Do you notice when you speak Cantonese, your voice becomes much softer than other languages? Why is that? You make Cantonese sound gentle and tender. I hope you'll keep on practising Cantonese, especially when you've learnt Mandarin. As a Cantonese speaker, I do fear that Mandarin will be getting more powerful and Cantonese may one day become ...
MrTsiqsin Yeah I just noticed that too, no idea why... And I totally agree, I'd be absolutely devestated if Cantonese disappeared, that's why I found the taxi driver story in the film 10 Years so touching
MrTsiqsin One time I read that everyone has kind of a different personality in each and every language. Maybe Alex is a gentle cantonese speaker then. :D
MrTsiqsin British Chinese here, when I speak Cantonese my voice is a lot deeper. When I speak British English my voice is normal, but when I speak American English it becomes high pitched lol. I live in California long enough to know how to speak in the local accent to blend in if I don't want to get annoyed by the "oh wow you have an accent" conversations. I find it fascinating how our voices sound so different in different accents/languages.
Your Cantonese accent is actually great and the sentences are fluent for me to understand! It's my first language and I can understand it without reading the subtitles.
Wow, I really respect your passion to learn foreign languages :D I grew up speaking German and Cantonese and I learned English in school. I also started to learn Mandarin when I was little, but I've never been into it. Now seeing you rocking those languages I feel so competitive and motivated to go back to it :D Keep up your hard work! & schöne Grüße aus Deutschland
I quite enjoyed this. In the order of ability I'm a native Cantonese and fluent English speaker, being able to understand and speak a bit of Mandarin and a week ago started learning German! In response to an earlier sentiment about how you feel annoyed that you couldn't speak more than one language at that time - I think it depends on the environment you are in, and you learn way more in a foreign environment (UK school system didn't help, as I was taught French). Of course I wish that one day my German can be as good as yours! Keep it up!
Hi Alex, I'm a native Cantonese speaker studying A Level in Cambridge. Your Cantonese is really good, no joke. Try to improve your pronunciation and yea, it'd be
I just met you in underground today in London, and I was impressed deeply by your 廣東話People who speak differently languages are cool, awesome and charming! I think the same and you inspired me. Cheers! Hong Kong is always welcoming you to be back. But if you wanna stay long, I have to tell you it's so difficult to find a proper place to live here. Price of flats are fuxking high.I think you should listen some Cantonese songs to improve your speaking as well. You will be amazed by how a good Cantonese song that every words with 9 tones fits every note. Start with some slow songs. Listen songs from 張學友.
Very nice that you got that local HK flair when you speak Cantonese, which you explained in your other video maybe that's because you learned it from youtubers. I also got a thing of learning languages. At the moment I'm learning French but I also self-learned some Japanese and would want to learn Polish. It's so nice to see the internet has helped bring people together to understand each other more literally. Please keep up!
Barbara Kelemen That's great! Good to hear about other people leaving HK with similar feelings... I remember the first three months of learning Cantonese were really hard, everyone thought I was a bit weird for bothering haha. But it was definitely worth it! HK is a much more interesting place when you know what people are saying around you. Good luck Barbara!
Haha just randomly saw this video. I come from HK and my motherlanguage is Cantonese. Honestly, your Cantonese is super. I totally understand that and u know quite some vocabs like patience and perseverance. Haha! Keep it up!
Have you ever watched the Chinese show Informal Talks (非正式会谈)? It's a talk show where a group of foreigners living in China discuss their opinion on different topics. You can watch it on youtube.
You're so cool!! Ich komme aus Hong Kong und lerne Deutsch. Schön, Sie kennen zu lernen. You speak fluent Mandarin, and your Cantonese is super!! Keep going 💪 💛
I also study Mandarin. As a recent traveler to China, I recommend teaching at Beijing International Chinese College. This's college is meant to teach foreigners Chinese and vice versa. I hope this helps!
Great job! I grew up in Canada and spoke Cantonese at home. I later learned German in university and lived there for a few months. Your German and Canto vocab is better than mine!
