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Complete Cantonese Beginner to Intermediate Course: (Book and audio support) [Multiple-component retail product]

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  • Formāts: Multiple-component retail product, 368 pages, height x width x depth: 245x190x19 mm, weight: 822 g, Contains 1 Paperback / softback and 1 Downloadable audio file
  • Izdošanas datums: 03-Dec-2015
  • Izdevniecība: Teach Yourself
  • ISBN-10: 1473600820
  • ISBN-13: 9781473600829
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  • Formāts: Multiple-component retail product, 368 pages, height x width x depth: 245x190x19 mm, weight: 822 g, Contains 1 Paperback / softback and 1 Downloadable audio file
  • Izdošanas datums: 03-Dec-2015
  • Izdevniecība: Teach Yourself
  • ISBN-10: 1473600820
  • ISBN-13: 9781473600829
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Do you want to develop a solid understanding of Cantonese and communicate confidently with others? Through authentic conversations, vocabulary building, grammar explanations and extensive practice and review, Complete Cantonese will equip you with the skills you need to use Cantonese in a variety of settings and situations, developing your cultural awareness along the way.

What will I achieve by the end of the course? By the end of Complete Cantonese you will have a solid intermediate-level grounding in the four key skills - reading, writing, speaking and listening - and be able to communicate with confidence and accuracy.

Is this course for me? If you want to move confidently from beginner to intermediate level, this is the course for you. It's perfect for the self-study learner, with a one-to-one tutor, or for the beginner classroom. It can also be used as a refresher course.

What do I get? -26 learning units plus verbs reference and word glossary and revision section -Discovery Method - figure out rules and patterns to make the language stick

-Teaches the key skills - reading, writing, listening, and speaking -Learn to learn - tips and skills on how to be a better language learner -Culture notes - learn about the people and places of China -Outcomes-based learning - focus your studies with clear aims -Authentic listening activities - everyday conversations give you a flavour of real spoken Cantonese -Test Yourself - see and track your own progress

*Complete Cantonese maps from Novice Low to Advanced Low level proficiency of ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) and from A1 Beginner to B1/B2 Upper Intermediate level of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) guidelines.

What else can I use to learn Cantonese? If you require an absolute Beginner course, you can try our Get Started in Cantonese Absolute Beginner course: 9781444174991

Access the audio for this course for free by downloading it to the Teach Yourself Library app or streaming it on library.teachyourself.com.

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Meet the authors vi
Introduction vii
Pronunciation guide xv
1 Encounters
2(10)
Asking questions
Countries and nationalities
Greeting and addressing people
Negatives
Using descriptive words
2 Personal property
12(10)
Classifiers (measure words) for nouns
Numbers
Possessives
Question words
Specifiers (this and that)
3 Family and friends
22(10)
Coming and going
Family members
Final particles
The irregular verb to have
Not very
Why?
4 Eating
32(12)
Adverbs
Don't!
Linking adjectives to nouns
Location
`Lonely verbs'
More classifiers
The irregular verb to need
Verb endings
5 Shopping
44(11)
Both... and
Colours
Days of the week
Let me
More classifiers
More verb endings
Prices
Ways to say thank you
6 Getting around
55(12)
Can I May
Compass directions
Different kinds of time
Means of transport
Ordinal numbers
Yet more verb endings
7 Revision (1)
67(3)
8 Weather
70(12)
Days and years
Hot and cold
How?
Making adverbs from adjectives
The seasons
Succeeding
Time when
9 Fun and games
82(12)
Age with a difference
Electricity
Gender
Keeping fit
Leisure activities
More lonely verbs
Several
Wholeness
10 Health
94(9)
Approximate numbers
Before and after
Duration of time
Medical consultation
Not until
Weeks
11 Fashion
103(12)
Dressing
Evenings
Expressing likes and dislikes
Large numbers
More verb endings
The indicated place
Wrong thinking
12 Education
115(11)
Classifiers as possessives
Comparisons
Each I Every
Relative position
Studying
The passive
13 Speculation
126(10)
Alternative questions
Being busy
Different dollars
Dropping classifiers
Gambling
Good to
Shortcut numbers
Similarity
Telling options
14 Revision (2)
136(4)
15 Travelling
140(10)
Adverbs of manner
Airport check-in
Anticipating plurality
Clock time
Hotel rooms
Verb ending totally
Walking around
16 Driving
150(9)
Classifiers for pairs
Damage and malfunction
Different meanings of or
Enough
Negative comparisons
Saying No firmly
The language of cars
17 The uniformed services
159(12)
A polite classifier
Active
Passive verbs
Closing a gap
Complicated descriptive phrases
Even
Gender again
Hard to
Months
More on telling
Pull and push
18 Law and order
171(10)
As much as that
Common
Comparative age
Crimes and punishment
Foreigners
Meih v mouh
More on lonely verbs
Succeeding with verbs
19 Economics
181(11)
Banking
Commands
Continents and oceans
Currencies
Errors
Fractions
Identifying things
Look one look
The more the more
Undesirable difference
20 The postal system
192(11)
Dates
Hahm-bah-laahng
How long a time?
In fact
Money
Stamps
Subtle classifiers
Temporarily
Yet more verb endings
21 Revision (3)
203(6)
22 The office
209(11)
Children
Familiar address
Meals
Opposites
Reluctant agreement
Sam-gei
Simply must
The tail
Water
Working conditions
23 Eating out
220(12)
Birthdays
Canton
Chaan v faahn
Cuisines and food
Humility and praise
Not only... but also
Starting from...
The animal cycle
24 Leisure activities
232(10)
As soon as
Ever words
Hobbies and pastimes
In your opinion
Losing things
Machinery
More on dou
Recent and recently
Self
25 Housing
242(10)
Containers
Deep and shallow
Distance from
Final words on dou
Influence of English
Not any more
Rooms
Tea
Verb + object
Workers
26 Revision (4)
252(3)
Appendices: Grammar summary 255(7)
The Chinese writing system 262(3)
Taking it further 265(2)
Key to the exercises 267(19)
Cantonese--English vocabulary 286(31)
English--Cantonese vocabulary 317
Hugh Baker taught Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) for 36 years at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Pui-Kei Ho teaches Cantonese as a foreign language in Hong Kong.