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Learn the Cantonese and Mandarin ways to say things related to health and medical matters, and a hodgepodge of many other things you won't learn in a formal classroom.

Cantonese and Mandarin for medical matters and much more Leslie D.Y. Frank

    • Education
    • 5.0 • 16 Ratings

Learn the Cantonese and Mandarin ways to say things related to health and medical matters, and a hodgepodge of many other things you won't learn in a formal classroom.

    66 - 壞/坏: waai6 / huài - bad (feat. music by Magiksolo [Tricky Fox]/pixabay)

    66 - 壞/坏: waai6 / huài - bad (feat. music by Magiksolo [Tricky Fox]/pixabay)

    Casual conversational sentences in Canto and Mando for topics in medical and non-medical settings.

    In this ep, you can see the bad of 壞/坏, in something like rotted tissue, necrosis 壞死/坏死, or like when someone is “spoiled (rotten)” 縱壞/宠坏.

    sister video (ep #35):
    www.youtube.com/@notnowigottago/videos

    soundtrack:
    “Tricky Fox,” by Magiksolo from Pixabay

    • 11 min
    65 - Clarity 清晰度 cing1sik1dou6 / qīngxīdù (i.e. mental clarity, image clarity)

    65 - Clarity 清晰度 cing1sik1dou6 / qīngxīdù (i.e. mental clarity, image clarity)

    Casual conversational sentences in Canto and Mando for topics in medical and non-medical settings.

    sister video (ep #34):
    https://www.youtube.com/@notnowigottago/videos

    Hip hop beat Music by Enhkamgalan ENYX from Pixabay, uploaded by ENheee

    • 6 min
    64 - 放鬆 / 放松: fong3sung1 / fàngsōng - relax; slacken; loosen

    64 - 放鬆 / 放松: fong3sung1 / fàngsōng - relax; slacken; loosen

    Casual conversational sentences in Canto and Mando for topics in medical and non-medical settings.

    This podcast also looks into the root components of 放鬆 / 放松 and discusses the 4th tone sandhi of 不.

    sister video (ep #33):
    https://www.youtube.com/@notnowigottago/videos

    The soundtrack is “Morning Vibes” by Rizzlas via Pixabay; you can hear more from Rizzlas at:
    https://soundcloud.com/rizzlas

    • 9 min
    63 - 靈活/灵活: ling4wut6 / línghuó - flexible, nimble, agile

    63 - 靈活/灵活: ling4wut6 / línghuó - flexible, nimble, agile

    Casual conversational sentences in Canto and Mando for topics in medical and non-medical settings.

    This podcast also looks at the root components of 靈活/灵活 branching over to the words:
    精靈 / 精灵: zing1ling4 / jīngling (when describing a clever/precocious kid)
    活潑 / 活泼 wut6put3 / huópo (when describing an active/energetic elderly)

    sister video (ep #32):
    https://www.youtube.com/@notnowigottago/videos

    The soundtrack is “yalla” by prazkhanal via Pixabay; Production Team: UKA Music Publishing

    • 7 min
    62 - Figuring % in the interest of health & life: 百分之 baak3fan6zi1 / bǎifēnzhī; 打折 daa2zit3 / dǎzhé

    62 - Figuring % in the interest of health & life: 百分之 baak3fan6zi1 / bǎifēnzhī; 打折 daa2zit3 / dǎzhé

    Casual chats in Canto and Mando for topics in medical and non-medical setting.

    sister video (ep #31):
    www.youtube.com/@notnowigottago/videos

    soundtrack: "Simple lofi hip hop track n.6" by Alittlebitdrunkguy is licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0.
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

    • 11 min
    61 - 膽 / 胆 daam2 dǎn: ballsy, guts (as in 大膽 / 大胆 fearless); gall bladder (as in 膽石 / 胆石 gallstone)

    61 - 膽 / 胆 daam2 dǎn: ballsy, guts (as in 大膽 / 大胆 fearless); gall bladder (as in 膽石 / 胆石 gallstone)

    Casual chats in Canto and Mando for topics in medical and non-medical setting.

    sister video (ep #30):
    https://www.youtube.com/@notnowigottago/videos

    Soundtrack: bedtime after a coffee by Barradeen | https://soundcloud.com/barradeen/
    Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US
    Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

    • 6 min

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