Finana asked Selen how to say I love you in Chinese

Happy birthday Finana!!!! 🎂🥳🥳
‪@FinanaRyugu‬
‪@SelenTatsuki‬
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[@coconuttballs7345]

at 1:22 selen was talking about finana's totsumachi (call in)

[@TienPham-kl7tf]

It's cute when Selen speaks Cantonese. She's softer than her usual self.

[@dracoviod]

Which is very ironic because Cantonese people are generally very loud

[@RambleOn07]

@@dracoviod I just realized that it sounded wrong because she wasn't screaming lol

[@ericx6969]

Selen is chinese😈

[@Da_A-]

Out of all the canto peeps I know of, only Selen manages to sound so calm and collected while speaking the language.

[@shifusensei6442]

I don't know why your comment reminded me of the scene where Stephen Chow gets stabbed twice in Kung Fu Hustle.

[@aerthreepwood8021]

@@shifusensei6442 And bit by a snake.

[@aegis3141]

Yeah,usually cantonese sounds like someone is annoyed or high strung in some way,at least to me

[@NoobSharkey]

@@aegis3141 they just yell at you in canto but actually its all just like a normal conversation

[@Fate025]

Prob cause she speaks cantonese daily when off stream, as she was speaking to her mum in cantonese once when she interrupted her stream. Her tonality is pretty much normal for conversational cantonese. If you watch Hong Kong dramas though, they may exaggerate the tonality for dramatic purposes.

[@naaanaaanaaa8709]

Selen speaking English: toxic dragon Selen speaking Cantonese: Soft Selen

[@danielquon9409]

Selen 🤝 Enna

[@uuu12343]

Somehow...selen speaking Cantonese makes her more calm than normal Selen That's a paradox right there, normally when you speak Cantonese, you're usually alot louder

[@abrahamwijaya6631]

Remember that Chinese dragon is known as neutral good But western is chaotic evil... See the pattern?

[@cadestrischek]

gotta love how Selen said no so fast to Finana's request, Also Selen learns quick

[@akforth3326]

but she said yes at first

[@SBJ_Tube]

@@akforth3326 "Yeah, no" isn't an agreement followed by a negation. It's purely a negation, with a sarcastic and dismissive tone. Identical in meaning to a phrase like "Hmmm, no I'm not gonna do that."

[@akforth3326]

Oh okay, but it sounded like an agreement to me at first.

[@ArkayeCh]

She speaks with the fluency of a kid struggling to keep up with her grandparents on the phone.

[@-Raylight]

*"You're supposed to be on my side"* Silly Selen, we're always on her side. Except when the chance to bully her is there xD TSKR Finana, now we got *"I love you"* from Selen She read us like a book, but still gave it anyway. How kind xD

[@FateDarkess]

Love Selen speaking in Cantonese.

[@Orewaz]

Speaking other languages really changes your personality.

[@akforth3326]

Just found out there's a #NijiOceanLaw

[@smacc3968]

welp, have fun

[@makii4772]

Damn you've been missing out

[@wlky8]

*one of us, one of us, one of-*

[@ancient256]

The art is the best part 😏😏

[@ChocolateM1lk]

honestly this makes me confident in my cantonese

[@dion8723]

I wanna hear selen's cantonese more omg does anyone know if there are some clips of her, aza, and hiiro speaking in mandarin/cantonese? youtube search shows nothing :")

[@hanscaniagochan8448]

here in case anybody replied

[@makii4772]

Clips? Idk but theres some timestamps of it in the streams

[@huhreally5771]

she has a whole stream of canto speaking like yesterday or the day before

[@dion8723]

@@huhreally5771 yes but im specifically talking about what selen hiiro and aza were talking about when theyre speaking in mandarin before

[@KaraShadows95]

@@dion8723 if I remember from the stream, i think aza only knows a few words in Cantonese. Someone put timestamps in the comments of the stream though

[@0g00n8]

Selen has 0 expectation for us dragoons, she thought we will do it with no context, luckily, PP Forth has provided us full context, tskr tskr

[@chiao1027]

1:20 1:28 She said totsu. I think she meant totsumachi 凸待ち which means ppl waiting for other members to call in on stream.

[@AJ.F.T]

yep! she said totsu!

[@akforth3326]

okok sorry i don't understand japanese

[@chiao1027]

@@akforth3326 No no no don’t say sorry! I really appreciate your clips cause my English is not that good. Thank you for helping me understand them more☺️

[@oliivvvx]

i really like when someone in nijisanji says something in cantonese. makes me feel included :)

[@Mioumi]

I don't speak Cantonese but I could listen to her all day :D

[@why_r_u_runnin9]

ooh she actually caved if for Finana, very nice hihih ;)

[@mxblhrtss]

WOAHH HER CANTO IS SO SMOOTH WTH

[@jpachu16]

She sounds so serious when talking in canto lol

[@notnullnotvoid]

Selen: "Clip that out of context" Big PP Forth: No, I don't think I will

[@proxy90909]

Based Finana she got translations from chat and she baited love in return

[@monalleysa]

she switches languages so smooth tho

[@volbla]

I only really associate chinese with martial arts films, so this makes me feel like someone's gonna bust through a window at any moment.

[@tomarintomarin9520]

Bro my heart skipped a beat when she said the thing

[@gordonwayne9203]

I’m genuinely surprised that her cantonese is this good since I have never watched a clip of saying so much in cantonese at once. P.S. HongKonger here

[@Fate025]

Yea i guess her family prob emigrated from HongKong to Canada before Selen was born. And her family prob speaks cantonese daily at home, her cantonese has a strong HongKong tonality, which is different from cantonese spoken in Malaysia and Singapore. P.S: Singaporean here

[@VinnyDeez-]

@@Fate025 so ur saying i can get away with speaking canto if in did want to visit 👀

[@Neil_Manta]

Its even more interesting that her mandarin have a hongkong accent.

