#cantonese

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #🇮🇹 #food #italy #🇨🇳 #china #cantonese #language

[fullcravings]

Mini Cantonese-Style Mooncakes

#mini #cantonese #cantonese style #mooncakes #moon cakes #food #asian #dessert #recipe #golden syrup #snack #siftandsimmer

[piizunn]

let's meet at the confluence (2024)

The New Gallery's Billboard 208

January 27th - June 30th, 2024

let’s meet at the confluence is a suggestion to all Calgarians to consider the site where the Elbow flows into the Bow river and question how settler-colonial history is privileged in public and site specific art. The piece references the different histories of gathering at the confluence of the waters, histories that long predate Calgary, Alberta. Despite histories of Indigenous uses of the land, queer cruising, sex work, trade, the arrival of the railway, and the North West Mounted Police, the site of the confluence is often overlooked and rarely used as the great meeting place that it once was. The simple map and text invites an audience of all backgrounds, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, to make their way from the The New Gallery along the Bow river to the confluence viewpoint and to consider their proximity to one another. The text is in English and the word confluence is repeated in multiple languages including Blackfoot, Cantonese, and Cree to honour the artist’s Michif roots and the specific location of the billboard on Treaty 7 and in Chinatown, pointing to the history of many different people living along the rivers.

#my work #this is on my professional website too but i like posting my work here teehee #riel text #contemporary art #art gallery #artist run centre #calgary alberta #mohkinstsis #métis #michif #métis art #indigenous art #indigenous contemporary art #illustration #confluence #bow river #elbow river #alberta #prairies #public art #billboard #blackfoot #cantonese #artist #art school #queer art

[don-dake]

hey 🇭🇰Cantonese🇲🇴 learners!

I got recommended this keyboard App called TypeDuck🦆by anwar @ Insta that you may like to check out! (If you haven't heard of, or aren't already using, that is!)

Even though I have yet to try it (long story involving my phone being wonky so I can't install this for myself, for now), cantonese4parents @ Insta already has, and it's available on Playstore, so I'd expect it has been vetted safe enough!

Apparently if you use this keyboard to type out in 粵拼 Jyutping (Cantonese Romanisation, equivalent to Mandarin's Pinyin system), it will show you not only the Jyutping spelling but also the English meaning alongside the 漢字 Chinese characters! ↓

Besides English, it apparently supports some less common language translations like “Hindi, Nepali and Urdu” (quoting from their website) too.

Very useful I think, for anyone who's not good at recognising/mapping the 漢字 to the 粵拼 yet! 😺

Trivia: If you're wondering why this App is called “TypeDuck” 🦆, it's because it's a play on 打得 in Cantonese (Jyutping: daa² dak¹), which means “able to type”! Great pun! Yes? 😸

#Cantonese #Jyutping #Chinese Language #Language #Useful Tips

[davidwontstopwritingsongs]

so in cantonese it's called 奇異女俠玩救宇宙. lets break that DOWN

the tweet i saw about it translated it as "wacky woman fucks around and saves the world". is that an accurate translation? well… yes and no.

let's start with 奇異. you'll also notice it in films like doctor strange (奇異博士). a rough translation would be wacky/weird, yes. or strange if you will. but it also has connotations to magic, the supernatural, interesting things, things outside the realm of reality. something singular, unique. and that fits with the film so well.

女俠 next. 女 means woman. not very much to say here. 俠 if you google it would mean something like brave, hero, etc. not a huuuuge amount to analyse in this part apart from the fact that 俠 is used in the title of every single superhero movie (spiderman is 蜘蛛侠, iron man is 鐵甲奇俠, so on and so forth) so i guess a cantonese person seeing this movie title would assume it was somewhat superhero-y. ("to be fair, it does have quite good action scenes" - my friend who had to have this post infodumped to them at 2am before i decided to post it on tumblr)

NOW THE NEXT BIT. THE BIT THAT INSPIRED THIS UNHINGED 2AM DEEP DIVE. 玩救. THIS IS WHERE THE FUCKS AROUND AND SAVES THE WORLD BIT COMES FROM. 玩 means to play. 救 means to save. so she's playing around and saving something. cool.

but wait, because this is actually an EXTREMELY CLEVER PUN. you see, 救 is pronounced "gou" in cantonese. you want to know another word that is pronounced "gou"? and not just after you fuck around with tones, but actually in the exact same pronounciation? 夠. now what is the significance of that you may ask?

