Popup Cantonese — Basic: Listening Test #1
1. The word for hello is 你好. What is the tone on the character for 你?
a) 1st tone
b) 2nd tone
c) 5th tone
d) 6th tone
2. I can introduce myself by saying: 我係拉布布. What is the tone on the character 我?
a) 1st tone
b) 2nd tone
c) 5th tone
d) 6th tone
3. How about the tone on the word "to be" — 係?
a) 2nd tone
b) 4th tone
c) 3rd tone
d) 6th tone
4. The word goodbye is 再見. What are the tones on that?
a) tones 1 2
b) tones 3 3
c) tones 4 6
d) tones 6 6
5. You can greet a male friend by saying: 靚仔. What are the tones on 靚仔?
a) tones 2 3
b) tones 2 5
c) tones 3 2
d) tones 6 5
6. The word for beautiful girl is 靚女. What are the tones?
a) tones 3 6
b) tones 3 2
c) tones 6 5
d) tones 4 5
7. To say, excuse me, please or hello, you can say 唔該. Identify the correct tones.
a) tones 4 1
b) tones 6 5
c) tones 3 2
d) tones 6 1
8. If you don't understand someone, say 我唔明白. What are the correct tones for that sentence?
a) tones 1 4 3 6
b) tones 2 4 4 6
c) tones 5 4 4 6
d) tone 2 3 3 5
9. Please speak slower is 唔該講慢啲 . What is the tone on the word 慢?
a) tone 3
b) tone 4
c) tone 5
d) tone 6
10. This one is 呢個. What are the correct tones?
a) tones 1 3
b) tones 2 4
c) tones 4 5
d) tones 1 6
11. That one is 嗰個. What are the correct tones?
a) tones 2 3
b) tones 5 3
c) tones 2 6
d) tones 5 6
12. "I want" is 要. What is the tone on 要, the verb "to want"?
a) tone 1
b) tone 3
c) tone 5
d) tone 6
13. Ask if someone has something with the phrase 有冇, as in the sentence 我要水. What are the tones there?
a) tones 5 2
b) tones 2 2
c) tones 5 5
d) tones 3 3
14. Give me a beer, is 俾啤酒我. What are the correct tones?
a) tones 3 1 4 5
b) tones 2 1 2 5
c) tones 2 1 3 6
d) tones 2 1 6 5
15. Ask if someone can do something is 可唔可以. What are the tones on 可以?
a) tones 2 2
b) tones 5 5
c) tones 3 3
d) tones 2 5
16. To apologize you can say 對唔住. What are the tones?
a) tones 3 4 5
b) tones 1 2 3
c) tones 3 4 6
d) tones 5 4 6
Answers: 1- c, 2- b, 3- d, 4- b, 5- c, 6- b, 7- a, 8- c, 9- d, 10- a, 11- a, 12- b, 13- c, 14- b, 15- d, 16- c.
