casualcantonese

Casual Cantonese for April 22, 2007

What is Cantonese?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_(linguistics)
Format of the words
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyutping
Phrases for the show: Greetings and responses
Good Morning
zou2 san4
Good Morning Mr. / Miss / Mrs. Wong
zou2 san4, Wong sin1 saang2
zou2 san4, Wong siu2 ze2
zou2 san4, Wong Taai3-Taai2
How are you?
Nei5 hou2 maa3
Good and you?
ngo5 hou2 hou2, Nei5 ne1?
Goodbye!
Bai Bai! (No translation needed!)
Joi gin! (Very formal way of saying goodbye)
YouTube video of a non Chinese person singing in Cantonese!
Kemis sings Edmund!
(I hope I am that fluent in Cantonese some day!)