The art of Hong Kongese by a Dummy

We will talk about Cantonese Sayings with the number 2 and 20 today. Do you know how to say "Traitor", "side character", "rich person but not contributing to society", "nonsense", "no longer young anymore" and "regardless of what"? We will find out! Enjoy!

Cantonese sayings are very interesting. Let's look at some Cantonese Sayings relating to numbers, starting with the number 1 :D! Enjoy!

This episode I will talk about some more specifics about haircut, parts of the hair, hair texture, and hair products. I will possibly have an episode on some conversations about going to the salon. Have fun! Show me your haircut ;) Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode I will talk about how to tell your barber how you like your hair to be cut. So you can head to the salon soon! Next week I will talk about some more complicated hairstyles, hair products, and hair textures etc. Have fun! Show me your haircut ;) Music credit: www.bensound.com

Ding ding Ding! We have a special request! This episode I will talk about how to talk about what kind of haircut you are getting at the salon in general, in Cantonese of course! Next week I will talk about how you like it cut, different haircut styles. The following weeks I can talk about some more complicated hairstyles like cornrow etc, and hair products, hair textures. Have fun! Show me your haircut ;) Music credit: www.bensound.com

Disclaimer: please do not listen to this episode while driving or operating machinery. Only listen when you can safely relax and in a comfortable position. This episode is a guided hypnosis session for learning Cantonese colours while you are deeply relaxed or asleep. You can repeatedly listen to this episode and the end of this episode will not wake you. Enjoy, sit back, lie down and relax and submerge yourself in the Cantonese garden full of colours. *Dummy has a certificate in Hypnosis from Hong Kong, but the goal of this episode is to help you relax and learn Cantonese. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. Website: www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com Music credit: www.bensound.com

Continuing on the free time activities topic, we will go through some vocab on indoor activities in this episode. Enjoy! Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/indoor-activities music credit: www.bensound.com

Continuing on last week's topic, we will go through some vocab on outdoor activities in this episode. Enjoy! Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/outdoor-activities music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode we will go through how to tell people what you do in your free time. Enjoy! Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/talking-about-free-time-activities Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode we will be going through some practices of the linking words: 又...又... ALSO... ALSO... 越...越... THE MORE... THE MORE.... structures. Hope you will find this helpful. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/linking-words- Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode we will be going through some vocab on nature. You will learn words about general nature scenery, disasters, and some idioms. Happy learning! :D Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/vocab-nature Music credit: https://www.FesliyanStudios.com Background Music

Hi! We will be doing some practices on the structure of the 咗/ 完 Yes and no questions in past tense. For the next couple of months and you will also get to do some practice in this episode on the (have/ not have) questions. Part 3 will be published first week of next month. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/yes-no-question-past-tense-part-2 Music credit: www.bensound.com

In this episode, I will interpret one of the stories that I wrote.  Disclaimer: This story is set at an unknown location. This story is purely fictitious and if anyone runs into a similar situation, it is simply a coincidence. This story involves the paranormal and Chinese superstitions. If you don't feel comfortable, please enjoy my other episode. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/who-is-that-lady-that-comes-every-night Music credit: https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music

This episode you will find a list of vocab on jobs and occupation. Pretty long list but do email me if I missed anything, I will add it back. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/vocab-job-occupation Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode I will introduce some colours to you, basic colours, a mix of colours, more complicated colours and how to systematically approach colours in Cantonese. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/colours-in-cantonese Music credit: www.bensound.com

Hi! We will be doing some practices on the different structures of the Yes and no questions in past tense for the next couple of months and you will also get to do some practice in this episode on the (have/ not have) questions. I was running longer than expected. Part 2 will be published first week of next month. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/yes-no-question-past-tense-part-1 Exercise practice: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/yes-no-q-a-past-tense Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode, I am wrapping up the topic on emotion sounds. I will talk about Triple-character emotion sound: 㗎啦噃/ 㗎囉噃, 㗎啦喎, 㗎喇吓 and 㗎啦喂 Multiple-character emotion sound: 㗎啦吓嘩 and 㗎啦囉噃 We will move onto linking words on the 4th week of each month. Stay tuned! Be back on April 5th Monday! Written materials: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/triple-multiple-character-emotion-sound Music credit: www.bensound.com

