【Guangzhou Vlog】I Tried ONLY Speaking Cantonese for A Day

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@ayemunaymessiah598 2 жыл бұрын

More of these!! These are really entertaining and educational. Especially the mispronounced words 😂😂 loved the ending 😂😂😂

@ChinesewithJessie 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed making it too! Definitely would try to make more in the future.

@Towkeeyoh 2 жыл бұрын

@@ChinesewithJessie Surprisingly, when u paused to correct a word, I think the rest of us kinda learn at that moment too! Very useful, even more so since it's every day conversational sentences!

@kenj6479 2 жыл бұрын

Wow your Cantonese sounds really good. Gotta be tough coming from a Mandarin background getting the tones to sound so on point. Also, your man got good taste in music; that shirt he's rocking is sick. BTW drunk version you with the bf is simultaneously hilarious and adorable lol

@Geckokidthepaladin 2 жыл бұрын

this is adorable haha! I'm native cantonese and I thought your cantonese is really good (way better than my mandarin anyway...)

@falali9060 2 жыл бұрын

I loved this video and it's my first time commenting. This is definitely a different side of you that's quite refreshing.

@pcimprezzive 2 жыл бұрын

Loved your Canto for a day vlogs and Guangzhou eats! Loved you speaking Cantonese & showing us around. Would like to see more of these videos

@letsTAKObout_it 2 жыл бұрын

This is super impressive! I love your channel. It would also be really cool to see something like this in your Jiangxi dialect! Thanks for posting!

@leialukehan 2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the best ways to learn a different dialect/ language… hanging out/eating/ drinking with a friend/ BF! So cute together! Love all the filler (colloquial) words! (Hard to learn that in books)!

@gregorybown 2 жыл бұрын

Every time I hear Cantonese, I just love the tones; it sounds so expressive! I postponed trying to learn it once I tried Mandarin. I am unsure why, but Mandarin was so much easier to comprehend for me. Sigh 😔 even hearing you speak it makes me sad, wishing I could too.

@bennettbullock9690 Жыл бұрын

I think your Cantonese was extremely good. A major challenge in learning Cantonese is to not fall back on a Cantonese pronunciation of the Mandarin equivalent if you know the Mandarin word. Going home - hui jia - could easily be pronounced as something like "wui gaa" but the proper way to say it is "fan uk-kei". And if you know the Mandarin word and it's the same as the Cantonese, you still have to learn the tones for the Cantonese word. Or just do what I do and speak it really fast.

@Nooshdog 2 жыл бұрын

Dude lol I'm so used to Jessie doing her usual wave at the end of a video, but seeing her do the wave and then fumble the camera made me lol. Great video. Got to see a casual side to Jessie I've never seen before haha.

@kellygibson46 2 жыл бұрын

Please do more videos showing Shenzen. Canto and English speakers here trying to learn Mando, so going in the opposite direction of you! Your videos are very helpful and so much fun!

@ChinesewithJessie 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Kelly, I'm so glad you like them! This vlog was filmed in Shenzhen, and there will be more to come :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bK9nrbGfsLDVfn0.html&t

@Serenity_Dee 2 жыл бұрын

"You know it's good when the grandmas are here" is accurate the world over.

@ThatsmeJoanne 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂 Gao Tong；溝通 -> 交通（communicate became traffic) 太好笑了。I miss Guangzhou ❤️

@hsimwong1107 2 жыл бұрын

交通 In ancient Chinese means both communication and traffic. And also in English, "Communication" refers to "traffic" in many circumstances. Quite interesting.

@edwardlau9242 10 ай бұрын

Love your videos. They are very genuine showing a non-native speaking Cantonese. I love that as you speak and make corrections. This shows great effort on your part. Many of my friends find that Cantonese is harsh on their ears when they heard it for the first time. How did Cantonese sounds to you when you heard it for the first time? Why did you want to learn Cantonese? Cantonese is alot freer in its colloquial. It is like Jazz improvisation as compared to formality of classic music. They both are good and serve their purpose. Do more Cantonese and your home dialect videos. ❤❤❤ I also love you accent!! Keep it and don’t loose it. It is so cute.

