her canto is perfect. its nice to hear it coming out from her and she has a nice voice. its told me how nice the canto language is. i speak canto too but want to learn mandarin. this vid is great
from a white guy that speaks (so so) cantonese I was impressed with this woman's intonation. She is truly a cantonese speaker. Without seeing her I would not have guess that she is a westerner. I have had many people say that about me, but believe me she truly is the "real thing" Congratulations and keep it up girl.
Her name is Corinna K Chamberlain! 陳明恩 ! She appeared in quite a few TVB drama series! I think as of 2008 she is a TVB actor and she graduated from Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts majoring in Musical Theatre Dance! Her Cantonese is very fluent !! She is soo talented !
@Jajabing08 - You are correct. People is plural. Use it when talking about one group of persons. Example: when talking about all Chinese citizens, you would use "people of China" because they are all part of one group in that context. "Peoples" is used when talking about more than one group of people. Example: When talking about all the different ethnic groups in China (Han, Manchu, Zhuang, Hui, etc.) you would use "peoples of China."
Many foreigners can speak cantonese. But Carina can speak almost without any foreign accents. Cantonese is one of the hardest languages to be spoken without an accent. Abosolutely amazing.
Thanks for posting this wonderful video. Do you know the name of the song at 0:40 seconds? Beautiful song, would like to know where I can get it. Thanks.
i'm Eurasian and people are shocked when I speak cantonese.. but she's fully caucasian and takes it to a whole new level. if she was on a radio i wouldn't have a clue that she's caucasian. respect!
Accept for who and what she is,she is great, totally a HK local,born in HK, yes, she speaks better cantonese than me,,,wow!! great job girl..keep on going!!! I accidentally found you on youtube, glad I did, makes me home sick , so to speak since I have not been back to HK since "80..
What a lovely young lady. We should keep her for good. Her cantonese sounds better than many native speakers who can be rude and brassy. This girl has good manners and has a good kind nature and thus she sounds better. Lovely dancer and singer.
Cantonese *isn't* a language you can master unless you grew up with it. The fact that she's ethnically not Chinese but can still speak it that well is what's so amazing about this clip. She's very gifted. :)
It is true there are many non-asians that can speak fluent chinese, but what is different about Corinna is she is a multi-talented individual. She is bilingual, she can dance, she can play piano, flute, and guitar, she can sing, and performs at theaters. I think she deserves to have this interview for her to gain more exposure for her performing career. Good Luck Corinna.
Her Cantonese is better than mine and I was born in Hong Kong! Her use of vocabulary and ability to express herself is also better than mine! I am jealous, depressed, and impressed all at the same time.
no. on the surface, it is just as difficult to westerners due to tones...although it shares a bit more phonemes with english and other nordic languages, strangely. It's got the umlauts, the o: and the u: and aspiration, and other vowels are similar to Finnish, just shorter. consonants are in general identifiably east asian, similar to korean. grammar wise it is different from Mandarin...spoken Cantonese has Tense. It is an analytical language like English so the grammar isn't really that hard.
@stonpio Total agreed. I have been in US for more than 30 years. I speak pretty fluent English and I still got my Cantonese accent. One of my " America Born Chinese " friend speaks very good American accent Cantonese ( including slang ) just like Corina. If we were not born in that country there's no way that we can speak like the local ones.
Her Cantonese is fantastic. I wish mine were as fluent as hers, I have the vocabulary of a slow eight year old. Corinna is so talented! I wish I could sing, dance, and play all those instruments in the second clip. (Speaking of which, I liked her version of "My Pride" more than Joey Yung's.)
@muzzzzzzza cantonese specifically is a difficult to dialect/language to learn. it has 9 tones & not a lot of people can learn it well. cantonese is my mother tongue & i still have trouble saying some words. not to mention like miyagibigshlong has mentioned, there's not a lot of resources that teach cantonese
I saw her in a performance in Hong Kong (in English.. she wasn't showing off her cantonese..! haha). She was fantastic. It seems she's frequently in musicals in hong kong if you want to see her on stage. She had really progressive parents. Every newspaper talks about the future of china, but sadly virtually no guilou children (including mine) learn even a single word of cantonese for some reason. Put her on tv more often!
