Cantonese Vs. Mandarin 

Maybe it's a sign...

Бојан Драшко 'cause she's gorgeous! lol

Бојан Драшко I guess compared to Chinese, German might be a little (big lot) easier... :D (can't really tell because German is my firs language and with Chinese I gave up after half a year^^) But hang in there, German is a wonderful language to express yourself! ;)

sanablue1 Dankeschön, ich lerne Deutsch gern :D.

Бојан Драшко Dankeschön, ich lerne gerne Deutsch. Falls du irgendwelche Fragen hast, kannst du mich ruhig anschreiben :D

Rofl good shit

simon wang Ayah = Father(in Malay) LOL As for the pain expression, as far as I know we here in Malaysia(and probably Singapore as well), we spelt it 'Aiya'.

OMG XD

HOW DARE U INSULT UR FATHER JK

simon wang Āiyō sounds a lot like "Eier" which is eggs in German lol. It can also mean balls as in... your balls xD

Hellooooo nieces and nephewsssss

Ikr loll

fun fact: uncle Roger's “haaaaaaiiiiyyyyyyaaaaaa” is very similar to a Cantonese swear word 「閪」the word means p*ssy

Why so weak?

@@manu0-3bournemouth 屌

Right!? That's why she looked at him like that! haha

Sweet home alabama!!

@@Madraxoo hahahaha

wh-

Yeah I feel his pain😅

Eli Malinsky I'm Zhongshan ua

hi chu Mandarin is not the true Han Chinese language. The true Han Chinese language was the ancient imperial dialect of Chang'an in which the Five Classics were written. Mandarin was developed from the Beijing dialect during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Although Mandarin is the closest to Classical Chinese in terms of genealogy, it is also highly inventive and went through a lot of changes since ancient times. Cantonese and Shanghainese (Wu) are much more conservative and retain a more complex phonology, more tones, more final consonants, consonantal clusters, pre-nasalation and other features which existed in Classical Chinese but do no exist in Modern Mandarin.

You can only say Mandarin has 4 tones and Cantonese has 6, or Mandarin has 5 tones and Cantonese has 9.

mandarin has five

Good language does not count by number of tones.

Yeah, that's because the Japanese writing was inspired by the countries near them.

Japanese borrowed lots of words and characters from classical Chinese.

Thank you! I have been to Japan last year and I only can speak several simple Japanese sentences. To my surprise, I understand all the signs totally, which was really impressive to me! Much love from 🇨🇳

@@holidayharden8032 so does most of the kanji still maintain its Chinese meaning? And were there some characters you didnt know? Like simplified characters?

6 to 7 years and fluent yet?

Lmao so accurate

growing up in a cantonese speaking household it’s the other way around for me

That's the other way around for me Mandarin I just can't get it The only thing I can say right in Mandarin is the numbers Yi er san se wu liu chi ba jiu shi

Grew up speaking Cantonese but can understand mandarin because my mother speaks both fluently. Mandarin sounds way more like the machine gun to me.

Cantonese is like machine gun. Usually fast, but words are clearly separated. Northen Chinese is like "Eurthing I hur urs ur surnd" They weaken so many vowel to the er sound and merge words together.

Dennis Wolf Cyclist some? Bruh same characters are used in Japan too, but mixed traditional and simplified

Me too 😝 WB kanji?

Same im so conflicted now

St- Valantyne I’m almost done with Japanese & will start chinese soon

Safir I would love to be even become the least bit conversational in JP I seem to have hit a wall once again. I had a tutor then they pretty much gave up on me.

Same here.

Kay.

Chinese isn't a language...

+francut7 wow your rude. Even though Mandarin is hard you shouldn't insult it that way!

dieu lei lo mo :^)

ahhh yeah i love josh and ollie😂

😂 ikr

Jackie HE IS

This vid was recommended after i finished a jolly video (':

omg now i got it 😹

@@jiali5957 什么啊，你那只一种方言，大陆光一个省的方言就几十种，有些别人根本听不懂，白话只是两广爱用而已，各地古时有不同地域官话，可能白话只是你那里的官话而已。

@@chaojiang6246 go brush up on your historical linguistics lessons. it's been determined that cantonese is more related to classical chinese (mostly regarding pronunciation). but ur right in a way, there are really many dialects in china and they're all euqally important

@@chaojiang6246 玻璃

事实上并不是哦

@@jiali5957 I have heard that Cantonese have some similarities to Vietnamese.

