Month: August 2008
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Lesson 9: you are who or what?
Lesson 9: What do you do? ( I’m a doctor. You are …) How to say that in Cantonese? Hi, ????Welcome to another Cantonese mp3 lesson at CantonesePod.com. We’ll come back to basics this time. Simple sentence pattern: pronoun + ?(hai6 = to be) + noun The pronoun can be I, we, you, they, she,…
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Lesson 8: “I’m going to …” in Cantonese
Hi, ???? Today, we are going to learn how to say what you plan to do (are going to do). ???? gam1yat3 geoi3jing3 Today’s sentence pattern: I’m going to + verbs ( In English it really means “I plan to do something.” or “I will do something.”) so the Cantonese for that is: ???+verb or…
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Cantonese Idiom: Cook the phone…(mp3 updated)
Although Cantonese use almost the same Chinese characters in their newspaper, most of Mandarin-speaking readers cannot really understand what they are talking about. Why? Because they use Cantonese idioms, which have made the language so colorful. Today, we’ll try to start to cover some of those interesting Cantonese idioms as some of our visitors have…
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Lesson 7: I don’t have time.
Hi, ??????????I’m Paul) Welcome to CantonesePod.com! ???????? Today’s sentence pattern: I have … ?? I don’t have … ?? … mou2 ?: (Cantonese Chinese character) do not have/have none/there is none. ?????????????? I have a lot of money, but, I don’t have time. ???????????????? I have a lot of things to do, but I have…
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Lesson6: How to say this in Cantonese?
Lesson 6 How do you say this in Cantonese? Hi, ???? Welcome to CantonesePod.com! ??????????? What! What did I say? ?? glad meet ( glad to meet you = welcome) ?? big family (= everyone) ?? come to ?? Guangdong language (=Cantonese) ? = broadcast ? =guest ?? = podcast ( derives from ?? for…