More Proddie Placie. I’ve Earned It.

Finally it’s here (maybe you didn’t even know that it was going to be here???) – the second installment of Cantonese – The Movie. This DVD, all two hours of it, is for people who aren’t total beginners. If you feel comfortable with some basic grammar but still find yourself lost for words for example in a market or arguing with a taxi driver, this is the DVD for you. This DVD takes you on a journey around China, and, to a certain degree, the world! See the sights, learn the world, marvel at the nakedness and swearing.

Just send me a mail and I’ll send you a PayPal invoice. Price: HK$100. Cantonese The Movie (beginner’s Cantonese) HK$80. Buy both: HK$ 150.00. If you live outside Hong Kong, add HK$20 for posting.

Contents:

A few of the words and expressions from Cantonese – The Movie pop up here in Going Native too. Please forgive me if you think they are too easy. It’s just that I think a few things need to be said twice or even three times. 15 years of teaching Cantonese has taught me that.

1. Young, Nauseating Love Like/dislike, love/hate

• Adjectives: Beautiful, big, tall/high, young, annoying, funny, boring,
• Those, that over there, Some words about plural (there is no plural in Cantonese except …) Two of something (no, not the same as just 2) Comparing things How to ask for and look at a menu Asking if food/drinks taste good More about using the verb in question form in a world without yes and no
• The enormous importance of the word THING
• Verbs: work, look at, write, wash, tidy up, stare, have sex, win, must
• More about have/not have
• How to express there is/there are many things to do/look at/ eat and buy
• This episode, like many others, contains live cattle
• and is full of various Chinese and Western foods

2. Ah-Mok and Ah-Wai Try To Frequent Prostitutes

• How to take transport More about classifiers
• Warning! This episode contains full frontal female nudity! How to use numbers combined with classifiers What kind of …. Verbs: Give, go, cross, pass, dance, hurry
• Commenting on things you haven’t done in ages Asking questions about the past: Have you ever …? How long does it take to …? Talking about things happening here/there
• Double negative

3. Miss Lei Finds a Boyfriend on the Electric Internet

• Look like/seem/be like/similar to
• Verbs: Read, cook, arrange, live (reside), watch, go online, think (about), feel
• Adjectives: Dirty, happy/unhappy
• More about sentence structure
• Why/because
• Time words: Last week/month/up (Yes! ‘Last’ is the same word as ‘up’!) Next week/ month, down

4. Financial Crisis

• Verbs: Know, will, talk/speak, interview, go out, take care of, lose weight
• How to use all, also, all of, even – which, needless to say, in Cantonese is one word.
• Adjectives: Enough, rich
• The mystery of ‘geh’
• This evening/ more time words
• Negative comparison (not as … as …)
• And a huge grammar point: PARTICLES. (Don’t know? It will all be explained!)

Going Native Swearwords!!!!

A whole bunch of juicy and rather naughty common Cantonese swearwords PLUS how to write them! Don’t show your mother!

Going Native In Time

Absolutely all the words that can be connected with time and how to use them properly. The Bureau takes you on a dizzying trip around the entire world to show this. Oh yeah, and including how to tell the time and walk at the same time!