【Guangzhou Vlog】I Tried ONLY Speaking Cantonese for A Day
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Thank you so much to 徐哥 aka Lowkay for showing us around in Guangzhou (and bearing with me for speaking such awful Cantonese throughout the day)!
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More of these!! These are really entertaining and educational. Especially the mispronounced words 😂😂 loved the ending 😂😂😂
I enjoyed making it too! Definitely would try to make more in the future.
@@ChinesewithJessie Surprisingly, when u paused to correct a word, I think the rest of us kinda learn at that moment too! Very useful, even more so since it's every day conversational sentences!
Wow your Cantonese sounds really good. Gotta be tough coming from a Mandarin background getting the tones to sound so on point. Also, your man got good taste in music; that shirt he's rocking is sick. BTW drunk version you with the bf is simultaneously hilarious and adorable lol
😂😂 Gao Tong；溝通 -> 交通 （communicate became traffic)
太好笑了。I miss Guangzhou ❤️
交通 In ancient Chinese means both communication and traffic.
And also in English, "Communication" refers to "traffic" in many circumstances.
Quite interesting.
This is one of the best ways to learn a different dialect/ language… hanging out/eating/ drinking with a friend/ BF! So cute together! Love all the filler (colloquial) words! (Hard to learn that in books)!
this is adorable haha! I'm native cantonese and I thought your cantonese is really good (way better than my mandarin anyway...)
I loved this video and it's my first time commenting. This is definitely a different side of you that's quite refreshing.
Please do more videos showing Shenzen. Canto and English speakers here trying to learn Mando, so going in the opposite direction of you! Your videos are very helpful and so much fun!
Hi Kelly, I'm so glad you like them! This vlog was filmed in Shenzhen, and there will be more to come :) th-cam.com/video/6I7zNnKJqNI/w-d-xo.html&t
Same here!! American here with native fluency in Canto and English but I am absolutely useless in Mandarin. I have a long trip to China planned for next year and I am screwed lol
I think your Cantonese was extremely good. A major challenge in learning Cantonese is to not fall back on a Cantonese pronunciation of the Mandarin equivalent if you know the Mandarin word. Going home - hui jia - could easily be pronounced as something like "wui gaa" but the proper way to say it is "fan uk-kei". And if you know the Mandarin word and it's the same as the Cantonese, you still have to learn the tones for the Cantonese word. Or just do what I do and speak it really fast.
Dude lol I'm so used to Jessie doing her usual wave at the end of a video, but seeing her do the wave and then fumble the camera made me lol. Great video. Got to see a casual side to Jessie I've never seen before haha.
This is super impressive! I love your channel. It would also be really cool to see something like this in your Jiangxi dialect! Thanks for posting!
"You know it's good when the grandmas are here" is accurate the world over.
Loved your Canto for a day vlogs and Guangzhou eats! Loved you speaking Cantonese & showing us around. Would like to see more of these videos
12:25 滾水 is _boiled water_
13:25 自由古巴 Cuba Libre is known as generically _Rum and Cola_ or _Rum and Coke®_ . It is also _Bacardi® and Coke®_ if one wants that specific, more expensive brand of rum.
14:00 _Spectacles_ refers to the entire pair of eyeglasses including the frame. The element that popped out is one of the _lenses_ .
for 12:25 should say 好焫 instead, sounds more gramatically correct
I think 好熱 sounds better. 呢杯茶好熱，焫嘴㗎！
Every time I hear Cantonese, I just love the tones; it sounds so expressive! I postponed trying to learn it once I tried Mandarin. I am unsure why, but Mandarin was so much easier to comprehend for me. Sigh 😔 even hearing you speak it makes me sad, wishing I could too.
You guys (in China) probably don't realise how exotic to many foreigners some of those streets look like! :) Beautiful, beautiful and, again, beautiful :) As for Mandarin learner and Chinese culture lover - Cantonese is a different language and it sounds very different. BTW, English is not my first language either, so sorry for mistakes :)
Cantonese is indeed very different! I'm a canto speaker and I don't understand mandarin, only a few basic words and phrases. Cantonese has more tones than mandarin, different sentence structure and grammar and I believe it also has more english loanwords, especially in Hong Kong, due to it being a British colony in the past.
Jessie is a real beauty
I love how you try to translate mistakes like “doy”
Love your videos. They are very genuine showing a non-native speaking Cantonese. I love that as you speak and make corrections. This shows great effort on your part.
