07月我可能返去香港。

今年我可能得留喺香港呀。如果係可以，我就會喺英文營教英文.. 每個星期我要教十個學生啦。 

This year I may get to stay in HK! If I can, then I will be teaching English at an English camp. Every week I must teach a group of 10 students.

 

我就會喺英文營教英文

One significant difference between Eng and Chi is that the order of "place/location" and "action" is reversed.

Eng: Subject + Action + Location
Chi: Subject + Location + Action 

E.g. I play badminton in a badminton court. 我係羽毛球場打羽毛球.

However, location may also be put before the action as follows:

Eng & CHi: Loaction, + Subject + Action

E.g In a zoo, we can see different animals. 係動物園入面，我哋可以見到唔同動物。

1. If you don't have a Mandarin background, it is not easy to master Cantonese, especially the speaking part. So u may needa put extra effort to reach this goal. 2. Cantonese has 9 tones. True. Only six are used? Not really. But majority of characters do have only 6 tones. What about the remaining three tones? They are for characters with ending consonants -t, -p, - k. And these characters are very common in use too. 3. Is the grammar similar? Sort of, but definitely more complicated than Mandarin. 4. Slangs. There is a rich collection in both languages. But as a Cantonese speaker, of coz I do like cantonese ones more.

Target 目標 Purpose 目的

琴日、今日同聽日 (Practice)

琴日、我買唨一個嘢。我今日返工唔記得檸唨嗰個好重要嘅嘢。我聽日一定會記得。

 

琴日、我買唨一樣嘢。我今日返工唔記得拎阻嗰樣好重要嘅嘢。我聽日一定會記得。

 

<address>If you simply use 嘢 without specifying what that is, it is more proper to use 樣 ahead. </address><address> </address><address>唨, when following a verb, means you have performed such action. It is pretty much like past participles in English. Since you didn't bring the thing to work, you shouldn't add 唨 to the verb 拎. </address>

First notebook entry: Introducing myself

我識講英文。 我是學廣東話。 我喜歡學廣東話。 (^_^)

 

我識講英文。 我學廣東話(I learn Cantonese)。/                我鐘意*學廣東話。 

                 我學緊廣東話(I am learning Cantonese)。 

 

*鐘意 is the colloquial word to express likes while 喜歡 is mostly used in written context. 是 is also used in writing. Its colloquial form should be 係.

 

Good start. Hope you can keep it up ;)

First notebook entry: Introducing myself

i am learning cantonese chinese to help me communicate with my in laws, my native language is English and i grew up UK.

 

自我介紹

 

我學緊廣東話去同外家溝通。我嘅母語係英文。我係英國長大。

 

Addressing family members (esp the extended family) is particularly complicated yet very important in Chinese.

 

You may use 外家 to address the family of your wife. However, if your wife wanna address your family, I can't think of a suitable word now. For your information

 

Son-in-law 女婿

Daughter-in-law 新抱

Father-in-law (if you are M) 外父

Father-in-law (if you are F) 老爺

Mother-in-law (if you are M) 外母

Mother-in-law (if you are F) 奶奶

Older Brother-in-law (if you are M) 大舅

Older Borther-in-law (if you are F) 大伯

Younger Brother-in-law (if you are M) 舅仔

Younger Brother-in-law (if you are F) 叔仔

Older Sister-in-law (if you are M) 姨媽

Older Sister-in-law (if you are F) 姑奶

Younger Sister-in-law (if you are M) 姨仔

Younger Sister-in-law (if you are F) 姑仔

 

If you take the kids in the the account, the list probably goes endless.

 

*"Older / Younger" is relative to your spouse's age, not your own age.