@disneytok Жыл бұрын

Jessie is a real beauty

@zidanechanmusic 3 ай бұрын

Malaysian Cantonese here who was searching for China Cantonese content, came across this video. I learnt a lot from this vlog and I subscribed. Keep up the good quality content!

@RaymondHng 2 жыл бұрын

12:25 滾水 is _boiled water_ 13:25 自由古巴 Cuba Libre is known as generically _Rum and Cola_ or _Rum and Coke®_ . It is also _Bacardi® and Coke®_ if one wants that specific, more expensive brand of rum. 14:00 _Spectacles_ refers to the entire pair of eyeglasses including the frame. The element that popped out is one of the _lenses_ .

@JonMawPAUL_ANKA Жыл бұрын

for 12:25 should say 好焫 instead, sounds more gramatically correct

@tinhoyhu 4 ай бұрын

I think 好熱 sounds better. 呢杯茶好熱，焫嘴㗎！

@brianlew86 3 ай бұрын

Great job Jessie! ❤😊

@watchf 2 жыл бұрын

I love how you try to translate mistakes like “doy”

@opticnurv 2 жыл бұрын

That noodle restaurant you went to in liwan is so good. It's always busy. Also I live in 江南西 where you went drinking. It's got the best coffee shops and bars for chilling out

@ChinesewithJessie 2 жыл бұрын

Guangzhou got vibes!

@aishancampbell8908 2 жыл бұрын

So delicious, so funny! Thank you for sharing! Love your videos.

@nikolavojnovic6552 Жыл бұрын

My brain definitely didn't miss "the moment" you had with chopsticks at 07:11... 😜🤓

@oGOLDENARMo 2 жыл бұрын

Love the canto crossover content. Also love your friends MF Doom shirt lol

@andrzejthethinone1577 2 жыл бұрын

You guys (in China) probably don't realise how exotic to many foreigners some of those streets look like! :) Beautiful, beautiful and, again, beautiful :) As for Mandarin learner and Chinese culture lover - Cantonese is a different language and it sounds very different. BTW, English is not my first language either, so sorry for mistakes :)

@ReiKoko 2 жыл бұрын

Cantonese is indeed very different! I'm a canto speaker and I don't understand mandarin, only a few basic words and phrases. Cantonese has more tones than mandarin, different sentence structure and grammar and I believe it also has more english loanwords, especially in Hong Kong, due to it being a British colony in the past.

@crimson2knight Жыл бұрын

Drunk Jessie seems like fun time. 😂

@ReiKoko 2 жыл бұрын

I thought your canto was actually quite good! Yes, some wrong words and tones, but overall I could understand you rather well and you have a much better grasp of the grammar than I do 😅

@f.h.hingst7272 2 жыл бұрын

The ending was EPIC!!!

@nicolekatsitsiyo Жыл бұрын

Hi! I’m loving your videos! 💗 I’m super interested in any kind of analysis of Faye Wong’s Cantonese, because I know she learned it when she moved to Hong Kong to become a singer. I know you like Wong Kar Wai films, if this is an interesting topic maybe you can look at Chungking Express? Also I wonder if it’s improved since she started dating Nicholas Tse again? 🤔 Just and idea! Thanks!! 🥰

@albertsong697 Жыл бұрын

小姐姐好棒啊！努力学粤语的态度太赞了👍👍👍

@jiaxuanyang5467 2 жыл бұрын

This's really great, after learning Korean, I want to expand to Cantonese since some pronunciations are similar.

@pinkpotatoes9849 5 ай бұрын

I'm Cantonese and I agree Korean has the old Han Chinese tones that Cantonese has. I have heard the same words used by some Koreans I met.

@asleepzz 6 ай бұрын

醉貓Jessie好得意😂 I can only wish I could be this cute with my "not-salty-not-bland" Mandarin.

@tvtime1 6 ай бұрын

Your Cantonese is pretty good!❤❤❤

@eeldude 2 жыл бұрын

Nice job on your Cantonese! Long Island Iced Tea is a dangerous cocktail! It is made sweet and easy to drink but it has a LOT of different alcohols in it...Vodka, Gin, Rum, Tequila. It's no wonder you got so drunk!

