A Christmas Carol

TweetHere is a French Christmas Carol for you. I find the lyrics very meaningful. I learned it a couple of years ago from a Christmas carol service at my workplace. At first, I thought they were singing in some aboriginal language. Then half way through I recognized it was French! Either their French was really [...]

Feeling Embarrassed to Speak

TweetIn a thread from a Cantonese Learner’s forum posted a few days ago, several learners expressed their fears and frustrations when attempting to practice their learning language in public. Here are some excerpts: “If … there is a big line behind me … I feel paranoid that people behind me are getting angry.” “I once [...]

Getting the Cantonese ‘z’ Sound Right

TweetThere has been a discussion in a Cantonese learner’s forum about the pronunciation of the Cantonese Jyutping ‘z’ sound. There is indeed an obvious difference between this sound and the English ‘j’ sound. To complicate things a bit more, there is yet another sound which kind of sits between the 2 sounds. This is the [...]

Extreme Listening

TweetListening to podcasts is a good way to improve your listening. Do you have a tendency to settle into listening to the “easy stuff”, so that you could just listen once and understand most of it, or are you willing to go for the “extreme stuff”? I have been working on my French listening in [...]

Indian Kid Learning Cantonese

TweetMy wife told me an incident last night. She has a 2.5 year-old kid in her daycare, whose father is from India, and mother from Singapore. He has been with my wife for about half a year, and my wife has been teaching him simple Cantonese words. Yesterday, the kid’s father told my wife that [...]

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