Many of my friends find that Cantonese is harsh on their ears when they heard it for the first time. How did Cantonese sounds to you when you heard it for the first time? Why did you want to learn Cantonese?
Cantonese is alot freer in its colloquial. It is like Jazz improvisation as compared to formality of classic music. They both are good and serve their purpose.
Do more Cantonese and your home dialect videos. ❤❤❤
I also love you accent!! Keep it and don’t loose it. It is so cute.
Malaysian Cantonese here who was searching for China Cantonese content, came across this video. I learnt a lot from this vlog and I subscribed. Keep up the good quality content!
This was great to watch and see how Mandarin and Cantonese share some characters and yet have the weirdest exceptions (like fat being "pang" vs "fei")
My brain definitely didn't miss "the moment" you had with chopsticks at 07:11... 😜🤓
That noodle restaurant you went to in liwan is so good. It's always busy.
Also I live in 江南西 where you went drinking. It's got the best coffee shops and bars for chilling out
Guangzhou got vibes!
小姐姐好棒啊！努力学粤语的态度太赞了👍👍👍
Really enjoyed the interactions between you 2. You can tell in Guangzhou the main attractions are eating and shopping!😢
He seems like a really cool, calm and nice guy...why doesn't he smile?!
This's really great, after learning Korean, I want to expand to Cantonese since some pronunciations are similar.
I'm Cantonese and I agree Korean has the old Han Chinese tones that Cantonese has. I have heard the same words used by some Koreans I met.
Cantonese is VERY beautiful, but I must first reach HSK6 (9...) before I even think about learning it.
It seems about as far from Mandarin as Romanian is from French. Not mutually intelligible but even with shifts like fa for hua I can detect lots of cognates.
Glad you are picking out the cognates! I would say it's more like French & Italian/Spanish.
French & Romanian would be like Mandarin & the Minnan languages (Taiwanese/ Amoy/ Teochew) with even more differences in grammar & pronunciation.
@@Jumpoable Mandarin has just 4 tones Canto has at least 9.
I speak French and Spanish and Canto and Mando are much further apart than those two and waaay further than Italian and Spanish (which are mutually intelligible).
If you let them write characters then canto and mando are mutually intelligible but without hanzi, no.
@@QuizmasterLaw Nope, some books still keep saying Canto has 9 tones, but NOBODY speaks with 9 anymore (LOL perhaps in the Qing dynasty). Modern Hong Kong Canto has 6 tones, Guangzhou has an extra high dropping tone so that makes 7 at most.
I also speak French & Spanish.
;)
Considering how different French pronunciation is from Spanish & Italian I'd say that's akin to Cantonese & Putonghua. Cantonese & Hakka would be like Italian & Spanish. But of course, Europe is much smaller than China, so there can't really be a one-to-one comparison.
Add oil with your Hanzi !
@@Jumpoable I don't think you understand when people say Canto has 9 "tones". 6 of them are unique tone CONTOURS. The last 3 are entering/clipped/checked "tones" 入聲, where they end very suddenly with k,t,p sounds so they don't have time to rise or fall, and instead are just distributed in high, mid, low and have the same tone contours as tone 1, 3, 6. That's why it's called 9聲6調.
So yes, everyone who speaks Cantonese uses 9 "tones" even today, which means they speak with those 6 tone contours & the 3 入聲, entering tones.
I heard Mandarin. You failed the challenge. But your pronunciation isn't too bad for someone who's learning. Keep it up. 😊
Drunk Jessie seems like fun time. 😂
I thought your canto was actually quite good! Yes, some wrong words and tones, but overall I could understand you rather well and you have a much better grasp of the grammar than I do 😅
Love the canto crossover content. Also love your friends MF Doom shirt lol
10:07 Like she has never been in restaurants in her country. That was funny. xD This whole video is just funnier minute after minute xD
Nice job on your Cantonese! Long Island Iced Tea is a dangerous cocktail! It is made sweet and easy to drink but it has a LOT of different alcohols in it...Vodka, Gin, Rum, Tequila. It's no wonder you got so drunk!
Thank you for speaking Cantonese in Canton for 1 day!
Unfortunately a lot of Cantonese kids in GZ won't even speak in Cantonese for 1 whole day even when they are off from school!
LOL very impressive for a non-Cantonese speaker but you accidentally said so many swear words! [hai] (tone 1 instead of 2/6), [gau] instead of [kau] & [jue hai] instead of [jue hoi]!
:P
& I notice you keep saying [yam] 淫 ("perverted/ lecherous") instead of [yan] 人 ("person")!
A few pointers: not all [n] finals become [m] in Cantonese.
