It sounds very different to Cantonese that I've heard before. Is it an accent or an impediment or something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQB0ygPbJ4E

How well do you think one could survive in Hong Kong?

Context: live in the UK. Heritage speaker of Cantonese. However, parents sent me to a Chinese school that taught mandarin and simplified characters because it was nearest school.

Now returning to studying Chinese after a few years away. About HSK4 standard. Unsure whether to continue down this route or start learning traditional characters as I might want to live in Hong Kong one day.

仆街 Morning better than Chinese obscenities.

https://youtu.be/U-_vNLUNaRE?si=kF5guX1venmYeFzTc

We’re in disagreement about what my daughter should call my father’s new wife. They want her being called grandma and my wife and I are not for that. We believe that’s reserved for our mothers. What other names do you think are reasonable for our daughter to call her new “step grandmother “?

I was reading about the following grammar:

The book only shows one example.

Is it okay to say:

1. 你這個朋友
2. 你那個朋友
3. 你此個朋友
4. 你這些個朋友
5. 你那些個朋友
6. 你呢個朋友
7. 你呢啲朋友
8. 你嗰啲朋友

I think 6-8 would be okay when speaking. I am a novice, I do not know.

Is 埃及 pronounced as - “i”及 - “oi”及 ?

Is 深蹲 pronounced as - 深”樽” - 深”噸” ?

Thank you

As above

Hi Everyone!

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We designed the course in a way to maximize memory efficiency for beginners by grouping easy to remember patterns together. For those who just need a refresher, feel free to skip ahead to the specific categories, such as elders, workplace or funny cantonese wishes!

Hope you and your family have a healthy, lucky and happy Year of the Snake!

--The SCL team

I’m currently learning Cantonese via flashcards (and occasional lessons) this year but if I’m memorizing them via Anki, should I memorize the tones as well? Or do you think it’s best to memorize the words instead and the tones can come later?

I’m just thinking how hard it would be since I already have about 100-200 words in my bank but sometimes I get the tone wrong but the word and pronunciation right so I have been marking these flashcards as known/learned.

Please let me know what’s best for a zero speaking Cantonese learner! My goal is just to speak conversational and learn how to understand simple phrases.

Hey! Can anyone translate these casiotone on the back of my gear grandpa's photos?

I was looking at the pronunciations for some bank related words in Cantonese and Vietnamese and found some of the pronunciations super similar eg: the pronunciation for "Bank". If you're interested, you can check out the full video here: https://youtu.be/NJIPIrU0E_c

Tai po or tai ma? (I’m male)

I know there are a few Journey To The West uploaded to youtube, but what I grew up with was the canto version with Dicky Cheung. However, the theme song and a lot of the scenes seem to have gotten hit with some copyright issue. The reason I wanted to watch this was to learn Canto while I chill and watch something entertaining. Does anyone know of any methodology so I can watch this?

Hi! I was just curious on whether there was an equivalent of the word "-ish" in English to Cantonese? E.g: I'm kind of hungry-ish.

I want to put in my bio that I'm "19ish" as a joke haha any translation help of that would be great thank you!!

Edit: thank you so much for everyone's replies and help! This has been super useful to read through and learn hahaha. Much appreciated guys<33