I learnt Cantonese in Hong Kong for six years in my twenties, afraid my dad never taught me, and never have I found anyone who can teach it this well to a person whose mother tongue is English. Great job!
That explanation of tones was absolutely amazing!! I wasn’t able to make sense of any of the tones until now! I studied at Hong Kong Polytechnic University for 4 months and I was so discouraged by the way people taught the tones. Explaining it with relation to English sounds contextualizes everything really well. Amazing thank youuuuu
Same here. It's still difficult to pronounce such similar sounding tones and remembering them, ..but this video is the best thing around for learning them. Thanks, Ms Ng!
I come from Vietnam and think Cantonese tones are easy to me because my language already has 6 tones. But when I decided to learn Cantonese, it confused me with tons of teaching videos until I found this one. Thank you so much!
Wow I’ve watched like 10 videos and this one finally made tones feel accessible to me. I loved it! What a logical and easy way of explaining. Don’t be fooled by those 2 minute videos out there. This one is worth your time.
I’ve been learning Mandarin for 3.5 years, Japanese for 1.5 years, and I’m just starting to dive into Cantonese as my third Asian language. Thanks so much for your detailed breakdown! I just subscribed! 多谢! 👍
You have given an absolutely understandable and amazing explanation. I am an English teacher and I can say that you have made this very difficult topic very understandable. Thank you SO much for this. Tones are what discourages beginners when learning Cantonese. You did an EXCELLENT job in teaching us about the tones and the rules for using them. Thank you VERY much, Teacher!!!!
OH MY GOD I just want to say THANK YOU! You made it SOOOO easy to understand! I could not pronounce a single word for the life of me, but now I actually think I have a chance! I see online that 4 is lower than 6, then how come when you taught "Canada" you made it seem like 6 is lower? Edit: just said some words to my Cantonese friend (Enping) and she understood all of them!!! Before this I couldn't get her to understand a single word. I'd say "hai" 500 times until she'd say "that one was similar enough" but now I said it once and she understood right away! Same with many more words!
This is one of the best lessons about Cantonese tones you can find on internet by far. Explanation about common use in daily conversations makes me feel in confort about what I thought for logic, that some things depend on the context and even native can confuse some subtle stuff, as it happens any language. Thank you for the lesson!
After watching this lesson, I fall in love with u. Just learning cantonese tones was like being in the midst of nowhere and lost. But now I m found in u, u r my cantonese Godess 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍
Oh my gosh! You made learning Cantonese tones easier! thank you!! They say Cantonese is hard because it's got friggin 6 tones, and it initially deterred me from learning. Now, I've got the confidence to learn more! Stay safe and healthy during this pandemic. I have relatives in HK too.
Tones is the kinda easy part for me, now learning all the words is the hard part 😭 I'm already studying Mandarin so I can't just go back and start to study all the words again
The best explanation ever! Thank you so much! I have been trying to learn cantonese for 3 years. I have watched loads of video explanations of tones. I regret I didn't find your video earlier. You are a great teacher!
14:35 explaining it in terms of relativity helped a lot. I would always stress if I was using "3" or "6", but in that context it doesnt really matter as long as its somewhat lower than 1.
Thank you for this! I was having such a hard time hearing a difference between the tones but now I've got! I love how you compare them to words in English, it made it click!
Thank you so much. This is the best description of tones I've come across. Other teachers make it way too complicated and unforgiving, which is not the reality of speaking it. 🙏
As a heritage speaker of Cantonese, of all the videos that teach the tones of Cantonese, I can honestly say this video is among one of the best out there for a beginner. I understand how stressful mastering all 6 tones would be. I haven't even mastered it myself even, and that's completely ok because you really don't need all six to make yourself understandable. And just being able to make yourself understandable when speaking Cantonese is all that matters, perfect pronunciation is only best reserved for professional purposes. Just learning the four general tones as described in the video is sufficient. Only know the high tone (1), the mid tone (3), the rising tone (2/5), and low tone (4/6) and you'll be set and I doubt anyone will judge you for not being able to tell the difference between tones 2 and 5 as an example. Additionally, you can also decide to group tone 6 together with tone 3 (since technically tone 6 is between tones 3 and 4), because many HKers pronounce tone 6 syllables the same way as tone 3. I personally group tones 6 and 4 together. That being said, if you're able to easily pick out the true tone 6 or the difference between tones 2 and 5 (2: low to high, 5: low to mid), that's awesome! But don't feel pressured to have to learn the minute differences just because most other resources tell you to learn all 6.
