Thank you, 雪梨! Sometimes people mishear my name （雪莲）and think it's your name! Such a funny coincidence! 😀

She was awesome. Love the video. Believe it or not, learning different culture does help me alot in understanding how things work better. I use to be so one sided when I was younger and always see that how everyone was doing everything wrong if it wasn’t according to how I do things. Learning from others with an open mind was the best thing that happened to me.

Me too

Dying dialect. Admit it or not.

Hi - as a fellow cantonese speaker, this was so fun to watch - thanks. I found that speaking canto in a dim sum restaurant in NYC gets a lot of attention - all the carts divert to you to have a chat with the gwei lol 😂

I'm so glad there are other people who can relate!!! Thanks for sharing!!! 😂😚

@@jjsaysnyc 俾心機學廣東話，之後去唐人街甚至係香港，廣州要嗌咩食都唔問題，唔靜止咖啡 Support from Malaysian chinese who speaks both Cantonese and Mandarin😁

Don’t be afraid. Some of us English speakers mess up more than new learners 😂😂

@@honeyluvz1231 true

@@OkkkkOO366 saya orang cina.

next time when you visit Shanghai, i will teach you contong language 😄

I don't even necessarily mean to speak fast- that's just what happens when I feel nervous! Haha! Fight or flight kicks in! 😂

@@jjsaysnyc I wish I can speak English fast and clearly like you!

@@jjsaysnyc Did you learn in Sichuan?

musta pogs? lol

Thank you! She's the best mom a girl could ever ask for! 😀

I hope at the very least they remember the interaction as being pleasant! Haha! Thanks for your comment! 😚

Thanks so much for your support! :)

Longyan; long(dragon), yan(eye) interestin fact that i recently discovered myself

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHut uppp XD

I'm so mad... 😂

I don't know what that means.

JJ, Come to Hong Kong to speak and practice more proper Cantonese!

she was just there a few months ago if you look at her older videos!

@@japanesentaiwanese6711 She didn't know Cantonese on that visit.

Thank you! I hope to be back some time next year! 😚

Thanks, Andy! I appreciate your support! We'll be putting out a new one soon! 😀

That's so kind to say! I need to keep working hard!!! 😤👍

This makes me feel much better about practicing! Thank you so much!

@@jjsaysnyc yeah please don’t feel embarrassed. A lot of Chinese people will feel respected and humble that a white lady is speaking their language and want to learn the culture. Nothing wrong with that.

I was laughed at a few times but I understand that majority of people aren't that insensitive

I speak Mandarin Cantonese& Fuzhouese

There are a few bakeries that have Cantonese speakers in those locations, I remember

There's some cantonese speakers in Brooklyn still too! But you're right, so many mandarin speakers nowadays.

it seems like you can speak Cantonese well.

@@jessejeremy745 I’m from Hk 🙂

I literally die a little inside every time, but I'm trying to be brave! Haha! 😤

Which ones?

@@rareneedle all HK TVB dramas or Movies .. watch the police stories dramas or any dramas learn the cantonese slang.. :) but you should try to speak with native Chinese too if you just watch and do nothing you still can't speak at all..

Yeah a little!

Yes. It is complexed. Listening and speaking is the easy part. Reading & writing? OMG! There are so many keystrokes! My personal advisor (my Dad) is dead. I have no one to turn to. 😑

