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Learn Cantonese Dialogues Lesson 1

By admin | Published: November 28, 2008

Dialogue 1 [display_podcast] Dialogue 2 [display_podcast] Dialogue 3 [display_podcast] Dialogue 4 [display_podcast] Dialogue 5 [display_podcast] Dialogue 6 [display_podcast] Dialogue 7 [display_podcast]

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Learn Cantonese Book 1

By admin | Published: November 28, 2008

Learn Cantonese Book 1, published by Hanyu Press, is now available as a free .pdf. Learn Cantonese Book 1 contains transcripts in traditional Chinese characters, Yale Romanization and English translation for all the approximately 60 dialogues in lessons 1-15 (originally from the FSI’s Cantonese: Basic Course, Volume 1). It also contains vocabulary lists and a Cantonese [...]

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How to say “Joe the Plumber” in Chinese (å«é˜¿ç¥–é£Ÿå±Ž)

By admin | Published: October 22, 2008

I’m not interested in American politics. Quite frankly, I’m with Stanley Bing at Fortune China. Stanley wrote a piece in Chinese entitled ä¹”å·²ç»å¤Ÿå¤šäº† (I’ve had enough of Joe). Me, too. On a bad day, I’d be less polite and å«é˜¿ç¥–é£Ÿå±Ž! But, like it not, the US is having an election and the rest of the world has [...]

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Recycled Hanyu Unit 4

By admin | Published: July 19, 2008

This video is Unit 4 of the Money Module in our Learn Mandarin Chinese Video Series. Sound files were extracted from the Foreign Service Institute’s (FSI) Standard Mandarin Chinese. This video is placed in the public domain.Transcript of video in Hanyu Pinyin, Simplified Chinese characters, and English translation DIALOGUE 1 A: NÄ jiÄlide dÅngxi dÅu dÃ o le [...]

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Recycled Hanyu Unit 3

By admin | Published: July 9, 2008

This is Unit 3 of the Money Module in our Learn Mandarin Chinese Video series.Transcript of Mandarin Chinese video in Hanyu Pinyin, Simplified Chinese characters, and English translation DIALOGUE 1 A: QÄng nÇ gÄ•i wo kÃ nkan nÃ¨ige huÄpÃng. è¯·ä½ ç»™æˆ‘çœ‹çœ‹é‚£ä¸ªèŠ±ç“¶ã€‚ Please give me that vase to look at. B: [...]