Cantonese 6 tones
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ย. 2015
- Here are the 6 tones in Cantonese, we even provide you with a similar musical tone for easy understanding, in order to help you to pronounce the pitch correctly!
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I'm a native mandarin speaker and never understood when my friends said that they couldn't hear the difference between four tones. Now i can relate.
It took me a while to start noticing aspiration as a contrast before even telling sth like à/ă apart
Can't agree more, mandarin speaker too. I totally have no idea about the difference between 4 and 6
Mandarin tones are much easier to separate tho
@@jsdiary8056 4th tone is high to low while 6th tone is low to high imo
@@jsdiary8056 apparently, 4 is the lowest of all tones and it drops a bit, 6 sounds flat to me
The main thing I can see in the title screen is "iCant"... I'm going to have to agree.
fucking a!
Nei sik gong gwangdongwa
Bruh
Mighty YoungSir wo sik gonge
exactly lol
As a native mandarin speaker, I couldn’t tell the difference:)
As a non chinese, i feel like crying reading this 😅😅
Now you know the pain that we Mandarin learners go through^^
embarrassing for ur ears
Now you know how we feel when distinguishing mandarin tones haha
At least in chinese there’s only 4 tones and they actually sound different 🤣 as a native mandarin speaker I literally cannot tell the difference between 1 and 3 especially 🤣
I’m Cantonese I came here to brag
welcome :)
Haha Cantonese is not special. What's more important is how a word/word phrase is pronounced. Tones of individual words are useless without context and or "partner" words
my friend is also cantonese!!! she said she wanted to brag too :-)
I Si4.. :D (I see)
As someone who speaks mandarin, the pronunciation of numbers 5 and 2 was such a shock! Did not expect them to be so different from mandarin because the first 4 examples where somewhat similar.
Yes the difference between 2 and 5 is subtle indeed, both of them are glide tone, but the ending sound of "史"(2) glides higher tone than "市"(5).
Cantonese is a tonal language, if you couldn't hear any difference just speak it the way you perceived, even though many foreigners and non-Cantonese speakers can't speak the right pitch, however, people will still understand them by hearing the words before and after. So, "to speak" is the first step, practice makes perfect, hope you have a happy learning experience.
Cheers! :)
Cantonese is so much more useful in the UK than mandarin, most people of ethnic Chinese descent here are from Hong Kong and there's a fairly large population of Cantonese people here. So when I'm at a chinese restaurant or in chinatown for new year i'll say san lin fai lok rather than xinian kuaile because mandarin speakers here are usually students :D
Students has no red packet to give you, I guess that's what you mean 🤣
Bie2 qin1 ta1 men de pi4 gu3
新 San 年 Nin* 快 Faai 樂 Lok
@@dannytran2134 thanks for waiting 3 years to correct me 😂
@@maxofthetitans Lol
As someone who is not interested in learning Cantonese now I can say with all confidence that I'll never even think about learning this language in my life that I have
I speak cantonese and my mind is still blown when watching this video
I guess you've known all the tones by heart since it's your mother tongue.
D C
Yup I suppose so. It’s not something I think about when I speak though
Im also a native mandarin speaker and quite shitty native Cantonese speaker(don't really speak Cantonese but of course I understand), my reaction was also the same with how the tones categorize different character pronunciations.
@@DC-oy3gk I know this feeling. I even went to chinese school, which in NA is cantonese school, until I took mandarin in uni and the teacher in english starts explaining tones. "Tones? wtf is this shi.........oh....... wait a sec...."
@@RaynP What makes cantonese so complex compared to mandarin. Why cantonese didn't get simplified like mandarin in terms of number of tones
I've attempted Mandarin and Vietnamese tones and I'm also a musician. I am fascinated that Cantonese tones are based on relative pitch, as well as including rising and falling tones. Thanks for the video! It makes so much sense
I feel the first 3 mandarin tone can be mapped to A G C but the fourth mapped nothing. I have a musician friend who speaks Mandarin as first language told me that she never learns Cantonese but she can understand what they're saying automatically as if all words can be mapped though some pattern
vietnamese tones are basically cantonese tones. still can't differentiate between the first and fourth tone of mandarin lol
I think linguists actually note that tonal languages can broadly be divided into two classes: Register-tone languages differentiate tones purely through pitches, i.e., the different tones are all flat but differ from each other in terms of pitches only, while contour-tone languages differentiate tones via "contour", i.e., the tones differ also in terms of "which direction they go". Based on this, I would say Mandarin is a purely contour-tone language since there isn't any tone that are "all flat, but differ in terms of pitches only".
