Introduction

Welcome to Lando can Canto! I've been studying conversational Cantonese for a few years with the help of my wife and college courses. It's a fun hobby.

There are many Cantonese movies and videos available online but anything aimed at adults tends to be very difficult to follow for someone at my level. Enter Peppa Pig! Fortunately, lots of Cantonese Peppa Pig episodes have been posted on youtube. The episodes are just under five minutes long, which is a good chunk of content to study without being overwhelming. The vocabulary is challenging enough for me and I love the voices.

I will attempt to transcribe and translate Peppa Pig episodes on this blog. For the transcription, I will use Yale romanization, which was used in my college courses. For people starting Cantonese, I would highly recommend getting familiar with Yale romanization because it allows you to write down words and use dictionary apps like Pleco. My first step when learning Cantonese was to make flashcards to review the different sounds, and I still occasionally review them today.

For the translations, I'll try to be as literal as possible, with parentheses around words added for clarity or phrases translated as a whole. I like the literal translation because it makes it easier to match up the English and Cantonese words and highlights the Cantonese sentence structure. It may look strange but I hope it gets the idea across.

As a warm-up, here's the Peppa Pig intro. Enjoy!

Characters:

P: Peppa

P:	Ngo5 giu3 jou6 Peppa I (am) called Peppa
P:	Yi4 keui5 jau6 hai5 ngo5 sai3 lou2 George. And he then is my younger brother, George.
P:	Keui5 jau6 hai6 Jyu1 Taai3 Taai2 She then is Mrs. Pig.
P:	Keui5 hai6 Jyu1 Sin1 Saang1 He is Mr. Pig.
P:	Ngo5 hai6 Peppa! I am Peppa!