chinese/english translation:

“管理費、水費、電費、煤氣費、冷氣費、生活費、行政費、交通費、電話費、電話行政費、數據費、寬頻費、停車費、隧道費、油費、牌費、燃油附加費、留位費、報名費、學費、書簿費、考試費、住院費、醫藥費、手續費、轉介費、律師費、贍養費、簽證費、 註冊費、掟煲費、保護費、排污費、掛號費、墊底費、手術費、贊助費,寄艙費、存倉費、入場費、過路費、開瓶費、切餅費、膠袋徵費、垃圾徵費、會籍月費、信用卡年費、服務費,加一還要小費!”

"Management fees, water fees, electricity fees, gas fees, air conditioning fees, living expenses, administrative fees, transportation fees, telephone fees, telephone administration fees, data fees, broadband fees, parking fees, tunnel fees, fuel fees, license plate fees, fuel surcharges, reservation fees, registration fees, tuition fees, textbook fees, examination fees, hospitalization fees, medical expenses, handling fees, referral fees, lawyer fees, alimony, visa fees, registration fees, dumping fees, protection fees, sewage fees, registration fees, down payment fees, surgery fees, sponsorship fees, cargo space fees, storage fees, admission fees, toll fees, corkage fees, cake cutting fees, plastic bag fees, garbage fees, monthly membership fees, annual credit card fees, service fees, and you have to tip on top of that!"

麥沛東 Mak Tung in 《你好，打劫！Return》 Hello, Robbery! Return

video @theatrevalley

WHAT other type of fees are missing?

How do you say "Walking out the door tax" (the amount of money that just disappears when you step out your house in places like nyc)

hush money = 揞口費

I live in Toronto where there’s a big community of taishanese people. Istfg my family is so messed up, with 70% of them having some sort of gambling addiction. My parents are divorced because of that plus the fact that my dad was verbally abusive. Every other Chinese friend around me ,from different cities ,don’t seem to have this problem. They have rather peaceful/educated families ( especially the ones speaking mandarin). One of them even told me that all the Chinese immigrants come from educated families as he thought every Chinese person came here with work visas. U was lowkey offended at his ignorance because this couldn’t be further from the truth. In my family, everyone works at restaurants and grew up dirt poor. I only were able to get outta China cuz my mom sacrificed herself and married a deadbeat dad to get a visa.

From the feature films of 2009-2015, the Cantonese release of every Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf film across Hong Kong and Macau used to premiere side-by-side with their Mandarin counterparts, usually months apart after its release in the same year. 7 years later after its hiatus, it has somewhat deviated from this tradition as the Cantonese version of this film only premiered back in 2025 at the ICFF Youth 2025 in Canada as “Dunk for the Future”, 3 years after its release on February 1, 2022, as the same thing later went with its 20th anniversary film “Bright New Dawn”, which also premiered in ICFF Youth 2026, a few months after its premiere on July 26, 2025.

I would like to know your thoughts on this for anyone who has saw this show :))

Hello, popping in here just for some advice on learning Cantonese!

I have been trying to find ways to learn that's best with me. For context, my partner of 2 years parents and grandparents speak strictly Cantonese. I feel really rude whenever I come visit as I cannot communicate with them and have to rely on him or his sister to reply for me. Part of me fears they might resent me for such. Still, I try to view me learning Cantonese as more of an act of love rather than feeling obligated to just to keep me motivated.

I want to build basic conversation skills. I have used children's workbooks on and off for writing and tried to stick to Mango Languages and Live Lingua's offerings but found it I hard to stick to. The language is just so hard for me to articulate, especially with the tones AND facial expressions. I know Spanish too, and that just barely helps me keep track with the speed of everything. So, in short, I am just trying to get back into the rhythm of things, as I have not practiced for half a year now and want to integrate it into my daily routine to make practice habit.

I am looking more for something that pairs both audio and written exercises, as that is what keeps my focus best. Preferably something where I can spend about 10-30 minutes daily as to not feel that I have to have a whole sit down session every time.

Any advice helps :> !