Amazing!!! My Vietnamese is fluent, but my Cantonese is horrible. She speaks Can very fluently. It makes me feel sad cuz I can't speak Can as well as she she does although my parents are native Can people. Damn it!! hehe. At the same time, this video also encourages me to continue to improve my Can. Cuz It shows that it is possible for a foreigner to completely master a new language. I guess her interest in singing also helps her to learn the language. Well, her Can accent is amazing, too.
theres like people eating in 30 something seconds and her chinese singing is sooo AWESOME!!! i would like to listen to her and i cant even speak cantanese that well i speak very good like fluent not that perfect like her...
Yeah you're right, I wasn't really thinking when I wrote Australian/New Zealander. I forgot how problematic the terminology was. I'm not even that familiar with the identity politics of the region... would it be anything like in the US/Canada where one may be "Scottish-American" or "Irish-Canadian," for example, "English-Australian" or "Irish-Australian?"
I can speak fluent English and Cantonese because I was born in the USA and live here, but both of my parents and all of my ancestors were born and raised in Hong Kong. The only problem is that I was never taught to read chinese. I still follow all of the traditions and understand it very clearly. I listen to cantonese music and the only kind of TV channels I have are all chinese ones. Just because I can't read it doesn't mean I'm not a fluent speaker.
Ethnicity-wise, she's an Australian/New Zealander though, no matter where she lives. Where you live and are a citizen is your nationality, which is different.
And the girl's really pretty - love her voice too! And when the guy criticises her for her Chinese - that's SUCH a culture clash right there - no Englishman would dream of saying such a tactless thing on national TV, or even in private.
No surprise. She's not the only caucasian that can speak Cantonese without an accent. Sharon Balcombe comes to mind too. Balcombe's accent in English is minimal too despite having been born and raised in HK. You hear her (Corinna's) partner coach her on words that she doesn't pronounce correctly, like the Joey Yung song she's singing earlier. Makes me want to go back to HK for a while. LOL
She sings very well. Better than a lot of HK 'professional' singers now. Hope she can make it if she plan to have a singing career in HK. I like her voice.
I agree with you. It is so rare even in this day and age for foreigners who live amongst us speaking our language at all. That is the reason why she is on UA-cam and getting so much attention, even allowing for her undoubted qualities. I can speak and write better English than most English people in England. I am polite and law-abiding. But, true, English people don't want to "keep me." It is them being racist; but we don't have to be racist like them.
she speaks with an accent as well, and i mean hong kong accent!! Very impressive indeed. A shame our writing is so difficult that many people find it impossible to read and write in it. Well done anyways proper inspirational stuff。
torofighter, you're right. China has 56+ ethnicities that we call Chinese. Corrina grew up in Hong Kong & holds a Hong Kong citizenship. She should be considered as a Hong Kong & Chinese citizen. Hong Kong is China. I grew up in Canada. Chinese has fought very hard to get accepted as Canadian in Canadian society. It'll be grossly unfair for anyone to think Corrina is not a Chinese citizen. Corrina is a Chinese of Australian extraction.
It depends if you came to america as an adult I suppose it will be too hard to get rid of the accent completely. I am French.a friend of mine, his mother is hungarian . I have known her for 25 years and I swear until today I still cant understand what she says unless I read her body language just to fill the blanks. She could never get rid of her strong foreign accent and I know she tried.She came to France aged 14.
@Tommydudez , you don't get it do you. It is far more common for Asians to master a language like English than for non-Asians to master an Asian language.
her canto is perfect. its nice to hear it coming out from her and she has a nice voice. its told me how nice the canto language is. i speak canto too but want to learn mandarin. this vid is great
from a white guy that speaks (so so) cantonese I was impressed with this woman's intonation. She is truly a cantonese speaker. Without seeing her I would not have guess that she is a westerner. I have had many people say that about me, but believe me she truly is the "real thing" Congratulations and keep it up girl.