Hi! Today I have prepared a made up conversation for you in a taxi. This episode is in conjunction of the last episode on basic info vocab: https://anchor.fm/dummy-rivers/episodes/Vocab-list---basic-personal-information-erknm3 Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/daily-conversation-in-a-taxi Music credit: https://www.royaltyfree-music.com/

This episode is on vocab about basic personal info, you will also hear some vocab on growth and development. This episode is paired with next week's conversation episode. Stay tuned and happy learning! Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/vocab-list-basic-personal-info Music credit: https://www.royaltyfree-music.com/

In this episode, you will find out different ways to ask for clarifications, to express you don't understand or that you understand, to ask for repeats, and to request for people to speak up and slow down or quicken their speech. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/asking-for-clarifications-and-repeats-in-cantonese YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVHR39Ao4nDL8iB21vw1XlQ Music credit: https://www.royaltyfree-music.com/

This episode is on double-character emotion sounds, 呀[a3]嘛[ma1/ma4], 嘅[ge3]喳[ja1], 嘅[ge3]啫[je1/jek1], 啦[la1]喂[wai3], 啦[la1]咩[me1] and 呢[ni1]可[ho2] as ending emotion sounds. We will move onto triple-character emotion sounds next month. :) Keep it up! Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/double-character-emotion-sounds-part-2 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVHR39Ao4nDL8iB21vw1XlQ Music credit: https://www.royaltyfree-music.com/

In this episode, a list of vocab will be provided on body & health. You will hear common casual Hong Kong Cantonese words and the formal Chinese words, as well you will find out what classifiers pair with these words. Enjoy! You can go back to listening to "Seeing a Dr"'s episode: https://anchor.fm/dummy-rivers/episodes/Seeing-the-Doctor-with-Cantonese-with-Covid-Screening-Questions-ej5l3l Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/vocab-list-body-health Music credit: www.bensound.com

In this episode, 榴[lau4]槤[lin4] Durian and 威[wai1]哥[go1] Brother Way came to my home to visit me during the Chinese New Year, you will hear some activities we do for Chinese New Year, some names of the decorations and food. Hopefully you will find this episode helpful, if not able to say or use these terms covered in this episode, as least you can understand what people are saying when you do go visit during Chinese New Year! Exercise can be found: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/exercise-daily-conversation-chinese-new-year YouTube video: https://youtu.be/OsoYcW_3QTU Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/daily-conversation-chinese-new-year Music credit: https://soundcloud.com/beepcode/no-copyright-music-cheerful-chinese-song-background-music-world-music-chinese-music

In this episode, I will recap a little on Chinese New Year mentioned in the last 2 episodes on Chinese New Year (published last year). Then I will introduce a couple of new Chinese New Year lucky sayings, as well then I will tell you the folklore story about how the Chinese Zodiac came about. Next week, there will be a conversation on people visiting friends and family during Chinese New Year. Excited, stay tuned. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/chinese-new-year-part-3-chinese-new-year-sayings-and-folklore-story-behind-the-chinese-zodiac YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-eCrRWc4a8&list=LLVHR39Ao4nDL8iB21vw1XlQ Music credit: https://soundcloud.com/beepcode/no-copyright-music-cheerful-chinese-song-background-music-world-music-chinese-music

This year we have leveled up and now we will begin to explore double-character emotion sounds. This episode will be on 㗎喇 (Dummy PY: Ga la), 喳嘛 (Dummy PY: Ja Ma), 囉噃 (Dummy PY: Lo Bor), 囉喎 (Dummy PY: Lo Wor) and 吓嘩(Dummy PY: Ha wah) as ending emotion sounds. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/cantonese-emotion-sounds-part-5 YouTube channel: The Art of Hong Kongese by a Dummy - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVHR39Ao4nDL8iB21vw1XlQ music credit: www.bensund.com

