And she did a great job

I'm glad you liked it, especially as a native speaker

@@JuLingo actually tho I'm Cantonese my Cantonese is not very good!We all speak Mandarin nowadays!Anyway,thank u for promoting our culture!

Not only that. English is not even her language. Isn't that amazing？Her languages are Russian, and Latvian.

@@neonx5233 no do also bend over and allow yourselves to trampled by westerners?

I always told my friend when they ask what is the difference between Cantonese and mandarin. I explain to them Mandarin is like a truck travelling across a narrow village road. Once small mistake the truck could steer off course, Meanwhile in Cantonese it is like a supercar cruising fast on a 6 lane highway during off peak season. In Mandarin the tone is so tightly control until even a slightest mistake in tone the meaning would be totally different. Meanwhile in Cantonese the tones are not that tightly controlled. foreigners with an accent might still able to converse this language yet still understood.

​@@kawingsvery true, excellent explanation

Cantonese is on steroids. Can proudly say it as I’m Cantonese. 😂😂

Amazing. Actually you know this subject better then a native Cantonese speaker, like me.

@@kawings This is very true. I've heard ni hou ,ni hu(I use this one), lei hou, and nei hou for hello. G and K are basically the same sound. L ,N and D are basically the same sound. J, C, and T are basically the same sound. Sometimes B and M are the same.

Thank you so much!

Zi Jackie Chan.

Thank you! 😃

Wonder when would Min get in. Google says it's not widely spoken, but I see stuff like Iban and Hmong.

Thank you! 😃

Just to let you know. Many people assumed that the dominant variety of the Chinese dialects spoken in the United States of America in the past was the Cantonese dialect, and the Cantonese dialect is the only dialect that exists in the Chinese province of Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong. When people spoke of the Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong dialect, they assumed it must be the Cantonese dialect. No, the truth is that the Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong dialect can actually be referred to any of the dialects from the Chinese province of Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong. The TaiShanese dialect from the Chinese province of Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong was the dominant variant of the Chinese dialects spoken in Chinatowns in Canada and the United States. It was formerly the lingua franca of the overseas Chinese residing in the United States. The TaiShanese dialects have little mutual intelligibility with the Cantonese dialects. The Cantonese dialects and the TaiShanese dialects are not the only dialects spoken in the Chinese province of Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong. Everyone from the Chinese province of Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong is a Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong person. Every single dialect spoken in the Chinese province of Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong is a type of Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong dialect. The Cantonese dialects are only spoken in parts of the Chinese province of Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong, and are not spoken throughout the entire Chinese province of Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong. Versions of the Cantonese dialects are also spoken in parts of the Chinese province of Gwai/桂/Gui/GuangXi, which is actually different to the standard Canton/GuangZhou or, alternatively the standard Cantonese dialect. The so-called Cantonese dialect of GuangXi is so different to the standard Canton/GuangZhou dialect, it should be called the NanNing dialect.

Most of the 'Chinese' culture Americans experience is particularly the Cantonese variety, a very small part of Chinese overall. Even Cantonese itself is diverse, even more particular you have been experiencing 'Hong Kong Cantonese'. All this time you have been eating 'HK Cantonese' food, interacted with HK Cantonese people, hearing HK Cantonese language, etc. Whatever preconceived notions and stereotypes you have it is all Hong Kong Cantonese! HK Cantonese this tiny fraction of Chinese culture that has taken up most of the vast Chinese experience in the west. Chinese is too vague and general of a word, it is like saying you are travelling to the Eastern hemisphere when asked about your vacation.

@@GL-iv4rw First is Cantonese is not the only dialect of the Chinese province of Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong. The Cantonese dialect is not named after Hong Kong, instead it is name after the port city of Canton which is also known as the city of GuangZhou. There is evidence that the native people of Hong Kong do not speak Cantonese in the 1800s or earlier. When we speak of the dialect of a place, we prefer to only talks about the native dialect of a place. Henceforth, while the people of Hong Kong do speak the Cantonese dialect after the 20th century, we should always remind people that it was not always this way. History shall be respected. Oh, Hong Kong is not the centre of the universe. Some people, myself included, do not see Hong Kong as a special place. Plenty of people mistaken the TaiShanese dialects from the Chinese province of Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong is a type of Cantonese dialect. Nope, the TaiShanese dialect is not a type of Cantonese dialect. Yes, the TaiShanese dialects is one of the dialects spoken in the Chinese province of Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong, thus the TaiShanese dialect is a type of Yue/粵/Viet/GuangDong dialect. Yes, the TaiShanese dialect is related to the Cantonese dialects as the TaiShanese dialect is also a type of ethnic Han dialects, the same way that the other types of ethnic Han dialects are related to the Cantonese dialect in some degree. All ethnic Han dialects are related to each other.

