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The Cantonese podcast for fans of linguistics, language lovers, and Cantonese learners. This episode discusses Bulgarian grammar, evidentiality, Signal and Telegram’s Hong Kong localisation in Cantonese, writing Cantonese in French, and names and translations within the Tokyo Olympics 2020.

Show notes and links available on the Cantonese page. Transcript below.

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苗:吓,呢啲睇維基㗎咋嘛!我唔識講㗎嘛,我識……我識有呢四樣嘢,我照住讀。叫我自然噉講,我唔識㗎嘛。

以:呢個標準嘅語言學家。

苗:呢個就係語言學嘞!冇錯!

以:知道,但係唔識。

苗:You just insulted my entire race of people, but thank you.

[jingle]

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絮言.狂想 #003

The Cantonese podcast for fans of linguistics, language lovers, and Cantonese learners. This language is a language-guessing game, like the Great Language Game, where two of our hosts guess Japanese, Korean, French, German, European Portuguese, Thai, Vietnamese, Swedish, Egyptian Arabic, and Polish. They explain their deductive process using phonological features.

Show notes and links available on the Cantonese page. Transcript below.

This podcast is also available on YouTube. Don’t forget to subscribe!

[Intro]

靳:深喉音啦,我哋啱啱講完內爆音,依家又講深喉音啦,係咪?

以:喂,咪玩嘢啊你,我笑點好低㗎

三:呢個……呢個節目係……合家歡節目嚟㗎呢個,係

[jingle]

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