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INTRODUCTION
David: Welcome to CantoneseClass101.com. I’m David.
Gimmy: 大家好, 我係 Gimmy。(daai6 gaa1 hou2, ngo5 hai6 Gimmy.)
David: And we’re here today with Beginner Season 1, Lesson 10.
Gimmy: The Hong Kong Soccer Team.
David: Right. So if you like sports and you’re in Hong Kong, we’re sorry. But we’ve got a dialogue that’s between two sports fans and one of them is going to ask “Have you watched the game?” And we’re going to hear what happens.
Gimmy: Yes.
David: So this is casual Cantonese Hong Kong style, as always.

Lesson conversation

睇咗場波未?(tai2 zo2 coeng4 bo1 mei6?)
睇咗,激死我喇。(tai2 zo2, gik1 sei2 ngo5 laa3.)
點解啫?(dim2 gaai2 zek1?)
又輸波囉!(jau6 syu1 bo1 lo1!)
好正常吖。 (hou2 zing3 soeng4 aa1.)
David: Once again, a bit slower.
睇咗場波未?(tai2 zo2 coeng4 bo1 mei6?)
睇咗,激死我喇。(tai2 zo2, gik1 sei2 ngo5 laa3.)
點解啫?(dim2 gaai2 zek1?)
又輸波囉!(jau6 syu1 bo1 lo1!)
好正常吖。 (hou2 zing3 soeng4 aa1.)
David: And now, with the English translation.
睇咗場波未?(tai2 zo2 coeng4 bo1 mei6?)
Have you watched the match yet?
睇咗,激死我喇。(tai2 zo2, gik1 sei2 ngo5 laa3.)
Yes, I'm very upset.
點解啫?(dim2 gaai2 zek1?)
Why?
又輸波囉!(jau6 syu1 bo1 lo1!)
We lost again!
好正常吖。 (hou2 zing3 soeng4 aa1.)
That's normal.
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
David: Which is true. It’s true in most sports actually, not just soccer.
Gimmy: Yeah.
David: Hong Kong is not a place for sports lovers.
Gimmy: I have to admit, yes.
David: So our vocab today, is about winning, it’s about losing, and it’s about how common it is to be losing. Let’s get to it.
VOCAB LIST
Gimmy: 未 (mei6) [natural native speed]
David: Yet.
Gimmy: 未 (mei6) [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 未 (mei6) [natural native speed].
Gimmy: 激 (gik1) [natural native speed].
David: To be upset.
Gimmy: 激 (gik1) [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 激 (gik1) [natural native speed].
Gimmy: 又 (jau6) [natural native speed].
David: Again.
Gimmy: 又 (jau6) [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 又 (jau6) [natural native speed].
Gimmy: 輸 (syu1) [natural native speed]
David: To lose.
Gimmy: 輸 (syu1) [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 輸 (syu1) [natural native speed].
Gimmy: 贏 (jeng4) [natural native speed]
David: To win.
Gimmy: 贏 (jeng4) [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 贏 (jeng4) [natural native speed].
Gimmy: 正常 (zing3 soeng4) [natural native speed]
David: Normal.
Gimmy: 正常 (zing3 soeng4) [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 正常 (zing3 soeng4) [natural native speed].
Gimmy: 點解 (dim2 gaai2) [natural native speed]
David: Why?
Gimmy: 點解 (dim2 gaai2) [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 點解 (dim2 gaai2) [natural native speed].
KEY VOCABULARY AND PHRASES
David: Let’s take a closer look at some of these words and phrases. The first word we want to highlight is the verb “to lose.”
Gimmy: 輸. (syu1.)
David: “To lose.”
Gimmy: 輸.(syu1.)
David: As in the sentence “we lost again.”
Gimmy: 又輸波喇. (jau6 syu1 bo1 laa3.)
David: “We lost again.”
Gimmy: 又輸波. (又輸波.)
David: Right.
Gimmy: David, you know, if you watch Hong Kong soccer, you hear this word a lot.
David: Right. You will hear your colleagues ask each other, “why do we always lose?”
Gimmy: Yes, 點解我哋又輸波. (dim2 gaai2 ngo5 dei6 jau6 syu1 bo1.)
David: Which is “why do we lose again?” What about “why do we always lose?”
Gimmy: 點解我哋成日輸波? (dim2 gaai2 ngo5 dei6 sing4 jat6 syu1 bo1?)
David: “Why do we always lose?”
Gimmy: 點解我哋成日輸? (dim2 gaai2 ngo5 dei6 sing4 jat6 syu1?)
David: And the word that’s the opposite of lose is very rarely mentioned in Hong Kong sport circles, is to win.
Gimmy: 贏 (jeng4)
David: “To win.”
Gimmy: 贏. (jeng4.) I can hardly think of a sport that Hong Kong wins.
David: Right. Certainly not soccer. Racing, people in Hong Kong love racing and there’s always a winner.
Gimmy: All right.
David: So if you go horse-racing, there’s going to be someone in the crowd shouting “I won! I won!”
Gimmy: Yes. That’s a good thing. 我贏咗. (ngo5 jeng4 zo2.)
David: Right. “I won, I won.”
Gimmy: 我贏咗. 我贏咗呀. (ngo5 jeng4 zo2 . ngo5 jeng4 zo2 aa3.)
David: Right. And we’ve got the excited 呀 (aa3) at the end of that, too.
Gimmy: Yes.
David: Right? But most of the time, Hong Kong sporting teams lose and they lose again and again.
Gimmy: So we got the word 又…(jau6...)
David: …which means “again.”
Gimmy: 又. (jau6.)
David: This is an adverb so we’re placing it after the subject in our sentence.
Gimmy: Right.
David: “We lost again.”
Gimmy: 我哋又輸. (ngo5 dei6 jau6 syu1.)
David: They lost again.
Gimmy: 佢哋又輸. (keoi5 dei6 jau6 syu1.)
David: Or maybe if you’re talking about a film, you could say “I watched it again.”
Gimmy: 我又睇過. (ngo5 jau6 tai2 gwo1.)
David: Or going to a restaurant, “I went there again.”
Gimmy: 我又去過. (ngo5 jau6 heoi3 gwo3.)
David: Right. So we hear this is our dialogues again and again.
Gimmy: 又輸波喇. (jau6 syu1 bo1 laa3.)
David: We lost again. The final word we want to highlight is “normal.”
Gimmy: 正常. (zing3 soeng4) The sad thing is we mentioned the team lost…
David: “normal.”
Gimmy: 正常. (zing3 soeng4)
David: Yeah.
Gimmy: …it’s a normal thing.
David: Yes.
Gimmy: 正常. (zing3 soeng4)
David: “It’s really common.”
Gimmy: So if your friend is complaining how the team lost…”
David: Right. You can always console them and tell them….
Gimmy: 輸波好正常啫. (syu1 bo1 hou2 zing3 soeng4 ze1.)
David: “Losing, it’s normal.”
Gimmy: 輸波好正常啫. (syu1 bo1 hou2 zing3 soeng4 ze1.)
David: Right. “Losing is normal.”
Gimmy: Yes.
David: Right. And with that, let’s get to our grammar point.
David: It’s grammar time!

