7 November 2013

Beginners Cantonese Classes

SiuMay's starting up a new beginners Cantonese Class near Leicester Square WC2H 7DW on Saturday Mornings.
She just needs one more student to run the class so please contact PuiPui if you'd be interested or you'd like more info.

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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: