 years ago
easier way to say my name is - ngoh giu.....
ash19898989 2 years ago
lol she said help(go mang ah) this is not right, its actually save my life(go mang ah)
lazyazndummy 2 years ago
Well, the formal and correct pronunciation of "you" is "Nay", never "Lay". (You may try to look up "你" from any online dictionary then you'll see the phonetics is "Nei").
When you hear people who read it as "Lay", we call that a "lazy pronunciation", which also happens commonly on many other words, is a phenomenon/mistake of the colloquial Cantonese. It's generally acceptable, but better not to have it in speech or on the stage. Hope this helps, I'm a local Hongkee.
a55697423 2 years ago 2
yea, 'Nei' quite formal
ash19898989 2 years ago
You are a Hong Konger in English :)
rillloudmother 2 years ago
thanks man, I have attempted to learn some cantonese several times, but the lay nay thing stumped me every time, the books say Nay but the people say Lay
carlosmontoyay 2 years ago
it's like an inbetweeny...tip of your tongue touches the roof of your mouth but just behind the teeth.
hope that helps :)
blueberrycupcakes 2 years ago
haha my mother togue is taiwanness and mandarin,and i learn english and epanish as my foreign language
popshvt 2 years ago
auntie kopi kau plz
hanzahar 2 years ago
i have a question about cantonese. I'll be going to HK in a few weeks so I wanna know as much as I can. But why is it that sometimes I hear "lay" for 'you' and other times "nay"? As in when she says lay ho ma and nay ho ma.
anubistiger 2 years ago
it`s actually nay ho ma. Lay is also another word for to come. hope that helps. ^^
teddieLuVe897 2 years ago
i pronounce it 'lay'...but i think 'nay' is the correct way.
the 'lay' teddieluve897 is talking about is actually pronounced different (your voice goes down)
weirdgirl825 2 years ago
thanks! because i always hear it "lay ho ma" never "nay ho ma" when hearing others speak. Im heading to HK in a few days so you answered just in time!
anubistiger 2 years ago
"Lay" and "nay" are both valid. However, one of them is dialect. In Guangzhou, you'd hear people use "lay", and in Hong Kong, you'd hear people use "nay". If you're just visiting, you should probably use the one that the natives use. :]
carazay2nightflier 2 years ago
are you sure? isnt it the other way around? ;)
Raychanen 2 years ago
Yes. :] My parents are from Guangzhou, and they use "lay". However, Sam Hui and Anita Mui's songs use "nay", and I'm pretty sure they're from Hong Kong. :D
carazay2nightflier 2 years ago
thats odd, i hear everybody say lay when im in hk and im from hk aswell ^^
Raychanen 2 years ago
Comment removed
truazin 2 years ago
Comment removed
truazin 2 years ago
KAYDENKOLDY::::::::shut the fck off !racism..she on this video to show people some Cantonese not for you to value her face...ok big head?
truazin 2 years ago
chinese includes many languages including mandarin and cantonese. although mandarin is the most popular chinese language, it is not the only one!! there are many dialects and languages within the chinese language.
doroshiix33 2 years ago
chinese is not directly point to MANDARIN!!!
cantonese can also be CHINESE!!!
kwanyeung20 2 years ago 2
Isn't Cantonese a type of Chinese?
ynonbo 2 years ago 8
@ynonbo Cantonese is a older version of Chinese, manderin is the newer version of chinese.
hepalee 1 year ago
@ynonbo Cantonese is the older version of chinese and manderin in the newer version of chinese, if you can understand Cantonese then you ould have a easier time learning manderin.
hepalee 1 year ago
@hepalee ...what? hell no... cantonese and mandarin are both chinese, but from different parts of china. They are known as dialects. Mandarin is used in beijing while cantonese is used in guangdong. The chinese govt wanted a standardized form of chinese to communicate, thus they started voting. Mandarin wins, thus it is more commonly used in china, it is also called "putong hua (普通话）, however, cantonese is still used in Hongkong, guangdong and even by chinese in european countries.
