Hello, I am thirteen years old currently. I promise myself that someday I will be able to speak Hmong and Spanish. Where I live people often speak Hmong/Spanish as a first language. I want learn them both because I want to understand people in my community better.
I’m second gen Hmong American and I wanted to swoop in to say THANK YOU for highlighting our culture and language. We are proud indigenous people of China and have shared our stories of hope, love, pain, heartache, and of healing around the world. All the love to you, brother. All love to the world. ✊❤️
I am White and have a Hmong girlfriend that I plan to marry. So far the younger people in her family have accepted me, but I do experience a bit of distance from the older generations even tho they are very polite. I am hoping that learning a bit of Hmong will help break the ice so to speak with the older generations in her family. Thank you for the lessons, I got a lot from this!
You are almost spot on (no trying to insult you, you’re amazing). The “K” in these words are pronounced like the letter “g” in GOLD in English. It’s a hard heavy “k” that sounds like the “g” in gold. I’m Hmong and although I’m not a great speaker neither (learning too), I’m around families that speak fluently. Peace! Keep up the good work!
@@origamivangel In Hmong history or story how you want to look at it, there were two brothers that had a good relation to one another. One day they split apart to live in different villages. The older brother lived on top of the mountain while the younger brother lived at the bottom. When they both had children. The children met with one another and soon fell in love. When their marriage was starting to begin, the two children fathers met once more and noticed that their son and daughter were going to be married. They knew that this was taboo but thought about their children's happiness. So they let them marry on another while the older brother kept his name, the younger brother changed his name to Thor. Then soon later we then began to avoid one another because of this.
my mom is white hmoob but she can speak really well green hmoob because my dad is green hmoob. So basically I am mixed with white hmoob and green hmoob. I can speak both 👍
I just want to say that you did a very good job! I appreciate your curiosity with the Hmong language, culture, history, and I love how you incorporated that into the video. I wish all language learning videos were like this! However, I see many opinions and comments about the Hmong history and background. It’s mostly due to the nomadic and oral story telling lifestyles of the Hmong people that many things lost clarity. Also, the only word I’ll say that you need to work on is “koj” but don’t worry, it’s a very hard word for a lot of people too. Keep up the good work!
In my Family I have a Black Uncle and my Aunt who is Thai was adopted by my Hmong Grandparents. Both of them speak Hmong Fluently. My Uncle has always been amazed by Hmong people and he participate in cutting chickens and Cows.
CORRECTION: Hmong are NOT Chinese. Although Hmong people are originally from China, the Hmong and Han Chinese have a long history of conflict and since the last 2 centuries, Hmong have always lived without a country and are historically nomadic and like seclusion. We migrated, we were not necessarily exiled. We try to find land with peace and that's why we move all the time when there is conflict and therefore prefer seclusion. We identify ethnically as Hmong- (Country we currently live in). I Identify as Hmong American since I live in MN. AND please stop using Oriental. ASIAN is much more preferred because it is not full of ignorance. APART from that, THANK YOU for introducing people to our Hmong culture and language but it would help if you had more accurate information and more authentic sources.
I totally understand when you say they may think you’re mocking them or making fun of them. This happened a lot to us growing up but you’re amazing in that you understand this!!! Wow
just a quick info and some correction i guess when the rest of the world said chinese, they most likely mean people from china when mong said chinese, we meant the hans mong is an enthic group of the miao from China and no we are not decendent of the hans or the manchu or the mongos the mong from the miao speak 3 main language. the eastern miao share one language, the centeral miao share one language and the western miao share one language. the western miao have the most dealing with the hans which is why the western miao language share a lot of word with the hans. majority of the miao/mong outside of china speak western miao and since we are closet to teh hans adn manchu settlement so during the last few war, we got hit the hardest and choose to leave china rather then surrender to the manchu dictator emperor. the 2 main variation of teh western miao language speaking here in teh US is hmong duab and mong leeg. green mong is a sub sect or group of western miao that mainly speak mong leeg. out of teh 2, mong leeg is the one closet and share the most word and pronounciate with teh original western miao language in china. a lot of teh white hmong and youger generation of hmong in teh US will said that green hmong and mong leeg are the same which is not true. mong leeg and green tradational clothe are not alike. our funeral and ceremonies are different, we are 2 seperate group each with unique tradition, heritage and roots. if u talk to tradition older generation of green hmong, they will said they speak mong leeg, their is no green hmong variation of the western miao language in the US. as for why green hmong and mong leeg can speak both variation while majority of the other hmong only speak the white hmong variation, i dont know the real reason but atleast from personal experience, and my though on it, when the french first made contact with the mong in Laos, they contact with the white hmong, so the variation they learn was the white hmong variation. when they want to convert teh hmong to christian, the bible was first translated to white hmong and all the foriegner that made contact with the hmong from then learn white hmong. from what people told me, white hmong variation is easier to learn and pronouce compare to hmong leeg variation. white hmong pronouce word at teh tip of of their tong while us mong leeg pronouce at teh side and back of out tong. so when in public and with other white hmong, most of use just learn white hmong variation and use it in public since its much faster to talk pronoucing word at the tip of our tongue then at side, back to top o four tongue. as for writing system, miao in china somewhat use the pollard script. majority of the younger gen just use mandrin. south east asia mong and us mong use 2 writing system. pahawh and popular romanize. popular romanize is what mainly use by us younger generation and in the internet since it use same alphabet as english and it is teh one use in this video.