Cantonese is a highly spoken language, so the key is to really listen and speak, but if you already know mandarin in advance, there’s a lot of similarity, a lot of Chinese can listen to most Cantonese because of the drama influence in the past

one thing that the video got wrong was that not all Mandarin speakers can read a Hong Kong newspaper because Mainland Chinese speakers use simplified Chinese whereas Hongkongers and Taiwanese people use traditional Chinese so if you learnt simplified Chinese, you'll pretty much have to learn a new language all together. In addition, spoken Cantonese is very colloquial and is very different from formal written Chinese so if you read out loud a Hong Kong newspaper, it'll sound very weird and unnatural.

@@blobba5442 it depends, many mainlanders are able to recognize and read traditional Chinese, likewise lots of traditional Chinese users like me can read simplified Chinese in a breeze without necessarily knowing how to write them. However if you are foreigner learning one of the Chinese script, it's almost hell for them to read in another.

Cantones is actually easy

@@txxjiv in an alternate universe then maybe..

That makes sense since China's southern provinces are closer to Indochina.

I'm a mandarin speaker but i have the same impression. Don't know why, it's funny

I would say Cantonese influenced Vietnamese, Vietnamese has many borrowed words and derivatives from Cantonese

Funny because I speak both languages. I never thought they sounded similar lol

I am Cantonese lol

Nicole Yim same here🙋🏻‍♂️

Nicole Yim laugh in Vietnamese

You sound butt hurt

if you're interested in learning Cantonese, please feel free to check my first video out!

I had couple friends from Guangzhou, and they all can speak both Mandarin and Cantonese😂

i can only really curse in cantonese. I can't do anything else lmao

pok gai

fei po

sls

That's the best part about said language lol

+Playerr 4546 that's because Cantonese look CCTV grow up( 从小看CCTV长大）

+李荣 No LOL. Plenty of Canto people don't grow up watching CCTV. It's easier for Cantonese speakers to learn mandarin because we are also familiar with standard Chinese (through writing, formal speeches etc), but Mandarin speakers don't ever use any Cantonese grammar, slang or sounds unless they are learning it

nat no ,very few guangdong people can speak Mandarin fluently.when they speak Mandarin ,they sound like idiot.such as hongkong star 成龙，刘德华，曾志伟等 but many north Chinese live in guangdong a few days can speak very fluent Cantonese. such as 毛宁，杨钰莹，柳岩。 so IMO, Cantonese speakers learn mandarin is harder than mandarin speakers learn cantonese PS：i can speak both mandarin and cantonese， so i know

李荣 Your anecdotes don't prove anything - it'd be just as easy to name people who don't fit your examples. IMO it's just that Mandarin is more easily understood by Canto speakers than Canto is for Mandarin speakers, because Canto people also know those same words (even though they're pronounced a bit differently), but Mandarin speakers may not actually ever have heard/known some spoken Canto words, because they don't exist in written Chinese. That said, language learning mostly depends on exposure/how hard you work, not level of difficulty. Many Mandarin speakers can learn Canto no problem and vice versa. That's my observation and opinion anyways. BTW I'm also fluent in both languages.

nat it is hard to say which is easyer. Canto speakers watch a lot Mandarin TV show, so they know a lot of Mandarin. but Mandarin speaker never watch Canto TV show. so they don't know any Cantonese. so it is not a fair compare. so it is hard to say which is easyer but even Canto people watch so many Mandarin TV shows, very few of them can speak Mandarin fluently and Mandarin people if move to Cantonese area a few years ,they can speak Cantonese very fluently and no accent. so if compare fluently, Mandarin people speak Cantonese is easyer than Cantonese people speak Mandarin

Do you speak Vietnamese? I've read that Vietnamese is about 1/3 Mandarin and 1/3 Cantonese but I don't know the accuracy of that

Chuck Norris about half of the vocabulary. Some words sound like Mandarin, some like Cantonese. But the grammar and accent are very different.