Its difference is so subtle that even a mandarin speaker can not tell. Yet I do love Cantonese pronunciation. Belle.
0:29 cuando tu mamá te dice que arregles la habitación por 5ta vez
JAJAJAJAJA
JAJAJAJA
So complicated. I'm sticking to mandarin.
It depends, a strong motivation is needed if people want to learn a new language. Thanks for viewing anyway.
+John Hhegren
Yes the "pitch" is not important as you said, male speakers normally have lower key pitch compare to female, but the descending/ascending sequence on those notes do exist, so the post here just try to give an initial idea.
If you can read Chinese, here's a passage (www.inmediahk.net/node/1015063),
the writer uses the following scale (based on major C), which is slightly different from my video -
(1) b
(2) G -> b (or a -> b) a glide
(3) G
(4) D
(5) E -> G (or E -> F) a glide
(6) E
Thank you very much, your illustration with the keynotes really did it for me. Simply brilliant.
2 and 5 are so similar!
Thank you to use piano keyboard to play these six tones! It is clear for me who studied music staff since my elementary school!
one of the best videos ever thank you
finally i can understand the difference! thankkiu so much
0:17 Tone 1 - si1
0:21 Tone 3 - si3
0:26 Tone 6 - si6
0:19 Tone 2 - si2
0:24 Tone 5 - si5
0:22 Tone 4 - si4
no
The correct order that whoever numbered them should have used.
@@jalmantle why not, it's literally what we needed to clearly compare them 💀
T_T they are all the same to me ARGHHHHH
+94nomada just try to capture the "melodic", practice makes perfect, "add oil"! :)
indeed there are 9 tone
Yes if you include the checked tone, but -
"Although usually translated as "tone", a checked tone is not a tone in the phonetic sense but rather a syllable that ends in a stop consonant or a glottal stop."
"For instance, in Cantonese, there are 6 tones in syllables that do not end in stops but only 3 in syllables that do. Therefore, although Cantonese has only 6 tones in the sense of 6 contrasting variations in pitch, it is often said to have 9 tones."
Checked Tone Ref- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checked_tone
exactly!!! I can't say any difference between 1/3/5 tones...
Excellent, thank you
Thanks a lot! I’m an english speaker born in Hong Kong and i am in urgency to prepare for my school chinese exams, this helps
0:16 Tone 1
0:18 Tone 2
0:20 Tone 3
0:22 Tone 4
0:24 Tone 5
0:26 Tone 6
I am learning Mandarin, but my other goals are to learn Cantonese. Asian languages are interesting🌞
The musically-inclined definitely have an advantage
Using the musical notes is a good idea.
Hi. I can't distinguish between tone 4 and 6. Can you make another video in which you only say two tones? I love Cantopop but my voice range is narrow so I don't think singing Cantopop will help me. Thank in advance
Explaination- (kind of stupid
Si¹ or Saam¹ is like aa tone
Si² or Gau² is like questioning but in a little bit lower tone
Si³ or Sei³ normal tone
Si⁴ or Ling⁴ lower tone
Si⁵ or Ng⁵ is like uhuh tone but in other sound bc of the letter
Si⁶ or Ji⁶ is like ee tone
I know it's dumb but hope it helps😃
As I started learning mandarin, I was like "these tones are not difficult at all" but Cantonese tones are totally different 🤔 seems I need to find a audio to get know better the sounds of this language 🤔 the most difficult for me is the flat tones, it seems be the same 😔
now I see why koreans/japanese/other non tonal language speakers struggle with mandarin so much because as a chinese speaking mandarin I can only tell 4 tones out of the 6 that are similar to mandarin. I had to use the 1:39 method to tell the differences between the rest of the two tones ;-;
Thank you for sharing~
Wow, never knew that I can play keyboard to memorize Chantonese tones 😲
好犀利 好多謝曬喎
As a Thai native speaker who has learned all the tones in language all my life. I can understand Mandarin tones very easily but not in Cantonese. Can’t tell the difference between tone1-6 and tone2-5 tho😭
ผมเรียนภาษาไทยสิบกว่าปีแล้วผมคิดว่า tone 1 กับ 6 ความจริงออกเสียงเหมือนกัน tone2-5 ด้วย
@@davekumar8093 ถ้าเทียบเป็นภาษาไทย tone1,3,6น่าจะใกล้เคียงกับเสียงสามัญ tone3คือเสียงสามัญธรรมดา tone1เหมือนจะสูงกว่า ส่วนtone6ต่ำกว่าเล็กน้อย tone2,5น่าจะเทียบเสียงจัตวาแต่5จะขึ้นสูงกว่า tone4เป็นเสียงเอก ลองฟังดูหลายรอบแล้วแต่ไม่ค่อยแน่ใจ แยกไม่ค่อยออกเหมือนกันค่ะ555
@@ak.8514 ต้อแจ
I can understand the confusion between all these, let me try to further clarify them -
Let's divide the pitch to 3 levels: low, mid, high.