Her name is Corinna K Chamberlain! 陳明恩 ! She appeared in quite a few TVB drama series! I think as of 2008 she is a TVB actor and she graduated from Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts majoring in Musical Theatre Dance! Her Cantonese is very fluent !! She is soo talented !
@Jajabing08 - You are correct. People is plural. Use it when talking about one group of persons. Example: when talking about all Chinese citizens, you would use "people of China" because they are all part of one group in that context.
"Peoples" is used when talking about more than one group of people. Example: When talking about all the different ethnic groups in China (Han, Manchu, Zhuang, Hui, etc.) you would use "peoples of China."
Many foreigners can speak cantonese. But Carina can speak almost without any foreign accents. Cantonese is one of the hardest languages to be spoken without an accent. Abosolutely amazing.
Beautiful voice.. Absolutely beautiful
Thanks for posting this wonderful video. Do you know the name of the song at 0:40 seconds? Beautiful song, would like to know where I can get it. Thanks.
My, I totally dig this chick...lmao! Beautiful singing!!!! Love her Cantonese accent!
Beautiful voices n most important, she speaks and sing fluent cantonese.
She's multi talented and a great performer.
i'm Eurasian and people are shocked when I speak cantonese.. but she's fully caucasian and takes it to a whole new level. if she was on a radio i wouldn't have a clue that she's caucasian. respect!
Accept for who and what she is,she is great, totally a HK local,born in HK, yes, she speaks better cantonese than me,,,wow!! great job girl..keep on going!!! I accidentally found you on youtube, glad I did, makes me home sick , so to speak since I have not been back to HK since "80..
She sung at Miss Chinese International Pagent 2009!! And also featured in a song with MC Jin and Jaeson Ma ^^
What a lovely young lady. We should keep her for good. Her cantonese sounds better than many native speakers who can be rude and brassy. This girl has good manners and has a good kind nature and thus she sounds better. Lovely dancer and singer.
Cantonese *isn't* a language you can master unless you grew up with it. The fact that she's ethnically not Chinese but can still speak it that well is what's so amazing about this clip. She's very gifted. :)
omg shes soo cool and she sang sooo wonderfully!
You are talented! Keep up with the good works!
Wow...amazing. Definitely one in a million.
omg when she speaks english words when talking in cantonese, she says them with a canto acccent! so cool!
OMG She speaks it even better then me
and I've spoken Cantonese since I was 2
*thumbs up to u*
And that song she sings 'Pride in your eyes' by Joey Wong is one of my favorite songs on my IPOD.
It is true there are many non-asians that can speak fluent chinese, but what is different about Corinna is she is a multi-talented individual. She is bilingual, she can dance, she can play piano, flute, and guitar, she can sing, and performs at theaters. I think she deserves to have this interview for her to gain more exposure for her performing career. Good Luck Corinna.
She has a slight slight slight accent. But that just makes her voice all the more distinctive. And shes cute.
Cantonese has 9 tones actually.. so it's so amazing that she could speak such fluent Cantonese..
This documentary is very good! Hey, where is the second part?
She sang 來夜方長 with 蘇永康 in his "So I Sing 08" concert.
Not only she speaks good Cantonese, she sings beautifully.
Amazing....if i didnt look at her face...but just listen to she speaks....i thought she was a Chinese....I like her singing....very sweet and cute....
Way to go, Carina. You sing amazingly and your cantonese is impeccable. 90% of Hong Kong natives should learn from you.
Yes, she is, I almost didn't recognise her with her hair and lack of crying uncontrollably!! LOL! Great vid! Like!
her canto is sooo good. I can only aspire to be as good as her!
Sorry I made a mistake it is Joey Yung who sings that song 'Pride in your eyes'.
fascinating! besides her good looks, she's got a beautiful voice. Would really like to meet someone like that to inspire and teach me Chinese.
