Chinese Q&A: speaking in Cantonese & Mandarin (it was challenging 😅)
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I speak Cantonese and I'm living in HK
can’t deny that u speak even better than me 😂 (I’m a native speaker lol) love hearing people from the western side speak Cantonese cuz it feels like home to me and close to my heart 🤍 kids from HK are speaking mandarin a lot more now and sometimes I’m worried that Cantonese culture would be fading away by time but I’m super thankful that u talked about protecting our own heritage and truly embracing it . glad to know someone cares about it
really appreciate that 💗💗💗
I definitely feel you. I am from Guangdong Province. I understand that Mandarin is important, but Cantonese is as important. I dont live in China now, but its still sad to think about it.
@@selinah941 Yeah… ikr I get what you’re thinking.
I’ve seen some interviews in Guangzhou
That kids can barely speak Cantonese and even if they can, they’d prefer mandarin and I can see it’s starting in HK especially in younger generations. I do agree mandarin is important as well but it just hurts my heart to see my root is fading like that.
This is just my opinion but I think Cantonese is a prettier language than Mandarin (maybe bc I grew up speaking it). It’s so sad now when I go to China and the kids in Guangzhao only speak mandarin.
@@xueyingli6034 I feel you as well! Kids are not allowed to speak Cantonese in school and they are losing their culture! Some people ask me why I don’t teach my kids mandarin because it’s “ more important “, well…..Cantonese is my culture and what’s the problem for them to learn their own culture their own mother tongue!
@@suziqschroeder7781 waitt, they’re not allowed to speak Cantonese at school?? How are they allowed to ban that? That’s so sad to hear. It’s so unfair that the govt would erase our culture like that
Weylie.. the part where you said it’s our own duty to learn more about our heritage/culture, it was so well said!
作为一个广东人，非常荣幸，非常高兴，可以在CZcams上听到这么好听的粤语，真的好亲切！
i like watching Weylie because she promotes Chinese culture in her videos/vlogs instead of k-pop stuff like some other asian youtubers. :) Mandarin = simplified form
Same hehe. I used to feel insecure about being Chinese because of my country being anti-Communist and anti-China so I think promoting Chinese culture is really important
The shade love it lol 😩
Your mandarin is perfect! I understood everything just fine! Good job Weylie!
I grew up in the US but luckily am able to speak Cantonese because of my grandma. My close family mainly speaks Cantonese (sometimes with Boluo dialect) so I get the chance to practice speaking and learning from them. It saddens me than Mandarin is being taught in schools rather than Cantonese because it feels like a part of my culture is fading. I'm so grateful you make videos like this because it's quite rare to see and always makes me feel seen and comforted. THANK YOU!
My family is Hispanic and I grew up speaking fluent Spanish but over the years I’ve lost a lot of it. This makes me want to practice more and continue to be fluently bilingual! What a cool skill to have 💕
Weylie I absolutely loved how you articulate the "responsibility" part of learning our heritage language. As an international student who has been away from china for the past 5 years, I can feel my Chinese ability going down day by day... but also I didn't want to lose that part of me so I bought 字帖(Chinese copybooks) and any Chinese books whenever I go abroad. I also try to journal in Chinese every day. Thank you for this!
It’s crazy to think that as an adult we could lose our native language just from being away from home for a few years!
Ppl normally refer to the pandemic as 疫情 (yì qíng) in mandarin! (Mandarin is my 2nd language hehe) Thank you for this video, it gives me such a cosy and warm feeling inside while watching I can’t rly explain haha. Your Cantonese is rly good tho, sadly I can only understand bits and pieces but can’t speak it as the tones are too difficult for me to pick up. Love you!
I have heard people in Cantonese refer to the pandemic as that term as well!
@@cindycheong1150 yes ! We do :)
1:50 Do you think in Chinese or English?
2:06 Choose one thing you must get when you go yumcha
2:33 Any tips on how to learn Cantonese?
3:30 How do you say your Chinese name in Mandarin?
