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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4437 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes  Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 17 of 19 25 August 2014 at 4:02am | IP Logged |
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There are 3 foreigners who are fluent Cantonese-speakers dedicated to teaching the language:
1. Hugh Baker: he is an English professor in Hong Kong who wrote a Cantonese study guide: "Complete Cantonese by Hugh Baker and Pui-Kei Ho". 香港故事 - Cantonese (PART 1) 2. Cecile Gamst Berg: Norwegian who is teaching Cantonese to foreigners in Hong Kong. Her online site: Happy Jellyfish 3. Carlos Douh: Canadian from Vancouver living in Hong Kong who is teaching Cantonese to foreigners with the slogan: "Hear it, speak it, memorize it". His online site: CarlosDouh Mandarin tends to be more popular as a language due to the size of the Chinese population. Foreigners tend to learn Mandarin first before moving to Cantonese. Before 1997 it was more common to see standard Mandarin used in writing in newspapers and magazines. Now a lot of magazines in Hong Kong are writing in Cantonese. A lot of Chinese subtitles in Cantonese movies tend to be in standard Mandarin although some are in Cantonese. Once upon a time, the schools in Hong Kong would teach standard Mandarin for writing but teach Chinese classes in Cantonese because writing in Cantonese was considered improper. Now it is very common to see Cantonese on online blogs. Once upon a time, Westerners tend to see more movies from Hong Kong such as those with Bruce Lee because there were very few available from China. Now we are seeing a lot more from Mainland China including those directed by Zhang Yimou. The Rush Hour series with Jackie Chan & Chris Tucker most of the dialog is in English with some Mandarin phrases in between but very few in Cantonese. Good luck... Edited by shk00design on 25 August 2014 at 4:40am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| YnEoS Senior Member United States Joined 4247 days ago 472 posts - 893 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish | Message 18 of 19 25 August 2014 at 5:00am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the info! I'm hoping that Johhny To and Wong Kar Wai will continue making Cantonese film in the future, though I understand that's more difficult nowadays. Though my main interest is in older films, so the current dominance of Mandarin language cinema doesn't concern me too much, and I'll probably end up studying Mandarin one day as well, since a lot of Mandarin films came out of Hong Kong as well, and there's also a lot of great Taiwanese cinema out there.
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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4437 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 19 of 19 25 August 2014 at 5:59am | IP Logged |
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A set of Cantonese videos on YouTube from Hong Kong on correct pronunciations:
Cantonese - 粵講粵啱 - PART 1 There are 4 parts to this series with correct pronunciation on different words. Technically Cantonese has 9 tones. Some would classify it as having 6 tones with 3 being different being short & long giving 9. You can find other Cantonese learning videos on YouTube such as: Teach Yourself Cantonese Unit 1 Dialogue 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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