Thanks very much Olly, you're videos were a big inspiration so that's really nice to hear! I plan to go to your Polyglot Pub event on the 1st. Hopefully we can speak some Cantonese, never spoken to another 鬼佬 in the language before haha
It'll be fun! We often have Cantonese speakers there actually. But it's not gonna be on the 1st -- probably the week after. I'll send an email. Your Cantonese is better than mine now, for sure. I really struggle to get enough practice.
Olly, your was super impressive. Your videos inspired me as well. And it seems like you did it all without spending much time living in a Cantonese speaking environment.
YES, in fact I have met many people speak Cantonese fluently after have been HK for 1 year(max 2 years). It's easy. If you can find a ORIGINAL HK person to teach you proper Cantonese, you can do that as they know the correct and proper way to learn Cantonese.
I agree, Olly. I'm also learning cantonese and you are the one who inspired me so much. Your cantonese video encouraged me to try. I'm your fan. And by the way, your brazilian Portuguese is great! (I'm brazilian and I watched your video speaking Portuguese). Now, I see Alex also speaking so fluent cantonese! wow, you two guys are just amazing. Do ze saai!
As a native Cantonese speaker, your Cantonese is pretty good, especially since you're not native, and it's REALLY hard to learn as a non-native speaker. Tbh your tones are a little off, but I can defintely tell what you're trying to say and PLEASE continue to learn and speak Cantonese, you're doing great!
Actually his Cantonese sounds like the village dialect (Toishan), but I can totally understand him. Pretty good. But shouldn't he be learning Mandarin?
his cantonese doesn't sound like toishan at all, it is awesome to be able to speak Cantonese, Cantonese is much more fun It is easy for westerners to learn Mandarins
I’m so impressed with your ability that I don’t need to read your subtitles. This is very encouraging for my American born children who lacks the speaking ability. You are such an inspiration. Keep up the fantastic linguistic skills!
Thank you so much for learning Cantonese! I appreciate your effort a lot! I'm a native Cantonese speaker and live in Hong Kong. Your Cantonese sounds good, just a little unsteady about the tones, but trust me, I can fully understand you without looking at the subtitles. You're now back to the UK. Would you come to HK again? I bet you have very little chance speaking Cantonese in the UK. Hope you'll find some residents or students there from Hong Kong and keep on practising with them. Add oil~~
Thank you very much for your kind words :) I haven't been able to find any Cantonese speakers yet but I'll be moving to London in August so I'm hoping it'll be easier there because there's quite a large Cantonese speaking community. I'll definitely be coming back to HK though, my favourite city!
AlexHarris1094 I'm from mizoram..I wanna learn Cantonese language end up i gives up ..but you encourage me.. and give me some hope to learn again thanks alot 😇
I'm SO AMAZED by your cantonese and how fluent you got so fast. Definitely amazing!! I'm studying abroad in Japan right now trying to learn Japanese, but it definitely hard to continually speak Japanese !! truly an inspiration!
Serious props to you for learning Cantonese! It is such a hard language - especially learning it when you're not in HK! - and you are doing amazingly well. I grew up in HK and I can count on one hand the number of foreigners I know who can say more than 'lei ho' - and many of those people were born and raised in HK. I cannot tell you how nice it is to see someone make the effort to learn the language. I see that you're coming to London soon! There's loads of Canto speakers in London and I'm sure you'll find loads of people to practice the language with. Keep up the good work! :)
Chi sin! Your Cantonese really Ho ging! Nei Ho ging!!! I’m genuinely impressed! Cantonese is rather difficult to learn but you’ve done such a great job learning it. I really appreciate when an expat cares to learn the local language even when English would work just fine in daily life. Ga Yau!!💪🏽
Hey Alex! Great work mate!! Seriously, I live in Hong Kong and have been learning cantonese for 1 year now, your cantonese is streets ahead mate! this is inspiring!
You did so well for just learning it for a year! I'm so impressed! Are there any special ways how you achieved it? As a native Hong Konger I am teaching Cantonese to some kids. Feel free to message me if you want some practice with a native speaker, I was in the UK for an exchange semester too! I would love to practise British English if you are up for it!
Janice Chui I never learnt Cantonese and would like to have someone help me , please email me so we can meet :) my email is brandonchinwingcheng@gmail.com
Hey ! Janice . I'm a from nepal (if you know where that is) and i fell in love with the language since the first time i heard someone speaking it . Well i'm one of the handful of people in my school at least that know Cantonese is a language . And i would really love it if you could help me progress because i really want to master this language but i can't progress . I would really appreciate your help.
I'm french but I recently in Hong Kong. Since I am mixed asian, people here always speak to me in cantonese and I struggle a lot. I have started to learn cantonese for a month and it's really really hard. I almost gave up. Your video motivates me a lot so thank u so much !!!
