Can a Cantonese Speaker Understand Hakka Chinese? (ft.

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[@inmimisbowl]

it was so much fun and you did really well, even though you're not sure how you're able to understand it xD thanks for inviting me and I'm def up for another collab with Jade as well :)

[@xolang]

İ love it! Btw, the distinction between him and her in the written language is something relatively recent in Mandarin. Originally there's no difference between 他 and 她 . But Chinese intellectuals looked up to the Occident and decided that Chinese should also have the distinction in the written language. Anyway, my point is it's no wonder that him & her have the same form in other Chinese languages, because the gender distinction is a recent phenomenon.

[@theraconteurproductions5847]

I speak 3 languages UK English, Cantonese and the ancient Chinese royal language Hak-Ka. I understand all they say in this video, very well explained.

[@sho9214]

Nice video I am a Moi Yan Hakka (Meixian hakka) which is considered a standard Hakka Our vocabulary has some similarities with mandarin. I think this really shows Hakka are really originated from central China in the past

[@camtrinh7354]

its great listerning to Hakka and Contonese different sound like birds singing .LOVE CHINA ..

[@chongkahhing6706]

Appreciated that fellow young people create these kind of traditional language video on yuotube, keep it up 🙏❤️

[@davidwong4821]

I love hearing Hakka people speak because I can understand most of what they say, I can speak Hong Kong Hakka and could understand Mimi, I can only understand very basic Cantonese even though my family is from Hong Kong but I was born in uk.

[@belikestephanie]

Hakka sounds like how my uncle speaks Taishanese lol. As a Taishanese/Cantonese speaker I’m surprised I understood a lot more Hakka words

[@Cheryl.C]

Very similar to Malaysian Hakka 😊

[@colinly3433]

Yooo best collab ever!! I watch and understand both of you guys! My popo is Hakka and the rest of the grandparents are Cantonese!

[@sobatmakan6574]

im an Indonesian hakka, her hakka is quite similar to the one spoken here

[@liongkienfai104]

Dari mana ko?

[@bennettbullock9690]

Chinese say that Hakka is one of the hardest dialects to learn, even Chinese say so. This, btw, is how I learned what little I know of Cantonese. Old people whose Mandarin wasn't all there, talking very slowly to me with lots of gestures until I figured it out. God bless the aunties and old uncles of China for helping me learn.

[@burongkakak]

You haven't heard hock chew that's the hardest language among southern language

[@qrsx66]

@@burongkakak I thought Wenzhou was the worst.

[@burongkakak]

@@qrsx66 just googled it, Wenzhou is quite hard too LOL

[@liongkienfai104]

If I'm not mistaken, the Hakka/Yue/Min variants spoken in Maoming (western Guangdong) all also exhibit those weird hl sounds. It's not really as simple as Hakka is like this, Yue is like that, etc. There's a lot of variation within these languages families that are sometimes more similar with other language families than amongst themselves.

[@user-px2jn7wq3f]

Malaysian Hakka sound like this

[@egee1010]

Omg the describing earth was 🤯. First few I can understand a little. This was hard

[@dynamo116]

This video was very sweet and touched me on a personal level. My mother grew up speaking Hakka and my dad grew up in Dong Guan (as mentioned by Mimi at 0:41) but we only spoke Cantonese at home. When my mom and the other yee yees (aunties) didn't want the children knowing what was going on or they needed to talk about adult stuff they'd switch to Hakka, especially when they were speaking to my grandparents. It wasn't spoken enough for me and my cousins to pick it up but it was definitely an "alien" language to us but I did recognize a lot of the words and even understood some like you did just by the Cantonese association. I showed my mom your video and asked if she could understand this Hakka (in the past I had shown her another video that said it was 'Hakka' and she couldn't understand a word but I didn't know at the time there were different variants of Hakka) and she gave a kind of devilish smile/laugh like "😏🤭 of course". Thank you Brittany and Mimi! :D

[@evanlee-ferrand7312]

I love these! Ever thought of doing Hmong? Korean? Korean uses sooooo many similarities

[@cantobritt]

Interesting idea 🧐

[@jayf4612]

Fun video! Thank you for this. I agreewith Mimi. First time I heard Hakka being spoken I heard a lot of similarities between it and Taishanese, especially the way my Kaipingese grandmother spoke Taishanhua. The inflection and certain tones are so similar.

