Hong Kong action movies have me more interested in Cantonese.

@@jeffkardosjr.3825 yes they’re amazing, those movies are classics! Most overseas Chinese are cantonese speaking too, so a lot of what we know about Chinese culture from outside of China is actually specifically Cantonese culture.

Mandarin is not important AT ALL. People are falling for Chinese propaganda

Error Eliminator 2.0 please don’t uplift Cantonese by bringing down mandarin. Both are very important and beautiful languages. It’s a great lingua franca for Chinese people everywhere because it’s easier to learn.

Dialect, Cantonese and mandarin are merely two different dialects of the same language, even if there are not mutually audible.

其实我覺得可以建議睇多滴周星馳嘅片，裡面滴對白用詞語特別有味道

星爺的片有很多是香港本土人才能明白的，有點難！

其实，只不是标准普通话，每个方言的感觉强调都超过普通话

Totally! Very admirable! I’m impressed too that you can get that type of pronunciation so well in the beginning. I’m a Cantonese speaker also and even then, I get a lot of pronunciations incorrect. Usually results in my parents smacking me over the head or mocking me that my Chinese is so bad. I can’t share this video with my parents or they will set you as the standard as to why I can’t be like that and brownie points - you can speak mandarin!!! Cant compete until I get to your level lol

Very true

Ich hoffe dir fällt die Sprache nicht zu schwer! Find ich cool ^^ Viel Glück :D (I hope the language is not as hard for you! I think its cool that you learn german. Good Luck :D) 😁 I don’t know ... us germans get excited when people learn our language 😂 Many people do I guess

Viel Glück :) 🍀

Agree 110%! You are amazing! Just notice the Chinese caption uses "我就是学莲“ instead of 雪莲 even though your pronunciation was really accurate in Mandarin. You did use xue3 a 3rd tone. What voice to text software did you use for your caption?

Deutsche Sprache = Schwere Sprache but good Kick

*good luck 😂💃

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I don't know why i got a feeling you're from Malaysia lol and i checked your youtube and you are hahahaha

No offense, but I always find it ironic when a native speaker claims to know what a second language learner would find more or less difficult. I also notice that people are usually biased towards thinking their own language is the hardest to learn, or has the most subtleties or nuances.

@@katherinetutschek4757 i speak 3 languages daily. I am as fluent in all 3. I would say english is my main but my mother tongue is cantonese, so it's sort of my native tongue AND my second language. I would still say it's a hard language to learn.

Katherine Tutschek if you look at the official website thing about the average amount of hours it takes for an English native speaker (I’m talking about English only) takes to learn languages, group five (~2200 hours, hardest to learn) includes cantonese, mandarin, Japanese and I think one more language but I forgot. the writer of the comment could have also come to the conclusion that cantonese is hard from other people they know who are learning canto/personal experiences etc

@@penguin-tc1cx It's possible that Sweet Honeydew knows other ppl who have learned Canto or Mandarin as a second language, and I don't know if she grew up overseas and has the experience of learning her native language as a second language (like many overseas Chinese), but I've lived in Hong Kong for over a decade, and pretty much everyone there assumes that Canto is necessarily harder than Mandarin for native English speakers to learn. They aren't basing this opinion on real experience or that of their friends, their reasons for thinking it are "Cantonese doesn't have pinyin" (even though it actually does), "Cantonese has 9 tones" (though technically it's more like 6-7, whereas Mandarin is 4-5), and "white people are clueless when it comes to anything about Chinese language or culture." I admit that the expat culture in Hong Kong doesn't do much to change local people's minds in this regard, but it annoys me when they make blanket statements about white people. It's right up there with "all white people can't eat spicy food or organ meats". I think the official language ranking you mentioned is a good guideline, but individual aptitudes also play a role. If the girl in the video says she finds Canto more difficult that's completely valid cuz that's her experience. Personally I learnt Canto and Mandarin and didn't find one more difficult than the other (I grew up speaking only English). They take time to learn, but I wouldn't say they're "hard" per se. I actually find tones easier and less intimidating than grammatical gender and agreement, so something like Polish or French seems harder to me than Chinese. But my point is that everybody's different, and I feel like while people in Hong Kong have good intentions, their assumptions about white people's experiences and abilities can come off as more insulting and condescending than they realize.