玩救 itself is not a word/phrase. 玩夠, however, is. same pronounciation so it fits into the wordplay. 玩夠 means literally to have "played enough/finished playing". basically you're done, you're moving on. but that is the centre of evelyn's struggle! she doesn't think she's done anything with her life, she constantly rues the fact that she could have done so much more and she didn't! evelyn HASN'T 玩夠 life yet. she wants to do it all, to live all those lifetimes. and it is through living all those lifetimes and finding enlightment that she 玩夠, and thus is also able to 救 the universe.

and then 宇宙 is universe. like the whole universe. there's only one universe in this translation. i'm not quite sure how you would articulate multiple universes in cantonese.

anyway the person who made this title translation was IMMENSELY clever

#everything everywhere all at once #eeaao #cantonese #i wrote this when i was hyperfixating over the movie and only found it now because i'm writing another long thing in drafts #anyway hope you like this belated analysis

[goshyesvintageads]

Chun King Sales Inc, 1959

#luau party #ad #1959 #Chinese food #advertisement #vintage #1950s #illustration #Oriental #Cantonese #chow mein #egg foo young #frozen foods #advertising

[summerongrand]

MELISSA O'NEIL ANSWERED MY QUESTION (with a twist). I AM NOT OKAY.

#things that matter #chenford #the rookie #tv guide #lucy chen #tim bradford #melissa o'neil #eric winter #tim and lucy #tucy #tim x lucy #cantonese #rice cooker #asian slides #representation on tv #media representation

[buried-in-stardust]

Buying a meal's worth of food for 20 yuan in Guangzhou

[eng by me]

Disclaimer: most of the video is in Cantonese, which I do not know. I translated off the text so there may be parts that are off.

#douyin #food #cantonese #that's about ~$3 USD for y'all americans

[linguisticdiscovery]

Why I hate conlangs

A conlang (constructed language) is one that was consciously created for some purpose—usually either fiction or global communication—rather than one that developed naturally (Crystal 2008; Wikipedia). Some well-known examples include: Dothraki, Valyrian (Game of Thrones) Esperanto Na’vi (Avatar) Quenya, Sindarin (Lord of the Rings) Klingon (Star Trek) Atlantean (Atlantis: The Lost…

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#American Sign Language #Atlantean #Cantonese #conlangs #Cree #Dothraki #endangered languages #Esperanto #Kikuyu #Klingon #language revitalization #Na&039;vi #Navajo #Nuuchahnulth #Ojibwe #Quechua #Quenya #Sindarin #Star Wars #Valyrian

[jasminelyoko57]

The beast who sprouts flames, the angel(s) who bask themselves in impure flames.

Kuroshitsuji (S1, E23)

Ah yes, Ciel is relatively calm because he has experienced fire before. When he ordered the trio to slay Pluto, I FREAKING TEARED UP BOTH IN JPN AND HK ISTG.

Also, I can't believe that the act such as mere COUNTDOWN from 10-1 can be sound so badass thanks to Kenneth Chan-yan's splendid voice acting as Sebas *claps*.

He seems to be having fun doing his role, like, OMG, that 'Yes, My Lord' sounds so British and I LOVE IT.

From now on, it seems I'll start calling Ciel with '少爺' (siu3 ye4), hehe :D //slapped

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Kuroshitsuji - Toboso Yana

Studio: A-1 Pictures

Cantonese dub by TVB Hong Kong

#kuroshitsuji #black butler #sebastian michaelis #ciel phantomhive #baldroy #mey rin #finnian #ash landers #cantonese

[fullcravings]

Hong Kong-Style Coconut Tarts

#hong kong #hong kong style #coconut tarts #coconut #tart #food #dessert #baking #asian #recipe #frangipane #shortbread #crust #almond #cantonese #almond flour #coconut milk #nuts #siftandsimmer

[shyce-overgod]

Are there any Cantonese speakers on the plane?

#cantonese #Clare Fader

[don-dake]

unexpected 成語 (idiom) lesson on

Bluey ～ The Sign (S03?E49?) 🙀😻

The story that Calypso was reading to Bluey's class? That is the story behind the Chinese idiom,

塞翁失馬 [焉/安知非福]

usually, only the first part (塞翁失馬) is uttered in practical use

🇭🇰🇲🇴 coi³ jung¹ sat¹ maa⁵ [jin¹/on¹ zi¹ fei¹ fuk¹]

🀄 ㄙㄞˋ ㄨㄥ ㄕ ㄇㄚˇ [ㄧㄢ/ㄢ ㄓ ㄈㄟ ㄈㄨˊ]

🀄 sài wēng shī mǎ [yān/ān zhī fēi fú]

Literal meaning: The old man of the frontier lost his horse (how could he know if this is not fortuitous?)