[@ochinski3568]

Love this so much!!! People coming together and sharing languages!!! Keep the languages alive!!! Keep up the great work!!! #HakkaPride

[@bklynkingsnyc]

This is awesome!! I’m hakka straight out of Brooklyn (parents from tai po)!! Mimi speaks the exact same hakka I do!! This cracks me up!

[@YorgosL1]

Cantonese is definitely sound closer to hakka and taishanese than mandarin. These are southern variant so they shared the same vocabulary which is easy to make it out what they said most of the time

[@longboarderanonymous5718]

Awesome. I know Cantonese and is part Hakka. It's actually very hard to understand Mimi. Brittany is really good at this game. Mimi reminds me of my sister. Haha! Now I wonder which version of Hakka they use in my great grandmother's village in North Vietnam.

[@thatvietguyonline]

Interesting, do you know where in VN in specific? Like what place, which province, what tribe and what year did they live there? Cuz i have never heard there’s Hakka people in the north of vietnam before besides Yunan province in China.

[@Dama69dk]

​@@thatvietguyonlinemany chinese migrant exist there in north Vn before the sino viet war in 1980.

[@Dama69dk]

​@@thatvietguyonlinehakka is pretty underated. Many chinese migrants are of hakka.

[@thatvietguyonline]

@@Dama69dk yeah i know about the Hakka in the South cuz my dad family is also Hokkien immigrants in Saigon but haven’t heard about them in North.

[@Dama69dk]

@@thatvietguyonline there are many in the north. But are probably not permanent residence.

[@burongkakak]

Wow, her Hakka sounds like what we speak in Sabah ❤❤

[@sengseng6952]

Can't imagine that Suriname is still hakka speaker there. Hope able to visit there one day!

[@lotusfxiry2119]

As a Cantonese person who has parents who can speak Hakka I’ve pretty much group up hearing Hakka so I can understand most Hakka and cantonese and sometimes I can hear more hakka

[@DucaTech]

You need a person who can speak mandarin, cantonese, hakka, hokkien, teochew together and compare the difference. That will be interesting. Also a bonus, bring in a Korean & Japanese speaker. I bet there's a lot of similarities between non-sinitic languages and sinitic languages.

[@sorry_la]

捱係广东客家人，学紧粤语，and i feel this video quite interesting !

[@deanlittle9705]

OMG you really found Mimi! The collab we all needed! ❤

[@umbransisters]

what a fun collab!!!! hakka sounds so nice

[@BWTF_Ben]

Great video! Appreciated the ramp up. I got the first two and then only bits of the third. Fascinating stuff!

[@ronnieip3407]

Great fun video. I was brought up by my Hakka gran in Hong Kong until I was 3 years old and from 5-6 years old. I understand some of what you say. Unfortunately, I can't speak it much at all.

[@siewwanlinda]

Just landed on this, love it.

[@tzchen4526]

LOLOL this was such an entertaining video XD learned some new canto and Hakka words 🥰thank you both!! 💛💛💛

[@samuelcoates3339]

Liked this video! I played along 😁🇭🇰

[@tymanung6382]

The lh-- or hl-- sound in Sei Yap 6 sibdialects, including Toisan, is also used in Welsh, ll--- or --ll-- , in W Europe, + Zulu in S Africa, + ?? in Mizambique., both in Southern Africa.

[@mirae9163]

I watched both your Toishanese and Hakka comparing videos. As a native Cantonese speak, I could understand 70~80% of Toishanese and 40~50%of the Hakka. I'm learning Hokkien now, it's so different from these 3 languages. But Hokkien also has some words sound the same as Cantonese, like "講". Thank you so much for making these videos, I was always curious about how different/similar they are.

[@cantobritt]

Thanks for sharing!