There are a lot of Vietnamese people where I live and it's a very interesting language to listen to

Thang Nguyen Just like I don't speak French (and Spanish and Indian and Italian and Russian not as good anymore), I still can tell if people are speaking those languages

Indian is not a language you stupid phuk. Lol

Indonesian..aduuuuhh...or duuuhhh

apa khabar

@@soomiewleng5227 baik..bgmn kbr disana

@@cahyanatresnam saya pun ok je

😂😂😂厉害

damn that's true. i talk to most of my mandarin-speaking classmates (in university) in english lmaooo...even tho we both typically understand both mandarin and canto

@@jaymixo607 My girlfriend comes from Guangdong, and Cantonese is her mather tone. When i asked her which language would she speak in Hongkong, she said that she might speak English because her Cantonese accent is different from that of HK, and HKer would look down upon her.

In linguistics this is referred to as “lingua franca.” English is a really common lingua franca, meaning lots of people who speak different languages fluently use English to speak to each other

k

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知道自己母语是啥就少偷我们词

In malay....opocot mak ko meletop

@@dodo-eu6ox 謝謝支持捍衛廣東話，堅持著廣東話應有特色

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Yeah but i believe that learning a language like Chinese isn't the same as learning English 🤷🏻‍♀️

Bowowow ! I have been learning for around 2 months and it is very hard for me. I am doing better with letters than speaking though.

My native language is serbian and i'm learning chinese!😊

How about Georgian people? They know Georgian, which is a crazy hard language, slightly like Arabic. They also know Russian, and English. So they know 3 completely different languages (although English and Russian have the same European roots) but still they're different enough

Welcome to India

I HEARD MANDARIN & CANTONESE, CANTONESE SOUND IS BEAUTIFUL.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9 sounds 6 tones to be exact

🎵甜美家alabama🎵

Cultural difference

True beauty Ahwuwvaiwbwiwvwi!!!!!!!!!

Damee. Niisan

In many parts of china wives are still referred by their husbands as "younger sister" when we speak in our dialect , and please dont ask why, its a cultural thing hahahahahaa

香港人？

Just realised that as a hokkien speaker, our languages might literally have the same grammar only with different way of pronunciation

i agreed since i learn how to talk in Hokken then school Mandarin and Vietnamese when i was learning electronic and music, i learn to speak Cantonese and adopted to it more since my mom is Cantonese Cantonese is more fun than all of them.

As an English only speaker, the sound of Cantonese is much more beautiful to my ears than Mandarin. Cantonese flows and sounds natural/musical. Mandarin sounded like someone staggering up a flight of stairs, I don’t know.

Lej hou

+EvangelinaIMESmusic Same story in Macau

+岸本嵐 好难读啊。

+EvangelinaIMESmusic No shit.

Патрик Cу What do you mean by that? You do realise that you are rude, right?

Yes and no. Lots of people write in simplified in HK too, but they learn both either way.

In Hong Kong or oversea?

Lesbian=?

I have been speaking cantonese since I was 1 month old and don’t ask i’m from hong kong, the asian version of scotland

@@WEF2030SLAVE wait, what-

and you're an army too??? we should be bestfriends

rip

haha

omg me

Learn *everything*

just learn cantonese

i prefer mandarin,it has good accent unlike cantonese

Mandarin is however more useful as more than a billion people speak it, unlike Cantonese

Then again, if your decision to learn a language is solely based on how "useful" it is, you're almost guaranteed to fail. (If your goal is functional fluency, that is.) Unless you're a robot, you'll need to have some actual interest in the culture and people behind it to power through the tough spots ;)

+HipposHateWater That's true, I remember crying through Mandarin lessons because I didn't have much interest in it. Mandarin is not for the weak heart haha But afterwards I realised how fortunate I was to be born in a country which enforces a bilingual population, and start appreciating more of my Chinese ancestry, culture and language.

Yeah, I know that feeling! (Thanks high school Spanish :p) While I'm interested in China, I'm still in that initial stage where I'm completely lost. (That is, when it comes to figuring out what cultural things I should explore first that are also fairly beginner-friendly. :p) I figure that's just part of the fun, and something to look forward to. For now, I'm just taking it slow with Pimsleur for the sake of training my ear and my pronunciation, before I move on to a textbook in earnest :)

mandarin use simplified characters, right? cantonese uses traditional characters, though most of the characters are the same as mandarin. with your brain going in mandarin mode, i see how the similar shape of the traditional characters may keep it in mandarin mode. quite a problem...if what i describe is right edit: "though most of the characters are the same[ as mandarin]."

why did you stop, may I ask? I'm beginning to learn Mandarin and I'd like to know what makes people stop doing it.

