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Conversation: Can you learn Cantonese through Cantopop? (粵）

11/15/21 • 8 min

Raymond and Cameron discuss how Cantopop (Cantonese pop music) can act as a tool for language learning, as well as some of the medium's challenges. As an example, they look at MIRROR's "Ignited" and one of the colloquial expressions from the song: 焫著 (laat3 zoek6).
Link to music video for "Ignited"

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Guest Episode: Pearl Low, Part 2 (English/粵語)

Cameron and Raymond continue their conversation with Pearl Low, a Vancouver-based author, artist, and animator, about their experience studying Cantonese as a heritage language. In this segment, Pearl dispels a common myth about Cantonese, and also gives suggestions to younger learners engaging with their heritage language.
To learn more about Pearl's work, check out: https://www.pearllow.com/
Some of the resources Pearl mentions:
1. Pearl's Twitter thread on Cantonese learning resources

2. Subreddit "r/Cantonese"

3. Cantonese with Winnie (YouTube channel)

4. Hanping Cantonese Dictionary

5. Hanping Chinese Camera: Chinese OCR
Also, check out 係咁先啦, the song mentioned by Raymond at the end of this episode.
More info on Cantonese input on iOS.

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Learning Tip: How can I tell the difference between similar tones? (English/粵語)

Some tones in Cantonese can seem very similar to new learners, particularly when they're similar "shapes" (e.g. tones 2 and 5). How can students figure out the difference? Raymond and Cameron share a few quick tricks.