[@jd4925]

Thanks Brittany for this great video. Any chance of doing a video like this with someone who speaks Enping? That's an area of south west Guangdong. There are many people from this area that live in Costa Rica and Venezuela. Thanks

[@karencph9251]

Good to know youngsters taking initiative to learn Hakka..

[@XzyStorm]

As someone who understand Taishanese, I did far worse than you, Brittany. I am surprised at how much Hakka I did pick up, but it's probably a tad less than my Mandarin abilities. It probably helped that Mimi spoke slower than what I normally hear from the grannies down the street where it's barely comprehensible to me.

[@eb.3764]

do a video with your dad with him speaking Teochew to you!!!

[@silverhawk911]

This video is really interesting. My mum speaks meiyan hakka, so I learnt to speak alittle from her, spoke hakka with my maternal grandmother when she was still around (not anymore). Really enjoyed it alot ! It was fun, being able to converse with my grandparent ! Will never forget this. So, I could more or less understand alittle of what you said, plus I can speak some cantonese too which also helps. Now even my wife is a hakka but unfortunately, I can't understand her version of hakka that much as her hakka is from a different part of China. Never knew there are so many variations of hakka.

[@doggy5]

You should look for someone who speaks Taiwanese Hakka. In that instance, there will probably be a stronger Hokkien influence.

[@13Voorheespt2]

make that Jade vid happen

[@hahahihi6123]

Hakka from different countries, regions are a little bit different but understable

[@hawkins55]

Super fascinating & super fun!! I grew up speaking Cantonese and had many Hakka neighbors when I was young. But I didn't understand them at all when they spoke. I am shock I understand a lot of what the guest's Hakka now decades later. Don't know what has changed. Perhaps having heard other Chinese dialects and other languages helps. I have had Malaysian, Vietnamese, Greek & Indian friends & roommates. I heard them speak their mother tongues a lot. I also heard them speak English with their respective accents. I also now speak mandarin & have been exposed to Hokkien a little. Living in the states I have been exposed to Louisiana accent (believe me some people had such thick accent I couldn't understand them at all when i first moved there), Texas accent & midwest accent while hearing mostly British accent when young, I have been made more aware of differences and similarities among languages and dialects. May be all that helps.

[@martango365]

When’s the teochew vid coming out

[@cantobritt]

Stay tuned 😉

[@Mmmtruk]

me as a canto person laughing along

[@juno3254]

My guesses as a native Cantonese speaker: 1)我鐘意食蝦餃？ XD 2) 你識唔識講客家話 (你曉唔曉得講客家話) 3）佢最鐘意咩顏色？係紅色 4) (喺條橋隨喺樖樹下便耍木) 5）有隻貓好仲意追老鼠、雀仔(鳥仔)同埋雀仔

[@ChihHaoChung]

good

[@gabrielc888]

Is sounds like Cantonese + Mandarin but with Jamacian personality in the tones.. (side note there are a lot of hakka ppl in Jamacia)

[@Feudorkannabro]

You pronounced the word "Hakka" correctly. I've seen some people saying pronouncing it as "Hecka"

[@yongkiChen]

my mother language Hakka hua 😮❤

[@33hunting]

Hakka sounds like a mix of Cantonese & Mandarin.

[@thepolyglotzone]

Agree.

[@kennethng1574]

Yes, indeed.

[@habibcicero3833]

eh not really sounds like a mix of hokkien and cantonese, atleast this lady’s hakka dialect sounds more similar to toisanese really

[@kaml1369]

Nope, some words MAY sound the same in all the Chinese dialect. However, if you’re able to understand both Mandarin and Cantonese, that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be able to understand Hakka. What you’re understanding are words that are pronounced the same, like water. Word like ‘gold’ is pronounced entirely different in all three dialects.

[@angrybutters]

Dang! My Hakka is from a different region. Going to locate my region of hakka, I'm curious now to know since my family never talks about our history which is a shame.

[@loop3357]

Well, if you can't find out, you just have to know all the Hakkas are from the central area of China and it's the most pure-blooded Han ethnicity.