Hey there Alex! I've randomly stumbled upon your channel and I'm impressed! I grew up speaking Cantonese and you actually know more Cantonese words than I do! Ahaha, over the years, I've slowly started forgetting some words, but your video inspired me to get reacquainted. There should be no reason I shouldn't know my mother tongue! The tones in your Cantonese still need a little finessing, but keep up the great work :)
I bet you're learning Cantonese from Hong Kong people or you might have some Hong Kong friends at uni as you speaking in Cantonese with Hong Kong ton in the video, such as "我download左d apps" I think it's amazing of learning different languages at the same time. What do you think about Cantonese and what motivates you to learn this "difficult" language? Anyway, I'm telling you that you already aced it! Keep up the good work! Excellent! Can't wait to see your next video ❤️
Very interesting video! You know the same languages as me - English is my native language growing up in Australia, Cantonese was passed down by my parents, mandarin from hanging around friends who speak it, and German from working there!
jackie pun I still have trouble with that myself all the time... but there are some general kind of rules I find useful for guessing www.lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/Grammatik/Gender/Gender.html
AlexHarris1094 This website is soooo good!! Thank you!!😆 Btw, now you are back in the U.K.does that mean you will have less chance to practice your Cantonese?😮
Hi Alex ! I’m a chinese student currently in Uk and studying in language teaching^^ it is a really good video! Hope to get connected with people interest in languages:)
Hey ich lebe hier in Deutschland und bin auch hier geboren, dein Deutsch ist schon ziemlich gut 👍 mach weiter so !! Meine Eltern kommen aus HK und ich kann auch Cantonesisch sprechen, deswegen kann ich auch da beurteilen, dass du da sehr gut sprechen kannst 👍
Ich komme auch aus Baden-Württemberg! Voll cool und du redest schon voll gut dafür. Versuch mal: Flughafenparkplatzmitarbeiterstundenlohn 😂😂😂 Die restlichen Sprachen außer englisch habe ich überhaupt nicht verstanden... klingt total komisch
Hi! I am a Malaysian.... i have watched your cantonese videos and i enjoy them thoroughly. I must say that you definitely speak better than i do... i tend to mix cantonese with english in my conversations with my family (i dont speak full cantonese or mandarin either) :) :). If you have the chance to visit Kuala Lumpur.... you can converse with the local Chinese community. Happy language learning!! :)
My mama is from Malaysia, my dad from China and I was born in Germany 😂 so I grew up bilingual - Cantonese & German. Your Chinese is fluent... I’m also trying to learn mandarin right now. Your are definitely an inspiration to me! Keep doing 👍🏼
You're an absolute inspiration :) I lived in China for a year teaching English a looooong time ago and have forgotten all the Mandarin I knew (which wasn't much) and I want to go back this year to practice again! But I like the sound of Cantonese so much, I might go teach in Hong Kong instead... Hmm, who knows :)
Come to Zhuhai(near Macau & Hong Kong)! Its a more laid-back and relaxed costal city with beaches and Islands. And we speak both cantonese and mandarin!
Geez, your accent and even clarity when speaking Cantonese is unreal. It's as if you grew up in HK and went to a local school all your life. Very impressive.
Go to the Guangzhou city, close to HK, Cantonese-speaking, but great exposure to Mandarin too as M is the official language. It's interesting to see your M has the Cantonese accent :) Impressive & all the best.
kudos on you knowing many languages. i'm cantonese chinese speaker. it's nice to see caucasians learn foreign language especially Asian languages because it's different, complete different.
:0 ur canto is on pointttt anyway for writing 中文字, i feel like the actual writing part is fine, just remember the 上至下/左至右 rule and youll get the hang of it pretty quickly cuz there is a limited number of 筆劃。the hardest part is recalling it (so what im saying is, no matter how complex the word looks, if ur just copying it it shouldnt be too hard to write as long as u rmbr the rules of the 筆劃. the hard part is to be able to recall what it looks like in detail so that ur able to write it out without looking at it - but dw too much abt it cuz most ppl(im talkin abt native speakers), especially after high school, sometimes they forget how to write even some of the simplest words, again they r able to recognize it/read it but they arent able to recall it in detail) oh and btw i just moved to london from hk cuz of yknow, politics ✨✨✨ im sorry but this place kinda sucks (mainly just cuz ive been spoiled rotten by the mtr and the hk public transport system in general 😭) honestly london doesnt even feel like a city if u ask me (maybe except for central london but anything beyond zone 2 is like 鄉下地方) the biggest ive learned coming here is that i literally cant live ohtside of a city bduejxbdjd
Wow! That is so impressive! You definitely speak Mandarin and Cantonese better than me! Both my parents are from Guangzhou but I was born in Sydney, so I guess I lost the majority of my Chinese-speaking ability growing up haha. You're right when you say that Cantonese helps with Mandarin! Sometimes when I want to speak a Mandarin sentence, I just 'convert' the Cantonese words to their respective Mandarin sounds in my head haha. But yeah, awesome video! Your language skills are extremely amazing :)
Your Cantonese is impressive! Haha I can speak English and Cantonese and half Mandarin and I'm learning German. So technically we are learning the same languages. I am glad to help you with your Cantonese and writing in Traditional Chinese.
