Saving Macau’s Dying Language
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มี.ค. 2019
- Macau is best known today for its casinos, but 20 years ago, it was a colony governed by the Portuguese, who had been there for over 400 years. Many of the Portuguese traders married Chinese women, and their children developed their own distinct food, culture, and language.
But now this mixed-race group, known as the Macanese, makes up less than 1 percent of Macau’s population, and their language, Patuá, is dying.
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She's living her best life, cutting an interview short because she wants to do her nails
a queen
Power move lol
Ikr
savage vavó (granny)
好啊！👌！( English: okay!好!)
“Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.” ― Ariel Sabar
Deaf person: i get it, Sign language.
(Joke)
Darksouls?
It's always super sad when a language dies.
@Shin Ju Kim 1. People can speak more than one language and do so all the fucking time.
2. Different languages can describe various things and ideas far more effectively than others.
3. Do you not know how languages evolve or are you just an idiot.
4. Stop simping for information entropy.
@Shin Ju Kim then you are a sheltered moron.
She doesn't even look like she's 103 years old, and its so cute that she still gets her nails done 💅.Long live mama biss and her daughter for saving Patua! Great story once again Goldthread! ❤️
Thank you! She was super cute. :)
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@@lil_weasel219 A bit less Asian to be exact.
She looks great!
It's funny, cause the ladies are from a different race, but I feel like they could be my grandma here in Portugal, cause the way they dress is very portuguese. The jewelry, the scarf and the shirts, they really look portuguese ladies. It's a pity that the cultural mix is dying. I loved to see cultures coming together, and Macau clearly is one of the best cases of mixing cultures. It's a wonderful fusion, and I find it really sad that it's dying :( but cultures are only preserved if its people feel that it's worth preserving. Good luck to these ladies :)
Hi, I am from Macau. Do not worry, Portuguese culture is far from gone in Macau! Many Macanese are Catholic, adopt Portuguese names for non-Chinese purposes and we all learn Portuguese in school. Us Macanese adore Portuguese food, and everywhere you go in Macau (literally every meter) there is a Portuguese restaurant. We also have our own special Macanese food.
Many of us also have Portuguese passports!Although the mixed-race is dying, pure Portuguese culture is still alive and well. Although we are also proud to be Chinese (and we are racially Chinese) as well
Also, a lot of the people in Macau watch RTP (done so since they started operating in Macau in 1963) to get the news from Portugal. I remember watching the ladies from Miss Macau 1996 visit Lisbon on RTP 1 and cheering at the television that we finally got some recognition haha...
@@x6621 Oh, I didn't get notified 2 weeks ago, sorry! But thank you for the comment, I really loved your update! It makes me glad that it's still alive. I also did expect you to be proud of being chinese aswell :) I was born and raised in Lisbon, but my parents are from northern Portugal, and I love both. Although the difference between Macanese and Chinese is probably much bigger than regional differences in Portugal, I can still relate and understand that you love both cultures :) they both belong to you
I had a friend who was born in Macau and raised there for a few years and it's funny, cause his experience is much different from those of the macanese. He's Portuguese.
And I didn't know about RTP! At all! It's cool that you watch it and understand it :o It's funny, cause it's the TV channel less watched by the portuguese nowadays.
I'd love to visit Macau one day :) I've been told the portuguese part of the city is very small, but I still want to see it!
