Why I Speak 6 Languages | J Lou
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Hi guys! Made this video to greet everyone in the languages that I know! Hope you enjoy!! 🍚
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Languages:
English
Cantonese (1:34)
Mandarin (2:05)
French (2:34)
Spanish (3:12)
American Sign Language (3:43)
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If my parents saw how your cantonese and mandarin is much better than mine, they'd probably beat my ass with bamboo ): great videos though, very funny :)))
Jason Liang but shes hongkongese too
Jason Liang true but I'm also viet too sooooo
😂😂😂
I'd like to see that! Please show this video to your parents and then make your own video of you and your parents.
Jason Liang it wasn’t funny until I read bamboo i can’t lollllll 😂
Not hard to learn mandarin if ur a cantonese speaker...
Me : laughs in sadness
yea
My parents are from Guangzhou so I was raised to speak cantonese at home. I was born and raised in Argentina, so Spanish is my first language. Growing up my parents forced to to learn Mandarin too, so there’s that. I moved to the U.S. when I was 13 and studied abroad in France recently and now I can finally say I’m fluent with that language too 🙃 it’s cool to know there’s someone else out there who can speak the same languages
You're French and Chinese? Coooool
Dannie Riel is French/Chinese too :)
No she is hongkongese and french
turbobenx no,hong kong is not china,fuck you
football shot Foot on 9
KevinChoi文 you?i know!
I love how you speak so many languages! Mandarin sounds so beautiful!!
She knows ASL. I loved that part more. Nice to see that :)
Extremely jealous of your language skills! 好少香港國際學校人會講得廣東話同普通話咁勁。Alors je suis vraiment jaloux
Christopher Lee yours look pretty impressive too
Christopher Lee I think it is a great asset to have multi-cultural parents. Mine are not, but I speak several languages because of my ethnicity. Je suis une Algerienne :). Because of that, I can speak Arabic, English, and French (because of colonization). Since Arabic is a very solid language, it made it easier to learn other languages like Japanese and Spanish. I am glad I have the ability to learn more :) I definitely am interested in learning more Cantonese and/or Mandarin and reading Xianxia novels helped to make it easier to learn. I think to really have it easy while learning languages, you have to enjoy their culture first. Just my two cents.
UMMM Lee in Korean is... WAIT YOUR KOREAN.
Hui Yao Chinese ppl have that last name too :)
Christopher Lee 她的普通话非常标准！不过广东话和普通话不算是两种语言吧？个人认为只是汉语的两个方言。
I'm embarrassed being Chinese. Your Chinese is way better than mine...
Just B. traitor!
Joseph Owen 😂
well she was born in hong kong and studied in local hong kong school...
Lol don't be. I'm half Chinese, but I've never lived there so it's also not as good as hers.
Lol true tho!
Okay, seriously mad props to you for your command of Cantonese, mandarin, French and Spanish.
Mandarin and Cantonese are so different, how can one knows one and know another automatically. I am impressed with your French and Spanish which are also the two languages I want to learn. Why do you know ASL?
It's interesting hearing about your multilingual experience whilst growing up . I am Belarus and Belgian . But I have been living in Switzerland since childhood . I attend a international school so I learn English , French and German. At home with my mum I always speak Russian and with my dad I speak English. But when our whole family is together we only speak French 😊😂 A lot of my classmates are surprised when they hear about this . I can definitely understand the situation you might have been in whilst being raised with so many languages ! I'm very grateful that I have the opportunity to learn several languages and communicate in them fluently! I like your videos 👍
Hahaha you made a typical mistake when speaking spanish. You said "estamos frances", it's natural beacause in english and french the verb "to be" it's the same but in spanish there are two verbs: "ser i estar". And sometimes it's confusing whether to use one or the other
She made a lot of mistakes haha, her spanish was barely understandable, but it's amazing the fact that she knows all that languages and at least try to speak it ^^
@@JemszZz barely understandable? yeah, it was a little slow and paused but definitely not "barely understandable". just because she isn't perfecly fluent doesn't mean that it's bad, she spoke very clearly
Hii
I am from HK as well, my parents are Taiwanese.
Then I went to study in the US and now I am doing a gap year in FRANCEE
Definitely impressed by how many languages you are fluent in!
Crystal Lee taiwanese?what’s that?
Taiwanese is the nationality of those people who come from the country of Taiwan. Ofc everyone knows that besides delusional PRC Wumao sheeplings who need to eat ridiculous CCP propaganda on a daily basis.
@@stefanexler8747 There's no such country called "Taiwan." It's called Republic of China.