Guangzhou! That's where my roots come from. Healthy exposure to both dialects. Maybe more Canto, but now a huge population of Mandarin speakers relocated there for work.
你好啊 Alex。I just wanted your previous Cantonese video. You have improved A TON since then. Amazing~ Keep it up! If you have questions, let me know. Also, choose a city you would like the food and atmosphere in, and make sure it's safe. 加油！If you are interested, I also have a few songs I sing in Cantonese on my other channel: I love to sing and I love musick or this current one. :).
Heh. Your Mandarin has a bit of a Cantonese accent. Good progress so far, grammar is on point. Keep it going! The hardest part may just be the tonal part of the language. Some of your words are on the right track, while others have a much more noticeable error. You seem to have a bit more trouble with the 3rd and 4th tone. Work on streamlining the down-up motion of the words (3rd tone) along with having a bit more confidence on the down motion of the 4th tone. Well done!
😄😄😄You have a Cantonese accent when speaking Mandarin but still articulate. 👍👍👍 Very cute. I wish I can speak so many languages like you. My daughter speaks Cantonese(mother tongue), Mandarin, English, Korean and she has just started to learn Japanese. I used to learn German but have forgotten completely😅😅😅
Wow you are awesome! I speak Mandarin and I am learning Cantonese, I think your Cantonese is so good that even some of your Mandarin pronunciations are like Cantonese :p
Omg, I find it fascinating how you speak Cantonese very soft and quietly. As for me, I always thought that whenever I spoke, or hear people talk in Cantonese, it sounded like a very harsh, low and angry tone language XD
I also speaks the exact 4 languages that you have spoken. As an Asian Australian based in Germany, hearing you speak like that resonates something within me. It felt like seeing a mirror in a strange way. I wonder how I sound as I speak my 4 languages that represents the 4 parts of me. Respect for learning the 3 languages, and I agree being a polyglot can be interesting. And I like to strengthen my repertoire and learn more language soon!!! 🌏🌈👐🏻🌌💟Diana @SumBodyArt
I am also learning Mandarin Chinese (simplified and traditional) and I find it very hard to remember pinyin and pronounce Chinese correctly. But since I am good at Japanese I already know about 2000 Chinese chacters only using my Japanese knowledge. I think writing and reading (not loud) is the easiest part. I can usually write Chinese characters by pen but cant read them since I am stuck in the Japanese readings.
very impressive your cantonese and it seems a lot harder tha mandarin. Chengdu and qingdao are really nice cities. I live in qd for over a year and a half and would love to go back so i'd recomend that!
Hey, I just saw your video by chance, what a coincidence I speak the same languages as you! I mean I am native Cantonese and Mandarin speaker, then I learned English and German later on. Great that you can speak both Mandarin and Cantonese, I seldom met foreigners can speak both, keep on practicing! Later I will make a video to compare these 4 languages in my channal, have a look if you are interested!
