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)
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。
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