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CantonesePod.com beta was launched in July, 2008.

It is updated weekly with lots of how to say entries and weekly podcast short lessons (easy to follow and pick the Cantonese language.)

http://CantonesePod.com/

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For both Mandarin and Cantonese text2speech demo (pretty quick):
http://www.iflytek.com/speech%20shows.asp

For Cantonese only:

Dogs are our friends so I do not eat dogs any more. ( I used to live in a place where people raised dogs as food just like cows or pigs).

There is a Chinese saying to describe those ungrateful guys as “Trusted aides are eliminated when they have outlived their usefulness.”

兔死狗烹 tu4 si2 gou3 peng1 (Click the Chinese to go to the Yahoo dictionary for the sound of this Chinese idiom.

When I was a little boy, I was deeply touched by a story about a loyal hound who died of exhaustion after saving its master from drowning in the river. Some day, I really want to keep a dog for myself, because I believe it will be my best friend. No, I’ll never cook it. I’m a civilized person now

White Radish, or Daikon(Japanese), 白蘿蔔(萝卜)bai2luo2bo2(Chinese)
Cantonese use it in White Radish cake 蘿蔔糕(萝卜糕)luo2bo2gao1, one of their Dim Sum(Dian3xin) 點心(点心).

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(credit: photo from wikipedia.com click here to read more about this vegetable and the name daikon )

Are you interested in all other Chinese food? We started a new category for Chinese Food here.

They are called “Terracotta warriors”, but more correctly:
The Terracotta Army (兵馬俑;
pinyin: bīng mǎ yōng or bing1ma3yong3 , literal meaning: “Soldier and Horse Figures”), inside the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (秦始皇陵; pinyin: qín shǐ huáng líng ), was discovered in March 1974 during the sinking of wells for farmland irrigation construction near Xi’an, Shaanxi province, People’s Republic of China.

So They should be army (including warriors and horses) instead of just warriors.

More about Terracotta warriors/Army

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長城（长城）chang2 cheng2 (long wall)
short for
Traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; Simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlĭ Chángchéng
(meaning 10,000 li long wall. 2 li = 1 km)

The Wall stretches over a formidable 6,350 km (3,945 miles) (More about great wall)

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Great food, but what is it?
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Mandarin
Pinyin: Sheng4 dan4 kuai4 le4 (all 4th/falling tone)
汉字： 圣 诞 快 乐（聖誕快樂）   
Cantonese:
sing3 dan3 faai3 lok3     

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How to Greet in Chinese?
Hello/How are you? 你好
Mandarin: Ni2hao3   
Cantonese: nei2 hou5   

For some more basic greetings in Cantonese, you can go to http://chinesebay.com/cantonese/basic.asp

Want to say something else in Chinese? Post your requests in comments.

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