How Good Is Michelle Yeoh's Mandarin Chinese? - Chinese Teacher Analyzes Michelle Yeoh's Chinese

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Жыл бұрын

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@thisisjeffwong Жыл бұрын

Thanks for understanding. We cantonese speakers are sometimes just guessing and hope you don't cringe too hard.

@ShuoshuoChinese Жыл бұрын

🤣

@lxtatar7773 Жыл бұрын

Hi! I'd like to ask a question if you don't mind. What language do you mostly use in education in Hong Kong (jun./mid./high school, college/university)? Is it Cantonese, Mandarin or English?

@hctan38 Жыл бұрын

In my generation, we didnt learn hockien nor cantonese in school. we learned it from our parents and friends and sometimes mixed with malay words, so our dialects are not pure dialects.

@lxtatar7773 Жыл бұрын

@@helehelexx____5924 if you can't be polite then google how to do it

@samgyeopsal569 Жыл бұрын

@@lxtatar7773 most schools in Hong Kong teach using Cantonese, the students and teachers all speak cantonese, but they write and read standard Chinese while using traditional characters. In terms of grammar and vocabulary. This “standard Chinese” （中文書面語）is the same as the one used in China and Taiwan.

@johnmofula Жыл бұрын

This is why I love learning different languages because it's easier to understand other people who are trying to learn a language you might know

@GinnyTan Жыл бұрын

Michelle's way of speaking is very "native" to Malaysian, Singaporean way of speaking. Malaysian and Singaporean often switches into different languages in the one sentence as a result of someone living in a very multicultural society where multiple languages are constantly being spoken and heard at the same time.

@alandeutsch9987 11 ай бұрын

That's a good point. When I visited Singapore, everyone spoke with a mix of super malay-accented chinese and english.

@mjlee5617 Жыл бұрын

Mchelle growing up in Ipoh Perak, Malaysia , Cantonese is widely spoken. She may be a Hakka but she has never mentioned her native dialect to my knowledge. I am very sure Michelle did not attend Chinese school in Malaysia, otherwise she would be very fluent in Mandarin. During her student days in that era most would attend missionary schools in Malaysia where English was the language of teaching for Maths and Science. So I hope everyone here could understand her background .

@tweedy4sg Жыл бұрын

No, she's Hokkien. At least her father is. Yeoh is Hokkien for 杨.

@chuifongtam4703 Жыл бұрын

Hi Shuo Lao Shi, I am also a Cantonese Speaker who grew up in America. My parents are from Hong Kong. I could not speak any Mandarin until I started learning recently in my 30s. XD

@chuifongtam4703 Жыл бұрын

@Helehelexx ____ good for you, it's never too late and never give up. Cantonese is even harder than Mandarin because it is the original Chinese. I am proud to know both Canto and Mando and feel more connected to my family.

@chuifongtam4703 Жыл бұрын

@Helehelexx ____ no my Mandarin is bad but still learning

@kail9777 Жыл бұрын

I can't believe she learned Mandarin in her 40s. When you analyzed the video I realized how truly gifted she is because if I had to learn another language and use it in an interview it would be near impossible. She is inspiring.

@clankb2o5 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful video, thanks!

@lucymathias2568 Жыл бұрын

I always enjoy your lessons..

@karogod Жыл бұрын

说说，你真厉害啊！这样学习词汇非常意思。谢谢❤

@lancewood1410 Жыл бұрын

We all talk like that in Mehsia :)

@oystershell6864 Жыл бұрын

I found this super interesting and informative. It’s a really good tutorial on how to change style of second language mandarin expressions into more naturally expressed mandarin. I looked past the pronunciation errors and tone differences. These can be practiced by yourself. Constructing spoken sentences in a more native mandarin style as a second language learner is far harder.

@winnieloh4279 Жыл бұрын

Look this way, if everyone has to speak a language as if they’re native, no one would have bothered at all. Most people now learned additional languages from their own countries and the goal is to understand and use the language basics enough to just get around some daily conversation

@fyfoh Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing parodies of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon from 20 years ago that made fun of her and Chow Yun Fat's Mandarin. It was a source of much hilarity in Taiwan apparently.

@jhonchan4770 Жыл бұрын

spot on!

@Language-ke7lj Жыл бұрын

你好老师。Can I request a video about the different mandarin in china, hongkong, taiwan, malaysia and singapore?