@@6maria94 Portuguese influence is all over the city! Every street in Macau has a Portuguese name like "Rua de 25 Abril" or "Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro", and the street signs are all blue and white Portuguese tiles with Portuguese and Chinese letters. There is lots of colonial architecture, with villas converted into museums, the Leal Senado (Macau's assembly until 1999, now the Instituto para os Assuntos Municipais) building, the jewel of the city (Senado Square, with Colourful architecture, Calçadas and many churches). Locals often call Macau "Lisbon but with skyscrapers", as our city has this gigantic golden lotus building, the Casino Lisboa. Villa da Taipa is where a lot of the European immigrants settled, and it has a lake wetland plantation, 5 Teal-coloured houses that are restored as a museum, and over 20 Portuguese restaurants! It is also covered in Calçadas and vibrantly colourful buildings. It is also accessible from the Metro Ligeiro de Macau. If you want Chinese influence, head to Barra, where there is the A-Ma Temple, a Chinese temple where the Portuguese first landed. There's also the Mandarin's mansion, where a wealthy Chinese family lived, restored as a museum. If you want casinos and nightlife, there are two places. You can head to Lisboa where there are 4 mega-casinos with shopping malls, interactive lake and priceless art or you can head to Cotai, where there are huge Las-Vegas style resorts with things like a beach resort, shopping galore, ancient Chinese art, and recreated Venice and Paris. There's also the iconic Ruins of St Paul's, which is a European-style Cathedral facade with chinese motifs (like dragons). There is also a museum with relics attached to it. Just next to it is another Chinese temple! All over the city you will also find Pasteis de Nata, they are literally EVERYWHERE. If you want, you can go visit the Lotus Square, a square commemorating Macau's independence from Portugal in 1999. There are also two Portuguese forts on hills to explore and lots of other historical sites all over, like St Francisco's Barracks (Barracks that held the Portuguese garrison in the city until 1976, although a task force was deployed in the city from 1996-1999 to deal with a crime wave caused by the uncertainty of the end of Portuguese rule) and the Maritime Museum, which also has calçadas and a beautiful view of the Praia Grande.
Also the Casa Garden, beautiful beautiful beautiful 18th Century Chinese gardens with an art gallery and a Pink-and White restored Portuguese colonial villa!
She’s dressed exactly like a Portuguese grandma.
ou qualquer vó de um país (to escrevendo tanto em ingles que me esqueci a diferença entre pais e país kkkk) que foi colonizado pelos portugueses principalmente aqui no Brasil
Luiz Guilherme si bonjour
In a Chinese point of view, she’s dressed like a Chinese Grandma tooo lol like both
In a Chinese point of view, she’s dressed like a Chinese Grandma tooo lol like both
Fogo ainda bem que não sou a única que reparei. Ela parece mesmo a minha avó e as amigas velhotas dela.
It is with a very sad heart that I read in the news here in Portugal that the honorable Dona Aida de Jesus passed away yesterday (Portugal time). I send my most heartfelt condolences to all her family and realtives, as well the whole macanese community to which I belong.
She was a wonderfull lady, very kind and with a lot of class. She always had a kind smile in her face every time I went to have a meal at her restaurant. Rest in peace and hope you will be able to go on speaking the beautiful Patuá language and cook macanese food in heaven.
@@boobalooux Could I join?
@@boobalooux @AJGC2 :) thank you mate
@@MoabOliveira11 It is!
@@boobalooux ooh that’s great! I don’t know Portuguese but I’m extremely curious nonetheless s
In Malaysia, the Portuguese eurasian speaks a language called Kristang.
Kristão
@@brbrenin if you are brasilian , and if go there , try to talk with European accent otherwise you will be not understand..
It is a amazing people there , they received a lot of tourists, from every corner of the world where portuguese language is spoken., Curious people like your self.
Abração.
Ps. The people there almost all have portuguese surnames , after so many generations they they still keep it and are very proud of.
They say that they are portuguese and they still have same songs and portuguese music and folklore .
@@brbrenin the Portuguese government try to send Portuguese theachers to teach the language to avoid that the young generation don't forget it, but the Malaysian government didn't erloubt the idea.
They said it will no point to do it, because this people are still Christian , and the Malaysian are Muslims, and this people are so few , and the portuguese schould let it be.
So do not say that we don't care about, because we really do.
They are not forgotten.
They are living history of Portugal, although they are so far away, at the opposit side of the world.
Where are you born?
Abraço.
@@brbrenin quitanda é uma loja.
Compreendo talvez 80 % do que tu escreveste.
O. Criolo de cabo verde é bem mais difícil parar nós.
Mas na verdade éum dialeto bem bonito e fácil de aprender.
Você aprendeu inglês lá em Gibraltar?
Quantos anos você viveu lá, não é comum brasileiros em Gibraltar, suponho eu ,mas realmente não sei. Os catalães falam uma língua própria , catalão, muito antiga.Baiano é um dialecto do português, com algumas palavras africanas.mas é gostoso, pena que eu não possa ouvir.