Nyob zoo phooj ywg, I love your efforts to speak the Hmong language and even you taking the time to teach others on RUclips. I think you did an amazing job with grammar and pronunciation. Although, I must say that some of your history information is inaccurate, or possibly misguided. I think you make many great points and wanted to add more in the comments for anyone who may be interested in learning. 1) Some people actually identify as Hmong Leeg instead of Hmong Green. My family is Hmong White so I don't know the politics or history behind it too well, but there are some slight differences with it. Hmong White is more well-known in the West whereas Hmong Green/Leeg is more spoken in China. 2) Papaya Salad has become a huge part of Hmong cuisine because many of the Hmong people that now live in the US came from Laos and Thailand, but the dish did not originate from Hmong people. 3) Yes, you're right about much resemblance between the Hmong language and Mandarin Chinese. But it doesn't mean that Hmong people are descendants from a Chinese linage, if at all. It could be that Hmong people borrowed certain words from the ruling Chinese dynasties at the time/the dialects of the regions Hmong people migrated from, or even possibly that the Chinese borrowed the words from the Hmong. This might actually take some more academic digging and research. 4) Regarding the clan systems, yes there are a total of 18 clans accounted for in the United States/Western countries. But I've heard from a few Hmong professors and other academic readings that there are actually 22! I can't remember where the source is from, but isn't that just an amazing possibility?! 5) Same last name marriage is a huge controversy (especially between the elders and youngsters). Many elders say that "it's always been that way since the beginning of time so you can't marry someone with the same last name" but for some of the Hmong that still live in China, this is actually not the case at all. Some people believe it was a political tactic to keep the certain clans from marrying within and expanding power (which, during the French-Indochina Era made a lot of sense.) So happy there was a video done on this! Some awesome Hmong books are: Hmong: History of a People Book by Keith Quincy, The Latehomecomer by KaoKalia Yang, and The Root & the Fruit: Hmong Identity Book by Pao Saykao.
Awesome , thank you Very well put. I've lived in the Fox Valley here in Wisconsin. Huge population of Hmong. Always grew up learning about their history and customs. So very cool thank you for the resources as well😀, definitely gonna check them out. As well as I would like to learn Hmong, there's a shortage of translators, exception of the younger generation obviously :))
The new generation is extremely open to marrying outside Hmong. I'm glad you pointed that out. I'm married to a Honduran. My brother is married to an Irish woman. My cousins have Thai spouses. I enjoyed your video and have great respect for you. However, my dad would yell at you for what you said about our relation to the Chinese.
I see many Hmong people everyday (work related)and some can’t speak a single word in English, I like to greet everyone I can (I already speak Spanish too). Thank you for making this video.
Glad found this video!I'm living now in the Hmong village and been watching different videos about Hmong language for my study.Hoping to learn more from you..Ua Tsaug!🙏
Just like Mandarin, Hmong is also a tonal language. 8 to be exact which means it's twice that of Mandarin. But because of that, though learning Mandarin is difficult, I already understand the concept of tones.
The Hmong existed before the Chinese. Probably 10,000 or 15,000 BC. I heard the Hmong King, a great weapon warrior with compassion for his generals, army, and all innocent people, is still being honor to this day.
I'm glad you grow great interest in the hmong culture. However, pronunciation does play a great role; especially the letter H when saying Thao or Thoj the h is silence like how you say hmong without the h sound. But I am please to see you are learning and keep up the good work. Two thumbs up
I am caucasian, my wife is Hmong. Her parents moved here from Laos in 1979. Her mom grew up speaking green and her dad white so her mom is kind of the master. My wife’s Hmong is poor as she grew up here so I am trying to learn on my own to better get to know my inlaws.
