About Us

SiuMay starting teaching us beginner's Cantonese at the Mary Ward Centre in Bloomsbury, however in 2010 we needed to find a new venue and we now hire a room at the Camden Chinese Community Centre for our intermediate speaking class.

We meet on Wednesdays 6-8pm and focus on speaking and listening and there's a new separate class for reading. We learn through games, role play, books, listening to CD's; look through the archive to see themes we've covered recently labels: notes from class.

There are currently eight students in the intermediate speaking class: GaLei, JimSi, AhLik, Andrew, Michael, Ondeia, TimNei, and I (PuiPui). We're all between 21 and 60 but if you're 16-100 you're very welcome!

There is also a level 2 pre-intermediate/elementary class on Wednesdays 8-10pm see right for the location/venue (this class is less advanced than the intermediate group but it's not a complete beginners class).
And a NEW advanced reading class for Cantonese speakers on Mondays.

We're always hoping to find new members so please don't be shy if your interested just contact PuiPui puipui789 at gmail.com your first lesson is free and each class there after is a share of the room hire and the teacher's fee.
The Camden Chinese Community Centre is within easy reach of Euston, Euston Square, Russell Square and Kings Cross station, and many bus routes.

If you're a complete beginner to Cantonese, don't worry SiuMay teaches beginners too!

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: