Learning Everyday
Especially on rainy days with a movie on in the background. Spending time with my wife’s family is always a treat, even if I don’t understand half of the conversation at the table. The food is still good and company is still fun. The food coma that comes follows is unavoidable but always appreciated. My favorites…
Cantonese isn’t a popular language to learn and I’m finding a definite lack of free centralized resources because of it. Duolingo teaches you Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, and English by gamifying language learning. Did I mention it’s free? There are a bunch of language teaching apps on the marketplace like Duolingo but…
italki is an online language learning service where you can find the best language teachers from around the world. It’s the fastest, most convenient way to become fluent in a foreign language. via italki [pullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” color=”#0000ff” class=”” size=””]Conversational in Cantonese by May 2016[/pullquote] Quickly learning a new language is never something I’ve attempted…
I set a challenge for myself in my first Cantonese blog post. I challenged myself to record a video introduction. With one hour left in the day, I (mostly) completed my challenge. I didn’t memorize it. The tones are still giving me trouble. I’m still very choppy but I think setting these tough but reachable…
Let’s learn some Cantonese! This is where I’ll post some phrases and translations. Māau (maau1) Māau pronounced like “mao” which sounds like the sounds a cat makes. So māau is Cantonese for cat. māau = cat Even though I’m a dog person, I love it because it’s so easy to remember! It was pretty embarrassing at how…
My fiance is Cantonese and as the wedding slowly creeps closer I’ve started to make a conscious effort to learn the language. It’s been a bit difficult to find online resources so I’m taking a self-study approach recommended by Tim Ferriss (my current idol). I’ve consolidated some of basics in this blog post for others…