@Lireoec 2 жыл бұрын

I heard Mandarin. You failed the challenge. But your pronunciation isn't too bad for someone who's learning. Keep it up. 😊

@ashchbkv6965 2 жыл бұрын

How long have you been speaking canto because it's pretty good

@LuvLifeVlogZ 11 ай бұрын

Amazing city, looks so fun, perfect end to the day, get hammered and pass out! 😂

@user-rx1kb3ry4b 2 жыл бұрын

The fall at the end :D

@QuizmasterLaw 2 жыл бұрын

Cantonese is VERY beautiful, but I must first reach HSK6 (9...) before I even think about learning it. It seems about as far from Mandarin as Romanian is from French. Not mutually intelligible but even with shifts like fa for hua I can detect lots of cognates.

@Jumpoable 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you are picking out the cognates! I would say it's more like French & Italian/Spanish. French & Romanian would be like Mandarin & the Minnan languages (Taiwanese/ Amoy/ Teochew) with even more differences in grammar & pronunciation.

@QuizmasterLaw 2 жыл бұрын

@@Jumpoable Mandarin has just 4 tones Canto has at least 9. I speak French and Spanish and Canto and Mando are much further apart than those two and waaay further than Italian and Spanish (which are mutually intelligible). If you let them write characters then canto and mando are mutually intelligible but without hanzi, no.

@Jumpoable 2 жыл бұрын

@@QuizmasterLaw Nope, some books still keep saying Canto has 9 tones, but NOBODY speaks with 9 anymore (LOL perhaps in the Qing dynasty). Modern Hong Kong Canto has 6 tones, Guangzhou has an extra high dropping tone so that makes 7 at most. I also speak French & Spanish. ;) Considering how different French pronunciation is from Spanish & Italian I'd say that's akin to Cantonese & Putonghua. Cantonese & Hakka would be like Italian & Spanish. But of course, Europe is much smaller than China, so there can't really be a one-to-one comparison. Add oil with your Hanzi !

@DavidNgCantonese 5 ай бұрын

@@Jumpoable I don't think you understand when people say Canto has 9 "tones". 6 of them are unique tone CONTOURS. The last 3 are entering/clipped/checked "tones" 入聲, where they end very suddenly with k,t,p sounds so they don't have time to rise or fall, and instead are just distributed in high, mid, low and have the same tone contours as tone 1, 3, 6. That's why it's called 9聲6調. So yes, everyone who speaks Cantonese uses 9 "tones" even today, which means they speak with those 6 tone contours & the 3 入聲, entering tones.

@gaming4K 2 жыл бұрын

10:07 Like she has never been in restaurants in her country. That was funny. xD This whole video is just funnier minute after minute xD

@keungkau9215 Жыл бұрын

Hi I don't speak much Mandarin but my Cantonese is intermediate level. In Shenzhen can you use exclusively Cantonese and still get by?

@lleahs118 Жыл бұрын

涼拌魚皮超級好吃，在番禺那個古鎮吃過，念念不忘

@Drownedinblood 11 ай бұрын

I can hear an accent but your grammar and rhythym is fine. Your tones are good enough. I like how you messed up the eng subs like you mess up the word lol.

@Spish0 2 жыл бұрын

你啲廣東話唔錯呀！哈哈。如果你想講 the tea is hot，你都可以講「啲茶好熱（hou2 yit6）」

@ChinesewithJessie 2 жыл бұрын

Got it! Thanks!

@shevanehwa 2 жыл бұрын

😹😹😹It’s funny to watch~ I always thought native language of Shenzhen is mandarin. Mean that Shenzhen local people is communicates with Cantonese? Anyway , thanks for the info👍🏻

@ReiKoko 2 жыл бұрын

Shenzhen is in Guangdong, where Cantonese is the main language. It's also super close to HK, I believe.

@yidingq531 2 жыл бұрын

Shenzhen local people are about half Cantonese-speaking（Guangfu） and half Hakka. But 85%~95% of people in SZ come form other areas, mostly Teochew, Hunan & Jiangxi.

