Farang99 Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 If anyone is acquainted with a Cantonese speaker, I would be grateful for an introduction. For many years (well, ever since the magical musical summer of 1967, which I spent listening to the pirate radio moored out in the Firth of Forth, a few miles east of where I was living, whenever I was not with my quarantined whippets) I have been fascinated and frustrated by something in the song Kites, performed by Simon Dupree and the Big Sound (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yjj8jLS8XM). Just before the last verse there are a number of phrases spoken by the actress Jacqui Chan in Cantonese. I had a smattering of Cantonese which I still retained when I returned to the UK early in 1967, so I could understand the first few (things like I love you, I want you, I am crazy about you) but then I was baffled, and now, 50 years later even those few smatterings have disappeared, so I would like some help to solve this niggling mystery. A pirate DJ suggested they meant "Help, I am being held prisoner in a Hong Kong recording studio", but somehow I don't think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwasaki Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 I have a Singaporean friend that speaks mandarin but can only read Cantonese. This is interesting, well l think so. https://www.quora.com/Do-Cantonese-speakers-understand-Mandarin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANICMINER Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 The cantonese is really bad, because it is spoken by a mandarin speaker. Also, the last few lines is not cantonese - it sounds like japanese - which fits in with the woman in the video wearing a japanese kimono. After the first few lines, the only thing i can make out is: 'i want you to ......'. Then in goes into the other language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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