Alex, I just found your channel. You should be very proud of your accomplishment thus far. You've posted this 4 years ago so I am sure that your Cantonese is amazing by now. You speak very well. I understand you fine although I agree with the other commentators that your tone needs a little bit of work. But you'll get it in time. My advice to you (which you are already doing) practice using the language on a regular basis with native speakers. They are your best teachers. Never be afraid of feedback. It'll only help you to improve. Best of luck, my friend!
I am so glad to know that you are learning Cantonese 😄 I appreciate your learning attitude and please don't be afraid of making any mistakes as it is surely a way for you to learn better 😊 I noticed that you would watch some videos of Hong Kong RUclipsrs and it's surely a great way to improve your Cantonese 😉 I have an American friend who is learning Cantonese as well and he chooses to write diaries every week and let his Hong Kong friends correct them for him. I mean,if you wanna learn Chinese writing as well,I think it would be an effective way 😄 Anyway, good luck and 加油！！💪💪
Congratulations！ive just watched your recent videos and noted you have made mark improvement in Cantonese during the past years . All the best to you no matter where you are ! Add oil ！
Hey Alex, your Cantonese is very amazing! Although there is British accent in your speaking, the sentences are very fluent and correct! I really appreciate your persistence in learning Cantonese. It doesn't matter if you mispronounce the words because it's undoubted that Cantonese is one of the most difficult languages to be learnt in the world, most of Hong Kong people would comprehend your speaking if you talk with us. And you thought inspires me to learn a new language because it's good to know more about one country's culture by learning its language. It's such a great attitude! Keep going and you are welcome to talk with me if you want to know more about Cantonese. Sorry for my poor English. :P A youtube user from Hong Kong.
You already speak Cantonese very well with colloquial words as you recognise the distinction between spoken Cantonese and written Chinese. Surely you’ll succeed in whatever you do in Chinese societies.
Hi Alex! I'm what's known as a BBC (British Born Chinese) and I can tell you. Your Cantonese is miles better then mine already!! And what's even more amazing is that you've only been learning a year?! Well done and keep up the good work!!! :)
your cantonese is perfect, i am very appreciated for your hard working in cantonese. i always see expatriate living in hong kong for years but learnt little Cantonese, you showed me another side of foreigners living in hk. cheers.
Came across this randomly, was so impressed that you're able to speak so incredibly well after only a year. I really seems that you can speak so fluently without searching for words, sentence structure, perfect!
I am impressed with what you have picked up after a year Alex! CONGRATS. I was told my cantonese was worse than a five-year-old kiddo when I speak.And my vocal is only enough to help me get by in a basic conversation. I am likely to switch between English and Cantonese in a conversation and always end up speaking solely English. Not that I don't want to work on my Cantonese, its just that i feel more comfortable to express myself in English and Vietnamese given the fact that neither of those languages are my mother tongue. Having seen your video, I seriously need to figure out a way to improve my poor Canto. I can say that exposing yourself to an environment in which you can only use Canto to communicate will definitely help and also watching lots of TVB dramas/movies might help you expand your vocabulary and pick up local lingo along the way.
Excellent stuff, especially as you've only been at it for a year! I'm BBC, grew up learning Cantonese from family and although my accent is fluid, my vocabulary has always been a bit poor. I can hear your pronunciation is a 'little' rigid / hard but seeing as you've gotten this good after such a short amount of time I reckon that your canto would be really strong if you spent another year in HK surrounded by hong kongers. So good to see a fellow Brit learning such a difficult language, I had a tough enough time learning German at school.!
Hey alex, first of all, round of applause to all that you have achieved!!!I really am astonished by foreigners that speak canto, cheers to your effort! I was only listening so I wasnt looking at the subtitles but i could still understand you pretty well! Please make more content like talking about UK in Cantonese or try outs tongue twisters in canto ❤ much love from HK
I'm American-Chinese and at home my brother and I speak Cantonese to our parents. The only reason I was able to understand certain terms and slang and all was not from my parents but from the mini tvb series I use to watch as a kid. Those tvb mini series did help me a lot. Keep up the good work!!! It's paying off!!
哈喽！very inspiring vide! I’m Russian and I’ve just started learning cantonese. Where is no cantonese educating materials in russian language so i’ll be happy to receive your advice about learning cantonese and resources that you use. Thank you!🤗
Omg your Cantonese sounds so cute! You do mostly speak right but I do hear an occasional mispronunciation but with the context I still know exactly what you are saying so don’t get hung over with pronunciation and keep going!
You have already overcome the greatest hurdle- being motivated, and finding many different avenues - formal and informal - to learn -films, friends, food (and culture).... congratulations! There is no stopping you now! Well-done!! I hope to see more videos of you down the road as you document your amazing progress!
