Speak Cantonese on Day 1. Be fluent in Year 7 | Learn Cantonese by space repetition | 學廣東話

Join my podcast club to get notes for this episode, meet global learners, ask questions and practice speaking. Find out more on https://www.patreon.com/poeticcantonese In this episode, you will learn other side dishes you may find in a congee shop. Fried noodles, fried dough with rice rolls, my favorite! Feeling very very nostalgic as I record these!  Try a cup of cold or hot soya milk! 

In this episode, you'll learn a few popular congee that I go for all the time, and variety of rice noodles. Check out my personal blog for some cool pictures.   You can get episode notes, available in traditional characters, jyutping, yale tone marks, and yale tone numbers by supporting me on my patreon page. Have fun learning and ordering!  Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/poeticcan...

Join my podcast club to get notes for this episode, meet global learners, ask questions and practice speaking. Find out more on https://www.patreon.com/poeticcantonese After the picnic at Sun Yat sen park, your friend recommended a classic Hong Kong style dessert place in Sai Ying Pun. You'll learn a few classic Chinese style dessert. 

Join my podcast club to get notes for this episode, meet global learners, ask questions and practice speaking. Find out more on https://www.patreon.com/poeticcantonese While strolling in historical Sheung Wan, you came across this old-school style restaurant, hanging with roast meat outside. In this episode, you'll learn a few popular meat, vegetables, how to say soup, ginger sauce, soy sauce, oys...

Another good speech from another student. She has really good listening ability when she first started lessons with me, so we mostly worked on getting her speaking going. By making some short speeches, I think it really helps with forming ideas in Cantonese! 

I met my student when I was trying the #90dayscantochallenge on Instagram. She was in Canada back then, but now moved to Hong Kong.  This speech came out really great- with great stories and use of vocabulary.  Just to say, she's been learning Mandarin to HSK 5 I believe, so she has good Chinese foundation. Plus! We edited the speech for quite a few weeks to get this good! Overall, I am...

Same speech topic from another student. You can hear a different approach from him. I am particularly pleased with his improvement on tones! 

Another student's speech, showcasing her ability to speak after 3 terms of hard work!  I'm starting new waves of Year 1 and Year 2 online lessons.  Upon completing of year 1, I hope to prepare you with enough Cantonese to get by for a trip to Hong Kong.  Topics include getting a drink, organizing time to meet, meeting new friends, ordering food, talking to taxi drivers and bargainin...

Big smiles on me when hearing my students' speeches. So I thought it'd be great to share their speech after completing my Year 1 Cantonese course! 

Let's learn how to say, better, tastier, later, more and less when buying fruits or items. 

Hi friends, I am back to make episode 91-180 for you all. I've met so many of you in the past year and I'm blown away by the fact that me speaking to the microphone can connect to you all from all around the world! :)  I'll be conducting new term for Year 1 term 1-3 if you wish to speed up learning progress and have practice time. If you are not ready, feel free to enjoy episode 91-180! Let's...

As I travel, I kept a hand written blog and I reflect on my feeling of taking long bus rides while travelling in South America. Script in 99% exact spoken Cantonese! (I cannot help adding a few words here and there). Enjoy! https://snookist.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/%e6%9c%89%e6%99%82%e4%be%af%e5%9c%a8%e6%97%85%e9%80%94%e4%b8%ad-%e6%88%91%e5%8f%aa%e9%9c%80%e8%a6%81%e6%b0%b4%e4%b8%80%e6%a8%bd-%e5%8c...

We hopped on the overnight bus, praying nothing bad would happen like getting robbed, then tried closing my eyes to sleep. Bus was stopped and some guards asked me to show him my passaporte. When we kept going and thought that'd be it, the bus suddenly stopped where the driver said "Todo bajan!"...... Script in Cantonese: https://snookist.wordpress.com/2015/01/07/%e6%9c%89%e6%99%82%e4%be%af%e5%9c%...

