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Basic Bootcamp: Self-Introduction
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Learn some Cantonese essentials such as introducing yourself, responding, and creating a Cantonese name for yourself
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Lesson LibraryAbsolute Beginner Season 2
Absolute Beginner
Absolute Beginner Season 2
In this series geared toward the absolute beginner, you will learn how to greet people, ask questions, talk about the present, past, and future, count, and much more.
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25 Audio Lessons
1

Where are you Going in Hong Kong?

Learn an informal word that will get you far--or at least to the closest McDonald's

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 • 10 Minutes
2

Where in Hong Kong Have You Been?

Learn how to express the past tense

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 • 11 Minutes
3

Weekend Cantonese Class?

Learn how to ask someone if they need to do something

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 • 11 Minutes
4

Are you Late for Work in Hong Kong Today?

Learn where you should put those pesky time words when speaking Cantonese

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 • 13 Minutes
5

What Do You Do in Hong Kong?

Learn how to tell someone what your profession is

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 • 11 Minutes
6

Weather in Hong Kong

Learn how to agree with someone and express your opinion

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 • 11 Minutes
7

Which Color Looks Good in Hong Kong?

Learn how to ask which of something looks good, such as color or clothes

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 • 11 Minutes
8

TV Secrets of Hong Kong

Learn how to ask for recommendations, which could save you quite a bit of time

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 • 12 Minutes
9

Hong Kong Movies

Learn how to pick between two choices, whether it be two movies, two shirts, or two meals

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 • 11 Minutes
10

Renting an Apartment in Hong Kong

Learn how to ask about different sizes, which will be good when it comes to looking for that new apartment in China

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 • 12 Minutes
11

Hong Kong Hotels

Learn how to book a room when traveling

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 • 10 Minutes
12

Jammed in Hong Kong

Review common polite phrases, which can help you anywhere you go in China

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 • 11 Minutes
13

Cash or Card in Hong Kong

Review how to offer choices

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 • 10 Minutes
14

Shopping in Hong Kong

Learn how to express things to the extreme

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 • 10 Minutes
15

Opening a Bank Account in Hong Kong

Learn the vocabulary you need to know for using the banks in China

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 • 13 Minutes
16

Paying Phone Bills in Hong Kong

Learn how to describe failure to do something

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 • 13 Minutes
17

Recharging Phones in Cantonese

Learn a character to express something even better

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 • 12 Minutes
18

The Cantonese Loan Shark

Learn to clarify what you said, which could be important if you don't want that loan shark after you

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 • 12 Minutes
19

No Smoking in China

Learn two incredibly useful words to navigate what can be a delicate social situation

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 • 11 Minutes
20

Telecom in Hong Kong

Learn the present tense from the past tense when negating

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 • 12 Minutes
21

A Cantonese Summer

Learn how to express more or less

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 • 11 Minutes
22

A Cantonese Romance

Learn verb complement

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 • 11 Minutes
23

Changing Money in Hong Kong

Learn currency-related vocabulary

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 • 11 Minutes
24

Because It's Cantonese

Learn how to explain why--why you chose this or that, why you did this or that, why you said this or that

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 • 11 Minutes
25

Flying on Cathay Pacific

Learn how to ask rhetorical questions

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 • 10 Minutes