Themed Colloquial Cantonese Phrase Lists

Online Cantonese Phrasebook

These online colloquial cantonese phrase lists are the online equivalent of a beginner’s phrase books, listing Colloquial Cantonese vocabulary by topics. They are a wonderful resource as most phrase lists that you find online tend to be in Standard Chinese, and not always how you might speak. It is a good list to make flash cards or to test yourself to check your level of Cantonese.

 

Learn Cantonese 學廣東話

This site is an online phrasebook, and offers lots of vocabulary in colloquial Cantonese, in various categories, ranging from animals to personality traits to swearing. Also has information on grammar and pronunciation.

Cantonese Lessons

A hobby website, dedicated to the promotion of friendship and cultural exchanges between Chinese and Westerners, and   providing basic Cantonese lessons –  Sounds and Tones Lessons, Grammar Lessons, Language Skills, and Vocabulary.  Lessons include many sound files. Last updated 2006.

 

齊齊學啲廣東話 Let’s Learn Di-Cantonese Facebook page

This page offers a lot of Cantonese vocabulary in a visual format.

 

Learn Cantonese – CantoneseClass101.com Facebook page

This Facebook page offers lots of infographics with Colloquial Cantonese phrases and sentences. Do note their website vocabulary lists are mainly in Standard Chinese (with Cantonese Romanisation) and hence not so suitable for speech.

 

Omniglot

A collection of useful phrases in Cantonese, in traditional characters and Yale Romanization. On a connected page, the specific Cantonese characters are also listed.

 

Sheik 

Scroll down to the revision sheets. Where applicable, both spoken and and written forms are listed.

 

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Anything I Missed?

Have I missed any good resources? Or maybe you have a question about something. If so, please feel free to drop a comment on this post. I will continue to update this post with more resources.

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