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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Ideally you should learn through a good teacher/tutor, they should inform you common variations etc.

    I am not a learner so I can’t really point you to learner resources. But I can suggest:

    • Some wikipeida pages are in Cantonese language, you can read them for practising
    • Visit some Cantonese-based forums so you can observe how people write cantonese casually

    Keep posting questions to Cantonese communities on Lemmy. Many people are willing to help.




  • Grammar books are written by linguists. But languages are used by people.

    比 is not officially a variation of 畀, but people commonly use or misuse it as one. No native Cantonese speaker will misunderstand the use of 比 in this context, even if it is not strictly correct.

    It is similar to how some English words are often misspelled, but the meaning is still clear. For example, supersede vs supercede, advise vs advice.