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A Movable Feast (But not very far)
Saturday night! What a brilliant night. Above is the table just before the hordes (12 people) started pouring in. I hosted, cooked Sichuan food for and expressed my life through the medium of dance (optional) →
Guangdong Province! The Best Province with the Best People. It’s Yuge!
Guangdong is the best province in China, and not because of Cantonese! It’s got the friendliest people and the best hovelage. And today I’m off to savour her charms again! I just thought I’d share →
Hainan Highlights and Playing on a Swing
Last night I had a wonderful time in Central with my friend formerly known as J. Yes, I said ‘formerly’! For that was her name in the many South China Morning Post columns she appeared →
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New Podcast!!!! Foot Massage in Shenzhen With ElleX
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These guys have nothing to do with foot massage, Shenzhen or anything in the podcast (outcast) except they are NOT duds. But dudes.
So I finally worked out how to get a direct bus from Tung Chung which should of course be pronounced Dung Chung, and from then it was all systems go:
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Summertime, And The Living Are Busy
Wei wei, everybody! Summer has descended with quite blue skies and the accompanying 34 degrees, and my students are leaving town in droves. This clears up space and time for you.
But you don’t have to commit to regular, weekly lessons or anything like that – instead I’m arranging a lot of one-off sessions. The most exciting of which definitely being:
LEARN ENOUGH CANTONESE TO STAR IN A CANTONESE FILM. My good friend Trine in Oslo came up with this idea. We get a group of beginners or semi-beginners together, (minimum amount of people 4) study Cantonese for an hour and a half and then shoot a short film in Cantonese! You get a hard copy DVD and the right to decide whether the film should be put up on YouTube or not. The shooting will probably be on a Saturday.
Of course, old staple GUERILLA CANTONESE is still going strong: Learn everything you need about drinking in bars, and then go straight out to practise. Tried and tested, and almost too much fun for some!
LEARN CHINESE CHARACTERS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING: Also a one-off, this works for groups of any size as well as individuals. You learn how to look up characters in the dictionary and how to write them. It’s SO much easier than the Chinese tell you think!
SPECIAL NEEDS CANTONESE: No, not for people with learning difficulties, but a specially tailored one-off day or hour, dedicated to for example YAM CHA, going to the MARKET, going shopping in SHENZHEN, arguing with TAXI DRIVERS etc. Your need is my command.
One-on-one is good, but groups are more fun. So get some friends together to make ONE day this summer a CANTO DAY! Even knowing twenty words of this excellent language will make your life in Hong Kong a different and better experience. Oh yeah.
Contact us today
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