Tag: Cantonese

  • 粵語拼音

    粵語拼音 (Simplified Chinese 粤语拼音 ) can refer to two things: 1) Jyutping 粤拼 Jyutping is a romanization system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. Its long official name is The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme. Chinesebay.com is compiling its online Cantonese pronunciation dictionary using Jyutping because it is the easiest…

  • Great Cantonese Courses for Mandarin speakers

    Just found a good link for Mandarin speakers to learn Cantonese: 轻松学粤语 http://hemanhong.inetradio.cn/program/3361.aspx 11 FREE LESSONS! You may find some good comparison between Mandarin and Cantonese too, but you need to know how to read Mandarin first. Enjoy!

  • What Phonetic System We Should Use for Cantonese?

    Earlier on this web site, I just chose a phonetic Cantonese romanization system at will. After some good research, I found that we need to adopt the most popular system called Jyutping, which has a lot of good features. More on that soon. (Special Thanks to Mike, who just reminded us to improve as soon…

  • A Sweet Girl Counting 1 to 10 in Cantonese

    Want to learn the exact words for 1 to 10 in Cantonese? Come Here

  • If you are lazy, or just want to relax and learn…

    You can actually come “Here to learn more of the basic useful Cantonese.

  • Differences between Cantonese and Mandarin

    Cantonese learners often wonder what are the differences between Cantonese and the official Chinese language — Mandarin. Actually, there are a lot of differences which we need to understand and often find interesting. Here I can only list a few of them. 1.