3:41 咸蛋 or 皮蛋? (salted egg or century egg?)
4:08 What sparks joy for you these days?
5:07 Fav historical drama?
5:44 Fav Chinese dish to make and eat?
6:32 Do you feel pressured to get married and have kids?
7:10 What's a place you'd love to visit that you haven't been?
8:21 How tall are you in cm?
8:58 What language do you and Wah talk to eachother the most in?
9:31 How do you keep up with the language?
12:32 Have you been to Guangzhou?
13:01 Favorite place to get 菠萝包 (pineapple buns)?
14:02 How have you been lately?
Thank you so much!🥺
i love your heart towards your culture and heritage! it's so precious! and I'm glad that both you and Wah are learning Chinese together! please do more of this video!
THANK YOU WEYLIEEE for this video. it means sooo much to abc’s like me I always feel so embarrassed bc I’m not 100% conversational but I’m trying to relearn and learn more. my chinese culture is so important to me and there is definitely a huge disconnect that I feel. you expressed so much that i feel and felt alone about, and I am so grateful for this video from you. I hope you feel better with time about growing up - little things in life can truly be a blessing. those simple things that you love can be something to be cherished and make your days feel so much better and more pressure-free
omg yay!! Your cantonese videos are my absolute FAV, as an ABC child from san francisco these videos make me so happy and make me feel at home. pls post more of these!! Would love to see you and Wah do a Q&A in canto together or like a Canto podcast of some sort :)
Watching this video is so comforting and makes me feel at home! My parents are from Hong Kong and we speak Canto together. It's rare to find Canto speaking content creators and CZcamsrs, so it's super refreshing when you make these videos :) Thank you so much for filming this!! Also helps me keep up with my Cantonese too! I've gotta share this with my fellow canto friends. Wishing you all the best Weylie
It’s pleasure to hear you speaking Cantonese and Mandarin at the same time. My family speaks Fuzhou dialect, which is also a completely language from Mandarin. As watching TVB growing up, I feel so proud that I can understand your Cantonese without subtitles! Yeah!
I love the growth on this channel and your style Weylie! I love how've changed from the big lashes and a more simplistic look the last few years
Crazy how in English, your voice is higher pitched but In Cantonese, it’s a different pitch. Love the video
Me too, different languages in different personality hah
Same, when i speak chinese my tone is higher wtf😂
I loved watching this, and really resonated with the responsibility to learn and maintain your language & culture. I really enjoyed the breakdown of your family's culture as well. It truly shows how beautiful our culture really is - everyone has different mixes of dialects and heritages. Yes to more content like this! 🥰
This q&a was so fun!! you speak so eloquently and I love hearing you speak in all three languages 😊amazing job and thank you for sharing!
You’re glowing!! I’ve been watching you for years and every video your beauty still surprises me!! 💘💘
UGH your Canto/Mando videos have gotta be my absolute FAVOURITE. Everytime I watch them it gives me so much pride and joy, idk how to explain it! And you motivate me to improve my Cantonese 🥹 Hope you're feeling better these days Weylie, love u & your content sm!! 💕
Yessssss, so encouraging and love this! We gotta keep canto alive!!
I love this video, Weylie! It's so inspiring hearing about your perspective as Chinese American in the US. My family speaks Canto and Taishanese, but I learned Mandarin in college. I agree that it's super important to keep practicing and not let this be a lost tradition. Watching this video makes me happy :D
I love you Weylie! Thank you for this video. I was feeling a little bit FOMO, seeing all my friends make plans and go out, even tho i rlly enjoy time at home. When you mentioned that you enjoy doing nothing at home and spending time with the dogs, I really felt that and it reassured me that it’s OK to be that way and not constantly be going out. 💛✨Love you XO
Weylie! I never comment much but have been your loyal follower since 2013, and I honestly think this brings me back to those days! Please do more of these Chinese speaking videos, I know it's who you are and when you do it just comes very naturally.
Don't be too hard on yourself for not knowing some vocab, it's all cool. Your flow of speech is totally great and you've got your own style and I love it!
