Greg Smith - Cantonese speaking Westerner - PART 1

Life of Greg Smith a Local Hong Kong Foreigner - PART 1

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• cantonese
• chinese
• foreigner
• westerner
• hong
• kong

[johnsonlamhk]

The WILL to communicate in other language shows the true heart.

[Cupcake4me]

He does an accent, but hats off, amazing vocab and knowledge of chinese culture..wow !

[HoSayLiaoLah]

I don't know why but I can't stand cantonese. Sound very ah qua (transexual). Hokkien sound better.

[zenpro12]

why do so many people go on about gwei lo's having accents when they speak canto? of course la.. it's not our first language, and i bet they have an accent when they speak english... who cares if a westerner has a slight foreign accent when they speak canto, the point is they have made the effort to learn it! and guess what... it ain't an easy language!!! ;)

i wish my cantonese was as good as his!

[anderskhe]

@schwiiZZZ Are you serrious? White people are much more different from each other than what many people in Hong Kong seem to think. People in Hong Kong keep believing I'm a master of the English language because I'm white, even before they've heard me speak. But fact is that any native English speaker can clearly hear that I speak English with an accent because it's not my mother tongue as I'm a Norwegian.

[ahlac]

What year is this documnetary ??

[philsnk]

Wan Foo, Mai Foo Sik.

[schwiiZZZ]

@kansaikanadian man it doesnt matter where ur from noone even cares cuz white people r all the same

all european countries r so simliar...they dont have anyy culture anymore

but check out asia,the diversity of cultures

and i duno wat ur saying man but chinese is superior to stupid white man

[Buuub08]

@schwiiZZZ Asian languages are not necessarily the hardest. It depends on the perspective and your native language. For a Chinese person Japanese and Korean come rather easily yet French, Russian or Fasri for example might be difficult. Its the reverse for others. There is no such thing as "hardest language".

Having a complex language is not an advantage of any sort, its more of a disadvantage and results in linguistic splits and thus people from the same country cannot understand each other.

[kansaikanadian]

@schwiiZZZ

Also, I should know. I am half-white and half-japanese and have heard the exact same thing from Japanese people all my life. They have an incredible inferiority complex against westerners while at the same time feel comfort in the fact that at least when using the Japanese language, they are "superior".

[kansaikanadian]

@schwiiZZZ

I am not white. Also, before you claim that English is somehow inferior as a European language maybe you should learn how to construct a proper sentence in the language. Asian languages are not hard. It is just the result of Asians wanting compensate for always feeling like they are being looked down upon by white people. No matter how inferior they believe themselves to be, they feel that as long as only they can speak their language they have an advantage on their own turf.