Tone 1 (詩) has the highest pitch compared to the rest of tones. Tone 1 is high pitch, while Tone 6 (是) is low pitch.
Tone 2 (史) is contour tone, the same as Tone 5 (市). The difference is that Tone 2 rises from low to high, while Tone 5 rises from low to mid.
Hope it helps. :)
Hey, im burmese and i also find mandarin tones much easier. I cant seem to differentiate cantonese tones on the other hand...
I’m already look at!
This was a lot easier than I thought
125- 125 u serious??
記得呢一句, 包晒9個音
(風水到時我地必發達)
1。2。 3。4。5。 6。7。8。9
And I had the impression that mandarin was a challenging language, oh boy I wasn't ready for cantonese.
I love how everyone struggles with velar approximatives, voiceless stops or tones
You did a great job. As a native spanish speaker this example suits me quite well. "si" is our word to say "yes". So this goes for spanish speakers (I'll use some slang from my country, but I guess you won't have too much trouble getting it. Hope it helps you).
SI1: Se parece bastante a un sí normal. Pero hace de cuenta que te dio un ACV mientras lo decías, entonces en lugar de decir si, dijiste, siiiiiiiii, se te rayó el disco viste. Bueno, nada, fijate que no se te vaya más allá de 3 i, onda, siii. Además podes imaginar que sos una suerte de cantante de ópera y hacer como si afinases, para que el aire pegue en el paladar.
S2: Bueno, es una pregunta: ¿si?, pero imaginate que estás metido en lo tuyo y alguien viene y te dice algo, no escuchaste lo que te dijo, estás en la tuya, y, como seguis en la tuya, ni te das vuelta, y preguntas ¿si? para que te repitan lo que te dijeron. Todos lo hicimos alguna vez, y a todos nos pasó alguna vez. No está bueno jaja, porque te das cuenta que no te están escuchando.
SI3: Oka, 12 horas de laburo, te queres ir a tu casa, estas podrido, y cuando ya tenes todo preparado para largarte aparece tu jefe y te dice: ¿podrás ver esto un segundo? Si sos latino como yo y no provenis de una familia adinerada sabés que perder el trabajo puede ser grave. Entonces decis que si, pero con el tercer tono del cantones.
SI4: Si, claro, dale ¿en serio? ¿posta?. Entre la ironía y el sarcasmo. Acá en mis pagos diríamos, seee.
SI5: ¡Sí señor!, bueno, no tan exagerado, pero acá si estás prestando atención a lo que te dicen, ya entendiste lo que tenes que hacer y contestas si con el 5 tono del cantonés.
SI6: Bueno, este raro. Te transformaste en un robot y estas tirando en la cama mirando tele. Alguien abre la puerta y te pide algo: respondes que si, con el sexto tono del cantonés.
Bueno, no se si servirá de algo. Que se yo. En fin.
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Thank you very much for your tutorial, I'm actually learning mandarin and にほんご, I don't really get why native mandarin speakers have so much troubles with tones, I mean... try harder! It's like I have trouble learning Italian or portuguese, or even french. I like traditional characters, but if you are learning mandarin they teach you the simplified version of them. But in a lot of Asian countries they don't use them simplified, I mean, my laoshi is from Taiwan, they don't even use pinyin, and I didn't find any keyboard to write traditional characters in pinyin, so I had to learn Zhuyin. This, plus ひらがな, the カタカナ, the japanese kanjis, with their くんよみ、thier, おんよみ (that has really nothing to do with chinese pronunciation) and their fascination in turning every single word into the japanese english version of it, (even when they have a japanese word for the word they are turning into japanglish), that the most of the time don't have nothing to do with de english pronunciation, I mean, ドア doesn't sound like "door", really, it doesn't.
Nevertheless, I love Asian lenguages, so I keep on studying them, I think, for the rest of my life. Not for bussines, or money, or the very little chances that some of your countries let me in. Just for love.
Muchas gracias bro.
Abrazo,
(p.d.: America is not a country, is a continent with a bunch of countries in it. I'm American, because I was born in that continent. Please don't confuse The United States with the whole continent. It's a huge mistake). Nada más. Chauchasss!!!