Korn1holio i married hk man so i changed to learn cantonese 🤣

leafster exactly! and how it pronounce differently too

@@leafster1337 Completely wrong, traditional or simplified are the same words but just written slightly difference. Cantonese and Mandarin are speaking dialects. It is just like English, the speaking English is not same as the written English.

Cantonese sounds rude and messy but it can be cool and elegant and masculine too.

Benny Susanto rude and messy hello what do u have ears

I speak both and I guess Cantonese sounds cooler while mandarin sounds sweeter...?

Daria Danilenko I find Cantonese more cooler than Mandarin....., Mandarin sounds kind of a mess for me. Probably because I can’t understand it. I still prefer Cantonese because of the sound and it’s my first language..

Benny Susanto lol yeah when I speak Cantonese my friends tell me it sounds like I’m arguing with my parents even when I’m just asking what’s for dinner lol.

Cantonese here from canton

Arina 我係

I speak both!! :)

ME

I speak español

My favourite Mandarin phrase:你TM逗我

Personally, I like translating it as "Are you fucking serious."

yes. i love that phrase

Well, it has also a political aspect. The term "language" insinuates greater independence than "dialect" which is rather seen as subordinated to another language, nation etc. larger than itself. So I assume the PRC would like to keep things this way. We learned a saying in my studies of linguistics: "a language is a dialect with an army"...

asdf jklö Agreed! I also tend to assume that. It has had a great effect on the new generations in China who were born after 1949. Like me, I used to think that Cantonese was just a dialect until after I went out of the country and had chance to read other experts' comments on languages, then I realized I was wrong. Btw, in China we don't have general linguistic courses unless you major in languages. So a lot of people, even with a college degree, don't know basic linguistics, not like in the U.S.

In Finland for instance, most people (about 5 million) have Finnish as their mother tongue, and about 500,000 Swedish. Both languages are official languages. Swedish is not called a "foreign language" (vieras kieli) even for Finns, but "second native language" (toinen kotimainen kieli) - even though Estonian is much closer to Finnish than Swedish. The reason is quite obviously that you are supposed to see Swedish as an integral part of your own of your country's identity. So, very often questions of power and politics meddle with the realm of linguistics. I'm worried that China is losing its regional cultures and identities in favor of a more bland "unified, harmonious" country the Communist Party seems to envision. The beauty of regional languages is that they are more natural and less constructed than official ones. People should be allowed to stay rooted in a regional language and then learn to speak other "lingua francas" on top of that, I think, such as Standard Chinese and English.

asdf jklö I'm afraid your worry is now happening. In my city Canton, elementary school kids will get punished by the teachers if they are caught speaking Cantonese outside of class. Parents are encouraged to speak Mandarin with kids at hometoo. The official TV channel in China, CCTV, often broadcasts talk shows that laugh at people from the Cantonese speaking region who speak accented Mandarin. So a lot of parents are afraid that their children will be laughed at in the future and will be in a disadvantage position, therefore they would rather compromise. I think one reason that the Chinese government tries to do so is because Hong Kong is a special place that is able to get more information from the outside, and the Hong Kong people speak Cantonese. If we cut the language connection with Hong Kong, it also cuts the emotional connection and finally the ability to be able to communicate and eventually the ability to access the documents and other infos that the party doesn't want people to know. This has a huge negative effect on the regional culture itself but the party just doesn't care. Their goal is to make everybody believe the same value, and it's easy to control a big country with a large population once this society is a single-valued society.

You seem like an interesting person, especially since I'm currently dealing with Chinese and China a lot, only with few really critical people. PM me a link to your FB (or other) profile, I'm gonna add you if you'd like. :-)

+Tsavorite Prince not a easy language especially if you are a foreigner

yes, the flow more or less the same

I think it depends on different dialects in Mandarin. Southern Mandarin is usually softer than Northern to me. Cantonese is my mother language but I still think if you speak Cantonese a bit louder it would sound like quarrelling with someone.

