Cantonese Tone Practice - Glass, Pear, Come, Leave, Ignore, Clever :)
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2020
- Hi there,
(OK, seriously??? TH-cam tells me this video has been seen over 420,000 times! How that happened I will never know, but I'm glad you're here! )
Want to improve your Cantonese tones and learn some Cantonese vocabulary? Then buckle up and get ready to learn from my mistake! :)
Yes, in my last video (the one where I introduce you to Patrick), I used the low-falling 4th tone when I should have used the low-rising 5th tone. I thought I was expressing myself correctly (obviously) based on what I thought I had heard native speakers using, and turns out this time I was wrong.
But you know what? Who cares! You will never learn to speak Cantonese if you don't make mistakes, and sometimes these can be hilariously funny; sometimes (hopefully not too often) they can be embarrassing, and sometimes you will flat-out make no sense. But one thing is for sure, if you can learn from your mistake, then you'll be that much closer to speaking Cantonese well and your mistakes will be fewer and farther between.
So have you made a mistake that resulted in laughter, tears or somewhere in between? Please feel free to share your stories below -- I'd love to hear them!
If you haven't already, please like the video (if you do!) and subscribe to my channel. Follow me on Facebook and Instagram (I keep promising to get on there more and soon I will!) and if you want to learn with me more formally, check out my lessons on www.cantolingo.com (more info below in the PPS).
Happy learning!
Sue Marguerite
PS. Follow me on IG and FB: @cantonesecorner
PPS. Learn more Cantonese with me and open new windows into Cantonese culture by taking my Traditional Characters in Cantonese Pronunciation courses over at www.cantolingo.com.
Learn traditional Standard Written Chinese characters, their Cantonese equivalent (if any), the radicals, proper stroke order, and much more! Classes are on-going and combine online self-study with Zoom sessions. This is a university-level course based on materials from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is effective and fun!
As a Cantonese, really appreciate all the learning materials you’ve created for non-Cantonese speakers, while many Cantonese (廣東人) in young age can’t speak their mother tongue, which is sad to me.
yeah especially when you type in language other than your native language, it is super sad too.
well, thats what ur gov aiming for. they want all the ppl speaking in the same lang, tone and even ...
Im hong konger,i cant speak cantonese
Cantonese is a language I am proud of. Much closer to the original middle Chinese than is Mandarin. Cantonese also represents a culture.
@@Dragon_Rider777 Not everyone in Hong Kong or Guang Dong are Cantonese, they could be Hokkien, Teochew, Hakka, Taishanese, Shanghainese and what not.
佩服你的廣東話講得好正確 💯 two thumbs up, 10隻手指, 10隻腳趾 贊賞你 :)
真係好勁呀😱
@@Happy-dz1yt 入聲唔計啫
@@Happy-dz1yt 粵拼九聲六調呀大佬lol
調 = tone，指個發音有幾高(相對地) (即係平時所謂既抑揚。國語、泰文等等都有tone)，語言學通用。 廣東話只有6個調。當中第789聲分別為136調。
聲係指4個平上去入，加埋兩個陰陽共組成8聲，加埋第八聲(中入聲)就為之9聲。
教外國人呢啲平時冇講開tonal language既對象，教6調就好夠。
@@Happy-dz1yt 所以特登留個言話你知佢教得正確:)
@@elsaoflondon 特登教多另外3聲=多餘，起因係古代漢韻學家分析錯
清代都開始有入聲非聲嘅質疑出現
好開心，好感恩！
有人咁支持廣東話，仲教人添！
Support!
北方人表示完全听不懂，之前想学，感觉比英语还难啊
好難得lol
Support Support😍
@@war3replay 那是肯定的，英語其實算是很容易學的語言。中文可以説是最難之一。廣東話更不用説了，音調多而且還有特殊的字
虽然自己是广东人，也可以讲粤语，但是用粤语讲容易，用粤语写，真系有点困难，特别有些字，打都打不出来。
Cantonese myself and randomly clicked on this.
I was surprised with how accurate this was and she spoke even better cantonese than me 🤣
Characters for these words:
Hide: 匿埋
Glass: 玻璃(杯)
Pear: 啤梨/雪梨
Pu'er (tea): 普洱茶
come: 過嚟 come over, 入嚟 come in, 返嚟 come back
leave: 離開
reason: 理由
makes no sense: 冇理由
ignore: 唔理
Mister Lee: 李先生
you: 你/妳 you all: 你哋/妳哋
clever: 犀利/厲害
(Scroll for English)
我畀yt演算法拉咗過來😂
你嘅廣東話發音好標準
而家普遍網上教中文都係教普通話
作為香港人好多謝你咁有心機拍片教咁難學嘅廣東話，等多啲人識
要繼續做落去呀💪🏻💪🏻
English:
The yt algorithm brought me here😂
Your cantonese pronunciation is standard!
