Beginner Cantonese | The Six Tones
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- In today’s lesson, Brittany introduces the six tones used in Cantonese. Don’t worry if you don’t get them all right at first, learning them takes time! Just keep practicing and stay tuned for the next episode of Cantonese with Brittany!
0:16 - Tone 1
0:24 - Tone 2
0:33 - Tone 3
0:40 - Tone 4
0:49 - Tone 5
0:56 - Tone 6
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*Summary of six tones*
Tone 1: high flat
Tone 2: mid rising
Tone 3: mid flat
Tone 4: low falling
Tone 5: low rising
Tone 6: low flat
If you already know how to say zero through nine in Cantonese, an easier way to remember all nine Cantonese tones is to use this mnemonic: 3-9-4-0-5-2-7(1)-8-6 Try it.
Spanish speakers: yes yes yes yes yes yes
I love this.
It's a nice simple exercise that is also short enough that we can do everyday in the morning before work or chores.
The tones I think, as an English speaker, are the trickiest since one word can have multiple meanings by the tonality.
So this is invaluable.
Thanks 👍👌🙏❤
Wow/哇 your pronunciation of the tones is so clear, and your explanation in Cantonese is so interesting to hear -- yes, I agree, 呢個唔係容易嘅 (this isn't easy)! ~Thank you
Thanks Peter!
1 - Sí 😃
2 - Sí 😠
3 - Sí 😐
4 - Sí 😒
5 - see 👀
6 - see 😒
Jesus Christ... 3 flat tones? I understand that Vietnamese has 6 tones as well but every tone is "different" and here you have 3 tones, and 2 tones that are the same just different pitch... that's smth completely different. Going from Vietnamese to Chinese I'm guessing can be super easy but THIS is smth different :D Interesting
I’m learning Thai and am now taking a trip to HK. I had a similar reaction. 😂😂😂. I also cannot find any good videos for just basic Cantonese for travel. Oh well.
Last year I took 13 Vietnamese lessons because I went on a business trip to Vietnam. I think learning Vietnamese (tones) is impossible if you haven't had Mandarin classes before^^ (I've been learning Mandarin for a few years and it definitely helped.)
But here I am totally overwhelmed. Mandarin's 4 tones are difficult enough.
Good job, keep em coming!
I’m intermediate but still needed to review the tones lol
Really helpful! Thank you! Any plans on putting up a video about classifiers?
Thanks! I’ve actually already made one for my Patrons. Here’s a link if you’re interested:
www.patreon.com/posts/36911015
Great explaination! Thank you.
thank you so much for the video! your tones are so distinguished and clear, wow! for me it's really hard to distinguish between tones 2 and 5 and tones 4 and 6. even my husband who's an ABC struggles with hearing a difference, so I wanted to ask: do you happen to know if that's a common difficulty for ABCs (who's Cantonese maybe isn't that perfect)?
Distinguishing between 2/5 and 4/6 is difficult even for those who speak Cantonese well! In my opinion it’s due to the fact that tones are relative to the pitch you’re speaking at, so a 2 could very well sounds like a 5 without context. You can check out my Patreon preview video where I do tone pairs and this is more obvious.
@@cantobritt thank you so much for your reply! that explanation makes a lot of sense actually, I'll check it out~
0:27 0:54
If I wish to say, I worked hard today, could I use 1:05 Lou5 lik6 to form *"Ngo Gaam Yaat Lou Lik aa"?*
I am studying Mandarin. So these tones make sense to me. But I know when I start to study GuangDong hua in three or so years, once my Mandarin is better, I will have problems discerning 2 and 5.
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What does 'deoi3' mean in the context of "ngo5 deoi3 lei5 jau5 seon3 sam1"? Thanks!
“In regards to” or “towards”
@@cantobritt Thank you!
I have a question: does Cantonese have tone sandhi, like Mandarin does?
1. See...
2. See?
3. See...
4. C.
5. See?
6. C.
This made me laugh 😆 honestly you’re halfway there!
@@cantobritt then love the comment!
@@fortun8diamond 🤔🤔🤔....ok
Hehehe this gives me an idea😅
Comes to learn… feels even more defeated knowing surely people have creaky voices like old people. What happens when you have hearing problem? You just can’t understand basic phrases? Tones so similar to my ear.
It takes a while to get used to but you’ll get there. My CZcams friend James Wong is partially deaf and made a video about learning Chinese with a hearing problem. He’s really good now too!
詩 poetry si1
史 history si2
試 try si3
時 time si4
市 market si5
是 to be si6
Well one very gud looking guy was saying just to copy what others are speaking..
I thought si2 meant "Shit" 🤣🤣🤣
It’s not easy 😬😬
low key thought si2 was poop lol
It can be
Six tones. I thought it was 9 tones
If you’re a beginner, I’d say stick to six. The main two romanization systems (Jyutping and Yale) use only six, and it’s way more manageable when starting out.
My personal option...tone 3,5,6 are unnecessary in Cantonese.
Tones dude! Not numbers!
??? tones are represented by numbers
Wtf
I'm vietnamese and tones 2 and 5 sound virtually the same, equivalent to the vietnamese nặng tone. I repeated listened back and forth and they sounded the same or inconsistent. If you hook it up to a pitch meter the difference would be like half or a quarter of a semitone maybe. Might just be the context
2 and 5 are both rising, which is probably what's throwing you off. The difference is that 2 is higher and 5 is lower.
they both dip down slightly before rising, hence they're equivalent to the questioning tone (dấu hỏi) and the heavy tone (dấu nạng) respectively.
The tricky tones are 1, 3, 4, 6 which can sometimes sound rising/falling, or just constant.
I think it's better to just use this as a guide and rely on repeated experience
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