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| Aritaurus Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6574 days ago 197 posts - 204 votes  Speaks: Cantonese, English*, Japanese, Mandarin Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 8 14 September 2007 at 2:30pm | IP Logged |
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I still think they are a rarity outside of Hong Kong and China. I have met one fellow Canadian who has no Chinese ancestry being able to hold a pretty good conversation with me. Surprisingly , he has a pretty close to native accent too. He was around Cantonese speakers a lot in high school and he also studied in Hong Kong for six months.
I've yet to see a Japanese person speak fluent Cantonese. I have one Japanese friend who is trying to learn it but it seems hard from what she says. There is Higuchi Asuka , she usually has special appearances in Hong Kong movies but I don't think she is completely fluent. Edited by Aritaurus on 14 September 2007 at 2:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| WANNABEAFREAK Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong cantonese.hk Joined 6827 days ago 144 posts - 185 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, Cantonese Studies: French | Message 2 of 8 14 September 2007 at 8:23pm | IP Logged |
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Of course it would be rare outside of Hong Kong and China. In order to learn they need to be in the Cantonese environment.
I've seen countless Indians and Pakistani in Hong Kong who can speak native level Cantonese. I have also taken the liberty to post on Youtube videos of Non-Chinese speaking native or excellent Cantonese. American and Australian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAVVFq7T--Q Pakistani: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GldODBIvIok British: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXN-ajLm32M Indian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EAOdGFnMY Australian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rRdaN7EVt8 American: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C91tZeV62lw Australian/New Zealander: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1ZTbfxCABw Norwegian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs5CWBXm-JA Indian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5DhJ8YPkzk American: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9-PPFA48AY 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Aritaurus Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6574 days ago 197 posts - 204 votes Speaks: Cantonese, English*, Japanese, Mandarin Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 8 14 September 2007 at 9:08pm | IP Logged |
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Wow, you're the one who posted these videos ? I've actually seen all of them before. I never thought the person who uploaded these videos would reply to my thread ! I'm honoured.
Sharon is just amazing. I remember I saw a clip of her speaking Mandarin with a Cantonese accent. She is truely a native Cantonese speaker without a doubt. As for the Australian girl , she's pretty native too in my books. Edited by Aritaurus on 14 September 2007 at 9:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6342 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German | Message 4 of 8 29 January 2008 at 4:16pm | IP Logged |
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I saw many Japanese people speaking Cantonese fluently when I was in Hong Kong. I also saw some westerners who were native speakers.
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| Thuan Triglot Senior Member GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6930 days ago 133 posts - 156 votes Speaks: Vietnamese, German*, English Studies: French, Japanese, Romanian, Swedish, Mandarin | Message 6 of 8 30 April 2009 at 4:54pm | IP Logged |
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Found this one on your blog, WANNABEAFREAK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTHH3RMdrWk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2 Fcantonese%2Ehk%2Fwp%2F&feature=player_embedded Michael from Canada, never lived in HK. Reminds me that I should pick up my Cantonese studies again. Working on Mandarin right now, but I have to confess that I simply prefer Cantonese. The lack of resources convinced me that it would be a better idea to study Mandarin first. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jimbo baby! Senior Member United States Joined 5977 days ago 202 posts - 208 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* | Message 7 of 8 01 May 2009 at 9:26am | IP Logged |
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This is all very impressive. I'm thinking about picking Cantonese over Japanese and Korean as a second Asian language to Mandarin. But I shouldn't get ahead of myself just yet, until I actually learn Mandarin.
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| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6316 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 8 of 8 02 May 2009 at 2:52pm | IP Logged |
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Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvKuPQnScVw&feature=channel_p age Edited by ChristopherB on 02 May 2009 at 4:05pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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