Cantonese PodCast - Learn in a fun way

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1) YesAsia

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• I have bought a few items from them, my experience with them has been good so far
• free international delivery
• very comprehensive online shop
• good customer service

Twins Missions: one of the most popular Hong Kong movie these days

Hong Kong Movies

2) Language Learning Resources

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quite a popular language series among language learners

3) NJStar

Review:

• one of the most popular Chinese WordProcessor
• one of the most popular Chinese input tool

More to come….

Announcements:

Click the relevant side-links for old episodes,vocabulary drills, etc. Please nagivate around the pages to make the most out of the site for yourself .

Hello, I would strongly recommend the following books, clicking the Amazon UK links will take you straight to the relevant Amazon description page, I would recommend you buying at least one of the following books, only for inspiration, if nothing else

Here you go:

Teach Yourself Cantonese: Complete Audio CD Program (Teach Yourself Language Complete Courses)

I strongly recommend this book:

• very clear
• a lot of information
• I have recommended this book to some of my friends

Colloquial Cantonese: A Complete Language Course (Colloquial)

• takes you from ground up
• pretty solid

Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars)

• very solid grammar book

English-Cantonese Dictionary

• fairly-priced dictionary

That’s about it for now. Yep, buy at least one of these books. You will find that it is a good investment. Regarding online bookshops for Cantonese learning materials, I think that Amazon is the most comprehensive.

I welcome suggestions. Thanks. Benson

Episode: Important Announcement and the colours of life Show Notes: migration: cantonesepod.podbean.com –> cantonesepod.chinese-central.co.uk some interesting links I have collected over the Internet chinese-central.co.uk & buddhcast.podbean.com take a look at cantonesepod.chinese-central.co.uk/drills/ list of recommended books at cantonesepod.chinese-central.co.uk I will keep up the work, I got some very beautiful comments, I hope that they keep coming

******* hong - red cang - orange wong - wong lok - green ceng - light green, literally vegatative green nan - blue ji - purple

hong sik -> the colour of red; ping goh hai hong sik - the apple is red goh tin hai nan sik - the sky is blue tai yeung hai hong sik - the sun is red

Address of new feed http://cantonesepod.chinese-central.co.uk/?feed=podcast

iTunes instruction advanced –> subscribe to podcast –> type in URL

comments -> benson.hoi@gmail.com Benson 25 May 2007

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Hello listeners,

I have spent quite a bit of time to write a php script which acts as a simplistic online flash card system. http://cantonesepod.chinese-central.co.uk/drills/

I hope that it is quite intuitive regarding the usage

Announcement:

My space on PodBean has run out. I am going to post new shows and blogs to cantonesepod.chinese-central.com in the future

http://cantonesepod.chinese-central.co.uk

Regards,

Benson

P.S. Many people support their favourite websites by clicking the ad links like Adsense. I hope that I can get a bit of support from you guys if you do like my freely provided podcasts. Web hosting is still pretty pricey these days…..

Title: Asking for direction, as simple as ABC Date: 16 May 2007 Summary: In this podcast, I will cover the basics so that you can master the skill of asking for directions Notes: - Welcome to Cantonese Pod, inspirations for learning the lyrical, expressive and beautiful Cantonese language, gong dong wa bok hak - the way I am gonna do this series, different situations that you may be in, through small dialogues, gradually develop your confidence in the language… - Summary - 2 scenarios 1) Asking for the toilet 2) Asking for the direction to a tourist attraction when you are walking down the street carrying a map and the address of the place that you can wanna go to - full dialogue, vocabs and grammar points, full dialogue, drill, full dialogue Transliteration: Notes: Sorry folks, I don’t know fully the standard transliteration system, e.g. the yue ping system. Actually, what I think is that the learning curve for these systems are pretty stiff. Some of you have requested the transliteration for thesepodcasts , so I will try my best. All sensible requests will be answered What I am going to use is an English-like transliteration system to the best of my knowledge. For now, no Chinese characters will be given since thisPodCast is for beginners. I will start a wiki at some point for my PodCast so that you guys can form a community editing the show notes for these PodCasts.