As a native Cantonese speaker myself, the language is very easy to learn. Much easier than Mandarin.

鸡皮疙瘩都出来了

I am Guangzhou

@@siyuul )(gongjau)

@@rspystudio guongjau吧

@@rspystudio 廣gwong港gong唔識分仲出嚟指正人😂

广东客家人支持任何人学广东话！

我也想说好😭

me2

推廣廣東話！推上

+1, great job !

I love cantonese better than mandarin

Glory for the Hong Kong! 🇭🇰

Same here!

That's why it's useless to learn. Changsha hua would be a much better choice for her mama... Guangdong hua doesn't sound shufu at all

LOL! Carter, Chris Tucker's, bad Cantonese from Rush Hour 2.

The diversity and variety of Canto vulgarities is fun to learn.

Allow me to help you with this : DIU LEI LO MOOOO!

Sooooo truuuuuue 😂😂😂😂

佢真係好堅, 廣東話發音真係唔易。

@@TheAaafirst 佢個老師好似譚仔阿E 既音

意大利名？

Bonjour Fiora,je suis Daniel,je parle cantonais aussi

that's cool😃

😂

@@nakim1200 科西嘉岛的名字

Can't say mandarin is not "authentic". They are both authentic. It is just that Mandarin is the old Chinese which got influenced by the northern tribes whereas Cantonese is old Chinese influenced by the southern tribes. Historically the changes in power, followed by a blending of different tribes with the Chinese culture took place with much higher frequency in the north than that in the south, the changes in the norther "Chinese" are also more pronounced, which resulted in the present day "Mandarin". If a guy from Tung dynasty could now talk, neither a Mandarin speaker or Cantonese speaker would understand what he says - until he writes it down.

All Chinese languages (like all other languages) retain some features from the original and change in other features. Cantonese sounds similar to Middle Chinese but it won't be 100% the same. Just like Hokkien may retain some Ancient Chinese features but it won't be 100% the same. Geographic isolation ensures some variation between the languages, keeping some features but changing in other features.

Hokkien is over 5000 years old, one of the oldest Chinese dialect, it’s still spoken similarly now as before.

@Lily Qresmaidapa Sungkono I agree. It’s because it’s lights and formal. Unlike Cantonese it’s heavy, chaotic flow, and sounds a bit rough.

That’s why many Japanese and Korean words sound closer to cantonese than mandarin. It was helpful for me when studying for sure haha.

Those are the best songs tooo!!! 😍😍😍

@@HappiAcrossCultures Hey, you're on my Instagram😅

Most of the 70s and 80s songs are ether pop or folk songs, while most of the Mandarin songs you have sung are more like Jazz or mountain songs (similar to Bluegrass, since they have Erhu which is kind of like the Fiddle, pipa which is like the Mandolin and the 秦琴 which is like the Banjo and the Zheng which is like the dobro or lapsteel😅)

Thanks to the First Emperor Qin Shi Huang, there is only one written form of Chinese instead of 80+ like in India ! ...LoL

E Tow thank goodness!!! 😂😂😂

Hang Wong YES !! IT IS MY FAVORITE EARLY CHILDHOOD SONG 😭😭😭

what lmao it's my dad's fav song to annoying me when I was a kid

And honestly the matching of tones is why songwriting is difficult... But when done correctly, it's beautiful.

From my observations Mandarin speakers are good at picking up French, but have trouble pronouncing English properly !

thats the problem of mandarin speakers

Almost full mark? lmfaoo youre kidding right?

Yeah I really agree with you

Agree with you...

Because Mandarin is a national mandated language, most people carry their regional tones into it. So it's a bit forgiving.

This is so thoughtful. Thank you so much for your sweet message! 💕

what languages did you speak?

@@BLstudios I was speaking Mandarin and Cantonese!

i think the mistake here is that she's using mandarin to learn it, those chinese in Hong Kong aint doing well

Why cantonese speakers always attack simplified chinese writers for no reason?

@@relaxwhc due to political reasons. simplified Chinese somehow represents "mainland Chinese" and Cantonese are mostly used by people in Hong Kong and Macau ..

@@relaxwhc They are from Hong Kong, sadly.... Cantonese speakers are not only stay in HK, Macau, and also live in Guangdong...

I saw you in many video lol😂 I just saw you in twoset video like 5 minutes before

I'm so happy you stopped commenting so much 👍👍

你周圍都係 Your every where

Why is Cantonese harder than Mandarin?

