Learn Cantonese: Lesson 5 "Coffee or Tea?" in Cantonese

http://cantonesecourse.com. Cantonese Lesson 5. Learn Cantonese for "What do you want to drink?" (你飲乜嘢呀?). Lesson 5 of our Learn Cantonese Video Course teaches you learn how to state your preference for tea or coffee in Cantonese.

Lesson transcript in Yale Cantonese Romanization, traditional Chinese and English translation available from http://cantonesecourse.com



Background music is Faye Wong's (王菲)Cantonese version of 容易受傷的女人 - Vulnerable Woman (lit. easily hurt woman)

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[bweedin]

what's the point? If you try to order coffee in Chinese in HK, they just answer you back in English.

I guess it's useful for Macau, though.

[crazyhanyu]

@bweedin

Agreed - Macau is a lot more accepting of "outsiders" speaking Cantonese than HK.

Don't give up on HK, though. It depends where you go and how you handle it. For example, if your server switches to English, and says "coffee?", try complimenting her/him in Cantonese about how good their English. Wah! Neih sik gong Yingman a?

You might get a smile, a do je and a return compliment.

Or ask them "coffee" Yingman dim gong a? Haih mh haih "gafei"?

I've written about this at hanyu.com

[jspekkks]

what the song in the begining

[crazyhanyu]

It's by Faye Wong (王 菲) called 容 易 受 傷 的 女 人

usually translated as "Vulnerable Woman". You can find a video on YouTube of her singing it.

[crazyhanyu]

or "Fragile Woman". There's a video with lyrics (in Chinese characters) on YouTube.

[crazyhanyu]

The vocabulary list for this and other dialogues can be found in Learn Cantonese Book 1. You can download the pdf at cantonesecourse(dot)com

[yoka955]

The weird effects are highly distracting.

[crazyhanyu]

A: What would you like to drink?

B: I'll have a coffee. How about you?

A: I'm having tea. Do you want a pastry?

B: Sounds good.

A: What time do you have to leave?

B: At 4.

A: You really have to go so soon?

B: Yes, I'm afraid so.

[crazyhanyu]

A: Neih yám mēyéh a?

B: Ngóh yám gafē. Néih nē?

A: Ngóh yám chàh. Sihk m̀hsihk béng a?

B: Hóu aak.

A: Néih géidímjūng yiu jáu a?

B: Sei dím.

A: Jànhaih gam faai yiu jáu mē?

B: Haih a, jànhaih.

[crazyhanyu]

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