@@stefanexler8747 Next time you wanna criticize PRC, make sure your grammar is correct.
Jinlong Yang the official name may be ROC, but that is a remnant of a bygone era. As an independent sovereign nation, free and separate from the CCP, we are now better know as Taiwan by most around the world especially in informal and non-governmental purposes. The people of Taiwan in an increasingly large majority prefer their home country to be referred to as “Taiwan”, and their citizens and one of their local languages as “Taiwanese”, and we are pushing to change our official name to Republic of Taiwan or just simply Taiwan. An official name is just that. An official name. America’s full name is the United States of America, Britain is officially known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Russia’s formal name in English is the Russian Federation, the Swiss Federation is is known as Switzerland, Australia’s official name is the Commonwealth of Australia, Argentina is the Argentine Republic, Afghanistan is the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Monaco is the Principality of Monaco, Bolivia is the Plurinational State of Bolivia, North Korea is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea while South Korea is the Republic of Korea, Vietnam is the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Venezuela is the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Uruguay is the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, Samoa is the Independent State of Samoa, Oman is the Sultanate of Oman, Nepal is the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, Mexico is the United Mexican States, Luxembourg is the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Jordan is the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Guyana is the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, Vatican City is officially the Vatican City State and sometimes referred to as the Holy See although they are different, Greece is the Hellenic Republic, Germany is the Federal Republic of Germany, Laos is the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and of course your favorite one to kiss ass, PRC. As you can see, official names don’t really mean much. It is what we prefer to be known as and what majority of the world knows us as that matters.
I know hw to speak Malay, Mandarin, English, Cantonese, Hokkien, Thai and french.
My mum is Thai n dad ia malaysian 😂
Judy Ying 盈盈 อยู่ประเทศไหนครับ ทำไมพูดได้หลายๆภาษาครับ
wah you speak hokkien? almost extinct my family knows only a bit haha my mom is chinese malaysian so i only speak a bit of malay and understand cantonese but cannot speal fluently😩 but i speak german bc of my dad haha
Malaysian❣️🔥🔥🔥🔥
omggg same (except I dun speak canto, french and bahasa melayu)
I’m Chinese and I’m learning French right now at school. Your language skills are amazing, I’m envious 😊😆
You have a small Chinese accent when you speak French but you sounds pretty good !
That's just an opinion nobody asked for
for the Spanish part, I would not translate proud as "arrogante", thats a bit peyorative, but instead you could say "orgulloso", which is a bit more appropriate in this context. Very impressive video though, such an amazing talent!
Nacho FdC also she translated actually to “actualmente” ( which is used more as “currently” ) rather than “en realidad”
Honestly, I started watching your videos (including these older ones that YT is recommending... LOL) so I would've forget my Cantonese. I speak Taishanese/Toisanese at home but ever since I moved across the country (US) and none of my NYC friends are Chinese, I've lost my native fluency a lot. I've been progressively losing my native fluency over the past 3 decades of my life, as I've assimilated more and more with the American culture. None of my best friends are even remotely Asian, let alone Chinese. So all the years I spent in Cantonese Saturday school in Chinatown and the years I spent studying Mandarin in undergrad and of course my lifetime of speaking Toisan/Taishan to my parents and relatives... has gone out the window. Most traditional Chinese tv programming doesn't appeal to me but I find these videos of you speaking in Cantonese (esp the ones with your mom) really enjoyable and relatable to watch. Because Cantonese exists somewhere in the far crevices of my brain, I don't really need to return to school to recall this language. I just need regular attention to it. Really hoping for an osmosis effect by watching YT videos. And hopefully not completely lose such a big part of my cultural identity. Thanks for making these videos and sharing your life with us.
Hello J Lou, I'm very happy to discover you as a person. I'm Half French/Chinese, my mom is from HongKong. I speak French, Cantonese, English, Mandarin, Spanish like you. I get the same reactions about my languages skills and my appearance. :)
Huge respect to you J Lou. So many languages. Mines only English, basic Cantonese, even less Spanish (learnt years ago but not used lol) also lol at the end credits.
