You learn the mustknow conversational phrases, questions, answers, social media phrases, and how to talk about your everyday life in cantonese. Speak cantonese, book two by parker pofei huang, paperback. Hi, i was enjoying the avatar the last airbender in cantonese on netflix, but season 2 theres no option for cantonese anymore. We are continuing to require all guests to fill out a contact tracing form and have reduced our maximum capacity. The majority of the han chinese population can speak mandarin but not all speak cantonese because 1. This audio program is the companion to book two of the speak cantonese series. As explained below, there is no standard written cantonese, but there are lots of forms that are commonly used and understood by cantonese speakers for spoken cantonese phrases. This means that mandarin can be understood even china as well as hong kong, macau and canton the main regions who still speak cantonese, and more and more cantonese speakers are learning mandarin nowadays. I find cantonese to be much nicer than english for this series. Parker pofei huangs most popular book is written standard chinese, volume one. Speak cantonese in seconds with this downtoearth, practical and slightly cheeky. May be a bit old fashioned as the language is always changing but have started to understand a little of cantonese films so it must be doing some good. There are plenty of words in cantonese that are different in mandarin.
Somewhere around that time i also discovered the most amazing cantonese book. Im able to sort of understand what my friends say when they speak cantonese to one another. Just because you can speak and understand cantonese does not mean you can speak and understand mandarin and vice versa. It is not easy to leave ones comfort zone to learn a new language and adapt to a new culture, as you might have learned from gabriel in book i. In cantonese jyutping, each syllable is followed by a number from 1 to 6 that tells you which tone to say the syllable in.
Oct 04, 2011 speak cantonese by parker pofei huang, 1962, far eastern publications, yale university edition, in english rev. Free online cantonese literature cantonese for families. Complete introduction to cantonese in 28 minutes how to. Toetapping cantonese tunes if youre more of a music fan, you can delve into the world of cantopop, and listen to some of the genres classic songs. Books by parker pofei huang author of written standard chinese. Ive been learning cantonese for about 2 years now and can read i guess around characters.
Use of english is avoided in class so as to create a perfect language environment for you learning to speak natively. Speak cantonese, book one by parker pofei huang, gerard p. Speak cantonese, book two by parker pofei huang yale. Overview this second book of the speak cantonese series continues an introduction to standard cantonese dialect. See all books authored by parker pofei huang, including speak cantonese, book. A comprehensive grammar by stephen matthews and virgina yip, originally published in 1994 and updated in 2010. Other supplementary books from huayu world the website also has a section on e books for teaching chinese. Its sue marguerite and i thought id do a video about how i learned cantonese and what books i found useful and still find useful. The best language courses for learning cantonese in 2021. Each of the 28 units deals with a grammatical topic and provides associated exercises, designed to put grammar into a communicative context. Speak cantonese, book 2 by huang, parker pofei, 1914publication date 1962 topics chinese language publisher new haven, conn. It uses the basic grammatical structures of the language and a vocabulary of approximately 950 words. Reading chinese cantonese and english book youtube. Revised edition far eastern publications series 9780887100949.
By study, i mean any activity where i was focused on learning the language. The big audiobook collection for beginners is for people who want to finally speak and use reallife cantonese. Beginner taishanese level 1 thursday night created on mar 23, 2021. Want to learn to speak even more cantonese the fast, fun and easy way. The higher your cantonese level becomes, the less useful memrise is. Cantonese volume 2 learn to speak all you can books. Complete cantonese learn cantonese with teach yourself. With features of written in cantonese, cantonese narrations and romanization annotations, our. Includes 15 audio cd discs, plus a 392page textbook. The tones were important to learn for cantonese and the book is somewhat challenging for me. This cantonese learning resource is a combination of cantonese vocabulary book and a twoway basic cantonese dictionary. Fsi cantonese basic course volume 1 student text author.
How to learn cantonese in 1 year i will teach you a language. The categories are chinese as a second language, native language materials. While cantonese is mainly spoken by the native cantonese chinese people in guangxi, guangdong, hong kong and macau. The end of the book 76 daily cantonese expressions page 2 part a. The books dont provide the characters along with the dialogue but fortunately people on the sheik forums have transcribed them here.
Basic cantonese grammar workbooks 2nd edition basic cantonese introduces the essentials of cantonese grammar in a straightforward and systematic way. Private cantonese lessons and classes with a takelessons certified tutor whether inhome, studio, or online accelerates your progress, increases enjoyment, and improves every beginners chances of. I would get extra exposure to cantonese by listening to podcasts, music, or other audio whilst driving. My cantonese become very rusty after going to university and im a native english and good cantonese speaker from a cantonese speaking family. I was born in russia and immigrated to canada around 2 years old. We empower you to type chinese online anytime, anywhere with any computer for free. I love spending time with my best friend stella, and vegging out on my couch binge watching t.
