does dashan speak cantonese?

[opper567]

Does Dashan speak cantonese? I saw this on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VHVQOiIvK8 and now I am curious as to whether or not he really speaks cantonese or if it is dubbed over or something.

[roddy]

Erm, Reading and Writing? Moving to Non-Mandarin Chinese.

[calibre2001]

It's his voice but his pronounciation is weird. So I don't think he speaks it.

[skylee]

That is very awful cantonese.

[SWWLiu]

Are you talking about 「大山」？ I just came across his name today. Who is he?

(Sorry, I didn't check the YouTube video.)

[imron]

www.dashan.com

[SWWLiu]

Thanks for the link to Canadian「大山」in China, imron.

I find it interesting that on the index page of

http://www.dashan.com/

the seal shows his name going from right to left.

[skylee]

the seal shows his name going from right to left.

which is the old way of writing chinese horizontally and commomly seen in seals etc (my own also goes from right to left).

[Quest]

Is that even Cantonese? He said Hookduck, some other dialect without the "f" sound?

[Mugi]

Looks dubbed to me - another foreigner's voiceover?

I hear "f" though (perhaps not in the first instance, but certainly thereafter).

[imron]

I dunno, it definitely sounds like his voice, and if you're going to dub it, why not dub it with someone who can speak the language well?

[wannabeafreak]

I think he says something about his Cantonese here:

Too bad I couldn't understand anything he was saying.

[Quest]

I think he says something about his Cantonese here:

He says he can understand 20%, and that's enough for him.

After listening to him repeatedly, I decoded his message:

点解要揸福特，因为福特汽车係为咗令你与加拿大生活更贴近而打造。福特汽车通过加拿大酷寒气候同埋严峻地形嘅测试，而且不断推出创新车款，满足驾驶人嘅需求。宜家就同我一起游览，发现福特所为你准备嘅一切。

[L-F-J]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4VHVQOiIvK8&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=o6RjL8vcMkU&feature=related

[scott-chen]

I only speak Mandarin, but I think it do sound like Cantonese.