Basic Cantonese - Critical Adjectives #2

01/10/11 • 8 min

While the words we focus on today may not be Shakespeare, it's hard to write anything without using one of good, bad, easy or difficult. Everyone starts somewhere. So if you're just starting to learn Cantonese join us for this Cantonese podcast and in just a few minutes you'll be ready to praise (or denounce) random things or people in Cantonese, not to mention telling random strangers in Hong Kong how easy or difficult you find their language.In this series of Cantonese lessons for absolute beginners to the language, we focus on the most high-frequency adjectives in the language. If you're just getting started learning Cantonese, pick up from our first lesson in this series. Every subsequent lesson is designed to review the key words and phrases to reinforce what you've learned. And if you have any questions or tech problems, let us know anytime by leaving a comment in the discussion section below, or writing us at [email protected].

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Basic Cantonese - Critical Adjectives #1

Want to learn Cantonese? In this series for absolute beginners to Cantonese, we teach some of the most high-frequency adjectives in the language. In this lesson we learn how to say "right" and "wrong", and how to use these two words in simple sentences. Listen up, and in another five minutes you'll be able to tell others they're right, or take advantage of your newfound Cantonese to assert alpha pack-dominance.In future lessons in this series, we'll review the words we've already learned, and cover more critical adjectives you'll use every day. We'll be keeping our sentences very simple though - so that you can swap in new adjectives as quickly as you learn them. So get listening and don't forget to try out all of our premium features too. And if you have any questions, leave them in the discussion section below, or write us anytime at [email protected].

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Basic Cantonese - Listening Test #2

Learning Cantonese? With our first set of Critical Phrases lessons complete and our Critical Adjectives set nearing completion, we want to take a break from our regular programming today and give you a quick way to test your progress and reinforce the Cantonese you've already learned. So if you've just started to learn Cantonese take this fifteen question quiz designed to test your retention of what we've already covered. We think you'll be pleased with how far you've already come.If you have trouble with any of this material, consider reviewing our previous lessons before moving on. And if you don't, definitely pat yourself on the back for how far you've come! Although the words and sentences tested today are relatively basic, and we're not totally done our introductory material yet, you'll soon be at the level where you can start working through real-life dialogues spoken at native speed.