I have just started learning German, I have a German tutor supporting me once a week so hopefully I will start to progress soon. Any hints on what supporting books etc to use for my profession? Thank you
I love how much more gentle, soft spoken and high pitched you are when you speak Cantonese compared to the other languages haha😂 It seems to be a common occurrence when speaking Cantonese for a lot of people👀
Hi You video is really inspiring! Seeing you speaking each language so fluent , kinda make me want to pick up my German again. I am also a language lover. Can speak the same 4 language like you do but I found it’s really hard to master a language. How can you be so persistent
Canton might be a good choice. Can both speak Cantonese and Mandarin. And It's an International city also has its own long history and culture. What's more, the food there is the best!!!. That's some of my recommend. You're really encouraged. 加油！
Hi Alex, Chinese and German are both difficult to learn and you seem to master them quite well at such short time. Like you, I speak the same 4 languages so I know how hard it is to get to that level. Your Cantonese is definitely the best out of the 3 learned languages. Your German grammar is good, but it needs more conversational practice to improve on the accent. My advice is to force yourself to speak only German with your mom (hopefully she doesn't mind). Cantonese intonation is difficult to master and you are getting it mostly correct. So whatever you are doing, you're on the right path. My advice is to start working on writing sooner (as it takes time & effort to practice), and it's unavoidable if you're serious about it. For learning & practising Mandarin & Cantonese together, I'd say the best place would be either Canton or Shenzhen, but you probably know that already. . Good luck to your endeavours and keep up with the video postings.👍
listening to Chinese songs and tvb dramas helps in learning Chinese. I know I did that. dispite having a Chinese family background, everyone talks English so my mandarin and Cantonese was poor. The songs and dramas helped, I'm sure it'll be able to help you too. 加油！
Ich lerne auch Deutsch aber ich finde es ist zu lang und schwierig zu lernen. Meine Muttersprache ist Kantonesisch, und ich denke deine Kantonesisch ist sehr fließend. Dass glaube ich mehr Deutsch lernen müssen. 😂
Go to Shenzhen 深圳 or any of the cities in Guangdong such as Guangzhou 廣州 or Foshan 佛山 so you can use your Cantonese and improve your Mandarin at the same time.
Alex! there's a video of Gunagxi Cantonese being spoken on a video on the Wikitongues channel! You should check it out! I recorded my mother and aunt having a conversation 😄
YAY CANTONESE!!!!
i'm so glad to see foreigners learning cantonese
thanks for supporting Cantonese. Cheers mate!
Better than mandarin.
Your Cantonese is actually so fluent and in a very good pronunciation, but what's funny is that it influents your Mandarin in Hongkonger accent...
Haha yeah I've heard this from a few people... I never know whether to take it as a compliment or an insult haha
AlexHarris1094 😂As a hongkonger I appreciate it
His tones in canto are pretty bad though /:
his cantonese sound great！very polite. he make cantonese more beautiful.
@@95squares as a native. only some word but mostly good
Do you notice when you speak Cantonese, your voice becomes much softer than other languages? Why is that? You make Cantonese sound gentle and tender.
I hope you'll keep on practising Cantonese, especially when you've learnt Mandarin. As a Cantonese speaker, I do fear that Mandarin will be getting more powerful and Cantonese may one day become ...
MrTsiqsin Yeah I just noticed that too, no idea why... And I totally agree, I'd be absolutely devestated if Cantonese disappeared, that's why I found the taxi driver story in the film 10 Years so touching
MrTsiqsin One time I read that everyone has kind of a different personality in each and every language. Maybe Alex is a gentle cantonese speaker then. :D
MrTsiqsin British Chinese here, when I speak Cantonese my voice is a lot deeper. When I speak British English my voice is normal, but when I speak American English it becomes high pitched lol. I live in California long enough to know how to speak in the local accent to blend in if I don't want to get annoyed by the "oh wow you have an accent" conversations.
I find it fascinating how our voices sound so different in different accents/languages.
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Because Cantonese is a sweet language, I hope he keeps his cantonese style of speaking it shows his good natured side, and this is a plus for sure.
Your Cantonese accent is actually great and the sentences are fluent for me to understand! It's my first language and I can understand it without reading the subtitles.
German and Canto on point. Mandarin is coming along nicely (with a slight canto accent lolol). 加油！
Hahah 谢谢, still very much a work in progress but getting there
youre german has a very distinct english accent but it was very good :D
Your Cantonese is speaking really great! Looking forward to see you one day in Hong Kong!
Wow, I really respect your passion to learn foreign languages :D
I grew up speaking German and Cantonese and I learned English in school. I also started to learn Mandarin when I was little, but I've never been into it. Now seeing you rocking those languages I feel so competitive and motivated to go back to it :D
Keep up your hard work!
& schöne Grüße aus Deutschland
Well, you can go to Guangzhou (广州), because the people there speak Mandarin and Cantonese, so you can use both languages. :)
Ron Grebbin 同意，欢迎黎广州~
Really cool
Dein Deutsch ist sooo gut!!! Du sprichst sooo schnell!!
I quite enjoyed this. In the order of ability I'm a native Cantonese and fluent English speaker, being able to understand and speak a bit of Mandarin and a week ago started learning German! In response to an earlier sentiment about how you feel annoyed that you couldn't speak more than one language at that time - I think it depends on the environment you are in, and you learn way more in a foreign environment (UK school system didn't help, as I was taught French). Of course I wish that one day my German can be as good as yours! Keep it up!