多謝
BRAVO////
I'm cantonese and this I cant i cant with canto anymore
Oh my God. This is very hard. 😂
太簡單了，so easy
Me learning mandarin as a native spanish speaker: it's hard but I like it👍
Me hearing this: maybe I'm just dumb
bro im a mandarin native speaker and totally at a loss abt cantonese tones so hard to distinguish. I think tones difficulty cantonese>vietnamese>thai>mandarin
@@hahaha6553 Im a burmese native speaker who's currently learning thai and mandarin atm. Those are a bit easier to roughly translate to burmese. Meanwhile I just checked out random cantonese videos for fun and I got no idea how it all works.
though it seems more difficult I prefer cantonese to mandarin ! wish I could learn the tones :(
Sing Cantopop, that's my advice. At first it will be a little hard, but you will get used to the melody. Stick the close you can to the musical tones, and step by step you will be learning them. I saw this video weeks ago and I didn't hear the difference either, but after singing cantopop, I'm able to hear them more clearly. I recommend this song: 哪裡只得我共你 by Dear Jane.
Good Luck :)
+Volha Chekaliova Thank you! I'll definitely do it..hope it works for me as it did for you :)
guys heres a tip. its best to look at one of those cantonese tone charts before watching this video to get a visual on what you are looking for.
It’s not easy at all but I want to learn . Greetings from Iraq
“Acting like you be understanding spanish conversations be like” si si si
I am fluent in chinese but the 3 tunes sound the same. I try to remember the first four tunes by telling myself they sound like the bell song when the traditional clock ticks every hour.
as a Vietnamese speaker i can maybe differentiate some of them
Interesting
I couldn’t tell the difference. It’s so hard for me. I’m struggling when I learn Mandarin. I really don’t know Cantonese more harder than that.
It would be great if you could resume this channel. These videos are great.
I already on country
Omg from a Mandarin speaker's perspective these tones are so hard to remember. The difference between tones 2 and 5 is very subtle and I will never be able to master tone 6. 😭 I have so much sympathy for learners of Mandarin now. The struggle is real!
best video ever in youtube
wah challenging oh... even mandarin has only four tones and I already pick it up. for this one, still struggling.
I'm extremely grateful that Mandarin only has 4! Cantonese would be a nightmare to learn.
almost like the Vietnamese tones
1= ngang ( saam1 _ tam)
2= hỏi (gau2 _ cửu)
3= sắc (sei3 _ tứ)
4= huyền (ling4 _ lình/linh)
5= ngã (ng5 _ ngũ)
6= nặng (ji6 _ nhị)
Vietnamese also has 6 tones, but it's hard for me to pronounce Cantonese 2nd and 5th tones; 3rd and 6th tones correctly :)). And I tend to pronounce 1st and 3rd tones the same; 4th and 6th tones the same; 2nd and 5th tones the same :))
三碗细牛腩面一百碟😋
Learning mandarin doesn't seem all that scary anymore
Man, look at all of you, complaining about Mandarin being easier. Practice makes perfect, so I'm taking on this challenge!!!
What I got from this video
1 - high
2 - slide to mid high
3 - mid low
4 - slide to low
5 - slide to high
6 - low
Edit: apparently, 2 and 5 are wrong in what I heard, and should be switched
What s the difference between 1 and 3?
Oh man... This is really hard
practice makes perfect! :)
No each of the sounds different! Omg i did mot realize that u can apply the sounds with music notes. A G F C F E
Yes because Cantonese is a tonal language, unlike English.
Yes u r right each tone has its own sound range. If hard to apply then we use the piano keys hahaha
Some of the tones sound so much similar to each others like (1, 3 and 6) and (2 and 5). I am trying to differentiate that.
It might help if you associated the tones with diacritics first, and then start using the numbers. It helped me.
1 ô high flat tone
2 ó rising tone
3 ō mid flat tone
4 o̖ low falling tone
5 o̗ low rising tone
6 o̠ low flat tone
0:21 0:27 tone 3 and 6
I search and found that Taiwanese Minnan even has 8 tones and an intricated system of tone sandhi...with quite an amount of final consonants left like old Chinese, which is even harder than Cantonese... like why the hell southern chinese languages such as these are this insane? lol
omg this helps a lot
As a mandarin speaker I can't divide 1 and 3, 2 and 5, aren't they same?
Thank you for the question:
- There's different between 1 and 3.
1 should be the highest pitch "詩"，while 3 "試" should be in more or less 2 keys lower then the 1, in the video I have tried to explain in the keyboard (1:31), I used "L / F" to explain the difference between 1 and 3, but you can also tried "M / D" which is the same result, as long as it is two keys difference.
- For 2 and 5.
