CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

[color="Red"](As some of you know, I'm moving to Hong Kong in a few months, and I'd really like to learn Cantonese as much as physically possible before I go. One of the things that's helped me a lot with my Japanese is the simple fact that I hear it a lot - most of my favorite anime haven't been sold yet in the states, so I'm pretty much forced to watch it subbed.)

(This is something I'd really like to do with Cantonese, too. Because the main purpose of this is to familiarize myself with pronunciations/tones/speaking patterns as opposed to grammar/vocabulary/whatnot, I don't mind if it's Mandarin, assuming that Mandarin and Cantonese are very similar in that way. (I really don't know if they are or not).)

(So my question is - how would I go about acquiring Chinese dubs that isn't insanely expensive/bootlegs? I don't really have much money, but I'm sure I could get my parents to buy me a few volumes if it's a reasonable price and it's for language reasons.)[/color]

Perhaps I could recommend some hong kong action movies. A lot of martial arts films are available in Chinese with English subtitles.

termyt wrote:Perhaps I could recommend some hong kong action movies. A lot of martial arts films are available in Chinese with English subtitles.

I believe Anime is a better choice. Since it is mainly made for kid, the dialogue would be simpler and the characters wouldn't speak too fast.

You can easily get cheap Cantonese dubbed VCD in Hong Kong. Or do you want to learn them before moving to Hong Kong? In that case, you can find some Chinese movie rental stores, they usually contain dubbed anime. Sadly, thanks to illegal DVD, many of those rental stores are put out of business. When I told my family not to support them, they would said that I am being unreasonable for avoiding "cheap alternatives".

[color="Red"](The point is to learn as much as possible before I go, which is in December.)

(Fearless is my sole exposure to Chinese language movies that are subbed, but that's in Mandarin and from what I can tell, Mandarin doesn't have the tonal system that Cantonese does, which is one of the main things I want to get my ear accustomed to.)

(We have next to none video stores period where I live, much less Chinese ones.)[/color]

I see. If getting from store is out of question, do you have Cantanese TV channel? They usually have anime in the weekends.

Alternatively, I believe TVB (The most popular Hong Kong TV channel) has put some of their TV shows online as low resolution videos.