Most overseas Chinese to the Americas and Southeast Asia in 19th and 20th centuries emigrated from coastal regions of Canton/Guangdong and Fujian Provinces. So they brought over their mother tongue, cuisine, and customs. Some of them were Hakka too. Southern China speaks mutually unintelligible dialects from Northern China because they used to speak non-Chinese languages in ancient times.

Yeah they come thru that hole in mexico. So now all chinese are mandarin in the US

Glad you think so!

You right !

There is something you might not be aware of. The so-called Cantonese dialect spoken in the Chinese province of Gwai/桂/GuangXi differs from that of the standard Canton/GuangZhou dialect. It should be called the NanNing dialect instead of the Cantonese dialect, as the Cantonese dialect are actually named after the Chinese city of Canton/GuangZhou, the Chinese province of Yue/粵/GuangDong. Oh, if you are not aware, Yue, or 粵, is actually referred to the Chinese province of GuangDong. Gwai, or 桂, refers to the Chinese province of GuangXi. Yue/粵 dialects, in its very nature, suggest that those are the dialects of Yue/粵/GuangDong. Gwai/桂 dialects, in its very nature, suggested that those are the dialects of Gwai/桂/GuangXi.

@@luckyloonies4378 I'm sorry but you might be slightly confused. The character 桂 Gwai is already reserved, and it refers to 桂柳話 Gui-Liu which is the traditional language spoken in 桂林 Kweilin and 柳州 Liuzou. Gui-Liu dialects are descended from 西南官話 Southwestern Mandarin which is genetically closer to Mandarin than Cantonese. The Cantonese language spoken in the Guangxi province *is* called 南寧話/ NanNing dialect. But it is genetically closest to the Cantonese spoken in Guangzhou, which is mutually intellegible to a VERY VERY HIGH degree, and is in fact refered to 粵語/Yue language by everyday people living in Nanning. Nanning dialect of Cantonese has very little to do with 桂 dialects Just to be inclusice I should mention that another language also spoken in Nanning is 平話/Pinghua, which is closely related to or influenced by Cantonese (and takes influences from non-Han and non-sinitic languages). But it also shouldn't be confused with 桂 Gwai dialects. Speaking of non-sinitic languages, of course I should mention that Guangxi province is the heart land of the 壯 Zhuang people who speak various Zhuang languages, which belong to the Kra-Dai family. Guangxi is a gold mine of linguistic diversity. So it's understandable that you might get confused. I hope this clears things up a bit for you. Maybe JuLingo will make a video just on the various languages of Guangxi province.

@@Vinvininhk Gwai/桂/GuangXi is the province of Gwai/桂/GuangXi. All dialect that is spoken in the province of Gwai/桂/GuangXi is the various different types of Gwai/桂/GuangXi dialects. The NanNing dialect is the Gwai/桂/GuangXi's version of the Cantonese dialect. Both the city of NanNing and the city of Canton are the capital city of their own province. The dialect of NanNing are actually different from the Canton/GuangZhou dialect, which also known as the Cantonese dialect. You see, all dialect from China is the various different type of Chinese dialects.

@@Vinvininhk The province of Gwai/桂/GuangXi is way more diverse than the province of Yue/粵/GuangDong.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you!

I would like to visit GZ and HK one day but they are still very dirty and have lots of slums. Hopefully they can become abit cleaner in the a few decades and not so much a sh!th0le. Aside from that their media is great to watch the TVB programs, good to practice Cantonese.

​@@GL-iv4rwThey're better than any US cities I've been to

I found her pronunciation very good

Thank you! I'm learning a lot too while doing these videos

I'm a worker😅

Thank you, glad you liked it!

