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Chatty Cantonese | 粵語白白講

Chatty Cantonese

A podcast about all things learning Cantonese, hosted by a teacher and a student. We upload conversations in Cantonese meant to help students improve their listening ability, while also highlighting the global Cantonese-speaking community.

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Guest Episode: Zoe Lam (粵語)

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2025/04/29

This episode features an interview with Dr. Zoe Wai-Man Lam, a lecturer in Cantonese at the University of British Columbia and the main instructor and curriculum advisor for the Cantonese Saturday School at the Mon Keang School in Vancouver’s historic Chinatown. Dr. Lam has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of British Columbia as well as both a masters and bachelors from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Our conversation focuses on Zoe’s experiences with teaching Cantonese within th...

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28:24

Guest Episode: Jennifer Feeley, Part 3 (English)

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2024/09/24

This episode features the conclusion of our conversation with Jennifer Feeley. Where in previous episodes we discussed specific Hong Kong literature that Jennifer has translated, here she shares some advice for anyone interested in getting into literary translation. We are also thrilled to announce that since taping this episode, the American Literary Translators’ Association has announced two emerging translator mentorships for Hong Kong literature, including one with Jennifer. We have inclu...

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16:51

Guest Episode: Jennifer Feeley, Part 2 (English)

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2024/08/01

This episode features the second portion of our conversation with the award-winning literary translator Jennifer Feeley. Where last time we learned about her journey to Cantonese and her work translating the poetry and prose of the Hong Kong author Xi Xi, this time we hear about her recent translation of the psychological thriller Tongueless, by Lau Yee-Wa. Set in a Hong Kong secondary school, it zeroes in on the pressure-cooker environment faced by contract teachers as they navigate the shif...

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32:01

Guest Episode: Jennifer Feeley, Part 1 (Eng)

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2024/07/14

In this episode we interview the award-winning literary translator Jennifer Feeley. Jennifer has helped introduce English-language readers around the world to a variety of works of Hong Kong poetry and fiction. She has been particularly prolific this year—her translation of Lau Yee-Wa’s novel Tongueless came out in June, and her translation of Xi Xi’s Mourning a Breast just came out this month. Our conversation with Jennifer is split into three parts, with this portion focusing on how she cam...

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15:19

Learning Tip: Measure Words/量詞 (loeng6 ci4), Part 1...

Chatty Cantonese | 粵語白白講 ·

2024/07/07

Measure words (also referred to as "classifiers" in linguistics, or 量詞/loeng6 ci4) appear in multiple languages, but they have some special functions in Cantonese. Today we begin to discuss what to watch out for when studying or teaching them, as well as some of the ways that their usage differs between Cantonese and Mandarin.

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30:04

Conversation: Reading and Writing for Cantonese...

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2024/05/24

In this episode, we are joined by Israel, Kenny, and Samuel from the podcast seoi6 jin4 kwong4 soeng2. In that podcast, the trio uses Cantonese to discuss learning just about every other language in the world, and we highly recommend it to listeners of Chatty Cantonese. Another portion of our conversation appeared on the seoi6 jin4 kwong4 soeng2 feed back in January, so once you finish this episode, you might as well listen to the other part–you’ll find a link in the show notes. 以下呢一集係特備...

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36:54

Guest Episode: Allan Lau and Duck Lau, Part 2 (粵語)

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2024/01/01

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33:10

Guest Episode: Allan Lau and Duck Lau, Part 1 (粵語)

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2023/09/03

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23:11

Learning Tip: Thanking in Cantonese, do1 ze6 vs. m4...

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2023/05/25

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11:56

Conversation: Hong Kong Beverages (粵語)

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2023/04/13

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18:39

Guest Episode: Bernice Chan, Part 2 (粵語)

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2023/03/04

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17:09

Guest Episode: Bernice Chan, Part 1 (粵語)

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2023/01/21

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12:15

Learning Tip: SFPs 4 - gwaa3, wo3/bo3, wo4, and wo5...

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2022/12/20

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6:06

Conversation: Time in the Digital Age (粵語)

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2022/12/05

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27:29

Guest Episode: Gina Anne Tam, Part 2 (English, 粵語)

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2022/11/04

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33:36

Guest Episode: Gina Anne Tam, Part 1 (English, 粵語)

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2022/10/12

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16:46

Learning Tip: SFPs 3 - zaa3, ze1, zek1, and zaa4

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2022/09/18

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13:17

Conversation: Written vs. Spoken Cantonese (粵語)

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2022/08/25

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22:15

Guest Episode: Jade Wu, Part 2 (粵語)

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2022/07/30

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27:09

Guest Episode: Jade Wu, Part 1 (粵語)

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2022/07/05

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