Amazing that you've only learnt it for one year. I think you can keep watching other short Cantonese clips on RUclips to keep up the language, the slangs, and the latest development of the culture.
As a person who speaks english as a second language but has started speaking it more frequently than canto, a lot of the things you pointed out here made me realise how hard canto actually is! I was super suprised that youre so good at canto! You still have to work on you tone quite a bit, but youre doing amazingly well.
Great work Alex. I grew up speaking Cantonese but lost it in an English speaking country but am now trying to improve it. Keep it up. I have posted some videos here so we could swap notes.
Hello Alex as a HongKonger I feel really happy and touched to see you put such great effort in learning our language. and Im amazed too about how you seem need not to think about which word to use it's like you're thinking in Cantonese already
You just got earned one subscriber from me. I was born in China and came to Australia when I was 1. I grew up speaking cantonese as my main language at home and learnt English through school and growing up. I know mandarin but no fully. I am also learning french, it is extremely hard to pronounce!!! learning a new language is hard, it require a lot of effort and I'm so amazed how perfect your cantonese is! would you let me know how and what ways you've learnt it? would love to hear your reply!! :)
Good job! It's great to see people really embracing different cultures. I am from California and I am a native Cantonese speaker. I am Asian American. Keep it up! 💪 你講得不錯啊！ 如果你有問題，你可以問我吧。：）。加油啊！
I am an American born Chinese who speaks Cantonese. You added a few English words. Here we call it "Chinglish". LOL Alex, keep up the good work!! I can tell...eventually you will sound like a true Hong Konger!! :)
Yes you are very right about Cantonese language. It's difficult to learn, but I think you have really picked up the language well and to be able to communicate with people. Great job!
Good for you pal. Cantonese is hard, I spent two years living in Hong Kong and I agree with your point that if you don't speak it you miss out on so much of their rich culture. Keep working on those tonnes and just copy the natives when they speak (which I'm sure you continue to do). It's the best language ever!
Dude, your fluency is great! Your prosody (i think) is also great. It's just the tones... if you got them down, you'd be pretty native. Maybe learning IPA will help
Alex, you hit the nail in the head Cantonese is most fun language of all the Chinese languages, very dynamic and yet very versatile. Keep speaking, you are doing fine.
Great presentation; it's even more than a vlog episode about your experience. I like how you calmly addressed your learning curve and some specific examples then related to the audience.
Hey man, your Cantonese is FAIRLY passable. A lot of the sentences you've enunciated is very fluent and understandable. AND ... if your friends laugh at you, then it's just because you are still learning to speak naturally fluent. It's not a bad thing, it's the same in many cultures.
Hi Alex, I am a Cantonese teacher in the US. Sometimes it is discouraging to see some of my students give up and learn another foreign language instead because cantonese is "too difficult". But your video is truly encouraging. I want to show this to my students :) "ga yau!"
Mandy Chiu maybe as a teacher you should rethink your teaching methods for learning Cantonese if your students are giving up so early on just saying. Now of course 99% of Chinese teachers can’t really teach Chinese for crap lol 😂 but if that’s truly the case try to find a to teach it in a fun an efficient way 加油💪
PROPS TO YOU MAN. PROPS! I'm a native cantonese speaker but you speak better than me!! You have really great vocabulary! Practice does it! You are amazing!
I'm half Cantonese and half Chinese cause my dad is from Hong Kong and my mum is from Goungzou (somewhere in china) And your Cantonese is really good for 1 year! :D I used to speak fluent Mandarin when I was younger but I guess I started to lose it from getting into kindergarten speaking English. (I was born in Australia and still living)
Your Canto is sooo good! As a BBC, I spent 15 years learning Canto at Chinese school and yours is pretty much on the same level as mine. Impressive, keep it up!
Alex you are amazing, @the young age of 21, you're a renaissance man. So happy that u can not only learn but embrace a foreign culture no matter how difficult it may be, and not letting your friends laughing @your faux pas discourage you. Mad Props, you are good news that that the future is bright with more people like you.
Hey Alex, that's a great effort for one year's worth of learning! I think your pronunciation and range of words is fantastic. You sound quite monotone at times though, but you'll get better in time.
That's pretty impressive. Cantonese has many different pronunciations and it is hard to pick up. As a Cantonese speaker in NYC, I think this is pretty good!
Excellent for 1 year of learning, i understand everything what you said. I've a lot of friends living here for 10 years + and can't do simple communication Thumbs Up
Hong Konger here:) I think you can master Cantonese pretty well already, good job! I wonder if you are learning the Chinese characters and written Cantonese as well. If you want a more entertaining way of learning, I guess besides watching movies,listening to some Cantonese songs would be good.
