my Cantonese for your English or French

[Henry K L]

^_^ See this:

http://www.clc.scicube.info/book_lin...link_left.html

[SimonR]

So cool! thanks Henry

[Henry K L]

I found a question about tones at another website and here are the question and my answer:

"i can speak (and read) cantonese but my enunciation is poor, as i do not have a good understanding of the six tones. i have listened to online audio, but still have a hard time differentiating between the 4th and 6th tones. i have also asked my local colleagues, but as they are native speakers they probably have not had to make the effort to distinguish between the tones while learning the language. it's still very haphazard and hit or miss for me, as compared to how it is with hanyu pinyin, and i want to get it right this year. is there anyone here who is familiar with cantonese tones and can help me with them...? ..."

Hello... About the tones, I think a tip is to write down a set of e.g. that you could ask a native to speak out to you at any time. So that you could fine tune your pronunciation and hearing easily and frequently...

思 史 嗜 時 市 是
si1 si2 si3 si4 si5 si6

Good examples should... You know some characters have more than one tone or pronunciation. So... in the above, every character has only one pronunciation/tone. So that when you ask help from others, they would never give you wrong answers (unintentionally). And I believe they're simple enough that every local guy knows them.

In addition, their meanings are:
si1 think
si2 history
si3 hobby
si4 time
si5 market
si6 be

* Yale spelling (modified, tonal "h" not used) is used. My favorite.

[Henry K L]

So cool! thanks Henry

Hi Simon. Glad to get your messages.

[Henry K L]

^_^ and this:

http://cantonese.ca/