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Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Cantonese proverbs vs Dutch & Flemish proverbs in a painting

As we like to promote our Cantonese language, we've found an excellent Blog of Cantonese Resources.
Here you can study cantonese in all his aspects.
But the main reason we've found this blog is that several famous proverbs of cantonese-speaking people is
(clearly) well-illustrated by HK-cartoonist 阿塗(Ah To) 

Here the explanation of different Cantonese proverbs and how they sound like.


who, at his turn, has been inspired by  Pieter Bruegel de Oude's oil painting from 1559 "Netherlandish Proverbs".


His entire Oeuvre you can watch it 2 @ http://www.pieter-bruegel-the-elder.org

Here you can see the explanation of the Flemish/Netherlandish proverbs on th  interactive painting in Dutch

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