9 English Words that Came from Chinese + How I learned Cantonese & Mandarin

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seeing how highly recommended Mrs Cynthia came from my boss i had to go along with investing through her platform. I am proud to say that after my wife and i invested $65,000 into her platform it didn't take long before we got our profit of $148,000.

It's been wonderful working with a woman like her with such expereince, with $14,000 she makes me $38,000 every 4weeks which I choose to reinvest from my profits every time.

I met Mrs Cynthia Smith Emma back in 2019 when she came to Toronto for an entrepreneurship workshop.. she captivated me with her presentation and she has managed my accounts ever since.

I just made my first profit of $19,880 from my 20 stocks and I can't wait to make more, been reading about investors that made as much as $250,000 in 8 months and I'd really love to know how and what strategies could me this much profit.

So far I have been able to grow my portfolio from $16,240 to over $89,670 within 4months.

Wow she's really doing a fine job managing your portfolio, I've looking for a way to get a professional on my side someone alot like her.

I have seen numerous positive remark about this broker in the past but this time I am not going to ignore her recommendation, there must be a reason why she is so admired by her clients. How do I enroll with her?

Another Chinese word that came to English is 'Wuhan virus '.😂

lol I looked up OTGW looking for a great show but I found this instead

This is awesome 😁😁❤️👍🏾

Cheung Hok Yau was my inspiration to learn Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin). I have nearly all his albums!

Like that when you show the Chinese equivalent of the English words, you say the Mandarin and Cantonese pronounciations. Very rare.

I looked through a number of OTGW episodes and you are one of the most humorous and sarcastic presenters (especially with Dan)

Hi am indian🇨🇳🇮🇳

I learn both Mandarin and Cantonese at the same time, to say the least, they really confuse me

Thanks for returning Carmen. Great job. I ❤️Cantonese...and yidian putonghua.

Time to try to make 救脸 or 救面 popular!

I really like watching your videos I lived in Hongkong when I was young for almost 5 years but I forgot how to speak cantonese. thanks to you because I can start to learn again！🙂

In Malaysia, we called it kicap (literally pronounce as key-chub). But it is a sweet soy black sauce.
Besides, the word kowtow means to work together. But this kowtow terminology become like some kind of corruption like.

save face - (possible phrases) 保脸 or 救脸 haha Metta for sure.

Please compare eastern and western vampires (gingered body)

How about 要面子for save face?

How about a cup of cha and Yumcha

There is a phrase for saving face, which is 挣脸 or 争面子

I've never heard anyone use the term "Add Oil" except to literally add oil in the context of cooking or adding adding motor oil to a car... do you mean "step on the gas?" "put the pedal to the metal"

do you speak Portuguese too?

Wonderful video, there's no history more interesting than language history. 🙂

What's her name she never says her name

Not ketchup chips though those are exclusively a Canadian invention 😃

There was a myth that back in ancient China there was a king who sought a plant that gave eternal life.... Anyway he sent people to the distant land in search for this plant, they did not want to return empty handed as they will be punished. In order to hide from the king they changed their language the speaking part and borrowed some words from the Chinese language, the Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese language have similarities.


Like I said it is a myth that someone once told me I did some research awile back I found this article about the language clothing and culture very similar.

All this time whenever I heard my parents say 丟架 in Cantonese, I thought they were saying "hang shelf".

Too good to be true

I want to learn

Over 60 now. But I can try to learn little bit every day.

I wish one day I can see u some where.

There are also other suspects in English such as Junk, I think this demeaning rendering of Chinese word 舰 for warship. There is also the word of Sampan, the little boat 舢舨. I wonder if you would like to dig out how these words made they way to English.

The ketchup etymology totally makes sense! I also have always wondered why older folks say "Catsup" instead of the more modern "Ketchup". Fascinating!

Ive never heard of "Add Oil"...interesting

Great video and very interesting.

Off the Great Wall,
You are very ignorant! 'Kerchup' is an English word, not Chinese! Also, English words do not have their roots in Chinese. There are words that the Chinese language doesn't have, so what the Chinese people would do is that they 'butch up' the English words and pronounce it like the Chinese would in Chinese and call it theirs. This is very ignorant of you! You are a disgrace!

While explaining pls try to slowdown a bit because it is hard for me to catch it up pls pls.....

I read copiously about Chinese Culture and everywhere it talked about
those two growling beasts {male & female} out front of
temples and front doors as Wuh 'dogs' not lions(-?)

Also too: apparently; many came from-Indian_Languages??

I never realized that Chinese doesn’t have a word for “save face”. That’s crazy.

Ketchup, 茄汁 came from Malaysian Chinese, but the tomatoes are 100% American like the chili peppers that the 湖南 and 四川people love so much. Also, nobody says "加油 " in English. ✌🍉