As an Indian growing up in Hong Kong, he was already the odd one out, but when he opened his mouth to speak Cantonese, he said people would see his face and "do a double take". As he fluently shifts ...
Now, before anybody says it, I know that the best way to learn a language is to immerse yourself in it. I, however, do not have the time or money to go live in Hong Kong for a year or more so I can't ...
Three decades ago, finding opportunities to learn Cantonese in San Francisco wasn't hard. But today in the city that's drawn Cantonese speakers from South China for over 150 years, there's fear that ...
When I’m around Cantonese speakers, this is the memorised caveat I come armed with: “Ngo sek teng, mm sek gong” (translation: “I can understand, but can’t speak”). Having grown up with my maternal ...
When Taiwan-based singer Qiu Fengze – real name Kenny Khoo – approached Edan Lui Cheuk-on, member of Canto-pop boy band Mirror, for a collaboration, he did not expect learning Cantonese would be ...
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It's the language of S.F.'s first Chinese immigrants. Can it survive another generation?
Kim Torres was nervous as she stepped in front of two dozen classmates to perform the Cantonese dialogue she'd memorized. Although the language is her late mother's native language, the 23-year-old ...
Until I met, and later married, a native Hongkonger, I was never particularly Sinophile. I had a fondness for what small sample I had tried of the vast continent that is Chinese cuisine, and admired ...
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