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Archive for November, 2006

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Monologue: Breakfast

Download - 0:47min
If you are a Cantonese learner I would appreciate to know how difficult you found this.
 
我每朝早晨光初露嘅時候就起身.
Ngo5 mui5 ziu1 zou2 san4 gwong1 co1 lou6 ge3 si4 hau6 zau6 hei2 san1.
Every morning I wake up when the sun rises.
早餐嘅時候, 我鍾意食兩塊多士同埋飲一杯奶茶.
Zou2 caan1 ge3 si4 hau6, ngo5 zung1 ji3 sik6 loeng5 faai3 do1 si6*2 tung4 maai4 […]

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Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Monologue: Movies

Download - 0:45min
今日我去行街買影碟
gam1 jat6 ngo5 heoi3 hang4 gaai1 maai5 jing2 dip6*2
Today I am going shopping to buy VCDs
原來電影分好多種類
Jyun4 loi4 din6 jing2 fan1 hou2 do1 zung2 leoi6
As it turns out, movies can be divided into many types
比較普遍嘅有幾種
Bei2 gaau3 pou2 pin3 ge3 jau5 gei2 zung2
There are several types that are common
例如喜劇, 喜劇通常都會用一啲誇張嘅動作詼諧嘅對白而做出搞笑嘅效果
Lai6 jyu4 hei2 kek3, hei2 kek3 […]

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Friday, November 17th, 2006

Ho Kwok Wing (河國榮) speaking Cantonese

Here is a video of my idol Gregory Rivers speaking Cantonese before the Teresa Tang memorial concert:
Length 1:45min

Gregory singing a Cantonese song at the Teresa Tang memorial concert:
Length 3:20min

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Monday, November 13th, 2006

Monologue: 5 a day the colour way

Download Part 1 - 01:10min

Download Part 2 - 01:14min
今日個題目係蔬果。
gam1 jat6 go3 tai4 muk6 hai6 so1 gwo2.
Today’s topic is fruit and vegetables.
每一日食五種唔同顏色嘅蔬果係非常之重要嘅。
mui5 jat1 jat6 sik6 ng5 zung2 m4 tung2 ngaan4 sik1 ge3 so1 gwo2 hai6 fei1 soeng4 zi1 zung6 jiu3 ge3.
It’s extremely important to eat 5 types of different-coloured fruits and vegetables everyday.
噉,究竟係邊五種顏色呢?
gam2, gau3 ging2 hai6 […]

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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Mini Podcasts

I thought it would be quite beneficial to start uploading mini-podcasts for additional audio stimulus for my blog visitors. Though, I doubt I’ll ever make a Cantonese Chinesepod.com in the near future, I do believe these dialogues would be useful for some people. My wife made the recordings and I sourced the content […]

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