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What not to do in an interview… 6 Jun 2011 | 12:16 pm
I found this video on facebook and I wanted to share it with everyone. It’s about a Hong Kong guy who is a little too fond of English and goes to a job interview.Very, very funny indeed!
JAPANESE MILITARISM - MONOLOGUE 29 Mar 2011 | 12:32 pm
As I promised, I will continue to post monologues. I will start with a series of short monologues about Hong Kong’s history, particularly about the Japanese occupation period. The text - both the Chin...
Where I am after 2 months of study 27 Mar 2011 | 07:00 am
So, I thought I’d do a recording talking a little bit about how I got interested in Cantonese , so that you guys can see my progress in these past two months and how my studies are going. It was in pa...
YOU CANNOT KNOW A LANGUAGE BETTER THAN A NATIVE SPEAKER…WAIT, REALLY? 8 Mar 2011 | 07:17 am
The title of this post might come across as a little provocative, and in a sense it is, for we native speakers of any language always feel that foreigners will never be able to know our language just ...
TEXT-TO-SPEECH SOFTWARE 5 Mar 2011 | 02:35 pm
TEXT-TO-SPEECH SOFTWARE I just came across this website( http://e-guidedog.sourceforge.net/ekho.php) which has a text-to-speech software for free. It is a very good resource to check the pronunciatio...
HOW I STUDY CANTONESE I 26 Feb 2011 | 06:43 am
I don’t know if this has any interest to you, but I just wanted to talk a little bit about something I do to learn Cantonese. I have tons of vocabulary lists and I have already asked a few times to my...
CHINESE CLASSICAL MUSIC 25 Feb 2011 | 02:08 pm
Even though I don’t know much about Chinese classical music, I have always liked it, especially listening to the pipa and er hu. I was listening to some old cds I have and found this gem. It is a Chin...
ACADEMIC ARTICLE ON ABC JIN AND FREESTYLE RAP 22 Feb 2011 | 03:12 pm
http://chinalinks.osu.edu/naccl-20/proceedings/20_jay-j.pdf I found this academic article on ABC Jin’s Cantonese language acquisition and the formation of his identity as an American Chinese. It has ...
MY FIRST REAL CONVERSATION IN CANTONESE 21 Feb 2011 | 02:33 pm
This is an audioclip of a conversation I had on skype a month or so ago with a friend from Hong Kong with whom I went to school with. This is one of the first ‘’ real'’ conversations I had in Cantones...
THE INDEPENDENT RED FOX - ENGLISH VERSION 20 Feb 2011 | 01:38 pm
Here is the English version of the story. Since I have a basic account, it seems that I cannot put two audio clips in the same post. I am sorry about this aesthetical inconvenience , but here is the t...
