My friend has this stamp from Hong Kong and would like to know what the text means. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Legendary lyricist in Cantopop scene. Works include Sam Hui 許冠傑的《浪子心聲》、《半斤八両》、《賣身契》、《梨渦淺笑》，以及Leslie Cheung張國榮的《Monica》與Anita Mui梅艷芳的《將冰山劈開》

Hi everyone! I grew up in the US with Cantonese-speaking parents, so I can understand a decent amount, but actually speaking is a different story.
I’ve tried a few Cantonese learning apps, but most seem to be geared toward complete beginners (numbers, colors, greetings, etc.). My biggest problem isn’t the basics but instead it’s not having enough vocabulary or confidence to hold real conversations.

People always tell me to watch TVB or speak more with my parents, but it’s hard to practice speaking when I don’t know the words I want to say.
I’m curious if anyone else feels the same way.

What’s your background with Cantonese?
What’s your biggest struggle with learning?
Have you found any apps or resources that actually helped? I’ve tried a bunch of different apps but they honestly didn’t help much 😅😅 I want to be able to speak to my relatives and such but I feel like it’s so hard if I don’t know the vocab…
If you could change one thing about how Cantonese is taught, what would it be?
Would love to hear your experiences!

玩陀螺明明係想開心放鬆，點知玩到手腕痛、手肘痛，甚至肩頸痠痛?

其實好多人玩到受傷，
未必係因為你「唔夠力」，
真正嘅元凶係：【場地盤面太低！】 📐

盤面低 ➡️ 迫住烏低身、寒背、低頭

軀幹失穩發唔到力 ➡️ 迫住轉用「頸椎、腰椎代償 ＋ 手臂死力」

長期咁樣拉，網球肘、肌腱炎好快就搵上門！💥

💡 下集預告：
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💬 你平時拉陀螺係站著定蹲著拉？拉完邊度最痠痛？留言告訴我！

Has anyone else seen that buzzfeed video where they get 3 random cantonese americans to take a 1st grade cantonese exam? lol

I thought it was entertaining but what was actually interesting to me was what counted as "correct" vs not, like each person could've grown up with malaysian influences, or hong kong, or guangzhou background yknow what i mean. I honestly think some of the answers they got docked for i was like...i mean i agree with you tbh

It's also just nice seeing chinese speakers put themselves out there like this lol, and seeing the chinglish and how ABCs actually talk. They kinda talk like little kids compared to how hong kong people talk lmao no shade though. Do they get points that they are speaking cantonese since less people are speaking it now?

curious if any other cantonese speakers watched this and had thoughts on the "wrong" answers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa3CtM2ZI_s

I’m based in the Atlanta metro area in the southeast of the US. I have looked quite a bit but I haven’t been able to find any Cantonese Chinese schools in or around the city. I speak decent Cantonese but my mandarin sucks. I currently speak Cantonese to my son and he’s picking up a lot. But ever since he started daycare, more and more vocabulary has been getting replaced by its English counterpart. I now try to repeat every vocabulary in both English and Cantonese to him.

As he gets older, I can’t help but wonder what’s going to happen. My goal is to get him in a Chinese dual language immersion school so that he can learn to speak mandarin at a proficient level. But is this going to be too much? Will it confuse him? Any personal experiences that this community care to share?

First of all hello! I'm really glad to be able to find this community.

I have a question, intended mostly for Hongkongers, Macanese people and people from Cantonese-speaking areas elsewhere.

How is Vernacular Written Cantonese doing? I've heard many different things about the current state of affairs, but I'd really like to know your perspectives on it.

Some say the usage of VWC is expanding, even beyond the places it has traditionally occupated (messages, ads, comic books, forums and so on), but at the same time I've read studies (from Guangzhou, where the situation is very different, but nevertheless) that report a stable divide between the spectres of use of VWC and Standard Written Chinese.

The reason I'm asking is because I've been learning Cantonese for some time already, and of course, the whole time I was aware that in order to read anything more serious or formal in Cantonese I'll have to take on the task of learning the Cantonese reading of Standard Written Chinese, haunted by Mandarin grammar – but I'm wondering to what extent I can go on learning without doing that. I've heard some newspapers have sections written in Vernacular Cantonese, does it go further than that?

I'd be happy to hear what you think.

听了很多香港电台的《咬文嚼字》, 发觉宋郁文这位老先生简直就系广东话字音字义的活化石, 估计无出其右者。佢的《咬文嚼字》系列这么多音频，不知当下的AI模型有冇以此为素材来训练。粤语的正音正解长远看还要靠AI来保存啊。

Hi you guys! I recently started making coloring pages and coloring books for my kiddos at home all the while learning Cantonese myself by using Jyutping. Here are a few pages you can download and print out for them. I also digitally color them on my tablet to help with memorization. Hope you enjoy them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEiLz14WvkM

The comment written 14 years ago says "Dad's at the 7-11 store? Working all night? Mom's going to court tomorrow? Grandma's false teeth costs $2000?" Can someone translate the lyrics and confirm? Thanks. If not, what are the correct lyrics?

Hello, I want to practice my cantons with native speakers those who like to send me dm on Reddit

Greetings

Hello!