Keep learning man, it's hard but learning it will help alot like any other languages, you have my respect I'm hmong also so you have my full respect, love it when people learn about the culture
Fantastic job Pierre. Here is the reason why traditional Hmong names and last name pronunciations do not sound correct when read in English. After loosing the Vietnam war Hmong fighters and families became refugees. The people in charge of the registering Hmong refugees were educated in French - NOT English. All Hmong refugee's names were written using French phonetics. If you were to read Hmong names using French letter sounds, it would sound correct. For example, the name Kub originally spelled: Kou - the "ou" makes an "oo" sound in French. In English the "ou" makes a "ow" such as in cloud. English speakers will always say "cow". Also, the "K" in French also makes a hard K sound instead of a softer "C"
Needs a little more improve of your pronounciation and Hmong words spelling in Hmong language. You are right about 18 last names in the US, but in China, there approximately close to 35. There are White Hmong, Green Hmong, Black Hmong, and Stripe Hmong or Flower Hmong. In the US dominantly Green and White Hmong. Glad that you interest in HMONG. Hmong was not descended from China, Hmong lived in China, dated back 5000 years ago.
I say that we are more closely related with Thai. There are a lot of Hmong in China, but our food and culture is really close to Thai. Also, what you state about Hmong marriage is true. I am a Thao and I cannot marry a Thao. And our language.. there are different languages in Hmong. There's white, green, yellow and flower, etc. But green and white is the most common. Oh, and most our last names are Chinese. Other than that, I like this video.
No, we're not closely related to the Thais. Our culture is very different from the Thais. Food is only because our parents came from Thailand/Laos/SE Asia. Other than that, real culture food is in China, but we still do have/eat some actual traditional food. And Hmong have many dialects. IMO Hmong Dawb and Hmong Ntsuab are really broad dialect titles. If we were to break each dialects, they would all differ in some/many ways. In some ways, we can say that Hmong Dawb is standard.
Lisa Thao we are not close to Thai at all we came from China and have Chinese blood in us, the reason why we have more Thai culture was because each generations they change and the cultures became more Thai that's it, we don't have Thai blood unless ur both Hmong and Thai or something, but in my opinion every human came from 1 family we were just seperated into groups
Funny I'm Hmong and I don't even know about the 18 last names 😂 You are doing a good job speaking Hmong. I can't read Hmong well, especially writing it, doesn't click in my head, but I can understand and speak Hmong very well. 😂
Thank you for this. A group of Hmong people just moved into my neighborhood, two doors down from me. I had a nice conversation in English with one of them. His name is Xeeb, like zebra he said. Now next time I see Xeeb I can say hello in his language. I guess it helps that I know a very little bit of Chinese. I made up a sort of Chinese knock, knock joke. Knock knock, who's there? Mama. Mama who? Mama hoo hoo!
Keep up the good work..you are doing great..I am Hmong dawg..I don't know how to read and write in Hmong, but I can speak very fluently..I am learning how to read and write as well. U-Tube is a great place to learn..
You must not know hmong then dude if you think his pronounciation is amazing he doesnt say it correctly bit im not trying to shit on him but im just saying the way he says it he pronouncing most of it off tone
Actually the history lesson is wrong. Hmong people did not descend from chinese and our language does not descend from theirs. Hmong people and language have always been an independent people and culture descended from indigenous peoples in Asia. As China took more land and tried to force the cultures and people around them to assimilate, many Hmong refused and fought back, eventually resulting in some giving in and assimilating while others left China and moved across Southeast asia where they could live independently in the mountains, undisturbed. The Hmong language just borrows some words from the cultures around them: chinese, Lao, thai...
I think White Hmong is more prevalent when it comes to the Laotian Hmong. The Laotian Hmong includes Hmong in places like Laos and America. In places like China, Thailand, Vietnam, I notice Green Hmong is more prevalent.
bro our Hmong were NOT descended from Chinese thus we were the oldest if you seriously ask a virtual elder Chinese he/she should n would give you answer they descended from us, Hmong okay
You are amazing. I don’t mean to be racist ok but I didn’t expect this from a black guy❤️ you inspired me to try to learn from other cultures too. I’m Hmong but I can’t distinguish Hmong people in look from Laotian or Vietnamese sometime . Hmongs people has genes mixed with everyone around them lol
I'm an European, but I don't know why I can tell someone's a Hmong just by looking at their face. It's like weird, when did I get this ability of quick recognition of other race?
Just to clarify Hmong were not exile from China Hmong choose to run from the red Chinese to run away from the oppression. Hmong were there before the Chinese, Hmong had stories of way before the Chinese came from the West to China and that's when a lot of the mini war occurred due to difference in religion and beliefs
I’m also hmong but I don’t know much about my culture, but trying to learn though I do have one question! If your last name for example if yours and your dads of last name is a ‘Vang’ but your moms is a ‘Cha’ could you still date anyone with the last name ‘Cha’ even if it’s not your last name but a relatives last name?
How do I get a Hmong wife? I'm an European, but I don't know why I can tell someone's a Hmong just by looking at their face. It's like weird, when did I get this ability of quick recognition?
