Join my self-paced online course in 2025, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1 You are connecting two friends at a party who both happen to be Canadians! In this episode, you will learn how to say "who", "nice to meet you", and we will review some phras...
Jun 30, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 28
You friend is coming to this party as well- you use all Cantonese you know to describe him- his name, where he is from, what he does for a living and that he wants to be a teacher in Hong Kong.
Jun 30, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Join my self-paced online course in 2025, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1 Let's say you are in Hong Kong and crashing a party! Everyone is speaking Cantonese and you are terrified. Luckily you remember you actually learned a few phrases in Cantones...
Jun 30, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 26
I would like you to make a recording to introduce yourself! You can use all that you have learned in the past 24 episodes to craft a perfect self introduction. Send me a recording and I'll give you some feedback. Post it online and proudly let people know you are learning! Join my podcast club to get notes for this episode, meet global learners, ask questions and practice speaking. Find out more on https://www.patreon.com/poeticcantonese Join my self-paced online course in 2025, Year 1A & B,...
Jun 16, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Join my podcast club to get notes for this episode, meet global learners, ask questions and practice speaking. Find out more on https://www.patreon.com/poeticcantonese In this episode, we will learn how to ask "why do you want to learn Cantonese?" and a few possible responses to the question, due to family, partner, work, or travel to Hong Kong.
Jun 16, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Join my self-paced online course in 2025, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1 In this episode, we will review how to say your nationality and origin, as well as learning "where" to ask where your friends are from....
Jun 16, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Join my podcast club to get notes for this episode, meet global learners, ask questions and practice speaking. Find out more on https://www.patreon.com/poeticcantonese In this episode, you will learn to ask people whether they are from a country, i.e. are you ... (nationality)?
Jun 16, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Join my self-paced online course in 2025, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1 In this episode, we will review tone 1, 2, 4, 5, before adding tone 3 and 6. The goal is to make you aware of how the six tones sound differently....
Jun 16, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Join my podcast club to get notes for this episode, meet global learners, ask questions and practice speaking. Find out more on https://www.patreon.com/poeticcantonese In this episode, we'll pull content from episode 14-19 to form a scenario - asking if a friend is free and setting up a time to eat out!
Jun 08, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Join my self-paced online course in 2025, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1 Building on the last episode, you will learn how to say it is too early and it is too late, in setting up a time for eating out....
May 31, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Join my podcast club to get notes for this episode, meet global learners, ask questions and practice speaking. Find out more on https://www.patreon.com/poeticcantonese In this episode, you will learn to ask and tell time- "what time?", some numbers in Cantonese and how to indicate it is early.
May 31, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Join my self-paced online course in 2025, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1 In this episode, you will learn how to say "today" and days of the week in order to set up a time to eat out!
May 31, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Join my self-paced online course in 2025, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1 In this episode, you will learn how to turn "you" to "you all", and "I" to "we". You will also learn to ask if you friends are free and invite them to eat....
May 31, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Join my podcast club to get notes for this episode, meet global learners, ask questions and practice speaking. Find out more on https://www.patreon.com/poeticcantonese In this episode, you will learn how to say "good morning" and the structure "do you have ... ?"
May 25, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Join my self-paced online course, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1 In this episode, you will learn how to say "how are you" in a casual setting, and ask invite people to eat out!
May 25, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Join my podcast club to get notes for this episode, meet global learners, ask questions and practice speaking. Find out more on https://www.patreon.com/poeticcantonese In this episode, you will learn how to say where you live, in addition to where you were born from the last episode (while still managed to speak a little bit of Cantonese)
May 25, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Join my self-paced online course, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1 In this episode, you will learn how to say where you were born, but still managed to speak a little bit Cantonese (after putting in a just a little bit of work)...
May 25, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Join my podcast club to get notes for this episode, meet global learners, ask questions and practice speaking. Find out more on https://www.patreon.com/poeticcantonese In this episode, we will learn how to say he and she, 'also', 'but', and tell your parents' origin.
May 25, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 11
I asked Njeri if she has tips of learning Mandarin and Cantonese; we are both learning a new language. She is learning Swahili and I am learning Italian.
May 21, 2020•10 min
We had a chat about what we are up to during the cornoavirus lockdown, her life in Kenya and about her recently running a half marathon!
May 20, 2020•18 min
I caught up with Njeri, my friend I met from UC Berkeley who inspired me to teach Cantonese! We spoke a little bit about her journey learning Mandarin and Cantonese, exciting times in China, facing racism while staying in China shortly and how she handles it.
May 19, 2020•24 min
In this episode, we will pull all content we learn from episode 1 to 9 to form a short scenario. Join my self-paced online course, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1
May 18, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Join my self-paced online course, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1 In this episode, you will learn to ask the question: do you speak Cantonese/ English? Do you understand?
May 18, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1 Join my self-paced online course, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ In this episode, you will learn how to use the verbs: know, want and understand, as well as how to use them to form negative sentences, i.e. do not know, do not want, do not understa...
May 18, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Join my podcast club to get notes for this episode, meet global learners, ask questions and practice speaking. Find out more on https://www.patreon.com/poeticcantonese In this episode, you will learn how to say negative sentences, e.g. do not speak. You will be able to say that you speak, don't speak or speak a little bit of a language.
May 18, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Join my self-paced online course, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1 In this episode, you will learn 4 tones out of 6 tones that I will be showing you in this course....
May 18, 2020•12 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this episode, you will learn how to say Miss/ Mr, and how to announce to the world you actually do speak a bit Cantonese from this point! Join my podcast club to get notes for this episode, meet global learners, ask questions and practice speaking. Find out more on https://www.patreon.com/poeticcantonese
May 07, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this episode, you will learn to an essential word in Cantonese - "Cantonese", and also how to ask people's name in a very polite way. Join my self-paced online course, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1...
May 07, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this episode, you will learn how to turn I and you, to my and your, and also starting to form sentences. Join my podcast club to get notes for this episode, meet global learners, ask questions and practice speaking. Find out more on https://www.patreon.com/poeticcantonese
May 07, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this episode, you will learn to say "Hello" and also another way of introducing yourself - I am called ... Join my self-paced online course, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1
May 07, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 2
