I want to be able to speak Cantonese.

South African mahjong is a variant of Cantonese mahjong.

Names Lee's Cantonese birth name was Lee Jun fan (李振藩).

The Cantonese language version was published by Rightman Publishing Ltd. in Hong Kong.

Acting career Lee's father Lee Hoi chuen was a famous Cantonese opera star.

TDM offers two 24 hour radio services a Cantonese and a Portuguese channel) and it also offers television services 1 Cantonese, 1 Portuguese, 1 sports, 1 news, 1 HDTV and 1 international channel.

Cuisine Local cooking in Macau consists of a blend of Cantonese and Portuguese cuisines.

Cantonese speaking housing advocate Phyllis Chiu assists tenants facing eviction in a building in downtown Los Angeles.

The Chinese characters for withdraw (收) and cover (皮) when put together in Cantonese means f k off .

There are a number of places in China called Nine Dragons , the most famous being Kowloon (in Cantonese) in Hong Kong.

As a result Hong Kong Cantonese, the most widely spoken language in Hong Kong and Macau, is an offshoot of the Guangzhou dialect.

One day last spring, however, Yang and her next room neighbors, the Zhous, had some unexpected visitors a group of Cantonese speaking housing advocates.

Spoken Cantonese was largely familiar, and some spoke the language with a regional accent (鄉下話) acquired largely from their mothers or amahs.

In spoken Cantonese, 蚊 () is used, perhaps a transliteration of the first syllable of money , although some suggest that the character is a corruption of ().

Chinese (mainly Cantonese and Mandarin) is the second most common language spoken at home (3.6 ), with Greek third, Italian fourth and Vietnamese fifth, each with more than 100,000 speakers.

The influences of immigrant peoples such as the Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien and Hainan cultures can also be seen, while the national religion of Buddhism is strongly entwined with popular culture.

Other languages and dialects include other Mandarin dialects, and Wu (Shanghainese), Yue (Cantonese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien or Taiwanese, Teochiu), Xiang, Gan and Hakka, as well as languages of the minorities.

The next most common languages spoken at home are Mandarin (1.7 ), Italian (1.5 ), Arabic (1.4 ), Cantonese (1.3 ), Greek (1.3 ), and Vietnamese (1.2 ) a considerable proportion of first and second generation migrants are bilingual.

Other objects like Ba gua mirrors are still regularly used to deflect evil spirits, and buildings often lack any floor number that has a 4 in it, due to its similarity to the word for die in Cantonese.

Family Lee's father, Lee Hoi chuen, was one of the leading Cantonese opera and film actors at the time, and was embarking on a year long opera tour with his family on the eve of the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong.

A Chinese syllable ending with any other consonant either is from a non Mandarin language (a southern Chinese language such as Cantonese, or a minority language of China), or indicates the use of a non pinyin romanization system (where final consonants may be used to indicate tones).

As of 2010, 78.93 (4,823,127) of Massachusetts residents age 5 and older spoke English at home as a primary language, while 7.50 (458,256) spoke Spanish, 2.97 (181,437) Portuguese, 1.59 (96,690) Chinese (which includes Cantonese and Mandarin), 1.11 (67,788) French, 0.89 (54,456) French Creole, 0.72 (43,798) Italian, 0.62 (37,865) Russian, and Vietnamese was spoken as a main language by 0.58 (35,283) of the population over the age of five.