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Order On The Table, Order In The Head
I have some victims who have been at it (learning Cantonese) for a while, and have dozens if not hundreds of pages of course material. In loose sheets. When I suggest they try to put →
Rare Article Sympathises With Cantonese
First of all: Please buy my latest book and second: You’ll never guess where I ended up this week! HKTDC!!! Which I have no idea what stands for. Some magazine. The article is quite sympathetic →
New Book About China and Cantonese
Hoi hoi, students new and old Did you know that I have just published my second book, Don’t Joke on the Stairs, on Blacksmith Book publishing house. It is about how much fun and laughter, →
Shi Shi Shi Shi (Reasons To Learn Canto #220)
The above film is a true picture of what Hong Kong will be like if the Chinese government get its way in forcing all us lowly subjects to speak the holy language Mandarin, or Putonghua →
Be The Gwai!
The other day one of my students created a brilliant slogan. I was telling her about how local Chinese people think all Caucasians are complete idiots who can’t read numbers, don’t know what milk is →
Dragon Year – How Can You Get Through It Without Cantonese???
So it’s a new year again, this time rather more important than just old 2012 – it’s the year of the DRAGON. Full of upheavals and excitement, it is also the luckiest year in the →
New Podcast!!!! Foot Massage in Shenzhen With ElleX
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 →
Mainland Charmer Sugarcoats Words:
So this is how the common or garden mainlander sees HK people… No. of course not. This geezer is just an army of one. A rabid minority misunderstanding his own nationality. Oh, and a professor →
New Canto Film!!!!!
It’s been a year but finally more Cantonese. If you want to be in a film, give us a shout! This one wasn’t as easy to make as normally, logistically. But with iMovie and some →
Good Old Aluminium Man
Yesterday we finished shooting In A Whorehouse – The Sequel, so soon there will be a brand new Canto extravaganza on YouTube. About time, some would say, as the last one, ‘Romeo and Juliet – →
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Better Late Than Early
Finally! Here is the trailer of a film that premiered six months ago!
Easter Is Coming To Cantonese
I don’t know why I suddenly posted that photo. So, it’s almost Easter, and therefore I’d like you to cast your mind back to Christmas, three years ago. That’s when we shot the legendary Romeo, →
Outcasts – Hallo Welcome
My first podcast without ah-Sa!
Shark Flu
Recently I’ve been down with a quite incredibly awful flu! Forget about swine and bird, this was a total shark flu. The worst thing is its impact on the brain. I forgot where I lived, →
So Many Ways To Learn Canto!
As imperial-Mando encroaches on our linguistic liberties, it goes without saying that more and more people who don’t like to be dictated to, want to learn Cantonese. But many are concerned about time, commitment, pain, →
New Recruit Looking for Fellow Revolutionaries!
Cantonese is a war and we’re going to win it. We’ll put the fun AND the mental back into “fundamentalists”! Anyway I have a new and eager recruit here by the name of Ah- … →
World Domination in Our Time
Why this photo? Found it and liked it again, innit. Anyway, the other day one of my students suggested that I set up some kind of counting device; you know, something like the count-down to →
Learn Cantonese the Natural Way –
– from a Norwegian! A glimpse behind the scenes of Happy Jellyfish People’s Democratic Language Bureau:
Today’s Classifier
Repeat after me: YAT JEK GAU 一隻狗 ONE DOG That’s right! “Jek” (隻) is the classifier for mammals, things of which there are two (一隻眼睛）yat jek an jeng (one eye), round things, so an eye →
Learn Cantonese – Then Sit Back And Wait For The English
I’ve made a film about my experiences during 20 years of learning Cantonese. Cantonese is a really easy language to learn (contrary to people’s deep-held, sacred beliefs) – it’s just that it’s so damned difficult →
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Bit More About Wetlands
I’m not a property owner but even if I were,I think I would still find it difficult to fathom how, when someone looks at the above vista, he thinks: I can dump a lot of crap there.
But crap has been dumped, the wetlands are shrinking every day and it’s completely legal.
How can it be? Listen to what the Man in the Know, Martin Lerigo, has to say about it on Resident Voices on Radio Lantau.
垃圾 – laap saap (rubbish)
呢度有好多垃圾 – li dou yau hou do laap saap (there’s lots of rubbish here)
貝澳濕地有好多垃圾 – Bui Ou sap dei yau hou do laap saap (there’s lots of rubbish on the Pui O wetlands)
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How Now, Guangdong Prov?
I’m just about to write my last column ever for South China Morning Post; ever! When I was told the page would be discontinued, I was so sad. How now would I be able to →
CantoNews 5 Live From Roof!
Hello everybody, welcome to my roof! I normally arrange Sichuan dinners and lunches there, but this time it doubled as a recording studio for the best Cantonese news currently available on cassette! (And telex.) Talking →
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