Oh man, this brings up an embarrassing memory. When I travelled to Hong Kong with my mom the first time, we went to a coffee shop and there was a young white guy speaking with his Asian friend in Cantonese. I asked, “how did your Cantonese get so good?” And he looked at me dryly and said, “because I grew up here.”

You say white as if it's an impediment to learning the language. LOL

@@sweiland75it’s more that considering the general history of white people-especially American and English White people, who are well known for pointing their noses down at “irrational” tongues-it’s a novelty to some to see a white person speak their language fluently and with respect rather than jeer at it. It’s not a speech impediment, but some more unsavory white people act as if it is, and one that somehow gives them “superiority” nonetheless. Even now, in the more progressive-leaning era we live in now, we still have so far to go.

​@@jrhusneyI'm English and when I lived in HK I 'd meet these British people and Indians born HK who spoke just like a native. I found that extraordinary

@@gerard7817Indian and Pakistan speak very well Cantonese , idk how they learn it but they just sound perfectly native

Thank you so much!

I am putting together a language and geography channel and I want to use different voice actors from week to week, would you be interested?

Thanks for sharing!

@@JuLingo I'm watching all the videos, you do excellent work and have amazing pronunciation

佩服

My favourite and I speak Mandarin and French as well

Haskeller found in the wild!!

@@KinHallen Ahh yes, Haskell, the other favorite language I've studied! 😁

Thank you!

Glad you liked it!

OK it is my second language, but I haven't spoken it in about 20 years or ever been to HK...

Not with that attitude they don't!

There are three major spoken languages in Guangdong, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, mutually unintelligible, and there are tons of subdialects of each language, even for myself as a native speaker it’s hard to understand, we’d rather use standard Chinese if there are a lot of misunderstandings.

@@kzng2403 Sorry to let you know this. In the Chinese province of Yue/粵/GuangDong. There are not only three main types of dialects. But instead of three main types of dialects, there is a fourth one you and many people have failed to mention. It is the TaiShanese dialect. The three localised ethnic Han dialects of Yue/粵/GuangDong province, are as follows; the Cantonese dialect (a type of ethnic Han dialect, which is named after the city of Canton/GuangZhou), the TaiShanese dialect (a type of ethnic Han dialect from the region of SzeYup, named after the city of TaiShan), and the ChaoShanese dialect (a type of ethnic Han dialect, which named after the Chao as in the city of ChaoZhou and Shan as in the city of ShanTou). The real and genuinely fourth one is the (formally invasive, originally classified as non-ethnic Han, formally an enemy of the ethnic Hans of the Yue/粵/GuangDong province) Hakka dialect. For a long time, even up to today. It is still very common for the ethnic Han people of Yue/粵/GuangDong to have a hostile attitude towards the Hakka people. Yes, I'm aware the Hakka people have been reclassified as members of the ethnic Han of Yue/粵/GuangDong after the twentieth century, and the war in which they had got themselves involved in and fought against the ethnic Hans of Yue/粵/GuangDong, was over centuries ago. The local ethnic Hans-Hakka Clan Wars was a conflict between the Hakka and the local ethnic Han people in Yue/粵/GuangDong, China, between 1855 and 1867. The wars were most fierce around the Pearl River Delta, especially in TaiShan of the SzeYup counties. The wars between the ethnic Hans of Yue/粵/GuangDong and the Hakka resulted in roughly a million dead, with many more displaced civilians. The Cantonese dialect, the TaiShanese dialect, and the ChaoShanese dialect, plus a fourth one (alien) the Hakka dialect, are all mutually unintelligible to each other. Yue/粵 is the alternative way to say the Chinese province of GuangDong.

@@luckyloonies4378 you know, we do not consider Taishanese a separate language as native speakers of Cantonese, because we can still understand it to a moderate level, for me even the Goulou subdialects sound more alien, but listen carefully enough, still intelligible. The other two, Teochow and Hakka, we can only recognize a few common words.

​@kzng2403 Hokkien is spoken in Fujian, not Guangdong. In eastern coastal Guangdong they speak Chaoshanese (Teochew). Like Hokkien, it is a dialects of Minnan but they are still different dialects.

