Cantonese For Missionaries: Lesson One
With the help of ChineseBay.com’s Cantonese Pronunciation Dictionary, we can start some easy lessons for missionary.
Lesson One:
1. 神是愛 （God is love).
2. 耶穌是我哋嘅救主 （Jesus is our savior).
3. 我愛耶穌 （ I love Jesus).
4. 我愛耶和華 （I love Jehovah).
5. 神愛世人 （God loves the world).
For pronunciation, you may click the above Chinese to get the Jyutping (Cantonese pronunciation) for those characters.
Here’s an introduction of Jyutping Lessons that you may follow. (Master Jyutping, and your are free):
After you master the Jyutping you may use the Jyutping Dictionary to learn the Cantonese pronunciation of all the Chinese characters.
Cantonese for Missionaries and Cantonese for Pastors. It means as a missionary or pastor who meet Cantonese a lot, they need to learn this basic Cantonese.
Colloquial Cantonese(3)
Colloquial Cantonese Lesson Three
Let’s learn how to say “To be or not to be.”
係 hai6
☆係唔m4係(是不是) = is or not?
☆係咁gam2 (是这样)= is like this
☆係嘅ge3(是的) = It is.
☆係喇laa1(是了) = so it is
☆係嘞laak3(对了) = that is right.
☆係噃bo3(是的哦) = Oh, it is.
☆係吖aa1(是啊) = Yes,(I agree).
☆係呀aa1(是啊) = Yes, (I agree).
☆咪就係囉mai6zau6hai6 lo1 = That’s right.(I agree to this obvious point.)
☆係啰(囉)lo1(就是嘛) = a tone-down version of 咪就係囉.
☆係啩gwaa3(可能是吧)= perhaps it is
☆係咪mai6(是不是)= 係唔m4係 is or not?
☆係咩me1(是吗)= is that so?
Please note that 咪 here is taking 6th tone instead of the 1st tone(mistake in the video): mai6
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The Cantonese phrases and expressions we teach here are so colloquial that the Chinese characters used do not make sense at all in Mandarin. If you find them difficult, you need to practice more and try to learn them again and again from your own conversations with Cantonese speakers or find them in the Cantonese movies or TV programs. Don’t give up and keep learning and you will find more fun in learning Cantonese.
Colloquial Cantonese (2)
Colloquial Cantonese Lesson Two
冇 mou5 ( do not have； there’s none) = Mandarin 没,没有
This is a Cantonese word. We don’t have it in Mandarin.
☆冇乜嘢 mou2 mat1 je5 (没什么)
= have nothing at all.It’s nothing.(it’s OK)
☆冇嘢(没什么)= nothing
☆冇你咁好氣（气）mou2 nei5 gam2 hou2 hei3(没有你那么耐心)
=have no patience like yours(don’t want to talk to you anymore)
Colloquial Cantonese(1)
Diffference between Mandarin & Cantonese
There are lots of differences between Mandarin and Cantonese even though they share many Chinese characters and even sounds. Mandarin speakers and Cantonese speakers cannot understand each other unless they learn the other language. Mandarin and Cantonese are two different languages, but Google is continuing its big mistakes by considering Cantonese as the same or nearly the same language as Mandarin and they would not create a Cantonese selection for their Google Translate.
This article is written in hope that Google would realize their mistake someday and add Cantonese to their Google Translate. Please pass this article to someone related in Google so they can start to understand.
The differences between Mandarin & Cantonese
Althought Mandarin and Cantonese may share many Chinese characters, we can find
the following major differences between these two languages:
1. Very different pronunciation.
e.g. 你好（hello)
Mandarin：ní hǎo Cantonese: nei5 hou2
e.g. 火車(train)
Mandarin: huo3 che1 Cantonese: fo2 ce1
2. Mandarin 4 tones vs Cantonese 6 tones
e.g.
Mandarin 師時史是 tāngshī shí shĭ shì
Cantonese 師史試時市是 si1 si2 si3 si4 si5 si6
Mandarin 湯糖躺燙 tāng táng tăng tàng
Cantonese 湯躺燙糖 tong1 tong2 tong3 tong4
3. different characters or words are used
e.g. Engligh: I like him
Mandarin 我喜歡他
Cantonese 我中意佢
4. different word order
e.g. Engligh: I need to go first.
Mandarin 我要先走了。
Cantonese 我要走先了。
How For Permission to Marry His Daughter in Cantonese
This is a request from a CantonesePod.com and ChineseBay.com visitor.
The two sentences are:
I love and respect your daughter very much.
ngo5hou2ngoi3 tung4maai4 hou2zyun1ging3 nei5ge3 neoi5
我 好爱 同埋 好尊敬 你嘅女。
I humbly request your permission to marry her.
ngo5 him1bei1gam2 cing2kau4 nei5 wan5heoi2 ngo5 tung4keoi5 git3fan1
我 谦卑咁 请求 你允许 我 同佢结婚。
Great Books to Learn Cantonese!
List of good books to learn Cantonese. Cantonese books sell well with audio CDs and usually are better for Cantonese learners.
When I learn English, I always bought as many books as possible. I often spent wholes days inside Foreign Book Store at Beijing Road, Guangzhou, China. If you are serious about Cantonese learning, you should choose some of these Books to learn Cantonese:
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| Berlitz Cantonese Chinese Phrase Book &… by Berlitz $10.78 Wow! Book plus CD only $8.25! You sure can learn a lot with this great set. |
Basic Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook (Gr… by Virginia Yip $33.28 |
Chinese (Cantonese), Conversational: Learn … by Pimsleur $31.61 |
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| Intermediate Cantonese: A Grammar and Workb… by Virginia Yip $34.11 |
Chinese (Cantonese), Basic: Learn to Speak … by Pimsleur $18.96 |
Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Compreh… by Stephen Matthews $67.50 |
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| Teach Yourself Cantonese Complete Course Au… by Hugh Baker |
Beginning Cantonese (Critical Languages Ser… by Dana Scott Bourgerie $50.08 |
Read and Write Chinese: A Simplified Guide … by Rita Mei-Wah Choy $15.00 |
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Follow Me to Learn Cantonese(2)
In this lesson, we are going to learn some common nouns, verbs and pronouns that we can use in some sentence patterns.
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