Monthly Archives: October 2008

Learn Cantonese 4: What Time is it?

This is Lesson 4 in our Learn Cantonese Video Course with simple everyday dialogues. Mr Wong goes to visit a young lady friend (Chan Siuje) in Mong Kok and practices his Cantonese.Here is the dialogue in traditional Chinese characters, Yale Cantonese romanization, and the English translation:
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How to say “Joe the Plumber” in Chinese (叫阿祖食屎)

I’m not interested in American politics. Quite frankly, I’m with Stanley Bing at Fortune China. Stanley wrote a piece in Chinese entitled 乔已经够多了 (I’ve had enough of Joe). Me, too. On a bad day, I’d be less polite and 叫阿祖食屎! But, like it not, the US is having an election and the rest of the world has [...]
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Learn Cantonese 3: Multilingual Hong Kong

This is is the third in a series of Cantonese learning videos with simple everyday dialogues. Sound files were extracted and recycled from the US Foreign Service Institute’s (FSI) Basic Cantonese 1. Avatars were made with CrazyTalk. Photos of Hong Kong are distributed under a Creative Commons licence and/or GNU. Songs are copyright of various [...]
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