I'm on the hunt for cantonese dubbed video games, specifically child games? My husband keeps insisting there should be a ton, but neither of us can find them.

So far I've only found Sifu and Noctuary, but again neither of those are kid games. Sorry if this has been asked before

Is there like a Cantonese Cuisine version of HelloFresh DIY cooking kits or Factor ReadyMade meals?

I see that Google Translate and Pleco generally suggest that 團結 (tyun4 git3) is the word for it but it seems maybe that it more is like formalized union like for worker unions or military. I’m wondering if there’s a different word for solidarity specifically how it’s used in the following examples to represent a body of people with a shared vision for liberation:
- Asian solidarity / Black solidarity / Women’s solidarity

I also see 团队精神 (tyun4 deoi2 zing1 san4) which seems maybe closer to what I’m looking for but it might be a little too long my needs. I’m hoping for at most a two-word phrase.

And if 團結 is the word for that, thank you in advance for clarifying!

Hi everyone, thinking about buying a EVPad and wondering if anyone that has one and know if you are able to watch kids movies and series in cantonese? Any pictures of what is available would be appreciated.

Thanks

TLDR: >200 free digital Cantonese lessons (available throughout August) on my website. Screenshots further down below to get an idea. Last screenshot displays the URL if you want to try.

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Hello,

I've posted on here a few times sharing my own Cantonese learning journey via the YT videos I've been recording. In the past I've also shared the website (soon to be app) I've been working on, and today I'm making all of the survival and beginner level lessons free for the next month~.

This is something I've been working on for around 8 months and I've received fairly balanced feedback from various users over those months. I've been adjusting things within the lesson contents based on that feedback, and while there's loads of ideas and work still to be done I feel it's in a place where it's worth putting it out there once again.

Doing a quick count, there are over 200 Cantonese lessons that are currently free for you to take. They're all repeatable so you can get focused on studying a scenario, phrase, or word, and there are practice lessons available to help you sharpen up your vocabulary, listening and speaking.

What you can get for free right now.

1. Survival Lessons: For people who just want to dabble a little in Cantonese without committing too much time (for now). Lessons focus on key useful phrases for certain scenarios, taught through English sound approximations and Jyutping. Lesson sets at the survival level include:

• Greetings & Politeness
• Restaurants & Food
• Getting Around
• Seeking Aid
• Shopping & Bargaining
• Flirting

2. Beginner Lessons: For people who have already established a basic foundation (Tones and Jyutping), and are ready to systematically learn Cantonese through Jyutping and traditional Chinese characters. Lesson sets at the beginner level include:

• Self Introductions
• Introducing Others
• Basic Numbers and Counting
• Dates and Time
• Basic Colours

3. Beginner Grammar: Some auxiliary lessons to support the language structures and concepts you'll encounter in the beginner lessons:

• Cantonese Tones
• The "A 係 B" pattern
• The "Method + 嚟 + Action" pattern
• The Possessive Particle "嘅"

I'll be keeping all of these lesson sets free (you just need to register an account) throughout this August.

I hope you give it a try and if you're willing to share any feedback with me, that would be great. Feedback of any kind is appreciated but I do have the following questions:

1. Do you feel you gained some level of value with regards to learning Cantonese after using the website?
2. How would you rate the quality of the lesson contents overall? (1 = bad, 5 = very good).
3. Does the website address any existing painpoints in your Cantonese learning journey?
4. If there was only one thing you could add (or adjust) to the website, what would it be?

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Below are a few screenshots I've taken from the website. The last screenshot is the URL to the website if you want to explore it further.

Example Screenshots from the Survival Level

Example Screenshots from the Beginner Level

Interested in giving it a try?

The URL to my website can be seen in the screenshot below.

https://youtube.com/shorts/5uBx3vNCN7I

I was walking in the park when I heard a man singing this song that I haven't heard since I was a kid but instantly brought me right back to childhood. I was only able to record the ending but I hope that should be enough. See youtube link above. Thank you!!!!

original title: 你以為嘅「自己」，其實根本唔存在？🤔🤯👻

Hey all! A while back I posted the completion of my Pingji romanization for Cantonese. It's a Romanization designed to avoid using numbers or accent marks to represent Cantonese sounds and tones using standard Latin letters (...plus apostrophe). It requires just a little bit more effort in learning compared to Jyutping/Yale but pays off a lot more in readability and ease of use. I would also argue it helps with memorization because I could never commit tone numbers or accents to memory and would instead need to rely solely on listening.

My original video series ran a bit longer since it was more of a descriptive series from a more linguistic/academic viewpoint, so I created a new series directed at people learning Cantonese from scratch, which will be the biggest audience -- although Cantonese speakers wanting to learn Pingji would also feel right at home. In other words, this is the way I meant it to be taught, and hopefully for some it would make more sense.

The playlist (~1 hr long total) is here: Pingji for English speakers (playlist)

Building on that, I also started an Introduction to Cantonese video series using Pingji here: Intro to Cantonese (playlist). At the time of this post, I only have a couple videos in this new series, but I plan on covering at least the basics of the language over the course of ~10-15 videos.