WatashiNoYakusoku 1 year ago
@WatashiNoYakusoku
well i never knew, i never payed attaction in chinese school and thats why i got left behind for 5 years in 1st grade
hepalee 1 year ago
@ynonbo
Bioloser 1 year ago
@ynonbo I agree, but some Cantonese in the US try to equate Cantonese with Chinese. That is just wrong.
The official language of China is Mandarin Chinese.
Cantonese need to think about the interests of all the other Chinese using their own dialects.
If everybody insists on speaking his or her own dialect, China will be divided.
A divided country can never earn any respect from anyone.
ttiiyy 1 year ago
@ttiiyy I do not agree with this statement. They could have abolish that "One Country One Language" policy, which is very insulting to other region that speak their own dialect of millions years of history where Mandarin is just around 800 years history. They could have done better by implementing another policy that preserve that culture of particular regions while maintaining Mandarin as a form communication in China. Will this easily divided a country? Then Communist government is epicfail
kienez 1 year ago
@ttiiyy But we also have to respect all different dialects and that includes Cantonese. Just because one speaks his/her own dialect does not mean that that will divide the country, and in fact many people continue to learn and speak their own dialects. While it must be conceded that Mandarin is the official language of China, this does not render all other dialects invalid and defined as something other than Chinese, when in fact it originated from China.
ENiTiscool 1 year ago
@ENiTiscool *they
ENiTiscool 1 year ago
@ENiTiscool Why did you use the word concede? Is it really that painful to learn Mandarin? Give me a break.
It's really difficult to promote the Chinese language. If all Chinese people want to refer their own dialects as simply Chinese, people around the world will never be able to figure out what the hell we people are talking about.
ttiiyy 1 year ago
@ttiiyy The question should be... does homogeneity trump diversity?
ENiTiscool 1 year ago
@ttiiyy With all due respect, I think that Mandarin is a very graceful language and that it is beneficial to learn it. However, it should not be the only language we focus on learning. Having more than one language under our belts is often advantageous.
Also, why shouldn't people refer to their own dialects as Chinese? If further clarification is needed, what's the problem with calling Mandarin Mandarin and calling Cantonese Cantonese? As far as I can tell, there is no mixing up the two.
ENiTiscool 1 year ago
@ENiTiscool Da kann ich nur ſagen: VIELFALT VOR EINFALT :DD
HamitVucutcu 1 year ago
@ENiTiscool
every language has its dialects, that are more or less inteligible. Mandarin dialects could be called different languages because of the lack of intelligibility. They are all cool, and teach us a lot of stuff about how languages work and evolve. I speak romanian, and am proud of my local dialect which has special features in it.
And i also think one should speak his local dialect in one's area, know the country's language fluently, and know one other language as well :)
De4sher 1 year ago
@ttiiyy Before 1997, Hong Kong was not part of China. Most immigrants that came to the United States were of Cantonese origins. That is why Cantonese is more popular than Mandarin in America. I think a statement like "A divided country can never earn any respect from anyone" is crazy, seeing how 99% of our items are "Made in China".
Japcat21 1 year ago
@ynonbo It's a dialect,not a 'type' of Chinese.
Idreamtobreakaway 1 year ago
@ynonbo lol yeah it is
XOSiren18XO 1 year ago
lol , help. thats more informal and that would be for calling for help as if you're in a life & death situation .. if you're asking someone for help you wouldnt say that ..
LiSaSuKz 2 years ago
Uhm, Hello is, nay ho .. not nay hoe ma , because ma is a question word.. which would change the whole phrase to how are you -_________-
LiSaSuKz 2 years ago 4
u can also say "wai?" for hello
ihatefasionandmiley1 2 years ago 2
thats when your on the fone..
SillyMooSam 2 years ago
UGG i forgot about that lol. there was this chinese movie that laways says wai only on the fone UGG and thanxs for reminding me XD
ihatefasionandmiley1 2 years ago
is use it on msn and all games i play with people speaking cantonese on
telituna 2 years ago