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    Instant! Cantonese
    Instant! Cantonese
    Instant! Cantonese
    Ebook170 pages25 minutes

    Instant! Cantonese

    By Nick Theobald and Bill Loh

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    About this ebook

    Speak Cantonese in seconds with this down-to-earth, practical and slightly cheeky phrase book.
    It's your brilliant traveling companion for Hong Kong, South China, Macau and Chinatowns everywhere. If you want to learn authentic, street-wise Cantonese, then this is the little red book for you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781456602314
    Instant! Cantonese

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    Instant! Cantonese - Nick Theobald

    work.

    With Instant! Cantonese, what you see is what you say.

    Read the following care-full-lee

    English: How are you?

    Cantonese: Nay ho ma?

    Nay - same sound as hay

    ho - what Santa says

    ma - mother

    English: How much?

    Cantonese: Gay door cheen?

    Gay - the opposite of straight

    door - that’s right, door

    cheen - same sound as keen

    English: Tuesday

    Cantonese: Sing-kay yee

    Sing - as in Sing Sing prison

    kay - same sound as nay

    yee - sounds like three

    English: Follow that cab.

    Cantonese: Gun gore gar dixie.

    Gun - as in Colt .45

    gore - what bulls do

    gar - same sound as far

    dixie - as in the Dixie Chicks

    English: I have a headache.

    Cantonese: Or tow tung.

    Or - as you’d expect or

    tow - as in towel

    tung - sounds like toong

    English: I have no electricity.

    Cantonese: Or ook kay mo deen.

    Or -  or again

    ook - same sound as look

    kay - as in OK

    mo -  like no

    deen - like keen

    English: My name is Bill.

    Cantonese:  Or gore mang high-ee Bill.

    Or - or again

    gore - what bulls do

    mang - like hang

    high-ee - high + ee run together

    Bill - er, Bill

    * Or and Ngor. 1st person singular.

    Or is fine, but if you listen carefully to Cantonese speakers, you’ll hear them correctly say or as ngor.  It’s really hard to describe.  You’ll get by with or. Then you can master ngor.

    Hyphenated words

    When you see hyphenated words, don’t pan-ick. Words like mm-goy and high-ee are two sounds: mm and goy and high and ee, but are run together.

    Bracketed characters

    Yar(t) - The t is silent. It’s there, but you don’t make a big deal of it.

    The First Phrase to Learn

    I don’t speak Cantonese.

    Or mm-sick gong gwong doong-wah.

    Shopping

    How much please?

    Gay door cheen mm-goy?

    Sounds a little expensive.

    Waaaah!  (Waaaah! is the great Cantonese exclamation. A loose English equivalent is Wow, or Holy shit!)

    Can you make it cheaper?

    Pang dee duck-mm-duck?

    I’m not a tourist.

    Or mm-high yow hark.

    Have you got a small?

    Nay yow mo sigh ma?

    Have you got a medium?

    Nay yow mo joong ma?

    Have you got a large?

    Nay yow mo die ma?

    OK, I’ll think about it.

    Or lum ha seen.

    Have you got any other colours?

    Nay yow mo kay tar sick?

    Will it work overseas?

    Hay-ee ngoy gwok yong duck-mm-duck?

    Can you deliver?

    Yow mo soong four?

    When?

    Gay see?

    What day?

    Been yart?

    What time?

    Gay

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