Intermediate Cantonese : a grammar and workbook

✍ Scribed by Virginia Yip; Stephen Matthews

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 202
Series: Routledge grammars
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Intermediate Cantonese is designed for learners who have achieved basic proficiency and wish to progress to more complex language. Each of the 25 units combines clear, concise grammar explanations with communicatively-oriented exercises to help build confidence and fluency.
Suitable for independent learners and students on taught courses
Many authentic examples from contemporary media, including films, advertising, songs and soap operas
Clear distinction between colloquial and more formal speech registers
Teaches contemporary Cantonese as spoken in Hong Kong
Intermediate Cantonese and its sister volume, Basic Cantonese, form a structured course of the essentials of Cantonese grammar

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