Beijing Duck

Cantonese Grammar

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Beijing
• Duck
• Cantonese
• Grammar
• Chinese

[emperorsenshi]

my relationship with mandarin isn't going so great after we took the next step. we started writing, but she wants me to touch her characters more. i'm deathly afraid of the characters: i don't know how they work! how do i get over my fear of her characters so i can please her?

[laoshu505000]

@emperorsenshi hmm

[laoshu505000]

@BritishTechGuy Yea, it's not a joke. I've been on Cantonese like crazy. I've been even waking up in the middle of the night just to get back to studying it. I may have to go see a psychiatrist or something. Good luck.

[laoshu505000]

@mynameismarvin As much as I love Canto, I probably would've paid 100 bucks for the book! Canto got me whipped.

[marekiller8]

@Glossika :( Ducks hanging in the doorway? The poor creatures. :'( The point in question is eating of burnt corpses, not eating organic, but if you are looking into eating organic I assure you vegetarianism and veganism are the two most healthy diets in the world (not vegan propaganda; you can look this up). All meat has the same rational quantity of harmful (LCD) cholesterol and fat, and vegetarians/vegans have more than 20% less blood pressure.

[Glossika]

@marekiller8 It's just the way it's made, I eat it all the time. I could walk down the street and take a pic of them hanging in the doorway, but it's not convenient to post pictures on YouTube. I eat a lot of stuff just as long as it's not 人工/artificial-type stuff. my body is still mostly biological in nature.

[marekiller8]

@Glossika I asked what Beijing duck was as Laoshu had told me earlier he's almost a full vegetarian, but he's not even a pescetarian as of yet, which disappoints me. I'm just assuming Beijing duck is duck, as I asked the question, sparking this whole debate, about what Beijing duck was, but I never really got a reply. :/ I did watch the video.

[Glossika]

@marekiller8 hey bro, way off topic. The topic was learning Cantonese, did you even watch the video?

[marekiller8]

@Glossika I was citing examples of true omnivores. :P

[Glossika]

@marekiller8 "Even if we were baboons or ostriches?" That was soooo random. By the way, I'm a pangolin.

[Glossika]

You spend $50 on just one Cantonese book, your language budget must be astronomical considering you probably collect the books on every language, correct me if I'm wrong. Well, I'm not complaining, I'm not much better. What do the psychiatrists call us anyway? Obsessive-compulsive or what? And I'm still up in the middle of the night working on Rukai.

[eternicaster]

actually my bad. the lë is more like a "leh" . I just pronounce it in a non-standard way cus that's how my parents would speak (actually I might be using a different particle, but in any case, that's the standard pronunciation).

[eternicaster]

The lë sound is more like a "luh" schwa-ish sound, but you should keep it up in speaking as much as possible. I have an older version of this book, but now that the characters are here... I should pick this up. Thanks for informing me.

BTW, you should've pointed out which characters are the "Cantonese" ones the "m" instead of the "bu" negation or the "lei" instead of "lai" (to come)