Nowadays most online chinese tutorials are in putonghua/mandarin
As a hong konger, I really thank a lot for your patience with making videos teaching cantonese which is quite difficult, and let more people know about/ speak cantonese
Keep it up💪🏻💪🏻
Same thought!! From a Hongkonger
超厲害的！！
中国人not香港人btw
一樣哈哈哈 有啲驚嚇到 都有啲感動 雖然廣東話平時都有人學 但見到yt有專教廣東話的channel仲有咁多人訂閱 真係好開心 廣東話有救啦！😭
@@wizzrard2099 ？
My husband said that your Cantonese is excellent! Now I am learning Cantonese, because we live here in Hong Kong, and my children going to local school. I understand basic Cantonese, but I am now working hard to improve it and you are helping me a lot 😊Love your teaching, and my very appreciation for "juitping" tone🙏 (By the way my husband Hong Kong Chinese)
Hi Diana and thank you so much for commenting and I'm so glad I can help (and glad the jyutping is helpful :D ) Best of luck to you and please tell your husband thanks for the vote of confidence! :)
Isn't not just excellent, she sounds like a fluent native speaker. A lot of people who learn Chinese learn how to speak but lack the ability to express emotions
As a Hongkonger, if u want to learn cantonese, this channel is a great way to learn. Very clear, pronunciation is accurate!
hong kong is inside China and no such word called hong konger😂 you are chinese
Wow… look what I found, as a HongKonger I’m very proud!!!! And you speak Cantonese so so so well🥰🥰 多謝你
You reacted like Cantonese is only speaking in Hong Kong!
@@FengXiao168 Well I mean it soon may be...
@@FengXiao168 I support that Cantonese as a language set doesn't only belong to Hongkong people as it should instead belong to all Cantonese people. But the premise is just that Cantonese people can't lose their identity first.
Feng Xiao not you putting words in their mouth when all they said is they’re from hong kong
Your pronunciation is so good, like a native.
As someone who was raised in Hong Kong, the authenticity of your Cantonese really amazed me. I have not never met any westerner who could speak Cantonese as well as you. Marvelous!
Omg, I've never seen anyone like you who can speak so natively in both languages with no contaminated accent. I know alot of ABC, BBC who have accents when they speak cantonese. But you switch between the two seamlessly, didn't even change your voice. Just Wow!
Wow, I'm so impressed. As a second generation chinese - cantonese speaker, you're killing it! You probably speak cantonese much better than myself
thanks for this, I'm just starting with Cantonese and decided to cover the tones first before learning meaning and grammar. This is a very helpful video to get started on the tones.
Thank you so much that you promote our language to the worldwide! You speak Cantonese like a native speaker!
Was brought here by TH-cam's algorithm. Thank you for promoting Cantonese to English speakers! Please keep up your brilliant videos :) Support from HK.
Your Cantonese is excellent. I never thought about all the different ways we use lei in Cantonese because we just say it. But seeing you use it in these many different tones make me appreciate the intricacies of our language
Thanks for teaching and spreading Cantonese!!!! I really appreciate all that you poured into spreading our language! Keep up your fabulous job
you showed up on my recommended lists, and this channel is an absolute gem! My family speaks cantonese, but as someone that was born in the states, it becomes hard to remember and pronounce all these characters, so thank you!
As a HongKonger, I think you did an extremely good job. You are really good good at Cantonese. Thank you for spreading our local culture🥰
Expat?
Cantonese can be one of the hardest languages in the world, thanks for making such detail teaching material.
我自己都被迫移民離開香港，係外國反而見到有香港人主張要融入當地社區就必須放棄母語。
而有時下一代，人既然已經唔係香港，如果唔想講廣東話，又真係唔應該強迫。
結果內心好矛盾，真係好擔心廣東話會係我再下一代消失。
非常感謝有心人繼續幫忙傳承。支持。
You’re amazing. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and bridging cultures. As a Chinese American you are helping me regain my skills I slowly lost as I got older.
As someone who spent 2-3 years learning Cantonese with native speakers I wish I had found your channel earlier, such clear and logical teaching, and you demonstrate the pronunciation so well -wish I could upvote twice!
As a native cantonese speaker, I learnt something from this video too! I didn't know there were such detailed written form of cantonese pronounciation. I sincerely appreciate the learing materials you have prepared and the Cantonese culture you spreading on the Internet. Very nice video there, keep up the good work!
