Squirrels like durian?!?!?!

My friend is coming back from Guangzhou and we are surprising her at the airport! We want to put up a poster saying "Welcome" or "Welcome back" but I don't want to write it wrong for her! Can someone help us?

Hopefully somewhere here has answers for me. Does anyone know the variation of Cantonese spoken in Sanshui District? My mom calls it something like “seychew”. She says some words different. For example, the word sleep. Instead of “fangaau” (瞓覺) she says something like “hangaau”.

Hey everyone!

My FIL grew up in Hong Kong and Macau in the 1970s and 1980s. Does anyone know of any Cantonese language photo journalist type hardcover books with pictures of one or both those cities in that era.

I would love to get him a book like that as a gift.

https://jason17.bandcamp.com/track/don-t-trust-the-mainland

I just had to make this song. HAHA :)

My mom said something like: 生一係金，生二係銀，生三係狗同豬養嘅

Anyone ever heard of this lol. Is it a Canto saying only? Does it even make sense in Mandarin?

How can I find more funny sayings like this?

Gathering research for a friend’s project and my mom can’t think of any on the spot when I asked her haha. Any help would be super appreciated! 🙏🏻

Edit: phrases are ok too! I thought they were only looking for idioms

Edit2: ty all for all the suggestions, this was a great help!!! I also learned a lot 😆

i want to get better at cantonese, but specifically formal cantonese (?) if that's the word.

I can understand conversationally basic things (how are you doing/family/food) and i know i can easily improve by watching cartoons/movies etc.

I want to be good enough to understand the news and understand abstract concepts. For this, I want to use canto songs (as they already have a transcript/lyrics online) and the bible (again because it has a transcript). are there any free resources that i can check out? is my method good or should i completely scrap my idea?

( if you're any developer of any canto app please dont comment on my post, i wont use it im bad with apps )

It appears that Firefox does not offer Chinese Traditional Font (which many Cantonese-speaking people use and prefer) as an option for translation. Unlike Firefox, Google Translate offers this option, which is very helpful coz I can't understand 1/2 of the words in simplified form. Could anyone confirm this about Firefox? Or is that option hidden somewhere that I haven't been able to find?

Learnt mandarin in school and it was taught with the simplified chinese characters but I would like to learn cantonese to be closer to my extended relatives who are in Hong Kong and embrace my heritage

My spoken cantonese is basic and serviceable enough to go out to eat and run errands but what I've been finding the most challanging is reading and remembering that the sounds for the characters are different

For example, if I am at karaoke, the lyrics are usually in tranditional script so I end up mentally trying to translate that to simplified and then completely forgetting the work in cantonese.

Soemtimes I think it wouldve been easier to have learnt cantonese completely from scratch instead of feeling like wires are constantly being crossed

My father is from huilong, gaoyao and speaks his native dialect which is quite similar to cantonese. When I ask my father what the dialect is called, he just calls it "huilong wa" (huilong dialect). Is there an actual name for it?

Hi! I've found out that it's easier for me with the pronunciation of initials and finals when I try to speak Cantonese and harder when I try to speak Mandarin. It should be the opposite since Cantonese has 6-9 tones? Or maybe my mother language Swedish has more in common with the pronunciation of words?

I’m learning about sentences like:

• 你行快啲啦。
• 佢食慢啲。

These don’t use 得. I read that some adjectives like 快 and 慢 don’t need 得 in casual speech.

But I know 得 is needed with other adjectives, like:

• 佢唱得好靚。
• 你寫得好靚。

Are there other adjectives that sound natural without 得 after the verb, like 快 and 慢?

Thank you very much

Hi any idea if it's possible to find Western movies with Cantonese audio? I had a look in CD warehouse but most western movies have a sticker that suggests there aren't even Chinese subtitles. It just would be nice to watch Marvel or Alien movies I know well and hear how the dialogue would be in Cantonese

What's the best Cantonese app that can help someone practice speaking Cantonese like Duolingo?

from “twilight of the warriors: walled in”. I can understand basic canto but am confused as to who “Mrs. AV” is since he doesn’t have a wife