Cantonese Beginners Starts From Zero

What you'll learn
Phonetic: Understand and master the Yale Cantonese Phonetic System, including accurate pronunciation of initial sounds, finals, and 6 tones.
Vocabulary: Growth in various topics, including greetings, occupations, hobbies, places, colors, food, drinks, numbers, time adverbs, weeks, months, and years.
Useful Expressions: Ability to engage in daily conversations with common phrases and expression
Sentence Pattern: Understanding Cantonese sentence patterns and able to express themselves by using essential verbs, vocabulary and simple sentences
Questions: Forming different types of questions, including yes/no questions, what-questions, where-questions, who-questions, and what-kind-of question
Conversation: Confidently engaging in basic Cantonese conversations, using vocabulary, essential verbs and sentence patterns learned in the course.
Requirements
No prior knowledge of Cantonese
Interest in learning Cantonese
Availability of 10 minutes per day for practice and learning
A joy for learning and an open mind to new experiences.
Description
The objective of this course is to enhance your language learning experience and make it more enjoyable through the use of the snowball active learning method. Starting with basic elements like words and simple sentences, you will gradually expand your vocabulary and build up to constructing full conversations in various situations. My ultimate goal is to help you achieve fluency in listening and speaking Cantonese with confidence.Upon completion of the Cantonese course, you will have developed a solid foundation in the Cantonese language. You will be able to:Effectively use the Yale Cantonese Phonetic System, including its initial sounds, finals, and 6 tones. This will enable you to speak Cantonese clearly and with proper pronunciation.Expand your vocabulary in the areas of common phrases and expressions used in daily conversations, such as greetings, thank you, sorry, long time no see, and making simple requests.Introduce yourself, including your first name and surname, and ask others about their names. You will also be able to talk about their nationality and ask others about their nationality.Discuss jobs and occupations, and introduce your own job or occupation.Talk about your favorite things, people, places, and colors, as well as your favorite food, drinks, and free time activities.Talk about numbers, making telephone calls, and using time adverbs, weeks, months, and years. You will also be able to talk about location and direction aspects.Construct simple conversations for various situations with confidence, using the sentence patterns learned, including simple sentences, yes/no questions, what-questions, where-questions, who-questions, what-kind-of questions, and making requests with "ching" (please).Have a basic understanding of cultural differences, such as the five clans in Hong Kong, the structure of the country, and job names..By the end of the course, students will have a good understanding of the Cantonese language and be able to use it in basic conversational situations.
Overview
Section 1: Cantonese Sound Tool Kit: Modified Yale System
Lecture 1 Learning Cantonese
Lecture 2 Introduction: Yale Cantonese phonetic System
Lecture 3 Modified Yale System with examples
Lecture 4 Overview: 19 initials
Lecture 5 Overview: 53 finals
Lecture 6 final a (aa) with 19 initials and 6 tones
Lecture 7 final aai with 19 initials and 6 tones
Lecture 8 final aau with 19 initials and 6 tones
Lecture 9 final aam with 19 initials and 6 tones
Lecture 10 Final aan with 19 initials and 6 tones
Lecture 11 Final aang with 19 initials and 6 tones
Lecture 12 Final aap with 19 initials and 6 tones
Lecture 13 Final aat with 19 initials and 6 tones
Lecture 14 Final aak with 19 initials and 6 tones
Lecture 15 Final ai with 19 initials and 6 tones
Lecture 16 Final au with 19 initials and 6 tones
Lecture 17 Final an with 19 initials and 6 tones
Lecture 18 Final am with 19 initials
Lecture 19 Final ang with 19 initials and 6 tones
Lecture 20 Final ap with 19 initials
Lecture 21 Final at with 19 initials
Lecture 22 Final ak with 19 initials
Lecture 23 Final e with 19 initials
Lecture 24 Final ei with 19 initials
Lecture 25 Final eng with 19 initials
Lecture 26 Final ek with 19 initials
Lecture 27 Final i with 19 initials
Lecture 28 Final iu with 19 initials
Lecture 29 Final im with 19 initials
Lecture 30 Final in with 19 initials
Lecture 31 Final ing with 19 initials
Lecture 32 Final ip with 19 initials
Lecture 33 Final it with 19 initials
Lecture 34 Final ik with 19 initials
Lecture 35 Final o with 19 initials
Lecture 36 Final oi with 19 initials
Lecture 37 Final ou with 19 initials
Lecture 38 Final on with 19 initials
Lecture 39 Final ong with 19 initials
Lecture 40 Final ot with 19 initials
Lecture 41 Final ok with 19 initials
Lecture 42 Final u with 19 initials
Lecture 43 Final ui with 19 initials
Lecture 44 Final un with 19 initials
Lecture 45 Final ung with 19 initials
Lecture 46 Final ut with 19 initials
Lecture 47 Final uk with 19 initials
Lecture 48 Final eu with 19 initials
Lecture 49 Final eui with 19 initials
Lecture 50 Final eun with 19 initials
Lecture 51 Final eung with 19 initials
Lecture 52 Final eut with 19 initials
Lecture 53 Final euk with 19 initials
Lecture 54 Final yu with 19 initials
Lecture 55 Final yun with 19 initials
Lecture 56 Final yut with 19 initials
Section 2: Common phrases and expressions
Lecture 57 Good morning and good night
Lecture 58 Pronounciation: with 6 tones (good morning, good night)
Lecture 59 Mr, Mrs and Miss
Lecture 60 Pronounciation: with 6 tones (Mr, Mrs and Miss)
Lecture 61 Good morning with titles
Lecture 62 Drill: Good morning with titles
Lecture 63 how to address people with their surnames
Lecture 64 Hello and How do you do!
