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Lesson LibraryKey Phrases and Grammar: Absolute Beginner Cantonese
Absolute Beginner
Key Phrases and Grammar: Absolute Beginner Cantonese
Learn Cantonese rapidly using our powerful dialogue-based method.
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Contents
50 Audio Lessons
1

What's in a Cantonese Name?

Learn how to introduce yourself and ask for the names of others

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 • 10 Minutes
2

Shooting the Breeze in Cantonese

Learn engaging someone in Cantonese by asking them how they are

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 • 10 Minutes
3

The Cantonese Identity Mix-Up

Learn how to use the Cantonese verb "to be"

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 • 12 Minutes
4

A Beer to Quench your Cantonese Thirst

Learn how to ask for something

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 • 11 Minutes
5

Logging on in Hong Kong

Learn how to use the Cantonese verb "to have" and about getting access to Wi-Fi in China

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 • 12 Minutes
6

A Lesson in Cantonese Civility

Learn a Cantonese possessive particle

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 • 10 Minutes
7

Out for a Cantonese Dinner

Learn some Cantonese basic sentence structures

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 • 13 Minutes
8

Help From the Cantonese Staff

Learn two ways to ask questions in Cantonese, which will be extremely helpful in getting the things you want in Hong Kong

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 • 14 Minutes
9

Delicious Cantonese Roast Goose

Learn how to ask questions

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 • 15 Minutes
10

Ways to Get Around Hong Kong

Learn how to make a suggestion in Cantonese, and we will also clue you in on how to get around China in the easiest way possible

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 • 10 Minutes
11

No Free Cantonese Lunch

Review the basic Cantonese sentence structure

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 • 11 Minutes
12

Time for Cantonese

Learn how to speak of time in general

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 • 13 Minutes
13

Crashing and Burning

Learn how to ask for someone's phone number in Cantonese, which will help you ask for other things as well

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 • 15 Minutes
14

Out for a Cantonese Movie

Learn how to reduplicate certain Cantonese verbs to show preference

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 • 15 Minutes
15

Crashing and Burning: Part 2

Learn the Cantonese word for measurement that will save you some embarrassment if you ever forget the others

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 • 14 Minutes
16

How About a Cup of Coffee?

Learn the all-important Cantonese verb that will get you to where you want to go

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 • 13 Minutes
17

Bargaining in the Cantonese Market

Learn how to use a Cantonese adverb that takes your whole level of Cantonese speaking to a higher degree

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 • 11 Minutes
18

It's Quitting Time in Hong Kong!

Learn Cantonese time expressions and what it is like to work in Hong Kong

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 • 13 Minutes
19

Lightning Fast Cantonese Language Proficiency

Learn the Cantonese past-tense suffix

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 • 9 Minutes
20

Effortless Cantonese

Learn the Cantonese present continuous tense

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 • 9 Minutes
21

Slowing Down the Cantonese

Learn how to modify Cantonese verbs and adjectives

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 • 9 Minutes
22

It Runs in the Cantonese Family

Learn a Cantonese verb that is the equivalent of "to be"

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 • 9 Minutes
23

Compliments to the Cantonese Chef

Learn how to make a comparison

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 • 8 Minutes
24

Being Told You're Really Ugly in Cantonese

Review Cantonese grammatical patterns, especially adverbs of degree

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 • 11 Minutes
25

Drinks on Me in Cantonese

Learn about Cantonese time words and where they appear in Cantonese sentences

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 • 10 Minutes
26

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
27

Where in Hong Kong Have You Been?

Learn how to express the past tense

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 • 11 Minutes
28

Weekend Cantonese Class?

Learn how to ask someone if they need to do something

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 • 11 Minutes
29

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
30

What Do You Do in Hong Kong?

Learn how to tell someone what your profession is

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 • 11 Minutes
31

Weather in Hong Kong

Learn how to agree with someone and express your opinion

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 • 11 Minutes
32

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
33

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
34

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
35

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
36

Hong Kong Hotels

Learn how to book a room when traveling

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 • 10 Minutes
37

Jammed in Hong Kong

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

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 • 11 Minutes
38

Cash or Card in Hong Kong

Review how to offer choices

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 • 10 Minutes
39

Shopping in Hong Kong

Learn how to express things to the extreme

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 • 10 Minutes
40

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
41

Paying Phone Bills in Hong Kong

Learn how to describe failure to do something

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 • 13 Minutes
42

Recharging Phones in Cantonese

Learn a character to express something even better

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 • 12 Minutes
43

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
44

No Smoking in China

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

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 • 11 Minutes
45

Telecom in Hong Kong

Learn the present tense from the past tense when negating

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 • 12 Minutes
46

A Cantonese Summer

Learn how to express more or less

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 • 11 Minutes
47

A Cantonese Romance

Learn verb complement

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 • 11 Minutes
48

Changing Money in Hong Kong

Learn currency-related vocabulary

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 • 11 Minutes
49

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
50

Flying on Cathay Pacific

Learn how to ask rhetorical questions

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 • 10 Minutes