Hi Alex, I am moving to Hongkong for my post graduation studies and I want to learn cantonese.plese help me ,share with me your learning methods,how you learned and what can ... Keep up the good work
Your cantonese is good, still need to work on your pronounciation but you have more vocabulary than I do. I'm curious to watch another video now to see your progress!
Alex please help me to learn Cantonese, please . I felt in love with HongKong because I grew up with HongKong films and that how I knew about Hong Kong people with their lifestyle. My heart is melted every time I hear Cantonese. I hope you can suggest me any resources and methods that you've been using to learn Cantonese. I really appreciate it. Thanks
Hi Alex, I am really impressed by your fluency in Cantonese (Man it's too difficult to learn). I am a big fan of HK culture and agree that you need to know Cantonese to make most of this place. I have just started learning Cantonese so do you mind to share some tips/resources which helped you in learning Cantonese?
Hi ! Your cantonese is so greattttt ! Congrats ! you know a lots of vocabulary and you know how to use the good words. That's perfect. Keep Up ! I also like to learn other languages. When you have the passion for that and a good listening you can improve fast.
Hi Alex, your cantonese is amazing. I was able to understand everything you said. I am very glad you are enjoying your stay in Hong Kong. Communicating with people in Cantonese will definitely help you improve. If you wanna further improve it, maybe try listening to songs and raps in Cantonese. Good luck with everything. Cheers :)
You're my idol. 😳. You really learned all this from home on your own? In just over a year? Very impressive. The tones made me give up . Plus probably a bit of laziness and not actually living in HK. But I'd love to be able to learn from a tutor in person one day soon. Don't like the idea of doing over the internet. Well done, young man. Keep going
Awesome! Hope you will love the HK 80's and 90's song! It can improve your Cantonese and love the culture a lot more! Cantonese have a vast and interesting phrase!!
I am SOOOOOOOO impressed with your Cantonese. Literally all my western friends who have lived in HK for years still know nothing about Cantonese. Would love to know what your Cantonese is like now after 3 years haha. 你嘅廣東話真係講得好好！
ermahgerdddddd. how did you learn so quickly i'm impressed jeez. you explained the tones thing so accurately. this is perfect i'm in love ahahaha. (english food isn't that bad btw hehe)
He's actually really good cause I speak Cantonese
Kaitlyn Chen teach me?
it's fucking youtube. You seriously think anyone's gonna help you?
係lo! 佢好好lo...分分中好過我 tim 呀
@@Chajwoo 😹
@@kiwilemonn omg that was two years ago 💀
Hey Alex, your Cantonese is amazing man, great work! I'd love to get the chance to do what you did in Hong Kong, sounds like so much fun.
Thanks very much Olly, you're videos were a big inspiration so that's really nice to hear! I plan to go to your Polyglot Pub event on the 1st. Hopefully we can speak some Cantonese, never spoken to another 鬼佬 in the language before haha
It'll be fun! We often have Cantonese speakers there actually. But it's not gonna be on the 1st -- probably the week after. I'll send an email. Your Cantonese is better than mine now, for sure. I really struggle to get enough practice.
Olly, your was super impressive. Your videos inspired me as well. And it seems like you did it all without spending much time living in a Cantonese speaking environment.
YES, in fact I have met many people speak Cantonese fluently
after have been HK for 1 year(max 2 years). It's easy.
If you can find a ORIGINAL HK person to teach you proper Cantonese, you can do that as they know the correct and proper way to learn Cantonese.
I agree, Olly. I'm also learning cantonese and you are the one who inspired me so much. Your cantonese video encouraged me to try. I'm your fan. And by the way, your brazilian Portuguese is great! (I'm brazilian and I watched your video speaking Portuguese). Now, I see Alex also speaking so fluent cantonese! wow, you two guys are just amazing. Do ze saai!
As a native Cantonese speaker, your Cantonese is pretty good, especially since you're not native, and it's REALLY hard to learn as a non-native speaker. Tbh your tones are a little off, but I can defintely tell what you're trying to say and PLEASE continue to learn and speak Cantonese, you're doing great!
I am from Hong Kong and I think your Cantonese is perfect, 加油 (keep up )
i read jia you idk what it is in cantonese even though i speak it Dx
Nwkha Ha jia yoo in mandarin.. in cantonese is ka yaoo
Actually his Cantonese sounds like the village dialect (Toishan), but I can totally understand him. Pretty good. But shouldn't he be learning Mandarin?
his cantonese doesn't sound like toishan at all, it is awesome to be able to speak Cantonese, Cantonese is much more fun
It is easy for westerners to learn Mandarins
his cantonese is perfect. I am impressive.
i can not find anyone speak Mandarin in HK.
Why should he learn Mandarin in HK?
加油你好叻仔!多謝你重視重專重本地既語言同文化!!!!! 🤗🤗
wow, your Cantonese is great. Accent is inevitable but you speak very fluently like you dun need to think about which word to use. It's amazing.
