A Useful Tool on Web

Just found a useful tool for Chinese character learning (originally designed for primary school students). You can search with individual Chinese characters, and then the system will show you how to write the character stroke by stroke. You can also found the related vocabularies (English description) and listen their pronunciation in Mandarin and Cantonese.


https://chineselearning.omghomework.com

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Aesop’s Fables in Cantonese

Two years ago, I made a series of video to teach Cantonese by telling story “Aesop’s Fables in Cantonese”. Did you miss it? If yes, you can review it on YouTube again.

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https://hkspeakcantonese.com/category/short-sentences/

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Characters about Weather

I haven’t posted articles on my blog for a long time. Today I would like to introduce you some Chinese characters about weather.

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Short Common Sentences in Cantonese

I haven’t added posts for few months.  Recently, I am busy doing a temp job and only have time to make short videos (short sentences in Cantonese) and post on them youtube.

It is good to learn some short common sentences when learning language.  You can easily remember them and use them intuitionally in your daily life.

Up to now, about 200 sentences were published. (updated on 4/4/2020)

The following link is the play list of this series. Continue reading “Short Common Sentences in Cantonese”

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Religions

You may know China government is controlling and persecuting the religions in mainland China from newspaper.  Or you may query that if it happens in Hong Kong too.  I can reply you that religious freedom is one of the fundamental rights enjoyed by Hong Kong residents.  Hong Kong is still alright under the protection of the Basic Law and other relevant legislation.  

Therefore, I can share how to say the religious words in Cantonese in this post 🙂 .  Due to the colonial and Chinese society background, you can find different religions in Hong Kong.  They are mainly Christianity, Buddhism and Taoism, but we still have some people believing other religions. 

Continue reading “Religions”

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Livestock

In this post, we will talk about the names of different kinds of livestock we can find in the wet market.  Surely not including dog meat, it is a forbidden food in Hong Kong. 🙂

In Chinese culture, we eat all kind of meat, for example pork, beef and lamb.  The most popular one is pork, for we can cook it in various ways.  We use different part of pork to cook different dishes according to the pork’s texture.   For the bone, we cook soup with vegetable or Chinese medicine.

The information is abstracted  from the food database built by the Association For Hong Kong Catering Services Management Ltd.  It categorized the food into different sorts – sea fish, meat (livestock), vegetable and etc.

There are no related photos in this post, but you can find the photos by clicking the Chinese characters which are linked to the database. Continue reading “Livestock”

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Domestic fowl

We finished how to say fish and aquatic product in Cantonese in the last few posts.  This time we will talk about the names of domestic fowl.

In Chinese culture, we don’t only eat the meat of domestic fowl and livestock, but also eat their internal organs, like liver.  You will also learn how to say the different parts of the body in Cantonese.

The information is abstracted  from the food database built by the Association For Hong Kong Catering Services Management Ltd.  It categorized the food into different sorts – sea fish, meat, vegetable and etc. Continue reading “Domestic fowl”

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Aquatic product

In the previous two posts, we published the topics of sea fish and fresh water fish.  This time we will talk about the names of aquatic product.

You will learn how to say oyster, lobster, cuttlefish and etc in this post.

Again the information is abstracted  from the food database built by the Association For Hong Kong Catering Services Management Ltd.  It categorized the food into different sorts – sea fish, meat, vegetable and etc.

There are no related photos in this post, but you can find the photos by clicking the Chinese characters which are linked to the database. Continue reading “Aquatic product”

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Fresh water fish

We will continue the series of “how to say it in Cantonese”.  This time we will talk about the names of fresh water fish.

Again the information is abstracted  from the food database built by the Association For Hong Kong Catering Services Management Ltd.  It categorized the food into different sorts – sea fish, meat, vegetable and etc.

There are no related photos in this post, but you can find the photos by clicking the Chinese characters which are linked to the database. Continue reading “Fresh water fish”

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