Very impressive your Cantonese! It's really hard to learn and you nail it!!! Congratulations!!!
Phyllis, from Hong Kong
I'm from Hong Kong and currently learning German! I will go on a student exchange programme to the UK next year! Your Cantonese is perfect!
Hi Alex,
I'm a native Cantonese speaker studying A Level in Cambridge. Your Cantonese is really good, no joke. Try to improve your pronunciation and yea, it'd be
Alex, you speak Cantonese so well!!! I'm trying to teach my friend and I'll definitely show your video to them.
Alex好耐冇見呀！你而家系youtube嘅有名！ Was für eine Überraschung dir hier zu finden! 😁
講得唔錯，繼續努力！加油
Your cantonese is really good and your mandarin has a lot of canto accent in it though. Keep it up! :)
I just met you in underground today in London, and I was impressed deeply by your 廣東話People who speak differently languages are cool, awesome and charming! I think the same and you inspired me. Cheers! Hong Kong is always welcoming you to be back. But if you wanna stay long, I have to tell you it's so difficult to find a proper place to live here. Price of flats are fuxking high.I think you should listen some Cantonese songs to improve your speaking as well. You will be amazed by how a good Cantonese song that every words with 9 tones fits every note. Start with some slow songs. Listen songs from 張學友.
岑信哲 It was really nice to meet you mate, and I'll definitely give some songs a listen, thanks!
felt so inspired by you !! cause i am actually picking up Japanese again and should continue for German.. i've already completed A1 course ..
Ich lerne Deutsch jetzt und Cantonese ist meine Muttersprache. Ich hoffe wirklich, dass ich Deutsch so gut sprechen kann wie Sie Cantonese sprechen!
Very nice that you got that local HK flair when you speak Cantonese, which you explained in your other video maybe that's because you learned it from youtubers. I also got a thing of learning languages. At the moment I'm learning French but I also self-learned some Japanese and would want to learn Polish. It's so nice to see the internet has helped bring people together to understand each other more literally. Please keep up!
Hong Kong it is!
Barbara Kelemen That's great! Good to hear about other people leaving HK with similar feelings... I remember the first three months of learning Cantonese were really hard, everyone thought I was a bit weird for bothering haha. But it was definitely worth it! HK is a much more interesting place when you know what people are saying around you. Good luck Barbara!
Haha just randomly saw this video. I come from HK and my motherlanguage is Cantonese. Honestly, your Cantonese is super. I totally understand that and u know quite some vocabs like patience and perseverance. Haha! Keep it up!
U spoke Cantonese so good.keep going.even my boyfriend was a Chinese guy but he never know how to speak Cantonese.proud of u🤗
Have you ever watched the Chinese show Informal Talks (非正式会谈)? It's a talk show where a group of foreigners living in China discuss their opinion on different topics. You can watch it on youtube.
Ho lek ah nei! Your Cantonese is really good!
You're so cool!! Ich komme aus Hong Kong und lerne Deutsch. Schön, Sie kennen zu lernen.
You speak fluent Mandarin, and your Cantonese is super!!
Keep going 💪 💛
I understand all of your mandarin now. I've just started Cantonese. I hope to reach fluency in 3 years!
Respect for learning Cantonese. 🇭🇰
I also study Mandarin. As a recent traveler to China, I recommend teaching at Beijing International Chinese College. This's college is meant to teach foreigners Chinese and vice versa. I hope this helps!
Is it better to start learning cantonese first before learning mandarin. I have already been listening to alot of cantonese films for years now.
Great job! I grew up in Canada and spoke Cantonese at home. I later learned German in university and lived there for a few months. Your German and Canto vocab is better than mine!
Hey there Alex! I've randomly stumbled upon your channel and I'm impressed! I grew up speaking Cantonese and you actually know more Cantonese words than I do!
Ahaha, over the years, I've slowly started forgetting some words, but your video inspired me to get reacquainted. There should be no reason I shouldn't know my mother tongue! The tones in your Cantonese still need a little finessing, but keep up the great work :)
Brilliant, Your Cantonese is so fluent and in a very good pronunciation, and so soft and gentle. I love to hear you speak Cantonese.
its crazy how your chinese vocabulary is so much more expansive than mine! quite frankly im jealous!