Honestly, very little people actually care about accents in HK, ESPECIALLY if you're caucasian lol.
A white guy is better in Cantonese than me. I am such a disgrace 😭😭
@@briantung2145 wrong culture but okrrrr
I'm worse because I can't even speak Cantonese fluently. I can only understand others talking Cantonese and say a few words..😭😭😭😭
Shame.
I’m so impressed with your ability that I don’t need to read your subtitles. This is very encouraging for my American born children who lacks the speaking ability. You are such an inspiration. Keep up the fantastic linguistic skills!
Thank you so much for learning Cantonese! I appreciate your effort a lot! I'm a native Cantonese speaker and live in Hong Kong. Your Cantonese sounds good, just a little unsteady about the tones, but trust me, I can fully understand you without looking at the subtitles.
You're now back to the UK. Would you come to HK again? I bet you have very little chance speaking Cantonese in the UK. Hope you'll find some residents or students there from Hong Kong and keep on practising with them. Add oil~~
Thank you very much for your kind words :) I haven't been able to find any Cantonese speakers yet but I'll be moving to London in August so I'm hoping it'll be easier there because there's quite a large Cantonese speaking community. I'll definitely be coming back to HK though, my favourite city!
AlexHarris1094 I'm from mizoram..I wanna learn Cantonese language end up i gives up ..but you encourage me.. and give me some hope to learn again thanks alot 😇
I'm SO AMAZED by your cantonese and how fluent you got so fast. Definitely amazing!! I'm studying abroad in Japan right now trying to learn Japanese, but it definitely hard to continually speak Japanese !! truly an inspiration!
Serious props to you for learning Cantonese! It is such a hard language - especially learning it when you're not in HK! - and you are doing amazingly well. I grew up in HK and I can count on one hand the number of foreigners I know who can say more than 'lei ho' - and many of those people were born and raised in HK. I cannot tell you how nice it is to see someone make the effort to learn the language. I see that you're coming to London soon! There's loads of Canto speakers in London and I'm sure you'll find loads of people to practice the language with. Keep up the good work! :)
Chi sin! Your Cantonese really Ho ging! Nei Ho ging!!! I’m genuinely impressed! Cantonese is rather difficult to learn but you’ve done such a great job learning it. I really appreciate when an expat cares to learn the local language even when English would work just fine in daily life. Ga Yau!!💪🏽
Hey Alex! Great work mate!! Seriously, I live in Hong Kong and have been learning cantonese for 1 year now, your cantonese is streets ahead mate! this is inspiring!
You did so well for just learning it for a year! I'm so impressed! Are there any special ways how you achieved it? As a native Hong Konger I am teaching Cantonese to some kids. Feel free to message me if you want some practice with a native speaker, I was in the UK for an exchange semester too! I would love to practise British English if you are up for it!
Janice Chui I never learnt Cantonese and would like to have someone help me , please email me so we can meet :) my email is brandonchinwingcheng@gmail.com
Hey ! Janice . I'm a from nepal (if you know where that is) and i fell in love with the language since the first time i heard someone speaking it . Well i'm one of the handful of people in my school at least that know Cantonese is a language . And i would really love it if you could help me progress because i really want to master this language but i can't progress . I would really appreciate your help.
I'm french but I recently in Hong Kong. Since I am mixed asian, people here always speak to me in cantonese and I struggle a lot. I have started to learn cantonese for a month and it's really really hard. I almost gave up. Your video motivates me a lot so thank u so much !!!
Wow! Super impressive. I'm a HKer, you speak it so well I could catch every word you said without even looking at the subtitles. Keep it up! :)
勁喎@@我完全聽得明你講咩!!!!你啲發音都OK呀=)!!! 加油呀!!!!
Alex, I just found your channel. You should be very proud of your accomplishment thus far. You've posted this 4 years ago so I am sure that your Cantonese is amazing by now. You speak very well. I understand you fine although I agree with the other commentators that your tone needs a little bit of work. But you'll get it in time. My advice to you (which you are already doing) practice using the language on a regular basis with native speakers. They are your best teachers. Never be afraid of feedback. It'll only help you to improve. Best of luck, my friend!
