Kyoi Chae's Cantonese Lesson One: 20/2/2011 Basic Word: Cantonese is different from Madarin, and many "trendy language" (潮語) are very funny!! When writing in Chinese, the wording and sentense are more likely to Mardarin. But for Speaking, Cantonese can be very different. Start from some simple wordings and sentences is better ! ^U^ Greeting: (eng) --> (can) --> (sound) Morning --> 早晨 --> Joe Sun Good Evening --> 午安 --> Ng On Good night --> 早抖 --> Joe Tau How are you? --> 你好嗎? --> Ni Ho Ma? I'm fine --> 幾好 --> Kia Ho Not Bad --> 唔錯 --> Ng Cho Where will you go? --> 去邊呀? --> Hui Bin Ar? I go to have a meal --> 我去食o野 --> Ngoi Hui Sick Yae Nothing --> 冇o野 --> Mo Yae Good --> 好 --> Ho Not Good -->唔好 --> Ng Ho So far so good --> OK 啦 --> okay la How about you? --> 咁你呢? --> Gum Ni lei? see ya/see you later --> 再見 --> joi kin thank you --> 唔該 --> ng koi Tip 1: "o" make the word different meaning and different sound: 的 --> o的 (dick --> D) 既 --> o既 (kei --> ge) 野 --> o野 (Yae --> Yae) 黎 --> o黎 (Lai --> Lai) 西 --> 哂 (Sai --> Sai) meaning: West --> All 左 --> o左 (joy --> joy) meaning: Left --> already Tips 2: weak and strong tone before the adjectives. weak word: 少少 / 一DD / 一時時 Strong work: 勁 / 超 / 非常 / 真係