@@Your_Beautiful_Sister_Is_Mine ( ͡o ͜ʖ ͡o) It's not hard to do. This year there will be Hmong New Year's. So you're in luck friend. Keep your hopes up. New Years are the way to find your future wife. ෆ╹ .̮ ╹ෆ
If we have the same "xyeem" (lastname) we can never marry each other or have anykind of romantic relationship. If for some reason we do, we are outcast. My whole 24 years i have not heard of same last name marriage. Also for marriages, it is highly discouraged to marry in-laws. Meaning your Brother or Sister's, (Wife or Husband) siblings, it's almost like marrying your aunt or uncle. Very uncommon, but my friend did get married like that, since he does not have a father, there was no problem with it. There's a lot about the hmoob culture than it's language, but I am very impressed you are learning hmoob!
I’m hmong but it’s super rude to the people to live in china,vietnam,maybe korea and japan. My dad sang a song to the hmong people. Well thank you so much! :)
I am a black Hmong from Guizhou, China and your comment makes me feel sad. Because of the history many Hmong people still live in the mountains until today and still haven't got rid of the poverty in their life. They may not be as rich or as educated as you are. I'm sorry to make you feel rude, but they are very kind. Because when the Hmong from afar arrive, they still prepare the best meal to entertain them.
I fucking love you bro! Excuse my language, every race have thier own form of racism, it's how the individual respond that matters at the end of the day.
I too have noticed that in Mandarin and Hmong, the word friend is similar. It is also similar for the word but. And I bet there are a few more words that I haven't noticed yet.
You are great, bro! Just work more on your tones. It's very important that you know the differences of the tones. The same word in different tone has totally different meaning.
Hello, I am thirteen years old currently. I promise myself that someday I will be able to speak Hmong and Spanish. Where I live people often speak Hmong/Spanish as a first language. I want learn them both because I want to understand people in my community better.
You live in Fresno
You live in Fresno
I'm Hmong people.
It must be Fresno hahaha cool
@@mycommentwilltriggeryou9810 LMAOOOO
I’m second gen Hmong American and I wanted to swoop in to say THANK YOU for highlighting our culture and language. We are proud indigenous people of China and have shared our stories of hope, love, pain, heartache, and of healing around the world. All the love to you, brother. All love to the world. ✊❤️
I am White and have a Hmong girlfriend that I plan to marry. So far the younger people in her family have accepted me, but I do experience a bit of distance from the older generations even tho they are very polite. I am hoping that learning a bit of Hmong will help break the ice so to speak with the older generations in her family. Thank you for the lessons, I got a lot from this!
Who cares what matters is do you two love each other.
Lol self hating Asian girl strikes again
You are almost spot on (no trying to insult you, you’re amazing). The “K” in these words are pronounced like the letter “g” in GOLD in English. It’s a hard heavy “k” that sounds like the “g” in gold.
I’m Hmong and although I’m not a great speaker neither (learning too), I’m around families that speak fluently. Peace! Keep up the good work!
Brother you are perfect 👌. I respect your teaching. I m proud of you. Keep it up brother
You still can't married someone who has the same last name even if you arnt related
KickLikeLee Thao can’t marry Thor either because they are also our brothers and sisters
@@phoenixthao8144 really?
@@origamivangel In Hmong history or story how you want to look at it, there were two brothers that had a good relation to one another. One day they split apart to live in different villages. The older brother lived on top of the mountain while the younger brother lived at the bottom. When they both had children. The children met with one another and soon fell in love. When their marriage was starting to begin, the two children fathers met once more and noticed that their son and daughter were going to be married. They knew that this was taboo but thought about their children's happiness. So they let them marry on another while the older brother kept his name, the younger brother changed his name to Thor. Then soon later we then began to avoid one another because of this.
@@phoenixthao8144 Ohhh okay
Thor and Thao are the same last name, but they just spelled in different characters.
Boy, your pronunciations in Hmong is PERFECT!
Edit: Btw thanks for expressing your love to us Hmong people! ❤️
Koj tsis paub hais lub hmoob if you think he pronunciations the words right
Perfect? Uhhh not really. He has the gist of it, but his pronunciation needs work. Props to him though.
A hmong wana b Korean thinks he speaking hmong perfect? Lmao
it's pretty good, but definitely not PERFECT. the most obvious is "kuv" and "koj". those were pretty bad.
and lol, he said "kay du" lol.
@@hmongb9656 your saying
"You don't how speak Hmong"
Thank you for taking the time to learn about us hmong people and our culture.
my mom is white hmoob but she can speak really well green hmoob because my dad is green hmoob. So basically I am mixed with white hmoob and green hmoob. I can speak both 👍
Luckyy
Same I mix too my mom is white hmoob n my dad is green hmoob
Same
My mom is green and my dad is white
kenn xiing light green hmoob
I just want to say that you did a very good job! I appreciate your curiosity with the Hmong language, culture, history, and I love how you incorporated that into the video. I wish all language learning videos were like this! However, I see many opinions and comments about the Hmong history and background. It’s mostly due to the nomadic and oral story telling lifestyles of the Hmong people that many things lost clarity. Also, the only word I’ll say that you need to work on is “koj” but don’t worry, it’s a very hard word for a lot of people too. Keep up the good work!