I'm studying Mandarin, but I decided to learn the tones of Cantonese just out of curiosity, and I somehow can pick the difference between all of them now. I also think that Mandarin also has some in common with Cantonese
I’ve just started learning Cantonese so I’ve been watching a lot of videos explaining the tones.. this is the best so far, very good explanation. Thank you!
Damn I just killed my mandarin throat trying to say the tones, but your Cantonese teaching is awesome! I downloaded Cantonese learning apps to help with my career but they just put some tones there without even explaining what the tones were so I came to your channel. Helped me a lot. Throughout the video I was saying: This Lady is awesome!
I’ve been trying to start Cantonese for the past several months and this just helped me figure out the tones in a way I could much more easily understand than ever before! m goi saai!!!
As a few of the comments indicate, and I agree fervently, Ms Ng's pronunciation of Cantonese is not up to the standard of teaching others. I suggest checking out "Cantonese Corner", created by an American who's lived in HK for 30+ years. Her pronunciation is much cleaner even though she's American. ruclips.net/user/CantoneseCornerfeatured
Thanks a lot! That these "small" details, not mentioned in the books, that language students need to know. I was always worrying too much how to correctly distinguish and pronounce tones 2 and 5
Omg! You're awesome Yoyo!!!! I've watched several videos to learn Cantonese tones on RUclips and got more and more confused. This video is definitely clear and helpful!!! Hope can see more videos soon!!!
You and your lesson is amazing and easy to understand. May god bless you and your family with prosperity. Thank you! I’m learning cantonese cuz feeling embarrassing and left behind cuz not be able to understand or speak cantonese in my workplace. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I'm half chinese and my grandparents have never heard me speak Cantonese ever and i'm studying to have dinner one time and pull out cantonese. I JUST realised what bin dou means even though it's something that comes into a sentence often and i've heard it so many times.
Thanks for posting this! I just decided to learn Cantonese today on a whim- this looks like a lot to learn, but your teaching style is wonderful thank you!
Trying Mandarin first with tye hope of getting to Cantonese because I love the way that Cantonese sounds! These explanations are very human! I enjoyed them and will be back!
Hi, thanks for your good strategy. There're some mistakes in the transcriptions though, please check them out: 1. dik1 si2 (not si6) -> it's a change of tone 2. 耐 is pronounced as noi6, not loi6 3. ting1 (not ting3) jat6 4. gwong2 dung1 waa2 (not waa6) -> same, change of tone 5. there is no 'ceung' in Juytping, they should be 'coeng', such as gei1 coeng4, m4 soeng2, hoeng1 gong2
her pronunciation is kinda terrible, she merges tone 2 and 5 several times (don't follow her advice and merge them, they sound different enough to a native speaker), merges ng into n/m several times (she doesn't even realized she's doing this), merged -in into -ing (she doesn't realize this one either), is missing final k in the first word. I'm fine with her merging n->l (even my parents do that).
@@kori228 All the things u say Natives do them, 2 and 5 do merge In spoken Cantonese. Ng does turn in to m, -ng to -n, -k to -t. Some more frequently than others but it's not incorrect
@@maheshpun4804 2 and 5 only merge in Macau Cantonese iirc. And the others only occur in younger speakers or small populations elsewhere. While it _is_ how certain native speakers talk, it's not the speech variety that should be used when _teaching._ Either abandon the romanization system or acknowledge that you pronounce it differently and that people should be aware of that. Otherwise you're teaching with stuff you're unable to do yourself. You're trying to teach people for communication, which means clarity is the goal. The person learning isn't a native speaker, that's the point. Cantonese as a whole is not pronounced the way she speaks. While it's fine for her to speak however as a native speaker, don't take her as the example to follow. She's the exception, at least for another couple decades. Until then, do it properly.
@@kori228 From the way she speaks English, I believe she's not a Cantonese speaker from HK, probably from GD -- especially when she can't quite distinguish the /n/ and /ng/ sounds in English words, which is a common characteristic of Mainland Chinese.
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I learnt Cantonese in Hong Kong for six years in my twenties, afraid my dad never taught me, and never have I found anyone who can teach it this well to a person whose mother tongue is English. Great job!
That explanation of tones was absolutely amazing!! I wasn’t able to make sense of any of the tones until now! I studied at Hong Kong Polytechnic University for 4 months and I was so discouraged by the way people taught the tones. Explaining it with relation to English sounds contextualizes everything really well. Amazing thank youuuuu
Same here. It's still difficult to pronounce such similar sounding tones and remembering them, ..but this video is the best thing around for learning them. Thanks, Ms Ng!
dang 4 months??? you spent that much money and didnt learn tones after the 1st month??
me too. i spent a lot of money learning from so-called experts who had no idea us gweilos have learning Cantonese.