@Jumpoable 2 жыл бұрын

@@ReiKoko NO. Shenzhen is geographically in Guangdong province, & yes, it's just across the border to HK. However it's a completely new city, so everyone immigrated there from other parts of China, so the main language is Putonghua. Cantonese will not get you ANYWHERE. Hardly ANYBODY understands Cantonese there, especially people in the service industry & cab drivers. But hey the restaurants feature cuisines from all over China so it's a great place for foodies.

@KennethChooTV Жыл бұрын

You make me feel like going to Guang Zhou to have the honkong feel. I realise when you are tipsy you pronoun Cantonese better. Same with me 😂😂😂 because we no longer that conscious anymore hahaha

@pinkpotatoes9849 5 ай бұрын

😂 講得好!

@rustybros 2 жыл бұрын

My parents from HK and I was born in US so my cantonese sounds just like yours. It's that broken cantonese lol.

@dareliciouz 2 жыл бұрын

I went GZ a few years ago, and the majority of the people there spoke mandarin. Where in GZ do they speak Cantonese? I would like to visit a place in GZ where they speak Cantonese.

@FrankTulloch 2 жыл бұрын

哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈 His lips are perfectly leveled with your Eye Height ... every time you want assurance for what you're saying you just turn around and stare at his eye leveled lips! XD 哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈太可愛的 Another grate video

@ChinesewithJessie 2 жыл бұрын

What's 爐排?

@FrankTulloch 2 жыл бұрын

@@ChinesewithJessie me pretending I know what I'm doing? >.

@ChinesewithJessie 2 жыл бұрын

@@FrankTulloch 😂😂

@TranTek 16 күн бұрын

Jessie Your English quite good you from 外國 ?

@QuizmasterLaw 2 жыл бұрын

As a native Mandarin speaker did/do you need to study Cantonese to speak it, or can you just pick it up from the mutual intelligible parts? Don't they have some different words and even different grammatical structures?

@ChinesewithJessie 2 жыл бұрын

Yes a lot of the words and grammars are different, I didn't actually study it, I just picked up words and sentence structures from Cantonese movies/TV series/songs, and then try to practice speaking with my bf. That's just me though, can't speak for other people who are trying to learn Cantonese.

@QuizmasterLaw 2 жыл бұрын

@@ChinesewithJessie Right, but I figure as a native Mandarin speaker and good at languages (your English is basically native, I can't think of or hear anything to correct) it would give me an idea of how much I'm going to have to learn beyond a bunch of extra tones and at least some new vocabulary. Thanks!

@ahenrycc84 2 жыл бұрын

@@QuizmasterLaw As a native Cantonese speaker, I understood zero Mandarin as a child until I learned/studied it back in high school and now I can understand and converse in it at an intermediate level. If it's like that for me, then conversely it'll be the same for you from Mandarin to Canto. The two languages are different through and through, from pronunciation, to grammar, and to words and expressions (some Cantonese expressions have no equivalent translations in Mandarin).

@ahenrycc84 2 жыл бұрын

@TravelerPat I've heard that the lexical similarity between Mandarin and Cantonese is less than 50%. Even if the words are the same in Canto and Mandarin, their usages are often different (e.g. "食" is used as both the verb "to eat" and part of the noun "food" in Cantonese, whereas that's only used as part of the noun "food" in Mandarin, with "吃" meaning "to eat" instead for Mandarin, and that character doesn't exist in vernacular Cantonese).

@Jumpoable 2 жыл бұрын

@TravelerPat Swatow & Teochew is located geographically in Guangdong province, but your culture & languages are more closely related to Minnan group of languages in Fujian (Amoy/Taiwanese) & also Hainanese in Hainan island. Teochew is of course more similar to Cantonese than Mandarin, as they're both southern Chinese languages, but you would have no problem understanding Amoy speech or Taiwanese if you spoke fluent Teochew.

@marmitechickenlegs8331 11 ай бұрын

I wish more mainland tried to speak cantonese. You go into that area, you learn it. Even a few sentences.

@chrisgarner3714 2 жыл бұрын

This video was super cool…loved it, however, you look sleepy and boring when you’re drunk, hahahaha. Thanks!!!

@alexwood3459 2 жыл бұрын

I thought she just looks drunk- I found it adorable. Looked like she was having a good time.

