Let's learn how to say, better, tastier, later, more and less when buying fruits or items. 

Hi friends, I am back to make episode 91-180 for you all. I've met so many of you in the past year and I'm blown away by the fact that me speaking to the microphone can connect to you all from all around the world! :)  I'll be conducting new term for Year 1 term 1-3 if you wish to speed up learning progress and have practice time. If you are not ready, feel free to enjoy episode 91-180!

As I travel, I kept a hand written blog and I reflect on my feeling of taking long bus rides while travelling in South America.

We hopped on the overnight bus, praying nothing bad would happen like getting robbed, then tried closing my eyes to sleep. Bus was stopped and some guards asked me to show him my passaporte. When we kept going and thought that'd be it, the bus suddenly stopped where the driver said "Todo bajan!"......

I was on my way down South, finding myself at the border of Ecuador and Peru, with only myself as a backpacker walking across a strangely busy strip of street, with stores on both sides. I was told to hop on a taxi instead to get to the immigration point, so I did. Literally there was no one at the line, so I made it to Peru, meeting two couples who were also travelling down South.

Fastfoward to January 2015 - I spent the December in Galapagos, feeling a bit too comfortable there, so decided to make a move. 

Bringing you all back to 2014, my epic 7-month trip to Central and South America.  I got robbed in Honduras, with my favorite Swedish friend of all time.  

I am referring to my English blog, converting it to Cantonese in my own words and elaborating off from it.

Part 3 of a reflection of my discussion with my French housemate back in 2017 when I first moved to London.

Script in Cantonese. As I record, I made some changes to sentences, so it will be around 95% exact.  https://snookist.wordpress.com/2017/01/06/%e4%ba%ba%e4%b8%8d%e6%96%b7%e9%80%b2%e6%ad%a5-%e6%9c%80%e5%be%8c%e4%bf%82%e7%82%ba%e5%b7%a6%e5%92%a9%ef%bc%9f/#comments

2025 update:

You can now learn these topics all in 6-7 months in my self-paced course! (with 6 catch-up with me!)

https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/

Combining my experience teaching Cantonese and learning Vietnamese and Italian, I've planned 12 discussion topics to go through for beginner learners for my online lessons. 

2- Setting up time for a meal

3- Meeting friends and chatting about family

4- Buying drinks and asking for price

5- Discussing past holiday events 

6- Planning for activities; scheduling and exchanging contact information

7- Calling and finding friends at meetup location for a Hong Kong-style breakfast

8- Buying fruits for family picnic and asking for discount

9- Asking about food, basic food ordering at tea house, noodles shop and cha chaan tengs

10- Chatting about weathers, seasons and shopping at Ladies’s Market for clothes and souvenirs

11- Speaking with taxi drivers in Hong Kong

12- Geography and transportation of Hong Kong, asking for simple direction

Part 2 of a reflection of my discussion with my French housemate back in 2017 when I first moved to London.

Script in Cantonese. As I record, I made some changes to sentences, so it will be around 95% exact.  https://snookist.wordpress.com/2017/01/06/%e4%ba%ba%e4%b8%8d%e6%96%b7%e9%80%b2%e6%ad%a5-%e6%9c%80%e5%be%8c%e4%bf%82%e7%82%ba%e5%b7%a6%e5%92%a9%ef%bc%9f/#comments