I am a Chinese 🇨🇳 girl who is from British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦 and I can speak Chinese which is my first native language🇨🇳, English 🇨🇦, and Spanish 🇵🇦 and I want to improve my Chinese in reading and writing because I am not super good at reading and writing in Chinese even though it is my native language. I want to learn French, Japanese, and Korean as well
Your accent when you speak french and spanish is so cute 🥺
I speak malagasy french english and a little bit of german spanish and mandarin, i’d love to be able to fluently speak mandarin like you
Honestly I wish I’ll be like you when I’m older ❤️❤️
I can speak cantonese, mandarin, spanish , filipino , ilocano(filipino language) french and english
I learned cantonese in hong kong. Cause my filipino mom used to work in hong kong and so she wanted me to study 3rd grade there. She also wanted me to learn mandarin so i have mandarin classes
So i learned spanish in my school in the philipines since i'am mixed american filipino, i also studied in the philipines for 2 years 1st grade and 2nd grade
I learned a filipino language called ilocano. There are 4 languages in philipines visaya, ilocano , cebuano , tagalog. But tagalog is filipino's main language and tagalog is what every filipino learn in school. But since my mom can talk tagalog and ilocano, I wanted to learn it to.
I'am not so fluent in french although i'am trying to improve, and hopefully i could, i also learn french in school.
Lastly, since i'am american you would proabably expect me to be speaking english
And if you really wanna learn some languages, be inspired by it,
Ye, thats it
Who’s watching this is 2020?
Wow. I am speechless. Oh ya, you are impressive. I think I need more improvement from now on.
It’s cool that you can speak Cantonese and mandarin since they are quite similar but still different
I can speak English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, French and Dutch (with a little bit German but not exactly fluent)
how is Hakka? I was always curious, bc I never heard anyone speak it. is it close to pu tong Hua or not?
You're beautiful J Lou! I'm mixed as well. I'm Eurasian-American. Ethnically speaking, I'm 1/2 Chinese, 1/4 Irish, part German as well as a few other European ethnicities. However I'm bilingual and can only speak two languages. I would love to learn Spanish. I envy you because you speak 6 languages fluently. 你非常美丽、J Lou！我也是混血儿。我是美籍中美混血（拥有1/2中国人血统、1/4爱尔兰血统、一部分德国人血统以及其他欧洲人的血统）。然而我很羡慕你应为我只能说两种语言（英语和中文）。我希望学西班牙语。
I’ve noticed that Hong Kong Cantonese is fairly different than Cantonese from Guangzhou
Can you elaborate? I’m Cantonese that’s born in America. My parents are from Guangzhou and I watched lots of TVB (Hong Kong shows) growing up. In instances such as for the word “you”, some people pronounce it “Lay” and others “Nay”. Other than that, I think they’re pretty much the same. So would be interesting to see what you spot differently.
dreamynights every region kind of has its dialects so as well cantonese. It is a bit different, some word are different in its entirety but it’s probably fairly the same
Wow! I can speak and Mandarin and Cantonese, of course that’s my nationality 4 years ago. You speak Cantonese and Mandarin very well - if I didn’t see your face, I wouldn’t of known that your not chinese
She was born in Hong Kong so yes her nationality is Chinese
Good job!! I love your videos. I can speak 4 languages fluently: English,French,Chinese & Spanish ⭐️⭐️
You're such an inspiration! I love languages so much. I can speak English and Spanish as of now but I hope to learn Japanese and another, perhaps Farsi.
Hola, que tal?, como van?,
Los mejores y más cordiales Saludos desde puente piedra, lima, Perú, ojalá que puedas venir en algún momento a mi país y que disfrutes mucho de todo por aquí, con la familia y los amigos, felicidades por tus vídeos...
Wow so impressive! You look more Hispanic and it's awesome hearing you speak canto and mandarin. Totally wouldn't expect that.
love her skin color
omg so jealous I wish I could have the same background as you do!!!
I’m Canadian so I obviously speak English but our second language is french so I know a bit as well. However I speak mandarin at home cuz my dad is from China and my mom is from Taiwan so I guess there’s a bit of Taiwanese mixed in there too 😭
they both speak mandarin
I am half Chinese and half Mexican. I know some Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish, and English! However, my parents didn't really talk to me in Cantonese or Spanish growing up so I'm not fully fluent. I mostly just talk to my grandparents in Cantonese or Spanish :)
Su español es bastante bueno pero todavia tienes que trabajar. Sin embargo, su Francés parace muy linda.
Im curious. How often do you practice these languages so that youre always able to speak them?
I want to learn Cantonese, Mandarin, and Taiwanese, one day because I'm Chinese/American but I can't fluently speak any of these :(. My Mom knows how to speak Cantonese, Mandarin, Taiwanese, and English. My grandma speaks Cantonese and I can understand most of what she says but I just can't pronounce the words. I can say some words.
So great of a video!! You're SO pretty omg and your personality is so cool!
Fuck. I'm jealous because of all the reactions you'll get when they don't expect you to speak that language.
Of all the languages you know, it is ASL that I am most impressed with. Do continue to learn more.