Completely agree. The comparison to “listen” was 💥!!
Oh my GOD. I CANT BELIEVE I ACTUALLY UNDERSTOOD ALL OF IT. THANK THANK THANK U SOOOOO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO.
I come from Vietnam and think Cantonese tones are easy to me because my language already has 6 tones. But when I decided to learn Cantonese, it confused me with tons of teaching videos until I found this one. Thank you so much!
That was absolutely the best explanation of tones! Amazing teaching skills, making life easier for the student.
Wow I’ve watched like 10 videos and this one finally made tones feel accessible to me. I loved it! What a logical and easy way of explaining. Don’t be fooled by those 2 minute videos out there. This one is worth your time.
I’ve been learning Mandarin for 3.5 years, Japanese for 1.5 years, and I’m just starting to dive into Cantonese as my third Asian language. Thanks so much for your detailed breakdown! I just subscribed! 多谢! 👍
多謝 though
I went from feeling like Cantonese was going to be hard to being like, "Ohhh, I got this!" Give thanks for this video!
How is your cantonese going? I'm just beginning now 👌🏻
You have given an absolutely understandable and amazing explanation. I am an English teacher and I can say that you have made this very difficult topic very understandable. Thank you SO much for this. Tones are what discourages beginners when learning Cantonese. You did an EXCELLENT job in teaching us about the tones and the rules for using them. Thank you VERY much, Teacher!!!!
And if you do not mind I would like to add one more word = Cute !!😁
OH MY GOD I just want to say THANK YOU! You made it SOOOO easy to understand! I could not pronounce a single word for the life of me, but now I actually think I have a chance!
I see online that 4 is lower than 6, then how come when you taught "Canada" you made it seem like 6 is lower?
Edit: just said some words to my Cantonese friend (Enping) and she understood all of them!!! Before this I couldn't get her to understand a single word. I'd say "hai" 500 times until she'd say "that one was similar enough" but now I said it once and she understood right away! Same with many more words!
I'm confused to as to which is lower between 4 and 6, but it seems that it doesn't matter, the thing I found is that 4 drops in pitch, while 6 is flat
嘩 ！好嘢！！。 解釋得非常清楚、透撤⋯
我係地道粵語母語 ，成世講粵語 ，原來聲調有高、低級別。
怪不得好難教外國人 學粵語。
This is one of the best lessons about Cantonese tones you can find on internet by far. Explanation about common use in daily conversations makes me feel in confort about what I thought for logic, that some things depend on the context and even native can confuse some subtle stuff, as it happens any language. Thank you for the lesson!
After watching this lesson, I fall in love with u. Just learning cantonese tones was like being in the midst of nowhere and lost. But now I m found in u, u r my cantonese Godess 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍
Oh my gosh! You made learning Cantonese tones easier! thank you!! They say Cantonese is hard because it's got friggin 6 tones, and it initially deterred me from learning. Now, I've got the confidence to learn more!
Stay safe and healthy during this pandemic. I have relatives in HK too.
Tones is the kinda easy part for me, now learning all the words is the hard part 😭
I'm already studying Mandarin so I can't just go back and start to study all the words again
The best explanation ever! Thank you so much! I have been trying to learn cantonese for 3 years. I have watched loads of video explanations of tones. I regret I didn't find your video earlier. You are a great teacher!
You’re awesome! Finally something that keeps your attention early AND provide English comparable for the tones which is super helpful and relatable! 😊
14:35
explaining it in terms of relativity helped a lot.
I would always stress if I was using "3" or "6", but in that context it doesnt really matter as long as its somewhat lower than 1.
我係在學粵語嘅大陸人，睇咗幾多講廣東話聲調嘅視頻都冇老師講咁好。多謝晒！
She is the best teacher. She made me clear about all tones. TQ😊🙏
Thank you for doing this video! I'm grateful for your teaching style. I'm going to watch other videos of yours.
Thank you for this! I was having such a hard time hearing a difference between the tones but now I've got! I love how you compare them to words in English, it made it click!
