@BAIYUE1 they are provinces of china, the national language of china is mandorin. End of story :). Cantonese , shanghainese are all dialects spocken by local populace.
@helloyuhaosun Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, and the others are all separate languages. By definition if they were dialects, it would mean a Mandarin person could understand Cantonese. And obviously they can't understand it at all. A century ago it was Cantonese people who decided the official langauge would be Mandarin because they wanted to choose the one spoken by more people. Boy would they be turning in their graves if they knew their decision led to such 瞧不起别人的北方土包子
@hoisan1 google it, shanghai is still the most populated city in the world. and google cantonese, everyone agrees its a dialect. Its just cantonese people ehre being buttmad that they speak a dialect, not a language.
@helloyuhaosun If Cantonese is a dialect, then Mandarin speaker must surely understand it without any problem, but they don't. Their Grammar and tones are too different to be called one language. This is as if English speaker call German or Swedish as dialect. Of course we belong to Sino-Tibetan languages, but that doesn't mean, that we are just one language.
@helloyuhaosun I don't want to have rage at anyone. I just want to make things clear. Mandarin people who would understand a little Cantonese are the ones who have contact with Canto people or heard Canto before, otherwise they understand almost nothing. This is as if English speaker understand some sentences or words in other Germanic languages.
@SaieyOrZoiying lmao, if mando people understood cantonese perfectly, it wouldnt be a dialect would it? ^^ i dont deal with cantonese people, yet i understadn it perfectly. cantonese is not a separate language. comparing it to english~ german is very poor. english and germans dont share the same set of characters. cantonese is esentially manderin spoken more dramatically
@helloyuhaosun once there were Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese, which share the same set of characters as China, but since they have their own writing, the difference are clear. If you see Cantonese and Mandarin written in romanisation form you will notice the difference. Most people would say, that they are very different.
@helloyuhaosun Yeah, it's very difficult to find languages to compare with Mandarin and Cantonese. I choose English, because it's a Germanic language spoken by many. Would I choose German compared with Dutch or Norwegian compared to Danish they would be too close. I never say if mando people would understand cantonese perfectly, but most will understand very very less.
@helloyuhaosun You mean you understand it, because you read chinese texts written by cantonese? Then this was not spoken cantonese, only the written formal form. But if you really understand something, it would be great! Holang ney zan hai yaau tinfan hoyi hok dou gwongdungwa ge.^^
@SaieyOrZoiying Mandarine did not became the government language of all of China, until the Chin denisity, suprisingly, it was actually chosen by the people of China, instead of the Emperor. The Emperor, propose a unify language for all of China and let the people nominate it and then vote for it. In the end, out of all language that was been nominated, Mandarine got the highest vote, thus became the official government language ever since., interesting ha? :)
@juiweiYang2000 thanks for writing to me. I don't want to reject Mandarin, but these times it seems Mainlander want to kill our motherlanguage Cantonese, which belongs to Chinese goods. We can't lose more languages in China, because languages are important to bring more ideas, which is good for the future. I really think of an unification, too. But why must Mainlander hate Cantonese? It is a Chinese language, too.
@juiweiYang2000 I know what you're talking about, before Hong Kong became part of the PRC, Cantonese is a highly regarded language, on the international economic front, but after 1999, Cantonese's importance is been replace by Mandarine on that front and lesser and lesser forigner learn it. It would be a pitty, if eventually, even people from HK forget how to speak Cantonese, although I don't see that happening. But once again. I ain't from Hong Kong, so what would I know?
@juiweiYang2000 PS: honestly, I don't think HK should have become part of PRC. UK sign their treaty with the Chin government, so, it should be return to that government also. So, HK shouold have become an independent contry known as the e.g. "Chin Republic", after 1999. But anyway, that is all in the past now. Although the Chin's flag look pretty cool, it has a cool dragon on it, their national athum on the other hand, is god dame lame.(Sound like a chicken getting kill)
@helloyuhaosun Also, throughout modern Chinese history all of the great leaders were non-Mandarin. Sun Yat-Sen was Hakka from Canton Province. Chiang Kai-Shek was Cantonese. All the greats were non-Mandarin, yet they were the ones that chose Mandarin as the official language. Even though none of them spoke it, they did it in hopes of establishing a widespread langauge. Now all the Mandarin speakers prance around thinking they're the greatest, when they don't even know the history
@helloyuhaosun Mandarin is only useful in Northern China, and the only large city there is Beijing. Outside of Northern China, Mandarin is either uselesss or if you speak it you will be unaccepted into the in-group of the locals. Cantonese is useful throughout all of Canton province as well as Chinese communities in Vietnam, America, Britain, South America, etc. etc. Mandarin is just a poor peasant language whose speakers have an inferiority complex and thus push it on others.推粵廢普
@hoisan1 only large city there being beijing, good joke. Shanghai is the most populated city in the world. but it doesnt cut your "large city" does it? Cantonese is a dying dialect better left for those background speakers who still speak it. Its useless to teach to children
@helloyuhaosun Shanghai is not Northern China and it is not a Mandarin city. Shanghainese people speak Shanghainese, and it is south of the Yangtze river which is Southern China. And recently Chengdu took over as the largest city. Chengdu is also a Southern Chinese non-Mandarin city. South China should just govern itself so the Northern Chinese can ruin themselves and not bring everyone else down with them. The south is the most prosperous: Shanghai, Canton, Hong Kong, Fuzhou, etc
@helloyuhaosun That is why all the people from Mandarin-speaking provinces move to the South -- they either go to Shanghai, Canton, Hong Kong, Macau, Chengdu, Fuzhou, somewhere in the South. Mandarin borrows so much from Cantonese anyway. 買單 comes straight from Cantonese. "没有人说结账"Same with 蛋撻 and 咖喱 and much more. Mandarin has to borrow Cantonese words for modern things because Cantonese people modernized before Mandarins. Example: Hong Kong. 哎真係冇咩文化嗰啲北佬...亂講嘢都唔知自己喺度講嘅嘢有咩意思.
