Can I Sing in Cantonese? LEARNING CANTONESE WITH MUSIC

[@Plong_Poon]

As a HongKonger, I think your Cantonese pronunciation is really great✨ If you would like to catch up with Hong Kong trends, you can check out a Hong Kong boy group called “MIRROR”🤣 It is the most popular group in Hong Kong currently and their songs are awesome

[@pom3912]

Agreed. They are awesome🔥🇭🇰💪 As well as other talented singers such as 林家謙，Jace Chan，Serrini, Mirror. Also 張國榮 which is popular in the 80s.

[@rayliuhkyoutube]

Really? Mirror? and Error?

[@siubooooo]

@@rayliuhkyoutube if you don't know ... just google search 'MIRROR Viu TV' and 'ERROR Viu TV' don't make fun of this....

[@rayliuhkyoutube]

@@siubooooo I know both bands are from VIU TV. It's was a joke, not big deal.

[@jasminestallone5969]

@@siubooooo its a joke lol learn to take one

[@emilywong1231]

As a Hong Kong people, I'm so happy to see a foreigner learning Cantonese as most foreigners learn Mandarin instead.

[@daze4907]

Yoo love fama! They aren’t too popular yeah, but actually the members are very famous show hosts now. They have the funky personalites for it!

[@TropWoop]

I'm a hong konger and I think your cantonese is very very good!

[@pom3912]

Mirror is a new Hong Kong based boy group. You can definitely learn cantonese from there. Add Oil!!!🇭🇰🔥

[@ericlichunyin]

may find it a bit difficult to learn Cantonese by listening to Mirror's dance song... may try listening to Terrence Lam's 一人之境，C All Star's 留下來的人, its "Tenet" mv is awesome!!

[@sunnychan1987]

You will learn some rare words in the song “IGNITED” from Mirror. Appreciate your effort, add oil! 💪🏼

[@henryl3734]

Yasssssssds

[@idrisatardis5553]

Keung To too ☺️☺️☺️

[@someone-bq5rt]

Jerrr😍

[@fahjie]

Being a native Hongkonger, I must say your Cantonese is great. Thanks for making great effort in learning my mother tongue and now even introducing Cantopop here. Like others who left comments here, I would recommend Serrini, Terence Lam 林家謙，MIRROR, Eman Lam 林二汶，Hins Cheung 張敬軒 and Alfred Hui 許廷鏗 to you. MIRROR is a very popular boy band of 12 talented young guys. You’ll love them.

[@HongKongeseAmerican]

As a native speaker, your pronunciation is amazing!

[@gorillaccc1585]

Sending love from Hong Kong ! Stand with Hong Kong 🇭🇰!!

[@annalogue3491]

A lot of My Little Airport's songs are in spoken Canto too, idk what genre you like most but this band is indie rock :)

[@Guresu]

Thank you for sharing, I’ll check them out!

[@kevinchan6125]

@@Guresu kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWHKdJeEittpjNE it's actually said "the song of Sisyphus". The lyrics are very funny.

[@shingh7337]

Hi Grace! Great to find your channel about Cantonese! My favorite My Little Airport song is 「今晚講嘢夜唔夜」”is it going to be late after the call”. Even pronouncing it is fun already :D Like you said Cantonese is tonal so it is more difficult to write lyrics that fit. This one has really cool word-play and I love the dynamic between the guy and the girl. Hope you enjoy. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3WteJ-Ahqiefsk

[@pom3912]

Some new and young talented singers I recommend are 林家謙(Terence Lam), 陳凱詠(Jace Chan), Mirror, Zpecial, Serrini 💪🔥

[@jenchan9304]

I think she will like Serrini!

[@MrPatrick7777]

I just found your channel. You are clearly very intelligent, talented, and passionate about languages and life. The RZA and Rhiannon Giddens should be producing your work!!! This maybe like a Cantonese sing battle with guests who learn spoken Cantonese. Give yourself some credit. That was good singing. Very happy.

