Ueto Aya

i know a few cantonese words too...
1) Tiu
2) Ma hai

:beaten: :hehe:

Tekanan wrote:i know a few cantonese words too...
1) Tiu
2) Ma hai

:beaten: :hehe:

i guess it is true all beginners learn profanity in a foreign language first. :)

niko2x wrote:i guess it is true all beginners learn profanity in a foreign language first. :)

VERY true! :beaten:

actually i learnt words like "so chai, Chi Seen, Cho mat ye, waaiiii????" first. :mrgreen:

Hahaha, as far as learning canto and mando, I always felt canto was easier since I was sort of born with it. However since I'm learning to write, I feel that mando is easier now. The thing is, in canto, we use so much slang that there really is no character to express that same word. So basically written language and spoken language differs in canto. However in mando, whatever you write and whatever you say. However I do think that mandarin is much harder to speak! HAHAHA, gotta work on my pronunciation :beaten:

I have no idea how the hell i learned mandarin :nut: .... i was born cantonese, and somehow picked it up from the baby sitter that brought me up.... I understand most madarain... but sometimes i understand it better than cantonese... :hehe: j/k!

Mr.ChoyBoi wrote:I have no idea how the hell i learned mandarin :nut: .... i was born cantonese, and somehow picked it up from the baby sitter that brought me up.... I understand most madarain... but sometimes i understand it better than cantonese... :hehe: j/k!

hahaha wow so you know both, lucky!

My mom says my Cantonese is good, but I think my Japanese is better, which means my Cantonese is awful. :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:My mom says my Cantonese is good, but I think my Japanese is better, which means my Cantonese is awful. :hehe:

hahaha, do you speak japanese also?

eltinator wrote:hahaha, do you speak japanese also?

Not very well at all. That's the joke. :sweat: :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
Not very well at all. That's the joke. :sweat: :beaten:

ohhhhhh, HAHAHAHAHA :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:My mom says my Cantonese is good, but I think my Japanese is better, which means my Cantonese is awful. :hehe:

So your family speaks Cantonese? What generation are you?

ahochaude wrote:So your family speaks Cantonese? What generation are you?

I guess second generation, since I was born here and my folks were born in China...

bmwracer wrote:
I guess second generation, since I was born here and my folks were born in China...

They didn't speak to you in Cantonese when you were growing up?

ahochaude wrote:They didn't speak to you in Cantonese when you were growing up?

Some, but my dad went to high school here and was in the US Army. My mom's English is so-so, but so is my Cantonese, so we got by.

ahochaude wrote:
They didn't speak to you in Cantonese when you were growing up?

haha that's how I learned and also my babysitter only spoke canto. I guess it was pretty funny when I went to kindergarten and couldn't speak any english :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
Some, but my dad went to high school here and was in the US Army. My mom's English is so-so, but so is my Cantonese, so we got by.

Wow. Your dad came here early on huh!? I give him props for joining the Army when he wasn't born a full blooded American.

ahochaude wrote:Wow. Your dad came here early on huh!? I give him props for joining the Army when he wasn't born a full blooded American.

Thanks. It was the thing to do at the time even though he never fought (mid-late 40's)....

bmwracer wrote:Thanks. It was the thing to do at the time even though he never fought (mid-late 40's)....

Still, very admirable.

I considered the Marines 'cause a lot of my friends were enlisting, but never had the guts to follow through and leave home. I guess that's why I admire what your dad did.

ahochaude wrote:
Still, very admirable.

I considered the Marines 'cause a lot of my friends were enlisting, but never had the guts to follow through and leave home. I guess that's why I admire what your dad did.

Yeah, I couldn't do what he did, either. It was a different time and age.

bmwracer wrote:Yeah, I couldn't do what he did, either. It was a different time and age.

Sometimes I wish I could experience life back then. It all seems so...... "foreign" to me. Yet intriguing.

btw, where's elt?! No more pics for now?!

Better let your comp cool off! :hehe: