Everything you need to know about Jyutping | Cantonese Alphabet & Pronunciation 101
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- In this video, Jade will explore the most commonly used Cantonese Romanization system-Jyutping 粵拼 and break down each initial and final for you. If you are a beginner student, don't let the complication of the romanization system discourage you! It is designed as a tool to help you to strengthen your pronunciation gradually, not in 15 minutes 🥲.
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0:00-0:34 introduction
0:34-3:07 initials
3:07-12:43 finals
12:43 tones
#cantonese #廣東話 #jyutping
I hope one day Cantonese Jyutping becomes standard and is taught in schools even in HK, Macau, and China like Hanyu Pinyin is
This is highly underrated
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She's a really good teacher. So glad that there's more Cantonese resources nowadays.
This is absolutely the cleanest, clearest, most efficient, most helpful guide to Cantonese phonetics I've seen so far!
Fantastic video, this will be a standard part of my Cantonese learning session warmups now!!! :)
Haha yay!
this is so helpful! thank you for making these videos 💞
InspirLang, I admire your effort ! Thank you so much !
I grew up in Malaysia with bad Cantonese with hokkien influence fron dad and hakka from mum. This is so helpful.
Thanks... sounds in cantonese are not easy things, but you give us hope, Teacher!
This video is such a gem! 多謝 ♥️
Thank you, Teacher Jade! This is a very good, slow and clear video for beginners!
Thanks for the awesome teaching!
You helped me distinguish the different tones!
I've been struggling for a long time on the pronunciation and this video is what I need!
Good job and keep up the Good Work!
This is gold. Thank you.
I love singing Cantonese songs and I came here to learn it again... thank you
Extraordinarily helpful! Thank you!
太棒了！老师的字幕加粤拼--- priceless！
Hi, this video is amazing, really amazing, it answered all my question about Jyut Ping and the Tones, please keep up the good work :)
Very helpful. Thanks for posting!
Congrats for this class. At last I found an excellent and complete tutorial about jyutping :). Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
You are an amazing teacher!!!
Thanks for the amazing work!
Thank you for your sharing. I appreciate your patient teaching style with a very inspiring way. This video is really helpful for me.
Wow !! Complicated turned into simple.
Thanks for simplifying the complicated...
You're such a great teacher. Thanks a lot! This video is very helpand useful❤️
Thank you for your encouragement!
To study in Hong Kong is one of my dreams. Thanks a lot for your lessons. I hope you are making more video lessons.
Thank you so much for this.
thank you for this.
14:00 for tone all together
I like your teaching idea , thank you
Super helpful, thank you 謝謝🙏🏻
Very good explanation .
Also the 6th tone seems a little higher than the 5th tone (which is more like the 3 tone in mandarin that dips and then rises).. Jade u are a natural teacher! 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Very helpful thank you teacher❤
Thanks alot sis. I'm starting to learn cantonese you help me a lot. i will try to read Hong Kong lyrics songs and translate it ❤
Thank for your lessons they make smooth transition from the milk and baby food (beginner canto) over to the meat (advanced canto). You make it so easy!
I love this analogy! I am so happy that this is helpful to you!
thankyou very much this is so helpful!!!
Thank you for watching!
Thanks, this help me a lot
Really really helpful 多谢
Oh thanks so much, my friend is from Hong Kong so i thought it would be fun to learn it, it started as kind of a joke but now i want to try and become fluent just cause, and all of the stuff in this video is really helpful!
I am glad you found it helpful!
You make that the cantonese sounds be understandable, clear and easy. Congrats. I will recommend your channel in my webpage. I like it
Aww thank you! I hope it is helpful!
@@InspirLang Sure, in this video you pronounce the sounds really clear, easy to understand. I already posted your channel, I hope more people can watch your videos, are really good.
Thank You!
Thanks for making the jyutping pronunciation guide (since using the right tones for Cantonese can be difficult to master.) I also like that for the tones chart, it is very clear that 1 is the highest in tone and 6 is the lowest tone.
Also, I like that you give examples for many of the jyutping sounds.
Thanks for the encouraging notes! Glad it is helpful to you :)
Unfortunately 6 is NOT the lowest, yes I know it's weird but it's above 4
Thank u so much ♥️
Thanks for watching :)
Very helpful Im starting to learn Cantonese coz I'm planing to work in Hongkong
amazing content 😍😍😍
Thanks, Angela! Looking forward to our next workout sesh in Canto 👀
@@InspirLang Can't wait for you to lead it in canto!!!