Super！好劲！好厉害！最近也在学德文，多多指教！Happy Chinese New Year btw :)
I am soooooooo impressed, seriously. Please keep up the good work!
I bet you're learning Cantonese from Hong Kong people or you might have some Hong Kong friends at uni as you speaking in Cantonese with Hong Kong ton in the video, such as "我download左d apps" I think it's amazing of learning different languages at the same time. What do you think about Cantonese and what motivates you to learn this "difficult" language? Anyway, I'm telling you that you already aced it! Keep up the good work! Excellent! Can't wait to see your next video ❤️
silver louis he covers this in video white guy speaks Cantonese
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Dein Deutsch ist ziemlich gut!👍👍 Super!
好犀利，你講廣東話好得意，加油
Your Cantonese is great ! Well done!
Very interesting video! You know the same languages as me - English is my native language growing up in Australia, Cantonese was passed down by my parents, mandarin from hanging around friends who speak it, and German from working there!
你说的很厉害啊！Go Alex 哈哈哈哈 希望你能够多多练习噢！加油！
勁！這樣用「勁」字應該係香港話的特色。
I am learning Deutsch for half a year and I think it is very difficult to remember the genders of nouns. Do you Any tips for that?😀😀
jackie pun I still have trouble with that myself all the time... but there are some general kind of rules I find useful for guessing www.lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/Grammatik/Gender/Gender.html
AlexHarris1094 This website is soooo good!! Thank you!!😆
Btw, now you are back in the U.K.does that mean you will have less chance to practice your Cantonese?😮
jackie pun There's actually a huge Chinese community in London so it hasn't been too hard :)
AlexHarris1094 that sounds nice :))) I am not sure whether there is a German community in Hong Kong :(
Hi Alex ! I’m a chinese student currently in Uk and studying in language teaching^^ it is a really good video! Hope to get connected with people interest in languages:)
Yenan Hu Thank you.. Unfortunately Im not in London these days but you should try going to the Mundo Lingo language meetup in Shoreditch :)
Your Cantonese is great! I'm very glad that you learnt it. Greetings from Hong Kong :)
Hey ich lebe hier in Deutschland und bin auch hier geboren, dein Deutsch ist schon ziemlich gut 👍 mach weiter so !! Meine Eltern kommen aus HK und ich kann auch Cantonesisch sprechen, deswegen kann ich auch da beurteilen, dass du da sehr gut sprechen kannst 👍
Ich komme auch aus Baden-Württemberg! Voll cool und du redest schon voll gut dafür.
Versuch mal:
Flughafenparkplatzmitarbeiterstundenlohn 😂😂😂
Die restlichen Sprachen außer englisch habe ich überhaupt nicht verstanden... klingt total komisch
Hi! I am a Malaysian.... i have watched your cantonese videos and i enjoy them thoroughly. I must say that you definitely speak better than i do... i tend to mix cantonese with english in my conversations with my family (i dont speak full cantonese or mandarin either) :) :). If you have the chance to visit Kuala Lumpur.... you can converse with the local Chinese community. Happy language learning!! :)
Holy crap your cantonese is fantastic!!! Nice work :) Far better than mine (and I'm from a cantonese speaking household!)
woaahh you will be my inspiration😊 thanks a lot! your words mean a lot to me not to stop learning,.
Your cantonese is better very good job in speaking cantonese.
That's brilliant. Cantonese is harder than mandarin. I'm impressed. By the way you are better than most chinese I know from UK lol
My mama is from Malaysia, my dad from China and I was born in Germany 😂 so I grew up bilingual - Cantonese & German. Your Chinese is fluent... I’m also trying to learn mandarin right now. Your are definitely an inspiration to me! Keep doing 👍🏼
Omg your Cantonese is so fluent and the expressions are on point. As a HongKonger I’m so impressed! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
You're an absolute inspiration :) I lived in China for a year teaching English a looooong time ago and have forgotten all the Mandarin I knew (which wasn't much) and I want to go back this year to practice again! But I like the sound of Cantonese so much, I might go teach in Hong Kong instead... Hmm, who knows :)
Come to Zhuhai(near Macau & Hong Kong)! Its a more laid-back and relaxed costal city with beaches and Islands. And we speak both cantonese and mandarin!
