Cantonese Storytime and Book Reading on YouTube

A number of native Cantonese speakers have generously spent their time recording videos of themselves reading kids’ books in Cantonese. Here we have a list that would include more than 25 channels and a few hundred stories. and counting . Read More

Themed Colloquial Cantonese Phrase Lists

Sometimes it’s tricky to know if a vocabulary list is in Colloquial Cantonese or Standard Chinese. These lists are specifically in Colloquial Cantonese, so you can use the phrases in speech. Read More

Review: FSI Cantonese Course

If you are a complete beginner, focusing on speaking and listening to Cantonese, FSI offers an entire systematic course for free, hosted on the Live Lingua site (which proudly proclaims 4 Cantonese courses, 33 ebooks and 161 audios.) Do note these are rather dated (over 40 years old), but a useful resource if you are Read More

Sheep by the River Cantonese Nursery Rhyme Lyrics 河邊有隻羊粵語兒歌歌詞

河邊有隻羊Sheep by the River is a catchy and easy Cantonese Nursery Rhyme. It uses Colloquial Cantonese (口語) which it makes it easy to sing along and understand the lyrics. Also helps kids to learn pronouns (你, 我, 佢), animals, places, and some actions verbs.   河邊有隻羊 河邊有隻羊ho4 bin1 jau5 zek3 joeng4 羊邊有隻象 joeng4 bin1 jau5 Read More