[@hiukwantang1802]

Hi Grace, I really like you, I really like the way you are, you speak Cantonese like a native, I will always be your side, go for it, you sing just like Eason Chan, impressive, really, dear Grace, you are truly impressive

[@raindrop825]

You have to listen to Hacken Lee's songs. Do a quick search and I am sure you will be impressed by his voice. He is also a talented lyricist. Beautiful music I'd like to share with you.

[@peterchan217]

I nearly cried when I listened to your K歌之王. You made my day Guresu, Thank you,

[@Indefiiniteoli]

I love "My little Airport"! Especially 佢哋隻大碟叫“介乎法國與旺角的時意”。And this morning I listened to something totally unexpected! Like, a cantonese grime/drill track (黑色布甸) from these guys called the "Low Mays" spoofing the British lifestyle 😂

[@annalogue3491]

yess MLA!

[@OtomoTenzi]

Hey, Grace... Can you tell us who some of your favorite British pop singers are?

[@harrietst6114]

Hello Grace，你有無聽過張敬軒呀？最近我再次聽返以前嘅廣東歌，陳奕迅真係2000s香港樂壇代表，佢以前把聲真係好好聽，低音高音都好動人~ 張敬軒都係另一位幾有代表性嘅歌手，佢嘅唱腔清晰，帶有一種獨特嘅美感；佢同陳奕迅一樣，都係演唱會live比錄音更加好聽，部份演唱會版本KZbin影片設有字幕，如果有興趣你都可以去聽下，或者挑戰一下唱歌呀😍

[@climbforpaper8654]

佢好似识听唔识读 ：）

[@LawrenceChung]

if Grace declares that she can't understand this comment, I will happily translate it for her 😇

[@elfism]

Don't think she knows how to read unfortunately....

[@yanjaiiv3v]

Hello Grace, or have you heard about Hins Cheung? I'm going to pick up again the Cantonese old songs recently. Eason Chan is a good singer which can be the signal of Hong Kong music culture. His voice is really wonderful while listen to his treble and bass which is intoxicated. And Hins Cheung is such another popular singer as his clear stylish voice. I think it’s fucking great when listen to their lives than the CDs hahaa. You can find about their performance in KZbin if interested! I remember that some videos have been set up the subtitles which can help you to learn more maybe, I think. Alright, how about challenge singing songs? I guess it’s quite wonderful too. 🥰

[@ANDREAAYLLON]

I am not learning Cantonese (maybe after I get better in Mandarin). But seeing you smile and sing really reminds me of how I do that for Korean. 😂☺️

[@leechoonpeng1123]

Cantonese sounds better than mandarin and the history of cantonese is more longer than mandarin, if you master mandarin, learning cantonese will be easier!😕💖

[@ANDREAAYLLON]

@@leechoonpeng1123 ooo interesting! 😊 Thank u for the info! ❤️

[@ParksonLau]

Your accent is just fking legit and authenitc, keep up the good work. 好撚犀利LOL

[@JJ5036]

you should find the 林夕's songs. he wrote many songs for eason chan. And his songs' lyric are really meaningful.

[@chorlauheung4920]

Hello Grace! Your Cantonese is very good! I applaud you. Here are a few CantoPop singers and their hit songs from the 80's and 90's. Well worth listening to! Many were used as themesongs to films and television dramas. I recommend the following for learning Cantonese through songs: Alan Tam 一生中最爱 Eason Chan 歲月如歌 Beyond 海闊天空 Paula Tsui 流下眼淚前 Faye Wong 容易受傷的女人 George Lam 敢愛敢做 Andy Lau 情義兩心堅 Alan Tam 霧之戀 Cass Phang 完全因你 Sammi Cheng 終身美麗 George Lam 最愛 Priscilla Chan 千千闕歌 Leslie Cheung 當年情 Hacken Lee 紅日 Danny Chan 一生何求 Sammi Cheng 放不低 Sammi Cheng 醫生與我

[@Guresu]

Thank you for sharing!

