Anyone know where I can watch the movie In Broad Daylight, directed by Lawrence Kan? It's about care homes in Hong Kong.

I searched pretty thoroughly online and found nothing.

I am going to Hong Kong in a month, and am wondering if anyone has seen it in theaters there or if anyone has somehow seen it online.

Hi everybody, Thanks for all the previous help. I have a new question.

I think the first 5 characters here are 馬華超公之, but not sure about the last one.

Plus I wonder what the Cantonese pronunciation for the George's name would be, I'm assuming George is Cantonese, as traditional Australian-Chinese people are about 99% Cantanese.

I wonder what George's surname is. Would it be 華 or 馬? And what would his personal name be?

George and Mary were quite a popular people in Wellington, New South Wales. Their son went to school with my father and was in the same primary school class as my aunty.

Thanks for any help.

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I saw this in a restaurant in NYC Chinatown, kings kitchen. They sell 豉油雞 scallion oil chicken, which is wrapped in paper, 蔥油雞 soy sauce chicken which is not wrapped, and there is an aluminum foil wrapped chicken that I asked and wasn't sure what they said. Ciu jau gaai? Ziu gaai, cou jau gaai??? Does anybody know the name of this type of BBQ chicken? Restaurant is kings kitchen on east Broadway nyc

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Please help me find names for my 3 daughters that share a generational character. Here's some background info:

Grandmother: 玉嬋

Mother: 慧嫺

Me: 潔瑩 My Sister: 瑩瑩

Eta: I need names for Daughter 1, Daughter 2, and Daughter 3. I have no family to ask for help.

Would like to avoid old-fashioned and too trendy names as well as names that could be easily mocked.

Hello! Cross posting from r/HongKong - I will be traveling to Hong Kong this week and was wondering where I can buy Cantonese children’s books in HK? I will be staying in 銅鑼灣.

If there’s a way to buy the printed versions of Ham Baang Laang or Habbi books - that would be great.

Open to other suggestions as well.

Thanks!

"嘜" is borrowed from the word "mug" in English. We call a mug 一隻杯 but we don't say 一隻嘜. So why do we use "嘜" as a measurement unit when we already have 杯 as a word? Well today more people are saying 1 cup of rice (maybe because more people are using measuring cups?) but "mug" is still more prevalent. And how come it's almost exclusively used for rice measurement?

笨柒加個箍 google translate Stupid add a brace

Where did this phrase come from or about?

Peace guys, I wanted to share my experience with Cantonese, and I want to know what you guys think about it.

So, I was born in Brazil, my mother is from China (Guangdong), and my father was also born in Brazil, my grandparents are from China as well tho.

Cantonese was my first language, I rapidly learned how to communicate with simple words and build entire sentences. At the age of 4, I basically only spoke Cantonese. When I hit 5, I started learning Portuguese (Brazil’s official language), and joined school knowing how to speak both languages perfectly.

Time passed and I felt the lack of necessity of using Cantonese, because of my new daily routine based entirely on Portuguese. I started speaking in Portuguese with my mom, as she learned through the years living here (+20 years). She kept speaking in Cantonese with me though

Important detail: as my family comes from a small village in Guangdong, of the rural part of it, our Cantonese has some modifications, and this is where I think the problem is. We have our own accent, our own words and slangs. We can understand the “clean” cantonese, but of course others can’t understand us.

My mother firstly tried teaching me the language without those adversities, but eventually I couldn’t hold myself and speak properly without feeling uncomfortable. Of course I had a choice, but I decided to keep it that way because I wanted to talk more with my grandparents.

I already talked with native speakers, but I used more of English than cantonese. I felt like a child trying to say things correctly as I wanted to say few words in the conversation.

Nowadays I understand that there are more popular languages spoken around the world, like mandarin (which I also tried to learn as a kid, but failed - luckily, because of cantonese, I could get my pronunciation on point, but still suck at it)

I still want to learn cantonese correctly, as my dream of becoming a polyglot. Sadly I don’t know if I’m going to have willpower to make it happen, I’m more likely to learn mandarin and some Latin languages (which are easier for Portuguese speakers).

Although I cannot communicate properly with cantonese people, I’m grateful for my mom who taught me this beautiful language.

That’s a very important thing in my life, and I wanted to share this with you guys

How do y’all feel about it? Should I keep it the way it is or should I learn it properly?

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An old friend of mine had a nickname that he usually went with, but he told me his real name once. I can't remember the exact name or pronounce anymore. I have tried looking it up, but I couldn't find much information. Can anyone help me? He told me his name sounds like McCafe or Macafe from McDonald's. Is there a name that sounds similar to that or was he messing with me?

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Hi! I'm trying to find and/or make a tool that will help non-Natives practice differentiating minimal pairs. Minimal pairs are words which have exactly one difference in the way they are pronounced and have distinct meaning.

Examples of minimal pairs in English:

• Election vs Erection
• sip vs ship
• sip vs soup

Does anyone know of a resource that already exists for Cantonese minimal pairs? If not, can you think of any? Or do you have some examples of words you frequently get mixed up?

Thanks a bunch!

When watching HK programmes occasionally, I'll come across instances where people may say what sounds like “gon si” (to me) to mean “at that time”, and the Standard Chinese subs will usually reflect either 當時 or 那時候.

My listening skills aren't the greatest and I've often misheard lots of Cantonese words.

I think I've been hearing what sounds like “gon si” on more than a few occasions from different people with varied accents, but when I tried to look up possibilities for “gon si”, I've found nothing and the closest I could think of is that it's actually just 嗰陣時 said really fast and I'm just mishearing again?

Please help me clear my doubts. Thanks!

"5D6C" try to say it in English,It means "快D食屎" in Cantonese homophone

UPDATE: i just watched this movie last night. it's actually a HK softcore porn movie with a R18+ rating. It is a 三級 movie. 該片在香港被分類為第三級，未滿18歲人士不得觀看。 The film is classified as Category 3 in Hong Kong and is not allowed to be viewed by persons under the age of 18. So sorry if I offended anyone with this post.

let's face it. watching a HK movie is the BEST way to learn Cantonese. you get both the english & chinese translation and you get to hear the PROPER way to enunciate those words.

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Hello! My father in law was from Hong Kong. He sadly passed away, and my husband and I have discussed passing his name on to one of our children. I’m wondering if anyone could help me with an interpretation of what the meaning of his characters would be - 琪兆 (we have the anglicized name, but I would love to know the significance of the characters. I’ve tried to do my own research but it is a challenge as a non-Cantonese speaker!). TYIA!

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6. I can use the language and speak about a lot of things for an extended period of time. I can use a variety of complex sentences. I can express myself with ease in many common subjects but do hesitate occasionally when trying complex structures beyond my ability. I feel confident in my ability to speak Cantonese.
7. I have ease of expression. I rarely hesitate when I speak. I can speak with confidence and little hesitation about a variety of subjects. Native speakers can easily understand my Cantonese. I can speak for extended periods of time with a great deal of confidence and ease.

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