Cantonese PodCast - Learn in a fun way http://cantonesepod.podbean.com Learn Cantonese (Chinese) with ease. Covers different themes and language points from ground up. Regular updates. Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:35:25 +0000 http://podbean.com/?v=3.2 en © 2003-2006 Education 1440 Learn Cantonese (Chinese) with ease. Covers different themes and language points from ground up. Regular updates. benson.hoi@gmail.com No No http://www.podbean.com/home/images/powered_by_podbean.jpg Cantonese PodCast - Learn in a fun way http://cantonesepod.podbean.com 144 144 Recommendations for Cantonese Entertainment http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/06/03/recommendations-for-cantonese-entertainment/ http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/06/03/recommendations-for-cantonese-entertainment/#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:30:17 +0000 cantonesepod Cantonese Learning Podcasts http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/06/03/recommendations-for-cantonese-entertainment/ 1) YesAsia

Review:

  • 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

Review:

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….

]]> http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/06/03/recommendations-for-cantonese-entertainment/feed/ My recommendations for books http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/06/03/my-recommendations-for-books/ http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/06/03/my-recommendations-for-books/#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:27:41 +0000 cantonesepod Cantonese Learning Podcasts http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/06/03/my-recommendations/ 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)

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)

Colloquial Cantonese: A Complete Language Course (Colloquial)

  • takes you from ground up
  • pretty solid

Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars)

Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars)

  • very solid grammar book

English-Cantonese Dictionary

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 :)

]]> http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/06/03/my-recommendations-for-books/feed/ Important Announcement and the colours of life http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/24/important-announcement-and-the-colours-of-life/ http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/24/important-announcement-and-the-colours-of-life/#comments Fri, 25 May 2007 01:53:19 +0000 cantonesepod Cantonese Learning Podcasts http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/24/important-announcement-and-the-colours-of-life/ 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 - [...]]]> 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

]]> http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/24/important-announcement-and-the-colours-of-life/feed/ 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 t 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 colours, annoucement No No 13:47 Learning Tool; Announcements http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/20/learning-tool-announcements/ http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/20/learning-tool-announcements/#comments Sun, 20 May 2007 05:44:55 +0000 cantonesepod Cantonese Learning Podcasts http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/20/learning-tool-announcements/ 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…..

]]> http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/20/learning-tool-announcements/feed/ Asking for direction, as simple as ABC http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/15/asking-for-direction-as-simple-as-abc/ http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/15/asking-for-direction-as-simple-as-abc/#comments Wed, 16 May 2007 02:21:37 +0000 cantonesepod Cantonese Learning Podcasts http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/15/asking-for-direction-as-simple-as-abc/ 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..

]]> http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/15/asking-for-direction-as-simple-as-abc/feed/ 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 ... 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.. Cantonese Learning Podcasts No No 22:42 Miscellaneous Links for your interests http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/15/miscellaneous-links-for-your-interests/ http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/15/miscellaneous-links-for-your-interests/#comments Tue, 15 May 2007 11:24:55 +0000 cantonesepod extra http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/15/miscellaneous-links-for-your-interests/ 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/

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]]> http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/15/about-the-host/feed/ Back to Basics II http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/14/back-to-basics-ii/ http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/14/back-to-basics-ii/#comments Tue, 15 May 2007 02:20:02 +0000 cantonesepod Cantonese Learning Podcasts http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/14/back-to-basics-ii/ specific - on verbs - That’s it for today - [...]]]> 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)

]]> http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/14/back-to-basics-ii/feed/ 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 ... 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) Cantonese Learning Podcasts No No 19:36 Back to Basics I http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/14/back-to-basics-i/ http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/14/back-to-basics-i/#comments Mon, 14 May 2007 16:39:02 +0000 cantonesepod Cantonese Learning Podcasts http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/14/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 :)

]]> http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/14/back-to-basics-i/feed/ 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 ... 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 :) Cantonese Learning Podcasts No No 19:54 Animals http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/13/animals/ http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/13/animals/#comments Mon, 14 May 2007 01:40:28 +0000 cantonesepod Cantonese Learning Podcasts http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/13/animals/ Mnemonics method of learning names of animals in Cantonese :)

]]> http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/13/animals/feed/ Mnemonics method of learning names of animals in Cantonese :) Mnemonics method of learning names of animals in Cantonese :) Cantonese Learning Podcasts No No 8:16 dining out http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/13/dining-out/ http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/13/dining-out/#comments Mon, 14 May 2007 00:50:50 +0000 cantonesepod Cantonese Learning Podcasts http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/13/dining-out/ vocabularies on dining out

numbers

basic expressions

vocabulary drill

]]> http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2007/05/13/dining-out/feed/ vocabularies on dining out numbers basic expressions vocabulary drill vocabularies on dining out numbers basic expressions vocabulary drill Cantonese Learning Podcasts No No 14:46 Introductory Lesson http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2006/10/28/introductory-lesson/ http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2006/10/28/introductory-lesson/#comments Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:59:53 +0000 cantonesepod Cantonese Learning Podcasts http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2006/10/28/cantonese-lesson-1/ Cantonese Lesson 1: about the language, basic greetings

Note: This was my very first podcast, use programs WinAmp for .ogg, if you want the .mp3 for this podcast, please visit http://cantonesepod.chinese-central.co.uk/

Search for CantonesePod in iTunes alternatively, get the chinese-central.co.uk one, not the podbean one.

]]> http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2006/10/28/introductory-lesson/feed/ Cantonese Lesson 1: about the language, basic greetings Note: This was my very first podcast, use programs WinAmp for .ogg, if you want the .mp3 for ... Cantonese Lesson 1: about the language, basic greetings Note: This was my very first podcast, use programs WinAmp for .ogg, if you want the .mp3 for this podcast, please visit http://cantonesepod.chinese-central.co.uk/ Search for CantonesePod in iTunes alternatively, get the chinese-central.co.uk one, not the podbean one. Cantonese Learning Podcasts No No Hello world! http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2006/10/28/hello-world/ http://cantonesepod.podbean.com/2006/10/28/hello-world/#comments Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:36:44 +0000 cantonesepod Cantonese Learning Podcasts Welcome to Podbean. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start podcasting!

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