Geez, your accent and even clarity when speaking Cantonese is unreal. It's as if you grew up in HK and went to a local school all your life. Very impressive.
Go to the Guangzhou city, close to HK, Cantonese-speaking, but great exposure to Mandarin too as M is the official language. It's interesting to see your M has the Cantonese accent :) Impressive & all the best.
I'm an English learner, your video is helpful to know how to learn another language. I guess you are really talented with learning languages.
alex你太棒了！
Yaki Wong 哈哈哈謝謝Yaki! 我今天看了你最新的視頻！你會繼續拍視頻嗎？
kudos on you knowing many languages. i'm cantonese chinese speaker. it's nice to see caucasians learn foreign language especially Asian languages because it's different, complete different.
:0 ur canto is on pointttt
anyway for writing 中文字, i feel like the actual writing part is fine, just remember the 上至下/左至右 rule and youll get the hang of it pretty quickly cuz there is a limited number of 筆劃。the hardest part is recalling it (so what im saying is, no matter how complex the word looks, if ur just copying it it shouldnt be too hard to write as long as u rmbr the rules of the 筆劃. the hard part is to be able to recall what it looks like in detail so that ur able to write it out without looking at it - but dw too much abt it cuz most ppl(im talkin abt native speakers), especially after high school, sometimes they forget how to write even some of the simplest words, again they r able to recognize it/read it but they arent able to recall it in detail)
oh and btw i just moved to london from hk cuz of yknow, politics ✨✨✨
im sorry but this place kinda sucks (mainly just cuz ive been spoiled rotten by the mtr and the hk public transport system in general 😭)
honestly london doesnt even feel like a city if u ask me (maybe except for central london but anything beyond zone 2 is like 鄉下地方) the biggest ive learned coming here is that i literally cant live ohtside of a city bduejxbdjd
Wow! That is so impressive! You definitely speak Mandarin and Cantonese better than me! Both my parents are from Guangzhou but I was born in Sydney, so I guess I lost the majority of my Chinese-speaking ability growing up haha. You're right when you say that Cantonese helps with Mandarin! Sometimes when I want to speak a Mandarin sentence, I just 'convert' the Cantonese words to their respective Mandarin sounds in my head haha. But yeah, awesome video! Your language skills are extremely amazing :)
Your Cantonese is impressive! Haha I can speak English and Cantonese and half Mandarin and I'm learning German. So technically we are learning the same languages. I am glad to help you with your Cantonese and writing in Traditional Chinese.
I don't speak a word of any of those 3 languages but that feeling you got when you saw someone speaking a language, you gave me that:)
Guangzhou! That's where my roots come from. Healthy exposure to both dialects. Maybe more Canto, but now a huge population of Mandarin speakers relocated there for work.
你好啊 Alex。I just wanted your previous Cantonese video. You have improved A TON since then. Amazing~ Keep it up! If you have questions, let me know. Also, choose a city you would like the food and atmosphere in, and make sure it's safe. 加油！If you are interested, I also have a few songs I sing in Cantonese on my other channel: I love to sing and I love musick or this current one. :).
Heh. Your Mandarin has a bit of a Cantonese accent. Good progress so far, grammar is on point. Keep it going!
The hardest part may just be the tonal part of the language. Some of your words are on the right track, while others have a much more noticeable error. You seem to have a bit more trouble with the 3rd and 4th tone. Work on streamlining the down-up motion of the words (3rd tone) along with having a bit more confidence on the down motion of the 4th tone.
Well done!
😄😄😄You have a Cantonese accent when speaking Mandarin but still articulate. 👍👍👍 Very cute. I wish I can speak so many languages like you. My daughter speaks Cantonese(mother tongue), Mandarin, English, Korean and she has just started to learn Japanese. I used to learn German but have forgotten completely😅😅😅
Thanks for your comments! They do go away very quickly when you don’t use them... My German has degenerated a lot in the past year of living in HK tbh
Wow you are awesome! I speak Mandarin and I am learning Cantonese, I think your Cantonese is so good that even some of your Mandarin pronunciations are like Cantonese :p
Wowwww well done Alex!
Omg, I find it fascinating how you speak Cantonese very soft and quietly. As for me, I always thought that whenever I spoke, or hear people talk in Cantonese, it sounded like a very harsh, low and angry tone language XD
I also speaks the exact 4 languages that you have spoken. As an Asian Australian based in Germany, hearing you speak like that resonates something within me. It felt like seeing a mirror in a strange way. I wonder how I sound as I speak my 4 languages that represents the 4 parts of me.