Like [saan] 山 & [saam] 三.
And for most Putonghua speakers, the Cantonese 'aa' & 'a' sounds really trip people up.
Long 'aa' is just [aa] but short 'a' in Cantonese is really like English 'u' as in 'yum' or 'but'
So 身/新 'san' 深/心 'sam' just sounds like English "sun" & "sum" NOT [saan] or [saam] which would be the above 山 & 三.
You can see that the short 'a' in Cantonese corresponds to Putonghua 'e' & 'I' but Cantonese 'aa' is just like Putonghua 'a'.
Also, be aware of the distinct [p] [t] [k] endings in Cantonese. I guess you just have to remember them as Mandarin has dropped them all. But since you speak English fluently you should have no problem pronouncing them.
Keep up the good work, as I can see that you have a knack for learning languages from your level of English!
Would LOVE you to do more videos of you introducing your own Jiangxi dialect! There's hardly any representation of that in media or even online!
Thank you so much for your kind advice! The difference between "m" and "n" is definitely a big headache for me, also some exclusive Cantonese sounds in characters like 想/张, I still struggle to pronounce my name lol coz my last name is 张. But I'll keep trying!
Also my dialect is Jiangxi not Guangxi haha, but I get what you mean. I'll definitely include more dialects in the future videos, they're just beautiful and unique.
Thanks again!
@@ChinesewithJessie LOL omg so sorry. Yes, Jiangxi. See, that's my Cantonese brain mixing the 2 up since it's Gong and Gwong...
你啲廣東話唔錯呀！哈哈。如果你想講 the tea is hot，你都可以講「啲茶好熱（hou2 yit6）」
Got it! Thanks!
醉貓Jessie好得意😂
I can only wish I could be this cute with my "not-salty-not-bland" Mandarin.
Hi! I’m loving your videos! 💗 I’m super interested in any kind of analysis of Faye Wong’s Cantonese, because I know she learned it when she moved to Hong Kong to become a singer. I know you like Wong Kar Wai films, if this is an interesting topic maybe you can look at Chungking Express?
Also I wonder if it’s improved since she started dating Nicholas Tse again? 🤔 Just and idea! Thanks!! 🥰
The ending was EPIC!!!
So delicious, so funny! Thank you for sharing! Love your videos.
Great job Jessie! ❤😊
Amazing city, looks so fun, perfect end to the day, get hammered and pass out! 😂
How long have you been speaking canto because it's pretty good
Hi I don't speak much Mandarin but my Cantonese is intermediate level. In Shenzhen can you use exclusively Cantonese and still get by?
The fall at the end :D
Your Cantonese is pretty good!❤❤❤
My parents from HK and I was born in US so my cantonese sounds just like yours. It's that broken cantonese lol.
涼拌魚皮超級好吃，在番禺那個古鎮吃過，念念不忘
😹😹😹It’s funny to watch~ I always thought native language of Shenzhen is mandarin. Mean that Shenzhen local people is communicates with Cantonese? Anyway , thanks for the info👍🏻
Shenzhen is in Guangdong, where Cantonese is the main language. It's also super close to HK, I believe.
Shenzhen local people are about half Cantonese-speaking（Guangfu） and half Hakka. But 85%~95% of people in SZ come form other areas, mostly Teochew, Hunan & Jiangxi.
@@ReiKoko NO. Shenzhen is geographically in Guangdong province, & yes, it's just across the border to HK. However it's a completely new city, so everyone immigrated there from other parts of China, so the main language is Putonghua. Cantonese will not get you ANYWHERE. Hardly ANYBODY understands Cantonese there, especially people in the service industry & cab drivers. But hey the restaurants feature cuisines from all over China so it's a great place for foodies.
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I can hear an accent but your grammar and rhythym is fine. Your tones are good enough. I like how you messed up the eng subs like you mess up the word lol.
I thought Jessie from Malaysia as she can speak English. Mandarin and Cantonese. In Malaysia the Chinese Malaysian can speak English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka " Dan Lain.Lain lag" Most definitely can speak Malay as our National language.
I wish more mainland tried to speak cantonese. You go into that area, you learn it. Even a few sentences.
回头我也试试这个challenge但是我得找我朋友帮忙
You make me feel like going to Guang Zhou to have the honkong feel. I realise when you are tipsy you pronoun Cantonese better. Same with me 😂😂😂 because we no longer that conscious anymore hahaha
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His lips are perfectly leveled with your Eye Height ... every time you want assurance for what you're saying you just turn around and stare at his eye leveled lips! XD
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太可愛的
Another grate video
What's 爐排?