[@chorlauheung4920]

Here's another from George Lam. 分分鐘需要你 You will just have to look these songs up by artist, since they may not have English titles. But, I think that you will enjoy the songs that I recommended. The lyrics to these songs are also very meaningful.

[@YeungGor16]

These definitely are great songs worth listening to, especially those of Alan Tam's. The very first one on the list is a must. It is very well-known. Here's a link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZysanikaNSFjJY

[@YeungGor16]

Here's a link for the other of Alan Tam's songs on the list. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXKzmItugduKfdU And, of course, Eason's hit song from TVB's "Triumph In the Skies." kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zn7Tc6mAeZ2if7c

[@pekopoko1199]

Hi Grace, I recommend: Mirror (and the songs from individual members) C all stars (and the songs from individual members) 張敬軒 Dear Jane For females, I'm stuck with the olden days. Faye Wong

[@he1smileLism]

Hello Grace, thank you so much for promoting Cantonese! Your pronunciation is REALLY great and you sing pretty well! You could also listen to Terence Lam, Serrini, and Mirror, think you will like their musics as well 🙌🏻

[@chiuchiuwan5848]

Hi Grace! Any suggestions for English lyrics for these Cantonese songs? Thanks a million!

[@olympicexpress848]

keep up the good work! your canto is better than my daughter who is raised in Hong Kong but studying in international school.

[@cla4245]

我推薦 serrini , per se, Matt force I would recommend Serrini, per se and Matt force to those who are interested in Hongkong music.

[@nic9821]

Omg!!! Your Cantonese is really good !!!! Thank you for promoting the endangered Cantonese !!

[@carolinelaw3533]

hello! highly recommend Serrini, she is a gorgeous singer with great sense of humor

[@henrysouth645]

hello Guresu ! Proud of you saying Cantonese, Cantonese never dies ! from Hker

[@donlam922]

What a good choice you made. Fama they represent the 2010s cantopop. My friend always kept singing Fama's songs when we were in high school. Their songs are telling stories about teenagers' and young adults' struggles. I hope you listen to Mirror and Keung To, who represent the 2020s cantopop. They have released several new songs!

[@sukikwan2000]

Maybe you should try Serrini as her lyrics is closer to spoken Cantonese

[@sincecilove]

Wow you really have passion for language and your smile makes my day. Not sure if you know the political situation in hk but real hk singers are having a hard time due to their political stand. Please check 何韻詩、黃耀明、莊正。Also 林家謙、方皓玟、Rubberband ... they create songs that speak our heart out. Meanwhile, some singers like Eason and Joey have already sold their soul to RMB （Eason supports xinjiang cotton）

[@addisoncwt]

Regardless of which singers you like, the facts that you learn Cantonese and that you know the features of Cantonese lyrics are really impressive. Thanks so much for your interest in Cantonese while our culture is being gradully destroyed.

[@TheHappyPantry]

♥️ from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 The high pitch ‘angelic voice’ in Cantonese is called “海豚音” ~ (dolphin tune)

[@LiuHeiYing]

YESSS SAM HUI LOVE HIM! 😍 But I'm an 80's kid so grew up listening to his music. I can see why its not your cuppa tea, as its more the old school generation lol! Love watching your vids, you're spot on with your canto well done 👌

[@leechoonpeng1123]

I agree with you, I like Sam hui songs, he is the father of cantopop, his songs are very meaningful and he compose good melodies, without him, cantopop will not be so popular during 70s and 80s😃💗

[@felix6905]

There is a very famous singing group in Hong Kong called Twins, and their music is very nice.

[@xinlicodega3558]

You are amazing!! There’s a lot of Cantonese words I can’t even speak properly.

[@jeanniennie]

Hello! Mirror is a band in Hong kong! Try to listen their songs, such as Warrior, Ignited and Reflection! They are amazing!

[@hy_yuoo]

Amazing!! So talented! Hope you can visit Hong Kong later. Your fans from HK.