Abraço
I lived in Macau for over a year and one of my best friends there was Macanese. He often talked about how he felt his generation will be the last true generation of Macanese people. It is a shame to see a culture shrink like this, but I am happy to see so many endeavors to preserve this unique heritage while it is still living!
Great video. Thank you for producing it :)
What language did you speak there?
I am a Macanese! I was born there and I live there!
@@sxhi3852 can you speak patua?
Yeollie chanyeol Kinda cuz my grandma teach me
They were never meant to be. The Portuguese should have never been there in the first place
I'm half-Macanese, born in Hong Kong pre-handover and it's a really confusing identity and hard to find much info about it/my identity reflected. My grandparents on my mum's side both spoke Patois. Thanks for this video 💖
patuá
Because China destroyed your culture
01001011 yeah because being second class citizens and a colony of another nation is a culture worth having.
@@bobbelcher678 all cultures are worth having. Who are you to decide?
lol mine's even more confusing, i was born in the us but is a hong konger and macanese since my mom is from hong kong and my dad is from macau. i've lived everywhere, living in hk rn thou
Interesting. There's something so portuguese about those two ladies, their faces and their accent give me real portuguese grandma vibes!
Not really. They look much more chinese.
@@fangornthewise Cause of their eyes, they have Chinese eyes
For me as a Brazilian the writen language is something like 80%, intelligible pronunciation not so much. and that's awesome...
@VEELOREN UND GEFUNDEN the 'h' is after the 'n': RonaldinHo
Deixa o gringo passar vergonha kkkkk
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@@lain7758 KKKJKK
@@cairosousa sai pra lá professor essa é a graça do meme ser aleatório. And I really think we brazillians dont own that meme at all.
I am from Cabo Verde and I send all my love to Macao and Macanenses. I hope we can keep our Portuguese roots preserved and connected
HAHAHA are you serious??? Wow the colonized mindset is so strong with you. For you I can understand because before Europeans the Cape Verde island didn't have a native population. BUT I'm Taiwanese-American and all I have to saw is fuck colonialism. All of us peoples who have been victimized by colonization should been seeking our true traditions! Not this bullshit Europeans pushed on us.
Nhos é di Cabo Verde? Nhos ta cumé catchupa.😂
@@franciscolima1762 lol
Omg.. That lady, she dresses like my granny used to. I'm from Portugal! Pls, preserve that macaense culture... Don't let it die! 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇲🇴🇲🇴🇲🇴
Ahahahaha ccp will destroy everything in 20 years ahaha
@Zhang Zhuisui no They left in 1998 if im right Idk but around that time.
Zhang Zhuisui Forced out by your government, who is now slowly trying to assimilate and demographically replace the people of Macau.
yep, found the colonial sympathist
Zhang Zhuisui you’re right, China loves diversity and would never try to assimilate cultures that find themselves within it’s borders. Like Tibet etc.
From Brazil Living in Portugal, love for our macauense brothers and sisters
"Nhonhônha" is also said in Indonesia. Nona for unmarried women, and nonya for married women. My ancestors also have the word nio/niang/niong/娘 in their name (for women). It was the mark of their 'Peranakan' Chinese Indonesian heritage. Interestingly, there are also many Portuguese loanwords like pesta (party), bendera (flag), sepatu (shoes), and Belanda (Holland) in Bahasa Indonesia. Portuguese were the first Europeans in much of Asia.
I was also incredibly surprised to see creole in Singapore with so much portuguese influence.
@rsaaol Yeah we say sabun in Indonesia. I think that's from Portuguese. What rice cake is it?
Portuguese were the first Europeans in much of Asia and Africa. The whole Eastern Hemisphere, was damn near under Portugal. Many lifestyles, naval travel routes, war patterns and architecture of other countries are due to Portuguese
oi casada < oi nonya😎
In indonesia it is Nyonya lel
Interestingly enough, there are a handful of different creole languages like Patúa out there, Jamaican Patois/Patwah, based off English, Chavacano from Southern Philippines, based off Spanish
Oh yeah, I saw a video about Chavacano, it was a weird experience, because it didn't sound like the mix I usually hear in filipinos, (which is still, somewhat understandable to me, as an argentinian who speaks English fluently) but rather like somewhat I could totally hear in Latin America. It sounded closer to the Castillian Spanish we use in Latin America rather than the Spanish you hear in Madrid, for example. Crazy to think how much water separates us and still felt like they weren't that far away.
