Teach Yourself Cantonese Complete Course Audiopack

Teach Yourself Cantonese Complete Course Audiopack
by Hugh Baker, Pui-Kei Ho

Teach Yourself Cantonese Complete Course Audiopack
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Author: Hugh Baker, Pui-Kei Ho
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2003-11-21
ISBN: 0071418768
Publisher: McGraw-Hill

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Book Review: Among the best books for learning cantonese
Summary: 4 Stars

Other reviewers have already pointed out that this is among the best books for learning Cantonese, so here just a few additional comments:

- this book is quite dense. There is a lot of material in those 26 chapters. This means you get a lot of value, but also that it can seem frustrating to be stuck somewhere in the middle of the book. The audio material is also good, but a little more limited.

- in general, if you are serious about learning Cantonese, consider taking at least a few lessons with someone at the very beginning, then continue on your own. Otherwise it will be very hard. Also, if you can afford it, buy a combo of materials, maybe this book plus the Basic Cantonese grammar of Matthews and Yip, plus a small dictionary ("Pocket Cantonese Dictionary" from Periplus or "Phrases in Cantonese" from Hung).

- this book comes in different versions, with CD or audio cassette. Make sure to get the CD so you can easily move the material to your mp3 player or computer for flexible playback. Amazon is not always clear on which version you are dealing with, so I first got the one with tapes.

- also, there are older versions of the Baker/Ho books that do not use Yale romanization but their own system. Stay away from those or anyone who has their own system. Stick with Yale or maybe Jyutping.

- if there is something missing in this book, it would be a more complete coverage of the grammar. Also get the Matthews/Yip book for this! And the list of vocabulary at the end is missing the chinese characters - even if you don't learn characters, it is still useful to have them written out to disambiguate certain cases.

- this book distinguishes between high and high falling tone, and thus has one more tone than some other books. I am not convinced this actually makes a difference or is needed to be understood.

Summary of Teach Yourself Cantonese Complete Course Audiopack

Learning Cantonese as easy as 1-2-3

With this book, Cantonese is attainable for any beginning student. You can use Teach Yourself Cantonese Complete Course at your own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. This complete course is based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.

Prepared by experts in the language, Teach Yourself Cantonese begins with the basics and gradually promotes you to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:

  • Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
  • Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises
  • Step-by-step guide to pronunciation
  • Practical vocabulary
  • Regular and irregular verb tables
  • Plenty of practice exercises and answers
  • Bilingual glossary

Package includes two 60-minute CDs and a book.

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