These two are really similar! Both of them are glide tone, the only different would be the ending sound of "史"(2) glides higher tone than "市"(5).
Hope you could get to know the difference, practice makes perfect, happy learning. Cheers! :)
真·亚述的荣耀 even as a second generation speaker, I had the same question! The best way to figure it out is making an example. Try to replace the word in a phrase and see if you can tell the difference. If you say 历市instead of 历史，can you hear the difference?
Yes it sounds quite different between "歷(历)市" and "歷(历)史", people probably don't understand it if you say you're looking for a book of Chinese "歷市" as it doesn't make sense, you'll have to say the right tone of "歷史" for people to get what it means.
yes yes ues
I'm gonna hold off Cantonese for a bit.
_hurriedly goes back to Mandarin lessons_
Can-tone-easy
In time, Poetry will be history
2 and 5 sounds exactly the same to me ... They're even the same note on the keyboard
These two (2 and 5) are really similar! Both of them are glide tone, and the ending sound of "史"(2) glides higher tone than "市"(5).
If you couldn't hear any difference just speak it the way you perceived, even though many foreigners and non-Cantonese speakers can't speak the right pitch, people will still understand them by hearing the words before and after. So, "to speak" is the first step, practice makes perfect, hope you have a happy learning experience.
Cheers! :)
This language is called can't-onese for a reason!
Sí.
0:46
1,3,6 all sound flat, 2,5 both upwards sounding. I guess pitch is relative, depending on how high your voice is
00:27
Am I learning Cantonese or Spanish...
I can't distinguish 1,3,6 and 2,4!!! I learned mandarin but I even can't speak them. Blood would be flowed from my throat. omg 목에서 피나겠수ㅠㅠ
1 should be the highest pitch, 3 and 6 is really similar I understand, but still the tone 6 is in slightly lower tone; 4 is the lowest pitch and 2 is a glide tone, slightly goes up at the end. Please ignore the individual meanings of the words, just try to copy directly and grasp the musical tone first.
iCANTONESE channel thank you! I can understand it more easily now. :)
Your turn. lol
I'm Chinese and I'm sure I can speak a very good Chinese but I can't distinguish the difference...what's the defference between 2 and 5? and what's the difference between 1,3,4,6?
2 and 5 are rising tones, 2 rises more than 5. But don't worry too much about it.
4 is a falling tone
1, 3 and 6 are all flat
I seemed to be more interested with the sounds of this language compared to mandarin.
我看起来比中文对这种语言更感兴趣！除了觉得听起来困难
Whats the different between 3 and 6. Im Vietnamese but I cannot tell
Thanks for the question, the tonal difference between 3 and 6 is subtle indeed, 6 has a slightly lower tone (*half tone lower) in comparison. Like the musical note "Fa" and "Mi".
@@Cantonese.online 6 = "Re", 3 = "Mi"
Tones 3 and 6 sound almost the same to me.
0:23
Hong Kong: ma1 ma2 ma3 ma4 ma5 ma6
Vietnam: ma mả má mà mã mạ
Americans trying to speak Cantonese be like: tones? Nah I’m just going to say the words without em.
Im a cantonese speaker, and Im struggling to speak mandarin
Man, Cantonese pronunciation is so different from that of Mandarin. In Mandarin, "si" is pronounced kind of like s + the "oo" in look or took. However, the pronunciation in Cantonese is more like "see."
I'd describe it as more of a forward r sound, close to the one you hear when a southern California says "sure"
@@jonathancross3097 Thinking about it... yes, that would be more accurate. Interesting... There's also a particular way that some Mandarin speakers like to say their 'r's. They do it with almost a faint 'zh' sound blended in, kind of like the way that 'h's have that kh sound mixed in similar to the 'h' in Russian or German. It's interesting.
@@mythosspecialist1352 Yes, that's true. though that is very specific to different dialects. I notice that many people from mainland china pronounce w with a slight v sound, and also that many Taiwanese people will say 人 as more of a "len" and say 然後 as more of a "lan hou" as well.
Mandarin - 4 Tones
Cantonese - 6 Tones
Taiwanese - 8 Tones
Hmm.
As a Mexican, this video just all Yes.
yeah, this right here is one of the reasons why I study Mandarin, not Cantonese T u T
Lol!!!!!
I speak an unintelligible dialect of Cantonese. the tone 4, 5, 6, all sound the same to me, and the canton people have no difficulty in communication with me even though I pronounce the 4, 5, 6, tone the same.
then is not really unintelligible xD but tone 4 5 6 have a very very very subtle difference maybe you cant hear it but to those u speak might be able to hear it or understand the context