Cantonese, Beauty, Great Food … all a short bus ride away

Why fiddle around with airport security, hours in taxis to and from airports, being in a place with only other tourists and leaving gigantic carbon footprints every time you go even on a weekend trip

Today’s Expression: 霧 (including Today’s Weather Condition)

嘩!今日好大霧呀。Wah! Gam yat hou daai mou ah. (“Wow! Today well big fog ah”)  –  My but it’s foggy today. Oh, and if you’re surprised that it’s foggy, you could say: 咦?咁大霧嘅? Yi? Gam daai mou geh?

New Feature: Guerrilla Cantonese!!!!

Do you want to learn some survival or day-to-day Cantonese but can’t commit to  regular, weekly sessions because you’re just too damn busy or simply can’t be arsed? Guerrilla Cantonese may be the answer for you. Guerrilla means:

Today’s Classifier: 個

                                                         四個四川人 – sei go sei chyun yan

Learn Cantonese the Natural Way –

– from a Norwegian! A glimpse behind the scenes of Happy Jellyfish People’s Democratic Language Bureau:

AT LAST! Mac has joined the normal world

Joy to the world, my life is complete. For ages I’ve been writing Chinese characters in the worst way invented by man; by typing the words in pinyin, in other words Mandarin, imperialist communist speech-language.

New Victory For Client

I just received this from one of my victims, Elise Lefebvre: “Yesterday night, I was invited for dinner at a Chinese friend’s place for what seemed to be the last of the Chinese/lunar new year

Today’s Classifier: 條

一條路 (Yat tiu lou) (one stick of road.) Well, footpath really, but you get my little driftie. Yeah, I love 條。It’s the classifier for long and thin, bendable or bending things, like a river: 一條河

Today’s Classifier: 張

   一 張相 (yat jeung seung) (a sheet of photo.) Flat, rectangular things have the classifier 張。Also things that in the past have been flat and rectangular, like a sofa, (used to be a bench)

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