The art of Hong Kongese by a Dummy

This episode is on double-character emotion sounds, 呀[a3]嘛[ma1/ma4], 嘅[ge3]喳[ja1], 嘅[ge3]啫[je1/jek1], 啦[la1]喂[wai3], 啦[la1]咩[me1] and 呢[ni1]可[ho2] as ending emotion sounds.

We will move onto triple-character emotion sounds next month. :) Keep it up!

Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/double-character-emotion-sounds-part-2

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In this episode, 榴[lau4]槤[lin4] Durian and 威[wai1]哥[go1] Brother Way came to my home to visit me during the Chinese New Year, you will hear some activities we do for Chinese New Year, some names of the decorations and food. Hopefully you will find this episode helpful, if not able to say or use these terms covered in this episode, as least you can understand what people are saying when you do go visit during Chinese New Year! 

Exercise can be found: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/exercise-daily-conversation-chinese-new-year  

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/OsoYcW_3QTU

Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/daily-conversation-chinese-new-year 

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In this episode, I will recap a little on Chinese New Year mentioned in the last 2 episodes on Chinese New Year (published last year). Then I will introduce a couple of new Chinese New Year lucky sayings, as well then I will tell you the folklore story about how the Chinese Zodiac came about. 

Next week, there will be a conversation on people visiting friends and family during Chinese New Year. Excited, stay tuned. 

Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/chinese-new-year-part-3-chinese-new-year-sayings-and-folklore-story-behind-the-chinese-zodiac

YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-eCrRWc4a8&list=LLVHR39Ao4nDL8iB21vw1XlQ

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This year we have leveled up and now we will begin to explore double-character emotion sounds. This episode will be on 㗎喇 (Dummy PY: Ga la), 喳嘛 (Dummy PY: Ja Ma), 囉噃 (Dummy PY: Lo Bor), 囉喎 (Dummy PY: Lo Wor) and 吓嘩(Dummy PY: Ha wah) as ending emotion sounds.

Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/cantonese-emotion-sounds-part-5

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In this episode, I have prepared a conversation on new year and setting goal. This episode is paired with the last episode's vocab also about new year and setting goals. In this conversation, Dummy’s old friend John who is a Cantonese learner bumped into Dummy in the new year 2021. You will hear John talk about his goals and you will hear Dummy give him encouraging words.

Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/daily-convo-new-year-setting-goals

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This episode, I will share a couple of vocab with you about the new year and setting goals, perseverance and giving up, succeeding and failing, as well as two 4-character idioms and some slang terms. Hopefully you will find them helpful. 

Exercise paired with this episode: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/exercise-vocab-new-year-goals

Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/vocab-new-year-setting-goals

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Welcome to 2021! To begin the year, we are going back to the Cantonese basics, the pronouns (I, you, he/she/it, we, they), the possessive forms (my, your, his/ her/its, our, their) as well as the unit classifiers.  Exercises is posted on my webpage under exercises. 

In the upcoming year, I will be doing 4 episodes a month, first 4 weeks of the month. First week on random topics, second week on vocab and sentences, third week on story or conversations on what we have covered in week 2, final week will be on emotion sounds. 

Remember to check out my

Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/xmas-homework-vocab-on-kitchen-appliance-cooking-method-ingredients

YouTube video 

on pronouns: https://youtu.be/HizuWS9bDFU

on Unit Classifiers Part 1: https://youtu.be/OcTTF6Gt9qQ

on Unit Classifiers Part 2: https://youtu.be/Kk2rRbdCcaY

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This episode is on vocabs on kitchen appliances/ tool and cooking ingredients/ methods. Hopefully you will be able to have some vocab to talk about food and cooking this holiday :)

Happy learning!

YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/UJio6cl_eHY

Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/xmas-homework-vocab-on-kitchen-appliance-cooking-method-ingredients

Music credit: Jingle bells by Scoot Holmes Music on https://freemusicarchive.org/

In this episode, there is a conversation between a Cantonese speaking management officer and a Cantonese speaking resident. The resident was complained by someone regarding her garbage situation at home. I will analyze the conversation as well explaining the emotion sounds in the conversation. 

Happy Holidays & Happy new year!

Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/emotion-sounds-in-daily-conversations-part-1

Music credit: www.bensound.com