Her Cantonese is better than mine and I was born in Hong Kong! Her use of vocabulary and ability to express herself is also better than mine! I am jealous, depressed, and impressed all at the same time.
no. on the surface, it is just as difficult to westerners due to tones...although it shares a bit more phonemes with english and other nordic languages, strangely. It's got the umlauts, the o: and the u: and aspiration, and other vowels are similar to Finnish, just shorter. consonants are in general identifiably east asian, similar to korean. grammar wise it is different from Mandarin...spoken Cantonese has Tense. It is an analytical language like English so the grammar isn't really that hard.
Wow! I am a BBC(Britsh Born Chinese) and I can't speak as good as she can in Cantonese! I must take my hat off to her.
@stonpio Total agreed. I have been in US for more than 30 years. I speak pretty fluent English and I still got my Cantonese accent. One of my " America Born Chinese " friend speaks very good American accent Cantonese ( including slang ) just like Corina. If we were not born in that country there's no way that we can speak like the local ones.
Her Cantonese is fantastic. I wish mine were as fluent as hers, I have the vocabulary of a slow eight year old. Corinna is so talented! I wish I could sing, dance, and play all those instruments in the second clip. (Speaking of which, I liked her version of "My Pride" more than Joey Yung's.)
if you didn't see her face you might think she's a local.
all i can saw is WOW.
@muzzzzzzza
cantonese specifically is a difficult to dialect/language to learn. it has 9 tones & not a lot of people can learn it well. cantonese is my mother tongue & i still have trouble saying some words. not to mention like miyagibigshlong has mentioned, there's not a lot of resources that teach cantonese
I'm in love with the chubby pianist..
WOW, her cantonese is really good
she has the correct accent and everything
she has an awesome cantonese singing voice too!
I saw her in a performance in Hong Kong (in English.. she wasn't showing off her cantonese..! haha). She was fantastic. It seems she's frequently in musicals in hong kong if you want to see her on stage.
She had really progressive parents. Every newspaper talks about the future of china, but sadly virtually no guilou children (including mine) learn even a single word of cantonese for some reason. Put her on tv more often!
She not only speaks 99% like a Canton native speaker but behaves exactly like a native Cantonese!! She's 100% a Cantonese, I'd say.
amazing! I admire people like her!
hi, just wondering, does anyone here know the name of the song sung at 4.55 of the video? it sounds really good...
what's the title of the song she was singing around 4-5th minute of the video? nice upbeat song
Amazing!!! My Vietnamese is fluent, but my Cantonese is horrible. She speaks Can very fluently. It makes me feel sad cuz I can't speak Can as well as she she does although my parents are native Can people. Damn it!! hehe. At the same time, this video also encourages me to continue to improve my Can. Cuz It shows that it is possible for a foreigner to completely master a new language. I guess her interest in singing also helps her to learn the language. Well, her Can accent is amazing, too.
theres like people eating in 30 something seconds and her chinese singing is sooo AWESOME!!! i would like to listen to her and i cant even speak cantanese that well i speak very good like fluent not that perfect like her...
cantonese is a beautiful and powerful language. How I wish I could also speak the language the way she does.
WOW, her accent is really nice.
she's so talented and an inspriation:)
She looks a little like Nicole Kidman... and she speak better chinese than I do! LOL!!!
Oh my Godm envious. I want to be as fleunt as her someday. And she's singing one of my favorite Joey songs!!!
She is mesmerising
Dude her accent is so impressive.
exactly what I was thinking... she even say her english name in "cantonese accent"
Yeah you're right, I wasn't really thinking when I wrote Australian/New Zealander. I forgot how problematic the terminology was. I'm not even that familiar with the identity politics of the region... would it be anything like in the US/Canada where one may be "Scottish-American" or "Irish-Canadian," for example, "English-Australian" or "Irish-Australian?"
she's amazing
OMG she did live at MK. I really hope I get to see her sing >< never caught her in MK when I'm in HK though
I can speak fluent English and Cantonese because I was born in the USA and live here, but both of my parents and all of my ancestors were born and raised in Hong Kong. The only problem is that I was never taught to read chinese. I still follow all of the traditions and understand it very clearly. I listen to cantonese music and the only kind of TV channels I have are all chinese ones. Just because I can't read it doesn't mean I'm not a fluent speaker.
