This book helps readers to develop confidence in expressing themselves naturally and fluently in Cantonese by providing using intensive listening drills. Used by many universities in North America and Asia, this is the first Cantonese course that places emphasis on developing communicative competencies by focusing on intensive and active listening.

Features & Benefits:

• Ideal training for Intermediate Cantonese Learners.
• Authentic and interactive conversations in a wide variety of social contexts
• Jargon-free! Thorough explanation of rich vocabulary covering a large spectrum of human relations
• Useful expressions and sentence patterns illustrated by three examples each to help learners put them to practical use.
• Questions and exercises designed to check on learning progress.
• Gist of the story given with notes on related cultural and linguistic points
• Nuances of Cantonese conversation explained, including contractions and reductions with often cause misunderstandings.
• Full recordings on tapes of text and example sentences.
• Chinese Characters given alongside romanization.
• Full and lively English translation of text on opposite page.

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Advance Level Current Cantonese Colloquialisms
A Shortcut to Cantonese
 

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