[@manpo1067]

Sam Hui 許冠傑 is a first singer who promotes Cantonese songs along with slangs. Some of words are salom used in written form , or even cantoneses do not know how to write.

[@shannilam9382]

Highly recommend! His songs are super catchy and what every canto family plays in the car lol

[@ryanlui3123]

Grace the pronunciation is amazingly spot on. Do feel free to get in touch with any of us for slangs.

[@nicholaschow4652]

your laugh tells everything , thanks for this video

[@selineshu9844]

I love your voice and you are such a cheerful girl! 🥰beautiful Cantonese

[@dlfshum]

Hello Grace, you can search Roman Tam's Canto song. His pronunciation is perfect and accurate although a bit old school.

[@faleefalook]

Good taste! My dad likes Sam hui’s songs and usually played them at home when I was small. I was pleased to bring my parents going to his live concert with my brother a couple years ago.

[@imWongWaiYin]

Your cantonese is really good to sing those songs! Haha, the song of Sam Hui is really old. It was 80 may 70 hahah

[@Paul-hm3zq]

Grace, 😃 Thanks for support Cantonese

[@leechoonpeng1123]

Hi, I am from Singapore and I also love cantonese songs like you do, you are really have talent in learning languages and your cantonese is better than me, I really appreciate of your effort in promoting cantonese language, music and cantonese culture to the world, as my mother tongue is cantonese, your youtube video make me more motivated to learn cantonese!😊💖

[@QuimFox]

if you want to learn some Cantonese authentic culture, you can check 林海峰 Jan Lamb and I would recommend the song 男子組and 經典(經典is very popular during in wedding occasion until now) . Jan is also a member of "Softhard" since the 90s and their song would prefer to spoken Cantonese, you can also check their songs too.

[@mlee5710]

Wow!! You sung so well! I like the song K 歌之皇 and the Rapper 農夫。農夫 are funny guys too! Keep it up Grace!!💖

[@wing260]

Thank you for letting more ppl know about HK's culture and music!!!!!!

[@chinhan10]

OMG!!! I used to listen to 農夫 too!!! You are such an amazing and inspiring young lady!!! Love your passion! Love your diligence! Love that you love Cantonese!

[@ccudave6979]

Excellent! You are so talented.

[@yuyuhk]

You are so brilliant and I love your Cantonese singing too!

[@HongKongGuy612]

Love your channel and your Cantonese is great. I am from Hong Kong , there are only two from me Leslie Cheung He was a mega super star here in the 80s 90s and beyond, the best band ever. Hope you'll given them a listen!

[@HelloWorld-we5jt]

Hi Grace, you speak great Cantonese! If you are not confident in singing high notes, I recommend you to check out the songs by Denise Ho (aka HOCC), Candy Lo, and Anita Mui. They are famous female singers who are best known for singing in a lower key.

[@lokchisiu]

Sam Hui is from the 70s and 80s and therefore his music sounds old fashion, but in fact he's very popular with the older generation. He's often regarded as the founder of Cantopop, because before him Hong Kongers would only listen to English or Mandarin songs while Cantonese was more for the traditional opera. His most famous song in spoken slang is 半斤八兩, a 70s song about the working class. You can google and find videos with English translation. For the more modern take, you can go for Cantonese rap, from "Softhard" in the 90s, "Fama" in 2000s, to "Mirror" which is the hottest boy band nowadays and their songs would sometimes have few rap lines in between the music. Hope this helps and enjoy your music.

[@koeytoby]

Omg!! You are amazing 👏👏👏 I watched an interview about you via KZbin . I m soo proud of you for learning Cantonese (my mother language) I based in London and hopefully I can meet you🤗🤗

[@idrisatardis5553]

I used to love FAMA 🔥🔥🔥 I can imagine that it’s good learning material. The song you played is my fav of theirs. You have such great taste 🤣👍 so lovely to see you enjoying Canto music

[@hotinlai6556]

support u from Hong Kong. Your cantonese is awesome!! Please let more people learn more about Cantonese and Hong Kong!!

