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The Scholar and the Vampire- Chapter 6

这集主要介绍汉语口语中“1.喝西北风；2.说得比唱得还好听；3.不定”的意思及用法。

A Course in Chinese Colloquial Idioms

How to use“1.喝西北风；2.说得比唱得还好听；3.不定”

There are 6 tones in Cantonese, tone 1 to 6, let's split them into 3 groups.
Group 1: tone1/ Group 2: tone2 and 5/ Group 3: tone3, 4 and 6
Group 1:
Tone 1 is the easiest tone to find, it equals to stressed syllables in English or other Western languages, for example, father has 2 syllables, one is fa, the other is ther, the first one fa is stressed, because it's higher in pitch, this sound exactly equals to tone 1 in Cantonese.For example I want to pronounce: tik1 (means tick in Cantonese), let's pronounce ticking first, ticking has 2 syllables, the first is stressed, so ti is tik1.
Group 2:
Tone 2 and 5 are both rising tones and are the same in question tones, like WHAT? WHERE? WHO? So to find these 2 tones, you just need to pronounce "WHAT?" then you got the correct tones!
However, what are the differences between tone 2 and 5? Well, you want to be very strict, tone 2 is relatively higher compared to tone 5, but actually when local people are speaking, to speak faster, they will omit details while talking in conversations, so you can just treat these 2 tones as the same tone.For example, if you want to pronounce hou2 (means good in Cantonese), we pronounce WHAT? first, then use the pitch of WHAT? you can find hou2 very easily.
Group3:
Similarly, just like tone 2 and 5, because these 3 tones are so close to each other and quite familiar too, so when talking in conversations, they sound just like the same tone. These 3 tones are just like our unstressed syllables, let's take father as the example again. The second syllable ther is not stressed, and this equals to tone 3, 4 or 6 in Cantonses.For example, if you want to pronounce daap3 (means take transportation in Cantonese), you can produce Linda first, Lin is stressed and da isn't, here da is our tone 3 for daap.
try below: 生活 saang1 wut6 Life/的士 dik1 si6 Taxi/啤酒 be1 zau2 Beer/學生 hok6 saang1 Student/老師 lou5 si1 Teacher/屋企 nguk1 kei5 Home/公司 gung1 si1 Company/酒吧 zau2 baa1 Bar/餐廳 caan1 teng1 Restaurant

Ms. NG Cantonese Learning Resources

How to find correct Cantonese tones

In questo episodio, parliamo di 5 fatti su Venezia.

Facts about Italy in slow italian

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Vocabulary:
post-apocalyptic: after the end of the world
clan: a group
silo: a tall structure that stores wheat
intact: in one piece, not broken
hostile: aggressive
pact: an agreement
wiped out: died
archer: a person who uses a bow and arrow

I had a dream about a post-apocalyptic world

おはようございます！Atsushiです。
今日の北海道の天気は曇りです。
気温は、22℃です。
日が照っていないので、少し肌寒く感じます。

さて、今日は、移動手段について。
どこかへ行く時の方法のことですね。

みなさんは生活で移動する時、何を使いますか？
歩きますか？
自転車ですか？
電車ですか？
バスですか？
車ですか？
バイクですか？

日本ではいろんな移動手段がありますが、一般的に多いのは、電車や車だと思います。

東京や大阪、それに続く大きな都市では、基本的に電車を使うことが多いです。休みの日は車を使う、という人が多いかもしれません。ですが、住む場所によっては、電車よりも車の方が便利な場所も多いです。

例えば、地方や、電車が少ない場所など、ですね。

私は、
大阪に住んでいる時は、ほとんど電車で移動していました。
岡山や、鳥取では、ほとんど車で移動していました。
今住んでいる北海道では、車で移動しています。

北海道では電車の値段が高いと思います。
車で移動した方が1回の移動は安くてすみますし、旅行などで遠くへ行く時も便利です。

今は夏なので良いですが、北海道の冬は雪が積もるので、きっと大変だと思います。

また冬に車の話をしますね！


はい、ということで、今日も最後まで聞いていただき、ありがとうございます！

ではまた！