[@JackJack-no8oz]

Wow Hakka parents from Dongguan and guangdong

[@copycatkaraoke]

1:46 曉唔曉 not 會不會。We say the same thing in Cantonese.

[@sho9214]

Pls make video with Hakka Taishanese Hokkian and Teochew ❤

[@cantobritt]

I’ve actually done a few videos on Taishanese as well!

[@louliuwei1157]

Cantonese and Hakka so Similar

[@YorgosL1]

Yes it is

[@user-xs4rz6vp6w]

how ever as a mandarin speaker , i understand most of this form of hakka, maybe because i can fully understand another regional language.

[@to_cya_]

I am 4th generation oversea Hakka, but our family don’t speak Hakka for 3 generations now. If I interest to learn Hakka, should I begin with Mandarin or Cantonese?

[@tobiramasenju3684]

Learn mandarin wont help in hakka dialect. So far as i know malaysian cantonese speaker can understand this video. Support hk support cantonese. 榮歸香港

[@dloui5214]

ngai he hakka ngin , hak ngin hak si ngin !

[@jonathanl3941]

Knew it they all have tons more mandarin in them

[@calhun4481]

I wonder what group of Chinese migrate to Vietnam in the 19 centuries Hakka or Punti?

[@tangeoklian9513]

Good hakka me too well done cutes girls GL

[@Jumpoable]

You're not bad at Hakka, you're just incredibly bad at Charades...

[@cantobritt]

LOL dang...💔

[@MrTweetyhack]

wow hakka so hard

[@Truthh753]

im chinese timorese im speak hakka

[@scotthughes7440]

Being Hakka descended one feels like a culture within another culture. I tell Chinese people my family is hAKKA and they look at me like I'm crazy

[@jamestse492]

The Hakka spoken is a bit hard as Hakka is like very soft the pronunciation are hard

[@kawings]

I can very well understood Hakka and Cantonese very well. For me Hakka is a twisted sounding from Cantonese yet the word arrangement is very near to mandarin. But now days Hakka is no more widely spoken by the Chinese decent from Malaysia as the Mandarin becomes the dominant language for everyday use. Spoken Hakka in other people's ears seems not classy enough where only small town and village would speak it. Not only for Hakka suffers from this changes even Cantonese and Hokkien plus small Chinese dialect group suffers from Mandarin onslaught too.

[@Jkl62200]

Different from Meixian Hakka. For example, it would be Hak Fah and not Hakka wah

[@pikucrystal]

i am hakka, but her hakka is so different 😅

[@tahfookong6084]

I don’t speak Hakka much but you speak with mandarin. Or sound like mandarin.

[@rl7308]

Suriname Hakka, sounds different from Meizhou and indian-subcontinent Hakka

[@jessyscooking8584]

To me Sounds like a Mature of Chinese hokkien reichend...so Ronald language

[@yuanchong8560]

原来系东莞凤岗客家妹👍

[@fishtse7443]

1:44 你"曉"講客家話?...

[@joecia8]

It sounds like hokkien

[@JV-ge8bm]

I think I could understand a little more than the Taishanese video but did way worse than you 😂

[@kim19gaming71]

Hou…

[@Demonte202]

I like her brown skin

[@Hawddawg]

What kind of hakka is this lmao

[@kendalls5851]

I am glad everyone speaks Mandarin. This seems hard to learn all these dialects.

[@JL-oi8di]

not really. I can easily understand mandarin, cantonese, toishanese and some of hakka. if you always hear people speak dialects you can master them naturally.

[@jeremiahlee6335]

it is different dialects not languages

[@wilsf1667]

Hakka and Cantonese are dialect not language.

[@Adam10.]

They are languages, ignorant

[@YorgosL1]

Both languages

[@garthman420]

'soi ek' (洗浴) actually means 'to bathe/shower' and not 'to sleep' in teochew... 😅 the word for 'to sleep' is more commonly 'uk' or 'iⁿ' (夗)

[@cantobritt]

HAH I GOT FOUND OUT 😭🙈 (my dad also told me after the fact…lol!)

[@sho9214]

@@cantobritt I think Teochew and Hakka are not mutually intelligible at all lol