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Learning Cantonese for NooBs: Communication Strategies

You’re a Cantonese NooB. You find yourself in a situation where you don’t know the Cantonese word you need. What do you do? a. keep your mouth shut b. use a circumlocution (e.g. “smelly” + “fruit” for ‘durian’)
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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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Learn Cantonese 2: Getting to know you

This is the second 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. Everything else is public domain. In [...]
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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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