Toisan, or own pronunciation Hoisan, is 1 of 6 sub sub dialects of Sei Yap in standard Cantonese, or Hleiyip or ngip, in own speech. hl = Welsh! ll. Yap (=Yi) is old word for modern Xian (Canto yun, u as i French) county. There are 4 Sei Yap counties who self ID, and 2 more on west, Yangjiang (Yeunggong + 1 more) who in language are part of "Sei" Yap group but are not recognized by the 4. The 4 were main Chinese immigrants in US in.past. All Chinese dialects share a majority of words. especially semi and highly formal words, with similar pronunciations and different tones that have regular matches (Putonghua rising tone ALWAYS = Canto low falling tone, Canto --eung and -- ong, = PTH --iang, etc among all dialects. For explanations and lists, see Yuan Jiahua, s dialect survey, Hanyu Fangyan Gaiyao, Beijing, 1960 and 1980? perhaps in librairies, with chapters for each of 8 major dialects, at least, and lists of PTH and each 1 s tones and sounds matches, and tone changes for each (Canto has least, mainly many or all of certain words, no matter original, if are 2nd syllable, always = Canto high rising. In contrast, Fuzhou (Hujiu), top of Fijian s E and N subdialcts, has most insanely complex of all dialects tone changes--- non natives must be so easy to spot--- perhaps why Taiwan people smugglers choose to smuggle un-- docu N Fujianers--- much harder Zfirm Taiwan police to infiltrate !! If they smuggled fellow S Fijian speakers from Taiwan (Daiwan, own speech for Taiwan) or from real S of Fujian, cultural and language capital of Xiamen Emng, in own speech), as Taiwan police could totally understand them!!! Clever. There us also at least 1 simple, NO explanation of massive tone changes, Fuzhou conversation book by Hippocrene languages teaching publisher in NY. The book is chauvinistically only called Fujianese something.(All speakers of S Fujian, own speech. call it Hokkien, (=(whole) Fujian) If 1 speaks word Hokkien, no chauvinism, but to write it in Chinese excludes the E and N dialects, and vice versa. Anyway realmy hope that you can find above mentioned book or similar!! Also, Fangyan (Dialect) and Zhongguo Yuwen, (Chinese Language), both in Beijing since 1950, have great, even absolutely essential articles, scattered across decades from 50s to now, on Cantonese, Hokkien, Hujiu? etc Perhaps you can find them in a public or university library. There are some videos on how to speak most, including Shanghai (Sang or Sang hei in own), (all? + Jianxi s Gan ? Hunan' s Xiang ?) Xiexie Doje, (Canto) Xiaria, {Hujiu) Dosia, or Gamsia different Hokkiens) Dochia (Hakka) Joisia (Teochew (Diejiu) etc etc etc Great achievements in your Chinese learning!!! Chenggong!- Also more technical note-- dialect words 1) Most are variations of same N national words 2) Dialect words A) Many are local versions of largely old obsolete N national words (Canto sik, to eat also food vs PTH chi to eat and shi (=sik), Canto yam to drink, drink (noun) PTH he to drink, yin (= yam) drink (noun) These are dialect continued use of old N words, not originals B) Loan words 1) From other dialects (Canto matye or meiye = what Hakja makgai 2( From SW minorities (Canto ngaam and ngaamngaam from Zhuang 1 o ancestors of Thais and Lao etc) 3 (From ??? bizarre Canto haambaanglaang = all What the ??? From now extinct relatives of short Igorots, of central.Philippines, who look like short Australians and used to live in S China and SE Asia?? Or ??? 4) From foreign languages A) English many categories mostly newer technology, but also others (Canto daksi, for taxi, basi, for bus, B) similarly Hokkien, from Malay and Indonesian) etc C) From Japanese, also modern technology, and modern societies (most ---isms, etc.) Also dialect words are mostly daily use. 1) Some pronouns 2) Demonstrative adjectives, pronouns etc 3) Common use 1 syllable. verbs (Canto sik. to eat) 4) Common use nouns (Canto daanche = PTH zixingche bicycle) 5) Cantonese textbooks A)Yale U 2 or 3 level books B) Foreign Service Language Institute, 2 vol s C) Radio HK 3? vol s D) Several newer but shorter books E).Most or all mentioned. on internet Hope that these help!!! Zhu ni. hao yunqi!! (Canto Juk nei hou wanhei!!!) . B) Jampanese -

You should here canadian cantonese

@@annaku_lickalicious huh? “Prestige dialect” is literally the linguistic term for a historically standardized mode of speech. It’s not a value judgement, just academic terminology

@@annaku_lickalicious it doesn’t mean that it’s inherently “better,” just that Hong Kong and Guangzhou as historically urban economic centers or national/international trading hubs means that Cantonese people of every region have come to collectively confer a “prestige” status onto that dialect. “Prestige” in this case is a neutral signifier based on historical circumstance, not a judgment of superiority. You’re misunderstanding

But she's a New Yorker

@@caitlynnqz1990 I mean as an American. I was referring me as a Hongkonger

In a way , they are languages even they are speaking differently but for the same text writing , so should have been called DIALECT (S) !