Well said
Don’t forget Haitian Creole
@@Kirayni that may be because the Philippines used to be administered from the colony that later became Mexico
@@Kirayni There are different kinds of Chavacano, however Zamboangan Chavacano is probably what you have heard, which leans more towards spanish than other forms of Chavacano.
I had to smile at the 103 yr-old grandma getting her nails done. My 104 yr-old grandma and I just went and got pedicures. I also love that still has good mobility, only a cane. Good for her! I pray she has many more years.
I applaud the endeavors of these people to preserve their language. Too many want to forget and/or remove history and heritage.
She died in March 2021 unfortunately.
@@kaile3108 Sorry to hear that
It's tough to pass a language down when the kid rarely hears it in the outside world. The only thing I know of that works is to have the bapy-toddler-kid grow up spending a lot of time around the old folk who speak to each other. Also, the kid needs to be read to in that language. If the baby is out of the womb, the baby is old enough to be read to.
I find it fascinating how very similar “Patuá” is in its spelling to the French term “Patois” for a creole/mixed language. I hope Sonia and other Macanese will be able to preserve their unique language for the future generations.
SO INTERESTING! I’m Portuguese and of course I have some knowledge about Macau’s history, but I didn’t know that these macanese people had so much identity and spoke such a language close to portuguese! MUITO INTERESSANTE 🇲🇴 🇵🇹
I’m from Macau, nowadays people love to learn Português here ❤❤and I speak it too!
My name is João José Sanches Cruz Canuto! My parents got married in 1962 in Macau. My father was a portuguese army officer that was assigned to Macau in the late 1950`s. His name was César Henrique da Graça e Cruz Canuto. My mother was Macanese. Her name was Dona Marta Sanches Canuto. Her mother and grandmother spoke fluent Patuá. My mother also spoke a little. She taught me some. I learned Mandarim in Beijing for four years from 1988 to 1992. Iam a teacher of chinese history, language and culture. Unfortunately I do not speak the beautifull Patuá and Cantonese languages. One day I want to learn and master Patuá to honor the memory of my great-grandmother, grandmother and mother. Greetings my macanese relatives!
Não deixe morrer, Macau. Um dia ainda visitarei vocês, saudações do Brasil.
người việt nam toàn là họ hàng với người sắc tộc chất độc màu da cam cả thế giới đều biết đến họ có chính quyền bỏ nước ra đi vì ấm no hạnh phúc cho dân tộc bọn Nhật bản cũng vậy chơi mưu kế một chút não là hơn hai triệu người việt nam chết đói....
Infelizmente já está morrendo.
@@thecarioka78 na tua cabeça triste!
@Rochimin "uma vida boa na China"????? Macau têm uma cultura diferente da China Continental. O patuá e o português vão continuar em Macau porque fazem parte da cultura macaense.
@@joaojosesilva693 Sei que o vosso comentário é antigo, mas é fato que o Patuá está a desaparecer naquela cidade. Não é achismo, são estatísticas. A China continental nada fará neste sentido, infelizmente.
She died yesterday, rest in peace Aida de jesus🙏😔😥
🙏🏻😥
Que triste. Paz à sua alma.
hey, me and a friend of mine are trying to revive this language through a group we made on Telegram, are you interested?
As a brazilian it's really interesting to see that her accent sounds just like a brazilian speaking english
Yeees, I noticed. Its the sama english we brazilians speak with our accent.
Equilibrium Elementar Brasileiro nao gosta da historia com portugal , Brasileiro não gosto de falar portugues e depois quando realmente conhecem alguma coisa da verdadeira história de Portugal por esse mundo , fazem uma comparações hilariantes ! Brasil lindo país mas com um povo tão alienado 😊
@@lobinhali1233 ô generalização besta, comentário idiota...
@@lobinhali1233 vaza daqui anta!!!
O sotaque da senhora vem de uma vida inteira a falar português. Se ouvirem os portugueses a falar inglês, é exatamente assim. Não esqueçam que Hong Kong, ex colónia britânica, fica ao lado.
she passed away, R.I.P Dona Aida de Jesus.
