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Popup Cantonese

Popup Cantonese

The most convenient way to learn Cantonese the way it is actually spoken and used. Start with our basic lessons, and in no time you"ll be listening to music, watching films and television and engaging in the actual language. With free daily podcasts, a vibrant community, online study tools and much more, PopupCantonese is the most powerful and personal way to learn mandarin.

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Basic Cantonese - Listening Test #2

Popup Cantonese ·

2011/01/17

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

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KTV Wednesday - Let the Wind Blow Away Everything

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2011/01/12

Our lesson preparation team wasn't sure what to make of this song. As Nicole put it while translating the lyrics, "I love the music and it's a real classic, but now I'm forced to actually listen to the lyrics I'm wondering if they make any sense...." The video below takes a while to get to the song: listen to the introduction which mixes mandarin with Cantonese or jump straight to the music which starts about one minute in.The song was written for Cantonese by Kenny Bee, lead guitarist for the most

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Basic Cantonese - Critical Adjectives #2

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2011/01/10

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

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Basic Cantonese - Critical Adjectives #1

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2011/01/04

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

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Basic Cantonese - Listening Test #1

Popup Cantonese ·

2010/12/31

Today we want to take a break from our gauntlet of Cantonese podcasts and provide you with a quick way to test your progress and reinforce the Cantonese you've already learned. We're going to do this by giving you a quick listening test to measure your comprehension of spoken Cantonese, and your ability to pick up on the six tones in Cantonese.The words and phrases covered in this test are drawn from our first four lessons on critical Cantonese, so they should be familiar to you. But can you

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Basic Cantonese - Critical Phrases #4

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2010/12/28

If you know anyone who's been in Hong Kong for any length of time and hasn't listened to Popup Cantonese yet, chances are they're severely dehydrated and nearing death. So do them a favor and let them know help is on its way. In this lesson we learn how to say "this one" and "that one" in Cantonese, and also how to ask others to give you things like water, money and other life-saving essentials.Attention newcomers: if you're new to Cantonese and are starting from scratch, we recommend starting with

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Basic Cantonese - Critical Phrases #3

Popup Cantonese ·

2010/12/24

Doesn't it feel good to be getting better? In this Cantonese lesson for absolute beginners we're going to teach you how to tell others that you don't understand. And ask them to repeat themselves. Or ask them to speak a little more slowy. These are extremely useful sentences, and they'll help us reinforce the basics. So grab your mp3 player and start listening!Want to learn Cantonese? This is lesson three in our Cantonese series designed for absolute beginners to the language. We focusing here

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KTV Wednesday - A Chinese Ghost Story

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2010/12/22

A tax collector passing through a small village falls in love with a beautiful local, only to discover that she's both dead and cursed. If any more proof was needed that Hong Kong is a special place, consider that what in any other culture would be the perfect setup for a horror film here became the opening to the Cantonese equivalent of Ghost -- one of the most successful and moving romances to ever come out of the Hong Kong film industry.Our Cantonese song for today is the title song from the

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Basic Cantonese - Critical Phrases #2

Popup Cantonese ·

2010/12/20

Now that you know how to say hello and goodbye in Cantonese, it's time to stretch your wings and learn to grovel. That's right, today we enter the realm of the always-critical phrases please, thank you and sorry. Life is not all bad though. In addition to learning these words, we'll teach you how to use them to hit on friends and strangers.Want to learn Cantonese? This is lesson two in our series designed to teach Cantonese to absolute beginners. We're focusing on learning the basics and

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Advanced - James Bond in Hong Kong

Popup Cantonese ·

2010/12/17

You might be a fan of Steven Chow. Or maybe you've never heard of the man and in that case we feel sort of appalled that you've made it this far into Cantonese. But in either case, if you've spent time in Hong Kong we're betting you recognize this scene: in a bustling street market, a young butcher slaughters a pig with turn of his machete before lifting a cigarette to his mouth and taking a sip from a dry martini.The image is iconic and familiar to everyone in Hong Kong. And that's why the subject

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KTV Wednesday - Wong Faye - Dreams

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2010/12/15

We kick off KTV Wednesday this week with Wong Faye's Cantonese version of the popular Cranberries song Dreams. An amazing cover with fantastic lyrics, this song was featured in the 1994 film Chungking Express by Hong Kong director Wang Kar-wei. In part due to the popularity of the cover, Wang later released a mandarin version as well.KTV Wednesday on Popup Cantonese is our regular music series highlighting great Cantonese music. Be sure to check out our text section for a manually annotated edition

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Basic Cantonese - Critical Phrases #1

Popup Cantonese ·

2010/12/13

Do you know how to say hello in Cantonese? This is our first Cantonese lesson at Popup Cantonese and it's designed to be the simplest lesson on our site. Join us and by the end of this short podcast, you'll know how to say hello and goodbye, and be able to communicate with real Cantonese speakers using a few very common sentences, like asking how someone is doing or telling them you'll see them later. In future lessons in this series, we'll review these words and phrases so that you remember them,

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Welcome - Welcome to Popup Cantonese

Popup Cantonese ·

2010/11/09

Congratulations on finding the world's best community for learning Cantonese. If you're just getting started, check out our collection of Cantonese podcasts. We encourage newcomers to Cantonese to listen to our Basic Cantonese series first. Once you understands the basics move on to our upper-level shows, which can be covered in any order.As you go through our archives, be sure to check out our popup transcripts while listening to or watching our various shows. Mouseover any words you don't

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