Old But Good Podcast from Guangzhou

I think this poddie castie deserves another hear. Kendall is one of the early fans of Naked Cantonese and it’s always fun to visit fans on their stomping grounds.

Here is the first podcast I ever made without the soothing, nay, dulcet tones of Ah-Sa hovering in the back-and-foreground. Podcasts will be a regular occurrence from now on; I welcome ideas, locations and of →

Is Happy Jellyfish People’s Democratic Language Bureau’s Cantonese course the only course currently in existence where the teacups provided by the course venue match your outfit? It’s hard to say, but I’ll wager it will →

There’s been a lot of flu and crap floating around in Hong Kong recently – even I got it! But this wasn’t your common or garden swine flu 豬流感 (zhyu lao gam) – this was →

Last Saturday Mister Public Security Uncle took a trip to Wan Chai to join in the rugby revelling and cavorting, as well as spreading the word of Canto. Fun much? I have always laughed (in →

Oh, how I hate simplified characters! It’s bad enough that I have to see them everywhere in my beloved mainland (although shop-and restaurant owners who want their business to look stylish and upmarket increasingly use →

It’s a while ago now but I suddenly remembered I spent a month in the USA this summer, doing the Canto thing of course:

Philadelphia Offers Freedom From Mando

So this plan of mine to eat my way through all the Chinese restaurants in the USA is kind of almost working out. A little. I think I’ll be able to do about 90%, including →

Civilised? Ha Ha Haaaaa

Last weekend we were in Mui Jau (梅州）which, although it’s in Guangdong province, bears the dubious distinction of being completely Mando speaking. People told me it was because it was a Hakka stronghold, but I →

Progress and Regress

Learning or even speaking Cantonese is no game for the timid. It is, quite frankly, something of a never-ending fight with frequent setbacks and few triumphs. The other day I was in the Holly in →

Damn Hunan Province!

Last month I went to Hunan province and after a few minutes there was overcome with shark flu (or some other fierce animal) – awful. Just awful.

Anyway, so today, instead of advising you on how to talk Cantonese to Hong Kong people or complain about the rapacious government and their concrete ways, I will just say: Buy my Cantonese teaching videos and learn everything by yourself! I’m writing this from my hospital bed with only one hand; I coughed the other one to pieces…

Here is the Cantonese For Beginners video Cantonese – The Movie

and this is Going Native, teaching you Cantonese on a comfortable late beginner/intermediate level.
You can buy them and upload them to your phone right now! You can just click on SHOP on this site or go to www.learncantonese.com.hk and buy them from the STORE there.

Ah! I’m back!

Cantonese – The Movie

Fortune Cookie Express

Special: Going Native and Cantonese – The Movie

Going Native

That’s More Like It!

Ah, I have to say it’s quite satisfying to go into some bookshop in Prince’s Building and suddenly see one’s own book on top of the big pile! I think you should buy it (from me). Why? Because

1: One woman kept waking her husband at 4am, reading excerpts from it and laughing. He was a lawyer and lost a case because she wouldn’t let him get enough sleep.
2: Another book ended up in hospital as comfort for a woman who had broken her leg. She laughed so much the leg never healed.

So yes, joy and pain, tragedy and victory. All that and more, in Don’t Joke On The Stairs! Oh and it’s only HK$130. Come on.