Cantonese (Teach Yourself) - Softcover

Hugh D.R. Baker; Hanson Ho

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340620919 ISBN 13: 9780340620915

Publisher: Teach Yourself Books, 1995

Synopsis

This is a beginner's course in Cantonese, assuming no previous knowledge of the language. Based on the Council of Europe's guidelines on language learning, the emphasis of the course is on communication skills, and its structure includes much exercise material. The book is available separately, or as a pack with a cassette. The cassette can also be purchased separately.

About this title

About the Author:

Hugh Baker is Professor Emeritus of Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London where he taught Cantonese and Mandarin for 35 years. Professor Baker has published extensively on Chinese culture, the Chinese family system, Chinese language, and Hong Kong history and society. He was Chief Editorial Consultant to the Channel 4 TV documentary series 'The Heart of the Dragon', and has frequently broadcast on radio and television in Britain and in Hong Kong. Ho Pui-Kei was born in Hong Kong and studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Mr Ho has more than 30 years' experience of teaching Cantonese to foreign adults from all walks of life, and he brings to his teaching an approach which emphasises humour and down-to-earth everyday language, the ideal register for the extrovert people of Hong Kong and South China.

Review:

"The living language of Hong Kong leaps from every page in a way I have not seen in any other textbook of Cantonese... the new Teach yourself Cantonese is unsurpassed." Daniel Kane, review in Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Teach Yourself Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0340620919
• ISBN 13: 9780340620915
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 334