@kwl4829 Жыл бұрын

this is heavy

@PaulZedd Жыл бұрын

You can request it, and you just did

@jennifertham9333 Жыл бұрын

Michelle's accent is cute. I love to hear the way she speaks!

@leeleo9444 Жыл бұрын

Michelle's mother is a Cantonese speaker.

@YorgosL1 9 ай бұрын

It’s normal for HK people to use English word in their sentence. It’s not because they don’t know the word but it’s just how English work there. Also I criticize a lot of mainlander for their bad Cantonese pronunciation and use of word. It’s happen too. No big deal here

@ericloo6576 Жыл бұрын

The largest Chinese language in Singapore and Malaysia was Hokkien until it was replaced by Mandarin starting in 1980.

@lxtatar7773 Жыл бұрын

Hi! I wanted to watch your video on the difference between 经历 and 经验 but seems like it had been deleted or privated. Would be lovely if you could upload it again! thanks

@ShuoshuoChinese Жыл бұрын

你好，I just did, you can find the video on my channel now. :)

@lxtatar7773 Жыл бұрын

@@ShuoshuoChinese thank you ❤️

@alandeutsch9987 11 ай бұрын

thanks i was also wondering@@helehelexx____5924

@SkyDarmos Жыл бұрын

跟着 is inspired by Cantonese 跟住 gan1 zyu6, which means 然後.

@YorgosL1 9 ай бұрын

Nobody say 然後in canto

@SkyDarmos 9 ай бұрын

@@YorgosL1 I never said that 然後 is Cantonese. I said that 跟住 means 然後. 然之後 exists though. However, it is not true that Cantonese people never use 然後. It is used sometimes and it isn’t considered wrong at all. I am an expert in Cantonese, and so don’t try to correct me. It would end badly for you.

@SkyDarmos 9 ай бұрын

@@YorgosL1 If you don’t even know 然之後, you obviously don’t know Cantonese very well. You are probably from Hong Kong and have never left your tiny place to see more varieties of Cantonese and enjoy Cantonese in its fully richness. I live in Hong Kong and people here use these words all the time. Of course 然後 is pronounced jin4 hau6 in Cantonese and not ran2 hou4. You obviously are a victim of some kind of derangement Syndrom where you have to pretend that Cantonese and Mandarin are totally unrelated. I really pity you. Many in Hong Kong can’t pronounce Cantonese properly. They lack gw-, kw-, n-, -ng and -k. It is a very lowly form of actual Cantonese.

@SkyDarmos 9 ай бұрын

@@YorgosL1 As a native you should be ashamed to have such limited skills in Cantonese. Unless you live abroad. Then it is excusable. Your arrogance however is not.

@louong93 Жыл бұрын

It doesn't matter. Because she is Malaysian born Chinese. She can speak fluent malay eventhough she has been living in Hong Kong for a long time.

@Ndai Жыл бұрын

AM FIRST HERE, YEEEAH

@dennistang4977 Жыл бұрын

In HK, we say 時間 in most cases instead of 時候

@YorgosL1 9 ай бұрын

We don’t use anything that mandarin use

@arnoldong8900 Жыл бұрын

Da best important Speak n write Chinese Mandarin ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@despro8088 Жыл бұрын

跟着 is not wrong, 跟着/紧跟着也是很多北方方言里会用到的。

@cdobe Жыл бұрын

我也想要鸡蛋里挑骨头 😉: I’ve noticed in some of your videos that you pronounce ‘feeling’ like ‘filling’. That’s one of the things you could work on. I say that in the spirit of helping you to improve your already good pronunciaton. Thank you for the interesting video.

@ShuoshuoChinese Жыл бұрын

哈哈哈谢谢！我很难发对这个音！

@user-cv4mj8xk3h Жыл бұрын

Good shot

@SkyDarmos Жыл бұрын

I prefer to speak Cantonese, most of the time.

@gcajaiba4910 3 ай бұрын

Could you please evaluate Luke Neale's Mandarin level?

