Title: BTB Back to Basics (edition 1)
Date: 14 May 2007
Summary: In this podcast, I will cover the basics of the Cantonese language and the fundamental grammar points
Notes:
- Welcome to Cantonese Pod, inspirations for learning the lyrical, expressive and beautiful Cantonese language, gong dong wa bok hak
- self introduction
- tonal language, think of playing chords, relax
- forget the standard romanisation, transcribe it whatever way you like
- forget the script, get used to the sound first
- personal pronoun, I, you, he/she/it, they, note the gender neutrality in Chinese wrt pronunciation
- demonstrative pronoun
- possessive pronoun
- dead easy to make a question: ad Gah..
- numbers again