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| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4927 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes  Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 25 of 67 01 January 2012 at 4:19am | IP Logged | ||
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新年快樂 san1 nin4 faai3 lok6 Happy New Year!
While the rest of the world celebrates 2012, it will be another 22 days before the Spring Festival or Chinese New Year. There are two other expressions that are supposed to be said during this time: 恭賀新禧 gung1 ho6 san1 hei1 恭喜發財 gung1 hei2 faat3 coi4 What's the difference between the three expressions? I'll need to ask some native speakers. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6227 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 26 of 67 01 January 2012 at 5:49am | IP Logged | ||
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Best of Luck on your Odyssey!!!!
新年快樂 san1 nin4 faai3 lok6 and 新年快乐！ Xīnnián kuàilè! (Mandarin - my crazy language for 2012!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4927 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 27 of 67 01 January 2012 at 11:46am | IP Logged | ||
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谢谢！ Your own journey inspires me more and more. Keep up the great work!
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| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4927 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 28 of 67 01 January 2012 at 12:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sunday's Recommended Website:
http://www.scn.org/cmp/aural.htm An Aural Method to learn an Oral Language The author, Phil Bartle, has a doctorate in Sociology and has spent most of his life in foreign countries as a teacher and humanitarian. As such, he has had many occasions to learn languages which do not come "Pimsleurized" or haven't a written form. His 31 tips for learning an oral language are quite interesting. I agree with much of what he's written and am applying it to my own study of Cantonese. Edited by zhanglong on 01 January 2012 at 5:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5306 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 29 of 67 01 January 2012 at 12:46pm | IP Logged | ||
恭喜發財 is the standard thing to say to your friends. (similar to "Merry Christmas") 恭賀新禧 goes on posters, banners, leaflets, lucky charms, greeting cards, etc. (similar to "May this joyous season bring you blah blah blah") 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4927 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 30 of 67 01 January 2012 at 5:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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@smallwhite:
Thank you for the clarification. I spoke to some Guangzhou natives and their consensus matches what you said; it appears that for these greetings, there is little regional difference. Also, they said: 身體健康 san1 tai2 gin6 hong1 is most commonly said during Spring Festival to wish someone good health. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4927 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 31 of 67 01 January 2012 at 8:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Day 01:
Just spent two hours and a half listening to Cantonese, and updating websites. It's been a productive day for both Mandarin and Cantonese. Time to let it sink in, so I can practice and review tomorrow. Edited by zhanglong on 01 January 2012 at 9:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4927 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 32 of 67 01 January 2012 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've joined the CantoneseClass101 website for the audio files and the Cantonese community. I don't know how good the material is yet, but I know have an embarrassment of riches for Cantonese.
I have native speakers willing to practice with me; of course, they have no idea about romanization to write anything down; they just speak. But I was asked to teach someone a Cantonese romanization system and saw this link: JyutPing Software Is anyone familiar with this software? Does it seem worthwhile? I generally will just write my own guide, but this looks promising. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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