In this episode, I have prepared a conversation on new year and setting goal. This episode is paired with the last episode's vocab also about new year and setting goals. In this conversation, Dummy's old friend John who is a Cantonese learner bumped into Dummy in the new year 2021. You will hear John talk about his goals and you will hear Dummy give him encouraging words. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/daily-convo-new-year-setting-goals YouTube channel: The Art of Hong Kongese by a Dummy - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVHR39Ao4nDL8iB21vw1XlQ music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode, I will share a couple of vocab with you about the new year and setting goals, perseverance and giving up, succeeding and failing, as well as two 4-character idioms and some slang terms. Hopefully you will find them helpful. Exercise paired with this episode: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/exercise-vocab-new-year-goals Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/vocab-new-year-setting-goals Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVHR39Ao4nDL8iB21vw1XlQ Music credit: www.bensound.com

Welcome to 2021! To begin the year, we are going back to the Cantonese basics, the pronouns (I, you, he/she/it, we, they), the possessive forms (my, your, his/ her/its, our, their) as well as the unit classifiers. Exercises is posted on my webpage under exercises. In the upcoming year, I will be doing 4 episodes a month, first 4 weeks of the month. First week on random topics, second week on vocab and sentences, third week on story or conversations on what we have covered in week 2, final week will be on emotion sounds. Remember to check out my Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/xmas-homework-vocab-on-kitchen-appliance-cooking-method-ingredients YouTube video on pronouns: https://youtu.be/HizuWS9bDFU on Unit Classifiers Part 1: https://youtu.be/OcTTF6Gt9qQ on Unit Classifiers Part 2: https://youtu.be/Kk2rRbdCcaY Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode is on vocabs on kitchen appliances/ tool and cooking ingredients/ methods. Hopefully you will be able to have some vocab to talk about food and cooking this holiday :) Happy learning! YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/UJio6cl_eHY Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/xmas-homework-vocab-on-kitchen-appliance-cooking-method-ingredients Music credit: Jingle bells by Scoot Holmes Music on https://freemusicarchive.org/

In this episode, there is a conversation between a Cantonese speaking management officer and a Cantonese speaking resident. The resident was complained by someone regarding her garbage situation at home. I will analyze the conversation as well explaining the emotion sounds in the conversation. Happy Holidays & Happy new year! Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/emotion-sounds-in-daily-conversations-part-1 Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode is a continued episode about Cantonese single-character emotion sounds end sentences, what do they mean and how to use them. This week we will chat about the 嘅 (Dummy PY: Ge), 啩 (Dummy PY: Gua), 咩 (Dummy PY: Meh), 咋 (Dummy PY: Ja) and 啫 (Dummy PY: Je) sounds. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/cantonese-emotion-sounds-part-4 music credit: www.bensund.com

This episode is a special request by one of the listeners. I will be reading the vocabulary lists from page 345-347 of "Complete Cantonese Beginner to Intermediate Course: Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new Language with Teach Yourself" Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode is a special request by one of the listeners. I will be reading the vocabulary lists from page 342-344 of "Complete Cantonese Beginner to Intermediate Course: Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new Language with Teach Yourself" Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode is a special request by one of the listeners. I will be reading the vocabulary lists from page 339-341 of "Complete Cantonese Beginner to Intermediate Course: Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new Language with Teach Yourself" Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode is a special request by one of the listeners. I will be reading the vocabulary lists from page 336-338 of "Complete Cantonese Beginner to Intermediate Course: Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new Language with Teach Yourself" Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode is a continued episode about Cantonese single-character emotion sounds end sentences, what do they mean and how to use them. This week we will chat about the 囉/ 咯/ 囖 (Dummy PY: Lo)/ 嚕 (Dummy PY: Loo)/ 噃 (Dummy PY: Ball)/ 喎/啝 (Dummy PY: Wo) sounds. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/cantonese-emotion-sounds-part-3 music credit: www.bensund.com

