Cantonese learners: listening practise

March 27, 2006 at 01:11 PM

I posted this thread at Adam Sheik's Learn Cantonese site.

Basically it involves collaborating to produce romanised and character transcripts of an episode of Australia's SBS Radio Cantonese Program. The idea being for learners of Cantonese to get practise listening to the sounds of Cantonese, and learn more vocabulary and grammatical structures, by listening to children's stories

If you feel like your Cantonese isn't good enough to contribute yet, please don't despair; but at least let me know you're interested so I know someone other than myself can benefit from the transcripts. (In other words, so the project doesn't end up on my "never got around to doing" list.)

It would be great if we could get some more interest

March 27, 2006 at 06:58 PM

I think this is a really good idea. My Cantonese is not at an advanced level yet but I still may be able to help out, plus it would be great practice. Let's decide on a specific episode and divide up the work.

March 28, 2006 at 03:55 PM

It seems like a nice idea. I would certainly be interested, even though my Cantonese is probably not good enough to help.

March 31, 2006 at 10:24 AM

There's the first half of the FSI cantonese course with audio & romanised transcripts here...

April 5, 2006 at 02:23 AM

Carlo, thanks for the support.

Onebir, I did know about that project, but I didn't realise so much had been uploaded already. Thanks.

For anyone who's interested, we've started transcribing this episode, and you can track our progress here. And please feel free to contribute (whether it be transcribing, correcting our mistakes, asking questions, answering questions...)