fong heung -> direction ng goi -> excuse me, Thank you hai -> yes // pronuncation note: this a is a bit like the “a” as in hum ne -> you zi -> to know zi ng zi -> do you know? ni tew gai –> this (ni tew) street (gai) // ew rhymes with few in English hai bin dou -> at where? é –> the utterance when thinking // rhymes with air num- ha- sin- -> let me think hai -> at jik -> straight jik hang -> go straight jun -> turn jor -> left yau -> right jau -> then wui -> can ghin -> see // gh as in goose yut -> one gan -> counter for building an hong -> bank gat lei -> next to it ng goi sai -> thank you very much ng sai hak hei -> you’re welcome // literally, no need to be guest-like chi soh -> toilet lau -> floor

yat, yee, sam, sei, ng, lok, chat, bat, gau, sap -> 1 to 10 bak -> 100 chin -> 1000 maan -> 10,000

N.B. Hint -> make flashcard to learn this, don’t rely solely on my transliteration to learn, you will get bad accents, only use them as a pointer to your memory of the correct pronunciation, listen to mypodcasts to get the correct pronunciation My Cantonese accent is quite standard

// for the “correct” system, take a look at this, seriously, don’t get bogged down! // http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/essays/tones.htm

// If you guys want jyutping, that’s fine, please help me Please send your jyutping to my email address..

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A few good links your may explore:

Cantonese lessons (with sounds): http://www.chinawestexchange.com/Cantonese/index.htm

Very basic romanized: http://www.chinesebay.com/cantonese/basic.asp

Some fun lessons using Flash http://livechat.no-ip.com:8080/chinese/index.cfm

A good one: http://www.cantonese.ca/

Dictionaries (some are very good, please read instructions) http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-can/ http://www.chineselanguage.org/CCDICT/index.html

Software - gives various pronuncitions and meaning for characters, you can paste a whole Chinese text and get listing for all unique characters. Unregistered version doesn’t allow to copy to another program, though. CQuickTran (JQuickTrans for Japanese) http://www.coolest.com/

And of course, NJStar word processors and a communicator. http://www.njstar.com/

Jackie Chan fan site, download some songs - most are in Mandarin but plenty in Cantonese as well with lyrics (in image files, not text). http://www.jackiechanmusic.com/dload/index.html

source FSI Language courses for different languages for free; I think this site is super amazing! http://fsi-language-courses.com/

If you like my CantonesePod, you may like my other sites, take a look

• buddhcast.podbean.com
• www.chinese-central.co.uk
• www.ic.ac.uk // my lovely university ngoh hoh oi géh hok hau

Title: BTB Back to Basics 2(edition 1) Date: 14 May 2007 Summary: In this podcast, I will continue to cover the basics of the Cantonese language and the fundamental grammar points Notes: - Subject adj, a few variations - subject verb, dead easy - interrogative, where, who, which, how, what… - linguistic observation general->specific - on verbs - That’s it for today - opening music: cd03 09 Mazurka Op 7 No 5 in C (Chopin)

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Title: BTB Back to Basics (edition 1) Date: 14 May 2007 Summary: In this podcast, I will cover the basics of the Cantonese language and the fundamental grammar points Notes: - Welcome to Cantonese Pod, inspirations for learning the lyrical, expressive and beautiful Cantonese language, gong dong wa bok hak - self introduction - tonal language, think of playing chords, relax - forget the standard romanisation, transcribe it whatever way you like - forget the script, get used to the sound first - personal pronoun, I, you, he/she/it, they, note the gender neutrality in Chinese wrt pronunciation - demonstrative pronoun - possessive pronoun - dead easy to make a question: ad Gah.. - numbers again

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