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Beginners' Cantonese: Learn Faster. Remember More.
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ISBN10: 1399824929
ISBN13: 9781399824927
Publisher: Teach Yourself
Published: Dec 15 2026
Pages: 240
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.75
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781399824927
Publisher: Teach Yourself
Published: Dec 15 2026
Pages: 240
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.75
Language: English
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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