[@lumi2985]

I’m currently studying Mandarin but my fave Cantonese song is 救命歌 by 鄭欣宜Joyce Cheng

[@kiul5816]

香港而家都好多新歌手，例如Mirror、林家謙、serrini 佢地都係好出色嘅香港歌手，可能海外人士未必識佢地，但係佢地依家係帶領住香港嘅潮流文化㗎！ 另外劇集同埋綜藝節目就可以睇下viutv ，依家都好多香港人睇㗎～ 同埋呢你廣東話講得好好呀❤️🥰多謝你學我哋嘅語言🥰

[@pccorsa]

Hello Grace! Thanks for promoting Cantonese. I'm Hong Konger. Highly recommended the most famous boy band recently in Hong Kong called "Mirror"!

[@yau1013]

Wow brilliant ! Love from Hong Kong 👏🏻

[@angelaho828]

Grace you are so lovely specially singing Cantonese song and you sing so good

[@dreamxpaili]

your cantonese pronunciation is amazing!!!!!

[@kyixx7928]

Wow！Your Cantonese is very good;) Looking forwand to your next video

[@thosesongsthataccompanymyg4155]

Recognized Canton pop divas Jenny Zhen (1970-early 1980) Paul’s Tsui (1970 - early 1980) Anita Mui (1980- early 1990) Faye Wong (late 1980 - present)

[@blaireb2656]

Oh my goodness! You are genius!

[@ccherr]

A new song from Hong Kong singer IAN Chan’s DWBF (Don’t Wanna Be Friends) is very sweet & easy.

[@lovelyktchi]

omggggg you sang the songs of 農夫 They are my favourite! It is so surprise to know you heard their songs to learn cantonese. I believe Rap songs is the way to learn a language completely and effectively ( ´▽｀) So proud of you and hope your cantonese become more better❤️ ((if i had any typing mistakes please forgive me haha i just want to show you some supports from a HongKonger💕

[@kentawong9439]

Joyce Cheng's songs are great too. You should check out her recent collab with Ansonbean.

[@binbinnnn21]

I think you will love Serrini !!

[@thfchris]

許冠傑’s songs are the representative of Cantonese songs. Some of his songs with purely Cantonese lyrics that not contain with some so-called written character liked “的”, “嗎”, “了”. e.g. 半斤八両, 賣身契, 最佳拍檔, etc. If you can fully understand these songs, your Cantonese skill can be reached an advanced level.

[@Ogaranya1]

You can sing. Beautiful voice

[@YThandleAT]

Its amazing how a foreigner can be this obsessed with my mother tongue and you actually learn Cantonese online and able to have conversations! Well done!

[@yz_light1207]

the band "Dear Jane" is good too hope u can check it out, u may find some songs that u love

[@selfyour]

You are amazing!!!🤩 Your Cantonese is so so good! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you for introducing Cantonese to the world! ❤️

[@waimok5776]

Your Cantonese is perfect!!! Like 100 better than my English!!! Love you.

[@sereneauyeung7067]

omg I just really love to watch your videos abt Cantonese!!!!! I will be the same smiling n laughing when u did so in the video, always brings me good mood!!!

[@好嘢的林友德]

What a great pronunciation!!! My favourite song for him is k歌之王 as well. You have a good taste!!

[@TheHappyPantry]

Eason !! 😍

[@moonk8587]

I love your videos! I am a huge fan of FAMA. Another singer that actually collaborates with FAMA that has a few songs that use a fair bit of spoken Cantonese in the songs. Try listening to the comedian Dayo Wong. There are a few theme song collab with FAMA, where it's a mixture of spoken and written (formal or poetic) Cantonese. I use those songs to expand my vocab and phrases.

[@moonk8587]

Also the Dayo Wong KZbin channel is full of his standup. I find that I use it to refresh on terms and phrases because his comedy shows cover a wide range of cultural topics.