You're such a role model! When you said that it's up to us to keep learning and practicing as ABCs, I felt that with my whole heart. I didn't used to love my culture or language, but I do now. I find myself wishing I knew more. But I can't just wish! I need to do something about it.
As a Chinese French who speaks Mandarin & Cantonese and has a similar family story (both sides of my family are from Guangdong but my Dad was born in Vietnam and my Mom in Taiwan), I look up to you so much because I feel like I can refer to someone!! That’s why I love your videos so much, so thank you for sharing your story with us ❤️
omg weylie I LOVEEE these videos so much !! 🤩🤩🤩 you did so well answering all of the questions in mostly Cantonese/mandarin !!
Wow Weylie, so impressed!! Can't wait to see more of these.
I really appreciate this video as a Cantonese fluent listener and conversational speaker - i feel like this really helps spark my desire to learn it more and reconnect with my heritage. Also with the subtitles I feel like, I’m learning it again! Would always love to see more of these videos!
I don’t often give videos likes but this definitely deserves a like!
I also feel as though you articulate your emotions much better in Cantonese or mandarin as well! How interesting
I absolutely love this!! It’s truly so inspiring and motivating because I’m currently learning Japanese and Korean and sometimes I feel overwhelmed but seeing this reminds me of why I’m working so hard. Thanks for sharing! 💜
Finally had time to sit down and watch this video. I love these videos from you Weylie! My parents are born and raised in Taiwan and immigrated to the US in the 80s, but my whole extended family still live in Taiwan & I would go visit every year pre pandemic. I am able to speak mandarin as that was the primary language we spoke at home, but understand Taiwanese to some extent from just visiting family and my parents speaking to one another.
I love these Chinese videos! I feel more connected to you and really helps me brush up on my canto. I totally feel you by the way on these two years just gone... Those thoughts make me sad too.
Been watching you since you've started on CZcams & can definitely say your Chinese has improved so much throughout the years 💕 love how you said that we should take ownership in learning/preserving our culture, can't agree more 🥰 also love how much you pride yourself in being Chinese, proud to have someone like you in this community to look up too ☺️ you're literally my偶像 🤩
I love the part you said about learning Chinese while growing up in Western World. I agree that it’s ourselves’ responsibility to practice more and to find a way of learning. Your Mandarin is excellent👏
Hey Weylie, just wanna say hi! I’m your fan from Taiwan. I’ve been watching your videos to learn English for sooooo many years. You’re like a big sister to me. Love your energy and life style. Please do more Chinese videos, you did well!!
u did more than okay!!!! i love you weylieeeee don't worry i believe you still have a long way ahead of you to do/explore whatever you wanna do live in the present moment and continue doing what you love
WEYLIE I've been watching you since the tampon video. I enjoy videos of you speaking Chinese so much and im filled with joy to hear that you are going to do more. I speak Mandarin, Cantonese and Fuzhou dialect and I feel strong connection in this video. I came to the States when I was 10 and the first thing I learned was Cantonese so i learned to speak Cantonese before English. Whenever i hear you speak chinese, i feel like I'm listening to a sister who is pouring her heart out and there's this unexplainable bond. You sound great in Cantonese and Mandarin btw ! 太棒了!
Okay this made me really inspired to re-learn Cantonese! I live in England and my parents are from HK 🇭🇰 I speak around a 6 year old’s level where my parents just about understand me but my HK friends do not. I’m now going to look up some online resources to help me improve my tones and become more fluent so I can have deeper conversations with my parents as they don’t speak fluent English. Thank you Weylie for inspiring me to pick this back up ❤️
Hi there, just want to say thank you so much for always promoting Chinese and cantonese culture, its very precious.
love the canto content weylie! i hope you continue promoting cantonese culture and language
Omg Weylie ily😭😭 finally doing a Chinese talking video again 说的太好了
Your Cantonese pronunciation improved so much! I still remember in your first Cantonese video, many people commented that your accent sounded like those ancient Cantonese TV dramas (more like the original Guangzhou accent back in the days), but now, look at you! Your pronunciation is so much better! ❤️from the Bay Area.