I am so glad to know that you are learning Cantonese 😄 I appreciate your learning attitude and please don't be afraid of making any mistakes as it is surely a way for you to learn better 😊 I noticed that you would watch some videos of Hong Kong RUclipsrs and it's surely a great way to improve your Cantonese 😉 I have an American friend who is learning Cantonese as well and he chooses to write diaries every week and let his Hong Kong friends correct them for him. I mean,if you wanna learn Chinese writing as well,I think it would be an effective way 😄 Anyway, good luck and 加油！！💪💪
Congratulations！ive just watched your recent videos and noted you have made mark improvement in Cantonese during the past years . All the best to you no matter where you are ! Add oil ！
Hey Alex, your Cantonese is very amazing! Although there is British accent in your speaking, the sentences are very fluent and correct! I really appreciate your persistence in learning Cantonese. It doesn't matter if you mispronounce the words because it's undoubted that Cantonese is one of the most difficult languages to be learnt in the world, most of Hong Kong people would comprehend your speaking if you talk with us. And you thought inspires me to learn a new language because it's good to know more about one country's culture by learning its language. It's such a great attitude! Keep going and you are welcome to talk with me if you want to know more about Cantonese. Sorry for my poor English. :P
A youtube user from Hong Kong.
You already speak Cantonese very well with colloquial words as you recognise the distinction between spoken Cantonese and written Chinese. Surely you’ll succeed in whatever you do in Chinese societies.
Hi Alex! I'm what's known as a BBC (British Born Chinese) and I can tell you. Your Cantonese is miles better then mine already!! And what's even more amazing is that you've only been learning a year?! Well done and keep up the good work!!! :)
Okay this is seriously amazing, the pronunciation is not bad at all, I could understand you very well! Keep it up!
your cantonese is perfect, i am very appreciated for your hard working in cantonese. i always see expatriate living in hong kong for years but learnt little Cantonese, you showed me another side of foreigners living in hk. cheers.
Came across this randomly, was so impressed that you're able to speak so incredibly well after only a year. I really seems that you can speak so fluently without searching for words, sentence structure, perfect!
I am impressed with what you have picked up after a year Alex! CONGRATS. I was told my cantonese was worse than a five-year-old kiddo when I speak.And my vocal is only enough to help me get by in a basic conversation. I am likely to switch between English and Cantonese in a conversation and always end up speaking solely English. Not that I don't want to work on my Cantonese, its just that i feel more comfortable to express myself in English and Vietnamese given the fact that neither of those languages are my mother tongue. Having seen your video, I seriously need to figure out a way to improve my poor Canto. I can say that exposing yourself to an environment in which you can only use Canto to communicate will definitely help and also watching lots of TVB dramas/movies might help you expand your vocabulary and pick up local lingo along the way.
Excellent stuff, especially as you've only been at it for a year! I'm BBC, grew up learning Cantonese from family and although my accent is fluid, my vocabulary has always been a bit poor. I can hear your pronunciation is a 'little' rigid / hard but seeing as you've gotten this good after such a short amount of time I reckon that your canto would be really strong if you spent another year in HK surrounded by hong kongers. So good to see a fellow Brit learning such a difficult language, I had a tough enough time learning German at school.!
Hey alex, first of all, round of applause to all that you have achieved!!!I really am astonished by foreigners that speak canto, cheers to your effort! I was only listening so I wasnt looking at the subtitles but i could still understand you pretty well! Please make more content like talking about UK in Cantonese or try outs tongue twisters in canto ❤ much love from HK
I'm American-Chinese and at home my brother and I speak Cantonese to our parents. The only reason I was able to understand certain terms and slang and all was not from my parents but from the mini tvb series I use to watch as a kid. Those tvb mini series did help me a lot. Keep up the good work!!! It's paying off!!
WOW! I'm impressed, I speak cantonese as well, I agree with you, cantonese is a pretty hard to learn.
哈喽！very inspiring vide! I’m Russian and I’ve just started learning cantonese. Where is no cantonese educating materials in russian language so i’ll be happy to receive your advice about learning cantonese and resources that you use. Thank you!🤗
Add oil!! 加油！
Omg your Cantonese sounds so cute! You do mostly speak right but I do hear an occasional mispronunciation but with the context I still know exactly what you are saying so don’t get hung over with pronunciation and keep going!
You have already overcome the greatest hurdle- being motivated, and finding many different avenues - formal and informal - to learn -films, friends, food (and culture).... congratulations! There is no stopping you now! Well-done!! I hope to see more videos of you down the road as you document your amazing progress!
Amazing that you've only learnt it for one year. I think you can keep watching other short Cantonese clips on RUclips to keep up the language, the slangs, and the latest development of the culture.
As a person who speaks english as a second language but has started speaking it more frequently than canto, a lot of the things you pointed out here made me realise how hard canto actually is! I was super suprised that youre so good at canto! You still have to work on you tone quite a bit, but youre doing amazingly well.
Fabulous! Hats off to you mate. Your accent is charming.
I love the way you pronounce different tone of “唱”!! It’s super accurate!!
Great work Alex. I grew up speaking Cantonese but lost it in an English speaking country but am now trying to improve it. Keep it up. I have posted some videos here so we could swap notes.
