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This is a list of some common languages in Cantonese. This lesson is complementary to our other 2 pages: Nationality and Countries.
| English: 英文 yīngwén |
Arabic: 阿拉伯話 ālābó huà |
Chinese: 中文 zhōngwén |
Brazilian: 巴西話 bāxī huà |
| French: 法文 fǎwén |
German: 徳文 déwén |
Greek: 希臘話 xīlà huà |
Hebrew: 希伯來話 xī bó lái huà |
| Hindi: 印度話 yìndù huà |
Irish: 愛爾蘭文 ài'ěrlán wén |
Italian: 意大利文 yìdàlì wén |
Japanese: 日文 rìwén |
| Korean: 韓文 hánwén |
Latin: 拉丁文 lādīng wén |
Persian: 波斯話 bōsī huà |
Portuguese: 葡萄牙文 pútáoyá wén |
| Russian: 俄文 é wén |
Spanish: 西班牙文 xībānyá wén |
Swedish: 瑞典文 ruìdiǎn wén |
Urdu: 烏都語 wū dū yǔ |
Now we will put some of the words above into a sentence which you might use in a regular conversation. All you need is to swap languages but keep the same sentence structure.
| I speak Italian: 我講意大利文 wǒ jiǎng yìdàlì wén |
I want to learn Spanish: 我想學西班牙文 wǒ xiǎng xué xībānyá wén |
| My mother tongue is German: 我嘅母語係德文 wǒ kǎi mǔyǔ xì dé wén |
I love the Japanese language: 我鍾意日文 wǒ zhōngyì rìwén |
| I don't speak Korean: 我唔識講韓文 wǒ wú shí jiǎng hánwén |
Spanish is easy to learn: 西班牙文好易學 xībānyá wén hǎo yì xué |
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