Weylie I'm from Taipei, Taiwan and it's so much fun to see you film in Mandarin. As an Asian American who spent the majority of her life speaking English, I think you absolutely killed it!! Normally for centimeters we say 公分/gōngfēn/ instead of 釐米 :) Can't wait for you to come to Taiwan to check out all the good food and cute spots we have to offer! (too bad we still haven't lifted our quarantine measures) Besides Taipei I'd also recommend visiting Tainan for the historical vibes and Hualien for the majestic landscapes of Taroko National Park
Thank you Weylie for making this video! Your videos are one of the few things that got me through the time when I studied in the States. Now I’m back to Taiwan and would love to see you visit Taiwan one day😍😍
Ahhhh I love this video so much! Can't wait to see more!! Since I don't see my family often due to college, hearing someone speak canto feels so nice.
My parents are from Taishan so they speak the dialect from there often. My mom had told me though she likes speaking in Cantonese better hahah. So growing up, I hear my immediate family and relatives speak both. I can understand simple conversation in Cantonese and Taishanese, but it's been difficult for me to speak it. I've also been back and forth with my mandarin skills, definitely want to be more fluent!
Hello from Taiwan🇹🇼 I've been watching your vlogs for four years. You are like my big brother and sister. I was also confused about the future for a long time during the pandemic, so I can understand how you feel right now. I will always support you no matter what you decide 💪
I'm also looking forward to your coming to Taiwan! I would love to show you the beauty of Taiwan!
You are honestly so talented. :) I can only dream of being half as conversationally fluent as you in Cantonese. The way you can so naturally switch between canto and mandarin as well is awesome as well. Honestly, I love when you do these type of videos. Even appreciate the subtitles as well, as I'm sure those take a lot of time and effort to edit in!
Thank you for the drama recommendation! I've only started to watch cdramas in the past year and a half and it's a bit of a struggle to find a GOOD series to get absorbed into. Will check out what you're watching!
Great Job Weylie I really enjoy your video I’m currently learning Mandarin too ! This video is reaaaly fun, please make more! 💕
Weylie, as I was listening to you speak Cantonese, it sounded so formal and hearing your explanation at the end made a lot of sense. My parents immigrated here from Hong Kong decades ago and I'm glad that I can still converse with them and remember most of my Cantonese since they speak English at a very limited capacity.
This was very interesting, Weylie! Love hearing different languages. Thank you for sharing 💕💕💕
Hi Weylie, I'm from Singapore and I just want to say that you are a beautiful and kind soul :)
I love to see such videos of you speaking Cantonese and Mandarin! I'm a Cantonese myself but I speak Mandarin with my family. Growing up I used to speak Canto (quite fluently) with my grandma but ever since she's passed on, I've stopped practicing my dialect. Recently I've been picking up again, and by watching your Canto videos always makes me learn so much from you! Thank you and you continue to inspire me. 💟
I love your canto (and mando) videos 🥺 this always helps me practice my canto cause I live alone now and all of my friends here are viet, granted I get to practice my viet, but it’s rare that I get to practice my canto anymore. So yay
Been watching you for years and always appreciate you embracing your Chinese culture! I’m a Mandarin first language speaker and my husband is from Guangdong who speaks Cantonese and KèJiāHuà. My son was born in the US and we are planning to move back to China. Hopefully he can embrace both western and eastern cultures like you did and be able to speak three languages fluently!
I loved this! Please make more of these!
Girlll I always knew your canto game was on point but that mando is on fireeeee!
看得很開心！looking forward to an another episode in chinese already！
Taiwanese here!!! I'm so impressed by your Mandarin and am surprised by your desire to visit Taiwan (for some reason for many who grew up in Western cultures it's always Japan, South Korea, or Hong Kong). Hope you get to visit Taiwan soon!!!
