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Comment on Multilingual Attack - Genius by sue

sue — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:12:15 +0000

hi Benson, just saying hi. I’ll be writing a brief article on my site encouraging my Chinese friends/family to check out your podcasts (well, and my non-Asian friends too). It might be several weeks though; I have other topics lined up at the moment. Sue

Comment on About the site owner by sue

sue — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:47:58 +0000

Hi Benson, I’m listening to your Cantonese podcasts through iTunes. I’m trying to re-learn and improve my skills. I’m an American-born Chinese and I’m losing a lot of the language since I don’t talk to my grandmother much. I hope you put out more lessons.

Comment on About the site owner by GerriLynn

GerriLynn — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:06:24 +0000

Benson,
I stumbled across your podcast on itunes and it’s helping soo much. My fiance is chinese and his family speaks very little english. You’ve given me the gift of communication with my soon-to-be extended family. The scripts along with the podcasts are tremendously helpful. A thousand thank you’s.
Best Wishes

Comment on Advanced: Ugly Duckling by Anderson by Aaron OBrien

Aaron OBrien — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:56:06 +0000

Hi Benson,
I think the story book reading is the best direction you are taking so far. As one of the previous listeners noted, advanced material is harder to come by. By “advanced” I personally am referring to the vocabulary of a 4-5 year old native speaker, but spoken in a slightly slow and steady pace without any English.

I find material out there is like really simple, or it is just what you hear off the radio which is for adults which is way too hard. Story book telling, will really improve my listening skills which is where I flounder the most.

By the way, breaking up the vocabulary into a separate recording is a great idea.

Thank you for your help to all us “wanna be” gwon doon wa speakers.

Comment on Joy of vocabs: 21 to 30 by krispin

krispin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:27:05 +0000

I think it’d be helpful to your learners to add the Cantonese Chinese written along with your examples. Also, when you’re asking how to say something, are you saying “點係講呀?”, “點會講呀?”, or what? It sounds like “點恩講呀?”. 多謝.

Comment on About the site owner by Simon

Simon — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:19:02 +0000

Hi Benson,
thanks for the podcasts! They’re great.
I’m a student in Sydney, Australia (studying maths too!). I’m an Aussie boy, but my girlfriend is from Hong Kong. I’m attempting to learn Cantonese, with the hope of being able to talk to her Father (who doesn’t speak English). So please keep it up!
Simon.

Comment on Jyutping: Initials by Ramon

Ramon — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:48:12 +0000

Hi Benson,

Nice Job on the site. There aren’t many sources on Cantonese at all anywhere, and it would be nice if you could post more because I am sure somebody(like myself) got alot out of this project of yours.

That said, I’ve been studying Vietnamese for a while, and it’s interesting how both Cantonese and Vietnamese speakers flip the L and the N around.

Comment on Customer Reviews by B.

B. — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:57:45 +0000

Thanks for the podcasts! It’s really useful for learning foundation, for twinkies like me!

Comment on Dim-sum, dumplings and tea, how can we do without them? by samichi

samichi — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:37:48 +0000

erm…the podcasts in this website are in mp3 and itunes says they are not the correct format? :S lol

Comment on About the site owner by samichi

samichi — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:46:35 +0000

helo again benson,
how do i download podcasts from this website? please reply by email.

Comment on About the site owner by samichi

samichi — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:15:01 +0000

hello
i am a british born with a dad from HK and mum from UK. i cant speak chinese:( i need help with the tones. mandarin is easier cos it only has 4 tones. maybe you can make a recording of each tone? thank you. i am enjoying your lessons. they are very understandable, i have learnt quite a lot from u:)
bye.

Comment on Advanced - News from wikipedia by Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:19:50 +0000

Keep them coming. I’m glad to have found a cantonese learning podcast.

Comment on Advanced: Ugly Duckling by Anderson by Canto fan

Canto fan — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:57:32 +0000

Benson, thanks for making this. Far too advanced for me unfortunately

I did find that if I read the story in English at the same time, it is possible to get much more of the meaning. The story can be found here: http://hca.gilead.org.il/ugly_duc.html

It’s only by reading this that I knew this was only the start of the story, the full thing would probably take about 20 mins!

Comment on Dim-sum, dumplings and tea, how can we do without them? by Richard Sharpe

Richard Sharpe — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:17:16 +0000

I have heard 食煙 for smoking …

Also 位 seems to have two pronunciations: wai2 or wai6? Is wai2 used only for questions?

Comment on About the site owner by Chris

Chris — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:55:02 +0000

Benson,
Your Cantonese lessons are very useful to me. I am still at quite a low level but with your help, I hope to improve so I can live in Hong Kong. Thank you
Chris

Comment on Dim-sum, dumplings and tea, how can we do without them? by tom

tom — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:54:34 +0000

very usefull to know these bits as i often feel left out on the particulars when we eat dim sum most weekends! at least i know the basics and can answer a few question myself now. i look foward to listening to more after i have mastered this one!

Comment on About the site owner by Kate

Kate — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:27:10 +0000

Benson,
I stumbled across your website when searching for Cantonese lessons online. I am not Chinese, but am trying to learn the Cantonese language in hopes of one day putting it to good use in China. I am taking private lessons, but I am such a slow learner! your site is really helping me out!!! I enjoy it a lot, and am happy to have found it!
Thanks
Kate

Comment on Advanced - vocabs for News from wikipedia by Katarina

Katarina — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:19:52 +0000

Half of it is too easy, and half of it is just right. It’d be much more helpful if you use maybe 15-20 words in each lesson and then include sentences or examples in which they are used.

Otherwise, I’ll know the word, but might not know how else to use it.

Thanks!

Comment on Advanced - News from wikipedia by Katarina

Katarina — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:42:30 +0000

I think this is an excellent idea! I have been looking for a Cantonese podcast

I am confused by your references to “show notes”. Where are the show notes?

Thank you for podcasting!

Comment on About the site owner by alecia wu

alecia wu — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:20:24 +0000

benson,

i just came across your podcast and enjoyed the dim sum one. i’m an american born chinese with parents who immigrated from hong kong. i understand alot but my pronounciation is not very good. i’m going to start listening to this since it is good. keep it up.

regards,

alecia

Comment on Musical Vocabs: First 8 vocabs in the list by andy g

andy g — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:17:03 +0000

That was absolutely hilarious…good work!

Comment on announcements and colours of life by David

David — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:11:57 +0000

the content is good, colors is a great place to start, especially for a newbie like me.

The volume fluctuated at the start but apart from that the sound quality was good, this is the best Cantonese podcast I have found on the net.

Comment on Recommendations by admin

admin — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:23:48 +0000

Enjoy

Comment on Talking About Your Days - Not feeling dazy today with daisy in my hands… by Tom

Tom — Sat, 26 May 2007 12:59:48 +0000

Cool, very fun, thanks for doing these