Teach Yourself Cantonese Pronounciation Part 1

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MY FIRST VIDEO!!! This is the first part of the recording for Cantonese pronounciation of the book Teach Yourself Cantonese. All romanisations here are the Yale Romanisation invented by the Yale University. (COPYRIGHT YALE UNIVERSITY IF NECESSARY; sorry if I'm being over protective)

I'm still in a process of learning Cantonese myself, because most of my-external family speaks it, so I thought I should join them too.

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Education

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• language
• teach
• yourself
• cantonese
• pronounciation

[infinera06]

That's exactly my point. If I speak the language, and can't figure out what "High Rising, Middle falling, etc." are, how in the world can someone with no knowledge of the language understand? It's like telling a music student to sing the C note , when the student has never heard of the note itself.

[seoulhangungmal]

This "High Rising, Middle falling, etc." is only there to help you to get the tones correct. It is not some kind of universal system you need to know to speak Cantonese. Once you get the tones correct you can naturally forget about the "High Rising, Middle falling, etc."

[silviaelena]

学不会吧！ 我觉得不用学一声二声等等 应该学每个单词的发音 这样最好

但我没有学过 :)

[seoulhangungmal]

你觉得如何学习呢？因为人们觉得粤语声调是很难使用，所以他们将­要使用这个教训.

[silviaelena]

明白了

每个人有自己的学习风格

你的呢？你会说很多的语言吧 你觉得最好的学习风格是什么？

[seoulhangungmal]

我？我觉得用这样的书籍来学习语言。但现在我真的不太多的时间来­继续学习，所以我不是特别精通任何语言，我只知道一点.

[AyuSumire]

I am a HongKonger, and I've found no non-native speaker of my language can manage the tone correctly, even if he is a Chinese (Mandarin speaker)

I think only the native speaker can manage to speak it...

and we Hong Kong people ourselves cannot explain the tones, I have no idea of what the hell "high rising"...-.-"

[444inlove444]

who cares about tone, i mean from my own point of view, as long as we understand each other...then everything will be fine i suppose.

I know cantonese. And i speak with my friends from Hong Kong and they understand what im saying.

[MrBigEnchilada]

lol...3 of the tones sound the same....

high level - yes

high falling - yes

mid rising - yes

mid level - yes

low falling - uh

low rising - uh

low level - uh

[sexxibabi4u]

cantonese has total 9 tones but basically 6 tones simply follow these sound air waves system from being confused by what you are hearing --> tone 1( --) tone 2 ( / ) tone 3 (o)(stop) tone 4 ( \ ) tone 5 ( \/ ) tone 6 ( '-- ) also tone 7( /x ) tone 8 (ox) tone 9( \x ) zero hassle solve the puzzle have fun :) btw ty for uploading this bcuz i used borrow this book b4 nd now i think i need to read it again :p

[pinyinAID]

For Cantonese pronunciation see the Instruction at mrpinyin.webs.com/cantonese.ht­m

[alancwwong]

i can speak 9 tones and tell you the differences

[XxBoonLiong77xX]

ma de?

[TayaMango]

I've been teaching a friend of mine canto but he can only get some tones right it's ok as long as it's understandable :) He tends to get the hang of pronunciations of Mandarin better compared to Canto. Well, it depends on what phrase/word it is really. But look at Gregory Rivers! He's famous even though his tones aren't right. I know there are other foreigners who speak perfect Canto -but they tend to have lived there for all their lives - I speak perfect Eng - I was born in the UK :)

[icouldcareless50]

I grew up in America and can speak Mandarin and Cantonese.

If you know Mandarin, learning Cantonese is very very fast as long as you live with Cantonese people (Chinese restaurants).

Learning Mandarin if you know Cantonese is easier than the other way. There are four tones in Mandarin, 3 less than Cantonese.

[Allawahguy]

have you searched for videos of a lady called Sharon Balcombe? she's a caucasian lady who speaks PERFECT cantonese...and I mean PERFECT.