粵

口hau2語jyu5

simp口语
hau2 jyu5kǒu yǔ

English

  1. colloquial speech
  2. spoken language
  3. vernacular language
  4. slander
  5. gossip
  6. spoken language
  7. verbal register; colloquial speech

量詞 — Classifiers

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 用聲做溝通媒介嘅語言形式
  2. 偏向口頭嘅語言表達

Examples

  • 儘管係噉,好多潮州人,特別係年輕一代,都轉向晒英文同中文作為佢哋嘅主要口語。

    Tatoeba · Matthewyau1367 CC BY

  • 我係一個母語係日文嘅女人。 以我嘅情況嚟講,書面同口語嘅表達方式有少少唔同。

    Tatoeba · Andrea5437 CC BY

  • 隨後可能會利用口語或者書面文字去傳達呢啲資訊,等第一個人知道,呢個係關於語言學嘅一個分支。

    Tatoeba · Davidgo5867 CC BY

  • 我對口語英語更感興趣。

    I'm more interested in spoken English.

    Tatoeba · Martha CC BY

  • 口语比书面语更贴近生活。

    Spoken language is closer to life than written language.

    Tatoeba · GlossaMatik CC BY

  • 虽然他考得很好,他口语的汉语不见得比你的好。

    Although he did well in the exam, his spoken Chinese is not necessarily as good as yours.

    Tatoeba · aeriph CC BY

  • 口語一般會隨意啲。

    Colloquial speech is typically rather casual.

  • 學口語一定要多聽多講,唔好怕錯。

    To learn a spoken language, we must speak more, listen more and should not be afraid of making mistakes. ----

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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