I'm a Cantonese speaker since childhood but only able to read very basic characters. I'm watching this video to be able to read jyutping but even I find the tones confusing especially 5th and 6th 😂 still 👍 for the lesson!
Haha yes they can be confusing, but fun once you figure it out! Don't give up!
Thanks!
Ahh thank you for your support!
Good job Jade!
There might have been a shift in pronunciation in the new generation speakers. For old timers like me, your pronunciations of the words 香 and 腳 are not standard. Some even call them 懶音 :). Language does evolve. Maybe mine has become outdated
I am definitely guilty of speaking with 懶音 for daily conversation haha! The truth is that I am much more careful when making pronunciation videos like this 🤓 Thank you for watching!
Very helpful! As I just started to learn how to type in cantonese with windows. And was wondering which one would be easy to get on with.
Glad it is helpful to you! You mean like typing Cantonese on your computer?
Teacher Jade, Hello. I just wanted to wish you 恭喜发财 (gung1 hei2 faat3 coi4). Barbara
Thank you! 😃
Thank you. I lived in Hong Kong when it was free. Keep Cantonese alive against the CCP onslaught.
nice
Ip man movie series brought me here…….. I love Cantonese….
2:56 is "J' a "y" sound or "z" sound? I heard you say it when you said "J" is for "...". But when you said "jai" I heard it as "y". I have heard elsewhere being pronunced as Z or Y... not sure if it's the audio quality on my device
I came here out of curiosity as a Mandarin learner, Cantonese sounds really cute and old, but at the same time seems way more difficult lol
she pronounces s as pseudo-"sh" in soeng, just fyi
also her z in zo is tilted to an English-like "J"
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I agree, jyutping is far superior and most importantly easier! However the number of classes in Hong Kong that refuse to use Jyutping in favour of the old fashioned Yale method is terrible: I have withdrawn from many potential classes that only use Yale. I don't understand, I want to learn Cantonese not Yale so adjust your study material accordingly. There are many websites that will convert Yale to Jyutping. Arrgghh No wonder us gweilos have trouble trying to learn this wonderful language.
I become an angel 😇 after watching this video 🤣
😂 i am very flattered
i want to learn write and read cantonese are there any supplies i can use to learn
0:38
omg my brain hahaha. please help me. i wish can learn this language
hoe1 is extremely hard for me to pronounce (english/mandarin speaker).
Nice I want to study
Do it! hok6 laa1!
1:52 Just a small typo, but "to beg" [ngai1] should be the character 𠱓
not 哀 [oi1] which rather means "to grieve"
Otherwise thanks for the video, it's really helpful!
very comprehensive, covering all the different sounds. ng is difficult!
Agreed! I always remind students it is better to drop it than to say it with just the "n" sound. At least dropping it makes it sound like a native speaker with a lazy sound haha
The -un vs. -yun sounds are the same to me. Is there a difference or is it the same but they're just spelled different when they have different initials or?
They are actually different!
Can I ask a question please: - do you sound finals -p, -t and -k, if the following word begins with a vowel?
no, unlike some other Asian languages like Korean, Cantonese finals don't carry over to the next word
I'm having troubles understanding the differences between the double a and single a, as in zaai and zai. Any tips?
“aa” is between the “ah” sound and the “a” in “cat.”
“a” is like the “uh” sound.
I speak Malaysian Cantonese and studied in an English school. I can understand without problem may I know how to pronunce this in Cantonese "zuan"?
“zuan” sounds like it comes from Mandarin, not Cantonese.
If you have to whisper in Cantonese
could you still distinguish all tones?
I just tried whispering in Cantonese, and I can't tell the tone differences! Then I tried in English, and I also can't emphasize on the intonations. A wild discovery for myself!
Hey for the pronunciation of ngo 我 any tips?
I will try to say say "sing" and carry a "o" after as a way to practice
is yale or jyutping more 'standard' to teach cantonese? i am curious why your team chooses to teach with jyutping as opposed to yale? i have seen textbooks written in yale as well.
The concepts between Yale and Jyutping are very convertible, though the connotations might look very different between the diacritical marks and the numbers for tones. They are both pretty "standard." Most newer textbooks now use Jyutping due to its easier accessibility, especially for those who want to type on their digital devices.
