Cantonese phrases you don’t want to get wrong
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If you don’t want to make embarrassing mistakes, let Luisa Tam explain the real meaning behind dai zau dim in Cantonese or “big hotel” and why it’s not a good place to meet friends for social activities.
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True. I study cantonese.
It look so unnatural to see an Asian elderly with bleach blonde.
brown looksore natural.
She has the best sense of humor!
Ngaam zeoi ying - very pleasant to chat with
Ngaam key - compatible
Dai zau dim - big hotel - in Cantonese 'a funeral home'
Nei jau beng - you're sick
- There's something wrong with you
Hung maau - panda
Xie xie lao shi!👍
You say do jai not xie xie
Lol im actually from hk
I appreciate this video a lot lol
Thanks for the tips. It’s very helpful.
2:24
More of an insult tbh lol
It look so unnatural to see an Asian elderly with bleach blonde.
brown looksore natural.
with certain tone of voice, it can be perceived as an insult. What i mean by that is that it can also mean ‘are you crazy?’ or something along the lines of that.
@@condorX2 oh my gosh it’s you again. The person who wouldn’t accept other opinions other than your own. You tried to brainwash people and here you are being racist. If you reply back i will delete my comment and forget this ever happened
@@coconut7 yeah, depends on your tone mostly. The people I’ve met use it as an insult instead of using it as of expressing concern
yeah it is, though tone and context definitely plays a part. (as a cantonese speaker myself)
聽完妳說，我廣東話進步了一百倍，謝謝妳!
I like this alot!
Thankyou Luisa 🙂
2:24 as a hong konger, it means "u got a problem?" but in a insulting way
Will the Cantonese language survive or will Hong Kong eventually speak Mandarin?
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Cantonese has 80 million native speakers. It isn't going to die out anytime soon.
Cantonese in the mainland will die out in the future, primarily because the new generation don’t like to speak it at everyday life, not even at home. In the Guangdong province, there are many cities that have their own dialects and rarely people in those cities speaks Cantonese, they’d rather speak the dialect instead.
Love. ♥️👍
How about DLLM?
Being canto, I can tell you some of these are true when I was younger.
Meanwhile in Spanish: 'its free real estate'
Great video! However, I would recommend writing the Cantonese words into the subtitles by their traditional character form as well.
"Dai jau tim" means funeral home perhaps in "Hong Kong language", not really in Cantonese. For me, a Cantonese, I love to visit "Dai jau tim" around the world. For heaven's sake, stop corrupting the Cantonese dialect, Hong Kong people !!! Just claim them as Hong Kong slang, not Cantonese phrases.
it's not corrupting the language, Hong Kong Cantonese is the prestigious dialect of the Cantonese language, since China is killing the Mainland varieties. I want to improve my families baak waa but all learning materials are from Hong Kong
0:21 I never say that but I'll tell them more about it. Odd to say and not say.
That's very interesting! And I learnt and studied new foreign languages like Hongkong Cantonese, Japanese, Singaporean Mandarin, Singaporean Tamil, Malay (Singapore), British (UK)-Singaporean English, French, Canadian French (Québécoise), Dutch, German, Polish, Afrikaans and New Zealand Maori. I just using a Google Translate and Microsoft (Bing) Translator. Also, there's new translator feature app for Apple iOS 14 just recently announced.
Even straight up sentences can mean something else for people with English as 2.nd language.
An American once said to me "What's your problem" when I spoke to him. (in neither his or mine country) - and the words itself were clear to understand, but I found it rude. I didn't care I stated my case and went on. but manners or culture can be different, that aside. the meaning translated to my own language, would only be taken as a provocation.
Hence the need for a better language, without hidden meanings and that can have the same meaning for everyone.
It's a huge flaw that a word can have such different impact on people, the weight people rate a single word differs a lot. For instance; a nick name I use for my kids, someone else took as an insult just hearing, "how can you speak to your kids like that" I wasn't calling them idiots or something, but a terms often used for a flock of kittens or puppies, or in general animals babies. The word translated in google becomes "kids" so it cant be that bad. This mom was mad at me for using "animal terms" for my kids, "they are humans".
So please folks, lets crowdsource a new language that can describe things for what it is. Yes, I do read books, but even the best of them go one an one, repeating themselves to lend deeper meaning to the matter. Math or Coding is way better languages; there you have full precision if you do it right;
this is more Hong Kong style Canto
Chinese language is best in the world ❤️🇨🇳
I don’t really mind being a panda
Did you know there is over 6,500 language in the world?
Big hotel that one I never heard that
I am hongkonger
Funny how its my native language.
Hongkongers speak cantonese
2:49 My mums cantonese and said it means big hotel, not funeral home, might've gotten that one wrong
Nah it’s slang
@@laurenngng dafaq, chinese people dont really do slang
@@horyzons I’m chinese and I speak Cantonese and trust me we got tons of slang
It look so unnatural to see an Asian elderly with bleach blonde.
brown looksore natural.
... this is her signature STYLE
I think it's the hair cut and the hair style looks very un-Chinese. She would draw a lot of stares if she dressed like that with that hairstyle and those big chunky accessories in China. I wouldn't do it but whatever floats her boat 🤷♀️
Third to comment
First to commant
China is using Mandarin/putonghua, not Cantonese. Unless you are a Cantonese-teaching channel, otherwise it's more useful to teach Mandarin.
Mandarin is not as fun tho 😳
The infamous Cantonese pronounciation of conspiracy, 阴谋 。 and the Guangzhou city of 江门。😆😆😆😆
Use Mandarin/Chinese.
Stop using Cantonese.
RIP
Putonghua 👍
Nah, Lets all just speak English instead. or Danish, Swedish and German.
I know some people can pick up a new language almost in weeks, it's not fair.
We should design a complete new global language that are more precise, one branch for precision and one for the colorful expressions,