Respect. She has a beautiful soul. You can just see how much love and nurture she put into learning a different language. It takes a truly remarkable human do it with such precision and art.
I am not Cantonese nor am I Mandarin, I'm Teochew, but I find both languages beautiful in their own ways especially because they're uniquely different. &If you guys are going to be fucking immature as to which one is better or not & ARGUE then shame on you, everybody's opinions are different so ignore the ones that differ from yours. If people are leaving harsh, immature comments just IGNORE them, they'll learn to grow up. So can we just enjoy the video?
@KoolJayJ which useless foreigners are you referring to in the US? the asian immigrants you're trying to defend? i don't even get what you're trying to say here.
and you're right, there are many asians who speak english perfectly, but english is much easier to learn than chinese. there are letters in english that you can use to sound out words, but there are over 80,000 characters in chinese that need to be MEMORIZED and several different dialects.
@0hi I wholeheartedly agree with you. As someone who is fluent with the English language, I find learning Chinese is exceptionally more difficult than learning other languages.
@0hi oh fuck of with your liberal bullshit, white people mainly the men view asia as there own personal playground, fuck you ALL!!! Get the hell out of our fucking country
@KoolJayJ i don't even know what you're even talking about anymore. i thought we were just talking about this girl and her talent, but you obviously turned this into a mess. you really need to read up on your facts if you're going to say white men view asia as their own personal playground. last time i checked, it was the US that's in debt to china, not the other way around. if anything, the US has become asia's playground.
@0hi I believe we should all learn Arabic. It's the language of the future since there are 2 Billion Muslims and Indians and GROWING by the day. And I don't see them learning Chinese ever. They're mostly learning English. It's estimated that within 80 years most of the Earths population will be Arabs.. while Asian nations are already getting old and dying.
@KoolJayJ you have some deepseeded issues man. Chinese is a lot harder to learn. You have to memorize the sounds and characters. You can't sound out words.
@KoolJayJ Nobody is praising her what are you talking about? First of all, how many people in Hong Kong even knows who she is? How many people in China knows who she is? Not many. Nor do they care.
There are a lot of Caucasians & African-Americans who can speak really good Chinese. Some Europeans like the Germans even live & study in China. One day the Chinese language will be as famous as UK/US English! Or who knows, it might dominate the world. And mind you, Australia's economy is still booming. So there's no reason for her to learn Chinese just to survive. Please don't be jealous that people chose Chinese instead of your unknown 'T' language.
@katmandu2258 : May I say you are a fracking ignorant and IDIOT BETCH! Do you even know the her background? I bet not! Her family arrived in Hong Kong as missionaries and she learned Cantonese from her mother and many Hong Kong Chinese friends. Sgraduated from the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts majoring in Musical Theatre Dance. She received The Society of APA Scholarship, Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation Scholarships (Outstanding Awards) and Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship.
@ilovetrunghoa Keep in mind our Chinese language is not yet becomes an international language like English, may be one day...For a white girl like her to sing/talk in Cantonese like us is still rare not to mention she got a good voice & pretty face. I enjoyed it.
I am so tired of seeing this pathetic uneducated "language" debate spread all over youtube. Having personal opinions are pointless when you refute reality.
@violentvictor is correct now everyone stfu about this forever
@HazelnutLattee Chinese isn't only Cantonese and Mandarin...you know that there are WAY many different dialects? Did you know that our dialect has WAY longer history than both mandarin and Cantonese? When we all had to learn Mandarin, nobody complained and we all kept our dialect while learning Mandarin, why is it so hard for Cantonese people while the rest of the country unified our spoken language? Is it cause Cantonese people are special? Isn't everyone special? Why only you guys complain?
@wnide what the? i think i didn't complain about chinese or cantonese or even mandarin. . i just say east or west. . is that a problem? i think you don't understand what i mean . .sigh . .
@anythingnew - Cantonese is older than Mandarin? I didn't know that. Where was cantonese first spoken then? What part of china? I have read that there is an old version of cantonese in China and there's the much newer Hong Kong slang style.
@anythingnew - Interesting fact. Thanks. And no, I meant that there is 2 different cantonese dialects. The HK one and an older one spoken in China somewhere. Apparently if someone from the mainland speaking the old cantonese spoke to someone from HK speaking the HK cantonese, they wouldn't understand each other. Just stuff I read.
