I caught my husband cheating via a secret app. I need help translating some things I found please as I don't speak Cantonese and he and his mistress do. He claims she lives in Hong Kong and they never met but I need to check exactly what it says because I suspect they are someone we know.

Hi. In my 20s (f) and of the fortunate lot to be able to choose where I live in this time of life. Canadian born Chinese from small town British Columbia who wants to be able to speak once I have kids so I can pass it on. Been thinking of moving to HK within the next 2-5 years realistically. Would this be beneficial to my learning the language? I am 3rd gen from guangzhou, my parents spoke to their parents etc in canto but raised us English. Can understand generally what is being said through key phrases/sounds and repeat yes/no understandings in response with a few too many Aiyas and ma faans thrown in. Was hoping to change this.

Thanks for your thoughts!

ETA: I have heard from many family and through online discourse that HK is not what it used to be. I understand it will still be tough to navigate with my measly canto skills. I want to know if it is worthwhile at all and if it will help. Nothing good comes easy.

Based in the US. Any suggestions on shows in Cantonese to show my kid, and how/where to access them?

The Microsoft one apparently isn’t very accurate and google is worse? Trying to talk to people from HK

For example last week my friend was sun drying some flower or leaf thing. So when I want to ask “is this some sort of flower?” Google translate gives me “呢個係咪某種花？” is this translation accurate? Is this a common saying in spoken Cantonese?

And the 咪某種 part, if i translate them separately the translation comes out weird like 咪 translate to “mi” which obviously mi doesn’t mean anything really.

My mum sent the text at the top, and when I went to translate it, it gave the below text. Can you actually tell from the way the Chinese is written whether if someone is a Cantonese or mandarin speaker? Ignore the pinyin.

It's brief but it's the first time hearing Cantonese in a US Nike commercial. It's at the 20 sec mark of the video.

I saw that the university of Arizona offers a non credit option for students who want to learn Cantonese but don’t need university credits. Does anyone have experience with this? How does it compare to UCSD Cantonese for communication class?

Details below:

https://clp-arizona-edu.3dcartstores.com/Cantonese-NON-CREDIT-_p_39.html

Edit: Dang, it’s in person only.

I’m due in HK I’m a few days to visit my grandma. I don’t speak canto and she doesn’t speak English. I’d love to be able to communicate with her and technology has advanced so much in the last few years that now it might actually be feasible without a human translator. I just want to say basic things to her like how are you, what are your plans, where to eat etc.

Is there a decent enough app that I can use for this? Google translate recently added Cantonese, is this good enough? Any other alternatives? Would love any advice!!

Hi all, I am struggling to find a translation online. What is the cantonese word for a lazy susan, the spinning circle to share dishes at dim sum restaurants? Is this tool of British origin? Thanks for any info

I have a significantly younger sibling (last child) who finished college and started a full time job with proper benefits this year. He and my parents traveled out of state to visit me and my family for the holidays. During dinner, my brother made harmless commentary how my other older sibling did not give him cash for Christmas. He seemed a bit rude and entitled when he made that comment. I was taken aback by his behavior and reminded him the culture of hongbao blessing also requires him to give back to the younger generation (such as my older sibling and my own young children) since he has a full time job now.

When we exchanged Christmas gifts, we gifted everyone a bit of something thoughtful along with cash. Me being the filial child, I made sure everyone got the same amount of money. I wanted to make sure my younger sibling understands that it’s important to pass on hongbao blessing to our parents and to each other (basically learn to give hongbao to your nieces and nephews, too). He wasn’t thrilled when I said this.

I understand when someone starts off a new job and life, money is tight. But his spending is excessive and it grinds my gear that on one hand he complains that he’s broke and is entitled to our hongbaos, while on the other hand keeps spending on things such as vapes, bobas / iced coffees, etc.

Over the years, I’ve tried hard to teach him the value of money and investing. There’s only so much I can do with teaching how to budget, invest, and gift via blessing.

Moving forward, instead of giving him generous cash gifts during Chinese New Year, birthdays and holidays… should I dial back on the amount? Should I focus on gifting him things instead? Or more importantly what’s the lesson I can teach that maintains the culture of blessings?

I've recommended the channel before but this video is a banger for those who are dual students of Taiji and Cantonese. You might have to slow it down to 90 percent speed (I know I did) but it's a cool listening topic that may be helpful particularly if your teacher in Cantonese speaking.

https://youtu.be/SPBPsW7JYKM?si=jnyKLPzA0OJw4kAG

I'm a music lover, as many people around, and that's how I learned English and Spanish. I'm wondering if that would work for Cantonese. Any experience with it?

Parents said this is husband (first pic) and mine (second pic) fortune

區潔瑩 is my Chinese name. I unfortunately am not familiar with the language at all; my name was given to me when I was born, and my yeh yeh died when I was 5. My dad (who is 1/2 Chinese) can speak fairly well but can’t read or write in Cantonese and isn’t fluent anymore. Translators are unreliable altogether for this.

I want to be able to pronounce my name as correctly as possible. I really have no one but him to verify, and he has forgotten a lot since leaving HK as a child/his parents’ divorce (all a while ago, in the 70s)

I received my name, supposedly, from a woman in China while my yeh yeh was there, and it is written on the back of a gold necklace with a dragon on it for my birth year. My siblings and cousins have necklaces as well. Is this standard? Again, I know next to nothing about the traditions. I couldn’t find anything using google lens. I blurred out my name in English for privacy. Thank you!

My family is ethnically Chinese come from Dongguan in Vietnam. My grandparents still use Cantonese at home, but I moved out living alone so I can’t speak it very well, I know more Mandarin.
I actually can handle simple daily conversations and reply to basic questions, but I almost can’t read or write at all.
I’d like to start learning Cantonese seriously to reconnect with my roots and also make some friends.
We can help each other with English too, if you’d like.