Respect for learning the 3 languages, and I agree being a polyglot can be interesting. And I like to strengthen my repertoire and learn more language soon!!! 🌏🌈👐🏻🌌💟Diana @SumBodyArt
Cantonese and mandarin is amazing 谢谢 for making this video you are amazing in your language learning!!! 😊👍
I am also learning Mandarin Chinese (simplified and traditional) and I find it very hard to remember pinyin and pronounce Chinese correctly. But since I am good at Japanese I already know about 2000 Chinese chacters only using my Japanese knowledge. I think writing and reading (not loud) is the easiest part. I can usually write Chinese characters by pen but cant read them since I am stuck in the Japanese readings.
very impressive your cantonese and it seems a lot harder tha mandarin. Chengdu and qingdao are really nice cities. I live in qd for over a year and a half and would love to go back so i'd recomend that!
Ich liebe deinen Akzent😍
What a talent! And your German is more than descent!
Your german is really good mate.
Really cool video overall! Be my Cantonese speaking buddie!
oh my god you're amazing!! your Cantonese is so goooooood😂 im in love lollllllll
Hey, I just saw your video by chance, what a coincidence I speak the same languages as you! I mean I am native Cantonese and Mandarin speaker, then I learned English and German later on. Great that you can speak both Mandarin and Cantonese, I seldom met foreigners can speak both, keep on practicing! Later I will make a video to compare these 4 languages in my channal, have a look if you are interested!
I have just started learning German, I have a German tutor supporting me once a week so hopefully I will start to progress soon. Any hints on what supporting books etc to use for my profession? Thank you
OMG, you spoke 'mo lar lar' in Cantonese Lolz. That's too impressive!
I love how much more gentle, soft spoken and high pitched you are when you speak Cantonese compared to the other languages haha😂 It seems to be a common occurrence when speaking Cantonese for a lot of people👀
You have such an impressive language ability ...
Hi You video is really inspiring! Seeing you speaking each language so fluent , kinda make me want to pick up my German again. I am also a language lover. Can speak the same 4 language like you do but I found it’s really hard to master a language. How can you be so persistent
Canton might be a good choice. Can both speak Cantonese and Mandarin. And It's an International city also has its own long history and culture. What's more, the food there is the best!!!. That's some of my recommend. You're really encouraged. 加油！
Hi Alex, Chinese and German are both difficult to learn and you seem to master them quite well at such short time. Like you, I speak the same 4 languages so I know how hard it is to get to that level. Your Cantonese is definitely the best out of the 3 learned languages. Your German grammar is good, but it needs more conversational practice to improve on the accent. My advice is to force yourself to speak only German with your mom (hopefully she doesn't mind). Cantonese intonation is difficult to master and you are getting it mostly correct. So whatever you are doing, you're on the right path. My advice is to start working on writing sooner (as it takes time & effort to practice), and it's unavoidable if you're serious about it. For learning & practising Mandarin & Cantonese together, I'd say the best place would be either Canton or Shenzhen, but you probably know that already. . Good luck to your endeavours and keep up with the video postings.👍
listening to Chinese songs and tvb dramas helps in learning Chinese. I know I did that. dispite having a Chinese family background, everyone talks English so my mandarin and Cantonese was poor. The songs and dramas helped, I'm sure it'll be able to help you too. 加油！
You're awesome,alex!加油!
canto so on point
Wow! So talented!
Ich lerne auch Deutsch aber ich finde es ist zu lang und schwierig zu lernen.
Meine Muttersprache ist Kantonesisch, und ich denke deine Kantonesisch ist sehr fließend. Dass glaube ich mehr Deutsch lernen müssen. 😂
Das ist Wahnsinn. Ich spreche die gleichen Sprache als Dir aber meine Muttersprache sind Mandarin und Kantonesisch. Would love to connect!
Go to Shenzhen 深圳 or any of the cities in Guangdong such as Guangzhou 廣州 or Foshan 佛山 so you can use your Cantonese and improve your Mandarin at the same time.
It's kinda adorable how your mandarin has a heavy cantonese accent X)
Alex! there's a video of Gunagxi Cantonese being spoken on a video on the Wikitongues channel! You should check it out! I recorded my mother and aunt having a conversation 😄