"She's gonna do her nails" now that's the Macanese spirit! 🇲🇴
Love from Sri Lanka
Wow this is so amazing, I would have never suspected she would be 103!!
Rest in peace Aida! You are missed! The world has lost an amazing and talented advocate for Macanese culture, cuisine, and language!
hey, me and a friend of mine are trying to revive this language through a group we made on Telegram, are you interested?
Hi I am
@@_Diaryofwealth in my channel is the link to join the group, go to the 'About' window
@@boobalooux hello can you explain better please
@@boobalooux I went there but it doesn't lead me to any group rather back on here
"I like to feel only 80"
That was very cute. I have to show this to my grandparents who think they're too old at their 60s
Greetings from Portugal to our macanese cousins ❤
Macau is still very much alive and present in our portuguese collective memory and culture. Macau, Goa, East-Timor, all are still very present and our cultural and historical ties are still very strong.
Those ladies look just like portuguese grandmothers. Even their lively bubbly energetic personality are just like our portuguese mothers and grannys so far away in Portugal. 😊❤
My cousin’s grandparents are from Macau, so it’s always interesting to watch more about it! Unfortunately, my uncle and cousins only speak portuguese, but the Macanese food that I’ve tried is very tasty and familiar 💖
I just recently learned my roots started in macau from dad side of the family,although i lived in the bay area all my life i am so intrigued in wanting to learn patua language including portuguese !
I feel for them, im from the creole spanish speaking part of the phililppines. I also have chinese ancestry and my dialect Chavacano is also dying, i have visited macau and i immediately felt a connection. Macau is a beautiful place. It is a muy bella/bello place..or bonita/bonito place. I hope to visit macau again soon.
Nope I don't think Chavacano is a dying language because it has a 3 million speakers of it.
@@chowqing8443 our people are too scattered and didn't take steps to propagate our culture.. sooner or later it's going away
@@DoomStarRequiem lol there's many speakers in Zamboanga
@@DoomStarRequiem dramatic. Chavacano is considered one of the main languages of the Philippines. It won't die because speakers are proud of it. Kapampangan on the other hand...
Iberian (Spain + Portugal) heritage. I bet you'd feel the same way with East Timor too.
Uma saudação carinhosa aos falantes de português. Ao redor do globo
What an incredible story about a place I know so little about. Really love this type of content. Keep up the good work!
OMFG, she dresses like my Grandmother!!
Im Portuguese btw.
you have a short name for a Pt. you'd normally have all those ribeiro de pires da cunha.
@@PHlophe LOL, I doubt that's even possible to put here all my names. I think is something very common in Iberia? Not sure, at least in PT it is.
@Ploke Newo78 AHAHAHAH, alright alright!
My great dressed like this. The traditional New Orleans ladies still do.
quando li o comentário pensei que você era brasileiro pelo nome kkkkkkkkk
Let us hope the government willing to preserve it. Losing a culture like that it is quite a lost
@@snoglia1098 bruh... hk's official spoken languages are english, mandarin and cantonese and almost all hkers use cantonese, a large population in guangdong also speaks it. lots of cultures and even civilizations were lost in the past, so new ones can come, there's nothing bad about losing it, as long as people get to know about it and appreciate it while it exists
Don't wait for the government to do anything. Parents should teach their kids the language.
Laughs in chinese government
@@enyasong4392 How is there nothing bad about losing it? Diversity is good! Having every single person in the world speak the same language with the same culture would be boring.
@@OsirusHandle now you are pushing it to an extreme. but imagine someone in rural area in china, he's got his own language from his culture, but if he wants to go to school he needs to know mandarin chinese, and if he actually wants to have a decent job he needs to learn english as well. it's just too much for the people to handle. animals who no longer fits the environment will go extinct and its natural and normal, so are culture and languages. if we were to keep every single culture and language, it's just going to slow down the process of modernization and put a lot of stress on those who need to handle multiple languages, we shouldnt force them into extinction but when it's actually decaying just let it be
"Min pau quente-quente" sounds.... A little weird in Brazilian Portuguese.
In a lot of Asian languages they use reduplication to signify plurals.
@@drakl0r "Pau" can means a sexual thing.