Lesson focus

David: Our focus today is the word for “yet.”
Gimmy: 未. (mei6.)
David: Yet.
Gimmy: 未. (mei6.)
David: So we’re going to learn how to build sentences like the one in our dialogue, “Have you seen the match yet?”
Gimmy: 睇咗場波未? (tai2 zo2 coeng4 bo1 mei6?)
David: “Have you seen the match yet?”
Gimmy: 睇咗場波未? (tai2 zo2 coeng4 bo1 mei6?)
David: So Gimmy, what’s going on?
Gimmy: So we have the word 未 (mei6) at the very end.
David: Right. And we just add this to the end of the sentence.
Gimmy: Right.
David: For instance, the question, “Have you eaten?”
Gimmy: 你食咗飯? (nei5 sik6 zo2 faan6?)
David: “Have you eaten yet?”
Gimmy: 你食咗飯未?(nei5 sik6 zo2 faan6 mei6?)
David: For another example, say you’re at the office and a colleague comes by and asked, “Have you finished?”
Gimmy: 你做完?(nei5 zou6 jyun4?)
David: This is different from “Have you finished yet?”
Gimmy: 你做完未?(nei5 zou6 jyun4 mei6?)
David: Let’s hear those again. “Have you finished?”
Gimmy: 你做完?(nei5 zou6 jyun4?)
David: “Have you eaten?”
Gimmy: 你食咗? (nei5 sik6 zo2?)
David: Have you finished yet?
Gimmy: 你做完未?(nei5 zou6 jyun4 mei6?)
David: Have you eaten yet?
Gimmy: 你食咗飯未?(nei5 sik6 zo2 faan6 mei6?)
David: For final example, let’s say there’s a film you absolutely love and you’re asking a friend, “Have you seen it?”
Gimmy: 你睇咗?(nei5 tai2 zo2?)
David: Now if you keep asking this, eventually you’re going to want to say “Have you seen it yet?”
Gimmy: 你睇咗未?(nei5 tai2 zo2 mei6?)
David: So this is a really simple grammar structure. We ask our question as usual.
Gimmy: And we put the word 未(mei6) at the very end.
David: Right, just like in English “Have you eaten?” “Have you eaten yet?”
Gimmy: 你食咗?你食咗未? (nei5 sik6 zo2? nei5 sik6 zo2 mei6?) So we’re at the end of the podcast, David.

Outro

David: Thanks a lot for listening and we’ll see you on the site.
Gimmy: 多謝收聽, 下次見. (do1 ze6 sau1 teng1, haa6 ci3 gin3.)

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