Please, Cantonese was and is spoken in Canton (Now called Guangdong) before China was even united. The reason why people in Canton now speak Mandarin is because the officials wanted China to be even more united than during the Qin Dynasty (in which the Emperor united our writing and finished the Great Wall)
Mandarin originated from the west of China, and was only favoured by the Beijing court very near the end on China's monarchy, because it sounded "nicer".
@hantaehieu1 What are u talkin about? "Cantonese is language and Cantonese is not dialect" Cantonese is part of chinese dialect and Hell yeah cantonese is a languange...no need explanation about that...idiot
anything one put their mind to, one can accomplish, whether is learning a another language or playing the piano or some other talent. so to compare her with other cantonese people is meaningless. she may have started early in life and has a natural gift or ability to distinguish the various tones of this particular chinese dialect.
@tweet918 Many white people grow up in Hong Kong never knowing how to speak the language. Corinna's canto is surprising not just for it's fluency but for her near lack of accent.
You're not any smarter or dumber rather people call it a language or dialect. It is what it is. Cantonese is Cantonese. So stop bickering over this and enjoy her singing b/c she's hot. :-)
Actually, whether a language is considered a language or a dialect has to do with political and historical developments, and also linguistic features. The definition of a language is really ambiguous. For example, the national languages of Portugal and Spain could be considered dialects because they are mutually intelligible. And yet they are considered separate languages to define the national language of their countries.
Likewise, the "dialects" of China are considered as dialects to unify them all under one language name because of political reasons. So even if they are linguistically unintelligible, unrelated and different they are still considered Chinese. For those that say Cantonese is a language, it is. And those that say it is a dialect of Chinese, it is under the Chinese idea of one unified language. It depends on what you want it to actually be, a language or a dialect, neither one is wrong.
Cantonese is a dialect. HK use it to teach and it became widely use like a language but still a dialect. Chinese has many dialects such as Hokkien (Fu Jian), Hakka (Ke Jia), Teochew (Chao Zhou) and more...including Cantonese from Canton. There is only 1 language for Chinese which is Mandarin. Cheers
Its a case of Man bites Dog news.So its a kind of big deal for any Whites to speak Chinese and more so if it in chinese dialect such as Cantonese.With China getting stronger by the day esp economically, there are many Western CEOs taking up Mandarin so they can impressed their Chinese clients. And this is important when it comes to do business with mainland Chinese as by being able to speak their language,you are treated with less suspicious and respected.Thus gaining their trust !!
When a Chinese speaks perfect English with British or American accent, it's because either he was born there or he admires western culture to its core. When an Australian Caucasian speaks fluent Cantonese, either she was born in HK AND can stand people's curious glances everyday on the streets so she is still living there; or, she might just try to learn the language and be a spy to the Australian government, lol!
damn so nice
HKZtyle13oy 2 days ago
She looks stunning hot, in white
juiweiYang2000 4 days ago
racists they only clap when the male chineese kid is singing. 44:0 lol :D
hazes45 6 days ago
did any1 notice how high his pants are wtf? lol@
tonychet2s 6 days ago
its funny coz no1 cares about cantonese guy speaking english lol
tonychet2s 6 days ago
What song are they singing?
JackInTheBoxP 2 weeks ago
@JackInTheBoxP in pinying
JackInTheBoxP 2 weeks ago
why learn canto, useless language, might as well as learn mando
helloyuhaosun 3 weeks ago
@helloyuhaosun How is it useless? I don't think I'll be using much mando in Hong Kong.
JFGBD 3 weeks ago
@JFGBD lol, canto is merely a dilect of china. Learning the national language is so much more important
helloyuhaosun 3 weeks ago
@helloyuhaosun eh, but she was raised in Hong Kong so whatever.
JFGBD 3 weeks ago
@helloyuhaosun
Cantonese is language, not dialect
Hongkong, Guangdong,and Macau are all speak Cantonese.
BAIYUE1 2 weeks ago
@BAIYUE1 they are provinces of china, the national language of china is mandorin. End of story :). Cantonese , shanghainese are all dialects spocken by local populace.
helloyuhaosun 2 weeks ago
@helloyuhaosun
I know, they are province
But Cantonese is language, not dialect
BAIYUE1 2 weeks ago
@helloyuhaosun Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, and the others are all separate languages. By definition if they were dialects, it would mean a Mandarin person could understand Cantonese. And obviously they can't understand it at all. A century ago it was Cantonese people who decided the official langauge would be Mandarin because they wanted to choose the one spoken by more people. Boy would they be turning in their graves if they knew their decision led to such 瞧不起别人的北方土包子
hoisan1 2 weeks ago
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hoisan1 2 weeks ago
@hoisan1 google it, shanghai is still the most populated city in the world. and google cantonese, everyone agrees its a dialect. Its just cantonese people ehre being buttmad that they speak a dialect, not a language.
helloyuhaosun 2 weeks ago
@helloyuhaosun If Cantonese is a dialect, then Mandarin speaker must surely understand it without any problem, but they don't. Their Grammar and tones are too different to be called one language. This is as if English speaker call German or Swedish as dialect. Of course we belong to Sino-Tibetan languages, but that doesn't mean, that we are just one language.