Glad that you loved the Hong Kong culture and Cantonese:) it's very impressive that you can speak this fluent after just a year! keep it up man
Hello Alex as a HongKonger I feel really happy and touched to see you put such great effort in learning our language. and Im amazed too about how you seem need not to think about which word to use it's like you're thinking in Cantonese already
You just got earned one subscriber from me. I was born in China and came to Australia when I was 1. I grew up speaking cantonese as my main language at home and learnt English through school and growing up. I know mandarin but no fully. I am also learning french, it is extremely hard to pronounce!!! learning a new language is hard, it require a lot of effort and I'm so amazed how perfect your cantonese is! would you let me know how and what ways you've learnt it? would love to hear your reply!! :)
Good job! It's great to see people really embracing different cultures. I am from California and I am a native Cantonese speaker. I am Asian American. Keep it up! 💪 你講得不錯啊！ 如果你有問題，你可以問我吧。：）。加油啊！
Wow, GREAT job learning Cantonese!! You've nailed it with the pronunciation!!
Thanks for your appreciation & effort on learning Cantonese
I am an American born Chinese who speaks Cantonese. You added a few English words. Here we call it "Chinglish". LOL Alex, keep up the good work!! I can tell...eventually you will sound like a true Hong Konger!! :)
Put subtitles on it's hilarious
it had me rolling, lmfao.
lmao that was epic
Yes you are very right about Cantonese language. It's difficult to learn, but I think you have really picked up the language well and to be able to communicate with people. Great job!
Good for you pal. Cantonese is hard, I spent two years living in Hong Kong and I agree with your point that if you don't speak it you miss out on so much of their rich culture. Keep working on those tonnes and just copy the natives when they speak (which I'm sure you continue to do). It's the best language ever!
omggg wow you were way better than i expected, good job
Dude, your fluency is great! Your prosody (i think) is also great. It's just the tones... if you got them down, you'd be pretty native. Maybe learning IPA will help
Alex, you hit the nail in the head
Cantonese is most fun language of all the Chinese languages, very dynamic and yet very versatile.
Keep speaking, you are doing fine.
Great presentation; it's even more than a vlog episode about your experience. I like how you calmly addressed your learning curve and some specific examples then related to the audience.
Hey man, your Cantonese is FAIRLY passable. A lot of the sentences you've enunciated is very fluent and understandable.
AND ... if your friends laugh at you, then it's just because you are still learning to speak naturally fluent. It's not a bad thing, it's
the same in many cultures.
Still rude though
Hi Alex, I am a Cantonese teacher in the US. Sometimes it is discouraging to see some of my students give up and learn another foreign language instead because cantonese is "too difficult". But your video is truly encouraging. I want to show this to my students :) "ga yau!"
Mandy Chiu maybe as a teacher you should rethink your teaching methods for learning Cantonese if your students are giving up so early on just saying. Now of course 99% of Chinese teachers can’t really teach Chinese for crap lol 😂 but if that’s truly the case try to find a to teach it in a fun an efficient way 加油💪
Amazing Alex. You're a good inspiration and very sympathetic. I like your humbleness.
PROPS TO YOU MAN. PROPS! I'm a native cantonese speaker but you speak better than me!! You have really great vocabulary! Practice does it! You are amazing!
I'm half Cantonese and half Chinese cause my dad is from Hong Kong and my mum is from Goungzou (somewhere in china) And your Cantonese is really good for 1 year! :D I used to speak fluent Mandarin when I was younger but I guess I started to lose it from getting into kindergarten speaking English. (I was born in Australia and still living)
You're technically still chinese
Both Guangzhou and Hong Kong have Cantonese speakers and are a part of China.
Lol, you are full chinese and full cantonese
Lmao do you not know the difference between race and a language
Your Canto is sooo good! As a BBC, I spent 15 years learning Canto at Chinese school and yours is pretty much on the same level as mine. Impressive, keep it up!
Thank you :) didn't speak it at home with family then?
+AlexHarris1094 I usually do but that doesn't mean it's great haha. Still cannot perfect my tones!
+William Yang haha yeah I understand that.. Not easy at all
Alex you are amazing, @the young age of 21, you're a renaissance man. So happy that u can not only learn but embrace a foreign culture no matter how difficult it may be, and not letting your friends laughing @your faux pas discourage you. Mad Props, you are good news that that the future is bright with more people like you.
Wow. I grew up in a Cantonese/English speaking household in Los Angeles and I definitely can't speak as well as you. Great job!
Wow! I'm appalled and impressed to say the least. Damn. You even turn the Cantonese into slang style talk. Excellent !
你講得好好呀！You spoke really good. I am from Hong Kong. I am learning french because because I live in Belgium now.
Hey there, I'm from Hong Kong. Your Cantonese is better than most people! Keep it up!
