Popup Cantonese — Basic: Listening Test #4

1. Listen to the following six characters and count how many have a glottal sound? a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4 2. Ask someone if they want to eat something by saying 食唔食. What are the tones?a) tone 6, 4, 6 b) tone 3, 4, 3 c) tone 2, 3, 2 d) tone 6, 3, 6 3. What is this sentence about? a) planning a trip b) asking for direction c) checking in d) ordering from menu 4. Coffee is 咖啡. What are the tons on that? a) tone 1, 2 b) tone 2, 1 c) tone 3, 1d) tone 3, 2 5. How do you say, “I don't speak Cantonese, but I can understand it”?a) 我識講廣東話，但係我聽唔明 b) 我唔識講廣東話，⼜聽唔明 c) 我識講廣東話，⼜聽得明 d) 我唔識講廣東話，但係我聽得明 6. Listen to this sentence and pick the right translation:a) Where is the hotel b) Where is the toilet c) Which restaurant is better d) Which city is better 7. If someone asks you 食咗飯未, what are they doing? a) waiting table b) asking you out c) making small talk d) being concerned about your health 8. There are many ways of suggesting “let's have a drink”. Which of the following is incorrect? a) ⼀齊飲杯嘢吖 b) 我哋飲嘢 c) 要唔要⼀齊飲杯嘢啊？ d) ⼀齊飲杯嘢好唔好？ 9. How do you say: “Do I speak correctly? ” a) 我講得錯唔錯 b) 我講得啱唔啱 c) 我識講得啱錯 d) 我識得講啱錯 10. Listen to the following tongue twister. Pick how many are in the entering tone: a) 4 b) 5 c) 6d) 7 11. What does 我哋⼀齊去咗超級市場買嘢 mean？ a) Let's go shopping at the supermarket b) We are shopping at the supermarket together c) We went shopping at the supermarket together d) We will go shopping at the supermarket together 12. How do you say “Do you speak Japanese“?a) 你講日文？ b) 你講唔講日文？ c) 你識唔識講日文？ d) 你係唔係講日文？ 13. To ask “are you X-ing” in Cantonese, where X is any verb, we do the following: a) use the pattern X 唔 X 緊 b) use the pattern X 緊 X c) use the pattern X 唔 X d) use the pattern 係唔係X緊 14. Listen to this sentence and pick the correct translation:a) They have eaten b) They wont́ eat c) They are eating d) They havent́ eaten yet. 15. You want to ask for Wifi. What should you NOT say? a) Wifi唔错 b) 呢度有冇Wifi c) 我要Wifi d) 呢度可唔可以用Wifi Answers: 1 - d, 2 - a, 3 - a, 4 - c, 5 - d, 6 - b, 7 - c, 8 - b, 9 - b, 10 - a, 11 - c, 12 - c, 13 - d, 14 - d, 15 - a.