0:00 we can say oh ████ which is kind of thank you but oh ████ can you help me like we can't like we do put that if you you want to be bo but that's also almost like forcing it you know oh it's like you don't you you won't hear that tone yeah cuz that's someone going like excuse me N word can you help me you know it's like no one is no one's going to say nword in that tone [Music] welcome back to a very Chinese episode of ch ch say CH Chong CH Chong lingong you want me to say it yeah yeah use it my bio on my Instagram what is it ching chong lingong tting Tong that's what it says no yeah my bio my Instagram is um what my pronounce are ching chong
0:50 and identify as your father rude that's on my bio I don't have a name I'm Anonymous my pronouns ch ch so today identifies as your father we're going to we're going to uh learn some differences between cantony and Mandarin let's start with insults yeah okay what's a popular Mandarin insult like if someone's pissing you off so the first biggest difference yeah is Cantonese I almost feel like Cantonese and Mandarin is probably like Korean and Japanese mhm wow Mandarin is very mild soft and like what do you say if somebody's in your way wa so like Mandarin I would say like let's say um uh like let's say if someone is being dumb or something you would call them like Saga which is
1:40 like how do you how do you express that like a sad melon or something silly melon silly melon you're silly melon that's what you would normally say yeah or like even B then like stupid egg you're like a stupid egg cantones is bad cantones you can just go in teing what is that one crazy cheesy yeah you're like a psycho crazy ████ what's the equivalent of silly egg or sad egg what would you say like if someone's being dumb cuz I can say like Saga like I say um SOA which is the Cantonese version but no one would say that though but you don't really say that but you could say that I can't say SOA which is the Cantonese version so you say a bad word and then I'll say if I could think of the Mandarin version of it po guy which one's Pokey like what do what do you isn't that like curse you pokey no Pok guy
2:31 literally translates like Pok is the trip guy is like street so like you can say you can call somewhat like Po guy day like day is like dude yeah or like if I accidentally trip on myself or I drop my Bott or whatever I'll be like Po guy I don't like the eat ████ no that's sexy oh that's right sexy is it and when would you say that to someone if they did something bad to me I guess I can say sexia her sexia ████ seia seia that sounds dope what's the Mandarin thing there's so many though help yourself to a melon don't you eat a dumb egg eat a rotten mango I think a mandar vers be like really arms like it's just more
3:22 like I'll just take it I yeah Canton has way more what's the response the Canton response to a guy that's like bugging you and hit on you and like being a creep how do you tell them off um like a lecherous old guy that's it would just be a t it's not that bad it's delya what's that mean go away D Hoy like go go like go away like even for Mandarin R excuse me is actually I'm sorry like if I was going to ask him like for directions I would say oh like do you know how to get there so that's we like we first excuse ourselves like it's my fault first is that why menarin people look at cantones like that Savage language I think once they understand it they're like that is ████ great like
4:15 we like I we can say oh ████ which is kind of thank you but oh ████ can you help me like we can't like we do put that if if you want to be but that's also almost like for seeing it you know oh it's like you don't you you won't hear that tone yeah cuz that's almost going like excuse me N word can you help me you know it's like no one is no one's going to say N word in that tone you know what I mean Excuse excuse me N word can you please help like if I'm by myself and if I go to like a restaurant or something then I'll say it just to be like be nice to the waitress I'm going cuz if you go to like a ████ cantones restaurant everyone's screaming yelling everyone's talking ████ all the time everyone's talking ████ it's that's our Vibe it's just normal everyone's
5:06 roasting each other oh yeah like my parents race each other all the time like that's how I learn it from my parents like I hear them swear and my parents are just my my parents would bant in Chinese like it's the best what's a what's a popular thing they would yell to you like what's something when they were scolding you what they what they would say a parental like reprimand like there's got to be some curring like she starts crying imagine next question the thing is like this is so ████ sad but like my parents didn't know how to be a parent so before they say anything I wouldn't even know why you just bam oh damn just no dialogue all yeah I remember this cuz I was diagnosed with child ADHD so I don't remember a lot of
5:57 my childhood I would just be like going crazy suppose um my mom didn't know and she didn't believe that stuff so I just remember me sitting on the toilet and I used to have the door open all the time cuz I couldn't even reach like sitting there so I'm just sitting on the toilet whatever Mom literally walks in slaps me across my face and just walks out and I remember and I remember just looking down and I got like just blood dripping and I was like what on the toilet I'm just sitting there on the toilet and I remember thinking like well I've never had a blood nose I'm just sitting there and I just start crying but Mom's already walked off damn I don't I don't know what I did it's something I did like in my ADHD saying I'm proud of you and I that's good job and then I think Cong their way of saying sorry is like they'll cook you food G you just sit a dinner
