Cantonese, also known as Cantonese and Guangfu dialect, is commonly known as vernacular Chinese. Cantonese contains nine tones and six tones, retains the characteristics of ancient Chinese, and has a complete series of characters, which can be completely expressed in Chinese characters. Besides Mandarin, China is the only Chinese language independently studied in foreign universities. Cantonese is the official language of Hong Kong and Macao, the fourth largest language in Australia, the third largest language in the United States and Canada, and the second largest language in New Zealand.
My learning path begins with words. Some people use the most traditional method, starting with nine tones and six tones in Cantonese, and learning pinyin little by little. I want to say that the advantage of this is that it is very systematic and the pronunciation is very standard, whether it is stress or swallowing; The disadvantage is that you are too impatient. You can't spell so many initials and finals that you haven't seen before. It's still hard to tell them apart. Apply what you have learned, don't learn Cantonese for academic research, but focus on practicality. So I started with Cantonese songs and never used any tutorials or textbooks. The first step is simple. Listen to beyond, Andy Lau, Alan Tam, Zhong Zhentao, anyone, and Eason Chan. Find Cantonese songs of favorite singers, listen to them several times and try to imitate them at last. This is the first step. The most important thing in this step is that you will form a conditioned response to many words, which is helpful to your listening and speaking. For example: Life, I guess everyone knows how to read it. At this stage, you can accumulate some common words and master them. Try to make them sensitive.
At this time, you have a basic impression of some vocabulary phrases, such as what do you do (what do you do) (Why) Well, you can try to practice your listening. My classmates recommended me to listen to the radio. Here's a little advice: try to listen to the radio first, watch the news, and don't watch talk shows. For example, Guangzhou Traffic Broadcasting and China Southern Television TVS2. Because this kind of speech is relatively standardized, especially in the news, there are few special slang words. Before listening to this, I suddenly had a feeling of enlightenment. I feel that my vocabulary has reached a certain level. One day, I listened to the news on a whim (or Maoming Gaozhou News), but I didn't expect to understand the main idea. Many long sentences can be completely translated. This is very confident. Because there are many cliches and fixed words in the news, it is easy to understand. Later, I went to listen to Radio Foshan, and I understood more on the first day than I expected. To tell the truth, I thought I would be bored, but later I found that I was not bored after listening for a long time. Even if I don't understand some of them, I won't cut them off Many times, I can learn about road information, news, song introductions and advertisements directly. This increases self-confidence. This is also the fastest stage of listening improvement. There is an example: sometimes when I hear the host say the word dance, I still hesitate at first. Later, Baidu took a look. It seems that the accumulation of early words is very important. This will make you feel conditioned when you hear this word, because you don't know the Cantonese pronunciation of all the words, just as children grind them out from primary school dialects over and over again, just as you know I don't know what they mean when you hear me.
You can't just listen. There is nothing to talk about. It is even more impressive. Quantitative change leads to qualitative change. Grind this thing, and you can slowly understand long sentences.
After that, if the level is almost the same, you can watch TV dramas, such as TVB, 72 Tenants, Love Home, and even talk shows. Of course, there is a transition period at this stage, and you may have to watch subtitles in the early stage.
Listening to spoken English can't be separated, and it's embarrassing to understand and not speak. This is also the hardest step. You must be bold and start with words and short sentences.