What do Cantonese speakers call the language they speak?
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Cantonese sound system (早晨 Good morning)
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The combinations of initial and final syllables in Cantonese
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Nineteen initials |
Initials group 1: Non-aspirated voiceless |
Initials group 2: Aspirated voiceless |
Initials group 3: Voiced nasals |
Initials group 4: Fricative and continuants |
Initials group 4: Semi-vowels and supplementary initials |
Finals group 1: Nine main vowels |
Finals group 2: Ten diphthongs |
Finals group 3: Seventeen finals ending in nasal consonant |
Finals group 4: Seventeen finals with unreleased stops "p, t, k"
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Syllabic consonants "m" and "ng" |
Six tones |
Six tones - numbers |
Six tones - other examples |
Immediately useful expressions |
Everyday greetings and greetings around mealtimes |
Saying goodbye |
Useful expressions |
Classroom expressions |
Cardinal numerals (0 - 1,000,000) : Single digit numbers (0 - 9) |
Building up numbers from 10 to 19 |
Abbreviations of "~sap6~" |
Numerals indicating hundreds "baak3百" |
Building up numbers from 101 to 999 |
Counting thousands and above |
Lucky numbers for the vehicle license number plate |
Taboo numbers |
Ordinal numbers |
Dollars |
Ten-cent units |
Dollars & ten-cent units |
Asking for the price |
Year |
Month |
Days of the month |
Days of the week |
How to ask for specifc dates |
Hour |
Exact minute |
Hour & 5-minute unit |
Clock time & the time of the day |
How to ask and tell the current time |
Measure words / Classifiers |
Number of objects |