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Instant! Cantonese
By Nick Theobald and Bill Loh
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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.
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.
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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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