http://cantonesepod.com/pods Cantonese Immersion Learning With MP3 and Podcasting Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:27:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Great Cantonese conversation between two white men: http://cantonesepod.com/pods/2008/11/03/loving-father-speaking-cantonese/ Hello everyone, 大家好！ Here's our Cantonese podcast Lesson ten at CantonesePod.com. Did you try our "how to say" in Cantonese series? Let review two of the series: How to say “you are pretty” in Cantonese How to say “you are (so) handsome” in Cantonese? nei5 hou3 leng3 你 好 ... http://cantonesepod.com/pods/2008/09/06/lesson10-i-am-busy-in-cantonese/ Lesson 9: What do you do? ( I'm a doctor. You are ...) How to say that in Cantonese? Hi, 大家好！Welcome to another Cantonese mp3 lesson at CantonesePod.com. We'll come back to basics this time. Simple sentence pattern: pronoun + 系(hai6 = to be) + noun The pronoun can be I, we, you, they, she, ... http://cantonesepod.com/pods/2008/08/30/lesson-9-i-am-doctor/ Hi, 大家好！ Today, we are going to learn how to say what you plan to do (are going to do). 今日句型 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 ... http://cantonesepod.com/pods/2008/08/23/lesson8-i-am-going-to/ 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 ... http://cantonesepod.com/pods/2008/08/20/cantonese-idiom-cook-the-phone/ Hi, 大家好！我系保罗！（I'm Paul) Welcome to CantonesePod.com! 粤语播客欢迎您！ Today's sentence pattern: I have ... 我有 I don't have ... 我冇 ... mou2 冇: (Cantonese Chinese character) do not have/have none/there is none. 我有好多钱！但系，我冇时间。 I have a lot of money, but, I don't have time. 我有好多嘢做，不过我有好少时间。 I have a lot of things to do, but I have quite little time. 佢有一个好靓嘅太太，而且太太好识煮餸。 He has a very ... http://cantonesepod.com/pods/2008/08/16/lesson7-i-dont-have-time/ Lesson 6 How do you say this in Cantonese? Hi, 大家好！ Welcome to CantonesePod.com! 欢迎大家来到粤语播客！ What! What did I say? 欢迎 glad meet ( glad to meet you = welcome) 大家 big family (= everyone) 来到 come to 粤语 Guangdong language (=Cantonese) 播 = broadcast 客 =guest 播客 = podcast ( derives from 博客 for blog and similar sound of podcast ... http://cantonesepod.com/pods/2008/08/07/lesson6-how-to-say-this-in-cantonese/ Hi, everyone, 大家好。 In our last lesson, we learned how to say where you are from. In Today's lesson, we are going to learn to say the places you want to go. Now sentence patterns: 1)I want to go to (Beijing...) 我想去(北京) 2)He needs to go to (Hong Kong...) 佢要去(香港) 3)My wife has been to San Francisco ... http://cantonesepod.com/pods/2008/07/31/lesson4-i-want-to-go-to-beijing-in-cantonese/ Hi, Everyone, For those expecting Lesson Five, sorry that we have to delay till next week due to our beta issue and changes on our sites (we are trying to make it a better learning environment to help you.) Yes, we need more contributors, so if you are interested in helping, ... http://cantonesepod.com/pods/2008/07/25/podcast-lesson-this-week-delaye/ What is Standard Cantonese? The language spoken by the people in Canton? Canton is now officially called Guangzhou 广州, which is the capital of Guangdong Province in Southern China. It is generally agreed that Standard Cantonese is the dialect spoken natively in and around the cities of Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macau ... http://cantonesepod.com/pods/2008/07/19/standard-cantonese-%e5%bb%a3%e5%ba%9c%e8%a9%b1%e5%bb%a3%e5%b7%9e%e8%a9%b1/