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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Is it wrong to teach kids BROKEN ENGRISH?
I live in Hong Kong and I am seeing an increasing trend of Chinese parents only speaking broken English to their children.
Obviously the parents think English equals Money, so they try to create some dodgy fake English only environment for their kids to help give them some head start or advantage.
Perhaps I’m too extreme, but […]
11 Comments » - Posted in Language by 馬先生
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Frustration
The other day I went to MacDonald’s and ordered the usual Double Cheese Burger and Strawberry Milkshake. The 40 or so year old man took down the order and spoke Cantonese. Though after that he proceeded to say in English “Your Cantonese is bad, don’t speak it”. This suddenly shocked me and probably […]
12 Comments » - Posted in Cantonese by 馬先生
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Amazing Cantonese
Michael has excellent Cantonese and has studied for 13 years in Canada. He also has advanced writing skills too - http://faailok.spaces.live.com/ which is even more impressive.
2 Comments » - Posted in Cantonese by 馬先生
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Monologue: Ukraine
Download - 01:00min
Produced by: 馬太太
Transcribed by: 鄺慧明
上個月一艘烏克蘭嘅大型補給船同一艘中國貨船相撞之後沉沒，除咗七個船員獲救之外，十八個船員失蹤。
soeng6 go3 jyut6 jat1 sau2 wu1 hak1 laan4 ge3 daai6 jing4 bou2 kap1 syun4 tung4 jat1 sau2 zung1 gwok3 fo3 syun4 soeng1 zong6 zi1 hau6 cam4 mut6, ceoi4 zo2 cat1 go3 syun4 jyun4 wok6 gau3 zi1 ngoi6, sap6 baat3 go3 syun4 jyun4 sat1 zung1.
Last month, a large Ukrainian supply […]
8 Comments » - Posted in MP3 - Monologues by 馬先生
Monday, February 18th, 2008
How to learn new words and remember them
Over 2 years I’ve read thousands of forum posts on people’s experiences in learning languages and methods they’ve used to improve their spoken skills. Many people have given various suggestions which I’ve tried. The number one advice is to simply listen and imitate what you hear. Now this method not only doesn’t work for […]
8 Comments » - Posted in Learning by 馬先生
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Monologue: Cold Weather Warning
Download - 00:55min
香港嘅天文台有十種天氣警告同埋信號,
Hoeng1 gong2 ge3 tin1 man4 toi4 jau5 sap6 zung2 tin1 hei3 ging2 gou3 tung4 maai4 seon3 hou6,
Hong Kong’s Observatory has 10 weather warnings and signals,
其中之一 種係寒冷天氣警告.
Kei4 zung1 zi1 jat1 zung2 hai6 hon4 laang5 tin1 hei3 ging2 gou3.
One of them is cold weather warning.
當天文台發出呢個警告嘅時候,
Dung1 tin1 man4 toi4 faat3 ceot1 ni1 go3 ging2 gou3 ge3 […]
9 Comments » - Posted in MP3 - Monologues by 馬先生
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Picking it back up in 2008
I felt burnt out after nearly 2 years of non-stop studying of Cantonese that I took the last month and a bit off from proactive studying to simply just using what I’ve got and slowly improve on what I already know.
It appears my colleagues are now using Cantonese with me all the time now, and […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Cantonese by 馬先生
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
SBS Radio - I’m on the radio again!
I was interviewed a week or so ago by Gary Choi of SBS Radio Australian Cantonese Radio station in Cantonese as part of the Happy Paradise Children’s Program.
Please let me know how I sound now? Remember this wasn’t scripted and I didn’t know the questions before answering.
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