@@hermanchow1405 the same text thingy is technically called a script. If by the same logic or by a similar standard, then Portuguese, Spanish, German, French, English, Dutch,...etc would all be considered dialects of Latin by virtue of having used a similar script.

Definitely hear that "hoy san" Lol

I think that natives from Guangzhou speak Cantonese pretty well too :-)

@H L Totally agreed. The funny thing is that some Guangzhou youngsters will imitate the distorted tones from HK Cantonese to be like "cool".

HK Cantonese is lazy and colloquial but very popular. I find myself speaking lackadaisical Cantonese as well simply because I've been a tvb fan for almost 5 decades. Doesn't mean it's wrong. Canton aka Guangdong is a cornucopia of Cantonese dialects from screaming toisan hua to musical Shunde hua.

Thank you so much for your support! 💕

For people trying to learn Cantonese from TVB, make sure you're watching Jade and not Pearl...

@Mas Salleh schools in China are only mandarin speaking. Kids will get in trouble if they speak native language in school. I think it’s their plans to get rid of most of the dialects

Disagree. Considering accents exist in various places, the sales speaks Cantonese as less accent from the common group. Wonder how people used to take their own accent as the only genuine sample. After all, I disagree your opinion of the language is disappearing due to increasing use of Mandarin in certain areas.

Was wondering if anyone else noticed that too lol

I paid US$128 for a 4 ounce box of American wild ginseng 野山珍珠泡參 in San Francisco back in 1987.

Those are just American ginseng farm mostly in northern states. You are confused with Korean or Chinese Ginseng which are much more expensive. Oh wait, you have no clue and just Google it...LOL.

No evidence as they shared the same Chinese characters. No worse or better in any case.

@@hangtuah888 They may have the same characters but the pronunciation is different and that makes the difference. Try reading a tang period poem in Mandarin and the same poem in Cantonese.

@@hangtuah888 ​ I agree with @Audrey Choong. Cantonese is famous for preserving end tones of Older Chinese while losing some of the tones used in the beginning of words. So, when we read older text that are meant to rhyme (basically an end tone feature), Cantonese might maintain the feature of rhyming. It's a common misconception about Chinese. Most Han Chinese dialects use Standardized Chinese as medium to communicate but that doesn't mean we SAY every word we see. Like in Cantonese, 没有 will typically be read as 冇 in Cantonese. Most Cantonese-speakers rarely use Written Cantonese. This is not because Written Cantonese doesn't exist, it's just that it doesn't guarantee mutual understanding if someone already doesn't understand Cantonese when you are conversing (Using previous example, 冇 doesn't exist in Standardized Chinese). Some Han Chinese dialects don't even have a Written portion. There are also some minority group languages that never developed their own written portion (but have vocal portions) to their language so they also use Standardized Chinese as the written medium. Some would go on and have their own written mediums. Examples would be ethnic Manchus or ethnic Koreans (no, not North or South. I meant those that were living in China for a few centuries). So Chinese is complex. Really isn't one size fits all. Standardized Chinese is a medium that allows diverse communities of Chinese origin communicate.

@@willy123096 FYI, this is precisely the reason the First Emperor, Shih Huang Ti made the language universal as one character and one language that we know now as Mandarin instead of the disparate 132 dialects in China.

@@hangtuah888 The First Emperor didn't make Mandarin. He only mandated ONE language to be used as the official language (called 官话) within the borders of China. It just so happens the 官话 of today is Mandarin. Modern Mandarin is roughly a few hundred years old and based on the Bejing dialect, which ironically is one of the lesser used dialects these days. Most older dialects are few thousand years old. It is also important to note that even if Mandarin is used as the official language for centuries, the Mandarin variant is different. The most recent example of this would be the difference of Mandarin when the Nationalist Party ruled China (国语）and when the Communist Party ruled China (普通话）Even within the same branch of Chinese, Mandarin in this case, there are variants that are visible. The case is similar to something like UK English and US English. Mutually intelligible sometimes but not exactly the same. The differences might make you question why (Ex: gray vs grey) but existent nonetheless. You seem to imply that all different Chinese varieties are the same because of the fact that most dialect speakers can write Standardized Chinese. This is not the case. They write Standardized Chinese because it is easier, however, Standardized Chinese is only a collection of common Chinese culture. There is a lot of differences in lifestyles of different regions. This is especially true in the past when it might take months to reach one major city, like Guangzhou, to another, like Beijing. I mean to this day, you are still less likely to find spicy food in regions that speak Yue, compared to other regions. (Yue cuisine is famous for having a milder approach in cooking compared to the other 7 main cuisine variants) Reading poems in different dialects is a GIFT. Not a BURDEN. It reveals different aspects of Chinese culture and the richness of diversity within China.

