Basic Cantonese For Beginner Course Part 1

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 In this lesson, you will have a deeper understanding of Cantonese: 

How many people are using Cantonese?

How many people are using Cantonese as mother tongue?

What are the components in Cantonese?

How special Cantonese is? 

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Basic Cantonese Phrases

- yes/ no/ and/ or

- please, thank you, excuse me, sorry

- who, what, where, where to

- why, when, how, how much

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- Further practice 6 tones

- With revision notes

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- Learn Cantonese Months of the year (with English and German translation)

- From January to December

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Learn Cantonese - Basic Cantonese Greetings (with English and German translation

- Hello/ Hallo

- Good bye/ Auf Wiedersehen

- Good morning/ Guten morgen

- Good evening/ Guten abend

- Good night/ Guten nacht

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Learn Cantonese - How to count number from 1 to 100

- use simple method to teach

- learn Golden rules of number counting

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Learn Cantonese - What is the day in Cantonese

- From Monday to Sunday

- Week day and Weekend

- What day is today?

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Learn Cantonese - What is the Months in Cantonese

- From January to December (German and English)

- Four Season (German and English)

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Learn Cantonese -  How to call your family member in Cantonese

- Grandparents 

- Parents

- Aunts and Uncles

- Siblings 

Lesson 4 -也他她

You will learn

- the pronunciation

- the meaning

- how to write

- learn stroke order step-by-step

- how to memorize the character

- the way we use the character

- various of related vocabularies

- what kinds of components are included.   

Lesson 5- 女子好

You will learn

- the pronunciation

- the meaning

- how to write

- learn stroke order step-by-step

- how to memorize the character

- the way we use the character

- various of related vocabularies

- what kinds of components are included.   

You will learn

- the pronunciation

- the meaning

- how to write

- learn stroke order step-by-step

- how to memorize the character

- the way we use the character

- various of related vocabularies

- what kinds of components are included.

The most essential things in Cantonese – pronouns

How to use pronoun to form sentences

The most essential things in Cantonese – pronouns

Pronoun redundant

The most essential things in Cantonese – pronouns

The third person pronoun: he, she, it 佢

How to translate 嘅 ?

1. Before a possessed noun

1. As predicates, usually following the verb 係 (be)

How about “係”?

The verb 係 (be) can also be understood, so that we sometimes eliminate the verb.

Omit possession?

Sometimes, the嘅 indicating possession can be omitted, especially where there is a close intrinsic relationship between the possessor and possessed, as in the case of relatives and family members.

Always use possession 嘅?

Before nouns, the appropriate classifier is often used in place of 嘅, especially in spoken Cantonese.

. In this section, we are going to talk about the Possession and existence 有 (jau5)

Possession and existence 有 (jau5), like ‘have’ in English, serves both as a main verb and as an auxiliary. Like all verbs in Cantonese, it keeps the same form for different persons.

. In this section, we are going to talk about the Possession and existence 有 (jau5)

Negative form of 有 (jau5)

negative form of 有 is irregular, written as 冇

. In this section, we are going to talk about the Possession and existence 有 (jau5)

How to form question with 有 (jau5)

. In this section, we are going to talk about the Possession and existence 有 (jau5)

有 can also mean ‘there is’.

Similarly, 冇 (mou5) can mean ‘There is not’ and 有 (jau5) 冇 (mou5) ‘Is there…?’

. In this section, we are going to talk about the Possession and existence 有 (jau5)

We have some special situations in spoken Cantonese of 有.

有 as auxiliary

有 also serves as an auxiliary verb, rather like ‘have’ in English,

but normally only in the negative form 冇 and in questions as 有冇

. In this section, we are going to talk about the Possession and existence 有 (jau5)

Adjectives formed with 有

有 and 冇 can also be added to nouns to form adjectives

In this section, we are going to talk about the verb-to-be “係”

We always use 係 to introduce noun phrases. making introductions

In this section, we are going to talk about the verb-to-be “係”

Many Cantonese statements can also be made without 係, especially when a sentence particle such as the explanatory 嚟㗎 is added.

In this section, we are going to talk about the verb-to-be “係”

Special situation

In predicative adjectives, 係is not used in the sentence. Instead, we use 好.