In my Family I have a Black Uncle and my Aunt who is Thai was adopted by my Hmong Grandparents. Both of them speak Hmong Fluently. My Uncle has always been amazed by Hmong people and he participate in cutting chickens and Cows.
I stand up for this guy... Much love and respect for knowing/understanding and respecting us Hmong people... Much love my kaydoo Hmong brotha
I'm a sad Hmong person. I don't know how to speak my own language. My mom is making me learn.
why wouldn't you want to learn it's good to know hmong you may not think its impotant now but you will regret not learning it in the future
jade wolf i use to live in thailand but i move far to edwardville kansas city ks so im thai mix asian yo but i know some hmong words tho nyob zoo
If you do want to know u learn from family like me at this point I dont how you do not how to speak in are own language. Jade
Ture
Jade Wolf don’t worry if you can’t speak Hmong, just take it slow. It took me about when I was 10 to understand at all and can only speak a little
It is amazing to see this ! I am half black half Hmong so this is great to see others take interesting. 😄
I am a Hmong Moua and some words are not fluent but it’s still good. But it’s hard to try to teach someone Hmong 🇱🇦
Yous a bitch
I don't why you get so offended by this 😒
I don't why you get so offended by this
CORRECTION: Hmong are NOT Chinese. Although Hmong people are originally from China, the Hmong and Han Chinese have a long history of conflict and since the last 2 centuries, Hmong have always lived without a country and are historically nomadic and like seclusion. We migrated, we were not necessarily exiled. We try to find land with peace and that's why we move all the time when there is conflict and therefore prefer seclusion. We identify ethnically as Hmong- (Country we currently live in). I Identify as Hmong American since I live in MN. AND please stop using Oriental. ASIAN is much more preferred because it is not full of ignorance.
APART from that, THANK YOU for introducing people to our Hmong culture and language but it would help if you had more accurate information and more authentic sources.
I totally understand when you say they may think you’re mocking them or making fun of them. This happened a lot to us growing up but you’re amazing in that you understand this!!! Wow
I don't understand. How is trying to learn their language a sign of making fun of them? That makes no sense at all
Wow! I am amazed by your knowledge of the Hmong culture and our history. ❤❤❤❤
just a quick info and some correction
i guess when the rest of the world said chinese, they most likely mean people from china
when mong said chinese, we meant the hans
mong is an enthic group of the miao from China and no we are not decendent of the hans or the manchu or the mongos
the mong from the miao speak 3 main language. the eastern miao share one language, the centeral miao share one language and the western miao share one language. the western miao have the most dealing with the hans which is why the western miao language share a lot of word with the hans.
majority of the miao/mong outside of china speak western miao and since we are closet to teh hans adn manchu settlement so during the last few war, we got hit the hardest and choose to leave china rather then surrender to the manchu dictator emperor. the 2 main variation of teh western miao language speaking here in teh US is hmong duab and mong leeg. green mong is a sub sect or group of western miao that mainly speak mong leeg. out of teh 2, mong leeg is the one closet and share the most word and pronounciate with teh original western miao language in china.
a lot of teh white hmong and youger generation of hmong in teh US will said that green hmong and mong leeg are the same which is not true. mong leeg and green tradational clothe are not alike. our funeral and ceremonies are different, we are 2 seperate group each with unique tradition, heritage and roots. if u talk to tradition older generation of green hmong, they will said they speak mong leeg, their is no green hmong variation of the western miao language in the US.
as for why green hmong and mong leeg can speak both variation while majority of the other hmong only speak the white hmong variation, i dont know the real reason but atleast from personal experience, and my though on it, when the french first made contact with the mong in Laos, they contact with the white hmong, so the variation they learn was the white hmong variation. when they want to convert teh hmong to christian, the bible was first translated to white hmong and all the foriegner that made contact with the hmong from then learn white hmong. from what people told me, white hmong variation is easier to learn and pronouce compare to hmong leeg variation. white hmong pronouce word at teh tip of of their tong while us mong leeg pronouce at teh side and back of out tong. so when in public and with other white hmong, most of use just learn white hmong variation and use it in public since its much faster to talk pronoucing word at the tip of our tongue then at side, back to top o four tongue.
as for writing system, miao in china somewhat use the pollard script. majority of the younger gen just use mandrin. south east asia mong and us mong use 2 writing system. pahawh and popular romanize. popular romanize is what mainly use by us younger generation and in the internet since it use same alphabet as english and it is teh one use in this video.
haha. i like how u say hmong features about their cute chubby face. i love that about hmong people too
Nyob zoo phooj ywg, I love your efforts to speak the Hmong language and even you taking the time to teach others on RUclips. I think you did an amazing job with grammar and pronunciation. Although, I must say that some of your history information is inaccurate, or possibly misguided. I think you make many great points and wanted to add more in the comments for anyone who may be interested in learning.