Lecture 65 Pronounciation: with 6 tones (Hello and How do you do!)
Lecture 66 Drill: How do you do!
Lecture 67 Say good bye!
Lecture 68 Pronounciation: with 6 tones (Good Bye)
Lecture 69 Respond Drill: Greeting expressions
Lecture 70 Say thank you: (1 of 2) M̀h-gòi
Lecture 71 Say thank you: (2 of 2) Dò-jeh
Lecture 72 Personal Pronouns
Lecture 73 How are you? and its respond
Lecture 74 Drills with "how are you?"
Lecture 75 Question: how about...? "...nè 呢?"
Lecture 76 Use of "also"
Lecture 77 how to say "Sorry"
Lecture 78 Sorry, I have something to do!
Lecture 79 Please: Command, invitation or request
Lecture 80 Simple sentence: with verb-to-be
Lecture 81 Simple question: "how about" with verb-to-be, Yes/ No question
Lecture 82 Long time no see!
Lecture 83 Please wait a moment!
Lecture 84 Basic knowledge of Cantonese final particle
Section 3: Talking about one's name
Lecture 85 My name is...
Lecture 86 What question - What is your name?
Lecture 87 Common Expression: May I ask
Lecture 88 My surname is...
Lecture 89 What question - What is your surname?
Section 4: Talking about one's nationality
Lecture 90 Vocabulary: how Country names are built
Lecture 91 Nationality
Lecture 92 I am from...
Lecture 93 Question: Which place do you come from?
Section 5: Talking about jobs and occupations
Lecture 94 Vocabulary: Jobs and Occupations
Lecture 95 Introducing one's occupation
Lecture 96 What question: What is your occupation?
Section 6: My favorite...
Lecture 97 "To like" as main verb
Lecture 98 Common Expression: Sorry to bother you!
Lecture 99 Dialogue: Do you like Hong Kong?
Lecture 100 Vocabulary: Places in Hong Kong
Lecture 101 Question: Which place do you like?
Lecture 102 "To like" as auxiliary verb and Question: What kind of ... ?
Lecture 103 Vocabulary: Colors and Question: What color do you like?
Lecture 104 Vocabulary: Food and Question: What do you like to eat?
Lecture 105 Vocabulary: Vegetables and Question: What kind of...
Lecture 106 Common Expressions: "If so, then" and "Whatever"
Lecture 107 Vocabulary: Drinks
Lecture 108 Vocabulary: leisure activities
Lecture 109 Review all questions with "to like"
Section 7: Number, week, month, year and time adverbs
Lecture 110 Vocabulary: Numbers 0 - 10
Lecture 111 Telephone number
Lecture 112 Making a phone call
Lecture 113 Vocabulary: weekdays
Lecture 114 Sentences with Weekdays
Lecture 115 Questions: What (week)day?
Lecture 116 Question- What are you going to do on Monday?
Lecture 117 Talking about Year
Lecture 118 12 Chinese Zodiac
Lecture 119 Vocabulary: Numbers 11-19
Lecture 120 Vocabulary: months
Lecture 121 Sentences and Questions with Month
Lecture 122 Number 11 to 99; 20,30...90
Lecture 123 Time: exact hour
Lecture 124 Time: half past
Lecture 125 Time: ... o'clock ... minutes
Lecture 126 What time?
Lecture 127 Number Two: 二 yih or 兩 léuhng?
Lecture 128 Vocabulary: Adverb of time
Lecture 129 Question and statement with adverb of time: Are you free on Monday?
Lecture 130 Question word: when
Lecture 131 Dialogue: When do you have time?
Section 8: Location
Lecture 132 Here and there
Lecture 133 My place, your place
Lecture 134 Preposition in/at "hái 喺": Positive, Negative Statement, and Yes/No Question
Lecture 135 Time Adverb + Location
Lecture 136 Question Word: In/ at which place + Action
Lecture 137 Dialogue: Have lunch together
Lecture 138 Vocabulary: Different meals
Section 9: Direction Aspects
Lecture 139 Direction Aspect: to go
Lecture 140 Direction Aspect: to come
Lecture 141 Direction Aspect: to return
Lecture 142 Dialogue: Having lunch at the restaurant
Expatriates working in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, or Macau, overseas,Chinese with Cantonese background but don't speak the language,Those who have studied Cantonese but need a solid foundation,Those who need Cantonese for business or daily life,Individuals interested in Cantonese language and culture
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