Taiwanese +1. I am living in LA and also practice Taiwanese with my boyfriend. As u said, want to keep traditional culture.
I’m Taiwanese too! Taiwan is so much fun and the food is so good ❤
Amazing job Weylie!!! You did so good! Definitely see a huge improvement in your mandarin. I always say it but I love all your speaking cantonese/chinese vids :)
I love these type of videos where you embrace your different cultures. Please do more if you can.
Love this so much! Yes please do more!
I would love to see more of these videos!! I think your language and culture is so beautiful 💛🙌🏼 thank you for sharing
SUCH A BOSS!!! Your Cantonese has improved like crazy!!! And so blown away by your mandarin 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Omg I’m from Shenzhen!!! So excited when you said you wanted to visit! Always love your video to embrace our culture
thanks for this great video! More of these please! I was born in England but would visit Hong Kong often in the past as still have family there and your Cantonese vocabulary and accent sound great to me and is inspiring me to brush up on my missing vocab and not rely on chinglish.
I love Taiwan too and feel lucky enough to have gone several times before the world shut down and if you are a Taiwanese food foodie for sure you will love it. And you’re inspiring me to get back to learning Mandarin which I have tried on and off over the years but would be great to get to conversational level.
more! we need more of these canto/mando videos!!
I'm Korean but lived in Tianjin for 4 years when I was a kid, and my current partner is also Chinese (from Shen Zhen) so I regularly speak Korean with my parents and have been practicing my Mandarin with my partner and his family :). It's funny because I speak with the Beijing dialect so we often laugh at the added "-er" sounds at the end of words, and my partner and I have even begun teaching each other Korean and Mandarin so we can both practice more! This video was so fun to watch Weylie, and thanks for the chinese drama recs hehe!!
You slayed it in Cantonese & Mandarin! Great job!! I totally agree it’s everyone’s own responsibility to learn about their own culture & language.
love this! love listening to you speak cantonese.
definitely agree that the disconnection with our parents language is huge. i'm filipino but was born in australia. i cannot speak tagalog but i can understand it. i wish i could speak it fluently.
I am also binge watching Royal Feast as I love the 2 main characters from Yanzi Palace. Love these videos where you speak Cantonese.
this was so cute and your hair looks so healthy
I’m Hmong and I found similar words that we use in our language too! Such as the words “easier” and “friend”. There are actually a lot of Hmong people in Guangzhou where your mom was born as well ☺️ I think speaking your native tongue helps you to better connect with your identity. Thank you for sharing your culture with us 💕
Yesss my favorite type of videos!!!
Greetings from Hong Kong! My parents are both from Guangdong, my Dad is from Guangzhou and my mom is from Jiangmen (江門開平). When I was young I used to visit my mom's hometown for many times and tried to learn the dialect 開平話, however not long after my relatives have moved to Mexico and the States, I didn't got the chance to practice and perfect it. What's more interesting is that my grandma from my dad side had moved from GZ to Taiwan decades ago, so my uncle and aunt are actually local Taiwanese and their family speak Taiwanese originally. This is definitely a fascinating history of my family, hopefully I'm able to visit them again after the pandemic.
I honestly would love to see more videos of you speaking in chinese & cantonese 💗
Love this kind of language video and you have done a fab job 好叻女! The written form of Chinese is called 書面語 (find it in articles, books, etc)，which sounds like what you learnt in Chinese school in the States.
For Cantonese (used in Hong Kong and also Guangzhou), we speak in 口語 which is colloquial. For Mandarin, the written form and the spoken form are the same words (or very similar). Also, there are different names for the Chinese characters, Traditional Chinese 繁體中文 is used in Hong Kong and Taiwan； Simplified Chinese 簡體中文 is used in Mainland China, Singapore,etc. I am from HK and I found it confusing to explain to non-Chinese speaking friends but I do love my language :) I speak Cantonese, Mandarin, English, some 潮州話 （a Chinese dialect that my grandparents speak) and a little bit of Japanese ☺️
Excellent video. Love it Cantonese and Mandarin. Love the message you were conveying regarding keeping your language
girl you did amazing! love watching your videos, since 2012.