SaieyOrZoiying 6 days ago in playlist People of the World speaking Cantonese
@SaieyOrZoiying lmao at this infinate rage at me :L for like a comment a month ago lmao, and mando people can understand canto ^^
helloyuhaosun 6 days ago
@helloyuhaosun I don't want to have rage at anyone. I just want to make things clear. Mandarin people who would understand a little Cantonese are the ones who have contact with Canto people or heard Canto before, otherwise they understand almost nothing. This is as if English speaker understand some sentences or words in other Germanic languages.
SaieyOrZoiying 5 days ago
@SaieyOrZoiying lmao, if mando people understood cantonese perfectly, it wouldnt be a dialect would it? ^^ i dont deal with cantonese people, yet i understadn it perfectly. cantonese is not a separate language. comparing it to english~ german is very poor. english and germans dont share the same set of characters. cantonese is esentially manderin spoken more dramatically
helloyuhaosun 5 days ago
@helloyuhaosun once there were Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese, which share the same set of characters as China, but since they have their own writing, the difference are clear. If you see Cantonese and Mandarin written in romanisation form you will notice the difference. Most people would say, that they are very different.
SaieyOrZoiying 1 day ago
@SaieyOrZoiying i am chinese, i can read both with ease :) they are pretty much the same
helloyuhaosun 1 day ago
@helloyuhaosun Yeah, it's very difficult to find languages to compare with Mandarin and Cantonese. I choose English, because it's a Germanic language spoken by many. Would I choose German compared with Dutch or Norwegian compared to Danish they would be too close. I never say if mando people would understand cantonese perfectly, but most will understand very very less.
SaieyOrZoiying 1 day ago
@helloyuhaosun You mean you understand it, because you read chinese texts written by cantonese? Then this was not spoken cantonese, only the written formal form. But if you really understand something, it would be great! Holang ney zan hai yaau tinfan hoyi hok dou gwongdungwa ge.^^
SaieyOrZoiying 1 day ago
@SaieyOrZoiying Mandarine did not became the government language of all of China, until the Chin denisity, suprisingly, it was actually chosen by the people of China, instead of the Emperor. The Emperor, propose a unify language for all of China and let the people nominate it and then vote for it. In the end, out of all language that was been nominated, Mandarine got the highest vote, thus became the official government language ever since., interesting ha? :)
juiweiYang2000 5 hours ago
@juiweiYang2000 thanks for writing to me. I don't want to reject Mandarin, but these times it seems Mainlander want to kill our motherlanguage Cantonese, which belongs to Chinese goods. We can't lose more languages in China, because languages are important to bring more ideas, which is good for the future. I really think of an unification, too. But why must Mainlander hate Cantonese? It is a Chinese language, too.
SaieyOrZoiying 2 hours ago
@juiweiYang2000 I know what you're talking about, before Hong Kong became part of the PRC, Cantonese is a highly regarded language, on the international economic front, but after 1999, Cantonese's importance is been replace by Mandarine on that front and lesser and lesser forigner learn it. It would be a pitty, if eventually, even people from HK forget how to speak Cantonese, although I don't see that happening. But once again. I ain't from Hong Kong, so what would I know?
juiweiYang2000 1 hour ago
@juiweiYang2000 PS: honestly, I don't think HK should have become part of PRC. UK sign their treaty with the Chin government, so, it should be return to that government also. So, HK shouold have become an independent contry known as the e.g. "Chin Republic", after 1999. But anyway, that is all in the past now. Although the Chin's flag look pretty cool, it has a cool dragon on it, their national athum on the other hand, is god dame lame.(Sound like a chicken getting kill)
juiweiYang2000 1 hour ago
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@helloyuhaosun Also, throughout modern Chinese history all of the great leaders were non-Mandarin. Sun Yat-Sen was Hakka from Canton Province. Chiang Kai-Shek was Cantonese. All the greats were non-Mandarin, yet they were the ones that chose Mandarin as the official language. Even though none of them spoke it, they did it in hopes of establishing a widespread langauge. Now all the Mandarin speakers prance around thinking they're the greatest, when they don't even know the history
hoisan1 2 weeks ago
@helloyuhaosun Mandarin is only useful in Northern China, and the only large city there is Beijing. Outside of Northern China, Mandarin is either uselesss or if you speak it you will be unaccepted into the in-group of the locals. Cantonese is useful throughout all of Canton province as well as Chinese communities in Vietnam, America, Britain, South America, etc. etc. Mandarin is just a poor peasant language whose speakers have an inferiority complex and thus push it on others.推粵廢普
hoisan1 2 weeks ago
@hoisan1 only large city there being beijing, good joke. Shanghai is the most populated city in the world. but it doesnt cut your "large city" does it? Cantonese is a dying dialect better left for those background speakers who still speak it. Its useless to teach to children
helloyuhaosun 2 weeks ago
@helloyuhaosun Shanghai is not Northern China and it is not a Mandarin city. Shanghainese people speak Shanghainese, and it is south of the Yangtze river which is Southern China. And recently Chengdu took over as the largest city. Chengdu is also a Southern Chinese non-Mandarin city. South China should just govern itself so the Northern Chinese can ruin themselves and not bring everyone else down with them. The south is the most prosperous: Shanghai, Canton, Hong Kong, Fuzhou, etc
hoisan1 2 weeks ago
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hoisan1 2 weeks ago
@helloyuhaosun That is why all the people from Mandarin-speaking provinces move to the South -- they either go to Shanghai, Canton, Hong Kong, Macau, Chengdu, Fuzhou, somewhere in the South. Mandarin borrows so much from Cantonese anyway. 買單 comes straight from Cantonese. "没有人说结账"Same with 蛋撻 and 咖喱 and much more. Mandarin has to borrow Cantonese words for modern things because Cantonese people modernized before Mandarins. Example: Hong Kong. 哎真係冇咩文化嗰啲北佬...亂講嘢都唔知自己喺度講嘅嘢有咩意思.
