How to pronounce 廿 in Cantonese (14 out of 52):

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所以十幾廿年前Apple 嘅員工, 係已經放棄咗同Steve Jobs 對抗,
So, maybe 10 or 20 years ago, Apple employees had given up fighting Steve Jobs, and they were trying to get a job.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

所以 so2 ji5
hence
十幾 sap6 gei2
about ten
廿 jap6
twenty (20), in a limited number of set expressions
also written using banker's character 念
twentieth
twenty-odd
年前 nin4 cin4
years ago
嘅 koi3
indignant
generous
to sigh (with emotion)
員工 jyun4 gung1
employee
係 hai6
(Cantonese) to be
to connect
to relate to
to tie up
to bind
to be (literary)
to involve
relation
relationship
consequence
yes
indeed
right
已經 ji5 ging1
already
放棄 fong3 hei3
to quit
咗 zo2
Cantonese particle equivalent to 了le [了] or 过guò [过], a particle used to indicate perfective aspect for continuous state
completed actions
past events
change of situation
同 tung4
and
對抗 deoi3 kong3
to resist
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