
Learn the basics of Cantonese, including the six tones, vowels, and consonants, and build practical survival skills to greet people, order food and drinks, count, and ask for places.
Master the six tones of Cantonese with clear pitch patterns, practice drills, and foundational consonants and vowels to sound native while pronouncing every Cantonese character.
Master the 20 Cantonese consonants through paired aspirated and unaspirated sounds, with clear examples like p/b, t/d, and kw/gw, and practice to recognize and pronounce them correctly.
Learn three clipped consonants and two syllabic consonants in Cantonese, with end-of-word pronunciations where p, t, and k are not spoken, and how hum and long can stand alone.
Master seven long vowels and four short vowels in Cantonese, then combine them with consonants to form words.
Learn the sixth long gliding vowels and five short gliding vowels in Cantonese, building on prior vowels to pronounce new sounds. Prepare for vowel–consonant combinations in the next lesson.
Learn how to greet in Cantonese, introduce yourself, say thank you for a gift or for service, and bid farewell, with pronunciation tips and tone guidance.
Learn to count from one to ten in Cantonese with tone practice and pronunciation tips, including clipped consonants, then count beyond ten using zero, hundred, thousand, and ten thousand.
Count in Cantonese by combining numbers with ten thousand and hundred thousand. Practice forming numbers from 11 to 12,345 using a systematic, pronunciation-based approach.
Correction: 奶 nai (milk) should be in the 5th tone
At around 10:05 on in the next lecture, I mistakenly put 奶 nai (milk) in the 3rd tone, but it should be in the 5th tone. Apologies for the mistake.
See you in the next lecture!
Learn essential Cantonese food and drinks vocabulary, including eat and drink verbs, rice and noodles, meat and vegetables, and drinks like hot lemon water and cold milk tea.
Learn Cantonese place vocabulary for a Hong Kong trip, including restaurant, shopping mall, hotel, washroom, hospital, park, ocean park, mountain, and sea, plus how to say go to a place.
Explore essential Cantonese transportation terms used in Hong Kong, including car, bus, taxi, tram, minibus, and subway, plus how to say station and getting on, taking, or getting off.
Explore three essential Cantonese pronouns: I, you, and he or she, and how to form simple subject-verb-object sentences, like 'I take subway' and 'you eat rice'.
Explore how Cantonese marks tense by adding suffixes or prefixes to verbs. Past uses 'so' at end; present continuous uses 'gone' or 'gotten' at end; future uses 'we' at start.
Learn how to add time context in Cantonese sentences using words like yesterday, today, tomorrow, and just now, and how placing time expressions affects verb forms and clarity.
This lecture teaches what, who, and why in Cantonese with essential vocabulary and a subject–verb–mutt structure, plus present and past tense examples for travel.
Learn to ask where, when, and how questions in Cantonese, introducing three phrases and practical sentence structures with example questions.
Learn how to express possession in Cantonese by putting the possessive marker behind the pronoun, turning it into mine, yours, or theirs with nouns like pen and ruler.
Master Cantonese quantifiers by linking numbers to nouns; use go for general items, boogie for cups, say for bowls, test gone for rooms, and ga ga for machines.
Cantonese is one of the most ancient, culturally-rich and complex languages in the world. It has 100 million speakers from all around the world.
This course is suitable for absolute beginners. Although Cantonese itself can be complex, I promise I'll make it simple. I'll walk you through learning Cantonese slowly, clearly and systematically.
In Part 1 of the course, we will talk about the foundations of learning Cantonese: the 6 tones, the vowels and the consonants.
In Part 2 of the course, I'll teach you essential survival vocabulary that will be incredibly useful for anyone.
In Part 3, I'll go over some basic Cantonese grammar. By the end, you'll be able to form sentences and hold simple conversations with native Cantonese speakers!
Many people might be reluctant to start learning Cantonese because they are intimidated by Chinese characters. That's why his course aims to get you off the ground by putting an emphasis on spoken Cantonese rather than written. Although you are still encouraged to try writing and remembering the characters, Jyutping (a Cantonese romanization system) will be given throughout the course, so memorizing characters is NOT required.
Don't wait to get started! I promise learning Cantonese is an eye-opener and an experience that you'll thoroughly enjoy!