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"Learn cantonese". Let's see how that one goes. Click.

"I would like to welcome you to the Cantonese lessons. I'm here to help you (bold)learn Cantonese(/bold)". Hello there, content-farm-robot-pretending-to-be-a-person.

Lesson 1: "Cantonese Alphabet". There is no alphabet in Cantonese, it's a Chinese language. Click.

"Today I will teach you the (bold)Cantonese alphabet(/bold). If (...more filler...). Cantonese contains more than 9900 letters". Hu, OK, let's stop here for the 'alphabet'. A quick look at the other 'lessons' shows what is obviously missing but would be in any true '101' Cantonese course: it's a tonal language, so you'd have to explain the tones first.

If you skim through multiple languages you will see a 'Translation' service (with a paid option, but it's the same page as the free one) that always point to the same (stock photo) translator. Not sure what that website is for, but it's not for learning any language.

parent Hasknewbie 10 years ago

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