6:47 like just eating dinner there just no words but they could you dinner then they'll put like food on your bowl like that's that's that's that's how they fix it you know what I noticed too is um so when this whole neighborhood and all the Chinese folks that I knew they were like Hong Kong or Cantonese or Vietnamese Cantonese or whatever and then I don't know like in the mid 2000s a lot of C Mandarin Mainland Chinese Northern Chinese started coming in and I don't know I don't meet any Cantonese people no more and most of the cafes like there were Hong Kong style most of the restaurants dimsum style more Cantonese Seafood Cuisines and then almost half of them are all gone and they're more like like shichuan Northern Chinese and I'm like are Cantonese people not immigrating anymore or like what's
7:38 happening where the culture is like not I don't know like coming to America anymore or like I don't know or is it like just all becoming Mandarin all I do know is that a lot of my family when they came over a lot of them spoke canones that was actually one of my first languages too but the thing is all the kids ended up going to learn Mandarin and Mandarin School MH because it's like more professional or like better business there's no Canton school not really you have to find it it could be one or two it's so slang there's a ton of Cantonese words that don't even have the written versions of it there's no translation it's just made up yeah so a lot of a lot of those Mandarin speakers they know or understand Cantonese but they practice Mandarin because it's useful M Mandarin's older by a lot so so technically like a Cantonese person Couldn't Write letters
8:30 to another Cantonese person in Cantonese you'll be writing in Mandarin you have to write it in Mandarin so you convert your thoughts to Mandarin cuz that's how that's how slang or like pigeon it it is yeah so we to write or read a book or like subtitles in a movie cuz my dad will be watching um it's actually translating in mandarine but my dad reads it he understands what they're saying yeah so you go to any like business or whatever it's all Manor but you go to like Vince hair salon they're speaking Cantonese to each other like Barber Shop talk you know what I'm talking about cuz my favorite word in Cy is do which just like ████ do the do and yeah they they that's all they like do like like you can use that for anything dude like the Dom of dude like how do you write that he goes there is no word it's just the word that you say there's no character I was like God damn it you wanted to write it
9:20 literally yeah cuzz D can't be like in a go way like oh D or like deal like depends on the way you say it it depends on the way you what were those two ways you just used it's just depending on the like the tone of like how you wanted to portray it it's literally the same thing as like ████ or like ████ like I can get a college admissions letter I show my dad de good job or I can get expelled dud yeah like ████ God damn it ████ what are some examples of like a romantic thing to say oh yeah like if you're if you're uh like if you're trying to be romantic to somebody and you say something like Jesus like what is it like your eyes are like the rivers or some ████ the rivers the eyes are like the r never had any sight like anyone you never had a
10:11 canones person like hit on you how would you holler out somebody in canones yeah what's the way to holler out holler at at a white man where you going to how do you see like bring that ass over here in CES or even just I like you yeah anything nice I like you it's just or or Hey but like like you see in movies like they they just say means I really like you or or which is I love you how how do you say I love you or or o o like what I yeah exactly it's written the same that's what the guy says in sholin socer when he's on the phone with his wife I was going to ask remember before they kick the ball on them yeah yeah yeah like when you like watch these Hong Kong movies they're in Cantonese right so I'm like how they write in the scripts then in manderin but what if there's no word for oh yeah how do they
11:01 they do have words but they're written in the like there traditional and simplified simplified Chinese yeah but this will being traditional and it's like I can't read it I I don't know how to read it properly so then all the Hong Kong actors they read it but they know what it's being said in can I think they understand the meaning and then they just kind of improv some of the words there's a part there's a part in words I believe but I can't read it properly there's a part in Shon Saker when he's telling the the goalie girl like that she's pretty and he keeps saying like the subtitle says don't you know or something but then he keeps the subtitles are so aw yeah that's why I figured but he keeps going I don't know what he's really saying but he's going you know like do you like you know yeah what he got it pretty well that what the ████ because he just keep
11:52 he keeps saying it so whenever people go you speak C I go yeah yeah it's going like uh so do you know or do you know yeah but I could say that or could be like I don't know like you kind of shorten it like you SL what's the thank you if you're shouting thank you there's a part I'm going to ask you another Shon soccer question there's a part because I've seen Shon soccer in three different formats in like vcd and like an avi file they all have different subtitles all of them are different all of them there's this one line that I've always asked people what the hell is this girl saying and then they were they're always like I don't know I don't know cuz Char we cuz then she speaks
12:43 mandarine but everyone else like see like they speak Cantonese it's Mandarin and Cantonese so she's speaking to them and Mandarin in the in the movie The guys are Cantonese oh I wonder why and also it could be the actor cuz a lot of Jet Lee movies in Hong Kong Cinema since he's technically not from Hong Kong every in the every person in the movie speaking Cantonese cuz it's Hong Kong Cinema and when Jet Lee speaks it's just B yeah or like or you can hear that it's dubbed or you can see the mouth is dubbed yeah oh you know what the same effect is it's when like Arnold schwarzer or jeanclaude vanam doing an American movie it's like everyone's speaking American English and then they're the ones that are like B I'm here to save a and they like what the ████ so this part right when the girl starts talking what the ████ is she really
