Naked Cantonese Is No More

It is with great sadness I must inform our irate but faithful listeners that Poddie Castie number 200 is soon coming up, and that it will herald the end of Naked Cantonese as we know it.

It’s been four years (an eternity in Hong Kong time) and a fantastic ride. We’ve been contacted by people from all over the world and had many of them on the show – thanks to everybody for even listening, and for writing to our Facebook page.

I’ve had the pleasure of informing people that ‘Good Friday’ in Cantonese is “Jesus experiences difficulties-festival” FOUR times, so I don’t feel too bad about hanging up the microphone. There will of course be a party (see our Facebook page for details later) and I hope our listeners will make an extra effort between now and June 7th to make the last few shows extra memorable.

This is not the end, however, of my life mission to make Cantonese a world language. When one door closes, you bash out the window! So I hope everybody who loves Cantonese, or even likes it just a little bit, or even likes it just because liking it irritates the shit out of our dour Mandarin (an imperialistic shit-language) -speaking brethren up north, will write or call in with requests, rants, complaints, ideas, advice, memories and stories.

Naked Cantonese is officially putting its clothes back on. That signals … it’s time to roll up the sleeves.