What Life in Hong Kong Looks Like During the Pandemic | Easy Cantonese 7

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КОМЕНТАРІ • 87

  • @OkThisllbeMyName
    @OkThisllbeMyName 3 роки тому +80

    You can notice how many English words Hong Kong cantonese tend to use when you compare it with Macanese or other more traditional variants

    • @jennifer8305
      @jennifer8305 3 роки тому +2

      That’s what we called Chinglish 😆

    • @manga626
      @manga626 3 роки тому +1

      And with good pronunciation too.

    • @SkiizmBeatz
      @SkiizmBeatz 3 роки тому +1

      Well I mean Hong Kong was ruled under Britain for a very long time lol. But then again it’s not just Hong Kong. Philippines do it aswell. It’s called Taglish (Tagalog and English) it’s just easier to switch to the English word if you can’t remember the word in your language

    • @eb.3764
      @eb.3764 2 роки тому

      @@manga626 the good pronunciation is a false description. Do you consider british people speaking with a bad pronunciation when they say "wa'er" instead of water?

  • @williamlau7247
    @williamlau7247 2 роки тому +11

    This video makes me miss hong kong so much. I used to go a lot as a kid since my family is from Guangdong and hong kong was almost always a pitstop. I would love to try to live there since my Cantonese is probably good enough that I could survive and since they seem to use a lot of English mixed in, I would love to test myself and try to survive.

  • @nendoakuma7451
    @nendoakuma7451 3 роки тому +25

    Now I know how to say "binge watch" in Cantonese.

    • @SamTheMan12
      @SamTheMan12 3 роки тому +6

      Its called bo kek which literally means boil drama

  • @heathersaxton8118
    @heathersaxton8118 3 роки тому +15

    So happy to see another video! Hoping for more to come 🥰

  • @huongnguyenngocminh3442
    @huongnguyenngocminh3442 3 роки тому +12

    Thank you for making this video. Please continue this series. Add oil!!!

  • @stevenpam
    @stevenpam 3 роки тому +42

    Easy German really *is* easy after all!

    • @ofgodzeus
      @ofgodzeus 3 роки тому +1

      IKR lmao

    • @ru.hend_
      @ru.hend_ 3 роки тому +2

      indonesian is easyest language in the world

    • @samirzepeda4028
      @samirzepeda4028 3 роки тому

      @@ru.hend_ Why?

    • @coniston3106
      @coniston3106 3 роки тому +1

      @@ru.hend_ that's because it's ur first language lol, other languages speaker will say the same

    • @ru.hend_
      @ru.hend_ 3 роки тому +2

      @@coniston3106 My first language is japanese dude...im learn indonesian..its so easy

  • @wanderleyalves7136
    @wanderleyalves7136 3 роки тому +20

    It's really, really difficult. 👍🏾👍

  • @TheSwan116
    @TheSwan116 3 роки тому +5

    Thank you for making this video 😊

  • @JS-rm2ws
    @JS-rm2ws 2 місяці тому

    I know this video is 3-years old. But I have to say for anyone learning Canto, I've watched quite a few similar videos on youtube now where they translate "Ga yow!" to "Add oil!" in the subtitles :-)) In this context, they are not saying "add oil!". I believe they mean something like "best of luck". I'm not a native speaker though. I grew up in the UK; my parents are from Hong-Kong

    • @StratosFair
      @StratosFair 2 місяці тому

      By similar videos you mean English subbed cantonese videos ? Because I'm looking for more videos of this kind and i can't find much besides this channel, so i'd be happy if you could share where to find similar content on UA-cam :)

  • @sambsstt
    @sambsstt 3 роки тому +24

    It's really interesting to see that not a single person appears to use washable/reusable masks

    • @jennifer8305
      @jennifer8305 3 роки тому +7

      I am a Hong Konger. I think we don’t really use reusable mask because we think it’s not that safe. Like everyone in my school use surgical masks and not a single one use washable or reusable masks.

    • @jennifer8305
      @jennifer8305 3 роки тому +2

      @Luu Siblings We do have them.

