Cantonese pronunciation - Initial｜廣東話發音 - 聲母
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00:00Today I would like to share with you the pronunciation of Cantonese.
00:05The pronunciation of Cantonese has the same three parts as Mandarin.
00:09Initials, finals and tones
00:13Use Cantonese word "V" as an example
00:15The Cantonese pronunciation of "V" is [Gwong2]
00:20[Gw] will be the initial consonant
00:25[ong] will be the final
00:29And the "2" at the end represents the tone of its voice
00:33No matter what language
00:35Pronunciation usually uses parts of our mouth
00:38That includes lips, teeth, tongue, and throat
00:45The combination of different parts will produce different sounds.
00:48The initial consonants in Cantonese can be divided into labial consonants
00:52Lingual sound and glottal sounds
00:54The labial sounds can be divided into two types: bilabial sounds and labial-dental sounds.
01:01I know, I know, it's abstract, right?
01:04Let's straight to the examples
01:07Examples of bilabial sounds are
01:13Friends who speak Mandarin should also be familiar with this part.
01:17Because there are corresponding initial consonants in Mandarin, right?
01:20Have you felt it?
01:22Every time a sound is pronounced, the lips will touch each other.
01:27for example
01:35Isn¡®t it
01:36Do you feel it?
01:38Then after talking about bilabial sounds, we will then talk about labial and dental sounds.
01:44There is only one sound in labiodental consonants, which is
01:49This is also very familiar, right?
01:51To pronounce it, use your upper teeth and lower lip in conjunction.
01:55Only then can the sound be produced
01:57If combined with the finals, its pronunciation will become
02:04After talking about the lip sounds
02:05We are now going to talk about the lingual sounds
02:08Lingual sounds are divided into alveolar sounds
02:11Post-alveolar sound
02:13Palatal sound
02:14Velar. These four lingual sounds
02:17I know, I know, it's like chanting sutras, right?
02:22As long as you know it, you don't have to memorize it.
02:25It would be nice to have a concept
02:27The first one is alveolar
02:33The example are
02:40When pronouncing, the tip of your tongue should be against the roof of your mouth.
02:43Something to note here
02:45[n] should be pronounced according to the nose
02:49There is an IQ question in Cantonese
02:51That IQ question is
02:53There is a chicken, a goose and a duck
02:58They went into the supermarket and bought 3 bottles of soda, but they didn't share it evenly.
03:03Give you some time to think about it
03:05Why is this
03:13Have you thought about it?
03:16Have you ever heard of an Chinese idiom called æ¹Äȶà×Ë?
03:20æ¹Äȶà×Ë is to describe a beautiful woman who has a good figure.
03:26Very elegant, right?
03:28Then I took a homophonic joke here
03:32The sound of æ¹Äȶà×Ë in Cantonese means "goose took one more".
03:41We'll use [jat1 zi1] for the classifier of soda
03:44 That goose took one more
03:47That's why it is unevenly divided.
03:50So here it is
03:51I raise this IQ question because I want everyone to remember the difference between [n] and [l].
03:58Because in Mandarin
04:00"Na" in æ¹Äȶà×Ë is [n]
04:05But in Cantonese
04:08ngo4 lo2 do1 zi1
04:11That "{" is [l] without a nasal sound.
04:17Everyone should pay special attention here.
04:22After talking about the alveolar sound
04:23Now let's continue talking about post-alveolar
04:27For the post-alveolar part we have
04:32A simple example would be
04:38Do you feel it?
04:40The upper and lower teeth are pronounced semi-closed here.
04:44The lips will become a flat shape
04:47You should also pay attention in here
04:48There are retroflex sounds in Mandarin
04:51But there is no such things in Cantonese
04:57There are only post-alveolar sounds in Cantonese
05:01What about next after talking about the post-alveolar sounds?
05:04Let's continue talking about tongue and alto
05:04Let's continue talking about palatal sound
05:07Palatal sound refers to
05:09When pronouncing, press the middle of your tongue against the roof of your mouth
05:15Here is an example [ji1]
05:17Then you will be surprised
05:19Isn't it just [yi] in Mandarin?
05:23That's right, that's right
05:25In Cantonese it's just cross-dressing
05:29Changed the Mandarin [yi] into the current [ji1] pronounced by [j]
05:35Is it magical?
05:37Don't think you can't recognize me when I'm in disguise
05:40Here we are just a rehash. You still recognize him, right?
05:46If there's no problem, we'll talk about the velar sound now.
05:51That's the last category that uses the tongue to pronounce words.
05:56The root sound is divided into rounded and unrounded parts
06:01Let's talk about the unrounded lips first
06:03Unrounded lips have
06:08Examples of this section
06:21Can you hear it?
06:22This pronunciation requires using the back of the tongue against the throat.
06:27Then
06:28The lips don't need to be rounded because it is unround sound.
06:34Then what should be noted here is [ng]
06:37When pronoucing [ng]
06:40Don't be lazy with your nose
06:42Although the lip doesn't need to be rounded when pronouncing
06:46but the sound is [ng]
06:51 So, when pronouncing it, the sound needs to be produced through the nose.
06:56After discussing the unrounded sounds.
06:58Now let's talk about the rounded lips
07:00There are two sounds
07:02include
07:08for example
07:15When distinguishing between these two sounds.
07:17you can divide
07:19Distinguish carefully
07:20One is non-aspirated
07:26It does not spray out
07:29but
07:32You will feel that some of the energy is being sent out
07:37Can you feel it
07:39These two initial consonants are not found in Mandarin.
07:42So you may be unfamiliar with it
07:46The back of the tongue needs to touch the throat
07:49The lips also need to be rounded to pronounce
07:53Finally
07:54There is only one initial left.
07:56It's a glottal sound
07:58The glottal part includes
08:02There is only one
08:04It just needs to be pronounced with the throat
08:07for example
08:13Are you all tired?
08:16For detailed classification and examples, you can screenshot the consonant chart below
08:20Or refer to the website link below to learn more pronunciation information.
08:26After you open that webpage?
08:29Click in
08:31One of the pronunciations
08:33You can find many, many pronunciations
08:37Then you can listen to the pronunciations
08:42Here I have also prepared some exercises for initial consonants
08:46Basically their finals and tones are the same
08:49Only their initial consonants are different
08:52Let's do this exercise together
09:42Today we briefly introduced the Initial of Cantonese and their classification.
09:49We will continue to talk about its finals in the next lesson.
09:53See you next time