1) Some people actually identify as Hmong Leeg instead of Hmong Green. My family is Hmong White so I don't know the politics or history behind it too well, but there are some slight differences with it. Hmong White is more well-known in the West whereas Hmong Green/Leeg is more spoken in China.
2) Papaya Salad has become a huge part of Hmong cuisine because many of the Hmong people that now live in the US came from Laos and Thailand, but the dish did not originate from Hmong people.
3) Yes, you're right about much resemblance between the Hmong language and Mandarin Chinese. But it doesn't mean that Hmong people are descendants from a Chinese linage, if at all. It could be that Hmong people borrowed certain words from the ruling Chinese dynasties at the time/the dialects of the regions Hmong people migrated from, or even possibly that the Chinese borrowed the words from the Hmong. This might actually take some more academic digging and research.
4) Regarding the clan systems, yes there are a total of 18 clans accounted for in the United States/Western countries. But I've heard from a few Hmong professors and other academic readings that there are actually 22! I can't remember where the source is from, but isn't that just an amazing possibility?!
5) Same last name marriage is a huge controversy (especially between the elders and youngsters). Many elders say that "it's always been that way since the beginning of time so you can't marry someone with the same last name" but for some of the Hmong that still live in China, this is actually not the case at all. Some people believe it was a political tactic to keep the certain clans from marrying within and expanding power (which, during the French-Indochina Era made a lot of sense.)
So happy there was a video done on this! Some awesome Hmong books are: Hmong: History of a People
Book by Keith Quincy, The Latehomecomer by KaoKalia Yang, and The Root & the Fruit: Hmong Identity
Book by Pao Saykao.
Awesome , thank you
Very well put. I've lived in the Fox Valley here in Wisconsin. Huge population of Hmong. Always grew up learning about their history and customs. So very cool
thank you for the resources as well😀, definitely gonna check them out. As well as I would like to learn Hmong, there's a shortage of translators, exception of the younger generation obviously :))
Agree! And can you send me info about the 22 clan?
The new generation is extremely open to marrying outside Hmong. I'm glad you pointed that out. I'm married to a Honduran. My brother is married to an Irish woman. My cousins have Thai spouses. I enjoyed your video and have great respect for you. However, my dad would yell at you for what you said about our relation to the Chinese.
Good pronunciation Hmong language.
I see many Hmong people everyday (work related)and some can’t speak a single word in English, I like to greet everyone I can (I already speak Spanish too). Thank you for making this video.
I’m Hmong.I was from California because when there was war my mom and them had to run to Thailand and then go To America by walking!!
So basically they're not American Citizens then? Or did they get their citizenship after?
Glad found this video!I'm living now in the Hmong village and been watching different videos about Hmong language for my study.Hoping to learn more from you..Ua Tsaug!🙏
Wow you have so much knowledge about our culture much respect brother
"a little more rounder, a little more chubbier". LMAO. Out of all the Asians, God blessed the Hmong men with bbw.
Thank you for spreading the love!
Just like Mandarin, Hmong is also a tonal language. 8 to be exact which means it's twice that of Mandarin. But because of that, though learning Mandarin is difficult, I already understand the concept of tones.
The Hmong existed before the Chinese. Probably 10,000 or 15,000 BC. I heard the Hmong King, a great weapon warrior with compassion for his generals, army, and all innocent people, is still being honor to this day.
Thank you for the history lesson along with lesson it helps to appreciate the lesson more
I'm glad you grow great interest in the hmong culture. However, pronunciation does play a great role; especially the letter H when saying Thao or Thoj the h is silence like how you say hmong without the h sound. But I am please to see you are learning and keep up the good work. Two thumbs up
Great job! Keep on learning, you still have some accents in the hmong language, but you are doing good! 👍
Love it do more clips.....
Great teaching we understand you teache👏👏👏
I am caucasian, my wife is Hmong. Her parents moved here from Laos in 1979. Her mom grew up speaking green and her dad white so her mom is kind of the master. My wife’s Hmong is poor as she grew up here so I am trying to learn on my own to better get to know my inlaws.
Keep learning man, it's hard but learning it will help alot like any other languages, you have my respect I'm hmong also so you have my full respect, love it when people learn about the culture
Nyob zoo keej kawg lis lawm.nawb zoo siab muaj lwm haiv neeg txaus siab lo kawm peb hmoob li ntaub ntawv
ayeee where my hmong ppl at!
Fantastic job Pierre.