Anyway who can tell me where I can meet this girl lol it’s amazing
Hey we speak exactly the same languages. 我的母语是普通话，现在在美国生活所以会英语。但系我噶屋企人系广州噶。Mi novia es mexicana por eso también hablo español lo he aprendido por cinco años. Et maintenant j'apprendre le français aussi j'espère que un jour je peux voyaer a France quand se termine le confinement.
Her Mandarin so good. 我刚看了蔡少芬和朱茵在《王牌对王牌》讲挺烂的普通话。
Your Mandarin is pretty nice
You sound like a different person in each language you speak.
I only know how to speak Cantonese and English. I forget mandarin. I used to speak it, but haven't spoken it in a long time.
You seem to speak each language very well. Good job.
Ni hao JLou. Wo Jiao Baobo. I'm amazed that you speak 6 languages. Good for you! It will open up so many doors throught the world for you. You speak both Cantonese and Mandarin so well and you don't look like you would speak Chinese at all. Impressive. I speak a little french that I remember from High School, which was a long time ago, but we had to learn La Marseillaise and I can still sing it. LOL As for Spanish, Hablo y entiendo un poco de espanol. Ni hen piaoliang! Zaijian
真的是偶然发现的宝藏女孩！！啊啊啊我好喜欢你 立刻关注了！
I'm was born to Cantonese speaking parents but I was born in America (美國)。I also learnt 中文(Mandarin) in a Chinese school
Though I still know Cantonese, English, and Mandarin. What language should I learn? French, Japanese, Korean, German, or Spanish?
The way she speaks cantonese reminds me of the hong kong dramas!!! very nice to listen to!!
I speak Cantonese, mandarin, Spanish , English and French but French I'm still learning!
I am from Indonesia. Like to culture in France.
JLou, good job...it's amazing, you could speak 6 languages...I love to see your vlog because I want to learn Cantonese...You speak Cantonese very good and very fast...🖒🖒🖒
Can someone enlighten me please what is the difference between cantonese and Mandarin coz for me its just the same and cantonese is use in china, republic of china while mandarin is use in Hong Kong kong. Im not sure about this. Please tell me what's the difference
@@zhennyy1640 Its okayyy I understand it very well. Wow! I didn't know that cantonese is being use in hong kong coz i went there and i speak in mandarin hahahhahaha. Thank you
I’m Chinese, and the difference is that not many people speak “Cantonese”, because it’s a type of Chinese. But Mandarin is the traditional language that they use in China. If people speak Cantonese, some are from Hong Kong (but not all)
Okay so China has many *many* different dialects which are all basically one language that became twisted and adapted depending on region. Sort of like how Latin is the root of English, French, Spanish, etc. People think 'Chinese' is a language but technically it isn’t, it’s just that the main (and official) dialect spoken in China is Mandarin, while Cantonese is the main dialect spoken in Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong we mostly speak Cantonese, but we also understand and sometimes speak in Mandarin, so that might be why you were able to communicate in Mandarin in Hong Kong. However Mandarin is used mostly in Mainland China. Both of these are dialects of Chinese but they're not the same, as the words are pronounced differently. In Mandarin there are 4 tones whereas there are 9 tones in Cantonese.
@@panni._. hmm weird cause my parents are from rural areas and they speak Cantonese and mandarin, when I was young they only talked to me in mandarin so now I don't understand Cantonese which I find sad
Great video. Hopefully your videos will encourage more people to study languages and parents will provide their children a better language learning environment even if they aren't mixed :) I am not mixed but I can speak 5 languages too. Greetings from Malaysia
so you're French mix with Chinese?
Hong Kong or Taiwan or China Chinese?
Hong Kong!
J Lou cool... I'm from Malaysia.. but one of my uncle work at HK..
anyway.. keep up the good work
I have almost the same languages overlap. Canto+English, you are obviously native. Canto accent in Mando :P and you have a Parisian tone in French, quel est un peu fort. Y no se en Espanol, quatro anos para mi tambien. Between, j'adore ton pere, il est bien genial.
I gotta say I'm truly impressed 👌 I can't barely mastered in one language I practiced for so long. Which is English. 😂😂😂 and you have like 5? Omg. FYI I'm a Cantonese and speaks mandarin as well.
I speak Cantonese and English most and I know how to speak mandarin,French and Spanish
3:34 Je suis exactement la meme! If you're anything like me, I'm sure you'll prefer reading in english because I hate reading and writing in french lol This was awesome! I speak 5 languages myself!! I subbed and I'm excited to watch more of your videos!
Omg I am jealous!! I'm mixed as well my moms polish and my dad's from Hong Kong too but I only speak English I wish I could I was fluent, this is really cool!
