Learn Cantonese Without Really Trying: New Products

People are busy and don’t always have time to commit to one or two hours of studying Cantonese every week. But does that mean you can’t learn Cantonese? NO!

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If you choose to take one of the Pui O crash courses or general courses, you’ll enjoy the added bonus of tea and coffee cups matching your outfit! (Male or female.)

As well as “shopping” “drinking” and “chatting” you can also choose a topic close to your heart and I will make a crash course around it. Unless it’s criminal law – that takes at least three hours…

Sign up today, speak basic Cantonese tomorrow. And then, before you know it, you’re fluent.

Last Column

Yesterday I had an email from a … person, who said: “I sobbed vehemently when I saw your last Sunday Morning Post entry had come and gone.” Me too, mate, me too. Except I didn’t sob. I got pissed off, just like I did when my programme on RTHK, Naked Cantonese, came to an end. That’s my nature, or actually, the way I was brought up. We didn’t do sadness, only anger.

But now I can admit it, yes, I feel loss-induced sadness because I loved that column. Loved! Looking for material for it made China trips so much richer and even more surreal.

Now I have nothing.

But as they say, when one door closes, another one slams you in the face! So I have great hopes for the future. And of course the uphill battle of making Cantonese a world language becomes steeper and steeper every day, so there’s that.

琴日 – Kam yat (yesterday)
承認 – Seng yeng (admit)
唔開心 – M hoi sam (not happy)

Preview of Documentary

This is 54 seconds of our three week trip. More later in the documentary you can download from this site!

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