How To Use Cantonese In A Sentence

  • Both Mandarin ba and Cantonese baat go back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bʀyat but this word is without any reconstructable tone. Mommy, where do tones come from?
  • The word "eight", for example, is pronounced ba with high tone in Mandarin and as baat in Cantonese with middle tone. Mommy, where do tones come from?
  • You are of course quite right to note that it is not merely a phonetical transcription, nonetheless, there is no direct connection to Black men, except for the fact that, when read deg kei in Cantonese it transcribes the English word "Darkie". Languagehat.com: CHINESE SWEARING.
  • They were frequently dismayed to be identified as beifangren ‘northerners’ when they spoke their southern dialect of the national language putonghua, or Mandarin rather than Cantonese. China’s Natural Mason-Dixon Line « Far Outliers
  • I ordered Cantonese-style flat rice noodles at a Malay restaurant a couple of weekends ago, and it came as a full-on fried kway teow (noodles fried with soya sauce in oil) and surrounded by an Chinese-style sauce thickened with cornflour and egg, to which meat and vegetables had been added. 2009 November — Fusion Despatches
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  • Many varieties of Chinese, including both Mandarin and Cantonese, do not distinguish voiced and voiceless stops and affricates.
  • We have some typical cantonese food today: Roast Suckling Pig.the Battle between the Dragon and the Tiger.Fried Milk.Salt- Baked Chicken and Dog Meat Casserole.
  • They were exchanging views in Cantonese while enumerating the names of my baby's organs in English.
  • As soon as I came to Malaysia I discovered Cantonese is not spoken as much as yelled, and with twelve excited and enthusiatic ladies crammed around my dining table, the decibels rose and rose. Cantonese for Beginners
  • If today's your pay day and you have a sudden craving for Cantonese food, why not go to the Grand Hyatt's Canton restaurant for a try?
  • Chi is the same things as hay in Cantonese – as in wok hay. Tigers & Strawberries » The Chinese Cookbook Project
  • He kept his fan-tan game running and was delighted one day to find that the leper ferry had brought him a Cantonese man, near death, who had managed to hide out in Iwilei for two years before the quack herbalist turned him in, and who was as good a gambler as he. Hawaii
  • Red envelopes filled with money, called hong bao in Mandarin and lai see in Cantonese, are traditionally given as gifts from married to unmarried people, particularly to children. Michael Ho: Welcome To The Year Of The Rabbit
  • Historically, many words of Chinese origin in English are popular Cantonese foods, borrowed directly from the dialect, for instance, chop suey, chow mein, or dim sum.
  • But they always returned with reports of marvelous moo goo gai pain, and lobster in eggy Cantonese sauce, crisp spareribs, and fresh shrimp subgum. George Heymont: Have Yourself An Elena Kagan Christmas (VIDEOS)
  • Actually, Peking comes from the Cantonese name "Bak [mandarin 'bei'] Ging [mandarin 'jing']" and the B in cantonese is unvoiced, making it sound like a P. Languagehat.com: BEIZHING.
  • One of my favourite films of 2001 was Wu Yen, which is adapted from a folk tale that was also made into a Cantonese opera.
  • On a whim, she would make pizza with Cantonese sausage, steak with hoisin sauce, and sushi with roast pork.
  • You are of course quite right to note that it is not merely a phonetical transcription, nonetheless, there is no direct connection to Black men, except for the fact that, when read deg kei in Cantonese it transcribes the English word "Darkie". Languagehat.com: CHINESE SWEARING.
  • That is, the bodhisattva is the referent, and she has different names in different languages: guan yin in Mandarin, Gun Yam in Cantonese, Kannon in Japanese. Languagehat.com: CORPORATE ETYMOLOGIES.
  • Objective : To analyze G 6 PD gene mutation in 168 Cantonese G 6 PD deficient male infants.
  • This 1940s qipao belonged to Lam Yee-mui, a renowned Cantonese opera singer whose stage name was The Qipao Keeps Up
  • That menu (actually, there are two, dim sum and then some) is meant to be as fluent in Cantonese as it is in the likes of salads that might entice the ladies-who-lunch, and other diners willing to go adventurous with "cheesesteak" - style sandwiches made with Mongolian beef or General Tso's chicken. The Seattle Times
  • Other Cantonese dishes include duck feet stuffed with shrimp, roasted goose , and of course, dim sum.
  • An expert on provincial recipes from Hunan, Sichuan, Beijing, Cantonese and seafoods, he is well versed in the popular culinary varieties from Shandong, Huaiyang and Anhui.