    • @jennifer8305
      @jennifer8305 3 роки тому +1

      @Luu Siblings welcome 😌

    • @Mmmtruk
      @Mmmtruk 3 роки тому +1

      I'm just worried about the mass waste created every day... :(

    • @Xenon1rth
      @Xenon1rth 3 роки тому +9

      I think that's because Asian people were already used to using this kind of masks before the pandemic. But also reusable masks do not work at all, actually I don't understand why they are still accepted as "masks". In my country (in Europe), whenever a patient comes to do a covid test at the hospital, the staff asks them to take off their fabric masks and provide them a surgical one

  • @learnindonesianwithchandra3637
    @learnindonesianwithchandra3637 3 роки тому +3

    Thanks for the video

  • @Yviee5413
    @Yviee5413 3 роки тому +19

    原來有廣東話~

  • @OkThisllbeMyName
    @OkThisllbeMyName 3 роки тому +6

    about damn time

  • @mautthew
    @mautthew 3 роки тому +6

    Learned a bunch of new words, great video!
    This is a really specific tone question, but it stuck out to me like a sore thumb - at 2:29, why is ji gaa pronounced as ji1 gaa1 with a tone 1 on ji? Isn’t it ji6 gaa1 with 6?

    • @Xxxhk683
      @Xxxhk683 3 роки тому +3

      They are equivalents. I myself personally say ji6 more often.

    • @SamTheMan12
      @SamTheMan12 3 роки тому +5

      It can be pronounced either way

  • @ofgodzeus
    @ofgodzeus 3 роки тому +6

    why are there numbers in the subtitles (middle line)? I'm just curious.
    I'm Algerian, and when we write Algerian Arabic (not MSA) with latin alphabet we also include numbers from time to time instead of letters which don't have an equivalent in sound in the latin alphabet.. I don't know if it makes sense or not.. we use 5 7 2 but the most common ones are 3 and 9.

    • @Zoombieknr1
      @Zoombieknr1 3 роки тому +7

      The numbers stand for tones, Cantonese has 6 of them. Mandarin Chinese in comparison has 4.

    • @ofgodzeus
      @ofgodzeus 3 роки тому +4

      @@Zoombieknr1 ​ @KeWiS ​ @KeWiS I did notice the pattern (always at the end of every word) and I thought it might be that but then I thought it couldn't be .. because they changed a lot and it seemed like it's almost impossile to keep up!
      Thanks for explaining!

    • @poiseblemiramoon6992
      @poiseblemiramoon6992 3 роки тому +4

      @@ofgodzeus just to clarify, cantonese has 9 tones, the first 6 tones do not have ending consonants, the other 3 do.

    • @SamTheMan12
      @SamTheMan12 3 роки тому +2

      @@Zoombieknr1 cantonese has 9 tones

    • @ahmads5722
      @ahmads5722 2 роки тому +1

      @@SamTheMan12 1 means lower voice and 6 means high right?

  • @marcohui9483
    @marcohui9483 3 роки тому +14

    你地使唔使人幫手? Easy Cantonese

    • @easycantonese
      @easycantonese 3 роки тому

      歡迎撳入我profile簡介用電郵聯絡我地傾下計~!

  • @dimatakdol
    @dimatakdol 3 роки тому +1

    More videos please

  • @ezequielalzugaray3236
    @ezequielalzugaray3236 3 роки тому +10

    0:47 beautifull♥

  • @nelic2111
    @nelic2111 3 роки тому +36

    Free Hong Kong!

    • @joaoweimar8087
      @joaoweimar8087 3 роки тому +4

      Hong Kong is China

    • @wtade
      @wtade 3 роки тому +15

      @@joaoweimar8087 no it's not

    • @joaoweimar8087
      @joaoweimar8087 3 роки тому +2

      vcchlw you wish

    • @mrtsiqsin2290
      @mrtsiqsin2290 3 роки тому +8

      @@joaoweimar8087 You are not from Hong Kong, right? Then why does it matter with you? Mind your own business, okay?