@jomak9 2 жыл бұрын

16:01 非常突然，我爆笑左XD

@Jumpoable 2 жыл бұрын

OMG I want to go to GZ to eat old school Cantonese food now!!!!! O____o They're called "pig intestine (rice) noodle" because rolled up they just look like pig intestines. I guess it's Cantonese vegan sausage LOL.

@Weeping-Angel Жыл бұрын

Can get by in Guangzhou if I only spoke Cantonese? I can’t speak Mandarin but it seems like most of the urban areas only speak Mandarin even if they all speak it with an accent.

@johndoe5346 Жыл бұрын

Can definitely just speak cantonese in Guangzhou. Shenzhen though I don't think so.

@thepolyglotzone Жыл бұрын

5:49 Cheong-fun? Interesting... In Mexico we call them Chun Kun

@karabaojantan8702 2 жыл бұрын

Lai lai sek fan.

@Jumpoable 2 жыл бұрын

Don't need to double 'lai' You can say 'lai sik sik faan" though. If you're just saying lai then yes you can double 'lai lai'

@AmelieZh Жыл бұрын

回头我也试试这个challenge但是我得找我朋友帮忙

@jimmytan2208 2 жыл бұрын

It's so cute when she's buzz and mispronounces.

@diegoadrianbellidosalvatierra Жыл бұрын

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@RaveYZ 7 ай бұрын

cute!

@943Y 2 жыл бұрын

Jessie said herself was juicy lmfao btw I can understand and don’t need captions but it’s fine bc some people don’t understand

@iamok9285 4 ай бұрын

Philippines 🇵🇭❤️

@andrewy4761 6 ай бұрын

Only a few can speak only Cantonese without mixing in English words. The traditional Cantonese no longer exists. It was destroyed by the same people who were supposed to preserve it.

@karabaojantan8702 2 жыл бұрын

Lei kong mat nye ya?

@Jumpoable 2 жыл бұрын

Nei (or lei) gong mat ye ah? Not 'nye' or 'ya'

@Jumpoable 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for speaking Cantonese in Canton for 1 day! Unfortunately a lot of Cantonese kids in GZ won't even speak in Cantonese for 1 whole day even when they are off from school! LOL very impressive for a non-Cantonese speaker but you accidentally said so many swear words! [hai] (tone 1 instead of 2/6), [gau] instead of [kau] & [jue hai] instead of [jue hoi]! :P & I notice you keep saying [yam] 淫 ("perverted/ lecherous") instead of [yan] 人 ("person")! A few pointers: not all [n] finals become [m] in Cantonese. Like [saan] 山 & [saam] 三. And for most Putonghua speakers, the Cantonese 'aa' & 'a' sounds really trip people up. Long 'aa' is just [aa] but short 'a' in Cantonese is really like English 'u' as in 'yum' or 'but' So 身/新 'san' 深/心 'sam' just sounds like English "sun" & "sum" NOT [saan] or [saam] which would be the above 山 & 三. You can see that the short 'a' in Cantonese corresponds to Putonghua 'e' & 'I' but Cantonese 'aa' is just like Putonghua 'a'. Also, be aware of the distinct [p] [t] [k] endings in Cantonese. I guess you just have to remember them as Mandarin has dropped them all. But since you speak English fluently you should have no problem pronouncing them. Keep up the good work, as I can see that you have a knack for learning languages from your level of English! Would LOVE you to do more videos of you introducing your own Jiangxi dialect! There's hardly any representation of that in media or even online!

@ChinesewithJessie 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind advice! The difference between "m" and "n" is definitely a big headache for me, also some exclusive Cantonese sounds in characters like 想/张, I still struggle to pronounce my name lol coz my last name is 张. But I'll keep trying! Also my dialect is Jiangxi not Guangxi haha, but I get what you mean. I'll definitely include more dialects in the future videos, they're just beautiful and unique. Thanks again!

@Jumpoable 2 жыл бұрын

@@ChinesewithJessie LOL omg so sorry. Yes, Jiangxi. See, that's my Cantonese brain mixing the 2 up since it's Gong and Gwong...