In this book, you will join ben and stormy as they spend twelve months living in hong kong and learning about the use of cantonese. Online cantonese input method is a free online chinese typing tool using cantonese romanization codes. Speak cantonese, book two far eastern publications series. List of books by author parker pofei huang thriftbooks. It emphasizes introducing more idiomatic expressions heard in dailylife situations a chat in a teahouse, an argument on a. Kopen prijs 2,99 ebook in kobo plus gratis voor abonnees. The book never mentions mandarin as a prerequisite, but the two languages are parallel in terms of much of their syntax and sentence structure and it is hard to. Tier 2 decent enough alternatives for learning cantonese. If youre interested in learning cantonese, taishanese, or mandarin dont hesitate book a lesson. Read chinese cantonese english kid vocabularies learn togetherplease consider subscribing to held to reach 2,500 subscribers and hit the like button if it. Apr 10, 2019 basic cantonese grammar workbooks 2nd edition basic cantonese introduces the essentials of cantonese grammar in a straightforward and systematic way. This book is the most comprehensive, selfplaced material in cantonese learning available today. Mandarin is an enormous group of sinitc chinese variety that is spoken in vast areas of mainland china.
Download supplemental book audio and flashcards here. Free online chinese textbooks and course materials. These materials will teach you to speak standard cantonese fluently and grammatically, with acceptable pronunciation, within the scope of topics of daily life. This book is for use with the accompanying audio cds containing two hours of audio isbn 9781473600829. We have hundreds of cantonese books for kids such as world classics, short stories, fairy tales and basic picture books for both beginner and advanced cantonese language learners. Theyre quite comprehensive and provide good grammatical explanations. This, the third edition, adds more dialogue and diversified exercises. Beginner cantonese saturday afternoons created on mar 15. Pimsleurs cantonese teaches cantonese as spoken in hong kong. Cantonese is a tonal language, meaning the high, low, rising, or falling tone of your voice affects the meaning of the syllable or word you pronounce. A beginners guide to mastering conversational cantonese. Chinese is the most spoken language in the world, with roughly 1. Although some people in china and across asia speak cantonese, the majority of chinese speakers about one billion speak mandarin. Cantonese, one of several major languages in china, is mainly spoken in hong kong, guangdong, the guangxi provinces, and in most overseas chinese communities in australia, europe, and north america.
Easy to follow with lots of pattern sentences to learn, which you can then make into your own sentences. Our childrens cantonese book library is a great resource for kids learning cantonese. It emphasizes introducing more idiomatic expressions heard in dailylife. Learn cantonese chinese app conversational method pimsleur. However this book got me through the basics of cantonese, the audio files that came with it was super helpful. I was first trained in a language school to teach cantonese using, what its commonly called, direct method. In addition, there are also other chinese people from other areas of mainland china who learn cantonese and speak cantonese. The cantopop genre includes everything from classic rock beyond. Cantonese language books,cd,chinese audio cds,dictionary. This was a huge key for improving my cantonese as the grammar lessons in the speak cantonese series were sporadic and incomplete. For those who are familiar with jyutping, please try our new online jyutping input method compatible with. Then sign up for your free lifetime account right now, click here. Over the course of the last year, i rarely studied cantonese for more than 1530 minutes a day.
Which is spoken by more people cantonese or mandarin chinese. Complete cantonese beginner to intermediate course. Yes, just in case you were wondering, this video was supposed to be shot by the poolside but it kept raining everyday at random hours so we had no choice but. These same transcripts but with better formatting were placed on another site but this site. These cantonese courses have some strengths, but some drawbacks, too. Basic cantonese introduces the essentials of cantonese grammar in a straightforward. Information agency, the state department, and the office of education, worked together to develop this fsi foreign service institute course in cantonese, the principal language of 54 million. It uses pinyin romanization and emphasizes the development of vocabulary. The course is presented in two volumes, each requiring about 200 hours of study time. This volume is the last of the speak cantonese series. Speak cantonese, book three, is one of a series of books that teaches the modern spoken language of cantonese, one of the major dialects of chinese. However, as in the two previous editions, the style remains simple, practical and interesting. I am now canadian and do not speak a lick of russian, i do however speak basic mandarin and a few phrases in cantonese. Guangdong higher education the aim of this dictionary is to help speakers of english to learn cantonese, a dialect spoken in the coastal area of south china.
Great book with sections of different activities and readings. As appropriate for a text of its kind, it is entirely in romaniation. Complete cantonese learn cantonese with teach yourselfhugh. Fsi cantonese volumes 1 and 2 are free and are some of the best cantonese textbooks for beginners. This is your ultimate compilation to get started with cantonese language in 28 minutes. Jade is able to provide thorough, easily understood explanations of difficult grammatical concepts and concrete, realworld examples from cantonese s vast vocabulary. Also of interest more from this author books from this series. This first book of the speak cantonese series continues an introduction to standard cantonese dialect. Topic based cantonese vocabulary book this is the main part of the book and represents a list of chapters each containing cantonese vocabularies for a certain topic.
A concise cantonese english dictionary by yang mingxin, hardcover. The pronunciation in guangzhou and hong kong is often regarded as the standard cantonese. This second book of the speak cantonese series continues an introduction to standard cantonese dialect. Cantonese for families helping families learn cantonese. May 29, 2018 first reason, the majority of the 800900 million mainland chinese speak mandarin as their first language.
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