The "LEIZY" and "MAAMI" part has me in tears that is so good!
you explained everything so wonderfully!!! Im so lucky to have found you ❤
Thank you so much!! I'm so happy to read your comment. Really made my day! Happy learning! :)
so happy to know someone teaching Cantonese! Appreciate yr work!加油！
Hearing the switch between English and perfect Cantonese feels so unreal. Great work.
I am a Hongkonger but for some reason TH-cam recommended this. Just wanna say you absolutely speak like native and it’s really well done!
Actually I am learning how to speak Cantonese here, I got some improvements in my Cantonese speaking, while I am born and raise in HK…..
Sooo much appreciate, you have such a passion, thank you for supporting Cantonese!!!!
I’m amazed to bump into this video! Thanks for supporting Cantonese!
Cantonese is a difficult language, not only different in form with writing n speaking, but the pronounce action is really complicated. I am really glad to hv Cantonese as my mother language, it helps me so much for picking up other languages. Deeply appreciate that you made video abt Cantonese, ur pronunciation is really good, local, smooth n accurate. xx
You are definitely very "leih hoi" in Cantonese! As a Hongkonger, I really appreciate how you put in your heart in promoting Cantonese and HK culture! One small comment on the 5th sound, I heard that when you speak the 5th tone alone (e.g. 8:46), you actually spoke the 2nd tone mid rising instead. However, when put together in a word (e.g. 9:43) you do use the right 5th tone. I remember when I was young I also used to mix up this two tone as well, so I absolutely understand this small mistake and it doesn't take away how you explain really well these words!
Another suggestion on the tone practice is you could find a word which has all 6 tones. They are quite rare but I found it quite helpful for me to distinguish the tones (especially 2 vs 5 and 3 v 5). The word I use is "Si" and "Fan". "Si" as in poems/private (詩/私), history (史), try/test (試), time/hour (時), city/market (市) and yes/incidents/demonstrate (是/事/示). "Fan" as in wedding (婚), powder (粉), to train (訓), to burn (焚), anger (憤) and part (份).
Finally, I hope you all well in the states, and although I am sorry that you have to leave, I am happy for you as well! Wish you all well and continue to thrive no matter where you are!
Thank you so much! It is sooo true -- I have the hardest time saying the words individually, but when I put them together in a sentence, it seems to come out just right. 😆
And thank you for the tone practice words -- I am going to try harder to get them right. I have a video I did with a friend and it was so much fun but it was SO hard to get the words for "hard" and "eye" right. 😂 You can see it here:
th-cam.com/video/PvQMlZqNyhs/w-d-xo.html
The best part of my channel for me is all the comments and support, so thank you again and thank you for all the well wishes! I hope to get back to Hong Kong before too much time passes, but am doing well here in the US. Much love and thanks! ❤️
Hi I am from Hong Kong ! You speak Cantonese very excellent 😻 speak like a native speaker and you explain all of them so detailed ‼️✨
You are awesome! Your Cantonese is so well. Thank you for supporting Cantonese and loving our language.
Omg! ur Cantonese accent is legit, flawless！And you have such an in-depth study on the Cantonese pronunciations. Fascinating! 超正囖！
哇你D粤語講得好流暢！好犀利！！OAO
Wow you speak Cantonese so fluently! That's incredible! I've never heard of a foreigner speak Cantonese that fluent as a Hong Kong citizen
Your videos have helped me communicate better with my mum! Shes from Guangzhou, and I was born in Australia - thanks so much for your work!! :D
I'm so happy to know it! Thanks so much, and to your mom a big happy néih hóu! 您 好 ! :D
Really appreciate your hardwork and your passion to share knowledge xx
Your Tones are so accurate, good on you to learn the local language. I think it's important to learn wherever you live, I did German while in Switzerland.
Thank you and I agree 100%! I couldn't have lived in Hong Kong and not learn ... and same would be true wherever I live. But wow! German to me always seems so hard to learn -- harder than Cantonese! :)
@@CantoneseCorner no way im German and i struggle with cantonese tones lol
I like the way she also mention different kinds of pair and even mention Chinese pear as dessert. I think it's very motivating🍐😊
Thank you for teaching us Cantonese. I'm going to use your video clips to teach my kids Cantonese. Please share more video. Merci! 多謝哂!