I was on my way down South, finding myself at the border of Ecuador and Peru, with only myself as a backpacker walking across a strangely busy strip of street, with stores on both sides. I was told to hop on a taxi instead to get to the immigration point, so I did. Literally there was no one at the line, so I made it to Peru, meeting two couples who were also travelling down South. Blog scripted i...

Fastfoward to January 2015 - I spent the December in Galapagos, feeling a bit too comfortable there, so decided to make a move.  From September - November, I made my way from Central America to South America. Spent a few days in Nicaragua doing touristy things like night hikes to a Volcano, volcano boarding, then to Costa Rica in a birdwatching lodge, stayed at a beautiful house by the sea in...

Bringing you all back to 2014, my epic 7-month trip to Central and South America.  I got robbed in Honduras, with my favorite Swedish friend of all time.   I am referring to my English blog, converting it to Cantonese in my own words and elaborating off from it. https://snookist.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/bad-things-do-happen/

Part 3 of a reflection of my discussion with my French housemate back in 2017 when I first moved to London. Script in Cantonese. As I record, I made some changes to sentences, so it will be around 95% exact.  https://snookist.wordpress.com/2017/01/06/%e4%ba%ba%e4%b8%8d%e6%96%b7%e9%80%b2%e6%ad%a5-%e6%9c%80%e5%be%8c%e4%bf%82%e7%82%ba%e5%b7%a6%e5%92%a9%ef%bc%9f/#comments

2025 update: You can now learn these topics all in 6-7 months in my self-paced course! (with 6 catch-up with me!) https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Combining my experience teaching Cantonese and learning Vietnamese and Italian, I've planned 12 discussion topics to go through for beginner learners for my online lessons.    1- Self-introduction; origin; reason of learning Cantonese 2- Sett...

Part 2 of a reflection of my discussion with my French housemate back in 2017 when I first moved to London. Script in Cantonese. As I record, I made some changes to sentences, so it will be around 95% exact.  https://snookist.wordpress.com/2017/01/06/%e4%ba%ba%e4%b8%8d%e6%96%b7%e9%80%b2%e6%ad%a5-%e6%9c%80%e5%be%8c%e4%bf%82%e7%82%ba%e5%b7%a6%e5%92%a9%ef%bc%9f/#comments

I first moved to England in 2017. While living with one Italian and French (in a same room) while looking for a job, we had some interesting discussion. The French guy inspired me to think- the first time in my life I am thinking to an extent where I cannot sleep and focus for a day. I went for a walk, chat with some good friends, reflected a bit and wrote this blog. It's been 4 years and do feel...

Second part of my travel story in Guatemala Cantonese script with pictures in my personal blog linked below: https://snookist.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/%e6%84%9b%e7%9a%84%e6%95%85%e4%ba%8b-%e4%b8%8a%e9%9b%86/

First part of a mistimed love encounter in Xela Cantonese script with pictures in my personal blog linked below: https://snookist.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/%e6%84%9b%e7%9a%84%e6%95%85%e4%ba%8b-%e4%b8%8a%e9%9b%86/

Join my self-paced online course in 2025, Year 1A & B, with regular catch up with me after each unit! https://poeticcantonese.pathwright.com/ Want a 5-page Cantonese sentence structure & grammar cheat sheet & learning roadmap for beginners? Subscribe to my newsletter: https://poeticcantonese.activehosted.com/f/1 In this final episode wrapping up 90 days of your hard work, I've summariz...

If you want to speak like my student, sign up for my classes! Just kidding! If you want to speak like him, put in work like him! He has been working extremely hard almost every day in the past 2.5 years as far as I know. I am super happy for him! In this episode, enjoy the speech of my student talking about Hong Kong people's hobbies. If you want to learn the sentence structure, grammar and vocabu...

I was on my way from Caye Caulker to my Spanish school in Quelzaltenango in Guatemala. Supposed to arrive at around 12 noon but ended up arriving late in the afternoon after being stranded! Enjoy this episode with pictures in my blog. I only translated this blog in real time from English to Cantonese by reading it after a few years. https://snookist.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/on-the-road-to-quetzalt...