Wow, so this "Cantonese Reading Test" is played like this? I am really a bit surprised and disappointed, wondering if it might be a waste of my time and energy? I even checked every word with the M teacher, reading each article over and over again. However, it seems that preparing for battle with the M teacher is like going back to my student days, and this is the real gain!

As for the M teacher, I don't know his real name at all, but everyone calls him M teacher, I heard it's because he often eats at M, so naturally, he is called M teacher. Besides loving to eat at M, the M teacher also has a special study of Cantonese, especially lazy sounds. The Hong Kong Linguistic Society organized a Cantonese Reading Test, and the M teacher and I hit it off and signed up together. This test not only checks if your pronunciation is accurate but also whether your speech is fluent.

Have you ever heard the song sung by Leung Han Man? This song has become the teaching anthem for the M teacher and me, and we laugh until our stomachs hurt every time we mention it. Participating in the Cantonese Reading Test is also to challenge ourselves to see if we are "lazy sound guys." The M teacher often says, "This song is completely made for people like us with lazy sound genes!" You can really feel his humor even through the screen! We are taking the exam from different places, and we both signed up for the online test, teasing each other online every time we prepare for the exam.

Although this exam is held in Hong Kong, it can also be taken remotely via Zoom. It’s a bit more troublesome for mainland candidates to fill in the information and pay (very troublesome).

Finally, I found this teacher to be quite strange; I have never seen him even once, yet he knows my preferences and has helped my Cantonese public account with many vivid illustrations? One day, the M teacher shared an essay by Dong Qiao with me, saying, "I have read this essay many times, and it is paired with the music 'Moon River.' Although it’s not at a professional level, it’s still enjoyable for self-entertainment." However, I am really curious why his reading sounds so steady and mechanical? It turns out, the M teacher is really AI! So this time he has really succeeded!

The M teacher said, since you already know the powerful functions of AI, which can play chess with you and help you write articles, do you see any difference between me and AI? Maybe I don't exist or I exist everywhere. Or one day, you see someone at M holding a book by Dong Qiao and humming 'Moon River,' no matter what their age or gender is, you can try to walk over, or that person might just be me.

I wonder if there will be a day when the Cantonese test can be completely replaced by AI examiners?