hoisan1 2 weeks ago
WOW, I'm very surprised... :)
suzyjonas 4 weeks ago
i think she is chinese but dyed her hair brown plus some make up...bam, she look aussie:P:P:P
mtube620 1 month ago
wow I can say for sure Cantonese is the tougher one to learn and speak fluently. she's great at it
watsondnet 1 month ago
This vid is a favorite on Paraguay
dwinkinney37e 1 month ago
lol
kochabi2006 1 month ago
l like this girl very much
speak cantonese so well
Mcnap 1 month ago
Dam cool!!!!
dinocook84 1 month ago
Respect. She has a beautiful soul. You can just see how much love and nurture she put into learning a different language. It takes a truly remarkable human do it with such precision and art.
rosterchange 1 month ago 3
@rosterchange Funny, actually she is a white Cantonese, she is born and grew up in Hong Kong, so Cantonese is kind of her first language. :)
juiweiYang2000 5 hours ago
Learn both!!
KpopJANGG 1 month ago
wow how can she not have an accent? or minimal accent? that is so impressive!
kyma343 1 month ago
I like both Cantonese and Mandarin. They are both very unique languages.
dlobrown8888 2 months ago
@dlobrown8888 As for the Mandarin Chinese prefer the system used in Taiwan which was once used in mainland China too.
dlobrown8888 2 months ago
WOW. AWESOME. (Y)
CsiMiamiLover09 2 months ago
holy crap she sings so fluently.
DFrizzleNizzle 2 months ago
Can everybody just calm their damn tits?
I am not Cantonese nor am I Mandarin, I'm Teochew, but I find both languages beautiful in their own ways especially because they're uniquely different. &If you guys are going to be fucking immature as to which one is better or not & ARGUE then shame on you, everybody's opinions are different so ignore the ones that differ from yours. If people are leaving harsh, immature comments just IGNORE them, they'll learn to grow up. So can we just enjoy the video?
TheChubbyJenny 2 months ago
This video went viral on Peru
freddymathis820 2 months ago
They have such amazing voices!
blackharu159 3 months ago
OMGGGGG
shinlovestellar 3 months ago
the girl is pretty ... and im amazed with her cantoness so fluent
livia2081 3 months ago
Yes pump that aussie pussy " Hut Yee HOng"
thatsit07 3 months ago
Loi Ye Fong Cheung by William So and Corinna Chamberlain
jamespohh 3 months ago
Are they dating?
tempsfuit 3 months ago
OMG i almost thought she's a HKer that went and do some really good costmetic surgury and become a white girl!! absolutely amazing!!!
skynie09 3 months ago
without watching the video, I can't tell this is Australian singing the song even though I don't understand cantonese
thrillcka1 3 months ago
better than some other Hong Kong female singers when they sing in live
carman95 3 months ago 21
@carman95 except the HK entertainment industry is such a joke now compared to 20 years ago. Its not just a joke, its actually embarrassing.
drf7at1 3 months ago
omg she sings so good
carman95 3 months ago
Remember this name Karina Chamberlain
Potomacstud 3 months ago
Impressive , astounded , totally floored by amazement
Potomacstud 3 months ago
Damn...I would be so shocked if some white chick spoke in Cantonese to me -__-
lehvak8567658 3 months ago 5
teach me cantonese gurl....
MrAimlesssoul 4 months ago
Some of our local singers (idol) should shame on their voices.
Gertender 4 months ago
oh great, pretty soon china is going to turn into another fucked up cesspool full of useless foreigners like what US is today
why are we asians so easily succumb to worshipping white people? Especially if they took the time to learn our langauge??
There are countless asians who speak/sing in perfect english yet you don't see whiteys worshipping them or giving them a record deal
KoolJayJ 4 months ago
@KoolJayJ which useless foreigners are you referring to in the US? the asian immigrants you're trying to defend? i don't even get what you're trying to say here.
and you're right, there are many asians who speak english perfectly, but english is much easier to learn than chinese. there are letters in english that you can use to sound out words, but there are over 80,000 characters in chinese that need to be MEMORIZED and several different dialects.
so yes, this girl deserves to be praised.
0hi 4 months ago
@0hi I wholeheartedly agree with you. As someone who is fluent with the English language, I find learning Chinese is exceptionally more difficult than learning other languages.
applepielicious 4 months ago
@applepielicious thanks! i'm glad someone here makes sense.
