Cantonese

You would say "Ni go hai ngo ge neoi."

If you don't know jyutping, then you sorta say "go" like "guo", not the "Go to the zoo" kind of "go."

In Cantonese, "older sister" is said as "姐姐" (jé je).

The term for grandfather in Cantonese is actually "gōng gōng" (公公). This pronunciation is a little different from "goong goong".

I am Cantonese and I usually don't understand what people are talking about when they speak in Mandarin. So the answer is no.

You wouldn't be able to understand completely until you've learnt mandarin but you can sometimes make out what people are saying in mandarin. But if you do learn either of them, learning mandarin and already knowing Cantonese would make it easy to learn but it wouldn't be the case the other way round. This is probably because Cantonese has more tones and is harder?

If you want to say brother, as in Big Brother politely you pronounce it as: Dai Gou Gou.

If you want to say brother, as in Little Brother politely you pronounce it as: Dia Dia.

From Calv860

You can say "中級" (jung1 kap1) in Cantonese Chinese to mean mid-levels.

You can say:

"lo bat yeh" which means "old guy" (probably closest to geezer)

"lo bat sing" means the same as the above

or

"say lo gwai" which means "stupid old guy" (warning, it's not pleasant)

or

"a yeh" which means old guy (pretty standard)

In Cantonese, retirement is "退休" (teoi3 jau1).

In Cantonese, you can say "唔該幫忙" (m̀h gōi bong mohng) to ask for help.

You would say "你去邊度？" in Cantonese, which is pronounced as "nei5 heoi3 bin1 dou6".

"nei hai bin dou lay ga?" which literally means "Where did you come from?"

"Ngo yao mei gwok lai"

Ngo - means "me". You can say "oh" if you can't produce the back-of-the-throat "ng" sound.

Yao - from (like yao ming)

mei gwok - Pretty country (a.k.a. US)

Lai - come (say it like Hawaii leis)

In Cantonese, you can say "老太太" (lou5 taai3 taai2) to refer to an old lady.

In Cantonese, you can write "grandma" as 婆婆 (pò pò).

In Cantonese, "princess" is pronounced as "gong-zai" (公主).

In Cantonese, "my name is" can be translated as "ngóh daaih mihng" (我係名) or "ngóh dih woh mihng" (我啲嘅名).

Grandfather in Cantonese is 公公 (gung gung) for paternal grandfather and 外公 (ngoi gung) for maternal grandfather.

The word for "come" in Cantonese is "嚟" (lai4).

In Cantonese, paternal grandmother is called "公婆" (gung1 po4).

Mandarin is the main language in China. It is spoken by most of the population, especially in the north. Cantonese in the 2nd most spoken language in China and is spoken by mostly people in the south of China like Guongdong province.

The two are actually as different as German and English, that is, they are two entirely different languages.

You can say "再見" (joi gin) to say bye in Cantonese.

Typically there are 3 ways to say mom in Cantonese. 1. Ma4 Ma1 2. Ah3 Ma1 3. Ma1 Mi4 The numbers above represent the tones of Cantonese. As for how the tones are pronounced please check out http://www.cantonese.ca/tones.php.

The jyutping is "Po Po," but if you can't read jyutping then it is pronounced sorta like "pau pau" (it's hard to type out how it is supposed to sound like).

Pau Pau is the English spelling for maternal grandmother in Cantonese. It is very specifically maternal grandmother. Ma Ma is paternal grandmother. There are specific names for all sorts of relationships in Cantonese.

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