Hello, I am so glad to see that you offering a great learning tool for Cantonese. I am a native Swiss-German speaker and want to improve my spoken Cantonese. I almost lost hope finding a suitable platform were I can learn real Gwongdung wa and not Guabgzhou wa but now I found you ^^ Very much appreciated Lok Sang
Saying lei5 instead of nei5 (and other words like lang4/nang4) has been around for generations. I’ve been saying the “l” sound since I was a child, and guess how I learned to pronounce Cantonese words? From my HK parents, who are 65+ years old. I only found out the official pronunciation is “n” when I learned Jyut Ping a few years ago and saw that those words were spelled with an “n”. I also work with all HK immigrants from ages 20s to 60s and everyone says lei5.
Hi wintersongs1, That's right, the "lazy tongue" pronunciation (n/l; ngo/o; g/gw, etc) is very common nowadays, and no one notice the difference unless you work at the broadcasting industry. Team CantoneseClass101.com
Hello, I am so glad to see that you offering a great learning tool for Cantonese. I am a native Swiss-German speaker and want to improve my spoken Cantonese. I almost lost hope finding a suitable platform were I can learn real Gwongdung wa and not Guabgzhou wa but now I found you ^^
Very much appreciated
Lok Sang
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Saying lei5 instead of nei5 (and other words like lang4/nang4) has been around for generations. I’ve been saying the “l” sound since I was a child, and guess how I learned to pronounce Cantonese words? From my HK parents, who are 65+ years old. I only found out the official pronunciation is “n” when I learned Jyut Ping a few years ago and saw that those words were spelled with an “n”. I also work with all HK immigrants from ages 20s to 60s and everyone says lei5.
Hi wintersongs1,
That's right, the "lazy tongue" pronunciation (n/l; ngo/o; g/gw, etc) is very common nowadays, and no one notice the difference unless you work at the broadcasting industry.
Team CantoneseClass101.com
You are so beautiful😍
Hi Li Amoeba,
Thank you for your kind words! Have fun learning Cantonese! :)
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