Thank you so much. This is the best description of tones I've come across. Other teachers make it way too complicated and unforgiving, which is not the reality of speaking it. 🙏
As a heritage speaker of Cantonese, of all the videos that teach the tones of Cantonese, I can honestly say this video is among one of the best out there for a beginner. I understand how stressful mastering all 6 tones would be. I haven't even mastered it myself even, and that's completely ok because you really don't need all six to make yourself understandable. And just being able to make yourself understandable when speaking Cantonese is all that matters, perfect pronunciation is only best reserved for professional purposes. Just learning the four general tones as described in the video is sufficient. Only know the high tone (1), the mid tone (3), the rising tone (2/5), and low tone (4/6) and you'll be set and I doubt anyone will judge you for not being able to tell the difference between tones 2 and 5 as an example. Additionally, you can also decide to group tone 6 together with tone 3 (since technically tone 6 is between tones 3 and 4), because many HKers pronounce tone 6 syllables the same way as tone 3. I personally group tones 6 and 4 together. That being said, if you're able to easily pick out the true tone 6 or the difference between tones 2 and 5 (2: low to high, 5: low to mid), that's awesome! But don't feel pressured to have to learn the minute differences just because most other resources tell you to learn all 6.
Thank you
I'm studying Mandarin, but I decided to learn the tones of Cantonese just out of curiosity, and I somehow can pick the difference between all of them now. I also think that Mandarin also has some in common with Cantonese
多謝美女老師雅教！愚生學漢語已久，以北方官話為主，雖然一直想學廣東話，總覺得粵語聲調太難掌握了，聽您講課突然感覺終於明白了，千謝萬恩啊！
I’ve just started learning Cantonese so I’ve been watching a lot of videos explaining the tones.. this is the best so far, very good explanation. Thank you!
Finally somebody with the intellectual explanation thank you
Omg I am studying Cantonese for working holiday next year, and this video is by far the best help with the overwhelming tones! Thanks a lot :)
Where has this video been all my life?! I was thinking it would be impossible to learn Cantonese, but this is an amazing start.
Damn I just killed my mandarin throat trying to say the tones, but your Cantonese teaching is awesome! I downloaded Cantonese learning apps to help with my career but they just put some tones there without even explaining what the tones were so I came to your channel. Helped me a lot. Throughout the video I was saying: This Lady is awesome!
The link between the English and contonese words made the tones so much more memorable! Thank you
Oh my goodness. I LOVE your explanation of the tones! Finally clicked! Thank you
Your explanation for tones is so so helpful thank you!!
Best cantonese tones lesson so far,,,auto subscribed
I’ve been trying to start Cantonese for the past several months and this just helped me figure out the tones in a way I could much more easily understand than ever before! m goi saai!!!
As a few of the comments indicate, and I agree fervently, Ms Ng's pronunciation of Cantonese is not up to the standard of teaching others. I suggest checking out "Cantonese Corner", created by an American who's lived in HK for 30+ years. Her pronunciation is much cleaner even though she's American.
ruclips.net/user/CantoneseCornerfeatured
Thanks a lot, this video is by far the best one i’ve watch to start getting the tone differences!
Thanks a lot! That these "small" details, not mentioned in the books, that language students need to know. I was always worrying too much how to correctly distinguish and pronounce tones 2 and 5
Wow so easy now... I got the idea of the 6 tones. You are an amazing teacher madam. M goi saai 🎉
Thank you very very much. Best lesson on tones I ever see.
This is the best Cantonese tones video ever !
The example with "li-sten" being tone 1 and 6 was enormously helpful, thank you for your video =)
You relating it to concepts in English made it so much easier to grasp!
Thank you very much!
Omg this ‘what what listen’ method works like magic!!! Many thanks!!!!
Omg! You're awesome Yoyo!!!! I've watched several videos to learn Cantonese tones on RUclips and got more and more confused. This video is definitely clear and helpful!!! Hope can see more videos soon!!!
OMG finally I found the practical one. Thank you
Wow this video is absolutely amazing! I hope every Cantonese learner can find this video for tones. Thank you so much!
You're an incredible teacher. This is awesome.
This is fantastic! Subscribed. Best tone explanation I've seen so far.
You and your lesson is amazing and easy to understand. May god bless you and your family with prosperity. Thank you! I’m learning cantonese cuz feeling embarrassing and left behind cuz not be able to understand or speak cantonese in my workplace. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
You put it all together for me. Now it makes sense. you teach very well.
very useful for beginners for understanding the tones
I'm half chinese and my grandparents have never heard me speak Cantonese ever and i'm studying to have dinner one time and pull out cantonese. I JUST realised what bin dou means even though it's something that comes into a sentence often and i've heard it so many times.
This is the best cantonese pronunciation tutorial I've ever watched! Thx a ton ;)
This is extremely helpful, thank you
I was struggling to learned the Cantonese words tones, now thanks your video really helps.
You made everything so much easier. Thank you very very much
Thanks for posting this! I just decided to learn Cantonese today on a whim- this looks like a lot to learn, but your teaching style is wonderful thank you!
