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Learn to Speak Cantonese I: A Beginner's Guide to Mastering Conversational Cantonese Paperback – March 29, 2018

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Imagine falling in love with someone, but not speaking the same language as their extended family. This is the case for Gabriel, the narrator of this textbook, who is an American boy learning Cantonese to impress his girlfriend’s mom. In this Cantonese learning book, you will join Gabriel in his first meeting with Jenny’s mother, who is from Hong Kong and can only speak Cantonese. From having dim sum to describing his favorite pastimes, Gabriel will teach you everything you need to know to master basic conversational Cantonese. Free audio and flashcards downloadable from www.inspirlang.com/resource

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Jade Jia Ying Wu completed her Teaching Certificate Program in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and TCSOL (Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages) from Teachers College, Columbia University and Beijing Language and Culture University in 2016. She has taught Chinese in classrooms of different sizes and ages, in both the U.S. and China. Jade was born and raised in Guangdong, China, where Cantonese is one of the main dialects. She moved to Swartz Creek, Michigan at the age of 13 and spent most of her young adulthood living in New York City. Experiencing both Chinese and American cultures, she was often confused yet fascinated by the differences between them. In 2014, she created her website InspirLang to teach Cantonese, Mandarin, and Taishanese to non-native speakers and develop her own Romanized system for Taishanese. She currently hosts two language podcasts called Learn Cantonese Daily and Learn Mandarin Daily. In her free time, Jade also enjoys learning other languages such as Spanish, Vietnamese, and Korean. She resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Paperback: 136 pages
Publisher: InspirLang (March 29, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 099969460X
ISBN-13: 978-0999694602
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 0.3 x 6 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Customer Reviews: 14 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #138,724 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #29 in Chinese Language Instruction (Books)
- #269 in Foreign Language Instruction (Books)

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K. Newell

Gives you access to a SPECTACULAR set of audio recordings that are invaluable for teaching proper pronunciation!!!

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2018

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I bought this book looking to learn how to speak Cantonese quickly without getting bogged down in copious grammatical explanations. I absolutely loved it!

There are 10 chapters that cover all the basics you need to know to get started speaking Cantonese right away with your friends, relatives, or simply the waiter at your local Cantonese dim sum restaurant! You progress through each chapter with new words and new sentence structures that help you communicate on various topics, such as greeting and getting to know other people, ordering food, and much more!

The book also gives you access to a SPECTACULAR set of audio recordings that are invaluable for teaching you how to pronounce the words and sentences properly. This is one of the most important parts of the book!!! No matter how many times you read and review the contents of the book, you MUST take advantage of the audio resources to master the spoken element, and the audio recordings with this book are perfect for doing just that!

I highly recommend anyone looking to learn Cantonese buy this book!

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lesphoques

I would highly recommend this book to anyone beginning to learn Cantonese

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2018

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I would highly recommend this book to anyone beginning to learn Cantonese. Learning Cantonese is intimidating, and unfortunately, many of the books available are very dry and don't teach you how real people speak the language. This book follows an engaging story line, and is provides all kinds of tips to get you on the right pathway to learn the language.

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Li Lin

the audio files that came with it was super helpful! I’m able to sort of understand what ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2018

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I thought at first that this Cantonese book wouldn’t get me anywhere. I grew up speaking mandarin and would always hear people speaking in Cantonese, but I just never understood even though I was intrigued. However this book got me through the basics of Cantonese, the audio files that came with it was super helpful! I’m able to sort of understand what my friends say when they speak Cantonese to one another. I’m looking forward to part 2 if there will be one.

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Kristen

Great! Podcasts need redone though.

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2019

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Meeting my bf's parents this summer in Cambodia. He's a native speaker and even says the book is well-organized. The podcasts that go with the book are really echoey, which sucks because the language is so tonal and you need to listen clearly to each word. Other than that I love the book so far and the phonetic spellings are really helpful!

Physical quality of book is nice too, not cheaply made.

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selenalc

For anyone wanting to learn Cantonese. It's a must buy.

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2018

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It is easy to follow and interactive. It's unlike standard foreign language books. I enjoy studying and referencing from it very much.

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Lt. Shum

Great for the price

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2019

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No complaints

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Celest Woo

Clear, effective, well scaffolded, & friendly

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2018

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Jade Wu's book is outstanding: its attractive, readable layout and simple thematic lessons make reading through it very enjoyable. Her frame story of a non-Chinese man trying to learn the language of his girlfriend and her family is a believable and fun way to make the lessons real. She puts in useful cultural notes, and also audio links, but does not overwhelm the reader with info. As the subtitle indicates, this is a beginner's guide, and as such, it whets your appetite for more (which very few language textbooks do).

As for the criticism posted elsewhere that she used numerals instead of diacritical marks for tones, I disagree. Whether you use diacritical marks or numerals, the reader has to memorize tones regardless, and I fail to see why memorizing them one way makes it harder than the other; I've done both, without difficulty. There is no one standard way to romanize Chinese words--in fact, there are several, with an interesting history that I'm not going to detail here. My father and uncle are both fluent Cantonese speakers and seasoned linguists; both have translated Cantonese for decades. Both are very familiar with the 6 numerals (or 9) denoting Cantonese tones, and use them to explain things to me. One definite advantage the numbers have over the marks is this: if you are asking about Cantonese words over the phone, it's much easier to say, "what is the word ___, tone 4?" as opposed to, "the word with the little accent mark that goes up."

So if you're interested in learning Cantonese, this book is a winner! I am a language teacher--I teach college-level French. It's so difficult to find a sensible language textbook that progresses the way an actual student thinks, and this one succeeds admirably.

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Tony Lee

It is written by smart and thoughtful teacher

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2019

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Excellent and easy to digest

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Useful little book giving the beginner plenty of help,particularly with pronunciation and accents.

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hong tran

Great book and very useful for those who are learning!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2018

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Bought this book for my bf to learn Cantonese. He is enjoying the use of this book as it teaches you the different tones he is definitely looking to impress my parents :) thank you!

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Good book.

Reviewed in Canada on August 4, 2018

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I appreciate how it has everything in Jyutping and Chinese characters so that I may read the book with my non-English speakinf mother in law. Waiting for the second installment!

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Finally a great cantonese book for beginners

Reviewed in Canada on December 19, 2018

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I love this book! It is the perfect beginner book out there. I hope you come out with book #2 soon. Thank you Jade for such an awesome book. You are everything!

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