Alex, you are great you even speak with the Cantonese slang.
i'm so impressed with your Chinese! I could understand you fairly without the subtitles too.
Bruh your Cantonese is better than mine. And I've been speaking Cantonese cause of my culture for 11 years. Keep it up.
I from Canton, you are already speak very well~~!! Well done, Maybe you can start to learn some Cantonese slangs for the next level! It's really fun !
Great job! You're doing very well! Keep it up!
Alex, you learn Cantonese very well as I am a native Cantonese speak, Keep it up !
Hey Alex, that's a great effort for one year's worth of learning! I think your pronunciation and range of words is fantastic. You sound quite monotone at times though, but you'll get better in time.
Your Cantonese is great! Thanks for the effort!
You’re amazing! Well done. Could you share a little more on your methods please? I’m trying to improve my Cantonese too
That's pretty impressive. Cantonese has many different pronunciations and it is hard to pick up. As a Cantonese speaker in NYC, I think this is pretty good!
Excellent for 1 year of learning, i understand everything what you said. I've a lot of friends living here for 10 years + and can't do simple communication Thumbs Up
Wow very impressive. I've been in HK two years and can barely order at a cha chann teng. I need to start taking some classes.
Hong Konger here:) I think you can master Cantonese pretty well already, good job!
I wonder if you are learning the Chinese characters and written Cantonese as well. If you want a more entertaining way of learning, I guess besides watching movies,listening to some Cantonese songs would be good.
Your are awesome and inspiring!!! There should be more people like you, experiencing others’ culture and language!!
Hi Alex, I am moving to Hongkong for my post graduation studies and I want to learn cantonese.plese help me ,share with me your learning methods,how you learned and what can ... Keep up the good work
Your cantonese is good, still need to work on your pronounciation but you have more vocabulary than I do. I'm curious to watch another video now to see your progress!
You inspired me bro. I am also born in hong kong but pretty terrible in Cantonese. I will work my best to get better in Chinese. Once again, thank you
Alex please help me to learn Cantonese, please . I felt in love with HongKong because I grew up with HongKong films and that how I knew about Hong Kong people with their lifestyle. My heart is melted every time I hear Cantonese. I hope you can suggest me any resources and methods that you've been using to learn Cantonese. I really appreciate it. Thanks
You sound so cute. Good job👍🏻
Hi Alex, I am really impressed by your fluency in Cantonese (Man it's too difficult to learn). I am a big fan of HK culture and agree that you need to know Cantonese to make most of this place. I have just started learning Cantonese so do you mind to share some tips/resources which helped you in learning Cantonese?
Wow I'm very impressed with your cantonese u pronounced the words fine too. I could understand everything you were saying 😊😊👍👍👍
Just one year, you have this result, it is very good! You speak very well Cantonese that I can say, Alex. Good work.
Many thanks for supporting Cantonese. Greetings from Hong Kong!
Only a year?! 你的中文很好! I'm so jealous! Keep up the good work
Many thanks for you to like Hong Kong. I hope you very successful in your study and future career here.
Hi ! Your cantonese is so greattttt ! Congrats ! you know a lots of vocabulary and you know how to use the good words. That's perfect. Keep Up ! I also like to learn other languages. When you have the passion for that and a good listening you can improve fast.
I find individual words/short phrases simple enough to say but stringing them together is so difficult.
Well done, Alex! ^^
lol I was watching of Got7 Jackson speaking Cantonese and now I'm here xD Anyway I think your Cantonese is really good, keep up!^^
This is so freaking awesome...way to go dude!! All the best!!
Hi Alex, your cantonese is amazing. I was able to understand everything you said. I am very glad you are enjoying your stay in Hong Kong. Communicating with people in Cantonese will definitely help you improve. If you wanna further improve it, maybe try listening to songs and raps in Cantonese. Good luck with everything. Cheers :)
You're my idol. 😳. You really learned all this from home on your own? In just over a year? Very impressive. The tones made me give up . Plus probably a bit of laziness and not actually living in HK. But I'd love to be able to learn from a tutor in person one day soon. Don't like the idea of doing over the internet. Well done, young man. Keep going
Awesome! Hope you will love the HK 80's and 90's song! It can improve your Cantonese and love the culture a lot more! Cantonese have a vast and interesting phrase!!
So proud of you!! Great job!!
I am SOOOOOOOO impressed with your Cantonese. Literally all my western friends who have lived in HK for years still know nothing about Cantonese. Would love to know what your Cantonese is like now after 3 years haha. 你嘅廣東話真係講得好好！
ermahgerdddddd. how did you learn so quickly i'm impressed jeez. you explained the tones thing so accurately. this is perfect i'm in love ahahaha. (english food isn't that bad btw hehe)
Hi, your Cantonese is quite well. As a Hong Kong people, I fully understand what you are saying. keep in up!