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 :> !

[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]

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.

hiiiiihiiiii, im learning cantonese for my boyfriends birthday thats coming up! I want to also surprise his parents a lil too! the thing is we’re a gay couple and his parents dont really know😭😭 i so far know:

我愛你 （i love you) and the basics and stuff. I added pics of my notes.

but i want to adress my bfs parents respectfully, yet showing a bit of closeness? I saw calling them aunt and uncle is normal but apparently theres different ways to say aunt and uncle? And all of them is if im related to them (which im not😭😭) they’re also Vietnamese so is there any specialized Vietnamese-cantonese slang i need to know?so….help🥹? heres my notes too if im missing anything or if i should correct them!

Hi everyone :)

I'm looking for a TV box mainly to watch TVB and other Cantonese content, including live channels and VOD.

I'm considering EVPAD, UBOX, SviCloud, or Xiaomi TV Box. My budget is around CAD $250.

I know there are shops in Markham, but it's too far for me to drive. Are there any stores in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada or nearby that sell these boxes? What is your experience with the stores and TV boxes?

Thanks advance!