0hi 4 months ago
@0hi oh fuck of with your liberal bullshit, white people mainly the men view asia as there own personal playground, fuck you ALL!!! Get the hell out of our fucking country
KoolJayJ 4 months ago
@KoolJayJ i don't even know what you're even talking about anymore. i thought we were just talking about this girl and her talent, but you obviously turned this into a mess. you really need to read up on your facts if you're going to say white men view asia as their own personal playground. last time i checked, it was the US that's in debt to china, not the other way around. if anything, the US has become asia's playground.
0hi 4 months ago 21
@0hi I believe we should all learn Arabic. It's the language of the future since there are 2 Billion Muslims and Indians and GROWING by the day. And I don't see them learning Chinese ever. They're mostly learning English. It's estimated that within 80 years most of the Earths population will be Arabs.. while Asian nations are already getting old and dying.
Asiats1 3 months ago
@KoolJayJ you have some deepseeded issues man. Chinese is a lot harder to learn. You have to memorize the sounds and characters. You can't sound out words.
luf4rall 3 months ago
@KoolJayJ Nobody is praising her what are you talking about? First of all, how many people in Hong Kong even knows who she is? How many people in China knows who she is? Not many. Nor do they care.
LifeFirst 4 months ago
There are a lot of Caucasians & African-Americans who can speak really good Chinese. Some Europeans like the Germans even live & study in China. One day the Chinese language will be as famous as UK/US English! Or who knows, it might dominate the world. And mind you, Australia's economy is still booming. So there's no reason for her to learn Chinese just to survive. Please don't be jealous that people chose Chinese instead of your unknown 'T' language.
hybridtigershark 5 months ago
The guy whos singing on the stage is so damn ugly....
skychallenger 5 months ago
她並不是唯一在港出生長大的白人,Island School,KG 5,等都有幾千洋學生.
識講廣東粗口媽人的就多,能講一口地道HK話的有幾個.那時洋人為主他們不願學也不願講,他們認為自已是過客,根本不願意講廣東話.CORINNA這一輩又改變了,她認為香港可以作為她長遠發展生活之地.可見HK有一定條件吸引力.最近的菲庸事件也反影出HK對外國人都有一定吸引力的.她巳成年回澳州搵份工唔難,不過就唔會響HK甘過引了.
iloveup3up4 5 months ago 3
she got no choice ,its survival world, when your economy is doing shit and you need to look else where , to survive ,she got to do it .
Next time if e.g. Phillipine is the top earner in the world ,you bet she will run to phillipine and sings in Tagalog .
katmandu2258 5 months ago
@katmandu2258 Tagalog? You really think she'll stoop that low?
infinera06 5 months ago
@katmandu2258 : May I say you are a fracking ignorant and IDIOT BETCH! Do you even know the her background? I bet not! Her family arrived in Hong Kong as missionaries and she learned Cantonese from her mother and many Hong Kong Chinese friends. Sgraduated from the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts majoring in Musical Theatre Dance. She received The Society of APA Scholarship, Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation Scholarships (Outstanding Awards) and Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship.
conde562 4 months ago
@katmandu2258 : She won first place in the duet section of Olympic 2000 competition that took her on tour in HK and Australia
conde562 4 months ago
im proud of her chinese o-o ..
Squeeshiiemuffin 5 months ago
It's a really good performance! The lady sings Cantonese pretty good! This is a nice song.
kellylkwong 6 months ago
有什么了不起！就像我们讲、唱英文似的！
ilovetrunghoa 6 months ago
@ilovetrunghoa I think so too !!!
TheTrex550 5 months ago
@ilovetrunghoa 給了你一個負評
popkid001 5 months ago
@ilovetrunghoa Keep in mind our Chinese language is not yet becomes an international language like English, may be one day...For a white girl like her to sing/talk in Cantonese like us is still rare not to mention she got a good voice & pretty face. I enjoyed it.
Samo1228 5 months ago
I am so tired of seeing this pathetic uneducated "language" debate spread all over youtube. Having personal opinions are pointless when you refute reality.
@violentvictor is correct now everyone stfu about this forever
Wodz30 6 months ago
wowww *amazed*
deenaliem 6 months ago
Wow,real nice. Great performance.
yersteryear 6 months ago
Hey, no one asked the name of this song yet. What is it?
anythingnew 6 months ago
@anythingnew
The name of the song is 來夜方長.
frankiho 6 months ago
@frankiho
mut yeh?
anythingnew 6 months ago
You rock, girl! Keep on with your talent. You will be a star in the very near future.
Dreamlandfish 6 months ago
Corinna - 她令我想起甄妮 人靚聲甜
Corinna - She make me think of "Yan Ni" , the famous singer in Hong Kong whose voice is sweet and pretty.
Glorypeddy 6 months ago
where's jackie chan at?
neoxyooj 6 months ago
FUCK. If i didn't see her face. I would think she was chinese. Excellent Cantonese man!
TVBmikeyboy 6 months ago
it doesn't matter ,east or west. . .song always can unite them both . .
we can make a beautiful world only with songs. .can't we?
