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Happy Lunar New Year! 新年快樂！
I know I posted in forever, but this is something I thought was pretty appropriate for the time. I wish everyone a Happy New Year! 新年快樂！事事如意！工作進步！學業進步！
Very Short Update
Hi everyone, as you obviously can tell, I haven’t updated this website in a quite long time. Aside from the Cantonese project that I have been trying to start up and get to work (my apologies for those who I have stated I wish to collaborate with and I have not been able to contact [...]
You want me to walk? Or did you want me to run?
I cannot say I am 100% fluent in both Mandarin and Cantonese (in fact, I can’t say I’m 100% fluent in English either, I have no way to gauge where my fluency is), but I can vouch that I am pretty well adept at all three languages to a certain degree. I find it often [...]
Something Just for Fun – A Rant
I’m sure you all have read the previous post where I discussed a small Cantonese lesson with some irony in it. Well, that’s not the only thing that gets to my head between Cantonese and Mandarin! First of all you have to remember that I come from a Cantonese background without any influence of Mandarin. [...]
Something Just for Laughs
I didn’t think this would be funny but it’s something I found interesting. I was watching a Hong Kong drama and we all know that in each of these dramas, the subtitles were in Standard Chinese rather than Standard Cantonese (they also come in English now!). Well, it’s not surprising that the subtitles translate the [...]
Cantonese Poetry – 落雨大,水浸街
Thanks to my good friend Jeff from Jeffinous Tang Poetry I have this following CANTONESE poem. Yes you heard it right, it’s a Cantonese poem; in fact this is one of those songs you would sing as a little kid in Cantonese. I’d say it’s similar to how you would recite things such as “I’m [...]
Qingming Festival Along With Useful Terms
This article will be written a bit earlier than the intended day, but it will serve the same purpose of informing you. One of the main festivals in Chinese Culture which encompasses Cantonese culture as well is the Qingming Festival (Ching1 Ming4 Jit3 清明節). For those of you who don’t know, this is a Traditional [...]
Happy Lunar New Year! Year of the Metal Rabbit!
辛卯 Year! We at Canton168 wish everyone a happy, safe, prosperous new year! 我地廣東一路發祝大家：新年快樂！心想事成！恭喜發財！快高長大！萬事如意！學業進步！身體健康！出入平安！年年有餘！ 多謝你地尐支持同鼓勵！ 我们在广东一路发祝大家：新年快乐！心想事成！恭喜发财！快高长大！万事如意！学业进步！身体健康！出入平安！年年有余！ 谢谢你们给的支持和鼓励！
Second Language? Native Language? Cantonese?
Hello there, it has been a long while and I apologize for the very late update. It has come to my knowledge in regards to the existence of Cantonese as a language used by people in the 80′s – 90′s generations has become a “secondary language” or perhaps just “another language” meaning that people in [...]
Differences between Mandarin and Cantonese; Written and Spoken
Earlier I had written something as a comment on a blog that belonged another person in regards to a question that asked if someone who knew Mandarin could communicate to someone who knew only Cantonese. The responses were quite misleading and some were semi-flawed so I decided to clear things up, although it went a [...]