@@InspirLang how do you type cantonese (characters) using jyuting? jyutping (only pinyin) isn't even an option on iphone under the input method. there are probably 3rd party apps for that
@@alexq316 In my phone Jyutping is available (I use Xiaomi). If not available in your phone maybe you can use handwriting instead, or the Cangjie method, or the Bihua (strokes).
I don’t understand what the numbers after the word pronunciation means? Like “Dai1”
The numbers represent the different Cantonese tones. I believe there are six, so the numbers you'll see are between 1 and 6.
What's the difference between "aa' and "a" like in "gaai" and "gai"?
aa = long “ah” sound
a = the unstressed “a” as in “Sophia”
@@littlewishy6432 mgoi
Always had problem with
-ong, -ung, and -oeng endings
After watching this video it seems like -ong has the "aw" sound like in the English "long"
-ung has a vowel sound like "cold" but ending with -ng instead of -ld. Another way I hear it is like the vowel sound of jyutping -o ending as in 我 ngo5 but with an -ng ending
-oeng has the "uh" sound like "lung" or "rung"
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it almost seems like different native speakers might pronounce words with these endings differently which further adds to my confusion :P
i want to know my name in cantonese john vergel
i like cantonese because the accent
"John" directly translates to 約翰 (joek3-hon6)，and you can borrow a Chinese last name 文 (man4), it sound nice and also close to "Vergel." So it would be 文約翰 (man4 joek3-hon6). Hope it will add to your Chinese name list to be considered!
I can't tell the difference between "oe" and "ae" other than one is less rounded with the lips? Do native speakers care about that
I feel like I should pay for that , are you located in (香港) ?
Haha thank you! I’m not located in HK but you can always support my work through getting my books: inspirlang.com/bookstore/
@@InspirLang Great job miss 👏,
all the best , I just asked cause I am currently in (广州) and willing to study the language ☺️, will support ya ☺️
Is this bopomofo?
Having a hard time pronouncing words with oe T.T
omg we are not 3 years old can you please start at the classics and reverse back into the litte stuff
:) Tones and pronunciations take people years, if not decades to master. I am happy that you are into the Chinese classics tho!
ngai1 is not 哀 in the subtitle.
哀 is ngoi1.
You are right! I was thinking more of the written meaning of 哀求 to make it more relevant to folks. Thanks for the note tho!
Lol. I actually didn't find any problem when I was reading 哀 coz we actually don't know how to write "ngai" in Cantonese. The problem with Cantonese is that it's not standardized. Keep up your good work
哀 is pronounced "O-i" instead of "A-i"
😢it is so difficult to learn Cantonese with its phonetics…
Phonetics are just tools to help people learn Chinese. It is always helpful to learn characters eventually to differentiate all the words that have similar sounds.
So beautiful 港女嘅❤
im learning cantonese to talk trash about my white dad with my mom
Terrible example for "f" brilliance. If said wrong it could mean useless ie. 廢柴
Haha I bet people are going to be extra motivated to get their tones fixed after reading your comment :)
That is Cantonese (Gwong Zau Waa) NOT Gwong Dung Waa. Gwong Dung is a province. Cantonese is a dialect of Canton City.
Seriously, are you teaching Cantonese and speaking completely in Cantonese to people who do not understand Cantonese and are trying to learn it? That's dumb on so many levels. The explanation and anything not related to pronunciation should be in English!
Jyutping uses European spelling, not actual Cantonese pronunciation. It's so difficult to use. Why should you use a j to represent a y sound where a y as yes sound is sufficient. Why use French "oe", when other Cantonese romanization systems use "eu" which is exactly how Cantonese sounds like. Cantonese is Chinese not European. I would suggest getting rid of ridiculous Jyutping and rather use a more sensible and more correct romanization system for Cantonese. Jyutping is a waste of time. And there's 9 tones in Cantonese, not 6. Chinese does not use an alphabet. 歡迎/Welcome = foonying, not funjing. The sound of "fun" also exist in Cantonese like 炒粉/"chow fun" or a type of stir-fried noodles.
You have very valid points that explain why many students struggle with Cantonese pronunciations. I agree that Jyutping isn't perfect, but it is still a very useful tool for students who don't know Chinese characters (yet). Maybe you can become a linguist one day and contribute with your thoughtful insights. It would be really helpful!
A romanization system requires use of European spelling conventions, no? Obviously someone thought this system was useful and accurate. Either way, it's a place to start!