She can sing for Disney. She sounded like those princess in the Disney films.
shes awesome. proud of being an aussie
very impressed, she's so pretty and a good singer too :D
she can sing so well!~
Ethnicity-wise, she's an Australian/New Zealander though, no matter where she lives. Where you live and are a citizen is your nationality, which is different.
And the girl's really pretty - love her voice too! And when the guy criticises her for her Chinese - that's SUCH a culture clash right there - no Englishman would dream of saying such a tactless thing on national TV, or even in private.
No surprise. She's not the only caucasian that can speak Cantonese without an accent. Sharon Balcombe comes to mind too. Balcombe's accent in English is minimal too despite having been born and raised in HK.
You hear her (Corinna's) partner coach her on words that she doesn't pronounce correctly, like the Joey Yung song she's singing earlier.
Makes me want to go back to HK for a while. LOL
I'm falling in love with her.
She is so cute speaking cantonese.
OMG , really really amazing , she speak Cantonese better than me. (i'm vietnamese and 50% cantonese)
@Lamster337
your so right! people that don't know me think that I speak broken English or don't speak English at all!
haha she's singing joey yung!!! i love that song
She sings very well. Better than a lot of HK 'professional' singers now. Hope she can make it if she plan to have a singing career in HK. I like her voice.
wow..she is amazing!
incredible, i've met some westerner speaks very good mandarin, but cantonese is tough for them to learn
wow LOL so fluent , wonder she can read Chinese too LOL , she makes me blush LOL
Omg, I saw her in real life at the Hong Kong stadium while I was helping out! I didn't even know she's recognised!
wow.... her cantonese is awesome and very fluent.... :D what a beautiful voice!! hehe
does anyone know what song she's singing in the video and also who the original singer is? thanks
well you could say, how ever many tones, then the one that just sounds natural
@PungiFungi , let's not get too carried away...she does have a mild accent. I wouldn't say she sounds totally like a native Cantonese speaker.
She's amazing! Her Cantonese is even better than mine! lol.
cool. I really appreciate her. I like your spirit.
Great singing and better Chinese than mine! Go girl!
I agree with you. It is so rare even in this day and age for foreigners who live amongst us speaking our language at all. That is the reason why she is on UA-cam and getting so much attention, even allowing for her undoubted qualities. I can speak and write better English than most English people in England. I am polite and law-abiding. But, true, English people don't want to "keep me." It is them being racist; but we don't have to be racist like them.
she speaks with an accent as well, and i mean hong kong accent!! Very impressive indeed. A shame our writing is so difficult that many people find it impossible to read and write in it. Well done anyways proper inspirational stuff。
OMG!! Sugababes round round! my favourite song haha @5.43
she is awsome~
i love her
torofighter, you're right. China has 56+ ethnicities that we call Chinese. Corrina grew up in Hong Kong & holds a Hong Kong citizenship. She should be considered as a Hong Kong & Chinese citizen. Hong Kong is China.
I grew up in Canada. Chinese has fought very hard to get accepted as Canadian in Canadian society. It'll be grossly unfair for anyone to think Corrina is not a Chinese citizen. Corrina is a Chinese of Australian extraction.
wow.. this is really amazing!
she's so good! *claps*
It depends if you came to america as an adult I suppose it will be too hard to get rid of the accent completely. I am French.a friend of mine, his mother is hungarian . I have known her for 25 years and I swear until today I still cant understand what she says unless I read her body language just to fill the blanks. She could never get rid of her strong foreign accent and I know she tried.She came to France aged 14.
Can we plz do an update video on her?
@Tommydudez , you don't get it do you. It is far more common for Asians to master a language like English than for non-Asians to master an Asian language.
and the way she talks reminds me of faye wong's cantonese haha, cute.
wow thanks for video. Shes great
@changeopresto31 theres cantonese speaking cites like KL in Malaysia. They learnt cantonese from dramas and they used it day to day.
her Cantonese is better than mine. she's so good!
is she the one in 老表?