If you do an iTunes search, CantonesePod has got two entires, one from Podbean, one from here… subscribe to one with the CPod logo, i.e. this page, this is where I will put my new shows and weird and wonderful stuffs..
I fixed a few glitches with the links here and on iTunes
May 31st, 2007 · No Comments
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Talking About Your Days - Not feeling dazy today with daisy in my hands…
May 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Shownotes:
- numbers reviews; 1 to 10; tens; hundred, thousands
- nin, yuet, yat, sing kei ==> year, month, day, day of week (or week simply)
- gum yat -> today
- gum yat hai 2007 nin 5 yuet 25 hou, sing kei 4 -> Today is the 25th of May, 2007, Thursday
- gum yat tin hei ho yit -> Today’s weather is very hot
- gum jiu ngo dap din che hui hok yat mun -> Today I took a train to learn Japanese
- dap -> to ride, to travel by
- din che -> train
- jiu -> morning
- hui -> to go to
- hok -> to learn
- yat mun -> Japanese language
- bar see -> bus
- gong dong wah -> Cantonese langauge
- gum go sing kei fong gar -> It is holiday for me this week
- fong gar -> to be on holiday
- yee -> easy
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Asking for direction, as simple as ABC
May 25th, 2007 · No Comments
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..
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Back to Basics 1
May 25th, 2007 · No Comments
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
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My recommendations for learning materials
May 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment
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)
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)
- takes you from ground up
- pretty solid
Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars)
- very solid grammar book
- 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
