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Instant! Cantonese
Instant! Cantonese
Instant! Cantonese
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Instant! Cantonese

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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
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Instant! Cantonese - Nick Theobald

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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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