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Cantonese

Cantonese

Upcoming:

- If you would like Cantonese courses on Livemocha vote here in their poll.

Essays

Cantonese review

- Covers difficulty level, usefulness, no. of speakers, materials etc.

UCLA Cantonese profile

- Article with diagram on the history, dialects, script, grammar and role in society of Cantonese.

Difficulties for Western students

- From Cantonese sheik.

Mandarin vs Cantonese

- Comparing which is more difficult and which order is best if you want to learn both.

Cantonese tips

- Tips on learning Cantonese.

Wikipedia Cantonese, Yue Chinese

- Lots of information on the phonology, writing system, cultural role, dialects and history of Cantonese.

Omniglot Cantonese

- Gives some information on the characters, romanization and links.

Learning Cantonese from RTHK

- A special radio segment about learning Cantonese, with interviews of Cantonese students.

How Cantonese reduced me to tears by Daisann McLane, 2004

- Article about the perils of tones and the role of Cantonese & Mandarin in Hong Kong.

Courses

FSI Basic Cantonese

- Thorough course with audio and lots of drills. Very effective. Glossary with audio for volume 1 here.

DLI Chinese Cantonese Basic Course (alternative pdf) 1965

- Huge 9 volume audio-lingual course with reading passages, dialogues & cartoon exercises. Uses non-standard romanization & characters. Audio quality varies widely between each audio file.

DLI Chinese-Cantonese Refresher Course (alternative pdf) 1966

- Advanced course based around texts and dialogues, with audio, grammar notes & comprehension questions. Uses non-standard romanization and characters. Audio only starts from unit 48.

Cantonese lessons

- Tone, vocabulary and grammar lessons with audio.

粤语会话三月通 (alternative) Only available in Mandarin

- 26 video lessons with a teacher explaining the language and skits showing the language in context.

Cantonese listening tasks

- Beginner and intermediate listening exercises.

Cantonese by Ms Cheung BROKEN LINK

- Video based lessons for learning basic Cantonese & pronunciation.

Websites

Cantonese sheik

- Revision sheets, tests, essays, dictionary, links etc. First stop for a Cantonese learner!

Learn Cantonese

- Lots of vocabulary arranged by themes.

広東語ミニレッスン 1-89, 9o+ Only available in Japanese

- Lots of mini lessons teaching useful Cantonese phrases with audio.

Chinese bay

- A few basic lessons with audio, articles on learning Cantonese and a chat room for practising Cantonese.

Cantophilia

- Videos with translation and transcript for different ability levels.

Cantostories

- Cantonese stories with translation and transcription.

Cantonese learner

- Words and phrases arranged by theme, quizzes etc.

Digital Dialects Cantonese

- Flash based exercises for learning some basic vocabulary.

Linguanaut Cantonese BROKEN LINK

- List of most useful Cantonese phrases with transcription, characters and translation.

Ryan Newson's Cantonese page BROKEN LINK

- Revision sheets made by a Cantonese learner.

Cantonese material reviews Internet Archive version only

- Reviews books and material useful for studying Cantonese.

Cantonese Teachionary

- Multimedia website for teaching some basic vocabulary.

Field Support Cantonese

- Basic expressions in Cantonese with audio, romanization & characters. Some modules specific to the military.

Cantonese Quick Reference

- Teaches useful vocab & phrases with pictures and audio.

The Chinese Pear Stories

- Audio stories in seven Chinese languages, including Cantonese. There are 30 different versions in Cantonese with character and yale transcripts. Useful for listening to authentic speakers.

Cantonese Self-study Materials Only available in Cantonese BROKEN LINK

- 19 lessons on Cantonese pronunciation, jyutping, and reading characters. Only available in Cantonese but easy to understand.

Talk Now Cantonese

- Accompanies the book 'Colloquial Cantonese' with dialogues, audio, exercises and grammar. Looks useful but romanization method is confusing to those who haven't got the book.

Cantonese Classroom

- Lists of vocab & phrases arranged by themes (greetings, feelings, numbers etc), with written & spoken Cantonese.

Cantonese The Movie

- Funny video skits putting specific Cantonese language patterns into practice. Nice for reinforcing stuff you've already learnt.

香港広東語オンライン辞書 Only available in Japanese

- Japanese-Cantonese dictionary, travel phrases & weekly phrases.

Cantonese Swadesh List

- A list of 207 basic words in Cantonese, with colloquial Chinese characters and Cantonese pinyin.

Cantonese initials, finals & tones (+Powerpoint pdfs) by 001Asoer

- Videos explaining the sounds and tones of Cantonese in depth, with Jyutping, IPA and Chinese character transcription. Uses linguistic terms and tables to explain differences between the sounds.

Cantoneasy

- Short quizzes for learning to recognise basic Chinese characters. Card categories available so far include numbers, directions, food and verbs. Free registration required.

Cantonese resource thread

- A collection of links of Cantonese learning, Cantonese music, texts, dictionary sites and more.

E-books

Remembering the Hanzi by James W. Heisig

- Heisig's controversial method for learning Chinese characters available as PDF extract of either the traditional or simplified version. Note: This teaches modern written Chinese (i.e. written Mandarin) and includes only the meaning and writing, not the pronunciation.

Cantonese wikibook

- Lessons and info on Cantonese (warning: incomplete).

A handbook for teaching Cantonese-speaking children

- Information about Cantonese speakers, the language, teaching Chinese characters etc.

English-Cantonese phrasebook by Cho Van Tran

- Possibly more useful for Cantonese speakers than Cantonese learners as there is no transcription of the characters.