HazelnutLattee 6 months ago
@HazelnutLattee Chinese isn't only Cantonese and Mandarin...you know that there are WAY many different dialects? Did you know that our dialect has WAY longer history than both mandarin and Cantonese? When we all had to learn Mandarin, nobody complained and we all kept our dialect while learning Mandarin, why is it so hard for Cantonese people while the rest of the country unified our spoken language? Is it cause Cantonese people are special? Isn't everyone special? Why only you guys complain?
wnide 3 months ago
@wnide what the? i think i didn't complain about chinese or cantonese or even mandarin. . i just say east or west. . is that a problem? i think you don't understand what i mean . .sigh . .
HazelnutLattee 3 months ago
Cantonese is older than Mandarin. It also keeps all the tones of ancient China, unlike Mandarin.
anythingnew 7 months ago
@anythingnew - Cantonese is older than Mandarin? I didn't know that. Where was cantonese first spoken then? What part of china? I have read that there is an old version of cantonese in China and there's the much newer Hong Kong slang style.
GregOBehave 6 months ago
@GregOBehave
Cantonese was spoken for over 2000 years. That means the Han emperors were speaking it. Mandarin only came about 700-800 years ago.
And duh, of course the HK slang is gonna be new.
anythingnew 6 months ago
@anythingnew - Interesting fact. Thanks. And no, I meant that there is 2 different cantonese dialects. The HK one and an older one spoken in China somewhere. Apparently if someone from the mainland speaking the old cantonese spoke to someone from HK speaking the HK cantonese, they wouldn't understand each other. Just stuff I read.
GregOBehave 6 months ago
@GregOBehave theres more than two, trust me.
jeff61177 6 months ago
@GregOBehave
Have you realized that people who you talked with are Cantonese people themselves?
You have been believing in "Just stuff you read" rather than local speakers?
I have been to Canton in China and I understood their Cantonese and they understood mine without problems.
j2y8n2x 6 months ago
@j2y8n2x - Well, you're the first person I've ever spoken to about this, so yes. 'lol
GregOBehave 6 months ago
@GregOBehave
Please, Cantonese was and is spoken in Canton (Now called Guangdong) before China was even united. The reason why people in Canton now speak Mandarin is because the officials wanted China to be even more united than during the Qin Dynasty (in which the Emperor united our writing and finished the Great Wall)
Mandarin originated from the west of China, and was only favoured by the Beijing court very near the end on China's monarchy, because it sounded "nicer".
j2y8n2x 6 months ago
@j2y8n2x - thanks for the info. This is very interesting. All I know is from Wikipedia really.
GregOBehave 6 months ago
love William So's voice, and she's amazing!
raincloudz 7 months ago
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raincloudz 7 months ago
Fantastic，amazing，awesome！！
Linglianhuang 7 months ago in playlist 粤语学习
音好準!!真是人靚聲甜!! GOOD!!
hkgoodman86 7 months ago
She sings perfectly good, can't hear anything accent. Can't beleive.
pierusa123 7 months ago
she has a beautiful voice and pretty.
MrJohnkeitong 7 months ago
Rewu pyu geht
sabr0984 8 months ago
@hantaehieu1 What are u talkin about? "Cantonese is language and Cantonese is not dialect" Cantonese is part of chinese dialect and Hell yeah cantonese is a languange...no need explanation about that...idiot
mtan2077 8 months ago
好听
sunnie2011 8 months ago
Fucking aussie, go back to Australia.
assmonkeyification 8 months ago
@assmonkeyification
your mother is a cheap prostitute, that is why you are racist!
bhaihay1 8 months ago
@bhaihay1 Go speak the language of your countrymen
assmonkeyification 8 months ago
@bhaihay1 Oh yeah! Your mom swallows horse semen.
assmonkeyification 8 months ago
@assmonkeyification
Horse semen is strong! your mother sucks pigs' semen. Filth & swine! And that is why you stink. LOL!!!!!!!
bhaihay1 7 months ago
@bhaihay1 stop kissing the white man's ass
assmonkeyification 7 months ago
@assmonkeyification
You are an ass & a monkey, that says it all. The White man's ass is superior to you brains! LOlllllllll!
bhaihay1 7 months ago
@bhaihay1 I'll admit some are rather nice!
assmonkeyification 7 months ago
@assmonkeyification
And you go back up your mother's ass, LOL
bhaihay1 8 months ago
Corinna rocks!
a2cow 8 months ago
7 people has no taste in music.
kiraikrazy 9 months ago
anything one put their mind to, one can accomplish, whether is learning a another language or playing the piano or some other talent. so to compare her with other cantonese people is meaningless. she may have started early in life and has a natural gift or ability to distinguish the various tones of this particular chinese dialect.
wangtub43 9 months ago
Never mind the fact that she's a Caucasian who can speak/sing in Cantonese fluently; her voice is good. Her singing is what attracts me most.
Clytia 9 months ago
I am glad to have a pic with her at the hong kong airport last month
chaiabby1 9 months ago
good ^^
dicklee13891 9 months ago
She is wonderful.. I am so glad I took a photo with her at the airport.
chaiabby1 9 months ago
兩個都唱得好好聽呀~~i like it.
mky173 9 months ago
wow i'm shocked lol
hubbynwifey 9 months ago
WOW! I'm so impressed!
