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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

New mission - learning to read

When I first started to learn Cantonese and even up to a few days ago, I thought that reading and writing Chinese would be a total waste of my time. Speaking Cantonese fluently is all that I needed and I would be happy. Besides street signs are written in both English and Chinese.
I was only […]

5 Comments » - Posted in Cantonese by 馬先生
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Cantonese in the Mainland

So I spent the last 6 days in Mainland China for a holiday. It wasn’t the complete culture shock being that road rules seem to not exist or sales assistants follow you everywhere you go that made me feel uncomfortable, it was that the so-called local language seemed to not exist.
廣州 - gwong2 zau1 - […]

11 Comments » - Posted in Cantonese by 馬先生
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

RTHK - I’m on the radio

I managed to get on the RTHK English Channel regarding the pleasures and pains of learning Cantonese. The program name is “Same Same But Different Between English and Cantonese”, and specifically “Learning Cantonese”.
I admit I was super nervous and neither my English nor Cantonese was at its best, and sounded quite broken to my ears […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Cantonese by 馬先生
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Found an old recording of my Cantonese

I found an old recording that I made 1.5 years ago. Let’s see how much I’ve improved -
March 2006 (3 months study)

Today

It appears my accent has not improved, but I think I sound a little bit better in comparison to the first recording. I hope I won’t plateau as time goes on.

10 Comments » - Posted in Cantonese by 馬先生
Saturday, August 25th, 2007

1 year and 8 months of study

After 1 year and 8 months of study, this is how my Cantonese sounds like in an impromptu speech. This was not scripted and the words just came freely from my brain without translations. So its all automatic so I’m bound to make some obvious mistakes.
For example, I said 不嬲 bat1 lau1, but […]

21 Comments » - Posted in Cantonese by 馬先生
Sunday, August 19th, 2007

What I sound like in Cantonese

I used to think that if I spoke quickly I would sound more fluent. As shocked as I was, I recorded my voice and couldn’t understand 1 word I said. As soon as I slowed down making clear sounds for each character I sounded much better, but still sounded like a “gwai lou”.
When […]

6 Comments » - Posted in Cantonese by 馬先生
Saturday, August 4th, 2007

Transcript: Sweet and sour friendship

Download - 10:21min

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7 Comments » - Posted in Transcripts by 馬先生
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

Caucasians speaking Cantonese to each other

From my experience, its quite acceptable that Asians speak English or other European languages with each other, however, to the typical Chinese it would seem quite funny or even ridiculous that that 2 Caucasians speak to each other using only Cantonese in social or day-to-day contexts.
I hope that one day it will be considered normal […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Cantonese by 馬先生
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