Oh, that's very good news! Thank you! 😀

Thanks so much! I appreciate your sweet comment!

I left in 2010. As I remember NY Chinatown is very dirty and smelly🤦‍♀️

I'll ask him about it sometime soon! Thanks for the recommendation! 😀

Wenzhouese is a dialect of the Wu language, and Hainanese is a dialect of Hokkien

I loved when you went out to eat with Xiaoma. Do you plan on doing any other videos together?

Agree the same. I can understand what all you said more then what the saleswoman said( I am a native speaker)

Yes. I'm from Hong Kong. I agree too. Your tone and usage of Cantonese particles is more natural than that sales lady.

That's woman is definitely Vietnamese lol

That's really encouraging! Thanks so much! 😚

The sales lady spoke 四邑話 so her tone was not the formal Cantonese. A variant of Cantonese in rural areas. My family’s old relatives speak so. We Cantonese speaker( Hong Kong) has no problem listening. BTW, indigenous Chinese Americans speak this variant kind of Cantonese for generations. No surprise.

WOW! This is actually such an incredibly helpful comment. Thanks so much for all the detail you put into it! I'll have to reference this in future videos! 😚💕

Oh and I also want to add something off-ish topic but nice to know. Of the smaller Chinatowns in NYC, Bensonhurst (I'm from here so yes, I'm trying to show off a bit :3) and Homecrest is still predominantly Cantonese. A lot of the people that end up moving out of Chinatown earlier in the century but wanted to stay in NYC ended up in Bensonhurst and Homecrest. Oh, and to add to the history theme of the original comment, I want to expand on the topic with a bit of dark history: The reason the split happened in Chinatown was the generational differences and regional cultural differences of different Chinese. Fujianese (speaks a Min variant), Toishanese (speaks a Yue variant), and Cantonese (speaks a Yue variant) were the predominant groups from earlier waves of Chinese immigration in the US. Basically, earlier Fujianese and Cantonese hated each other and won't hire each other. This phenomenon still exist today. Currently in NYC, the Chinese community can be seen as very split at times. There's the generational differences between new immigrants and Chinese-Americans. Different immigration waves also lead to things like Flushing being made up of newer immigration groups and speak better Mandarin while the older Chinatowns are populated with Cantonese and Fujianese mostly. It can really get complicated if we go deeper. In general though, most people are more accepting these recent decades but it wasn't always like that. More non-profit organizations that want to benefit Chinese population (and even Asian population as a whole) are appearing.