Meaning: Similar to the sayings, “a blessing in disguise”, “every cloud has a silver lining”.

And there's actually a Wiki entry for this! Quote from Wiki:

“One of the most famous parables from the Huainanzi (淮南子; 'Master of Huainan'), chapter 18 (人間訓; Rénjiānxùn; 'In the World of Man') dating to the 2nd century B.C. The story exemplifies the view of Taoism regarding "fortune" ("good luck") and "misfortune" ("bad luck").

The story is well-known throughout the East Asian cultural sphere and is often invoked to express the idea of "silver lining" or "blessing in disguise" in Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese.”

The Chinese language nerd in me was getting increasingly stoked as Calypso read out more and more of the story…I was like, wait a minute…this sounds bloody familiar…and then I had my Aha! 🙀 moment…😸

#Bluey #Calypso #Chinese Language #Cantonese #Mandarin #Language

[jesncin]

Comfort Food, featuring Stewed Broccoli, Shrimp and Abalone + Pen Cai (Cantonese dish)

#pixel art #comfort food #food art #illustration #cantonese #my art #didn't realize both of these were about comparing yourself haha #but it's true! be kind to yourself

[kkulbeolyeonghwa]

Month wrap-up

Korean: 383 words this month, the biggest amount this year! This was my main focus this month. Picks of my favorite words from this month:

교대 交代 - taking turns 당청되다 當籤- - to win the lottery 마땅히 - properly 석화 石花 - oyster 일당백 一當百 - equal to 100 warriors 출하 出荷 - shipment

Japanese: only 57 words this time! I feel like I've studied more though. I've gotten better at listening! Favorite words:

いれい 慰霊 - consoling the dead しけ 時化 - stormy weather at sea でんち 電池 - battery よてい 予定 - plans

Mandarin and Cantonese: I haven't focused on these much this month. However I've been listening to both languages a bunch.

Mongolian: I haven't logged the words I know because I'm learning it with a different approach. But I've been studying it a lot and am learning a bunch of new words!

Toki Pona: I can now understand written text 99% of the time. I should practice writing next.

Okinawan: I've learn the Okinawan version of every Japanese word I've studied this month. I'm progressing steadily.

Other languages: I've been learning random words from other languages too. Notably Hungarian (Which I haven't learned at all in the past). Maybe I should start studying it regularly!

#langblr #language #korean #한국어 #日本語 #日本語勉強 #mongolian #монгол хэл #toki pona #mandarin #cantonese #okinawan #hungarian #うちなーぐち #log #study blog #word list #studyblr

[etudieryvivere]

Cantonese Resources

This will be a list in progress, just whatever I find. Feel free (please help) to recommend any resources that you know of.

Websites:

cantonese.sheik.co.uk

This has characters, vocabulary, pronunciation help, essays, a bunch of different stuff, Beginner to Intermediate. CantoDict is apart of this (add /dictionary/ to the url)

cantoneseclass101.com/cantonese-resources/

Some stuff for grammar, reading and writing, pronunciation, etc. The actual course is Beginner to Advanced, but the free stuff is just beginner. They also have a free Word of the Day email newsletter thingy.

cantonese.ca

Vocab lists!

livelingua.com/courses/cantonese

Audio lessons along with a textbook. It seems free (and claims so). It's only a basic course, and comes with a dictionary as well, although it's hard to see the characters well. They also have tons of other languages (including ones like Igbo and Finnish, so check it out).

cantonese-alliance.github.io/courses.html

Okay this one is super cool. In the proficiency levels tab, they have some curriculums for different levels (with tons of resources). There's also 'Cantonese through films' which has a long list of movies organized by decades. Even more materials, historical, linguistic, and the like. Overall, super interesting.

savecantonese.org/education

Textbooks and resources (most of which are mentioned).

These are just the first few things I've found, but there's alot, so I', making a spreadsheet with everything else on it too. Hope this helps!

#langblr #studying #cantonese #chinese langblr #chinese language #yue #cantonese langblr