Kitjai26 9 months ago
She speaks Cantonese better then some of those so-called singers in Hong Kong...
You go girl!!!!
2redstick 11 months ago 46
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ching chong ling long ting tong!
Timb0NZ 11 months ago
@Timb0NZ
OUCH!
foxbait888 10 months ago
@Timb0NZ ding dong wing wong
juicespirit 9 months ago
When she did the hand sweep, she almost hit So :) She sings just like she speaks Cantonese : PERFECTION!
trent8002003 11 months ago
his pants are soo high O.o
kevho12345 11 months ago
@kevho12345 The matadorial look perhaps?
trent8002003 11 months ago
Ugh, HK undercuts the foreign actors too much. I hope she and Brian can score it big in the TVB station. They are so talented too =\
icyrazor 11 months ago
Corinna sings much better than other vocalists in H.K. I wish her continued success in the entertainment business.
goldfish518 11 months ago 14
Cantonese、Shanghainese如果失去了政治的相對獨立性，這些人所使用的語言將變為方言，由Mandarin代表他們成為Chinese唯一的語言，而他們只是方言。
相反的，Taiwanese 所使用的語言，是過去政治人物所鄙棄的方言，他們只用Mandarin，現在政治卻爭相學習模仿這個他們過去所鄙視的語言，因為Taiwanese通過自已的努力 取得了極大的政治決定權力。
Cantonese一直都是香港的語言，而非方言。Cantonese若能將Canton粵語區加入香港特區，就能建立更緊密的粵語區經濟整合。
big5ma 1 year ago 2
@tweet918 Many white people grow up in Hong Kong never knowing how to speak the language. Corinna's canto is surprising not just for it's fluency but for her near lack of accent.
tillhumanvoices 1 year ago
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ak47wong 1 year ago
You're not any smarter or dumber rather people call it a language or dialect. It is what it is. Cantonese is Cantonese. So stop bickering over this and enjoy her singing b/c she's hot. :-)
jokedog 1 year ago
Actually, whether a language is considered a language or a dialect has to do with political and historical developments, and also linguistic features. The definition of a language is really ambiguous. For example, the national languages of Portugal and Spain could be considered dialects because they are mutually intelligible. And yet they are considered separate languages to define the national language of their countries.
yellbuttflyaway 1 year ago
Likewise, the "dialects" of China are considered as dialects to unify them all under one language name because of political reasons. So even if they are linguistically unintelligible, unrelated and different they are still considered Chinese. For those that say Cantonese is a language, it is. And those that say it is a dialect of Chinese, it is under the Chinese idea of one unified language. It depends on what you want it to actually be, a language or a dialect, neither one is wrong.
yellbuttflyaway 1 year ago
I wonder if Corinna Chamberlain speak English with a Honkie accent?
ianmann64 1 year ago
Cantonese is a dialect. HK use it to teach and it became widely use like a language but still a dialect. Chinese has many dialects such as Hokkien (Fu Jian), Hakka (Ke Jia), Teochew (Chao Zhou) and more...including Cantonese from Canton. There is only 1 language for Chinese which is Mandarin. Cheers
TheAhJoe 1 year ago
is it bad that she can speak much more fluetntly than i can and i grew up speaking cantonese all my life!
asdasd607 1 year ago
They are great singers!
dreamervivian 1 year ago
I dont get why are people hating on this?
spike378 1 year ago
She is a New Zealander not Australian, since her mother is an Australian but her father is a New Zealander.
hongkongsmartboy 1 year ago
@hongkongsmartboy Maybe she is Australian citizen? Or citizen of both NZ and Australia?
LadySpitz 1 year ago
@hongkongsmartboy huh where do you get that bs?! i can tell you, having an australian mother i am australian, not french.
Interactivesystems 1 year ago
Its a case of Man bites Dog news.So its a kind of big deal for any Whites to speak Chinese and more so if it in chinese dialect such as Cantonese.With China getting stronger by the day esp economically, there are many Western CEOs taking up Mandarin so they can impressed their Chinese clients. And this is important when it comes to do business with mainland Chinese as by being able to speak their language,you are treated with less suspicious and respected.Thus gaining their trust !!
krislean1 1 year ago
@krislean1
She was borned and grown up in HK. Just like those white immigrants in the states, brazil, or new zealand.
dont be narrow-minded.
nnokki 1 year ago
好嘢.唱得好好听.多謝康仔.明恩.
tingfung36 1 year ago
Can't understand the 2 beautiful tunes in this wonderful video.
Anyone care to translate the name of these 2 tunes ?
Chinese guy has a great voice too !
LA Guy
getsmartpaul 1 year ago
When a Chinese speaks perfect English with British or American accent, it's because either he was born there or he admires western culture to its core. When an Australian Caucasian speaks fluent Cantonese, either she was born in HK AND can stand people's curious glances everyday on the streets so she is still living there; or, she might just try to learn the language and be a spy to the Australian government, lol!
willwong1234 1 year ago
I am the other way round lol.... not so rare though
chowzai 1 year ago
it'd only be surprising to me if she spoke english with a hk accent, which would actually be hilarious..
johnwong911 1 year ago