If you've listened to our previous Critical Verb lessons, our fourth installment won't contain anything terribly surprising. Rather than a surprise appearance by David Bowie and impromptu studio versions of China Girl (working on it...), we just review the verbs "to eat", "to want" and "to give". So there is a lot to review here, but also some new stuff as well. In particular, we'll teach you how to put verbs into the past tense, and negate them once they're there.Learning Cantonese? We've come a long way since our first Cantonese lesson. Back then we started with the tones and learned some basic phrases in Cantonese before moving on to simple sentences using adjectives. After that we moved on to high-frequency nouns and then finally more complex sentences involving verbs. That's a lot of ground to cover, so feel proud about how much you've done. And be sure to come back later this week when our first dialogue-based lesson makes its debut.
myyc
said on July 11, 2011
i thought it was free! for the first time !
trevelyan
said on July 12, 2011
@myyc,What problems are you running into? You should be able to download the podcasts entirely free (either through our site, or via iTunes). We have a 30 day money-back guarantee on all of our paid subscriptions, so you can also try those out risk-free.Best,--david
darkstar94
said on August 27, 2012
so from this whole series of "Basic Cantonese" lessons, a few combinations I can make, assuming they are correct:你食緊咩?我食咗我哋一齊食嘢,好嗎?他哋食緊嘢洗手間喺邊我感覺好凍我感覺好開心我感覺好傷心你感不感覺開心你今日感不感覺熱今日天氣好差
darkstar94
said on August 27, 2012
Where is the best lesson to go to after all these lessons?
nonnynu
said on December 17, 2015
Hello, the woman speaking Cantonese in this lesson has a lazy tone when she says the word that makes the verb past tense. Just wanted to note that because even the schools in Hong Kong are trying to stamp out the lazy tones. In this particular instance, the woman says "choh" when it should be "tsoh."