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by dark_glass 1746 days ago
Your project looks amazing. I am in the same situation where I am learning Cantonese because my partner and her family speak it (actually Taishanese, but Cantonese is close enough).

Love the Yale romanization for your included Cantonese flash cards! Definitely going to check this out.

As for listening before speaking: It has been incredibly hard for me to pick out specific vocabulary with colloquial Cantonese in movies and other videos. Native speakers talk too quickly for me right now. I did watch a lot of French movies when learning French and that seemed to help more with comprehension later. I likely just need to spend more time with Cantonese since it is more different to my native tongue than French.

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Yeah, very hard to learn Cantonese since it's tonal, but you can do it! For movies, I find it a lot easier to reinforce once I've gotten used to the language a bit. Lot of good Stephen Chow and Jackie Chan films to learn with.

There are podcast packs in the app to get you introduced to Cantonese. I'll keep in touch to see how it goes!