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Hanyu.com just moved!

I finally moved hanyu.com to a new server. A few things got messed up – some links are missing and stuff written in Chinese didn’t preserve its original coding. Everything will be back to normal in a day or so…
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Learn Cantonese in Hong Kong

Cantonese courses in Hong Kong are surprisingly few, despite it being the main language of daily communication in Hong Kong and spoken by over 90% of inhabitants. Fortunately, a number of new schools/companies are appearing that offer Cantonese courses
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Learn Cantonese videos

I haven’t got around to posting much here lately. I’ve been putting most of the Cantonese stuff into the free online Moodle course at http://cantonesecourse.com . I love WordPress – but it wasn’t designed for learning. Eventually I’ll have all the 50+ dialogues from the 15 lessons of Cantonese FSI Volume 1 made into YouTube videos. [...]
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Learn Cantonese 1: Mistaken identity

This is the first 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. Photos of Sham Shui Po are distributed under a Creative Commons licence and/or GNU. Everything else is public domain. Two acquaintances on their way to [...]
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Recycled Hanyu: Unit 6

This is Unit 6 of the Money Module in our Mandarin Chinese Video Lessons Series.DIALOGUE 1 1. A: 请问,你们这里可以换美金吗? Qĭngwèn, nĭmen zhèli kéyi huàn Měijīn ma? Excuse me, can I change U.S. dollars here?
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A borrowed word

All languages at one time or another borrow words from other languages. Most of the scientific and technical vocabulary in English is composed of Greek and Latin roots. And for some reason, lost in history for most people, our swear words are Germanic. Loanwords in Chinese are not so obvious – but they are still [...]
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Hello world!世界你好!

Welcome to Hànyǔ. The CEDICT dictionary is at http://hanyu.com/worddict.php
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