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

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Komentáře • 87

  • @OkThisllbeMyName
    @OkThisllbeMyName Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +2

      That’s what we called Chinglish 😆

    • @manga626
      @manga626 Před 3 lety +1

      And with good pronunciation too.

    • @SkiizmBeatz
      @SkiizmBeatz Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety

      @@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 Před 2 lety +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 Před 3 lety +25

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

    • @SamTheMan12
      @SamTheMan12 Před 2 lety +6

      Its called bo kek which literally means boil drama

  • @heathersaxton8118
    @heathersaxton8118 Před 3 lety +15

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

  • @huongnguyenngocminh3442
    @huongnguyenngocminh3442 Před 3 lety +12

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

  • @stevenpam
    @stevenpam Před 3 lety +42

    Easy German really *is* easy after all!

    • @ofgodzeus
      @ofgodzeus Před 3 lety +1

      IKR lmao

    • @ru.hend_
      @ru.hend_ Před 3 lety +2

      indonesian is easyest language in the world

    • @samirzepeda4028
      @samirzepeda4028 Před 3 lety

      @@ru.hend_ Why?

    • @coniston3106
      @coniston3106 Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @ru.hend_
      @ru.hend_ Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @wanderleyalves7136
    @wanderleyalves7136 Před 3 lety +20

    It's really, really difficult. 👍🏾👍

  • @TheSwan116
    @TheSwan116 Před 3 lety +5

    Thank you for making this video 😊

  • @learnindonesianwithchandra3637

    Thanks for the video

  • @dimatakdol
    @dimatakdol Před 3 lety +1

    More videos please

  • @JS-rm2ws
    @JS-rm2ws Před 29 dny

    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 Před 26 dny

      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 CZcams :)

  • @amybeauty4171
    @amybeauty4171 Před 3 lety

    Congrats

  • @SunaAoimori
    @SunaAoimori Před rokem

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

  • @sambsstt
    @sambsstt Před 3 lety +24

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

    • @jennifer8305
      @jennifer8305 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +2

      @Luu Siblings We do have them.

    • @jennifer8305
      @jennifer8305 Před 3 lety +1

      @Luu Siblings welcome 😌

    • @Mmmtruk
      @Mmmtruk Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @Xenon1rth
      @Xenon1rth Před 3 lety +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

  • @Yviee5413
    @Yviee5413 Před 3 lety +19

    原來有廣東話~

  • @OkThisllbeMyName
    @OkThisllbeMyName Před 3 lety +6

    about damn time

  • @brilliant888
    @brilliant888 Před 3 lety +1

    幾時拍架

  • @mautthew
    @mautthew Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +3

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

    • @SamTheMan12
      @SamTheMan12 Před 2 lety +5

      It can be pronounced either way

  • @ofgodzeus
    @ofgodzeus Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +7

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

    • @ofgodzeus
      @ofgodzeus Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +4

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

    • @SamTheMan12
      @SamTheMan12 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Zoombieknr1 cantonese has 9 tones

    • @ahmads5722
      @ahmads5722 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @marcohui9483
    @marcohui9483 Před 3 lety +14

    你地使唔使人幫手? Easy Cantonese

    • @easycantonese
      @easycantonese Před 2 lety

      歡迎撳入我profile簡介用電郵聯絡我地傾下計~!

  • @ezequielalzugaray3236
    @ezequielalzugaray3236 Před 3 lety +10

    0:47 beautifull♥

  • @SomeOne-wl6wp
    @SomeOne-wl6wp Před 3 lety

    What does these numbers mean ,after the chinese words ?

  • @sevvalv.5180
    @sevvalv.5180 Před 3 lety +4

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

    • @westwoods7675
      @westwoods7675 Před 3 lety +6

      It indicates the tone of each word.

    • @sevvalv.5180
      @sevvalv.5180 Před 3 lety

      @@westwoods7675 aaa, thank you so much

    • @gaylord3592
      @gaylord3592 Před 3 lety

      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 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @tgy_au7464
    @tgy_au7464 Před 3 lety +4

    想問有冇比較粵語嘅方式嚟講Iike同subscribe呀?

    • @edwardvictorau
      @edwardvictorau Před 3 lety +6

      Like: 讚好
      Subscribe: 訂閱

    • @tgy_au7464
      @tgy_au7464 Před 3 lety +1

      @@edwardvictorau 唔該晒!

    • @mrtsiqsin2290
      @mrtsiqsin2290 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @RonaldMcPaul
    @RonaldMcPaul Před 3 lety +3

    粵語字幕吧

  • @usctrojan349
    @usctrojan349 Před 2 lety +1

    Is this in Wan Chai? 😂

  • @Mmmtruk
    @Mmmtruk Před 3 lety +3

    do people not use reusable masks?

    • @SamTheMan12
      @SamTheMan12 Před 2 lety +1

      because they think its inpracticle, not safe, and expensive

  • @2004Janwong
    @2004Janwong Před 3 lety +11

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

  • @ksw6513
    @ksw6513 Před 10 měsíci

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

  • @nelic2111
    @nelic2111 Před 3 lety +36

    Free Hong Kong!

    • @joaoweimar8087
      @joaoweimar8087 Před 3 lety +4

      Hong Kong is China

    • @wtade
      @wtade Před 3 lety +15

      @@joaoweimar8087 no it's not

    • @joaoweimar8087
      @joaoweimar8087 Před 3 lety +2

      vcchlw you wish

    • @mrtsiqsin2290
      @mrtsiqsin2290 Před 3 lety +8

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

    • @jywn
      @jywn Před 3 lety +1

      ✋☝️

  • @user-cris.H
    @user-cris.H Před 3 lety

  • @jasonreviews
    @jasonreviews Před 2 lety

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

  • @wintersongs1
    @wintersongs1 Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @frauic
      @frauic Před 3 lety +12

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

    • @jywn
      @jywn Před 3 lety +4

      google:hong kong sars apartment 2003

  • @user-wt8qw3cz6w
    @user-wt8qw3cz6w Před 3 lety +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