David on Formosa · @davidonformosa
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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

abc.net.au/news/2023-08-30/fic

#cantonese #HumanRights #China #Hongkong

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Stop That · @stopthatgirl7
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Ming Chan · @ymchan87
9 followers · 137 posts · Server hkdon.com

#cantonese

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I was utterly delighted to hear being spoken in one of the eps in .
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!
youtu.be/F4MxR8XwDOQ

#cantonese #GoodOmens2 #nospoilers #drwho #crystalyu

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Anika · @Anikka_Duka
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Anika · @Anikka_Duka
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萬水千山總是情 Pretty good cover on this old classic song from the 80s.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=h66kZVnx

#cantonese

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Anika · @Anikka_Duka
31 followers · 950 posts · Server mstdn.social

Folks from my time should know the famous song.

沧海一声笑

m.youtube.com/watch?v=6qzNuOP5

#Hongkong #cantonese

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tikyon · @tikyon
15 followers · 172 posts · Server mastodon.in.th

เพลงนี้ของอ้อนไจ๋ฟังกี่รอบก็ชอบ มันเหมือนมีเรื่องราวอยู่ในตัวเพลง ดนตรีประกอบก็แจ่ม

open.spotify.com/track/2yVuccI

#cantonese #cantonpop

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@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 representation! 🙌🏼🫶🏼

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

#asian #ireland #uk #cantonese #community #python #IrishTechCommunity #diversityintech #diversitymakesusstronger

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Anika · @Anikka_Duka
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A great song from the 90s. A song to mum. Love this Hong Kong band.

youtu.be/frQa_Qklbos

#beyond #Hongkong #cantonese

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sgt1372 · @sgt1372
342 followers · 13647 posts · Server sfba.social

@coolgrey

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!!!

#cantonese

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Chunshek · @chunshek
29 followers · 31 posts · Server polyglot.city

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

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

#cantonese #mandarin #taiwanese

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ChasMusic (he/him) · @ChasMusic
46 followers · 348 posts · Server ohai.social

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

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ChasMusic (he/him) · @ChasMusic
45 followers · 390 posts · Server ohai.social

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

youtu.be/YMJb761xWWE

#cantonese #hongkong #pop #music #popmusic #lgbtq

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ChasMusic (he/him) · @ChasMusic
45 followers · 379 posts · Server ohai.social

...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. music.youtube.com/watch?v=YOAy

#hongkong #cantonese #rockmusic #rock #music

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Chunshek · @chunshek
22 followers · 14 posts · Server polyglot.city

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

一樣,冇 (tense),但係會用 表示 (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

#tense #cantonese #mandarin #aspect #華語 #廣東話 #時態 #動詞後綴 #體

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🙌 So happy in Ireland's just ever Cantonese reading at Sweny's Pharmacy went really well last night! And well done to all the winners of the 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! 🥰

#cantonese #ulysses #blooms

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Anika · @Anikka_Duka
29 followers · 880 posts · Server mstdn.social

#cantonese

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Anika · @Anikka_Duka
29 followers · 875 posts · Server mstdn.social

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

m.youtube.com/watch?v=qhq-2usf

#Hongkong #Song #cantonese

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Chunshek · @chunshek
2 followers · 3 posts · Server polyglot.city

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

As a C2 level speaker in , , and , I've come to polyglot.city to connect with like-minded folks who are interested in . I have studied , , , and ; and also dabbled with , , , , , and .

My next goal: .

Come and with me as I share my findings.

#introduction #hongkonger #taiwan #cantonese #mandarin #english #languages #french #german #italian #hksl #spanish #arabic #japanese #icelandic #hungarian #ukrainian #taiwanese #codeswitch

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