Here is the reason why traditional Hmong names and last name pronunciations do not sound correct when read in English. After loosing the Vietnam war Hmong fighters and families became refugees. The people in charge of the registering Hmong refugees were educated in French - NOT English. All Hmong refugee's names were written using French phonetics. If you were to read Hmong names using French letter sounds, it would sound correct. For example, the name Kub originally spelled: Kou - the "ou" makes an "oo" sound in French. In English the "ou" makes a "ow" such as in cloud. English speakers will always say "cow". Also, the "K" in French also makes a hard K sound instead of a softer "C"
Gr8 job. You are awesome.
Needs a little more improve of your pronounciation and Hmong words spelling in Hmong language. You are right about 18 last names in the US, but in China, there approximately close to 35. There are White Hmong, Green Hmong, Black Hmong, and Stripe Hmong or Flower Hmong. In the US dominantly Green and White Hmong. Glad that you interest in HMONG. Hmong was not descended from China, Hmong lived in China, dated back 5000 years ago.
naw hes on point never change it, i try to say it like how he does. sounds soo cook
Zoo zoo kawg li os
I wanna learn so when I go home to Minnesota I can say feed me!! 😂😂😂 Feed me now! I missed my Hmong Family!!😁
Nice job! I love your efforts in learning another language! 👍🏼👍🏼
Nyob zoo
Kuv yog Hmoob thaib
Koj hais tau zoo heev li os tij laus
Hello. Amazing I'm Hmong Vietnam. You speak very good.
Wow killed it with the information.
Mus zoo- good bye. we don’t say it much anymore but it’s the correct translation and use back home. You are doing a great job.
No bad..you're learning very well
Koj hais tau lus hmong zoo heev li os
Great video
I say that we are more closely related with Thai. There are a lot of Hmong in China, but our food and culture is really close to Thai. Also, what you state about Hmong marriage is true. I am a Thao and I cannot marry a Thao. And our language.. there are different languages in Hmong. There's white, green, yellow and flower, etc. But green and white is the most common. Oh, and most our last names are Chinese. Other than that, I like this video.
No, we're not closely related to the Thais. Our culture is very different from the Thais. Food is only because our parents came from Thailand/Laos/SE Asia. Other than that, real culture food is in China, but we still do have/eat some actual traditional food. And Hmong have many dialects. IMO Hmong Dawb and Hmong Ntsuab are really broad dialect titles. If we were to break each dialects, they would all differ in some/many ways. In some ways, we can say that Hmong Dawb is standard.
Lisa Thao we are not close to Thai at all we came from China and have Chinese blood in us, the reason why we have more Thai culture was because each generations they change and the cultures became more Thai that's it, we don't have Thai blood unless ur both Hmong and Thai or something, but in my opinion every human came from 1 family we were just seperated into groups
We are not close to Thai at all. We are indigenous people of China typical eastern Asians
Funny I'm Hmong and I don't even know about the 18 last names 😂
You are doing a good job speaking Hmong. I can't read Hmong well, especially writing it, doesn't click in my head, but I can understand and speak Hmong very well. 😂
This is great! I just learned something I didn’t know! Cool!
I’m Hmong myself and this is quite hard 😩
Great job
Koj qhia hais hluj hmoob zoo heev. Kuv nyiam kawm
Thank you for this. A group of Hmong people just moved into my neighborhood, two doors down from me. I had a nice conversation in English with one of them. His name is Xeeb, like zebra he said. Now next time I see Xeeb I can say hello in his language. I guess it helps that I know a very little bit of Chinese. I made up a sort of Chinese knock, knock joke. Knock knock, who's there? Mama. Mama who? Mama hoo hoo!
I'm friends with a lot of Hmong people where I used to live in Fresno and I'm glad to say I know most last names 💜💜💜
Keep up the good work..you are doing great..I am Hmong dawg..I don't know how to read and write in Hmong, but I can speak very fluently..I am learning how to read and write as well. U-Tube is a great place to learn..
xaiuon its dawb not dawg
wow your pronunciation are amazing and u said u from Minnesota hope i meet u some day plus u speak better than me
You must not know hmong then dude if you think his pronounciation is amazing he doesnt say it correctly bit im not trying to shit on him but im just saying the way he says it he pronouncing most of it off tone
Actually the history lesson is wrong. Hmong people did not descend from chinese and our language does not descend from theirs. Hmong people and language have always been an independent people and culture descended from indigenous peoples in Asia. As China took more land and tried to force the cultures and people around them to assimilate, many Hmong refused and fought back, eventually resulting in some giving in and assimilating while others left China and moved across Southeast asia where they could live independently in the mountains, undisturbed. The Hmong language just borrows some words from the cultures around them: chinese, Lao, thai...
Its debatable .. thats just one of the problems with not having a written history...
I love this! Keep it up!!
good explanation
very nice
So ummm ALL my family members speak green while I speak white.......
