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Vocabs and structures for buying at a take-away shop

continuing from back to basics 1...

In this podcast, you will learn and remember Cantonese vocabs using a "childish" and "playful" way. Tell me whether you like it or not ;)

In this podcast, I will introduce you to an "innovative" way for remembering vocabs, basically, a "kindergarten" way.. Should be good fun Please see "Essential Words" link

In this podcast, you will learn 6 basic adjectives in an unforgettable way

Mini Lesson: Good luck, congratulations

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This was the very first podcast that I recorded, I have converted the format from ogg to mp3, you may still find this useful. Give it a go. Regards, Benson

Shownotes: numbers reviews; 1 to 10; tens; hundred, thousands nin, yuet, yat, sing kei ==> year, month, day, day of week (or week simply) gum yat -> today gum yat hai 2007 nin 5 yuet 25 hou, sing kei 4 -> Today is the 25th of May, 2007, Thursday gum yat tin hei ho yit -> Today's weather is very hot gum jiu ngo dap din che hui hok yat mun -> Today I took a train to learn Japanese dap -> to ride, to travel by din che -> train jiu -> morning hui -> to go to hok -> to learn yat mun -> Japanese language bar see -> bus gong dong wah -> Cantonese langauge gum go sing kei fong gar -> It is holiday for me this week fong gar -> to be on holiday yee -> easy

Title: Asking for direction, as simple as ABC Date: 16 May 2007 Summary: In this podcast, I will cover the basics so that you can master the skill of asking for directions Notes: - Welcome to Cantonese Pod, inspirations for learning the lyrical, expressive and beautiful Cantonese language, gong dong wa bok hak - the way I am gonna do this series, different situations that you may be in, through small dialogues, gradually develop your confidence in the language... - Summary - 2 scenarios 1) Asking for the toilet 2) Asking for the direction to a tourist attraction when you are walking down the street carrying a map and the address of the place that you can wanna go to - full dialogue, vocabs and grammar points, full dialogue, drill, full dialogue Transliteration: Notes: Sorry folks, I don't know fully the standard transliteration system, e.g. the yue ping system. Actually, what I think is that the learning curve for these systems are pretty stiff. Some of you have requested the transliteration for thesepodcasts , so I will try my best. All sensible requests will be answered ;) What I am going to use is an English-like transliteration system to the best of my knowledge. For now, no Chinese characters will be given since thisPodCast is for beginners. I will start a wiki at some point for my PodCast so that you guys can form a community editing the show notes for these PodCasts. fong heung -> direction ng goi -> excuse me, Thank you hai -> yes // pronuncation note: this a is a bit like the "a" as in hum ne -> you zi -> to know zi ng zi -> do you know? ni tew gai --> this (ni tew) street (gai) // ew rhymes with few in English hai bin dou -> at where? --> the utterance when thinking // rhymes with air num- ha- sin- -> let me think hai -> at jik -> straight jik hang -> go straight jun -> turn jor -> left yau -> right jau -> then wui -> can ghin -> see // gh as in goose yut -> one gan -> counter for building an hong -> bank gat lei -> next to it ng goi sai -> thank you very much ng sai hak hei -> you're welcome // literally, no need to be guest-like chi soh -> toilet lau -> floor yat, yee, sam, sei, ng, lok, chat, bat, gau, sap -> 1 to 10 bak -> 100 chin -> 1000 maan -> 10,000 N.B. Hint -> make flashcard to learn this, don't rely solely on my transliteration to learn, you will get bad accents, only use them as a pointer to your memory of the correct pronunciation, listen to mypodcasts to get the correct pronunciation ;) My Cantonese accent is quite standard :) // for the "correct" system, take a look at this, seriously, don't get bogged down! ;) // http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/essays/tones.htm // If you guys want jyutping, that's fine, please help me :) Please send your jyutping to my email address..