Hey, /lang/. There's a favor I would like to ask of you that I can't repay.You see, I've been meaning to get around to learning cantonese, but haven't really made a worthwhile attempt at actually learning the language. Due to circumstances, I'd like to

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Anonymous 12/09/15 (Wed) 06:13:28 No.1370

Hey, /lang/. There's a favor I would like to ask of you that I can't repay.

You see, I've been meaning to get around to learning cantonese, but haven't really made a worthwhile attempt at actually learning the language. Due to circumstances, I'd like to comprehend the language within one to three months from now, if I were starting tomorrow (Its midnight here).

I was wondering if anyone had any good resources they could share? I know its an uncommon language, but I would be appreciative if I had any help besides the one I found with a search engine.

Thanks in advance. I know its not much, but take this semi-relative wallpaper as the only form of repayment I can possibly think of.

Anonymous 12/09/15 (Wed) 08:22:00 No.1371

>I'd like to comprehend the language within one to three months from now,

Try one or three years.

Anonymous 12/09/15 (Wed) 18:25:00 No.1372

>comprehend

As in read, or listen? You can learn to read any and all of the Chinese languages relatively quickly if you know one of them, but to listen is almost impossible even if you dedicate years to it. To write, also easier than to speak, and I would say that unless you're planning to move permanently to Hong Kong or otherwise have to learn to speak fluently and understand what people are talking about by listening, you could just cram the simple grammar and hanzi and do with that.

Anonymous 12/11/15 (Fri) 19:50:40 No.1376

>>1372

I've always heard weaboos say the opposite about Japanese (easy to speak/understand, difficult to read/write).

>>1370

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cantonese

Yes, I'm linking to a subreddit. They have a good list of resources.

Anonymous 12/11/15 (Fri) 23:42:13 No.1377

>>1376

>easy to speak/understand, difficult to read/write

To write you need to know the two 49 characters alphabets and kanji, whereas speaking/understanding is relatively easy since nip only has fifty something sounds.

From what I've heard other asian languages are a pain in the ass to understand though.

Anonymous 12/15/15 (Tue) 22:19:41 No.1391

>>1376

>he thinks Japanese is related to Chinese

Top haha.

>>1377

Hiragana and katakana are really easy, and kanji are literally hanzi by a different name. If you can't learn to read/write Japanese, you shouldn't even try any type of Chinese.

Anonymous 12/21/15 (Mon) 20:07:30 No.1406

>>1391

>kanji are literally hanzi by a different name

b-but my kokuji

chinks even reimported some of them, 鰯