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Learn Basic Cantonese:(1)
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. ??? ( Hello!) 2.????? ( I’m Paul ) 3.???? (My last name is Chen ) 4.??????? (Hello, Miss Chen. ) 5.????????(Hello, Paul!…
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Loving father speaking Cantonese
Great Cantonese conversation between two white men: This guy is one for my favorite actors. I’m a father of two and need to consider the same thing to do
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Lesson 10: I am busy in Cantonese
Hello everyone, ???? 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 ? ? ? = you are (so) pretty.…
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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…
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Lesson 5:I want to go to Beijing in Cantonese
Hi, everyone, ???? 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…) ???(??) 2)He needs to go to (Hong Kong…) ???(??) 3)My wife has been to…
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Podcast Lesson This Week: delayed
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, please let us know.…
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