Re: 獎學金
You can also download Hanping Cantonese on your phone to get the audio of the word.
View ArticleDeep Fried Silkworm Pupa
After getting over the food staring back at you in the eyes in an alleyway of Old Beijing, deep fried Silkworm Pupa on a skewer with a little spice really taste pretty good...almost like a "nut"...
View ArticleRe: Canontese Style Beijing Duck
QuotetheABC To me, it appears that Cantonese have their own style of Beijing duck called 北京填鴨 that is similar to Beijing duck which is called 北京烤鴨. So what's the difference?Beijing style is more dry...
View ArticleRe: 獎學金
Unfortunately, it seems that Hanping Cantonese is only on the Android, which I don't have. It looks like it only pronounces the characters one at a time, which like I just mentioned in my post above...
View Article同 (tung4) vs 同埋 (tung maai4)
Is tung4 and tung4 maai4 (in the context of "and") interchangable with each other? I notice some examples use the former, some the latter.If not, when is one used vs. the other? Thanks!
View Article打氣 and 支持
I'm just wondering if native Cantonese speakers really don't use 打氣. I've heard it used in music and have seen it written in newspapers but my wife says people really don't use 打氣 that much in spoken...
View ArticleRe: Do chinese speakers like both cantopop and mandopop?
Canto pop in Beijing?? Really?? That's interesting ♭♫, can you expand more? I'm curious about what you found.If Cantonese music is being listened to in Beijing that makes me really happy.
View ArticleRe: difference between 喺 and 响
You may like to read the previous discussion on this link: [www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]
View Article時空 - Time and Space
First off, don't worry I'm not tasking anyone to translate!!I'm just putting up this song because I like it and hope others might like it to. Even though the singer 周國賢 is someone I really don't...
View ArticleRe: Could you help me identity this song please?
Can anyone ID the requested song? I could write the lyrics out character by character and do an internet search but that'd take up a lot of my time. I'm hoping this song is famous enough to get the...
View ArticleRe: 同 (tung4) vs 同埋 (tung maai4)
同 is mostly used to link two nouns, each noun composing of maybe no more than 4 syllables, e.g. 老師同學生.同埋 can be used to link, inter alia, more than two predicates. There is often a pause before 同埋....
View ArticleRe: Could you help me identity this song please?
I already tried to write all those characters that I could identify and did a google search days ago. But there was no result. I guess this song is rather obscure.
View ArticleRe: 同 (tung4) vs 同埋 (tung maai4)
I don't think 同 is exclusively for nouns and 同埋 is exclusively for predicates, as the aforementioned examples can be easily changed around as folllows:老師同埋學生 (Teacher and also...
View ArticleRe: 打氣 and 支持
打氣 means "cheer for," or "cheer up," and is stronger than 支持. It is an indirect verb and must be put at the end of a sentence, as in 為佢打氣, 替佢打氣, or 同佢打氣. In contrast, 支持 is a direct verb, as in 支持佢.
View ArticleRe: Do chinese speakers like both cantopop and mandopop?
My personal preference is indie canto rap, and Taiwanese rap.My partners favourite is Coco Lee (hk), and then Elva from Taiwan.I think she prefers their mandarin music though.Pop music in general is...
View ArticleRe: Do chinese speakers like both cantopop and mandopop?
QuoteMatFayLong Canto pop in Beijing?? Really?? That's interesting ♭♫, can you expand more? I'm curious about what you found.If Cantonese music is being listened to in Beijing that makes me really...
View ArticleRe: 同 (tung4) vs 同埋 (tung maai4)
I don't think 同 is exclusively for nouns and 同埋 is exclusively for predicates,Definitely not “exclusively”. That’s why I’ve used “mostly” for 同 and “can be” and “inter alia” for 同埋.
View ArticleRe: Do chinese speakers like both cantopop and mandopop?
Yeah Scottie, a lot of Cantopop can be annoying to my ears too but I'm interested in how much Mandarin speakers follow it, I always associate Beijing with a heavy Mando accent. For myself after over...
View ArticleRe: Do chinese speakers like both cantopop and mandopop?
a lot of Cantopop can be annoying to my ears tooI’ve virtually stopped listening to Cantopop since the mid 1990s. Have you tried to listen to those of the golden 70s and 80s? I bet you would find very...
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