Lesson 158- I am working! 我做緊嘢! (Vocabulary related to WORK) #learncantonese

Hi there, I'm Amanda. Welcome back to 5-Minute Cantonese. 大家好,我是 Amanda. 歡迎收看五分鐘廣東話。 Today, let's learn some very basic vocabulary related to work. 工作 Let's get started. Remember in this lesson, we learned how to say to go and to go back. For to go to work, we always say back to work. So, to go to work, 返工 So how about the opposite of work? 收工 Or you can say, 放工 Very similar to go to school. Remember how to say to go to school. Right. 返學 How about the opposite? 放學 But for school, you can only use the word 放. But for work, you can also say 收工 And 放工 So normally, what is the first thing you do when you go to work? Well, well, well, not having your breakfast. 唔係食早餐。 The first thing you normally will do is to sign in with your staff card for many jobs. OK. For this action in Cantonese, 打 卡 卡 literally means to hit. 卡 obviously means the card. We use this action to mean the action of signing in. 打 卡 Who are these people? Well, they can be your friends. But normally, at work, we call them colleagues. 同事 Remember, in school. Who are these people? Yeah, they are your cosplay. 同學 同 literally means together. So when you are together doing something, which means colleague. 同事 When you are together to study, which is your classmate. 同學 Guess who she is? Well, looks like she's the boss. In Cantonese, you can use these expressions. 波師 Well, very similar to the pronunciation of boss. 波師 Or 上司 Or 老細 As well as 老闆 Another very down-to-earth expression. You can also call them your head. Remember how to say head in Cantonese. Right, head. 頭 Tone 4. Very deep tone. However, if you want to describe the person as your head, we change the tone to tone 2. 頭 And we also need to add the word 啊 in the front. 頭 So for example, if you want to say he's my boss, you can say all this. For example, 佢係我波師 Or 佢係我上司 佢係我老細 Or 佢係我老闆 In some casual occasion, if you just chat with your colleagues or your friends, you can say 佢係我啊頭 But normally you won't say this to your boss or client, ok? Talking about manager, of course there is an exact term of manager instead of boss. 經理 How about for the people under him or her? You can say 下屬 So on the contrary to 上司, remember? 上 and 下 Remember the name of the topic? Right, a job or work. 工作 For written Chinese, 工作 can be a verb. However, for speaking Cantonese, we don't use 工作 as verb. For noun, there must be a quantifier. Well, this is a bit particular. Yes, it's not 工. This one is 份 份 For example, this job is very difficult to do. How to say? This 你 And then the quantifier 份 Ok? You can either say 工作 or many people will just drop the word 做 工 呢份工 Very 好 Difficult 難 To do 做 呢份工好難做。 So how about the verb? When you say I'm working. Yes, we learned this before. 做 嘢 means working on something. 做 嘢 So how about the pleasant continuous tense? Yes, since 嘢 is the noun, the verb is 做. So if you say I'm working, we say like this 我 做 緊 And then stuff 嘢 我 做緊嘢。 How about having a day off? 放 假 放 假 Remember? Off school 放學 Off work 放 工 So 放 means to release. How about sick leave? We learned it before. 假 病 假 So if you are the one who have sick leave, you can say 放 病 假 放 病 假 How about to request for sick leave? To request 請 OK? So to request for sick leave 請 病 假 請 病 假 Or you need to request for a day off to do something. You can simply drop the word 病 請 假 請 假 Very good. Thank you for watching. I hope you enjoyed this lesson today. If you want to learn Cantonese with me, please subscribe. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you want more vocabulary related to work, please leave me a comment below. If you want more worksheets, supplementary audio exercises, please, please support my Patreon page. See you next time. Bye-bye. 下次見。