Kelly Mo yes I agree. Especially in northern china, people sound a bit more rough, but I feel like Cantonese is more sharp

really we sound smoothing to you? Usually people tell me the opposite or that we sound angry all the time lol

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I speak Welsh english cantonese french spanish and russian! Nice to see someone who enjoys learning languages as much as i do.

@@interestingusername2633 привет

I can’t do Taiwanese, but I can do the rest, Taiwanese seems hard...

Bitch please... I speak italian, english, french, spanish, german and I'm learning chinese hahaha

Mister Dee I speak Cantonese too and when I listen to Thai I feel like I should understand it but I can't

I'm Thai and I found that our languages, Thai and Cantonese has some similarities, for example the word "coffee" in Cantonese you say "gaa4 fe1" but in Thai we say "ga fae" (กาแฟ). Maybe because we heard some Cantonese imigrant say the word and we just follow. By the way, our language has tone just as yours.

what rigid

its because Teochew people潮汕人so poor so immigrate to Thailand in ancient （Teochew people 潮汕人 original from hokkien 福建同祖同宗，你看地图位置就知道了，广东潮汕跟福建省（一个在广东最上面，一个下面是广东）挨得很近，很多福建人移民广东潮汕，thats why 潮汕人有他们自己的文化，自己的语言，不同于广东人）

Vietnamese as well

Mandarin sounds funny.

Depends on where you are, the pushy mandarin is usually spoken in the north

I agree! Actually, I'm probably the wrong person to speak on this behalf because I speak Cantonese XD

OK, that depends on who to say it.

AdstarAPAD Not really lol Mandarin is just sharper.

Me

me im a hongkonger :3 hongkonger knows English :3

Me

Me

Nope

it sounds a little sharper... maybe that's why

I like Cantonese but that's what my whole Chinese side of the family speaks so that's why I like it but I'm mixed black white and Chinese

spankie me too

try reading a poem in mandarin, it doesnt rhyme unlike cantonese

Don't think so.

@Henry Savoy LMAOO

我也是哈哈

As a native Indonesian, I find that Cantonese accent is somehow sexier

@Lilo Is the baddest yes it does and I don't like the rough tones of manradian .

As a Cantonese speaker born in Australia I find it pretty easy to learn Mandarin, Japanese and Korean.

omf i don't even know why i laughed at this

sto pet Hay eh! Kui hay mm hay in jong gock chut sai?

+Kaptionist actually, he was in a coma, and then when he woke up, he spoke fluent mandarin and didn't understand English at all. Obviously he gained his ability to speak English lol

blueconfetti 0428 >_>

chinglish everywhere

It's like me, I'm from the UK But I speak Cantonese fluently too and since I know a few Mandarin speakers I know some Mandarin too xD Proud Cantonese speaker! :3

GamerXian my parents are both from taishan so they speak taishanese to eachother, but i was born in hongkong...so i speak cantonese mainly, i can understand mandarin but i cant really speak it tho

oh u watched say i love you? ur profile pic

judy ng yasssss I love the anime and also the manga... btw have u seen Ao Haru Ride? its amaaaaziiing

ikr say i love you is so good lol and i heard of ao haru ride i will try that later XD

Same with me and canto😂😂

as a cantonese speaker ill take that as a compliment, thanks

In the 80-90s.i agree with you. But nowadays. Mandarin speakers are more than Cantonese in Chinatown of America

eddie huang 한국은 홍콩의 아버지이다

eddie huang 你去新一代的移民家庭看看，看看有多少来自香港啊垃圾

eddie huang 继续来吧，你这种人也只配在这里瞎叫了，等回了中国大陆等着被碎尸

yep

Yes! They are very similar to me, are they similar to you also?

i grow up in a taiwanese family and we only speak mandarin so to me speaking cantonese is as hard as speaking french except the reading of course since they both use chinese characters

I sometimes use both

That's like me with Cantonese and Taishan. They're like the same to me XD

Same here... I think this is the perks of being able to speak both languages

I plan to learn both at the same time... ... as Japanese, Mongolian, Kazakh, Korean, Tagalog, Indonesian, Khmer, Thai, Vietnamese and more.

Yes thank you

Hokkien sounds beautiful and adorable!!!

@@user-daniel0530 really

cannot lah

+coke -.- not really lah...lol

no la..hahaha

That's true haha, and every English word is also pronounced like a Chinese word, one word one tone.

They also do that in Malaysia