Happy Jellyfish People's Democratic Language Bureau

18/02/2025

What's this? Spanish is elbowing its way into Cantonese? No no. But since I live in Spain, might as well learn Spanish too. After all this time. Contains Cantonese podcast, the various ways to use 去！

The café owner poured Nino a generous glass of a see-through liquid. “Qué es esto?” I asked Nino. “Absinte.” What? Surely he...

27/01/2025

The Cantonese is back! Listen to the podcast and learn everything about TO BUY! Oh and find out something I bet you didn't know about China. Contains podcast, veiled criticisms.

In my increasingly long life, I have heard many big lies. The first one I can remember was when I as a small child told my mother during...

27/01/2025

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30/06/2024

Learn Cantonese free! (Sub optimal, you should take lessons from me, but better than nothing)
Today: TO BUY!

One of the most important verbs in the Cantonese language: To BUY! Followed closely by Shopping. 'To buy' sounds scarily similar to 'sell' in Cantonese (Buy:...

23/06/2024

Oldie but goodie from the days when certain parties tried to push for simplified characters in Hong Kong. They would NEVER do that now! Right?

When an edict comes down from on high to start using simplified Chinese characters in Hong Kong, Mister Public Security Bureau is quite dismayed. However he ...

16/05/2024

https://penandwok.com/podcasts/day-drinking-and-markets-and-cantonese.html Episode 20 in the series of podcasts CantoNews from Exile. Today: More about Take. Oh, and day drinking in markets.

When I was young, nay, middle aged, day drinking held a special fascination for me. Not only do I prefer daylight to darkness in general,...

20/04/2024

Episode 19 in the series CantoNews from Exile! This week, ONE of the 16 000 words that can mean TAKE in English, namely TAKE transport. Contains sad collapse related story.

El Terreno, the best neighbourhood in Palma de Mallorca, is an area full of surprises. Or how surprised would you be if you came home...

05/04/2024

In the latest Cantonese podcast, we present the important verb 想， want to (must be followed by a verb) and talk about the somewhat strange Cantonese words for Easter and Good Friday. Learn Cantonese the Natural Way - from Norwegian! ahttps://penandwok.com/podcasts/civic-duty-backfires-and-cantonese-podcast.html

Spring has come to El Terreno, and the time difference between Spain and Hong Kong is once again 7 hours instead of 6. This daylight...

20/03/2024

A trip to Valencia makes me think about Shenzhen and all its wonders - tailors, foot massage, delicious food... But I'm on Podcast number 17 in my series CantoNews from Exile! That's something.

In the olden days when I lived in Hong Kong, I often got the urge to be somewhere else. I would then jump on a bus to the other side of...

15/02/2024

It was Chinese New Year 2024 and I had finally found an extravaganza! However, like all celebrations uprooted and transported abroad, it had little on the real thing. Still! I found a Cantonese speaker...

It's the year of the Dragon, the most important year of the Chinese zodiac! This year I had, by way of an English guy I found on Facebook...

06/02/2024

Although I'm now giving you the chance to learn Cantonese free, you can also take lessons from me, from the comfort of your own home, as they call it. Progress in leaps and bounds with the tried and trusted method of NO VIOLENCE. Learn Cantonese the Natural Way - from a Norwegian! Today's word: DRINK

We delve into the murky world of TO DRINK, and how even that simple word is different from English. But then again, what isn't.

24/01/2024

Where else do people take their animals to church to be blessed by a priest? San Antoni, the patron saint of animals, makes no distinction between tiny yappy dogs, dignified pitbulls and an owl or two. Another great Mallorcan festival. Contains Cantonese Podcast CantoNews from Exile episode 14! Everything about the word GO
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