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| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4927 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes  Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 41 of 67 06 January 2012 at 4:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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Day 05:
I listened to another half hour of Cantonese, practiced speaking the nine expressions above, and read the Introduction to Yip and Matthews' Basic Cantonese. The 即学即用广州话 book is useful for its vocabulary and use of real speech, but I'm beginning to lean towards Teach Yourself Cantonese for learning faster, simply because the romanization system is more consistent and I don't have to guess what character they mean, nor do I have to switch between the traditional character set and the simplified. The ultimate test for me in Cantonese is to be able to listen to a two hour movie and have a normal conversation with a native speaker, so I need to devote more time to listening and speaking activities. Edited by zhanglong on 06 January 2012 at 4:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| petrklic Triglot Pro Member Czech Republic Joined 5084 days ago 95 posts - 109 votes Speaks: Czech*, English, Russian Studies: Vietnamese Personal Language Map | Message 42 of 67 08 January 2012 at 12:05am | IP Logged | |||||
Wouldn't youtube work great for that? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4927 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 43 of 67 08 January 2012 at 1:01am | IP Logged | |||||
It would if I were in Hong Kong, but in Mainland China, youtube presents some challenges. I'm assuming if I used a proxy it would be possible. 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 44 of 67 09 January 2012 at 12:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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＞ 乜咁啱嘅 mat1 gam3 aam1 ge3
That should be ge2. It acts as a question particle. ＞ My girlfriend doesn't use "嘅"; she just writes "ga". ge = 嘅 ga = o架 （the letter o representing the 口 radical） ＞ "hea" (pron. as in "health", first tone, meaning "To relax, leisurely") and "fing" (jyutping "fing4", meaning to toss or fling) I'm not sure if that jyutping has a different tone numbering system, but just in case, here are the tones of those two words using the standard/common tone numbering system: hea - tone 3, same as the word "四 four". fing - tone 6, same as the word "二 two". 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6580 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 45 of 67 09 January 2012 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
Tell that to my girlfriend. She uses "ga" for 嘅 and uses the character 㗎 (or just 架).
Thanks. I caught the "fing6" and corrected it myself in a later post than the one you quoted, but the "he3" one I had wrong. It's annoying when there's no character for it in CantoDict, since you can't look it up. It shows in example sentences, but you can't search for it. Edited by Ari on 09 January 2012 at 7:53pm 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 46 of 67 09 January 2012 at 8:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
I hope our forum members learn properly. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4927 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 47 of 67 23 January 2012 at 4:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Day 23:
I listened to 1.5 hours of Cantonese audio and shadowed what I heard. I also logged into CantoneseClass101 and did some of their lessons for half an hour. I've discovered some interesting things about their material. They are still working on their accuracy. Sometimes it feels as if we are beta-testing their Cantonese classes, but I've just started their lessons, so I won't judge them yet. Lately, I've been stretching the limits of my conversational abilities. I can speak longer and longer without pausing or looking for a new word. Let's see how far I can go. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4927 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 48 of 67 25 January 2012 at 12:08am | IP Logged | |||||
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Day 24:
I went to see a Cantonese movie; while I couldn't isolate many individual words yet, I could understand the general gist of the movie by watching body language and following the plot. It was a romantic comedy, a pleasant enough diversion, though it was unsettling at first to see Ip Man playing an electric guitar. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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