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Me speaking Cantonese

I’ve been learning Cantonese for about 1year and 3 months,though these last 3 months have not been very productive since I’m not in Hong Kong anymore and somehow my motivation seems to have fade away.I decided to record myself so that  in the future I can see how much progress I’ve made. I normally don’t do  this kind of stuff because I don’t quite like hearing my own voice when speaking a foreign language.From my own ears it sounds great,however, when I listen to the recording I get so frustrated that it takes me 1 or 2 days to recover.Interestingly enough, this time I think it sounds ok. I mean, my pronunciation is far from accurate and tone mistakes are more than common, but it doesn’t bother me that much anymore. I think I’m finally getting over this whole issue.I thought it would be helpful if I put a transcript,because it might be kind of difficult to understand my broken Cantonese. I hope you can all understand what I’m saying. Comments are welcome!

哈佬  我叫馬些路

舊年我去左香港參加交換計劃,跟住開始學廣東話。我覺得中文好有趣不過學廣東話嘅時侯搵唔到好嘅材料，所以我決定問我啲朋友幫手錄呢啲故事。我希望大家會鐘意！如果你有問題或者建議你可以寫信俾我。 好啦 拜拜

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10 Responses to “Me speaking Cantonese”

  1. You speak well but better read slower in those vocabularies that you are not familiar with. Since Chinese are composed of single words, Chinese reading emphasizes on accurate pronounciation and correct intonation on every single word.

    你講得唔錯,但唔熟既字詞要讀慢D. 因為中文係由單字組成,讀中文要著重每個字”字正腔圓”

    Napoleon said this on November 13th, 2007 at 1:25 pm

  2. Wow! That was impressive. Congratulations!

    Edwin said this on November 14th, 2007 at 12:27 am

  3. Now I’m ashamed of myself. You speak much better than me and I study and speak Cantonese all the time. Good stuff.

    米蘭 said this on November 15th, 2007 at 1:14 am

  4. Hi, Marcelo! Bravo! I check both your blog & Milan’s blog every day to see if there’s any new posting. I think Milan speaks Cantonese very well; he was just being modest!

    Charlie said this on November 15th, 2007 at 11:38 pm

  5. Thanks Charlie!But there’s no need to check my blog everyday, I don’t post that often.I think once in every three weeks is ok.And I agree with you : Milan’s Cantonese is great, he was just being modest.

    cantostories said this on November 16th, 2007 at 2:14 am

  6. Hi Marcelo. You did well. I am happy that i can understand most of what you were saying. It’s good that you actually made a recording so that you can measure progress now and in the future. I agree there’s not a lot of material on Cantonese these days so keep up the good work.

    Richard said this on November 16th, 2007 at 10:09 pm

  7. great job~ u speak cantonese so well~~ 繼續努力!!

    karen said this on November 16th, 2007 at 11:33 pm

  8. =] 好野喎,但係有d字真係要講番慢少少

    Ceci said this on November 17th, 2007 at 1:18 am

  9. Hi you commented on my blog about whether I was learning Cantonese and what resources I use. Yes I am but still early days. Your Cantonese speaking must be pretty good because I could pick out the words I expect to understand after looking at the text :) . I answered the question in a little more detail here http://friedelcraft.blogspot.com/2007/11/learning-multiple-languages.html

    chris said this on November 17th, 2007 at 6:06 am

  10. Marcelo, I have started a new blog on Cantonese. I have added you to my blogroll. I will officially announce it later this week. Meanwhile, feel free to visit it and leave comments.

    http://www.cantophilia.com/

    Thanks.

    Edwin said this on November 20th, 2007 at 12:07 am

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