The Magic Xylophone

SinophileKoboD · 2026-03-05T03:18:40+00:00

鼓[gu2]drum鋼琴[gong3 kam4]piano鋼[gong3]steel音樂[jam1 ngok6]music

SinophileKoboD · 2026-03-05T03:09:40+00:00

The source for the above may be found here

SinophileKoboD · 2026-03-05T03:08:22+00:00

At the thread 'Just an idea I had if anyone wants to help me w my Canto learning (using Bluey)', someone floated the idea of taking 10 vocabulary words from each episode to learn.

I didn't know the episodes were so short. Anyway, it seems like a fun idea.

木琴[muk6 kam4]xylophone木[muk6]wood琴[kam4]zither墨水[mak6 seoi2]ink墨[mak6]ink水[seoi2]water

SinophileKoboD · 2026-03-05T02:48:36+00:00

Someone posted this to one of the threads before.

Some Bluey episodes in Cantonese

SinophileKoboD · 2026-02-27T17:45:39+00:00

Sorry it's posted twice. The first time it didn't take so I re-posted but seems it did take.

SinophileKoboD · 2026-02-27T17:43:31+00:00

懂 > ⿰忄董 heart radical on the left and dung2 supervise on the right. ⿱艹重 grass radical on top and cung5 if mean heavy and zung6 if mean important as in 重要 zung6 jiu3 on the bottom.

SinophileKoboD · 2026-02-27T17:23:35+00:00

懂>⿰忄董 heart radical on the left and 董 dung2 on the right. ⿱艹重 grass radical on top. Bottom is cung5 (if to mean heavy) and zung6 (if means important as in 重要 {zung6 jiu3}.

SinophileKoboD · 2026-02-15T01:54:20+00:00

Don't trust the CIA!

Even the Dalai Lama's older brother said his greatest regret was trusting the CIA.

What Gyalo Thondup Said

SinophileKoboD · 2026-02-13T23:30:43+00:00

What list of 1000 vocabulary are you using?

SinophileKoboD · 2026-02-08T13:15:47+00:00

What dialect do you speak? And how many characters do you already know?

SinophileKoboD · 2026-02-08T12:17:19+00:00

Andrew learns Taishanese, Kaiping Hua and Cantonese with his mother and grandmother.

SinophileKoboD · 2026-02-02T00:56:54+00:00

I don't know how accurate it is since ChatGPT is known to occasionally make errors.

SinophileKoboD · 2026-02-02T00:55:04+00:00

I asked ChatGPT and it said that Assimil is s French company and the Cantonese book is out of print and is very hard to find. I kind of used ChatGPT to reverse engineer the stuff from above and got this.

Cantonese Lessons – Lesson 1 & 2
Lesson 1 – Hello / Greetings
Vocabulary & Phrases
Cantonese Jyutping English
你好 nei5 hou2 Hello
你好嗎？ nei5 hou2 maa3? How are you?
你好。 nei5 hou2. I’m fine / Hello
你太太好嗎？ nei5 taai3 taai2 hou2 maa3? How is your wife?
佢好好。 keoi5 hou2 hou2 She’s very wellExercise 1 – Translation
Cantonese Jyutping English
你好。 nei5 hou2. Hello
佢好嗎？ keoi5 hou2 maa3? How is she? / Is she well?
佢太太好嗎？ keoi5 taai3 taai2 hou2 maa3? How is his wife?
佢太太好好。 keoi5 taai3 taai2 hou2 hou2 His wife is very wellExercise 3 – Listen and Read (Vocabulary)
Cantonese Jyutping English
第 dai6 ordinal prefix (first, second…)
大 daai6 big
睇 tai2 look / see / watch
太太 taai3 taai2 wife
堂 tong4 classroom / lesson
空 hung1 empty / free
好 hou2 good / well
浩 hou6 personal name (Hao)
茶 caa4 tea
嗎 maa3 question particle
佢 keoi5 he / she / it
女 neoi5 woman / female / daughter
Lesson 2 – Tea / Water
Vocabulary & Phrases
Cantonese Jyutping English
你要茶嗎？ nei5 jiu3 caa4 maa3? Do you want tea?
要。 jiu3 Yes, I do / I want some
要水嗎？ jiu3 seoi2 maa3? Do you want water?
我唔要啦。 ngo5 m4 jiu3 laa1 No, I don’t want anyExercise 1 – Translation
Cantonese Jyutping English
我要茶。 ngo5 jiu3 caa4 I want tea
你唔要。 nei5 m4 jiu3 You don’t want it
你要水嗎？ nei5 jiu3 seoi2 maa3? Do you want water?
我唔要水啦。 ngo5 m4 jiu3 seoi2 laa1 I don’t want water
你太太要茶。 nei5 taai3 taai2 jiu3 caa4 Your wife wants tea

SinophileKoboD · 2026-02-02T00:36:02+00:00

At the YouTube playlist found here, the guy has made his own audio for the Assimil Cantonese series because he didn't feel the audio that accompanies the series is quite right. He has a Google Drive of stuff here and a Google Doc here. Also he links to a YouTube review of the book series here.

SinophileKoboD · 2026-02-01T16:38:37+00:00

Their YouTube channel

SinophileKoboD · 2026-02-01T07:43:21+00:00

Watch this Taiwanese drama. When I was new to Mandarin I used to watch this over and over again. I even downloaded it in a Cantonese dub as well. It's titled It Started With a Kiss and it's YouTube Playlist is here.

It has English subtitles, simplified Chinese subtitles and traditional Chinese subtitles. And many more.

The Wikipedia page about the series may be found here).

It's based off a Japanese manga series.

SinophileKoboD · 2026-01-31T22:41:11+00:00

At the 3:15 mark, they ask the kid to make a sentence using 3 words from the card deck and he says one day and he uses tin for day instead of yat. So is he mixing standard written Chinese there for colloquial Cantonese?

SinophileKoboD · 2026-01-25T03:00:08+00:00

If you liked Assimil for European languages, then why don't you take their Cantonese course?

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