@Naranjus Жыл бұрын

Sorry but Hong Kong Chinese of that age are most certainly not native speakers. Most millennials even, were mostly taught by Taiwanese teachers. So they have a strong Taiwanese and Hong kongnese accent when speaking mandarin. Also HK and Guandong Cantonese have different accents. Cantonese is usually an umbrella term used for all the languages spoken in Guangdong province and not everyone on the province speaks Cantonese. I’m not a native speaker myself but my parents did teach me Hangzhou mandarin growing up. I spent many summers in China and I did my bachelors at a top Chinese university. Michelle absolutely doesn’t sound native at all. Most people of that age aren’t native speakers of mandarin. Their native language is whatever is spoken in the place their from. For example my parents are from Hangzhou. They learned mandarin in school and they don’t speak it perfectly either, sometimes I catch myself correcting them. I grew up in Costa Rica, so it means my native language is Spanish. I went to private school and learned to speak English. Just because I can speak the languages I speak “without an accent” or with what you would consider an “authentic” accent doesn’t mean I’m a native speaker. Hence, Chinese people from the south who speak heavily accented and mispronounced mandarin are not native speakers. I can tell how many Chinese immigrants in Costa Rica and abroad are also not native speakers of Mandarin. In China young people mostly speak mandarin but there are minorities that are mainly still taught in their regional native languages and speak mandarin as a second or third language. Most people in China are at least bilingual, meaning they speak their mother tongue and Mandarin Chinese is taught in school and spoken in the media and business settings. Almost everyone I knew from university could speak their “dialect” or language on top of mandarin. They spoke both perfectly because being a younger generation on the mainland they got more exposure to the language. My grandparents didn’t speak a word of mandarin but they could understand it and I could hold a conversation with them if i was spoken to in Shanghainese or Hangzhounese as both are Wu dialects. They’re not completely mutually intelligible but they are closely related. Michelle is very talented to have learned that many languages. But saying she sounds native is an absolute overstatement. Being native doesn’t mean there’s a specific accent you need to follow, but her pronunciation, lack of basic Chinese vocabulary, having to use English as placeholders for Chinese words, her level of fluency and cadence are dead giveaways that she doesn’t speak Chinese as her first language, let alone at native level.

@arnoldong8900 Жыл бұрын

Michelle yeoh is my idol karate movie ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@James-hs3tu Жыл бұрын

Sounds good to me

@kennySg101 4 ай бұрын

KL and Ipoh speak cantonese like HK. Not all chinese live in these areas can speak fluent chinese. Their Chinese have strong cantonese influence, I would not clasify them as native speakers. Michelle english is perfect, on the hand, I would rate her as english native speakers more than native chinese speakers.

@jaimemaglasang2414 Жыл бұрын

Good pm i am jaime maglasang.

@King_Baldwin_IV_777 Жыл бұрын

Cantonese forever 🐺🔥🔥🔥🥶

@toranaga1969 Жыл бұрын

I believe that although she is ethnic Chinese, she grew up speaking Malay as well as english. I am not sure if Malay is a version of cantonese or not. I do know that the native Malay people are not ethnic Chinese.

@tweedy4sg Жыл бұрын

She also speaks Cantonese, albeit only colloquially. That's bcs Ipoh, the town she grew up in is predominantly cantonese-speaking.

@user-gm1px6li9p 9 ай бұрын

Malay is definitely not related to Cantonese

@colinlim9537 Жыл бұрын

I think as long as we can communicate with each others effectively , is fine . When you speak English , you also have an funny accent which I think is OK !

@ColonelMarcellus Жыл бұрын

Who cares how good her Mandarin is? She's one of the most beautiful, classiest, sweetest-smile women on earth. Makes me wish I was about 30 years younger.

@meb114 Жыл бұрын

So she basically learned Cantonese while making those Jackie Chan films I grew up watching. I never knew that...

@tweedy4sg Жыл бұрын

No... she learn formal (or studied?) Cantonese making films in Hongkong. She already speak colloquial Cantonese in Malaysia while growing up bcs Ipoh, where she grew up is a predominantly Cantonese-speaking city.

@sunny-pe2uo Жыл бұрын

Great video! A little suggestion- you can back up the camera a little.

@ShuoshuoChinese Жыл бұрын

我的脸太大了吗😩

@jaimemaglasang2414 Жыл бұрын

I would like to meet you...

@marijusofficial Жыл бұрын

My Mandarin is better because i eat mandarines daily.Mandarinai means tangerine in Lithuanian.Just messing around.

@SkyDarmos Жыл бұрын

Yeah, mixing up 時候 and 時間 is pretty bad.

