Andrew Chan, a Hong Konger currently living in Australia, was forced to delete an article from the website he edits after his family in Hong Kong was threatened by police. He has now shut down his organisation which promoted Cantonese language and culture

#HongKong #China #HumanRights #Cantonese

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-30/fiction-hong-kong-national-security-law-andrew-chan-search/102788164

#HongKong #Cantonese-language advocacy group closes after national security police raid founder’s home

https://hongkongfp.com/2023/08/28/hong-kong-cantonese-language-advocacy-group-closes-after-national-security-police-raid-founders-home/

#Cantonese

I was utterly delighted to hear #Cantonese being spoken in one of the eps in #GoodOmens2.
If you haven't watched it yet, go watch it, it's so wonderful and now I hoping and wishing there's another season already!
https://youtu.be/F4MxR8XwDOQ
#NoSpoilers #DrWho #CrystalYu

恋曲1990 #Cantonese version. Sound track of a famous #hongkong movie.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m9hl5pTAwrI&pp=ygUU5oGL5puyMTk5MCBDYW50b25lc2U%3D

萬水千山總是情 Pretty good cover on this old classic #cantonese song from the 80s.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h66kZVnxGpU

Folks from my time should know the famous #cantonese song. #hongkong

沧海一声笑

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6qzNuOP5Kjo&pp=ygUQ5ruE5rW35LiA6IGy56yRIA%3D%3D

เพลงนี้ของอ้อนไจ๋ฟังกี่รอบก็ชอบ มันเหมือนมีเรื่องราวอยู่ในตัวเพลง ดนตรีประกอบก็แจ่ม #cantonese #cantonpop

https://open.spotify.com/track/2yVuccIIFgA21PuL5b50yy?si=ApbSHCtPSd-NOzjaCNqb7w

@cheukting_ho : I want to say gratz to you here as well (excuse to toot here as I don't post her enough). 👏🏼

Yass to #Asian #Ireland #UK #Cantonese representation! 🙌🏼🫶🏼

Thank you for all your contributions to the #community & looking forward to seeing you and other elects doing more amazing work as board member at @ThePSF. ❤️🐍💪

#Python #IrishTechCommunity #DiversityInTech #DiversityMakesUsStronger

A great #cantonese song from the 90s. A song to mum. Love this Hong Kong band.

#Hongkong #beyond

https://youtu.be/frQa_Qklbos

@coolgrey #Cantonese

Like Latin, Cantonese is a "dead language," but millions of Chinese here in the US, abroad & in southern China don't know it yet and, when they get here, event Mainland & Taiwan Chiense, have to learn it to speak w/the locals. LOL!!!

Hard to tell who last person to speak Cantonese (to him or herself) will be but it's certainly still of use across the US and around the world in towns both biga dn small.

The question for me is whether which dialet of Cantonese they will be teaching -- Guangdong wah (Sam Yup) or Toishan Wah (Sai Yup)?

My guess is Sam Yup but truly fluent Cantonese speakers and speak both.

Me? As a 3rd gen born ABC, I can barely speak enough Sam Yump to order Cantonese food that I like. Forget the rest. Double LOL!!!

@lukito
木蝨
• #Cantonese pronunciation: muk6 sat1 [mʊk̚˨ sɐt̚˥]
• #Mandarin pronunciation: mùshī [mu˥˨ ʂɨ˦] (which is a homonym to 牧師 “priest”)
• #Taiwanese pronunciation: ba̍k-sat [bak̚˧˨ sat̚˧˨]

So in Mandarin, Father Lin (林牧師) could also be “misunderstood” as Woodlouse Lin (林木蝨).

While I never became fluent in Cantonese, I found my studies at City College in that language to be enriching and useful making my life in San Francisco. #linguistics #language #Cantonese

2) Deadline by Hins Cheung has some explicit same-sex affection here and there

https://youtu.be/YMJb761xWWE

#Cantonese #HongKong #Pop #music #PopMusic #LGBTQ

...a song by Hong Kong rock group Zen, so I re-listened to their album and there it was Hope This World Have No More Famine. Not the same song or even the exact phrase, but I can see where it triggered the memory of that song even though I hadn't listened to it in probably a year or more. Interesting. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YOAyy-2ECPQ&feature=share #HongKong #Cantonese #RockMusic #rock #music

There is no grammatical #tense in either #Cantonese or #Mandarin, but there are a whopping 39 verb suffixes in Cantonese, including 15 #aspect markers. In contrast, Mandarin has 3 aspect-marking verb suffixes. For reference: there are 4 aspects in English, of which 3 are marked.

#華語 同 #廣東話 一樣，冇 #時態 (tense)，但係會用 #動詞後綴 表示 #體 （aspect，類似英文嘅進行式、完成式）。

華語只有3種動詞後綴：了、著、過
廣東話就有39種動詞後綴，包括 15 種「體」：咗、過、落（實現體）、定、緊、吓、住、實、生晒、衡晒、起上嚟、起、得、落（開始體）、開

Source 來源：
《語法講義》朱德熙
《粵語語法講義》鄧思穎

🙌 So happy #Cantonese in Ireland's just ever Cantonese #Ulysses reading at Sweny's Pharmacy went really well last night! And well done to all the winners of the #Blooms art & writing competition. One of the winners here is reading her translated piece. PJ was an amazing host! ❤️ Love that literature brings people from all backgrounds together.
We even had two Indian guests join us as one of them read Ulysses this year and can't make it to Blooms Day Festival next week! 🥰

HK oldies from the 80s. I like this song’s lyrics.

#cantonese

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqi3HOdkFa8&pp=ygUY5LiA55Sf5L2V5rGCIEVuZ2xpc2ggc3Vi

I found this #cantonese #song and love it. Don’t know who is the singer! I think it is #Hongkong singer.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qhq-2usfOZc&pp=ygUW5Y2i5Yag5bu3IOazquWIq-aVheS5oQ%3D%3D

#Introduction

Hi! I'm Chunshek, a #Hongkonger jack-of-all-trades living in #Taiwan.

As a C2 level speaker in #Cantonese, #Mandarin, and #English, I've come to polyglot.city to connect with like-minded folks who are interested in #languages. I have studied #French, #German, #Italian, and #HKSL; and also dabbled with #Spanish, #Arabic, #Japanese, #Icelandic, #Hungarian, and #Ukrainian.

My next goal: #Taiwanese.

Come and #CodeSwitch with me as I share my findings.