About the Cantonese language

I'm Cantonese…It'a awesome to watch western people introduce our language

thanks for sharing a video about Cantonese😭We really need more and more people know this language😭

As a native Cantonese speaker from Hong Kong, I was so excited when I saw the video in my recommendations! Great pronunciation! There are some flaws overall but Cantonese is not the easiest language to pronounce overall xD 2:20 The Pinyin translation of 廣州 should be Guangzhou, without the h in the middle. 7:43 The place should be pronounced Shang-hai. 11:41 The vowel (at least in Guangzhou-Hong Kong Cantonese, unsure about other Cantonese) should be [ɵ], as represented on the chart in 11:27. 13:43 The character 嗰 is pronounced as go2, 個 is pronounced as go3. 18:42 The Jyutping transcription of 食 shoud be sik6. In Yale transliteration (seems to be used in the Ling app, but with number-marking tones), it is sihk/sihk6.

Cantonese translation was finally added to Google Translate on 6/27/24. (7 days after this video was posted.) The previous claim from Google on why Cantonese was not enlisted was due to it not being a popular language. My Buff! Even a language with just a thousand people who could speak it was enlisted on Google Translate - but not Cantonese. It was so messed up. Even Stanford University was trying to cancel Cantonese courses, claiming it was due to budget cut.

I am a Hongkonger. Thank you very much for your awesome introduction of my interesting mother tongue - Cantonese ❤❤❤

The best Cantonese video i've seen so far, and thank you for using Chinese "languages" this word ! 😊 I am always proud of being a native Cantonese speaker! :)

Very interesting. When I was a child in the seventies most of the Chinese I heard spoken in California was Cantonese, but today more often its Mandarin. To my ears Cantonese sounds like a cross between Mandarin and Vietnamese.

I lol’d at “Jackie Chan, the…Jackie Chan.” 😂

17:50 晒 here is a verb aspect marker meaning "all", not "understand", so 睇晒 means "read all/everything"

Hi, I speak Cantonese! Thanks for covering our language!

I followed Julie channel since the start of Covid period and I always amazed with her capability to understand and explain so many different language. I am from HK and native speaker of cantonese and I must say this video covered a lot of knowledge about this amazing language. In fact, even within Guangdong we can more or less tell which part of that person belong to when we hear their way of using cantonese. In particular, HK people can tell the different from Guangzhou people. Although Guangzhou speak a more original cantonese, the HK cantonese, as the video rightly pointed out, have a strong (wouldn’t say stronger but very strong) representation to the language thanks to the movie and TV influence to mainland china and the world. Great job Julie pls keep it up~

Julie, your channel is hands down one of my favorites on YouTube. Thank you for what you do! From Switzerland!

Incredible research into a very convoluted subject. You did an amazing job of streamlining your presentation. Thanks, Ronn

"Enough of me butchering Cantonese." 😂 Highly relatable. I had the same sentiment during my failed attempt to self-learn spoken Mandarin back in my 20s.

0:46 Cantonese is mainly spoken in the western part of Guangdong. The eastern part of Guangdong, speak Hakka and Min languages. Also don't forget that the eastern part of Guangxi (the province west of Guangdong) also speaks Cantonese. 9:57 colloquial Cantonese writing is also sometimes used on advertisements, election banners and also in witness statements, because you'd want to record the exact wording.

Very exceptional as always ! Impeccable pronunciation and format. Pleasant to watch !💕🌸🦋🌸🧚🏾‍♀️

好詳細嘅介紹👍🏼多謝你

The research you do, amazing.

多謝你，講得非常好。

Excellent, as always!