5 Things To Know Before You Start Learning CANTONESE

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Hopefully I've redeemed myself from my old video 5 years ago about 'pretending' to speak Cantonese... now I've been learning since Feb 2018 on my own using a combination of apps and trying it out with people I know! It's a fun language and definitely a great way to get into Chinese if you haven't already started :)

This is part of season two of my vlog channel, where I'll be making videos of all kinds of random things. If you want to see what I do normally, check out my main channel above.

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0:00 Introduction
0:37 How long have I learned Cantonese for?
1:17 1. Difference between Cantonese, Mandarin and other dialects
4:05 2. Difference between Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters
6:07 3. Difference between Spoken and Written Cantonese
7:45 4. Get to know Jyutping - the easiest system of romanisation
10:24 5. Practice your tones... a lot
12:19 Final words

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[iDreamDance]

Welcome back to another vlog! This time it's about language and my recent 2-year+ journey of self learning Cantonese. It's been fun picking up a new language and I'm hoping that this will help anyone who's looking to try a new language, or to get better at Cantonese pronunciation (although mine isn't 100% either hahaha). Use the timestamps above to skip to certain sections if you'd like.

Thanks for watching and have a great week!

#AdamTanVlogs

[camiheartzacnskating]

I am from Hong Kong. I am so happy to see someone is trying to learn Cantonese! And I think we generally are all very glad to know that someone is learning it! So there's no need to feel nervous practicing your Cantonese with a native speaker.
Just FYI:
1. in 死性不改, 性actually means 性格/性情 (character/personalities) so it means stubbornness (people who won't change their personalities even if they have to die.)
2. 長 is not a common last name. It means 'long' when pronounced as "coeng1" On the other hand, 張 is a common last name. The 2 words are pronounced differently.
3. Personally, I learned traditional Chinese growing up. I think it's easier for me to read simplified Chinese. Maybe something to think about if you are just starting to learn it.

[cbrtdgh]

"You cant use some simplified and some traditional"
Japanese: "Hold my Asahi"

[amytran]

When you also speak canto and you have no Chinese canto friends so you search up Cantonese to feel less lonely

[annie]

lol the "da bao" got me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[faye]

Me sitting here being Chinese and knows how to speak cantonese but still watches it cuz is in my recommendation

[junethanoschurchill]

As an American born chinese who has slowly lost a lot of my Cantonese over the years, watching more Cantonese videos from you would be great! Especially in addition to all the helpful percussion stuff you already do!

[aeexosee]

i’m chinese and my home language is cantonese but i’m embarrassed to say it so i just respond to my family members in english. this was on my recommendation so i guess this is a sign to learn it

[Kianglekable]

Traditional Chinese Characters, though seemingly complicated, is actually easier and more logical to learn

Plus, it's handsome 😏

[dontsaymynameoutloudgurlpanda]

I’m just going to learn Cantonese cause I go to Hong Kong at least once a year and sometimes thrice a year. My mom’s half Chinese and can speak Cantonese

[cynhwon]

It‘s fascinating how natives don’t learn the Cantonese tones at school like English speakers learn A-Z, but non-native Cantonese learners dive into tones as part of the learning. And also everyone has their own variation of written Cantonese. It is such an interesting language.

[mirnamisevic]

I am musician, and I fell in love with this Cantonese language. Sounds like singing!

[the-birbo]

I think it's best to learn traditional if you want to learn more than just Mandarin, because it opens a path to learning Hanja, Kanji, Han Nom, and many other writing systems because all of those systems were developed from the same characters and then later simplified in their own ways which are often very clear and obvious. If you just learn simplified characters at first, you're basically choosing to only use it for Mandarin because it's often not very obvious what the characters were simplified from.

[elainetchi]

Lifelong Cantonese learner here :) This was a good basics overview view but definitely would like to request more Cantonese videos for the future!

[miatoth]

My mom is Chinese so her and her siblings grew up speaking the language but all the kids like myself never learned so it’s frustrating that I don’t know how but I find it so interesting and want to learn

[mikebishop]

Hi Adam,
I am a British long term (over forty years) citizen of Hong Kong, which I have long regarded as home. These days I speak "passable" Cantonese, rather than the somewhat higher standard I used to speak. Feeling somewhat guilty about this, I recently began upgrading my standard, in the course of which I found you and your website. You are easily the best Cantonese teacher I have ever come across (and I have had a few over the past decades). In short, you are a natural tutor, and a very all round on screen presenter. If you are not already in that medium, you should certainly think about it. Congratulations, and thank you for your time and skill.

[galavizK]

I don't know why i want to learn cantonese but from out of nowhere i feel a determination to learn it

[whoami]

Actually I see many Cantonese speakers who like to use the "Spoken" version when they are chatting on the internet.
Therefore, I'm a traditional Chinese user, but I still don't know what they said.(I'm from Taiwan)
And I feel confused, when I look keyword up with "粵語學習", and there're few tutorial.
That's why I'm here when I'm using "Cantonese lesson"....😂

[s.tan]

It’s so weird because I can comprehend and understand Cantonese fully but I can’t speak it smoothly and my mind goes blank mid sentence 🥲

[jdawgA]

"Pitches are relative to each other and don't have to be exact" --> I wish I knew this before I was learning Canto as an English speaker. Makes so much more sense now. Also thanks for mentioning why Canto speakers need context for certain words. Many of my Canto speaker friends can't explain to my why they need context, you made it much more clearer now.