How to Use Cantonese in a Sentence

Cantonese

noun

• Two children born in the United States never learned Cantonese at all.
  — Madeleine Schwartz Soneela Nankani Tanya Pérez Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 14 May 2024
• By 10, he was known as Ken and no longer understood Cantonese well.
  — Madeleine Schwartz Soneela Nankani Tanya Pérez Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 14 May 2024
• The girls tagged along and had the opportunity to watch their mother speak Cantonese and do business.
  — Flora Tsapovsky, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2023
• Wong said Cantonese includes a lot of slang and phrases that aren’t normally said in Mandarin or English.
  — Austindedios, oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
• No cuisine is a monolith, and that seems especially true in the case of Cantonese cooking across Los Angeles right now.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
• Speakers of Cantonese or other non-Mandarin languages can use platforms besides Douyin, at least for now.
  — Gina Anne Tam, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2023
• Kevin Lee, 37, said the performance can be an avenue for young people to engage with their heritage in ways that feel less like work than learning Cantonese or Mandarin.
  — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• Donya speaks Dari with fellow Afghans and English with her co-workers, but the cookie factory is run by people who talk to one another in Cantonese.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• But finding staff who speak Cantonese or other Asian languages like Bengali is even more difficult.
  — Rong Xiaoqing, Curbed, 21 Aug. 2023
• The English, Cantonese and Hindi-language project is budgeted at $1.2 million.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024
• Some stores tailor their advertising by using Cantonese, Hong Kong’s local Chinese language, to draw tourists into their shops.
  — Olivia Wang, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• Chiu said many of the victims whose cars were towed were residents who primarily spoke Spanish and Cantonese, a group that is already susceptible to predatory towing.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
• The camera pans around Wang, and his speech suddenly changes from subtitled Cantonese to fluent American English, turning the audience into native speakers of his language.
  — Jasper Lo, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
• National security police questioned Chan about an essay contest the group hosted three years earlier for literature composed in Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong.
  — Gina Anne Tam, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024