Practical Cantonese for Teachers Level 1 by I. Kwok & R. Sung, 1974

- 15 units teaching language useful in a school, uses handwritten colloquial Cantonese characters.

広東語研修テキスト (Cantonese Language Training Textbook) by M. Nakajima, 1977 (no. A089-92) Note: Only available in Japanese.

- Some complimentary copies are available to individual researchers if you e-mail the university.

Cantonese - a Language or Dialect? by Mau, Wing-yang, Annie, 繆穎欣, 2005

- Thesis can be accessed through e-mail by filling out a form.

A Guide to the Tai-Shan Dialect by A. Y. Hashimoto, 1971

- Academic description of the language, pronunciation, tones & grammar, with sample texts of spoken Tai-Shan.

A Guide to the Teng-Xian Dialect by A. Y. Hashimoto, 1971

- Academic description of the language, pronunciation, tones & grammar, with sample texts of spoken Teng-Xian.

DLI Flash Cards: Common Chinese Cantonese Characters 1965

- Flash cards of 1500 characters, with characters, meaning and compound words. Unfortunately the scan is not very good quality.

DLI Chinese-Cantonese (Toishan) Basic Course (+audio) 1964

- Dialogues, vocabulary and reading material in romanization & characters. Unfortunately no exercises.

Sidney Lau Cantonese textbook audio

- Audio for the renowned Sidney Lau series of textbooks. The series of textbooks, which contain 9 books from elementary to advanced, can be bought here.

Podcasts

Cantoneseclass101

- Teaches situational Cantonese through dialogues, which it then breaks down into vocab and grammar points. Beginners to advanced lessons available.

Naked Cantonese

- Informal, progressive lessons between a teacher and a student. Now more than 100 episodes available.

Popup Cantonese

- Basic, intermediate and advanced lessons as well as special podcasts about Cantonese music.

Cantonesepod from Chinesebay Discontinued

- 10 lessons teaching basic grammar, sentence patterns and expressions in Cantonese.

Cantonese pod Discontinued

- A few lessons on Cantonese grammar & vocab.

Same Same But Different

- A radio series discussing English and Cantonese in Hong Kong.

Forums

Cantonese sheik

- Active forum for discussing anything to do with Cantonese.

Chinese lessons forum BROKEN LINK

- Discussion about Mandarin & Cantonese language and culture.

China language

- Discuss the languages of China.

Hoisan Sanctuary Forums

- Fairly large forums for discussing the Toishan/Taishan/Hoisan language.

Chinesepod

- Chinesepod's forum for discussing Cantonese. DEAD LINK

Blogs

Cantonese.hk

- The views and experiences of a foreigner learning Cantonese.

Learning Cantonese

- Observations on the Cantonese language in Hong Kong.

Living in the Middle Kingdom

- Blog about living in Guangzhou and learning Cantonese.

廣府話小研究Cantonese Resources

- A bilingual blog of Cantonese resources. Lots of useful stuff here, including romanized karaoke videos, dictionary files, pronunciation helpers and more.

Learn Colloquial Cantonese 學習地道廣東話

- Cantonese idioms and proverbs explained, no romanization.

Thousand Mile Journey

- Adapting AJATT for Cantonese and Saxophone.

Hou hou sihk Discontinued

- Reviews of Cantonese materials and posts about learning Cantonese, Japanese & Korean.

Authentic Material

RTHK

- Radio, news, TV, podcasts etc. Lots of interesting material.

Radio Free Asia Cantonese

- Radio, news and podcasts in Cantonese.

Voice of America Cantonese

- Video news in Cantonese.

SBS Radio Cantonese

- Radio and podcasts on many topics: news, entertainment, culture, youth, sports, science etc.

Written Cantonese Wikia

- New wika with scans of articles written in Cantonese from Hong Kong media.

維基百科

- Cantonese version of Wikipedia, with over 15,000 articles.

Lily Wong

- Comic about life in Hong Kong with English and Cantonese versions of each strip. Note: the Cantonese text is a bit small and hard-to-read.

粵講粵過癮

- Television series in Cantonese talking about the language. Contains many colloquial expressions.

Open Sky Radio

- Radio and podcasts in Cantonese on many topics. Also has Mandarin programmes.

小男人週記

- One of the few novels written in Cantonese.

Technical

CantoDict

- Easy-to-use online searchable dictionary. Uses traditional characters, jyutping and pinyin.

Cantofish, Cantofish with slang dictionary added

- A pop-up Cantonese dictionary add-on for Firefox.

Cantonese-English Dictionary

- Pop-up dictionary (with slang extras) add-on for Chrome. Yale romanization version here.

A Chinese-Cantonese Syllabary

- A syllabary of Cantonese characters with audio and English translations. Searchable by radical, romanization, number of strokes etc.

Cantonese tone tool

- Use this to add Yale tone marks to text.

Hong Kong supplementary character set

- Download extra characters specific to Cantonese.

Online Cantonese Input Method

- Cantonese input and character simplification tool.

Guide to Cantonese input methods

- Reviews different ways of typing Cantonese on the computer.

Guide to Chanjie

- Guide on character inputting method for native Chinese speakers.

Commercial

Cantonese Course and Dictionary Reviews

- Reviews of Cantonese courses and dictionaries a learner has used while studying Cantonese.

Greenwood Press

- Many instructional Cantonese books not available elsewhere, with books for intermediate and advanced learners, books on learning Chinese characters (with Cantonese pronunciation), books on vocabulary, readers and more.

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