@@willy123096 Actually, just to add to that comment response and feel free to add any comments or corrections. For a long time, Cantonese speakers were the dominant population in Manhattan's Chinatown and as mentioned before, the original western Cantonese Chinatown had already been well established for a long time, however from my understanding and from what I heard as their population continued to explode during the 1970s-80s, they also began expanding eastward past the Bowery, which the eastern portion of Chinatown was initially developed as a spillover of the Cantonese Chinatown, but it was intertwined with remaining Latinos and Jews and other Non-Asians and it was unfortunately not a desirable area and often with available vacancies and storefronts and many people felt uncomfortably unsafe to walk around there as there were often gangs hanging around and the western original part of Chinatown was still the main center of the Chinese population and businesses and commerce. When the Fuzhous started moving in during the 1980s, they did have a hard time relating to the Cantonese population and with the western part of Chinatown already fully economically developed by the Cantonese and as vacancies were already too full, the Fuzhous settled towards the more undesirable eastern Chinatown and by the late 1980s, the remaining non-Asian residents left eastern Chinatown and it became just as fully Chinese populated like the western Chinatown. The Fuzhou population were initially mostly centered on and around East Broadway during the late 1980s-1990s even though there were already some scattered numbers of them mixed in with a lot of Cantonese residents throughout eastern Chinatown. In the 1990s, Manhattan's Chinatown still continued to be mostly Cantonese populated and many of the Fuzhous were not getting very nice treatments from the Cantonese speakers and many of the Fuzhous learned to speak Cantonese in order to get by with jobs and communications in the neighborhood. Through the 1990s and especially in the early 2000s, many Cantonese residents slowly began moving out of eastern Chinatown, which allowed the growing Fuzhou population to eventually dominate most of eastern Chinatown; though some remaining Cantonese residents and businesses still remain in scattered sections, however the older established western Chinatown continues to remain mostly Cantonese. Yes, different socioeconomic situations also has played a role. But as with the gentrification is in the process in Manhattan's Chinatown, the Chinese population is unfortunately rapidly declining and increasingly the Fuzhou population are moving to and becoming more concentrated in Sunset Park Brooklyn Chinatown, now is the largest Fuzhou Chinatown in NYC, while the Cantonese population are moving to and becoming more concentrated in Brooklyn's newer Chinatowns of Bensonhurst and Homecrest, however Bensonhurst has taken over as having the largest Cantonese Chinatown of NYC while Homecrest just has an additional smaller Cantonese Chinatown. Uniquely, Bensonhurst's Chinese population surpasses Manhattan's Chinatown now, but because their populations are more spread out, they created more like several miniature Chinatowns in various sections, but combined together they can surpass Manhattan's Chinatown.

@@supertrouper Wow, that's a more detailed history than I gave. Oh and since you mentioned gangs, I heard that most of the tunnels and shortcuts the old gangs used in Chinatown are still there. I found that to be interesting. I find the Chinese population in NYC more accepting these days though. I've been hearing less and less of the regional type of bias between Chinese these days though it still exist in various degrees especially within the older generation. It is more like stereotyping these days though. There is less of the "I won't hire you because you from a different region." kinda thing but occasionally I will hear something like "Oh, Fujianese really likes money" from the older generation. These days I'm more concerned that the differences in culture between the different Chinatowns and groups of Chinese being glossed over (Not that I am actively doing anything against it though I do talk about it sometimes). I mean there is a reason that I find increasing amounts of younger people believe being Cantonese is mutually exclusive from being Chinese. People can't seem to be able to accept Cantonese people is also Chinese. I mean ofc there's the HK issue that I won't want to comment on. But even in HK, they never said they weren't Chinese. It is more like taking a political stance (whether right or wrong, not me to dictate). Also seems to occur when people say the various dialects of Chinese is not the Chinese language. Makes no sense to me. To me, it is disturbing how people have such a strict inaccurate interpretation of the word Chinese both as a language and a ethnic group. I get the feeling a lot of the people outside of China have an impression that all the Chinese are more similar than different.

@@jjsaysnyc Yep! Go to Hong Kong cafes/restaurants if you want to speak Cantonese. :) Enjoy some Hong Kong food and speak speak speak Cantonese. They are a few in Chinatown. Cha Chan Tang, Cafe Hong Kong, Kong Sihk Tong, etc. :)

@UCYuYGzfgp8hjBlLZgRalxMA No, to Chinese people, Cantonese is not difficult, so do the traditional Chinese characters. The reasons why China mainland uses Mandarin and the simplified Chinese characters as the official language is because of some political reasons. Actually, most Chinese people like to speak Cantonese and sing in Cantonese. Also, they like to write or type in the traditional Chinese characters. However, Mandarin is easier to foreigners. Cantonese and the traditional Characters are difficult to foreigners. Because Mandarin got Pinyin to study the accent when Cantonese is more complicated to study without an excellent native speakers environment.

@UCYuYGzfgp8hjBlLZgRalxMA Fake name? 😅 I advise you not to use a fake name in China mainland, better name yourself officially except on the internet. Because the penalty for cheating can be horrible in China mainland.

@UCYuYGzfgp8hjBlLZgRalxMA And, 明明西里 is a great name, but it seems to be like not a Chinese person’s name. It’s special, but China can accept and tolerate differences.

@h a That’s not a stupid question! 😂

@h a I got it 🤣 I checked just now. The profile picture is a young girl. 🤣