Learn Cantonese - 5 Things You Might Overhear

[@sannywong9718]

It’s so interesting that I grew up in a Chinese speaking household but I never understood your last two phrases! I don’t think I actually heard my parents say “no problem” or maybe I just didn’t understand them. There are so many words and phrases I don’t understand and I’m so glad to be learning them now with your help. I think I must have shut off my brain to Cantonese when I was younger.

[@CantoneseCorner]

Hi Sanny, I'm glad you're picking it back up! Thanks for commenting :)

[@lauhon4320]

Wonderful. Perfect Cantonese. I admire you a lot.

[@CantoneseCorner]

Thank you so much!! :)

[@explorehongkong1149]

You are a very good teacher...thankyou soo much...

[@dsm577]

great lesson thanks

[@breadyegg]

I'd love to see you do one of those 'surprise' videos where you pretend to know only English talking to a local and then start speaking fluent Cantonese and amaze them! There are a lot of these for Mandarin and some for Korean but none for Cantonese. I appreciate that might not be your thing though!

[@justinpeterson4642]

Would also love to see this!

[@littlesulteros5225]

I like learning from u Ms Margaret u explain very well,slowly and clearly which i like most rather than native speaker who speaks so fast and I can’t able to understand and catch the praises.

[@CantoneseCorner]

Thank you so much for the feedback and for such a nice compliment. I really enjoy doing the videos, so it helps me to know what people like about them. Here's to hoping work won't be as busy and I'll be able to do more soon! :)

[@jungyew]

I was born in the States, but my family is from HK. I thought that I was fluent, but never knew that the year is said first until I watched your vid!

[@CantoneseCorner]

That's so cool that I could help you learn something you didn't know before. Thanks for commenting and so sorry for my horribly late reply! :)

[@speakofthistonoone2869]

thanks for making these videos, I'm english and can speak Chinese, wanna learn some cantonese but is kind of hard connecting which sounds to which 繁体字, would be very useful if you could put the characters on the screen when you're talking about them instead of having to rely on pinyin. thanks again

[@leyang3655]

❤❤❤ thank u for this video

[@Than211]

I just wanted to clarify that "dak" means "can". So if used in a response, it would mean "I can" or "that works" even though ultimately, it does mean okay.

[@georgehoward8976]

very good and natural teaching, but please turn up your microphone I can't hear you! Great job!

[@CantoneseCorner]

Thanks so much! I love doing the videos ... it's so much fun. And yes, as I've done more videos, I've become more aware of the audio problems .... some of these older ones I haven't adjusted the volume and so yes, they're not as loud as they should be ... it's a work in progress :-)

[@samuelm9799]

I have a question, why if the preposition to make things negative is “mh” when you say “no problem” is “mouh” instead of “mh”?

[@CantoneseCorner]

Samuel Maya Montes good question! I suppose it is like in English ... we would say “I don’t “have” a problem”, hence the use of “móuh” for “don’t have”. That’s my theory anyway!

[@kayeefu979]

do you speak Mandarin as well?

[@CantoneseCorner]

Sadly, no ... I can understand and speak a little ... a very little ... but I just never needed to, so I never learned it. Maybe one day if the need arises ... :)

[@kayeefu979]

Are you originally from Wisconsin by any chance? just wondering haha

[@CantoneseCorner]

@@kayeefu979 Not originally, but lived in a little town called Rhinelander for about 8 years -- how did you know?? Do I have a Wisconsin accent? :) LOL

[@kayeefu979]

@@CantoneseCorner it's entirely a wild guess haha. Actually I am a native speaker of Chinese including mandarin and Cantonese, and i know nothing about English accents of different countries or places..

[@kayeefu979]

@@CantoneseCorner by the way I have to say your Cantonese is almost without any foreigners accent, you're amazing