How to pronounce 坦白 in Cantonese (8 out of 78):

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坦白說，在１９年之前其實我已經很少留意香港新聞
And to be honest, I hadn't really been paying much attention to Hong Kong news until 19 years ago.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

坦白 taan2 baak6
Be honest
說 syut3
to speak
to say
to explain
to scold
to tell off
a theory (usually in compounds such as 日心说 heliocentric theory)
to criticize
to try to influence someone to do something
to mean
在 zoi6
(located) at
(to be) in
to exist
in the middle of doing sth
(indicating an action in progress)
to depend on
to rest with
to be alive
年 nin4
year
之前 zi1 cin4
before
其實 kei4 sat6
actually
我 ngo5
I
me
my
us
we
our
self
已經 ji5 ging1
already
很少 han2 siu2
very little
留意 lau4 ji3
(verb) 1. To mind; 2. Be caution
香港 hoeng1 gong2
Hong Kong
新聞 san1 man4
news

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