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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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'This is an excellent practical grammar of Cantonese. It offers clear explanations on a variety of topics, and provides relevant exercises that reinforce the material covered. The writing is compact and perspicuous. The examples are natural, and there are enough of them to adequately illustrate the point under discussion. It covers intermediate and even advanced grammatical constructions, areas often under-represented in pedagogical materials. This book has a welcome place on the bookshelf of every student and teacher of Cantonese.'-The Linguist List, November 2001
About the Author
Virginia Yip is Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Stephen Matthews lectures at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. They are the authors of Basic Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook (1999) and Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (1994), both from Routledge.
This book is almost great except for a couple of things. It doesn't have a CD to accompany it so you can't be sure if you're getting the tones right which is very important when speaking Cantonese. Also the book doesn't have the Chinese characters so when you show a native Cantonese speaker they can't help you with the pronunciation either, since they don't understand romanized Chinese!
I just don't understand how a language book can come without a CD.
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5.0 out of 5 starsEvery serious student should get a copy27 Dec 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
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This book is an excellent sequel to: "Basic Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook" by the same authors. It (and its predecessor) are the best sources I've seen as far as really explaining how Cantonese works. There has been some other good material published in recent years for Cantonese learners (I give high marks to "Colloquial Cantonese" by Tong and James and "Teach Yourself Cantonese" by Baker and Ho) but this is the best treatment of Cantonese syntax I've come across- having worked through it I now feel confident that I can speak good, authentic Cantonese. It is written from a linguistic point of view but it is so well-organized and the material is so neatly presented that even someone without much linguistic background would find it a help. There are some comparisons made with Mandarin usage which are interesting and helpful to someone who learned Mandarin first (as I did) but previous knowledge of Mandarin is not assumed or required. A further plus: Lots of contemporary vocabulary. If you think you'd like to be able to say: "The boss has sexually harassed her" "My daughter is giving me an attitude again" or "very soon one will be able to get on the Internet via mobile phones" look no further!
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat textbook to upgrade your knowledge of Cantonese3 April 2008
By Harald Bruning - Published on Amazon.com
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Intermediate Cantonese is a great textbook to upgrade your knowledge of Cantonese, a language spoken by over 100 million people in southern China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong and Macau) and among many overseas Chinese. It's very didactical and quite easy to understand. Cantonese is not easy to learn, but the book makes it pretty easy to learn.
4.0 out of 5 starsGreat book on Cantonese Grammar -- but dense and definitely not for beginners30 Aug 2009
By Proffy - Published on Amazon.com
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This is a great book on Cantonese Grammar for learners who have graduated beyond "Basic Cantonese: a Grammar and Workbook" by Virginia Yip. Note that this is suitable only as accompanying material, not as a complete book for learning the language. Presentation is quite dense, much more demanding that the Basic Cantonese book.
This is only for the slightly advanced learner, but highly recommended if you really want to understand the structure of the language.