@Anthony Catbagan It has more tones.

@@anthony.catbagan coz it has nine tones but Mandarin only gets four.

@@anthony.catbagan It has a different text structure and pronunciation than Mandarin

@@anthony.catbagan many colloquial and vernacular words and phrases don't follow rules. Cantonese has words that doesn't exist in Chinese. Cantonese does not follow specific grammatical rules and syntax is all over the place. Mandarin is a lot easier. I grew up speaking Cantonese and started to pick up mandarin @ 18, within a decade my mandarin surpassed my Cantonese because it's simply easier to learn.

Thanks for this explanation. My family is native Toisanese speakers but can speak the official provincial dialect of Cantonese, and because of this language root, we pronounced most of your attached word list traditionally vs lazy way. Consequently kids from Hong Kong made fun of us, but now I know it was coming from their “lazy” pronunciation issue, rather then our “so-called mis-pronunciation”.

Thank you for taking the time to explain.

supertrouper Thanks for sharing! I am cantonese speaker n nei and lei was very confusing to me when I was a child. So what is the correct way ?

@@suejmaryoung Nei is usually the correct way. It is the traditional way of pronouncing it in Cantonese spoken conversations and the older generation Guangzhou speakers pronounce it this way. If say lei, Cantonese speakers will still understand, but it can easily get confused for the other word to separate lei hoi. It is better to say nei.

lazy tongue is true but it is not the influence of foreign culture. Cantonese is dying too in Guangzhou in recent decades due to politics.

Ayyy I was also born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada.

me too lol, i dont really listen to canto-pop nowadays though...

Hei foon nei~~

Ew you gamble?

You too? Same here. Where did you learn your Portuguese? Brasil?

@@itsm3th3b33 yes I was born in Brazil and now I’m in hk

@@Kath7120 Você está viajando ou mudou para HK? Eu cresci em SP mas agora moro em USA.

@@itsm3th3b33 mudei pra estudar

You can do it!!!! Just keep up the hard work!!! 🥰

Thanks so much! We just enjoy learning and making fun content! We’re glad you’re enjoying it! ☺️

Once she's mastered the 99%, she can move on to mastering the 1% by listening to Sam Hui songs.

yeah honestly i’ve never heard lei used outside of d*u lei...

Hong Konger here, yeah I immediately picked up the lazy lei5 and it felt soooo odd.

She just has to understand the difference between the formal and layman usage I suppose, where these classic songs are usually taken "seriously" and would be pronounced properly. Most Cantonese songs would even have vocabulary or terms that is formal and hardly used in daily conversations.

the l is very hongkonger. My family from guangxi uses the n

I actually never though about that. When I sing I use nei but as you said in casual conversations I use lei 😂

入声字还好啊，我是北京的。入声字都没问题， 难的是 oeng韵母，比如香hoeng；还有eoi韵母，比如区（keoi）。eoi最难！

@@user-eu4ux4xe5k 韻母的話多聽多說就好，跟著拼音反而很難（個人覺得，因為9成香港人也看不懂粵拼）

@@enochli6000 粵語拼音很多不準確，比如 區keoi，其實是keoyu。發音和土耳其語的 村 完全一樣。 真的完全一樣！二者是不是有關聯....？

Mainstream, successful maybe, but ain't even closed to bands like Metallica, Def Leppard, or Lynyrd Skynyrd... 😅

Andrew Dog-Gone Waylon we're not talking about america or the west. not sure how ur comment is relevant？

@@koo-core7274 And by the way, you're hero Donald has Coronavirus too, so why don't you go get some of that from him too, so y'all can be on the Highway to Hell soon, jackass?!

Where can I watch hk TV dramas? Do you have any recommendations to me?

@@aryanemarques2089 hi! I am surprised to receive your message! I have just searched a website named “hktvdrama.com” and i think it is available in your country. In case u want to visit the official website of hk tv companies, u can search “TVB” or “Viutv”. These two companies make hk tv shows.😆

is Canton not guangzhou guangzhou was sucks and wrong name

学起来

Such a good song! 😍😍

That's a male song

relaxwhc 许冠杰～～ 💕💕

Another one: Love of a lifetime from the movies "The Chinese Odyssey" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m7tdmtl_0p2zoWg.html