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| rae0011 Tetraglot Newbie Hong Kong Joined 6366 days ago 10 posts - 15 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, Mandarin, English, SpanishB2 | Message 9 of 17 05 February 2012 at 4:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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This youtube channel is pretty funny -
Carlos Douh There's one video which he explained a recent slang - " Chok Face" Comics Old Master Q - A very well-known local comics which uses the title of Lu Xun's The True Story of Ah Q. Music Some more f Sam Hui cos he's made Cantonese popular in Hong Kong (before the 70s, most young people listen to either English or Mandarin music): 打雀英雄傳 About playing Mahjong 財神到 God of Fortune arrives... This is a must play in every Chinese New Year 搵野做 Looking for a job 天才白痴錢錢錢 Money money money 十個女仔 Ten girls 最緊要好玩 What matters is having fun Other colloquial songs - 林子祥 - 分分鐘需要你 George Lam - Needing you every moment 羅文 - 激光中 Roman Tam - In the laser 郭富城 - 個個讚你乖 Aaron Kwok - Everybody says you're obedient Beyond - 爸爸媽媽 Beyond - Papa Mama 劉德華 - 天各一方 Andy Lau - Separate Ways 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ftly7 Newbie United States Joined 4643 days ago 2 posts - 4 votes Studies: Cantonese | Message 10 of 17 19 March 2012 at 2:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Note sure if others have posted some of these websites. I myself just started learning Cantonese.
http://www.chinese-lessons.com/cantonese/pingyam/tones.htm http://cantonese.hk/wp/ http://www.omniglot.com/chinese/cantonese.htm 3 persons have 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 11 of 17 19 March 2012 at 7:18am | IP Logged | ||
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Good stuff! Thanks, ftly, and welcome to the forums!
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| ftly7 Newbie United States Joined 4643 days ago 2 posts - 4 votes Studies: Cantonese | Message 12 of 17 21 March 2012 at 6:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks Ari! Are you still studying Cantonese? By the way thanks for posting really useful online resources!
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| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4927 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 13 of 17 22 April 2012 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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These are some good times to be studying Cantonese...
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| mekalika Diglot Senior Member United States sarahnguyen.com/ Joined 7067 days ago 30 posts - 33 votes Studies: Vietnamese, English*, German | Message 14 of 17 11 May 2012 at 4:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you search on Youtube for "Disney Cantonese" or "[name of your favorite disney movie here] Cantonese", there are lots of Disney songs dubbed into Cantonese :) Someone more knowledgeable than me should probably check if these are okay to learn from, but if the German ones are any indication, Disney does an amazing job translating their songs...
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| 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 15 of 17 25 November 2012 at 11:13am | IP Logged | ||
Well, two problems with this: 1: The songs seem to all be in Standard Chinese, i.e. Mandarin grammar and vocabulary with Cantonese pronunciation. So no use for learning spoken Cantonese. 2: Cantonese songwriting is a very difficult art. Since the tones vary in pitch (high/low) and not just in contour (rising/falling) the way Mandarin tones do, it means you have to be very careful with matching the lyrics to the melody. If you place a high-pitched syllable on a low-pitched note, it's going to sound a bit weird. Seeing as the translators of the Disney songs have to use a premade melody and the lyrics have to match pretty much the original, they're very constrained, and the result is slightly weird, at least to my ears, though it varies with the songs. They've done a great job to be sure, but it's a pretty difficult challenge. 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 16 of 17 25 November 2012 at 7:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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For anyone who's using FSI to learn Canto, here's a thread on CantoDict with the characters for all the lessons, since FSI doesn't give them.
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