10 August 2011

Dim Sum Meet up - September 2011

We're having an informal meet up in China Town, London. At 12 midday on Sunday 4th September 2011 Would you like to join us? If you've been thinking of joining one of our classes in Sept it would be a good opportunity to meet other students and discuss your level if you're not a complete beginner to Cantonese.
No need to enrol or commit to classes on that day, it's just a meet up of existing students, our teacher (SiuMay) and a few new people who are thinking of joining.
For more details or to attend please contact PuiPui as we'll be booking tables in advance.

3 August 2011

Summer holidays 2011

We're all taking a summer holiday and classes will resume in September; see the right hand side for dates.
Please feel free to contact PuiPui should you have any queries or questions, or if' you'd like to enrol for September.

Tones - the little numbers on this blog

Cantonese has six tones, we use numbers after each word to identify them
1 = High Falling - as in King
2 = Mid-rising - you??
3 = Mid-level - boon3 (half)
4 = Low Falling - kingdom
5 = Low-rising - ngoh5 (I, me)
6 = Low-level - ngoh5 dei6 (we) sounds like day

alas they're very important, see: