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Beginners' Cantonese - by Jacqueline Lam (Paperback)

Name: Beginners' Cantonese - by Jacqueline Lam (Paperback)
Brand: Teach Yourself
SKU: 1010134324
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Learn to speak, read, write and understand Cantonese!
About the Author: Jacqueline Lam, PhD, is an applied linguist.
240 Pages
Foreign Language Study, Chinese

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Book Synopsis

Learn to speak, read, write and understand Cantonese!

Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship-whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners' Cantonese will help you to:

- Communicate naturally in everyday situations.
- Build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice activities.
- Understand and pronounce Cantonese easily with online audio.
- Become familiar with the Cantonese writing system.
- Remember what you learn with our effective Discovery Method.
- Focus your learning and track your progress with practical tools and planners.

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

Is this course for me?
Beginners' Cantonese is for absolute beginners and those who've had some previous experience with the language and want to refresh their knowledge. Clear and simple explanations make the course appropriate and accessible to anyone learning Cantonese. There are extensive illustrations and tools to help you plan your studies and track your progress, all designed to support learning on your own. This course is also ideal to use with one-to-one tutoring and as a classroom course, and it's the perfect resource to pair with a language-learning app.

Where do I go next?
Continue learning with Teach Yourself Complete Cantonese.

Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 85 years.

About the Author

Jacqueline Lam, PhD, is an applied linguist. Since she moved from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom in 2007, she has been working with such organizations as the Institute of Linguists, the Foreign Office, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University.

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 7.75 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 240

Genre: Foreign Language Study

Sub-Genre: Chinese

Publisher: Teach Yourself

Format: Paperback

Author: Jacqueline Lam

Language: English

Street Date: November 17, 2026

TCIN: 1010134324

UPC: 9781399824927

Item Number (DPCI): 247-28-6867

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship weight: 1 pounds

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