@@drakl0r in portuguese it literally sounds like "My dick hot hot"
@@v.v.9.9. ahh I see 🤣
Pedro Petracco maybe its intentional
Wow wow wow such a great video. Thanks for showing this side of Macau's culture!
I love that they’re preserving their language. Thank you for this short documentary. I learned something new today.
Reminds me of the spanish filipinos and the language spoken by older folks (bago kayo magcomment tungkol sa chavacano iba yan sa philippine spanish wikang creole lng ung chavacano and is still spoken in a few cities mainly zamboanga habang ang philippine spanish nmn is a dying dialect ng spanish wich is spoken by less than 5% of the population)
I'm Brazilian and I'm really insterested in Macau. It's really funny how similar some things are, like: the street names, the language, and specially the food. One of the first Macanese dishes shown seemed to be some sort of meat with fries, and that's basically the most common lunchtime meal here in Brazil!
talvez porque o brasil tbm foi colonizado por portugal lol
@@stoned8034 o que eu quis dizer é que apesar de serem países tão diferentes, de continentes com culturas tão diferentes, o resultado final foi parecido
Mas entendi o que você quis dizer kkk
4:20 The young filmmaker's english sounds a lot like brazilians speaking english.
that's interesting for you to say because I thought he sounded like a Cantonese speaking English I guess we all hear what we are familiar with in his accent.
Exactly my thoughts, but not only his. With lesser intensity, the accent of the two ladies sounded strangely familiar to my ears. I could totally mistake Sonia as brazilian because of this.
Cool!
I'm from Macau but I'd never heard about Patuá.
Thanks a lot for sharing!
Ofc china wants to erase everything i hope u like portuguese culture
diogo bras Thank you very much! I’m interested in Portugal culture these months and I have met and talked to some Macanese in Macau.
@@oteumundotecnologicowhy should child preserve a colonial language ? As if Portugese have any respect for other languages.
@@Yu-hx5jo That's the typical euro supremacist for you. Invade other places, infect them with their "culture" and get mad when the locals don't worship them anymore.
Macau so small i know where tf they filmed every shot
I love how easy it is to see you're from Macau because your username is "Fong Denise"
That is so fascinating!!! Im very interested in “dying languages”
Its weird and fascinating for me, someone who also like Macau once was, lives also on a portuguese territory (the autonomous region of Azores) that when i was born, someone born in Macau, also had my nationality and we kinda were under the same flag (after the end of the portuguese fascist/conservative regime and reforms, people born in Macau, had portuguese nationality, until 1999). Hope you guys do well in the future under China. Greetings for the Macanese people.
It would have been interesting to know how many languages the old ladies speak. Perhaps they speak Portuguese, Cantonese, English and Patuá.
Probably Mandarin as well =]
@@magenta605 I dare say, Mandarin is based upon understanding. It's a learnt language for the Southern and Southeastern Chinese as it is not native to these subgroups originally.
In Peninsular Malaysia, we have the Peranakan people (of which, I am one) who do not speak Mandarin at all. We speak Malay, Hokkien and English mixed with sprinkles of Portuguese and Dutch influences. And yes, we are natural polyglots as we were born. So how do Peranakans, same as the Eurasians speak Mandarin? By learning (by choice of course).
Well i'm brazilian and i understand patuá pretty well, so basicly patuá is like 80% portuguese, i don't think anyone able to speak patuá will have any dificulties in learn portuguese.
this video is so amazing! thanks for sharing, i love it!
I find this so interesting!!! Beautiful cultural mix💛
This is really informative...Thank you ...so excited on your future uploads...
the mixed chinese-portuguese macanese ladies in the video kinda look like how the usual middle-aged mestiza filipina aunties look like
Loved this so much !! 💗💗
She’s adorable and doesn’t look a 103 yrs old ☺️
great journalism!
These ladies are very lovely! Macau is a place I'd like to visit in China. Much love from Brazil!
103 years old, 4 years ago. :c
My Indigenous Language has only 100 fluent speakers. With a population of 50,000. Very few of us know our original language. Thank you for his film it is inspiring.
What is it?