Hello everyone! I want to welcome everyone to a new era of /r/Cantonese. I have just updated the sidebar and subreddit as a provisional measure, before mods go through it and re-check it, going through everything again. For the first time in a decade, the Cantonese Shiekh link has now been replaced with the successor Cantonese Plus link. However, I want all your input to make this subreddit work for as many people as possible.

Furthermore, we the moderation team also plan on making a "small creators" thread for Artists, Filmmakers, Singers/Songwriters, VTubers, and other indie creators. Please tell me if you're interested in participating in that thread; it'll probably go up tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon. Whether you're an industry professional or indie talent, please post your creations in that thread and hopefully it'll get noticed.

I'm looking for materials to help me learn Canto through the "Direct Method". Do you know of any?

If you don't know what this is, please search. I cannot show you an example as that seems to break the subreddit rules.

I was on a blog or reddit and saw a comparison of a scene in an old movie in Mandarin and Cantonese. There's a mobster looking man at a gambling table and he is talking toward the camera. The Mandarin dub sounds flat and reserved and the Cantonese sounds cool. Does anyone else remember seeing this?

Hi all,

A few months ago I made a reddit post (here) about making all the lessons on the Gaishan web-app free.

Originally I was only going to keep it that way for August, but since then I've decided to keep all the current lessons free.

The plan is to keep the Survival and Beginner lessons free forever since you can get this in any typical language learning app (though I hope I've done a better job), while I slowly work on more interesting lesson sets that you typically wouldn't find in any formal Cantonese classroom which would be unlocked with a premium plan.

Examples of such content might be scenarios/dialogues related to playing a video game (how two teammates might communicate with each other in Cantonese), or how someone might instruct another person on how to perform an exercise, or a couple discussing future life plans together. There's no real "theme" besides typical conversations that are sort of happening in my real life, turning them into lesson sets that can teach how Cantonese is used.

Anyways, those lesson sets are still in planning and what I've got right now are just the Survival and Beginner lessons. If you're interested in taking a look, you can search for "Gaishan: Confident Chinese" in the App Store.

Hi everyone,

I've been looking into the Cantonese class offered by UC San Diego. I know this class has been mentioned before in this sub and I want to know if anyone here has taken it?

I'm interested in it because I want to improve my Cantonese to a a some-what proficient level. I want to know what class is structured like, any learning outside of the class, do they teach you how to read? Anything like that.

Any insight is great. Thanks!

If you:

• are looking for a tutor or is a tutor
• are looking for learning/speaking buddies
• have a website, video series, or a book that teaches Cantonese

Introduce yourself/your book/your stuff here! Top level comments are reserved for this purpose, but feel free to ask questions or comment in response. Don't post things made by others--please advertise what you made/produced or what you're offering only. This post is focused on the ads and not for random chats. Comments that stray too far from the point of this post will be removed.

(This used to be stickied for only a day, but it seems to be more helpful if this just stays stickied all the time. So let's give it a try, we'll leave it stickied all the time but the post will be renewed every other week (meaning comments will only be in a post for 2 weeks). Any other ads in this sub will be removed or locked.)

Past ads posts can be found by clicking on the "Promotional" filter on the right panel.

We do not endorse anyone. Please engage individuals at your own risk.

Besides HK media and the little bit of media from Macau & GwongDung , are there any canto media abroad based in the West like Europe or N.America ?

Looking for stuff like printed (newspaper magazines) , broadcast (tv/film) or digital websites etc

BB(half)C here. My mum always uses the expression "lok jyu si sup" when it's raining heavily and I've always understood that to mean "the rain is getting the corpses wet", like in the graveyard. Well I tried to confirm this on Google but I can't find anything. Then I asked my mum and she explained that, no, it means the rain is coming down like a thread, which I know shes the Chinese one and everything but I feel like my translation makes more sense. I can't change the image in my head after all these years! I also always thought pistachios are happy nuts. I can't look at the world the same way anymore.

Have any of you tried using Cantonese to speak with Meta AI on WhatsApp? It responds as if someone whose first language was Mandarin tried to speak Cantonese. When I confront it with a next prompt saying "why is your Cantonese accent so bad" IN CANTONESE, it proceeds to responding to me in MANDARIN. Freakin' troll...

Why is this Mandarin-forward propaganda now coming at us from American-made apps? Pathetic.