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Back to Basics I

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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One Response to “Back to Basics I”

  1. Chris Says:
    August 20th, 2007 at 4:40 pm

    Hey, good lesson. It would be great if when you introduce a new word, you can give us the tone as well, whether the word is said with a low-falling tone, a mid-rising tone, etc.

    Thanks!

    Chris

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