Trying Mandarin first with tye hope of getting to Cantonese because I love the way that Cantonese sounds! These explanations are very human! I enjoyed them and will be back!
Brilliant explanation. Cantonese looks possible for me now
I just watched a bunch of competing videos on the same subject, and you win hands down for clear teaching.
Her explaining way Of tones is fabulous. Thank you so much. Hope u will upload more videos to inspire us .
plz upload more videos ms ng . your explanations are far better than other teachers . 👏🙏
Wow wow. One of the best video regarding the tone!
You’re the best, I was thinking that I can never gonna learn how to speak, thank you so much!!!
16:25 I love how she moves her hand!
By far the best tutorial video I have watched on tones.
I subscribed and look forward to your other videos
I really enjoyed your video, I feel you are really a good teacher, I gained a lot from it, thank you
Thank you so much. You are a great teacher. You made it look so simple. BIG BIG Thank you to you!!!
Wow I finally found a video that breaks the tones down so easily thank you 🙏
I understood tone 1 and 6.
Great.
Damn she is so smart man, good teacher
Thank you so much for clearing tone 2 and 5 sound about the same. I tried to learn cantonese 2 years ago and it seemed to me they were just one.
Very very very great explanation
You are wonderful at explaining- it helps me to see the big picture and then I can understand it easily
What a nice explanation! With those tips it gets easy to better understand that tricky matter of Cantonese tones.
Thanks a lot. Much appreciated.
Many thx Ms Ng u r amazing, your analytical skills are just about everybody else 🙏😊
Thank you so much. Easy to understand
You made it really simple & easy.
This has been the best help with tones. Thanks for your approach! :)
This was amazing! The link between Canto tones and english stress/unstressed syllables really helped! Thanks!
It is the best video which really helps
This was the best explanation I have found, thank you!
Wow, thank you so much for explaining this!
thank you so much this makes so much more sense
I like ur idea ... i will continue your class
girl you are a genius! thank you so much 💕😭
Excellent video tutor
Extremely helpful video. Thanks a lot.
Hi, thanks for your good strategy. There're some mistakes in the transcriptions though, please check them out:
1. dik1 si2 (not si6) -> it's a change of tone
2. 耐 is pronounced as noi6, not loi6
3. ting1 (not ting3) jat6
4. gwong2 dung1 waa2 (not waa6) -> same, change of tone
5. there is no 'ceung' in Juytping, they should be 'coeng', such as gei1 coeng4, m4 soeng2, hoeng1 gong2
Point no.3, it doesn't actually matter because it's still read ting1 jat6 anyway.
her pronunciation is kinda terrible, she merges tone 2 and 5 several times (don't follow her advice and merge them, they sound different enough to a native speaker), merges ng into n/m several times (she doesn't even realized she's doing this), merged -in into -ing (she doesn't realize this one either), is missing final k in the first word.
I'm fine with her merging n->l (even my parents do that).
@@kori228 All the things u say Natives do them, 2 and 5 do merge In spoken Cantonese. Ng does turn in to m, -ng to -n, -k to -t.
Some more frequently than others but it's not incorrect
@@maheshpun4804 2 and 5 only merge in Macau Cantonese iirc. And the others only occur in younger speakers or small populations elsewhere. While it _is_ how certain native speakers talk, it's not the speech variety that should be used when _teaching._
Either abandon the romanization system or acknowledge that you pronounce it differently and that people should be aware of that. Otherwise you're teaching with stuff you're unable to do yourself. You're trying to teach people for communication, which means clarity is the goal. The person learning isn't a native speaker, that's the point. Cantonese as a whole is not pronounced the way she speaks. While it's fine for her to speak however as a native speaker, don't take her as the example to follow. She's the exception, at least for another couple decades. Until then, do it properly.
@@kori228 From the way she speaks English, I believe she's not a Cantonese speaker from HK, probably from GD -- especially when she can't quite distinguish the /n/ and /ng/ sounds in English words, which is a common characteristic of Mainland Chinese.
You are an incredible teacher
So good teaching simple n best
Great lesson! I love you right now.
Perfect class
Thank you so much, super useful! 🌞
Excellent video! Thank you so much 😊
非常实用的讲解！很喜欢你轻松自然的讲课风格🥰
Thx so much, it's even helpful for me （Mandarin native speaker ）😯
Great video ! I finally understand tones a bit more now :D
What an awesome lesson！我会普通话，但是粤语我刚刚开始了学习，谢谢老师
So good NG After watching this I started thinking its doable or else I was thinking its not doable for me
Thanks a lot for this impactful lecture .great job. And you look so beautiful like ur explanation.
excellent explanation