Hope that was at least a little helpful! If you'd like more guidance with learning Mandarin as a Cantonese Speaker without memorization, then book a free call with our team! If there's spots available, it's still open 📞go.thecmblueprint.com/masterclass-booking
As an ABC with a canto background, I have always struggled to speak mandarin even after taking multiple classes in college. Finally I feel seen and can understand a simpler way to absorb what I learn and apply it! Keep these vids coming! ❤
I'm new to this channel and the first video I watched was the 2 letters video. It's kinda crazy how it can change you from this funny and cheerful guy to a depressed one (wise or something, i forgot what the word). I feel the same way as you did when my grandma passed away, nothing. As I go through the video more, you woke me from the thing that I should prioritize, and it is a good reminder to get my priority straight and didn't get drifted away again. Hope that video can help the other realize this thing.
Hey guys, awesome video. I'm actually going backwards and trying to learn canto with a Mando background and resources for people like me are basically non existent. I was able to watch this video and reverse engineer learning canto and surprisingly it worked pretty well! Going to try surprise my Cantonese wife now. If you do ever consider making a mando to canto video just know there are people like me out there!
Glad it was helpful and you're welcome 🙏 was a lot of work to get this out and I tried to take out most of the coughing but I was sick when doing this too 😅😅😅 so I'm glad to hear it helped!
Really enjoy the videos on your channel. Older ABC guy learned to speak Taishanese/Cantonese by speaking with relatives and friends over the years, but I never really delved in to the why's and what's of the languages. Your channel has given me more insight as to why certain words and word orders are the way they are and how they should be applied.
This was so helpful!! Really appreciate all the work you guys have put into this. If y'all ever make a course for learning/improving Canto, I'd def be interested. Keep it up Sheldon and team!! 💗💗
Awesome video Sheldon. Your choice of the word gwailo did not convey racism or hate, and when you used the "gwailo" to reference that they have to work much harder to study rather than us, it was an easy way to understand what you wanted to convey to us (the target audience which you clearly stated in the beginning)
Thanks 😅 I've gotten some flack for gwai lo but I really only mean to use it in a way to help convey the message to Cantonese speakers. I've thought for a long time and this was the only word I could come up with. - lao wai (this is not a Cantonese word and most Cantonese ppl would have no idea what this means) - white guy/ x race person (this is worse) - sai Jan 西人 this is commonly used in Cantonese now rather than 鬼佬. It is the word I'd choose ideally, but most people would have no idea what this means based on the jyutping and the average Cantonese American can't read Chinese characters. It's also ambiguous because technically I'm also a 西人. - foreigner (this wouldn't make sense) - Americans (wouldn't make sense to Cantonese Americans) - non Chinese people (this is the closest but it's wordy and can mean different things to different people) I truly don't mean harm when I say Gwai Lo, and I've never heard of it as an 'n' word equivalent. If anyone has any suggestions for good substitutes I'd be happy to hear.
I've been failing my chinese (I'd average 15 marks out of 100 for compositions) consistently, and my final hope is oral speaking Im beyond cooked bro hopefully this helps a lil or else its over
Good video, but you should find a substitute for gwailo . It sounds like a 1930's newsreel using the 'n-word' casually , even when the speaker was intending to be condescending . Times have changed. The mandarin lau-wai sounds better.
uhhhhhhhh is this clown comparing the n-word which is linked to slavery and other hideous history to gwailo? Sorry man, as much as it sucks, that's just how canto people call white people that. We've got names for all kinds of people gwailo, hakgwai, ah cha, bun por, ga mui, all these words are pretty much embedded in canto culture and sure you can argue you should call them "oi gwok yun" but the realism is that we call them that, and of course there is no harm or hate embedded in the word gwailo. In Japan there is a word "gaijin" with mad stigma, but Japanese people mean no harm when they say it. very similarly there is no n-word nuance with the word "gwailo". Actually you're probably one to get all antsy so I probably should've used "caucasian" right? Btw, laowai (老外) still sounds pretty bad to me. similar to "gaijin 外人" refering to these other people as "outsiders" and not being on the "inside" tldr; don't compare gwailo to the n-word, the history and nuance is completely different. Awesome video Sheldon, we know you didn't say the word with racist intention.
Bro literally makes a super in-depth, high effort video trying to teach fellow asians to speak Chinese and the white dude had to try and find a way to be offended 😂😂😂
Hope that was at least a little helpful! If you'd like more guidance with learning Mandarin as a Cantonese Speaker without memorization, then book a free call with our team!
If there's spots available, it's still open 📞go.thecmblueprint.com/masterclass-booking
As an ABC with a canto background, I have always struggled to speak mandarin even after taking multiple classes in college. Finally I feel seen and can understand a simpler way to absorb what I learn and apply it! Keep these vids coming! ❤
I'm new to this channel and the first video I watched was the 2 letters video. It's kinda crazy how it can change you from this funny and cheerful guy to a depressed one (wise or something, i forgot what the word). I feel the same way as you did when my grandma passed away, nothing. As I go through the video more, you woke me from the thing that I should prioritize, and it is a good reminder to get my priority straight and didn't get drifted away again. Hope that video can help the other realize this thing.
