Intermediate Cantonese A Grammar and Workbook

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.
Features include:

• Many authentic examples from contemporary media, including films, advertising, songs and soap operas



• Clear differentiation between colloquial and more formal speech registers



• Up-to-date analysis of contemporary Cantonese as spoken in Hong Kong.

Suitable for independent learners and students on taught courses, Intermediate Cantonese, together with its sister volume, Basic Cantonese, forms a structured course of the essentials of Cantonese grammar.

About the author

Virginia Yip is Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Stephen Matthews is Professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong.
They are the authors of Basic Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook (2000), Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (1994, 2^{nd
edition 2011), The Bilingual Child: Early Development and Language Contact (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and co-directors of the Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre.}

Summary

Intermediate Cantonese is designed for learners who have achieved basic proficiency and wish to progress to more complex language.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews, Virginia (The Chinese University of Hong Kong.) Yip, Stephen (The University of Hong Kong.) Matthews, Virginia (The Chinese University of Hong Kong Yip, Virginia Matthews Yip
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 22.02.2017
• Subject: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
• EAN: 9780415815611
• ISBN: 978-0-415-81561-1
• Pages: 200
• Series: Grammar Workbooks; Grammar Workbooks; Routledge Grammar Workbooks
• Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Chinese, Sociolinguistics, Language teaching & learning material & coursework, Language teaching and learning material and coursework, Cantonese, Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy, Syntax Analysis, tonal phonology, sentence structure exercises, advanced Cantonese grammar practice