Let's Talk Cantonese - Money

Hi everyone!

Apologies for the huge delay in posting a new video -- been super busy and then had to get a new whiteboard (yay!) and deal with technical difficulties :( so this video has some fan noise in the background at one point, but I hope it's not too annoying.

So we're on Unit 11 now in the book, and talking about money. I'll explain how saying numbers above 10,000 is different in Chinese, and point out the tone differences in "thousand" and "money". I'll also talk about a mistake I sometimes make (although it turns out this isn't really a mistake at all -- see the PS below!).

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Happy learning!

Sue Marguerite

PS. NOTE REGARDING THE "MISTAKE" ..... Aiya! So today (June 12th, 2018), I polled my native Cantonese-speaking friends (in Hong Kong) and asked them if they would use the "haih" for dates and money and they said yeah, they would (but it was also OK not to say it)!!!
So I guess I shouldn't have been so hard on myself lol and shouldn't have made it seem like such a hard and fast rule.
Once again, I'm reminded that with Cantonese sometimes anything goes ... and that next time I should poll my friends BEFORE making a video haha :-)
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