Hard to believe she can speak Cantonese! She is cool! & I wish Hanna & J Lou. They meet up in a special video! Please!
I was born in China while my parents where there for business thing my mother is Half Chinese and Korean and white , my dad is White and Mexican . I only know English and Spanish (lol) I learned Spanish at school and I know a bit of Korean and I am learning Mandarin. I know the basics of ASL too :v . We almost always talk English to I never really learned Other languages
Am I Eurasian or just mixed ??
you r more white.
압릴 Mexican is not an ethnicity. Your father is just white not "and Mexican". It is not added to the blood, it is simply a nationality, like saying my dad is white "and Canadian" his nationality is irrelevant.
How can you be born in a country but not be able to speak their language? How do you speak with people there?🤔
Your pic is creepy😖
I’m Chinese (Cantonese). My dad is half Indonesian. I study Spanish and German. I know little bit of French and Bengali
This should have more views.
wow! now your my favorite youtuber but not only a youtuber but a linguist!!
You are killing it!
I can speak Vietnamese, Czech, German, English, Korean and now I’m learning Japanese and both of my parents are viet lol 😂
I was born and raised in Czech Republic and I’m Vietnamese so I learned 2 languages since I was young. When I was 6 I started learning English and when I transfer to high school I started learning german and then I decided to study Korean and Japanese by myself.
Your chinese is pretty good!! Compared to a lot of people who grew up abroad, good job :)
She grew up in Hong Kong..
You're so talented! I love watching your vids!
I don’t know why you spoke in Mandarin because in China they’re not allowed to use UA-cam
My parents are both Chinese and they only can speak Chinese, I can speak 5 languages coz I'd married 5 times with different nationalities of women, English, Korean, Russian, Taiwanese, and HongKonger.
YOU ARE SO TALENTED GURL!!
I'am vietnamnese and cantonese😂❤️
basically she can travel the world now, English Chinese Spanish the 3 most spoken language
you are awesome~ you're the best polyglot that i have found online ever
I'm half mexican🇲🇽 spanish, and native mexican(native American mexican like the Coras) and half German, Irish, polish, African, and Cherokee.
Arianna Aguila you’re white
youre hispanic
You’re white and Hispanic
Arianna O.R. Im american and mexican🇺🇸🇲🇽
@@estrella264 mexicans are american
Wow, the effort👏👏 came here for french and I'm not disappointed
Is your first name janine
WOW！第一次睇你Channel！
又識多位語言高手啦！
You are beautiful, have a great sense of humor, and clearly linguistically talented!
Wow there’s so many mixtures in the comment section!
Je suis Français aussi !
Mandarin and Cantonese are more or less ethnic languages. Most native speakers of those languages are also ethnically Han Chinese. There are ethnic minorities in China who speak Mandarin as the lingua franca and national language, but they learn it as a second language. There are also people outside of China who are studying it as a second/foreign language. But for the most part, Chinese is an ethnic language, like Japanese and Korean.
If you speak English, French, Spanish, or American Sign Language, then people will not even bat an eye. Those languages are not really tied to ethnicity.
Ha! You are so cute! I’m Vietnamese and my husband is Italian and my kids look like you !
Woah that’s so awesome that you know ASL. I learned ASL but I’m not so great at spoken languages 😪😅
Everything was okay, but that Cantonese is so on point.
you're really fluent with all the accents what... 😍 I have been learning Chinese since I was 3 and people still think I'm a foreigner in my country (Singapore)
i m a hong kong ger too so i know what are you saying in cantonese
My heart ♥ melt when she speak hand signs
She used to have an English accent lol now she speaks with American accent
Salut j'aimerais parler le mandarin tu peux faire des vidéos explicatif de la langue ma.darin en français stp jattend ton retour bonne vidéo bisous
Hi! Very good pronounciation. I wanted to ask you... The fact you know several languages, has helped you getting a good job? I. Mean i AM considering on investing my time on learning more languages, but besides teaching is there any other field i can use my ability to learn New languages? Just wondering... :P
this is awesome! and you are so pretty! i love it when you speak chinese it trips me out haha
Hong Kongers usually speak English with their own HK accent and expressions. Why do you speak English with an American accent if no one in your family is american.
How about piglatin ?
Wow I am very impressed my 1 cousin she speaks like 6 or 7 too just like you! Just like most adults would say “hard study pays off”. I know how to speak read & write in 1 language well & that’s English 🤣 my mandarin is all scattered all over the place.... last time I ask for a fork because I didn’t learn the chopsticks I got a spoon that sits up on the table .... instead 😂