歐陽偉豪

简介

Benjamin Au Yeung Wai Hoo was born in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong in 1967, and grew up in a family of three brothers, with his father working as a garment industry clerk and his mother as a homemaker. He studied at St. John's Catholic Primary School and China Christian Church Chi Chi Secondary School, where he was a member of the basketball and volleyball school teams and won second place in inter-school competitions. After graduation, he enrolled at Grantham College of Education for a two-year primary education diploma with a minor in physical education, and worked as a physical education teacher at Kai Tak Government Primary School and then Tseung Kwan O Government Primary School between 1988 and 1993. He then attended the Chinese University of Hong Kong, earning a bachelor's degree in English in 1995 and a master's degree in linguistics in 1997, followed by a PhD in linguistics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2005 with a dissertation on Chinese classifiers. He served as a senior lecturer in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2004 to 2017. He gained prominence through hosting educational TVB programs including "Correct Words" (2006), "Learn Right and Wrong" (2013), and "Men's Canteen" (2016) where he became well known for explaining Cantonese profanity. He gradually transitioned to becoming a program host, actor, and YouTuber, signing a basic artist contract with TVB in April 2021. He received the Best PhD Dissertation Award from the Hong Kong Linguistic Society in 2006, and his academic works have been cited by institutions such as MIT and Cambridge University. He also wrote newspaper columns in Ming Pao, Hong Kong Economic Journal, and Oriental Daily to teach Chinese and English, and advocates for the preservation of Cantonese and traditional Chinese characters.