13:35 saying oh these are can I ████ love these what the ████ was that the last beit any of it it's like you want to uh if you want to win or get to the finals you need to get through us first okay okay so one of the three subtitles that's what it said the first bit it's ████ the first bit it's like like an idiom idiom is that what we call them yeah yeah so I I don't know how to I don't know how to translate oh like like two kills two birds of one St it's pretty much it's like a translation but it should be in mandarine but she's saying in Cantonese so I don't know what cuz here the subtitle says I'm going to chop you up and make you into dim some that's not what she yeah that's why I was like what the ████ cuz listen to what the way she says it it sounds so dope
14:32 ████ that's Indian and then she sounds like she spoke French no it's just mustache makes it look French m means you need to ask us first or go through us first one of them was correct the rest were just making equivalents that's why I didn't understand the first girl was like an idium they were making it like about them like that they it's I I don't even I can't translate it it's you can't translate it like cuz one of them said the straight up subtit and the other one yeah the other one was like we are the black dragon soccer team I'm like there's no ████ way they're saying that ████ no way not sick baby like ain't no dragon ████ in there if everyone's like learning Mandarin do you think there'll be a day where no one's speaking Cantonese anymore Cantonese being pushed already man so like after CH and everything they
15:24 pushing Canton you'll probably always find it though in Taiwan and Hong Kong people speaking canes yeah oh and you and you'll also find it in like pockets of Vietnam and some pockets of China how people in Singapore speak canones my mom my mom spoke Cantonese before she spoke manager she didn't learn how to speak manager until she married my Dad what's the more prevalent thing in Singapore for Chinese people well it's like a mish mash I think but I'm pretty sure Canan is like the base but my mom but it has a slang it's a dialect I can still understand it but we can Singapore straight up Chinglish yeah for real Chinese pigeon huh with like Malay and Indo influence too cuz my mom speaks Malay and Indo damn BR she speaks like six languages she she speaks like toou too she speaks like ████ live in America y sorry you know there's this uh there's also this like thing with like Vietnamese people that uh even from the
16:14 South if you're speaking with the southern accent all singers from South Vietnam sing in a Northern accent wow wow because if you were to sing in the southern accent it would sound disgusting because we're like really slaying and complaining the way it just Dirty South type stuff but the northern is like very poetic and like you enunciate things clearer and slower so singing to make it beautiful you have to sing in the northern kones singing as well like when they actually sing Cantonese it's Mandarin huh but they just say the Cantonese version of that word what about Chinese rap Chinese rap there is Cantonese rap and that's like full can Cantonese so that is there is Cantonese rap it's sick better than have you heard long maybe if I know the song they're like true guys they've been like they're like one of the top like Cantonese rappers longu long Fu I don't know what
17:06 that is in English man rap long is that still Dragon it ain't that black guy right kon's rap I I don't know R they're like I started following this one page have you guys seen them it's a Chinese dude and a black dude and they do like little comedy skits but the black dude speaks perfect ████ Beijing Chinese perfect I'm like this is crazy it's blowing my mind there's not in the boys you've watched it yeah any other cantones uh differences did you like grow up with listening to like cantones like music like like isn't J child like hones Mandarin he's Mandarin but I love him what is Teresa Tang Mandarin yeah Teresa T do you know Teresa Tang yes what about Aaron qu he's
17:57 can see the thing is I know if you saying cantones I don't know the English names oh that's you know he's like one of the four like OG like cantones how about Jackie Chan Jackie CH held me as a baby what the heck are you when he lived in Hong Kong he had an EVO as well Evo the MU car when he lived in Hong Kong so my mom and I like I was a baby going to the mall and Jackie Chen wasn't as famous as he is now but he's still a Hong Kong actor he lived in Hong Kong wasn't in America yet and he's just at the mall like they just normal people shopping and then our mom told me like he just held me what the heck something like that you hold my baby Michael style take a photo just met they just met and said hey but it's like he wasn't that famous then but it was like cool so I watch like the police story like I grew up in
18:48 kenton's movies and songs are Jackie Chan movies all in Cantonese in China Mandarin now it's all Mandarin used to be Cantonese in Hong Kong when he moved to why not obviously that's way I think originally they were all made in Cantonese because it's Hong Kong Cinema but then now that China took over and regained Hong Kong they probably switch everything yeah I think like you know pop culture of what Americans thought of China was all Cantonese like from Cuisine to film to everything and Hong Kong action yeah cuz all of the Golden Harvest that's all CH That's All Canes oh my goodness like Legend of drunken master wasn't that but I've seen versions of it grew up all those yeah cuz I feel like all the immigrants were cantones here guess and
19:38 also our Democratic alliances that's true cuz of Hong Kong and and yeah Taiwan as well yeah I guess I wonder if that means that Chinese people because of Bruce Lee movies thought all black people sounded like hey man well let me show you man heard of Chinese par sh turkey didn't tell me you ain't got no Chinese spare brids [Music]
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