Summary: Title: BTB Back to Basics (edition 1) Date: 14 May 2007 Summary: In this podcast, I will cover the basics of the Cantonese language and the fundamental grammar points Notes: - Welcome to Cantonese Pod, inspirations for learning the lyrical, expressive and beautiful Cantonese language, gong dong wa bok hak - self introduction - tonal language, think of playing chords, relax :) - forget the standard romanisation, transcribe it whatever way you like - forget the script, get used to the sound first ;) - personal pronoun, I, you, he/she/it, they, note the gender neutrality in Chinese wrt pronunciation - demonstrative pronoun - possessive pronoun - dead easy to make a question: ad Gah.. - numbers again :)