This episode is a special request by one of the listeners. I will be reading the vocabulary lists from page 333-335 of "Complete Cantonese Beginner to Intermediate Course: Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new Language with Teach Yourself" Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode is a special request by one of the listeners. I will be reading the vocabulary lists from page 330-332 of "Complete Cantonese Beginner to Intermediate Course: Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new Language with Teach Yourself" Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode is a special request by one of the listeners. I will be reading the vocabulary lists from page 327-329 of "Complete Cantonese Beginner to Intermediate Course: Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new Language with Teach Yourself" Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode is a special request by one of the listeners. I will be reading the vocabulary lists from page 323-326 of "Complete Cantonese Beginner to Intermediate Course: Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new Language with Teach Yourself"  Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode is a special request by one of the listeners. I will be reading the vocabulary lists from page 321-323 of "Complete Cantonese Beginner to Intermediate Course: Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new Language with Teach Yourself" Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode is a special request by one of the listeners. I will be reading the vocabulary lists from page 318-320 of "Complete Cantonese Beginner to Intermediate Course: Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new Language with Teach Yourself" Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode is about the 4 character idiom 知恩圖報 (know your favours and attempt to repay them), the background story of how the 4 character idiom came about, how to use it, and what it means. **Pay attention to how the emotion sounds are used in the story. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/4-character-idiom Story Adapted from: http://read01.com/aL7Rkd.html Music credit: Wuxia by PeriTune | http://peritune.com. Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This episode is a continued episode about Cantonese single-character emotion sounds that begin sentences & end sentences, what do they mean and how to use them. This week we will chat about the 呀 吖 啊 (Dummy PY: Ah)/ 啦 喇 嘞 (Dummy PY: La)/ 哩 (Dummy PY: Le)/ 呢(Dummy PY: Ne) / 㗎 (Dummy PY: Ga) sounds. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/cantonese-emotion-sounds-part-2 music credit: www.bensund.com

This episode is about Cantonese emotion sounds that begin sentences, what do they mean and how to use them. Know them so you can express your emotions seamlessly with Cantonese! Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/cantonese-emotion-sounds-part-1 Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode includes a conversation between a Cantonese learner and a furniture store keeper. Learn a couple of Furniture words and how you can inquire about deals and promotions. The whole conversation can be found at 18:56/ 18 min 56 sec of the podcast. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/buying-furniture-in-hong-kong-in-cantonese Music credit: www.bensound.com

Learn a couple of tongue twisters today to enhance your Cantonese fluency and clarity, exercise those tongue muscles. Let's see if you get as tongue tied as I do. :) Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/cantonese-tongue-twisters Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode explores the different usages and meanings of 咗 (Dummy PY: Jaw), 完 (Dummy PY: Yuen) and 晒 (Dummy PY: Sai), 過 (Dummy PY: Gwoh), how they are applied to form Basic past, present perfect, "Future past tense" sentences. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/past-present-perfect-future-past-tense Music credit: www.bensound.com

In this episode, I am going to talk about the grammatical structure of forming present tense sentences as well as present continuous tense. As well, some keywords you might here to indicate the present and routine. Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/present-tense-present-continuous-tense Music credit: www.bensound.com

In this episode, I am going to talk about some reasons why the Cantonese speaking person would suddenly switch to English when you are speaking Cantonese. Is it you, or is it them? What can you do? Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/why-do-cantonese-people-speak-english-when-you-want-to-speak-cantonese Music credit: www.bensound.com

This episode, I will summarize a lot of what we have talked about. already, eg. greeting, thank you, sorry, excuse me, how to say you don't understand, getting info and ordering food, etc. Reality check, do you think you know these phrases to travel in Hong Kong? Written material: http://www.theartofhongkongesebyadummy.com/do-you-know-enough-basic-cantonese-to-travel-in-hong-kong Music credit: www.bensound.com