We are now at the Japanese restaurant and get ready to order, but we must understand the use of measure words. We reviewed - a can of - a cup of - an individual of/ a/ an (gor, the generic measure word) and will introduce - a bowl of - a set/ portion of 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 begi...
Oct 13, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Learn to catch and respond to the following: 1) This is a gift for you! 2) Here are some red packets for you! 3) The bride/ groom (probably you) is very beautiful/ handsome today! 4) Let's kneel down 5) Call them Mom and Dad now 6) Pour some tea to Mom and Dad
Oct 03, 2020•10 min•Season 2Ep. 4
You are going to attend a wedding and have Cantonese speaking mother-in-law and/or father-in-law. Learning some vocabulary and phrases will get you more involved or take some stress out of you. In part 1, you will learn some vocabulary that you may hear on the tea ceremony day. In part 2, you you will have to respond and react do different scenario. Join my self-paced online course in 2025, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Wa...
Sep 30, 2020•10 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Someone compliments your Cantonese while in Hong Kong- you know how to respond. Someone asks you how long you have been in Hong Kong- you know how to respond to that. Someone asks you why did you come to Hong Kong- you also know how to respond to that. How about when someone asks you why do you want to learn Cantonese?
Sep 29, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 50
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 We learned how to ask "why did you want to come to Hong Kong". It may also be useful to understand the question, and able to ask "How long have you been in Hong Kong?"...
Sep 23, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 49
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 We are finally seated at the Japanese restaurant. People may ask you: why did you want to come to Hong Kong? One possible reason is for a job. We will learn how to say that. We will also learn to say "thank you" in Cantonese.
Sep 15, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 48
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 Still remember you are chatting with Santiago, the uninvited friend? Your two friends, Julie and Peter arrived. You all were chatting and getting to know each other while wai...
Sep 12, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Continuing with past tense, we explore different uses of "go" and "come", and when exactly we use the past tense word "jor".
Sep 10, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 46
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 were chitchatting with Santiago while your friends arrived. You introduced them to Santiago, and told him your plans of going to a Japanese restaurant tonight....
Aug 17, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 45
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 express phrases you already to past tenses by adding "jor" after the verb form in Cantonese. Phrases that you already knew: I eat; I meet a friend; I go to Hong Kong; I go travelling; I drink a beer
Aug 16, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 44
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 This episode helps you build questions and sentences from the previous episode; the last episode focuses on understanding conversation and building new vocabulary....
Aug 13, 2020•12 min•Season 1Ep. 43
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 You and your friends are going to a restaurant. You invited Jenny, but without knowing Jenny also invited her friend. You were surprised, but still played cool, and asked, "how did you meet Jenny?" followed by questions we already learned: "What do you do?" , "where is Jenny?"
Aug 12, 2020•8 min•Season 1Ep. 42
This is the second half of my student's short speech. You can practice your listening skills, then I will introduce your some potentially new vocabulary and sentence structure for you.
Aug 11, 2020•8 min•Season 2Ep. 2
In this episode, you will learn new vocabulary and sentences structure. I will first play first half of the recording, then introduce new phrases and explain, then play the speech once again. 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.act...
Aug 10, 2020•12 min•Season 2Ep. 1
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 You and two of your friends are going to a new restaurant. You also invited your friend Jenny to come. On the day, one guy suddenly comes up to you and knows your name! You were not expecting this guy, but you use all the Cantonese you know to get acquaintance with him. A conversation is included in this episode for listening prac...
Aug 10, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 41
In the last part of our catch up, we spoke a bit what we have been up to during the lockdown and how the outbreak of virus changed our way of living.
Jul 31, 2020•20 min
Manyee and I continued to chat about life in Chinese school. She said nobody would say they love going to Chinese school, and she didn't think quitting was even an option. I am sure she is glad she did, because she is not able to converse fluently and able to communicate with her relatives in Hong Kong with no problem.
Jul 29, 2020•14 min
Earlier in May, I caught up with a friend who speaks perfect Cantonese. We had a chat about her life growing up in Birmingham and how her household only speak Cantonese.
Jul 27, 2020•17 min
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 This episode should be a refresher for you all - for scheduling a time to meet friends for dinner, very similar to episode 31. In this episode, you will learn how to say " it...
Jul 26, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 40
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 ask "Do you know where is + noun?", and reviewing how to say "here" and "over there". You will also learn how to say, "here it is, Time Square is right here"
Jul 20, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 39
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 After setting up a hike day, you then tell your friends where do you live for logistics. You also ask your friend, "where do you live". Both of you also live in Mong Kok!...
Jul 20, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 38
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 After getting some drinks, you overheard people saying "Do you you like to blah blah blah...?" You understand partially but didn't understand the main activity. So you ask "What is it/ what does that mean?". You find out they are into hiking, and so are you! You then say: "I like to go hiking as well. Where do you want to go?"...
Jul 20, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 37
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 were tasked to buy some drinks while in a party in Hong Kong! You got the drinks- your friends doubled checked if you have got the drinks they want. So they ask: did you ...
Jul 20, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 36
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 Knowing there is not enough beer, you then go to other local shop. You asked if they have fizzy drinks and beer. They have, and you asked how much they are. I went through some numbers from 10 to 100.
Jul 08, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 35
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 The vendors said they don't have more beer. You wondered, and asked "really?". They dug deep and found two and only two cans left. Looking weird, you then made sure " are the...
Jul 08, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 34
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 You are asked to go get some drinks for the party. At the local shop, you ask if they have water, fizzy drinks and beer. You will learn to ask in a polite way, using "ching man" plus " do you have ... ?". We will also re-visit the structure "can we ... ?" and learn a new measure word- "gwun", meaning a can of drink....
Jul 08, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 33
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 once again at a party- where people are running out of drinks. We will re-visit the structure" Do we have ... ?" , learn how to say "we are out of drinks" or " we sti...
Jul 08, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 32
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 You will learn to schedule time. We have learned "what time" in episode 18 and we'll learn "when" in this episode. I'll also start introducing ending particle in Cantonese as they are very commonly used in Cantonese conversation. I introduced "wor" again in this episode. If you can remember, this has come up already in the episode...
Jul 08, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 31
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 Two friends who met at a party are trying to go to a new restaurant next Monday. In this episode, you will be introduced a new measure word - gaan - instead of the most commo...
Jun 30, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 30
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 Some friends are speaking about hobbies and what they enjoy doing. In this episode, you will learn how to say " I like", " I don't like", "Do you like ...?" and your new favorite hobby - learning Cantonese with Kahei.
Jun 30, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 29
