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Follow Me to Learn Cantonese(2)

Kaibo — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:21:02 +0000

In this lesson, we are going to learn some common nouns, verbs and pronouns that we can use in some sentence patterns.
There two videos in this lesson

Part 1

Part 2

The pdf file in this lesson: Follow Me to Learn Cantonese (2)

How to Say “Happy Father’s Day” in Cantonese?

Kaibo — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:57:02 +0000

父親節快樂！(Traditional Chinese)
父亲节快乐! (Simplified Chinese)
fu6can1zit3 faai3lok3 (JyutPing)
father’s day happy

You may also download the better sound mp3 for “Happy Father’s Day” in Cantonese below:

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I love you so much in Cantonese

Kaibo — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:19:14 +0000

Today we are going to learn how to use “hou5″ which means “very much” in Cantonese.

I know. Some already learned to use “hou5″ as “very”. e.g. hou5 leng3 好靚 very pretty.
We can also use “hou5″ to mean “very much” together with “love” or “hate”

简体我好爱你
 繁體我好愛你 (Traditional Chinese)
粤拼 ngo5 hou2 oi3/ngoi3 nei5/lei5

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How to say: Will You Marry Me in Cantonese （2）

Kaibo — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:47:16 +0000

Another verb that means “marry” in Cantonese is 娶。 It really means “(a man) marry (a woman)”.
So for a girl to ask a man “Will you marry me?”, she should say
nei5 jyun6 ji3 ceoi2 ngo5 maa3
“你願意娶我嗎？” (colloquial)
or
nei5 jyun6 m4 jyun6ji3 tung4 ngo5 git3fan1 aa3
“你愿唔願意同我結婚啊。”(Are you willing to marry me? )

If you would be happy for a week take a wife; if you would be happy for a month kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life plant a garden (Proverb)

So how do you say take a wife in Cantonese?
ceoi2 lou5po4
娶老婆 Marry (one’s) wife

Marry an 18-year-old as his wife:
ceoi2 zo2 go3 sap6baat3 seoi3 ge3 zou6 lou5po4
娶咗個十八歲嘅做老婆。

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Learn Basic Cantonese(3)

Kaibo — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:23:51 +0000

Happy Friday!

Glad to see you hear again.
URL for this Learn Basic Cantonese(3)

http://cantonesepod.com/pods/2009/05/22/learn-basic-cantonese3learn-basic-cantonese3

Today, we are going to learn how to say wishes in Cantonese.
11. 祝你路旅愉快！ = Have a nice trip
12.祝你周末愉快！ = Wish you a happy weekend / Have a nice weekend
13.祝你生日快乐！ = Wish you a happy birthday
14.祝你有个愉快嘅礼拜五晚上！ = Wish you a happy Friday!
15.祝你早日康复！ = Wish you an early recovery

Pronunciation and definition of the above can be found here.

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Learn Basic Cantonese:(2)

Kaibo — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:14:49 +0000

Basic Cantonese:(2)

This lesson may fit into Business Cantonese as well.
If you are reading this using RSS reader, you may need to come to

http://cantonesepod.com/pods/2009/05/19/learn-basic-cantonese2learn-basic-cantonese2/

for the mp3 sound recording for better study.

6.王先生（王生），早晨！ Morning, Mr. Wong(Wang)
7.李太，早晨！ Morning, Mrs. Li (Lee).
8.呢位系（係）我嘅经理，谭生。This is my manager Mr. Tan (Tam).
9.谭经理，欢迎你！Welcome, Manager Tam!
10.李太，多谢你的邀请。Mrs. Lee,thank you for your invitation.
Note: We tend to read “的”as “嘅” in Cantonese.
In Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), we tend to address people by their titles such as Manager, Director, Teacher, etc. to show respects.
For further study, please check out MDBG notes

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Learn Basic Cantonese:(1)

Kaibo — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:18:42 +0000

Today, we begin a new short series so that we hope that we can have update more than twice a week.

Every time, we just learn 5 short sentences.

Learn Basic Cantonese:(1)

1. 你好！ ( Hello!)
2.我叫保罗。 ( I’m Paul )
3.我姓陈。 (My last name is Chen )
4.陈小姐，你好！ (Hello, Miss Chen. )
5.保罗先生，你好！(Hello, Paul! )

Some asked us to put Jyutping and definitions for these sentences for further learning.
Please click HERE to study more and come back here to replay the mp3 lesson.
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Basic Cantonese(2)
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