Also you are a very good at hmong
thanks
Good jobe teacher.i am hmong Thailand
What happens brother you don't have new videos anymore?
Awesome job!
Damn...Your Fluence In Hmong Is GOOD!!!
Kpopmylife it's not he sucks sick at it
Y3LLO Y3LLO Damn this guy has no life, he mite be one of those racist hmong ppl. oxo
Mm ok
I think White Hmong is more prevalent when it comes to the Laotian Hmong. The Laotian Hmong includes Hmong in places like Laos and America. In places like China, Thailand, Vietnam, I notice Green Hmong is more prevalent.
bro our Hmong were NOT descended from Chinese thus we were the oldest if you seriously ask a virtual
elder Chinese he/she should n would give you answer they descended from us, Hmong okay
You are amazing. I don’t mean to be racist ok but I didn’t expect this from a black guy❤️ you inspired me to try to learn from other cultures too.
I’m Hmong but I can’t distinguish Hmong people in look from Laotian or Vietnamese sometime . Hmongs people has genes mixed with everyone around them lol
I'm an European, but I don't know why I can tell someone's a Hmong just by looking at their face. It's like weird, when did I get this ability of quick recognition of other race?
Most Hmongs have broad faces, the females mostly look like each other.
@@Your_Beautiful_Sister_Is_Mine I notice that most white guys look similar and sometimes I get them mix up too.
@@kayingthao5072 Yes, you're right. But telling Hmongs apart from other oriental Asians is way easier than telling apart white guys from another. Lol
Just to clarify Hmong were not exile from China Hmong choose to run from the red Chinese to run away from the oppression. Hmong were there before the Chinese, Hmong had stories of way before the Chinese came from the West to China and that's when a lot of the mini war occurred due to difference in religion and beliefs
I’m also hmong but I don’t know much about my culture, but trying to learn though I do have one question! If your last name for example if yours and your dads of last name is a ‘Vang’ but your moms is a ‘Cha’ could you still date anyone with the last name ‘Cha’ even if it’s not your last name but a relatives last name?
I wish he made more of these
Good job there .
I have to subscribe your Chanel today.
Hmong Green is alike speaking a clearer tone and fully words. White Hmong tones are like Half ascents words. That's how I know the difference.
How do I get a Hmong wife? I'm an European, but I don't know why I can tell someone's a Hmong just by looking at their face. It's like weird, when did I get this ability of quick recognition?
@@Your_Beautiful_Sister_Is_Mine ( ͡o ͜ʖ ͡o) It's not hard to do. This year there will be Hmong New Year's. So you're in luck friend. Keep your hopes up. New Years are the way to find your future wife. ෆ╹ .̮ ╹ෆ
@@lilacfairy. Let me enamor you, instead!
@@lilacfairy. Let's celebrate it together!
If we have the same "xyeem" (lastname) we can never marry each other or have anykind of romantic relationship. If for some reason we do, we are outcast. My whole 24 years i have not heard of same last name marriage. Also for marriages, it is highly discouraged to marry in-laws. Meaning your Brother or Sister's, (Wife or Husband) siblings, it's almost like marrying your aunt or uncle. Very uncommon, but my friend did get married like that, since he does not have a father, there was no problem with it. There's a lot about the hmoob culture than it's language, but I am very impressed you are learning hmoob!
i used to live in minnesota!
I’m hmong but it’s super rude to the people to live in china,vietnam,maybe korea and japan. My dad sang a song to the hmong people. Well thank you so much! :)
nice pfp lol
I am a black Hmong from Guizhou, China and your comment makes me feel sad. Because of the history many Hmong people still live in the mountains until today and still haven't got rid of the poverty in their life. They may not be as rich or as educated as you are. I'm sorry to make you feel rude, but they are very kind. Because when the Hmong from afar arrive, they still prepare the best meal to entertain them.
I fucking love you bro! Excuse my language, every race have thier own form of racism, it's how the individual respond that matters at the end of the day.
The way to say how are you in Hmong sounds similar to the Japanese konnichiwa
Respect ❤
You’re pretty awesome!
Excellent!
Thanks for the video! What made you start learning Hmong?
I too have noticed that in Mandarin and Hmong, the word friend is similar. It is also similar for the word but. And I bet there are a few more words that I haven't noticed yet.
white hmong is modernized hmong & green hmong is more old style so that’s why hmong green people are able to speak hmong white.
Bro what happened to Hmong 102??
Good job!
Good
This guy is very smart
Good teaching.
I respect you
I'm Hmong and I don't even speak the language, so if you said "Hello, how are you doing" in Hmong to I will give you a blank stare.
You are great, bro! Just work more on your tones. It's very important that you know the differences of the tones. The same word in different tone has totally different meaning.
Yep like noov and noog you only geg it if you can read hmong