The first volume of Modern Cantonese aims to provide solid linguistic training to beginner Cantonese learners, highlighting cultural points with lively language scenarios.
This book provides daily conversational scenarios, such as introducing yourself and others, ordering food, going out with friends, shopping, planning a weekend, and talking about hobbies and leisure activities, as well as holidays and festivals. The scenarios cover daily settings with essential learning points, and on completion of the course, learners will be able to understand questions and statements in Cantonese conversations and will be able to discuss familiar everyday topics using simple sentences in Cantonese.
The book is ideal for students seeking to learn Cantonese as a second language at the novice level, based on ACTFL speaking proficiency guidelines. It may also be of interest to language teachers and linguists in the field of Cantonese as a second language.
Contents
A Note on the Volumes
Preface
Introduction
How to use this book
Meet the characters in this book
Lesson 1: What is your name? – Néih giu mātyéh méng a?
Lesson 2: What do you like doing? - Néih jūngyi jouh mātyéh a?
Lesson 3: Where can we go to see an art exhibition? - Ngóhdeih hóyíh hái bīn douh tái wájín a?
Lesson 4: What is the date today? - Gāmyaht haih géi yuht géi houh a?
Lesson 5: What time are we going to see a movie? - Ngóhdeih géi dím heui tái hei a?
Lesson 6: How much is this phone? - Nī go dihnwá géi dō chín a?
Lesson 7: What presents do you give to your friends? - Néih sung mātyéh béi pàhngyáuh a?
Lesson 8: What is your phone number? - Néih ge dihnwá houhmáh haih géi dō houh a?
Lesson 9: What kind of dim sum do you like to eat? - Néih séung sihk mātyéh dímsām a?
Lesson 10: What do you do at Chinese New Year? – Jūngwok Sānnìhn néih jouh mātyéh a?
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Biography
Siu-lun Lee is Senior Lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has over 25 years of experience teaching Cantonese at the tertiary level. His research interests include applied linguistics, Cantonese studies, Chinese linguistics, sociolinguistics and language teaching pedagogy.