@@ChinesewithJessie me pretending I know what I'm doing? >.
@@FrankTulloch 😂😂
As a native Mandarin speaker did/do you need to study Cantonese to speak it, or can you just pick it up from the mutual intelligible parts?
Don't they have some different words and even different grammatical structures?
Yes a lot of the words and grammars are different, I didn't actually study it, I just picked up words and sentence structures from Cantonese movies/TV series/songs, and then try to practice speaking with my bf. That's just me though, can't speak for other people who are trying to learn Cantonese.
@@ChinesewithJessie Right, but I figure as a native Mandarin speaker and good at languages (your English is basically native, I can't think of or hear anything to correct) it would give me an idea of how much I'm going to have to learn beyond a bunch of extra tones and at least some new vocabulary. Thanks!
@@QuizmasterLaw As a native Cantonese speaker, I understood zero Mandarin as a child until I learned/studied it back in high school and now I can understand and converse in it at an intermediate level. If it's like that for me, then conversely it'll be the same for you from Mandarin to Canto.
The two languages are different through and through, from pronunciation, to grammar, and to words and expressions (some Cantonese expressions have no equivalent translations in Mandarin).
@TravelerPat I've heard that the lexical similarity between Mandarin and Cantonese is less than 50%. Even if the words are the same in Canto and Mandarin, their usages are often different (e.g. "食" is used as both the verb "to eat" and part of the noun "food" in Cantonese, whereas that's only used as part of the noun "food" in Mandarin, with "吃" meaning "to eat" instead for Mandarin, and that character doesn't exist in vernacular Cantonese).
@TravelerPat Swatow & Teochew is located geographically in Guangdong province, but your culture & languages are more closely related to Minnan group of languages in Fujian (Amoy/Taiwanese) & also Hainanese in Hainan island. Teochew is of course more similar to Cantonese than Mandarin, as they're both southern Chinese languages, but you would have no problem understanding Amoy speech or Taiwanese if you spoke fluent Teochew.
OMG I want to go to GZ to eat old school Cantonese food now!!!!!
O____o
They're called "pig intestine (rice) noodle" because rolled up they just look like pig intestines. I guess it's Cantonese vegan sausage LOL.
Jessie
Your English quite good
you from 外國 ?
It's so cute when she's buzz and mispronounces.
I went GZ a few years ago, and the majority of the people there spoke mandarin. Where in GZ do they speak Cantonese? I would like to visit a place in GZ where they speak Cantonese.
Philippines 🇵🇭❤️
Can get by in Guangzhou if I only spoke Cantonese? I can’t speak Mandarin but it seems like most of the urban areas only speak Mandarin even if they all speak it with an accent.
Can definitely just speak cantonese in Guangzhou. Shenzhen though I don't think so.
非母语人士学成这样不错了。
Only a few can speak only Cantonese without mixing in English words. The traditional Cantonese no longer exists. It was destroyed by the same people who were supposed to preserve it.
5:49 Cheong-fun?
Interesting...
In Mexico we call them Chun Kun
This video was super cool…loved it, however, you look sleepy and boring when you’re drunk, hahahaha. Thanks!!!
I thought she just looks drunk- I found it adorable. Looked like she was having a good time.
你的粤语算是不错。看周星驰电影一定要看粤语喔
Bros at Hong Kong like me I live in Hong kong
江西话是怎样的？会否介绍介绍？？
昨天看你视频跟那位加拿大精通20多门语言的老大爷视频连线时说的广东话挺好，今天刷到这个视频你的广东原来曾经这么生涩😅😅😅
Jessie said herself was juicy lmfao btw I can understand and don’t need captions but it’s fine bc some people don’t understand
芫茜 has two pronunciations.
16:01 非常突然，我爆笑左XD
Lai lai sek fan.
Don't need to double 'lai'
You can say 'lai sik sik faan" though.
If you're just saying lai then yes you can double 'lai lai'
Lei kong mat nye ya?
Nei (or lei) gong mat ye ah?
Not 'nye' or 'ya'
cute!
0:00 我係香港人 :3
支持廣東話
very good cantonese, hai ha lei, LOL
YOU DON'T GET THE aSIAN allergic REDNess
Jessie has a boyfriend! OMG
我又想聽下江西話
Hi ...i thought your boyfriend got blonde hair??? Dump him already har?😮
Try speaking Dine'(Navajo) a day
😂 講得好!
hhh，interesting！