  • Loanwords are an important sociolinguistic phenomenon. English loanwords are prominent in Cantonese.
  • A variation of this recipe is usually used to garnish Cantonese roast pork, but we slathered it on salt-baked pork chops, which were filleted like veal and fried in crinkly shapes like some strange form of ribbon candy.
  • One Cantonese and two Mandarin ESL learners produced r/l sounds in minimally contrastive English words in simple and complex onset, coda, and intervocalic positions. PodCastle » PC036: Ancestor Money
  • Surrounded by an abundance of Cantonese-style roast meats and lomein, as well as the standard American Thanksgiving fare of turkey and cranberry sauce, I stare up at a wall lined with portraits of Chinese men in military uniforms and squadron hats. Victoria Moy: You Must Remember This
  • Penang is one of those businesses owned by Chinese Malaysians, so the cuisine is highly representative of those groups, which include the Cantonese, Fujian, Teochew and Hakka peoples, among others. March « 2009 « Off The Broiler
  • Speakers and athletes alternated between Putonghua and Cantonese as they addressed the crowd.
  • The complexity and richness of Cantonese cuisine do not permit reducing it to a few dominant flavours.
  • The two official languages in Hong Kong are Chinese (mainly the local Cantonese dialect) and English.
  • In 1917, he was appointed military counselor to Sun and spent the next three or four years with the 2nd Detachment of the Cantonese army under the command of a man known as the Hakka General. The Last Empress
  • I've tried Cantonese, Hunan and Szechwan food and they differ quite considerably.
  • Whereas most Chinese food is Cantonese food, in which a velvety clarity is the ideal, Sichuan food is about the intricate layering of sauces, spices, and textures.
  • It is distantly related to Cantonese and other Chinese dialects, and closely related to Lao and Thai.
  • Lettuce is known in Cantonese as sung choi, which literally means raw vegetable, and is more likely to be braised, stir-fried or added to clear soups, as it is in France.
  • The protest mirrored another in Guangzhou in southern China this July, when 1,000 people turned out to challenge a local politician's proposal to force a local television network to stop broadcasting in Cantonese and switch instead to Mandarin, the country's official language. Rebecca Novick: Tibetan Students Reveal China's Identity Crisis
  • I told them about how I picked up my first words in Cantonese from the grandmother who lived with the family next door to me whan I lived in my first small Malaysian town twenty years ago. Cantonese for Beginners
  • Of course, many Cantonese-speakers learn Mandarin as a second language, so bilinguals are not rare, but it is quite unlikely that a Cantonese person who also knows Mandarin would speak Mandarin with her nieces.
  • With its mandarin collar, snug fit and side slit, the qipao -- called a cheongsam in Cantonese -- is no longer daily wear, but it lives on as a look for special occasions. The Qipao Keeps Up
  • Maybe "tomorrow" one of those medical geniuses we kept consulting -- and paying -- would crunch all of those voluminous sheets of data they kept asking us to provide and figure out how a kid who spoke English and had words in Spanish, Cantonese and Tagalog at the age of three, now could not utter a word. Barbara Fischkin: Hillary Said the Word -- An Autism Mom Finally Feels Acknowledged
  • Teaching tends not to take this linguistic diversity into account: instruction mostly takes place in standard Mandarin putonghua/普通话, sometimes with intervention in the dominant local dialect, especially if it enjoys a certain prestige, such as Cantonese and Minnan. Ten Things I Think I Know (Part 1) « Ken Wilson's Blog
  • Maybe, just maybe, your strong sentiment against Cantonese is the result of your subconscious racist attitude towards Chinese people? Global Voices in English » China: Considering Han chauvinism
  • By Graeme Fletcher, National PostNovember 27, 2009 4: 03 AM The X1 is the latest in BMW's growing range of business sedan for those who have made it and is affectionately called tai sai ngan ( "big small eyes" in Cantonese) because WN.com - Articles related to Land Rover Debuts New 2010 Range Rover Sport Autobiography Limited Edition at the 2009 Los ...
  • Li Yen is the signature restaurant of The Ritz-Carlton and has the snug atmosphere of a private Cantonese club, albeit one enlivened with the bright, cascading notes of a yang quin, or traditional hammered dulcimer, and the chatter of prosperous Chinese families spinning their lazy susans. Kuala Lumpur Update
  • Objective : To analyze G 6 PD gene mutation in 168 Cantonese G 6 PD deficient male infants.
  • The outstanding representatives were Lingnan style, Cantonese (Guang) Embroidery, faience (painted porcelain), sculpture, and canton music.