Hey guys, awesome video. I'm actually going backwards and trying to learn canto with a Mando background and resources for people like me are basically non existent. I was able to watch this video and reverse engineer learning canto and surprisingly it worked pretty well! Going to try surprise my Cantonese wife now.
If you do ever consider making a mando to canto video just know there are people like me out there!
To actually learn something
In his sentences, swap the words mandarin and Cantonese around and there you go
I guess I'll be the first but THANK YOUUUU!!!!
Glad it was helpful and you're welcome 🙏 was a lot of work to get this out and I tried to take out most of the coughing but I was sick when doing this too 😅😅😅 so I'm glad to hear it helped!
we need more of these masterclasses 😅
Really enjoy the videos on your channel. Older ABC guy learned to speak Taishanese/Cantonese by speaking with relatives and friends over the years, but I never really delved in to the why's and what's of the languages. Your channel has given me more insight as to why certain words and word orders are the way they are and how they should be applied.
great guide , i just wanted to point out your video freezes for about half a min then skips forward at 1:37:31
Excellent video! There's lots of information to absorb. Thank you! I also subscribed.
Thank you so much, this was so helpful! I watched the video from start to end and learnt so much 🥳
This was so helpful!! Really appreciate all the work you guys have put into this. If y'all ever make a course for learning/improving Canto, I'd def be interested. Keep it up Sheldon and team!! 💗💗
Thank you Sheldon.
Glad it was helpful 🙏
Awesome video Sheldon. Your choice of the word gwailo did not convey racism or hate, and when you used the "gwailo" to reference that they have to work much harder to study rather than us, it was an easy way to understand what you wanted to convey to us (the target audience which you clearly stated in the beginning)
Thanks 😅 I've gotten some flack for gwai lo but I really only mean to use it in a way to help convey the message to Cantonese speakers. I've thought for a long time and this was the only word I could come up with.
- lao wai (this is not a Cantonese word and most Cantonese ppl would have no idea what this means)
- white guy/ x race person (this is worse)
- sai Jan 西人 this is commonly used in Cantonese now rather than 鬼佬. It is the word I'd choose ideally, but most people would have no idea what this means based on the jyutping and the average Cantonese American can't read Chinese characters. It's also ambiguous because technically I'm also a 西人.
- foreigner (this wouldn't make sense)
- Americans (wouldn't make sense to Cantonese Americans)
- non Chinese people (this is the closest but it's wordy and can mean different things to different people)
I truly don't mean harm when I say Gwai Lo, and I've never heard of it as an 'n' word equivalent. If anyone has any suggestions for good substitutes I'd be happy to hear.
I was wondering what your screen/software system that you are using, Sheldon.
Some board off Amazon. I don't recommend cause i bought it for this video and it broke after this video 😂
Thank you for this channel 🎉
As a Cantonese speaker who can speak mandarin, why am I interested in this..
I speak Cantonese and Mandarin
how bout a case like me where i speak mandarin but dont speak cantonese well
Was wondering the same thing lol
I guess you can just think of this as a reverse method
I've been failing my chinese (I'd average 15 marks out of 100 for compositions) consistently, and my final hope is oral speaking
Im beyond cooked bro hopefully this helps a lil or else its over
you should do practical classes
Pinyin is okay
Does it work in reverse?
thanks I'm Cantonese but I still can't speak Mandrin
Good video, but you should find a substitute for gwailo . It sounds like a 1930's newsreel using the 'n-word' casually , even when the speaker was intending to be condescending . Times have changed. The mandarin lau-wai sounds better.
uhhhhhhhh is this clown comparing the n-word which is linked to slavery and other hideous history to gwailo? Sorry man, as much as it sucks, that's just how canto people call white people that. We've got names for all kinds of people gwailo, hakgwai, ah cha, bun por, ga mui, all these words are pretty much embedded in canto culture and sure you can argue you should call them "oi gwok yun" but the realism is that we call them that, and of course there is no harm or hate embedded in the word gwailo. In Japan there is a word "gaijin" with mad stigma, but Japanese people mean no harm when they say it. very similarly there is no n-word nuance with the word "gwailo".
Actually you're probably one to get all antsy so I probably should've used "caucasian" right? Btw, laowai (老外) still sounds pretty bad to me. similar to "gaijin 外人" refering to these other people as "outsiders" and not being on the "inside"
tldr; don't compare gwailo to the n-word, the history and nuance is completely different. Awesome video Sheldon, we know you didn't say the word with racist intention.
Says the white ghost....
Bro literally makes a super in-depth, high effort video trying to teach fellow asians to speak Chinese and the white dude had to try and find a way to be offended 😂😂😂
Whatttt ifffff you only know barely conversational cantonese because you forgot so much of it? 🥲
Hard to say without hearing you speak but our team can potentially help see how we can help and also create a plan to get your canto up 💪