@HappyDIY9 Жыл бұрын

How come you speak Thai that good? :D

@michaelmartin1848 Жыл бұрын

在我们gay圈里，我们也经常用“爷们”或者直接说“man”表示男人的意思，他说so man我感觉也很地道😂

@ShuoshuoChinese Жыл бұрын

哈哈是的我们也会说man

@victorcummings9181 Жыл бұрын

Wanna meet her as soon as possible

@user-cv4mj8xk3h Жыл бұрын

Michelle is a Malaysian who once married to a Cantonese speaking husband and she developed her career in HK then in Hollywood. Why picked on her accent? In Cantonese this act is called 抽水 Well, anyway, it’s legal to 抽水

@ArmyK9 Жыл бұрын

鸡蛋里挑骨头 - Balut! Except Balut is duck egg.

@PrincessSakuno Жыл бұрын

I was brought up with both as an ABC but I’m really just an ABC w basic Mandarin now 😂 I gotta say it’s more cringe hearing Mandarin accented Cantonese than the overway round 😅 but it’s still a bit awkward the other way too 😂

@jeremycacho-lim957 Жыл бұрын

What does Mandarin accented Cantonese sound like? Could you mention an example? Thank you.

@PrincessSakuno Жыл бұрын

@jeremycacho-lim957 like a native Mandarin speaker, speaking Cantonese, the tones will sound like Mandarin

@phil20_20 Жыл бұрын

Isn't she from Malaysia? 😅 Plus, aren't there like 13 major dialects in China? Oh my... 😮

@victorcummings9181 Жыл бұрын

She married

@SkyDarmos Жыл бұрын

“So man” is Cantonese. It is “好man”.

@XkaliburJ Жыл бұрын

Hou Man Ahhh!!!

@ericloo6576 Жыл бұрын

Michelle Yeoh can't read Chinese. Her last name Yeoh is Hokkien pronouncian of Yang in Mandarin.

@SkyDarmos Жыл бұрын

Sound more natural, not sounds more natural.

@pokerfacelagoon Жыл бұрын

And you have a very strong mainland Chinese accent when conversing in English? 🤷🏻‍♂️

@jamilatanbinselamathardajo2626 Жыл бұрын

She's a Malaysian Banana

@bobbyrayewing Жыл бұрын

Remember there might be others that cringed at your English. Cantonese is Chinese also, so is Mandarin, hakka and many more spoken differently but written the same. Stop testing others Chinese, nothing better to do?

@ericloo6576 Жыл бұрын

Chauvinistic Chinese only recognise Mandarin as the only Chinese language. Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka and others aren't considered Chinese.

@hellohi1925 Ай бұрын

It’s the worst I’ve ever heard, her mandarin

@covekitten Жыл бұрын

ProNUNciation, not proNOUNciation. CanTENesse, not CanTOHnesse. DisCUSS, not disguss. MIStake, not meestik. FILLer, not FEEler. ViDEO, not viRio. I can go on.....

@MasterCorneilous Жыл бұрын

I hope Michelle Yeoh moved out of China. And hope she's ok from the grasp of the vial discusting gasslighting chinese government. Also I hope she wasn't brainwashed. Or anything

@wolger Жыл бұрын

Duh She is Malaysian and just ethnically Chinese in origin like me. and her hometown is Ipoh, the capital of Perak state in Malaysia. And she is holding Tan Sri the second highest honorific title in Malaysian bestowed upon her by King of Malaysia and also holding 2 state level titles by Sultan of Perak. We say Chinese doesn’t mean we are are citizens of China (chinese nationals). It is ethinically Chinese.

@mjulia9361 3 ай бұрын

@@wolger chinese is not a ethnically!

@greatndit Жыл бұрын

she can't speak malaysian even though she is malaysian

@wolger Жыл бұрын

It is Malay or Bahasa Melayu. She can speak it well. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abypaJqd2bephqs.html

@licomelano8482 11 ай бұрын

It's really easy to understand but speaking it fluently took forever

@greatndit 11 ай бұрын

Okay Sho she can speak malay

@dannyong Жыл бұрын

As you are a language instructor I can understand your frustration and anger when you hear others including celebrities speaking incorrectly. However you could have brought attention to the errors without the need to identify the person by name, much less use video clips of him/her committing the error. Not great at all. You must have had a really bad day when you posted the video.

@ShuoshuoChinese Жыл бұрын

Have you watched this video at all?

@marioniichann Жыл бұрын

She spoke about Michelle's mistakes from a place of respect, no shaming in this video at all

@vicolew 4 ай бұрын

calm the F down, the author was giving us valuable insight of Michelle ( being an achiver herself learning another language at 40s.) Thats was nothing disrespectful and in fact useful for us to know if Michelle can do it with glory, a lot of us can do that that. Dang,,,