I love this video so much! I tried so hard to not read the subtitles so I could practice my Chinese 🤣 also I lived in Taiwan for a bit and it holds such a special place in my heart! The people there are the most kind and most accepting people! I have no doubt you’ll love it 🥰
Very inspirational! I have broken Chinese also and I find it motivating to learn and speak more thanks for the post! Keep it coming!
aw Weylie!! thank you so much, I related so much to feeling a sense of responsibility to continue learning about our culture. I especially am so happy you love ancient costume dramas and chinese music! tbh I feel like for chinese folks in the western world, its even more hard, because chinese pop culture is not quite mainstream yet, so I really feel connected to others who watch chinese content
Sis I’m so impressed by your mandarin! I love those kinds videos!
As a Spanish speaker living in Socal, I can relate to your struggles! I agree that it’s worth the effort to keep our mother tongue alive especially to connect with our grandparents!
I love hearing you speak Chinese. It tripped me out because for some reason it made you look different. I can’t really explain haha. But it sounded really cool.
Mad respect because your country is further than mine! 🙈
omgggg when you followed a CZcamsr for a long time and suddenly heard her speaking the language of your own, the feeling is...amazing; it seems like entering into another world. 💓
Hi Weylie! I specially like this type of videos from you. So keep 'em coming!
I'm from the Philippines and I mainly speak Fukien/Hokkien with my family and learned Mandarin in school. But since I've been out of school for a while, I'm slowly losing my Mandarin. I used to watch a lot of Taiwanese idol dramas and talk shows. It certainly helps. But my understanding is better than my speaking. 😅
wow Weylie your mandarin is soo good. It feels good to be able to understand both your Cantonese and Mandarin. Ive just finish Royal Feast too. its so good. Look forward to your next chinese video
wow GREAT JOB speaking both Weylie!!
Well done! I’m really impressed by both languages. Pretty fluent and confident.
I love these videos when you speak cantonese and mandarin :) Mandarin is my second language and I am sometimes not confident when it comes to speaking Chinese when I am back in Asia seeing my distant cousins and family. It makes me think how much I have yet to learn about my parent's background, culture and upbringing.
I hope to take steps into learning more about my parents story and reciprocating with them in their first language (Chinese). They speak different dialects as well, so it's really cool to hear them speak it when they do.
When you speak in mandarin & cantonese, it feels very home-y and very relatable :) i always appreciate when i'm conversing with my friends in english most of the time, and use Chinese phrases to help grasp a better understanding of a certain context. Would love to see more videos like this :)
love this video sm !! im from hk but born in the uk and i always feel the disconnection and responsibility you are talking about. i am learning cantonese mostly from cantonese101 and some textbooks at my university's library but it is SO difficult as well as finding motivation. once i have enough vocab and grammar i will def be watching dramas and listening to more cantopop. its such a good feeling to know that other diasporas feel the same way :)))
Excited to watch later!!
Really love to hear you speaking Mandarin.
You make your parents so proud!!
aw this was such a fun video to watch!! my family is Vietnamese but they lived in an area of Vietnam that had a lot of Chinese people as well so they can speak the Teochew dialect!
Love this as a Cantonese/Taishanese speaking Chinese American! My Mandarin is severely lacking though LOL my mind always goes to Cantonese 🥲
the way u speak Cantonese & Mandarin is sooooo cute and lovely!!
Loved this video Weylie!!
Oh wow!! As your Shanghainese fan who live in Germany now, i must say that this video is soooo super interesting!!! Your Mandarin sounds great and the Cantonese sounds also extremely beautiful.
The last 2 years of what had happened really confused many people like you and me and many others. But I guess time will finally answer all the questions what we are having now.
Thank you for sharing your life,and thank you for being kind to the world still,like always,though the world is so confusing at the moment ….
I love that you said it's our responsibility to keep up with our culture. It absolutely is!!