This is randomly came up on my feed. But your Cantonese is awesome! And thank you for devoting a channel to our wonderful language
your cantonese is so good
as well as many younger hong konger
thanks for promoting cantonese
we don’t know when will we lose it
btw cantonese is the fantastic language and i love it
Thank you so much your Cantonese tutorials! Much appreciated! 多謝你教大家廣東話，非常欣賞 ☺️☺️☺️
Hi， Miss Sue. This is the first video teaching westerners Cantonese I have ever seen made by a westerner, and you are doing a terrific job of it. Just some extra information for lei Hoi which means to leave, people prefer to say "leih gei shi zao" or "leih gei dim chung zao“. I think it's more colloquial way than lei hoi. Another one is that we normally call someone named Mr. Lee "Lee Saang" without "sin". I think it's quite difficult for someone whose mother tongue with no tones to learn Cantonese so well. I am so impressed by your videos.
You make learning Cantonese so relaxing and as if it really isn't that difficult. Thank you!
Thank you for saying so! ❤️ I've never really thought about it, but if I were aiming or planning for a way to teach, "relaxing" would definitely be the way I'd want it to be, so glad to know it comes across that way. Happy learning! :)
Madame, you speak a very fluent Cantonese! I am totally shock by that, haha. Thanks for all your efforts to spread our mother tongue!
All Cantonese speakers would greatly appreciate the respect you have for our language and culture. one note on 6) leih 利, "sharp" might actually be a more accurate translation because it can be used to describe a person but also a knife/sword/pair of scissors. Besides using it as an adjective, it can also be used as a noun, in that case it would mean benefits, interest (in a loan/savings) and profits. When you use it as verb it only means "benefit".
Thank you for adding to the conversation and teaching me/us more! And yes! 利息 (leih sīk) interest is a word I know well. :)
As a native HKer now living in the US, I am amazed the way you speak Cantonese even better than my US born daughter in a 100% Cantonese family. Very proud of you and admire your effort mastering one of the most difficult languages to learn. Congratulations on your success and best wishes to your family back in the US.
Excellent Cantonese teaching. Thanks for promoting Cantonese.
Wow you’re good. Please keep these contents coming. I love learning it. My aunt lives in HK and listening to this reminds me so much of her! ❤️
Hey just discovered your channel as a native Cantonese speaker I want to thank you for making videos like these! We love to see more Cantonese lesson videos like these online.
Also in around 8:30 you were mentioning that it is difficult and confusing that laih/leih(4th tone) could mean BOTH "come" and "leave" at the same time. I definitely agree that these are two very similar sounding words that could totally get confused. But personally I'm able to distinguish the two words completely because of their different vowels and these two words will usually be used in different contexts and usages. I'd like to share my personal experience with these two words.
laih(4th tone) = to come (嚟) - this word could usually be used on its own (for example 嚟啦！- come!)and it is a basic commonly used word, a part of the 'native' and 'core' Cantonese vocabulary.
leih(4th tone) = to leave (離) -whereas this word is more literary(although still common), and is more often used in compound words rather than on its own. It is often used with compound words like: 離開，離婚，別離，愛恨別離 etc.
So yeah since these two words are used in quite different context, I still find that it is completely possible to distinguish them. And also I totally agree that these two words have 'similar vowels,' but to me their vowels still sound distinct! Anyway I still think your Cantonese is amazing.
You are a real expert! Intelligent and with sweet voice.
First time here and gotta say thank you very much for your effort in keeping the cantonese going on.
Far better than any so called online teacher or whatever teacher.
This kind of lesson is really giving student money's worth.
I love the ‘gwo làih’ in Cantonese because the Chinese teachers at my kindergarten in Shenzhen always said “过来！” (guó lai) in Mandarin. It’s cool seeing the similarities between the languages :)
I am a Hong Konger and I speak Cantonese. Thank you for your efforts on promoting Cantonese.
Support and respect!!! You are great!!!
I can’t believe TH-cam just suddenly recommended this and it certainly blew me away with how fluent you sound, and I really loved this video, a little correction that I’ll say is the part where you asked “when to leave” no one really says leih hoi for when to leave, it would most likely be 走 instead. I never had to learn pinyin for canto but it’s certainly fun and frustrating to hear all the tones we have 😂 thank you for this video and now I’m going to binge watch all your videos cause I’m fascinated.
WOW~IMPRESSIVE! You are AMAZING in your Cantonese speaking/teaching!!!!! Your teaching is so detailed and clear. Bravo~~👍👍👍👍💗💗💗💗
Amazing in your English speaking so well too.
Thanks for your effort in teaching Cantonese!!!
I lived in HK 5 yrs working. I went to Cantonese school for 4 yrs during that time. I have to say Cantonese is one of the most difficult languages to learn. It takes many years to learn with so many tones.
How many other languages have you studied to deduce this?