WOOOW Grandma 😍❤️ still take care of her!!! Anybody realized at 103yo she speaks a very good English in addition to Cantonese and Patua (=Old Portuguese of Macau)
You guys have good content! I stumbled upon this channel for the Stephanie Soo giveaway. No regrets ♥
Thank you :))
Great video! Very informative
As a great grandson of a Macanese woman here in Portugal, thanks for enlightening people about this culture and language
I’ve been to their family restaurant-the name’s Riquexo (pronounced “rickshaw” or “利多” in Chinese). So cool to see the owners and the place in the video! The food was hands-down amazing and I still miss it even a year after my trip to Macau.
Such lovely people. I hope they and their culture and language live forever.
The old lady seems so interesting,would like to have a glass or two and talk to her about all the things she's seen in life 👌🙏👌
Cool video, I was there over twenty years ago, nice to see the places I visited and remember.
Patua sounds cool, and macanese culture seems cool too
Eu sou brasileiro e me encanto com tudo relativo à cultura portuguesa e o que ainda existe da influência de Portugal pelo mundo todo!!!
Envio de Aveiro, Portugal, um abraço com votos de Feliz Natal! Somos uma só nação e muitos países e regiões! Um grande abraço de um português nascido em Angola, que já viveu em Timor-Leste, visitou Macau e adora o Brasil e todos os países e regiões de língua portuguesa e de influência portuguesa. Temos irmãos na Malásia, em Jacarta na Indonésia, nas Flores, em Ormuz, por todo o lado!
Eu também gosto muito, especialmente como os portugueses se misturavam com a cultura local e como foram importantes na época das navegações. Se olhar outros países colonizadores, Portugal foi muito melhor que os outros. Um abraço.
@Arthur __ que dices que pizarro o cortes, que los españoles no escondan su historia como los portugueses es otra cosa, a nosotros no nos avergüenza nuestro pasado como a ustedes, ademas fueron los portugueses los que iniciaron la trata de esclavos africanos y los que mas esclavizaron y acabaron con los nativos del brasil, solo el amazonas se salvo
Brasil é o filho mais velho de Portugal...
@@kyomademon453 foda-se hispânico vai cuidar do teu país
amazing vid! (like always 😁)
thanks for sharing this:)
Why didn't they speak the language in the video?
Why would they do that? It seems illogical to tire yourself by speaking the language and then needing to translate it again in English because none of the people that made this video can speak their language. If they speak and don't translate them then this video would be useless since the point is to spread the message and no one understands what they were saying.
Nice! One of my surnames is "Almeida" and I just learned is it "Ma" in patuá
Incredible!! Thank you
Damnnn this is the first I've heard of this very informative and really interesting to know about!!!!
My grandfather was from Macau, I wonder if he too spoke Patuá... He did speak Chinese and Portuguese though, but I didn't have the change to learn all about his past for the few years I got with him. Very interesting to know about this language!
Muito fofas essas senhoras. They are very cute and precious to the Lusitan and Portuguese culture.
Thank you so much for your video. I am Creole from New Orleans! We have a similar journey!
This is simply stunning!
Ouvi dizer que a senhora Aida de Jesus faleceu, se é verdade ,os meus sinceros sentimentos à familia e a Macau. R I P .Senhora linda. 🌹de Portugal 🇵🇹.
Sim, morreu
oi, eu e um amigo meu estamos tentando manter essa linga(o patua) viva, nos temos um grupo no Telegram, vc tá interessad@?
@@boobalooux achei interessante!
I have a quarter of Macanese blood because I had a locally born and raised Macanese grandma. As i was born in Hong Kong, we usually just speak Cantonese and English but I still learn Portuguese as a third language. I wish i could speak patuá in order to save this language.
I hope more people learn it! Any luck so far?
Me too
THANK YOU
I'm from northeastern Brazil. I'm amazed to see a cabidela because it is a traditional food between older people here. My grandmother cooks a wonderful cabidela.
Loved this - that lady at 103 - fantastic . what an inspiration
as a proud portuguese guy, i'm learning this bloody language! every portuguese rooted language is important
Learn galego, o galego es a madre do portugues
ManOhMan não é verdade. São línguas irmãs não é mãe de nada.
O português deriva em parte do galego, com influências castelhano-leonesas e que acabaram por ser absorvidas pelos dialetos autóctones de Portucale com raízes no latim e absorvendo influências árabes sobretudo no sul.
hey, me and a friend of mine are trying to revive this language through a group we made on Telegram, are you interested ??