  • On a whim, she would make pizza with Cantonese sausage, steak with hoisin sauce, and sushi with roast pork.
  • Another staple entree is the black moss seaweed called fat choy, which is a pun on the New Year's greeting, gung hay fat choy in Cantonese. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • The literal translation of the term for anorexia in both the Cantonese and Mandarin dialects would be something along the lines of “the disorder of loathing to eat” or “the disease of disliking eating.” Crazy Like Us
  • The mother's abandonment of the stance of a nostalgic exile is signified by her farewelling her parents at their graveside in Cantonese; she had greeted them on her arrival in Japanese.
  • Its lingua franca is Cantonese, a dialect that has six tones compared to the four tones of standard mandarin Chinese.
  • Penang is one of those businesses owned by Chinese Malaysians, so the cuisine is highly representative of those groups, which include the Cantonese, Fujian, Teochew and Hakka peoples, among others. NJ Dining: Penang
  • There is great emphasis placed upon the aesthetic properties of food in Cantonese cuisine, and there is a lot of attention paid to contrasting colors, textures, tastes and scents of each dish. Tigers & Strawberries » Yin and Yang
  • Dishes clang, waiters shout, children laugh and people chatter away in expressive, nine-tone, high volume Cantonese.
  • Note 130: Cheng Meibao, Diyu Wenhua yu Guojia Rentong: Wanqing yilai Guangdongwenhuaguan de Xingcheng (Regional culture and national identification: The formation of concept of the Cantonese couture from the late Qing period) (Beijing: Sanlian Shudian, 2006). back Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
  • Among my favourites, from two platefuls, were pork in black bean sauce, the chilli spare ribs, the char sui in Cantonese sauce and the chicken wings in garlic sauce.
  • I teach him the words Love, Moon, and Father in Spanish, Cantonese, French. Daycare
  • These Chinese gangs, what the Cantonese called tongs, had been in this country since the discovery of gold in California. The Flower Net
  • On a whim, she would make pizza with Cantonese sausage, steak with hoisin sauce, and sushi with roast pork.
  • Most familiar are those adapted from the culinary sphere, to refer to dishes initially purveyed by Chinese immigrants, mainly from Canton, and hence from Cantonese: chop suey, bok choy, dim sum, wonton. The English Is Coming!
  • They always find it puzzling until I explain to them that that Cantonese, Hakka, Foochow, Hainan, Teochew, Hokkien, etc. "dialects" can all be classified as Chinese language. Languagehat.com: THE CHINESE BABEL.
  • Apart from a few elderly ladies who spoke Cantonese it was pretty dead.
  • A Cantonese Opera performer sits backstage a theater in Hong Kong.
  • Partygoers munched on Chinese stuffed bao with Cantonese duck, prime rib eye with wild mushroom scone and bearnaise, and paper wrapped halibut with heirloom tomato.
  • It's a combination of authentic Cantonese tastes and textures.
  • Some West Coast and Hawaiian galleries take additional steps to ensure success with this market by hiring multilingual consultants who speak Japanese, Cantonese or Mandarin Chinese.
  • Most familiar are those adapted from the culinary sphere, to refer to dishes initially purveyed by Chinese immigrants, mainly from Canton, and hence from Cantonese: chop suey, bok choy, dim sum, wonton. The English Is Coming!
  • Therefore, it is actually rather inaccurate to use the word conservative here; if we compare for example Standard Cantonese (SC) with Standard Mandarin (SM), then the number of tones in each would be, starting from the first attested protolanguage, Old Chinese (as far as we know, nontonal): Fun with Old Chinese rhymes
  • One nearly always prefixes single-syllable stative verbs with a 很 or 挺 (in Mandarin - Cantonese uses 好 almost exclusively. On long time no see
  • Actually, Peking comes from the Cantonese name "Bak [mandarin 'bei'] Ging [mandarin 'jing'] Languagehat.com: BEIZHING.
  • Black beans are used extensively in Cantonese cookery and are usually served with fish or beef.
  • The word "kumquat" comes to us from a Cantonese word meaning "golden citrus fruit. Undefined
  • Pieces that exhibit small, careful brushstrokes are in general considered typical of Peking, while those that display a palette and brush technique strongly akin to famille rose porcelain of the period are considered to be Cantonese.
  • The word "sampan" literally means "three planks" in Cantonese, from the words sam (三, three) and pan (板, plank). [ Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories
  • After redecorating, the joint reopened earlier this month, with a new chef - poached from the Cantonese restaurant next door - and new partners.

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