Hi Sue, you are the Best teacher for Cantonese so far I have found, I came From Hing Kong 46 years ago (now in Canada), I shared your channel with my son and daughter just now (they both born here in Canada) manager to speak and understand simple Cantonese but not too good with slang or listening to news bulletin...Seeing you holding the Board with one hand is very tiring, you might want to hang the Board on the wall and relax yourself a bit，thank you very much for your good job.
I couldn't care less about learning Chinese, I just like the asmr of someone rambling. Reminds me of my childhood when I heard my parents talking in the living room but I couldn't understand what they were saying.
Thank you so much for not giving up Cantonese 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️
Great lesson! Thank you 💯
Thanks for letting me know! I'll have another one up soon :)
Thank you Margarit. We enjoy and learn at the same time watching your videos.
Thank you! I'm so glad :)
I'm surprised about how accurate you speak Cantonese. Super!
Wow, your Cantonese is even better than the local. Thank for your teaching and sharing. Keep our culture extend longer in the history
wow impressive......you got the exact sound of those words...u rock!
Thank you for promoting Cantonese!
I was not expecting this. Very authentic Hong Kong Cantonese accent. The mild southern American accent is a bonus. Reminds me of Sheldon's mother, Mrs Cooper!
I shared your channel for my children’s young family 😄 thank you 🙏
Your pronunciation is absolutely amazing, I consider myself fluent since I grew up with it but my younger brother is quite bad even though he, like me, grew up with it. So I can say that your pronunciation is immaculate, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference if a native speaker was speaking.
As a side note, I would like to mention that under your 5th tone, the definition for "ignore", although accurate in an extreme context, can also mean "don't care" in such that "care" means "caring", such as "I don't care" or "they don't care" and wouldn't necessarily mean that I'm ignoring (it/you/them). A contextual example would be, "What about John?" and the response is "I don't care (about John)". Not that you're ignoring them but you don't really care about what they are thinking or feeling (or chooses what to do). That said, it can't be used as a response if say asked "What do you want to eat?" because although in English, saying "I don't care" can mean "I don't care, I can eat anything", in Cantonese, this same phrase can't be used and if it is used, it can have the connotation of "I don't care about my hunger" which can feel very stand-off'ish, almost as if saying "Why do you care if I'm hungry?". Instead, if we want to use the English meaning of "I don't care", in Cantonese, we should use "si dan" which essentially means "whatever/anything works"
As an australian born chinese, my canto has gone out the door throughout the years. Seeing this video reminds me that i am lucky to have learnt cantonese from birth, and to keep on improving on it even though i use it less and less.
TH-cam just introduced this video to me, haha don't know why, and you speak perfectly, with no accent at all!!!!! so impressed, please keep up the great work! add oil
睇呢條片，我好認真咁去聽緊一位教師的教導，接受知識。
因為在中學時期，我很少去認真聽老師的課堂，所以不知學習的樂趣。
原來去聽一位好專業咁去教人既老師講野，係咁既感覺，直接接收知識的感覺。
thank you. the tutorial means a lot. you made my day🧡
your cantonese pronunciations are spot-on.
Oh my god. This is great. I’m American but Chinese and struggle with Cantonese. Will study from you going forward
Wow!!! You are amazing!! I wish I could speak cantonese well as you, you sound so good!
really happy there's still people appreciate Cantonese
You’re so good I’m impressed as a Cantonese speaker
it is absolutely perfect!!!!
As a HK ppl i support you to teach ppl to learn Cantonese 👍👍
This is beautiful !!!
Omg the way you say Cantonese is so smooth! Definitely gonna share this with my friends
Thank you!! 😁 I hope they like it, too! 💖
Good on you.....even as a HKer with a native English speaker partner,hard to tell him how the way to learn my mother tongue.Very details and systematic approach
What a great channel! Thank you very much!
omg just accidentally saw your video
How beautiful is your voice (like so soft compare with HK ladies including me haha
and soo impressed to hear how accurate you can speak!
Thank you for teaching Cantonese! I've share with my UK friends already!
Really appreciated!
You sound accurate and quite soothing 😊
I am going to ask my American bought daughter to watch your channel to learn Cantonese. You are a good Cantonese teacher.
Ohh my 😍 i love learning Cantonese proper pronounciation🤗 this is so good👍
As a Macaunese, I am super impressed!!!
This is so good, I’m from Hong Kong thank you for appreciate cantonese
OMG your Cantonese is so good, my husband has been living in Hong Kong for more than 20 yrs and he still can’t speak it🤦🏼♀️
非常支持你💪🏻💪🏻
You are even doing better than most of the native speakers, very impressive …
your cantonese pronunciation is perfect 🤩