Fuck your language. You forced millions of people in Africa, South America, and Asia to speak the language. Macau's native language is Cantonese and other Southern Chinse dialects. Fuck colonialism.
Bless her heart she yearns to be young. Old people like that usually seek youthfulness and preserve their health in a way. I’m not a doctor or a psychologist but I can figure that out.
Good report
been there last yr, such a beautiful place. & love the people
Portuguese is the best base language to have if you want to be fluent in another language. Portuguese has all the sounds necessary to become a polyglot.
EXCUSE ME, U TALKING BOUT MY PEOPLE
love it, please continue ;P
As a native speaker of Portuguese I partially disagree because Spanish, English, French and Germany for example have lots of sounds that doesn't exist in Portuguese.
@@matadorescrew você já escutou alguém dessas três nações falando inglês, por exemplo? eles apresentam muito mais sotaque que os falantes do português, acho que foi isso que o comentário original quis salientar.
@@FunkZica4i20 Ambos tem sotaques, sotaque de falantes de português é diferente, e em outros pontos, geralmente onde a lingua é mais diferente da nossa, como em palavras terminadas em consoantes por exemplo. Acredito que toda lingua dá suas vantagens e desvantagens para o falante nativo aprender novos idiomas.
Just because one language has the same sounds as another, doesn't mean that it's easy to learn that language. Languages with the same phonologies may still find it hard to speak each other's languages. Some sounds may be unallowed in some languages but allowed in others. Japanese has the sound /k/, /i/, /t/, and /o/, but they can't say 'kit kat'. They say 'kito kato'. Why? Because Japanese syllable structure doesn't allow syllable to end with consonants (with the exception of /n/), so saying kit kat wouldnt be allowed under Japanese phonological rules.
Edit: I just realised how angry I sound lol, I'm not trying to be mean
Oh that food looks AMAZING!
Brazil has Portuguese roots as well and in Rio de Janeiro we have a family who came here and opened a macaunese restaurant. Very good food, similar to our, but they fry more the food, lol.
Love this channel! Found it cause Stephanie!
This is literally so crazy. I’ve watched this clip a few times and I’m still so blown away each time with the history Portuguese-Chinese cross culture thing!
Big "Portugal Caralho" moments
That's amazing, What was more curious to me, as brazilian, was to see a horror movie which was filmed in Macau, I saw some directions in the movie witch was also translated in Portuguese, that's why I had know this city :)
Macau las Vegas of Asia 🌏🌏 look very beautiful place nice Country
Nice to visit
Thank you so much for Great sharing
The portuguese are known for picking up languages better than most other countries. doesnt surprise me at all to see the macanese share this trait with us :D
Patua is a portuguese creole and is well alive in Cape Verde Guine Bissau and Nederlands ABC island where they call it Papiamento... Ive watched that video of the guy singing and i understood most of it
hey, me and a friend of mine are trying to revive this language through a group we made on Telegram, are you interested ?
Her hair is so perfect!!
I didn't realize until I saw the comments from those in Portugal 🇵🇹 about the ladies looking like matriarchs of the family by their style.
my family is of Puerto Rican and Filipino descent, I looked at a photo of my grandmas and aunties, the style is identical. ❤️ loved seeing this video. very beautiful destination and cuisine. Good job to preserve her language.
Yes in Canada I see an older Portuguese lady walking around my neighbourhood, very distinctive style , with traditional Portuguese prints
Great video! Just a note, Macau wasn’t a Portuguese colony for 400 years; it was a colony for about 100 years starting from the post-Opium war age.
Before that it was a Chinese territory under Portuguese administration, a status agreed upon in the 16th century. ^^
Thank you, finally someone set this right.
As a portuguesem it's so weird to think that Macau was ours just 25 year ago 😅
Maravilhoso!Com certeza um lugar que visitarei.
This is amazing!
I´m Brazilian and very happy that some people still speak this creolle language.
Se não sabe inglês , escreva português , por favor.
E você sabe? Foi erro de digitação. Quem nunca fez isso? Deixe de ser arrogante e faça observações pertinentes.