It is Min. The route of spreading culture from Tang empire to Japan was through Fujian. It also represents that Min has not changed so much in this 1000 years. Like Cantonese, it is also a fossil language.

Cantonese is older, way older

Japanese is closer to Wu people speak new Shanghai, Mandarin is a new Language created in just hundreds year in Qing .

@@masbroscraft 这是一种常见的误区，官话也就是人们说的普通话从宋代开始就开始形成了，少数民族和战争只是加快了官话的演化。从西北靠近蒙古的地区，到华北，长江中下游平原再到四川盆地和云贵高原，相当多的村落和相当广泛的区域都使用官话方言，这些地方甚至没有一个满族人，更何况满语和汉语完全不是一个语系，如果你查看七百年前明代开国皇帝朱元璋（一个出生于中国东南安徽省的农民阶层）的书信就能发现会出现和普通话非常接近的口语化用词。 换个角度想，一个少数民族主导的农业封建社会，大多数统治者都只在北京东北附近生活，选拔考试仍旧通过汉字。在这样的情况下，怎么能做到在三百多年的时间里创造一种新的语言并把这种语言普及到数百万平方公里的保守村落里呢？

@@apple123and and that is a lie. Min languages underwent a lot of changes, thank you very much. Why do you think neighboring towns in Fujian speak unintelligible dialects to each other? Coz of the _sound shifts_ Likewise, Cantonese has also underwent a lot of phonetic changes

Thank you!

I don't know about pronouncing, but Cantonese is easier for me to learn to understand than Mandarin.

Cantonese is believed to have preserved all the consonant endings of Middle Chinese characters with a couple exceptions that can be counted on one hand.

This depends on how you define the word Mandarin. In fact Cantonese is a mixed language of antient Chinese of 中原 or the Midddle Plain or China proper and local version of 百越 Pan-Viet or Pan-Yue languages, which is 骆越or Luo Yue language and the people who spoke it. This happened when this group of people were assimilated by Han or Chinese group. The main historic event is the conquering of 南越国 or South Yue/Viet State, which covered the area of Guangdong, Guangxi and Viet Nam with capital in 番禺Panyu, and a part of Fujian at its peak time of South Yue State. This means Cantonese was formed during and after the reign of Shi Huang Di of Qin Dynasty or秦始皇Qin Shi Huang, when the emperor's military assistant 赵佗Zhao Tuo was commanded by emperor Qin Shi Huang to conquer South Yue State南越国. After Zhao Tuo was successful in the conquest, Qin Shi Huang died. So he crowned himself to be the king of South Yue State. At a later time, this state became a part of Zhong Yuan or middle China dynasties. The language of Yue or Cantonese was formed by mixing local language and the antient Mandarin. So that is why the distance between Cantonese and other Chinese dialects is the farthest like Hokkien闽南话and East Fujian Dialect福州话. Modern Mandarin is evolved and developed from Chinese of the middle kf China or中原. So you cannot say which older, which is younger. Both Mandarin and Cantonese are Chinese dialects, it js just Cantonese kept more relics of pan-Yue or pan-Viet languages.

@@JohnDoe01 the languages are Old Chinese and Middle Chinese. Each of them probably had dialects too. Nobody calls Middle Chinese "Ancient Mandarin". The Qieyun written in year 600 AD was authored by 8 scholars and even back then they identified themselves as speaking either a "Northern" dialect or a "Southern" dialect.

nope it's not. mandarin today traces it's roots back to the zhou dynasty. the state of chu are composed of non-chinese speakers. modern mandarin evovled from the original language of the northern dynasties and was influenced by the barbarian tribes following the end of the war of the twelve princess.

That's so Cool

I'd love to. One day for sure

@@JuLingo I doubt it can done. Chinese chauvinst government have put an end to Manchu culture and language

No, in Guangzhou people also use "巴士", not "公車".

Thank you for sharing!

that's not true at all that most people under 2p can't speak their parent's dialect It's a myth Go to China and you'll see for yourself

閩南語 is an important dialect family- it preserves some parts of Old Chinese.

A Canadian woman chef did a TV show called "Confucius was a foodie", a history of Chinese food and she mentioned that. Excellent show

Glad you enjoyed it!

Are you Germanic?

@@GL-iv4rw yes