"Better friends than enemies"
I have heard this Chinese proverb in one of Tsui Hark's movies. It sounds like JYUN GAA JI GAA BAT JI GEI in jyutping. Could you write it down for me?
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Cantonese Writing Competion/廣東話徵文比賽
Submissions are now being accepted for articles written in Cantonese, it's pretty interesting, I've never heard of anything like this...
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More example:信得過 worth believing買得過 worth buying諗得過 worth considering搏得過 worth betting on算得上 can be counted as講得上 can be mentioned as跟得上 can follow受得起 can afford to recieve食得起 can afford to eat著得起 can...
View ArticleRe: pronunciation of 呢。
Quotepystophe I understand from canto dictionary that 呢個嘅呢 is read with an 'N' sound, but many tvb dramas, or natives seem to sound it out with an 'L'... which is correct?The 'N' initial is often...
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Quotepystophe I understand from canto dictionary that 呢個嘅呢 is read with an 'N' sound, but many tvb dramas, or natives seem to sound it out with an 'L'... which is correct?The 'N' initial is often...
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Most HK people today pronounce all 'n' initials as 'l'. It's called "lazy sounds" (together with the omission of the 'ng' initial) and you're not "supposed" to do it, because it's not "correct". In my...
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Likewise, you'll see for various words that kw- and gw- reduce to k- and g-. In some respects, the labial (kw-/gw-) pronunciation is considered archaic.-Tony
View ArticleThank You My Friends
I wanted to (hand)-write a short letter of thanks in Cantonese (colloquial is fine) to my friends here in 廣東 before I depart next week, but my Cantonese isn't that good. If someone could help me...
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冤家宜解不宜結 [jyun1 gaa1 ji4 gaai2 bat1 ji4 git3] literally means one should (宜) 解冤 (ending a feud) instead of 結冤 (starting a feud).Figuratively, it means better (make) friends than (make) enemies.P.S....
View ArticleRe: 比得上 － comparable
Thanks a lot, Tang, for your insight into the delicate meanings of 過, 上 and 起. So 比得上 would mean “can match up to”. But the 3 characters過, 上 and 起 are indeed quite difficult to explain in grammatical...
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QuoteSimon Pettersson I recommend you pronounce all 'n' initals as 'l' if you want to sound like a regular person and not a newscaster, except sometimes when they come straight after an 'n' final.All...
View ArticleCantonese Words - FlashCards
Hi Guys,I just recently put together a list of Cantonese Flash cards together on ANKI.I was wondering if someone with some coding ability, if they have the time could run them through a paser to...
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I don't know any coding, but I applaud the initiative. If we can have one deck with characters, one with words and one with phrases, that would be an amazing resource for us learners.
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Its what I am trying to do. :)I found a way to finish it off, thing is I may have to change the language to increase the run time, so my processor doesnt fail on the way.Plus need a backup of...
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QuoteScottie_BoiThen I am on to idioms and phrases.Sweet! :thumbup:
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Just an update, I am batching them now, from the format I am reading them in they need slight reformatting before being imported and updated.So bare with me. will probably get a few hundred a day...
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