[@mimimomochan88]

You are Awesome!!! I'm a Hong Konger and would like to recommend you some more good Cantonese bands/singers like LMF, Rubberband, 方皓玟(Charmaine Fong) and 周國賢(Endy Chow)....ENJOY!!

[@13ashleigh]

Girllll your chinese rocks!! I love how happy you are when you were singing 😄 keep it up!!!! 🔥

[@noretoh269]

Some great cantonese artist (that are popular, loved and talented) you could have a look on: Serrini, Terrence Lam, my little airport, Rubberband, Charmaine Fong

[@genechan]

This is completely awesome. Love the way you are rocking these songs! So cool.

[@SoulboyJeff]

Grace! Can really feel the passion in language and really appreciated !!!

[@beeftomato1]

Sam Hui is the man, nice video by the way.. watching from HK

[@LawrenceChung]

02:36 K歌之王 is also one of my favourite song. I go back to it now and again for nostalgic reasons. I think Cantonese songs are brilliant for when you feel melancholic (which is most of the time 😆)

[@thosesongsthataccompanymyg4155]

You have to listen to the superstar & No.1 Asian Diva and also the best selling canton female artist of all time Ms Faye Wong 王菲 songs like 紅豆、我願意、 夢中人 、 Di Dar 、曖昧、愛與痛的邊緣、你快樂所以我快樂、人間、約定、給自己的情書...etc

[@sycamore_street]

I recommend C allstar - 集合吧！地球保衛隊

[@herman605]

I like your signing, fantastic

[@dorisfong5231]

👍👍👍You've done very well! We once have a pop band "BEYOND" in Hong Kong. You can listen to their music. It's great! My favorite songs are "喜歡妳”，“灰色軌跡”，“舊日的足跡”。They're Legend. Unfortunately, their lead singer died many years ago and they faded out in Hong Kong Canton pop music.

[@KrisTung]

Grace, I really love your Cantonese! Please keep it up!!!

[@sistachan3931]

Sam Hui is considered to be a "Legend" in Hong Kong. He has been labelled as "King of Cantopop's" in Hong Kong. He rose to fame from late 1960s to now. Over 50 years of bringing Cantopops to the Hong Kong mainstream. I think he's in his 80s now and he's still fairly active in his singing career! I love your accent, fairly accurate and you are quite talented in your own right! RIGHT ON! Keep singing!

[@MANDARINONTHATBEAT]

Wow I really can't believe you were able to learn Cantonese. You're such an inspiration. I also love using music to learn language but you are right, we can't get tones from them. AND YOU DO HAVE A GREAT VOICE!

[@Guresu]

Hahahah thanks

[@yatli4925]

Hi from Hong Kong !! Really appreciate u learn Cantonese! This is really a beautiful language! It preserves many ancient accent words, u will found some vocab with similar pronunciation If u also learn Korean cos it’s also keep some ancient words! Also, if u read Chinese poet, Cantonese must be use to see the rhymes. Though we name it as “Cantonese”, there are many different ways of expression between Guangdong and Hong Kong. If you want to learn more Hong Kong way of expression , you may listen to “my little airport “ or watch “Viu TV” reality show !

[@NiakClips]

Since Cantonese has 6 tones, it makes writing lyric harder with existing melody, in picking words and phases to match the tone. So if that is good lyrics you can just read it out and know the melody. And you can listen the Cantonese number song perfect match to the melody.

[@matthewng2325]

Is a really amazing while bizarre experience to listen to people from other country speaking my language, keep it up

[@liamnash3102]

Did you know the late 80s and early 90s HK band Beyond? The (late) leader of the group Wong Ka Kui was heavily inspired by the famine and struggles by the Africans after visiting there, and wrote songs dedicated to them e.g. 'Amani' (some lyrics in Swahili) and 'Glorious Years' (光輝歲月) a tribute to Nelson Mandela (you can find the song's meaning in Eng online). Check it out..