Be The Gwai!

Posted on February 3, 2012 by cecilie

The other day one of my students created a brilliant slogan. I was telling her about how local Chinese people think all Caucasians are complete idiots who can’t read numbers, don’t know what milk is (according to the podcast below, ElleX stood in front of the dairy section at her local supermarket wondering what to buy, when a helpful employee popped up at her elbow saying: This. Is. M-I-L-K.) and generally need help and advice to walk across a floor to reach an exit.

They are amazed and falling over themselves if you can utter 早晨，(jo san, morning) let alone string a whole sentence like 廁所喺邊度 (chi soh hai bin dou, where is the toilet) together.

So why do you have to be your normal age and native language abilities or nothing, when you speak Cantonese? Can’t you just BE THE GWAI? A total idiot from whom no one expects any brain activity at all? That way, even if you know three sentences or 52 random words in Cantonese, you’ll be treated like a mega-star and the most intelligent specimen in the world.

Be the 鬼！ It’s extremely liberating. Just ask any inmate in a loony bin.

So learn Cantonese this year! If you don’t have time to take lessons you can buy the entire language in two handy DVDs right here at this site:

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Dragon Year – How Can You Get Through It Without Cantonese???

Posted on January 26, 2012 by cecilie

So it’s a new year again, this time rather more important than just old 2012 – it’s the year of the DRAGON. Full of upheavals and excitement, it is also the luckiest year in the Chinese zodiac.

With only a basic understanding of Cantonese, you will be so much better equipped to take on this year. Why not take a course in Cantonese, learning it the Natural Way – From a Norwegian? I have free slots throughout the week for groups and individuals, especially in the late afternoons and on Saturdays. You’ll laugh when you see how easy it is!

If you don’t have time to commit to weekly sessions, why not get your own personal pocket Norwegian right into your home? My two DVDs Cantonese – The Movie (for total beginners) and its successor Going Native (scroll down) are yours for less than the price of one hour of one-to-one teaching.

Learn Cantonese this year! Your future will thank you for it.

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New Podcast!!!! Foot Massage in Shenzhen With ElleX

Posted on January 22, 2012 by cecilie

These guys have nothing to do with foot massage, Shenzhen or anything in the podcast (outcast) except they are NOT duds. But dudes.

So I finally worked out how to get a direct bus from Tung Chung which should of course be pronounced Dung Chung, and from then it was all systems go:

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Mainland Charmer Sugarcoats Words:

Posted on January 20, 2012 by cecilie

So this is how the common or garden mainlander sees HK people…

No. of course not. This geezer is just an army of one. A rabid minority misunderstanding his own nationality. Oh, and a professor at Beijing University. No doubt an expert on all things cultural.

So here we have it. Hong Kong people are bastards. Running dogs. Thieves. And … oh yes. Yes, running dogs. Yes, it is the 1960′s.

At least the presenter had the grace to look really uncomfortable. But this kind of spouting is very common on the mainland today. He and other of his kind hide behind the cloak of ‘anti-imperialism’ to let rip. He can just say what he wants unchallenged because he knows it suits the mainland government. Imagine what would happen if he said “well, I think Tibet should be free, actually.”

Note how “everyone must speak Mandarin” features prominently in his rant. What is it I always call that language again? Oh yeah, “Imperialist Communist speech-making language.” Heh.

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New Canto Film!!!!!

Posted on January 13, 2012 by cecilie

It’s been a year but finally more Cantonese. If you want to be in a film, give us a shout! This one wasn’t as easy to make as normally, logistically. But with iMovie and some good friends it all worked out in the end. A big thank you to everyone who gave their time and dignity for this film.

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