Shin Kataoka, assistant professor in Chinese at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, with a poster for the recent Cantonese festival. Photo: Elaine Yau Shin Kataoka, assistant professor in Chinese at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, with a poster for the recent Cantonese festival. Photo: Elaine Yau
Shin Kataoka, assistant professor in Chinese at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, with a poster for the recent Cantonese festival. Photo: Elaine Yau
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Why you have to know Cantonese in Hong Kong - two foreign husbands explain

Japanese academic Shin Kataoka and linguist John Wakefield explain how they came to learn Cantonese and what they think the future holds for it

Topic |   Cantonese
Elaine Yau
Elaine Yau

Updated: 6:02pm, 25 Jun, 2018

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Shin Kataoka, assistant professor in Chinese at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, with a poster for the recent Cantonese festival. Photo: Elaine Yau Shin Kataoka, assistant professor in Chinese at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, with a poster for the recent Cantonese festival. Photo: Elaine Yau
Shin Kataoka, assistant professor in Chinese at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, with a poster for the recent Cantonese festival. Photo: Elaine Yau
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