Learn Cantonese for Beginners - Tones and pitches in Jyutping | Carmen at EC Language
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2022
- Hello everybody ✨ A very warm welcome to my Introduction to Cantonese series!
This series will follow a very similar structure to Mandarin in which I explain to you how to read the romanisation system first then teach you some basic words while getting you to practise using the romanisation. I will also talk about similarities with Mandarin as well to help Mandarin learners and speakers out there.
So in today's video, I start by teaching you the pitches and tones in Cantonese. Unlike mandarin, where there are 4 distinct tones, Cantonese has more. Now accordingly, Cantonese has 9 tones but there are 6 you really need to worry about, its harder than mandarin because here you really need to pay attention to your pitch.
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Thank you Carmen. It's not easy to find a chanel to teach Cantonese for beginners like you. Thanks a million.
I'm glad you enjoy these videos!
Thank you for this you're so adorable and I'm lucky to discover you're channel
Good job
Saludos desde Venezuela, me gusta mucho el cantones lo estudio por mi cuenta,gracias por tu contenido
One of the best explanations I've ever seen about the tones in Cantonese. So, you've just got one more subscriber. 多谢 :)
Thank you~
Great job! You really should be getting more views for clear and concise lessons. I have watch a few of your lessons and they are consistently well put together. One notion that I have seldom seen mentioned is the "z" words often sound like they start with a "j" for example "zo2" (left) whereas the "j" words sound like they start with a "y" such as "yan4" (person). Not sure why romanization of cantonese causes this disconnect from english letters to english sounds but it is confusing at times.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy my lesson videos here on TH-cam, your support is highly appreciated. I do find the Jyutping system quite strange as well, considering the 'z' and 'j' you mentioned. My theory is that they are based on the International Phonetic Alphabet, which is a system to help people pronounce English words. In the IPA system, the 'y' sounds (as in "yoyo") are represented with the IPA /j/, while the 'j' sounds (as in "jelly") are represented with the the IPA /dʒ/, and I have seen the letter 'z' written like 'ʒ' sometimes, I think Jyutping was partially based on the IPA hence the confusing representations
The tones are a real challenge for me... When listening, I find it difficult to differentiate them, and when using them myself, I feel very inconsistent... My wife says "people will understand from the context...唔好諗咁多!"
And she is absolutely right!
妳啲聲調唔準呀，小心。
多謝反饋 🙏🏻 麻煩請詳細解釋下邊一啲聲調唔準呢？我意識到我所發音嘅 maa5稍微有啲高，除此之外仲有邊一部分呢？