The art of Hong Kongese by a Dummy

This episode is a special request by one of the listeners. I will be reading the vocabulary lists from page 321-323 of "Complete Cantonese Beginner to Intermediate Course: Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new Language with Teach Yourself" 

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This episode is a special request by one of the listeners. I will be reading the vocabulary lists from page 318-320 of "Complete Cantonese Beginner to Intermediate Course: Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new Language with Teach Yourself" 

Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode is about the 4 character idiom 知恩圖報 (know your favours and attempt to repay them), the background story of how the 4 character idiom came about, how to use it, and what it means. 

**Pay attention to how the emotion sounds are used in the story. 

Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/4-character-idiom

Story Adapted from: http://read01.com/aL7Rkd.html

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This episode is a continued episode about Cantonese single-character emotion sounds that begin sentences & end sentences, what do they mean and how to use them. This week we will chat about the 呀 吖 啊 (Dummy PY: Ah)/ 啦 喇 嘞 (Dummy PY: La)/ 哩 (Dummy PY: Le)/ 呢(Dummy PY: Ne) / 㗎 (Dummy PY: Ga) sounds. 

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

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Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/cantonese-emotion-sounds-part-1

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The whole conversation can be found at 18:56/ 18 min 56 sec of the podcast. 

Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/buying-furniture-in-hong-kong-in-cantonese

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Learn a couple of tongue twisters today to enhance your Cantonese fluency and clarity, exercise those tongue muscles. Let's see if you get as tongue tied as I do. :)

Written material:  http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/cantonese-tongue-twisters

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This episode explores the different usages and meanings of 咗 (Dummy PY: Jaw), 完 (Dummy PY: Yuen) and 晒 (Dummy PY: Sai), 過 (Dummy PY: Gwoh), how they are applied to form Basic past, present perfect, "Future past tense" sentences.

Written material:  http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/past-present-perfect-future-past-tense

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In this episode, I am going to talk about the grammatical structure of forming present tense sentences as well as present continuous tense. As well, some keywords you might here to indicate the present and routine.

Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/present-tense-present-continuous-tense

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In this episode, I am going to talk about some reasons why the Cantonese speaking person would suddenly switch to English when you are speaking Cantonese. Is it you, or is it them? What can you do?

Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/why-do-cantonese-people-speak-english-when-you-want-to-speak-cantonese

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