Hw abt cantonese?

[AfterDark]

I am half Cantonese. Dad is, mum teochew. Can speak a little but always like the language a lot. Manage to speak a lot when I was a kid but when my grandma pass away... I didnt have the chance to practice anymore. When to HK last year... still manage to smoke my way through but... cannot last very long before they knew it. hehe...

[redbeacon]

My dad's can speak Hokkien and Cantonese, but my Chinese dialect descent is Cantonese.

 

However, I primarily speak English at home and at work, and to top it all off with some years of being in the United States, I found Cantonese a bit difficult to pick up so my sketchy Canto is usually from overhearing the occasional conversations between my grandmother and my Dad.

 

Just like my grandmother said, zhung man yao gong dong wah hai 差唔多 mah...Man man hok loh.

[ThePole]

oh my goodness, the first few pages contains a lot of X rated cantonese.

 

the dialect is suppose to be very refine. it is the only dialect that has a corresponding pronunciation to every mandarin word and more, that's why the HK songs' lyrics in chinese that cannot really correspond to their spoken language. some cantonese words have very ancient chinese root.

 

企 - kei, meaning stand.

渠 - koei, means you.

咸（巴冷）- ham pa lang, means all, especially the word ham, was used in Wen yan wen

èµ° - chow. Unike the mandarin version, this means run. However, in ancient chinese, this is used as run as well.

 

by the way, the vulgarity tiu-nia-ma actually has a very strong nationalism behind it. In 17th century, there was a eunuch Ma Shi Ying who brought down the Ming Dynasty. The cantonese thus said f**k u as f**k that Ma...

Edited June 23, 2009 by ThePole

[AfterDark]

This thread has been quiet for so long... Hello, anyone still keeping it alive?

[cougar]

oh my goodness, the first few pages contains a lot of X rated cantonese.

 

the dialect is suppose to be very refine. it is the only dialect that has a corresponding pronunciation to every mandarin word and more, that's why the HK songs' lyrics in chinese that cannot really correspond to their spoken language. some cantonese words have very ancient chinese root.

 

企 - kei, meaning stand.

渠 - koei, means you.

咸（巴冷）- ham pa lang, means all, especially the word ham, was used in Wen yan wen

èµ° - chow. Unike the mandarin version, this means run. However, in ancient chinese, this is used as run as well.

 

by the way, the vulgarity tiu-nia-ma actually has a very strong nationalism behind it. In 17th century, there was a eunuch Ma Shi Ying who brought down the Ming Dynasty. The cantonese thus said f**k u as f**k that Ma...

 

Wah u very knowledgeable in canto, even fcuk also got history. sai lei (steady)

I actually belong to the 70s generation, speak 3 dialects(canto, hokkien, teo chew), pasar melayu. But i think the other two dialects gettin lesser use, also abit rusty liao.

[Fried Rice]

i wanna learn Cantonese..

after watching those movies, the way they speak very interesting

[rodman74]

i got hkee gf to tell canto LOL but no more liao

[VidaK]

lol on the forum for so long already then I notice this thread... XD

[wing1499]

I juzt found this today lol

[icywaffles]

watch more show

[iiiuuummm]

I need to brush up my Cantonese to try to decipher what my naughty secondary 2 student who is from Hong Kong is talking about.

[meliname]

listen to those KTV songs..

[meliname]

Cantonese is ridiculously difficult. Nobody seems to agree on exactly how many tones it has. Some people say 7. Some say 9. And some say over 11, referencing so-called silent tones. Sorry, but if it’s silent, it’s not a tone. But the insistence on the existence of these so-called silent tones only ups the ‘cool factor’ of Cantonese. If you can master it, you’re pretty much an unstoppable language learning force.

[sad_how]

My mum is 广东.

My dad is 广西.

So what am i?

广东西？

hahaha.

[humph]

My knowledge of Cantonese is limited to one song that I memorized phonetically haha.