[@Serges6578]

Super sweet

[@Furinanya]

i want enna and selen to talk in chinese

[@TheSilentsama]

Her canto sounds native. She's probably a second generation immigrant

[@donwel8706]

ngl Chinese Selen hits different. Also I knew wo ai ni, but today I've learned something in Cantonese as well.

[@ryomitsui000]

Other than the fact that Chinese is some of the hardest languages to learn in the world, I think one of the crazy things is to hear how easily she's able to change something like her cadence. That is something I don't think I could ever really "learn" even *IF* I could learn Chinese. It's really awesome imo.

[@goku_dunker_420]

Is there staccato in speaking????

[@ryomitsui000]

@@goku_dunker_420 ah, you're right. Bad word choice. Let's go with cadence instead.

[@ComanderSazabi2000]

You'd just have to use the new language enough to the point where your brain stops translating sentences and just starts flipping your thought processes between the languages. It might take a year or two of serious study and practice but it's doable.

[@goku_dunker_420]

@@ComanderSazabi2000 As someone learning a language but also speaking a 2nd one *partially* from birth, it seems like an impossible task I can already do lol

[@nickthenuker7916]

@@ComanderSazabi2000 haha I’m native bilingual English/Chinese (Singaporean, grew up speaking and learning both) and I still mainly think in English and translate it to Chinese

[@random._.1888]

唔該！！

[@KuroKyxr]

Theres always a Dragoon that likes to fuck over Selen 🤣🤣🤣

[@macmac277]

I never knew she was Chinese (or at least knows how to speak it) but for some reason I'm not surprised. Don't know why. Maybe it's her voice?

[@Mara_1337]

First time I hear her speak cantonese! I already read somewhere she speaks chinese languages but I never heard it, does she speak it regularly on zatsus?

[@MontySlython]

Not really, it's more of a rare treat to hear her speak it, I assume not much of her audience understands it so she only pulls it out occasionally

[@Kylemsguy]

The Cantonese part might as well be Japanese to me, but when she started speaking mandarin suddenly my brain started firing. I somehow never picked up Cantonese despite being around people who spoke it all my life.

[@KuroMochiKimchi]

I actually knew the second way to say that just because of watching Ranma 1/2 I knew anime would have taught me one thing at least.

[@abrahamwijaya6631]

Me watching yuru camp: agreed

[@Eien.]

Anyone whose seen Ranma 1/2 should know 'wo ai ni' cause of Shampoo.

[@Pineapal]

Oh, I didn't know she spoke this language

[@EggClipsPog]

does she throw english words in because she doesnt know the chinese word, or do chinese speaking people usually do that?

[@BLU3D4Y]

I believe she couldn't remember the exact word in Cantonese on the fly so she just filled in the gap with English

[@akforth3326]

I think for her, she just forgot how to say but some Cantonese speakers also use English words when speaking Cantonese

[@crystal_reverie]

I believe that just how she talk in Chinese. Some part of Chinese speaking region have this habit of mixing language when they talk.

[@abrahamwijaya6631]

Who want selen casting honkai character in CN: 🖐️

[@neonex6590]

selen: cantonese is o oi nei me: no shit i cant understand cantonese

[@XANDERcanDRAW]

I need help... I can hear Finana's voice on her chat

[@DashmundHunt]

She can speak Cantonese?

[@Aureolelegends]

Yeah, she can! She even spoke it with her mom during the bento stream I believe. It's so weird to hear like, not English from a VTuber, and somehow still understanding it.

[@akforth3326]

She can also speak mandarin! She just doesnt know how to write it

[@DashmundHunt]

My brain just keep expanding for some reason

[@akforth3326]

@@DashmundHunt for what reason? Why i dont understand...?

[@DashmundHunt]

@@akforth3326 I mean I learn new thing about my favourite vtuber. It gives me motivation to learn new language. Hence, expanding my brain (from the knowledge)

[@leesohun_40]

how you can translate Cantonese

[@スノーハッピー]

TSKR

[@MrUnderscoreh]

she wants it so badly beCAUSE NIJIOCEANLAW

[@healme69420]

Is she half Chinese?or she has learn in the past?

[@ChinchillaBONK]

btw, what's totsu?

[@namo2403]

shortform of totsumachi which translates to a "call-in" stream where someone will stay in an open call while other vtubers joins throughout the stream to talk with them TL: totsumachi = call-in

[@ChinchillaBONK]

@@namo2403 thank you!

[@patriciahuang3548]

How can when she speaks cantonese it doesnt sound...agressive? Like huh????

[@r3.4ct]

"I'll tell in vc after or before your stream." Reminds me of Elira bday where Selen praised her.... Or did she??! Idfk..

[@infinitycrazee]

Wait. Selen is half Asian?

[@kato2395]

This is cantonese which is more superior than smol pp simplified mainland chinese, no offense to Taiwanese brothers. Traditional Chinese is beautiful.

[@akforth3326]

Hong Kong also uses Traditional Chinese

[@kato2395]

@@akforth3326 yes very cool indeed

[@diligentone-six2688]

Wo I Beijing Tiananmen

[@shittydrawersden3329]

Jesus christ canto selen is a different breed. My heart…

[@shittydrawersden3329]

3:47

[@ericx6969]

Wait selen cantonese