    • @jywn
      @jywn 3 роки тому +1

      ✋☝️

  • @sevvalv.5180
    @sevvalv.5180 3 роки тому +4

    Middle of the translation , why there are numbers at the end of the words?

    • @westwoods7675
      @westwoods7675 3 роки тому +6

      It indicates the tone of each word.

    • @sevvalv.5180
      @sevvalv.5180 3 роки тому

      @@westwoods7675 aaa, thank you so much

    • @gaylord3592
      @gaylord3592 3 роки тому

      tones are actually what makes mandarin and Cantonese so versatile. Like for example in mandarin there are more than plenty of words with the same (structures??). But the tone can separate those structures into different words completely

    • @mrtsiqsin2290
      @mrtsiqsin2290 3 роки тому +1

      @@gaylord3592 Not structures. Tones are used to separate different words with similar pronunciation.

  • @amybeauty4171
    @amybeauty4171 3 роки тому

    Congrats

  • @brilliant888
    @brilliant888 3 роки тому +1

    幾時拍架

  • @tgy_au7464
    @tgy_au7464 3 роки тому +4

    想問有冇比較粵語嘅方式嚟講Iike同subscribe呀?

    • @edwardvictorau
      @edwardvictorau 3 роки тому +6

      Like: 讚好
      Subscribe: 訂閱

    • @tgy_au7464
      @tgy_au7464 3 роки тому +1

      @@edwardvictorau 唔該晒!

    • @mrtsiqsin2290
      @mrtsiqsin2290 3 роки тому +8

      @@tgy_au7464 之但係,「訂閱」可能有人會講,「讚好」我覺得冇乜人會講,有啲書面

  • @alvaroxex
    @alvaroxex 3 роки тому +2

    Why not use fabric masks ? You can make them out of old t-shirts.

  • @2004Janwong
    @2004Janwong 3 роки тому +11

    Hongkoners prefer to say 武[mou5]漢[hon3] 肺[fai3]炎[yim4] instead of 新型肺炎 for naming the pandemic.

  • @SomeOne-wl6wp
    @SomeOne-wl6wp 3 роки тому

    What does these numbers mean ,after the chinese words ?

    • @ignacioguarda2652
      @ignacioguarda2652 3 роки тому +10

      The numbers are used to mark the tone of a word

  • @RonaldMcPaul
    @RonaldMcPaul 3 роки тому +3

    粵語字幕吧

  • @usctrojan349
    @usctrojan349 2 роки тому +1

    Is this in Wan Chai? 😂

  • @Mmmtruk
    @Mmmtruk 3 роки тому +3

    do people not use reusable masks?

    • @SamTheMan12
      @SamTheMan12 3 роки тому +1

      because they think its inpracticle, not safe, and expensive

  • @ksw6513
    @ksw6513 Рік тому

    Fusy family soaps yes (free mask)❤🎉😊😮😢😅😂

  • @user-cris.H
    @user-cris.H 3 роки тому

  • @jasonreviews
    @jasonreviews 2 роки тому

    Don't wear mask and be trump supporter. I'm american. LOLs.

  • @wintersongs1
    @wintersongs1 3 роки тому +2

    Closing the toilet lid?? She needs to research how the Coronavirus spreads. Then she won't be so paranoid.

    • @frauic
      @frauic 3 роки тому +12

      COVID-19 also spreads through human wastes and sewage. So she wasn't paranoid. You are ignorant.

    • @jywn
      @jywn 3 роки тому +4

      google:hong kong sars apartment 2003

  • @user-wt8qw3cz6w
    @user-wt8qw3cz6w 3 роки тому +1

    香港人太多懒音了吧,都有中文词汇系要三两句爆个英文单词出嚟

    • @ghostland8646
      @ghostland8646 Рік тому +2

      because HK is British origin

    • @yopiano1071
      @yopiano1071 8 місяців тому

      Because of british colonised❤🇬🇧

  • @SunaAoimori
    @SunaAoimori 2 роки тому

    I need to make anki deck of this... argh