How to pronounce 先賢 in Cantonese (3 out of 5):

美國開國先賢、美國《獨立宣言》嘅五位起草人之一

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

美國 mei5 gwok3
America
開國 hoi1 gwok3
founding of a nation
先賢 xian1 xian2
sages
獨立宣言 du2 li4 xuan1 yan1
Declaration of Independence
koi3
indignant
generous
to sigh (with emotion)
ng5
five
a surname
multifarious
wai6
position
location
place
seat
classifier for people (honorific)
classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
throne
post
rank
status
起草 hei2 chou2
draft
jan4
man
person
people M: 个gè [个]
位wèi [位]
mankind
someone else
之一 zi1 jat1
one of

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