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Cantonese Audio Books - MP3 Pimsleur Downloads. When learning Cantonese, you need to be aware of a few facts about this Chinese dialect. Below is a short description what Cantonese Chinese is and where it is spoken: Standard CantoneseStandard Cantonese is a variant of Cantonese (Yue) Chinese. It is spoken natively in and around the cities of Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macau in Southern China. Standard Cantonese is the de facto official Chinese spoken language of Hong Kong and Macau, and a lingua franca of Guangdong province and some neighbouring areas. It is also spoken by many overseas Chinese of Guangdong, Hong Kong or Macau origin in Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, United States, Australia, Europe and elsewhere. Historically, Cantonese was the most common form of Chinese spoken by overseas Chinese communities in the Western world, although that situation has changed with the increasing importance of Mandarin in the Chinese-speaking world as well as immigration to the West from other countries as well as other parts of China. Source: Wikipedia - Standard Cantonese
Cantonese or Yue - Major Chinese LanguageCantonese or Yue is a major Chinese dialect group or language, a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Colloquially, it is also known as (Mandarin: Gua(ngdo-ng Huà, Cantonese transcription: gwong2 dung1 waa6). The exact number of Cantonese speakers is unknown due to a lack of statistics and census data. The areas with the highest concentration of speakers are in Guangdong and some parts of Guangxi in southern mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. Other major groups include Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia. The name has been stated as being derived from Canton; a name in English for Guangdong province, and Canton; a name in English for Guangzhou city. There are numerous different dialects of Cantonese; the most widely spoken is the Guangzhou dialect, often referred to simply as "Cantonese". The Guangzhou dialect is a lingua franca of not just Guangdong province, but also the overseas Cantonese speaking diaspora. The Guangzhou dialect is also spoken in Hong Kong. Like other major varieties of Chinese, Cantonese is often considered a dialect of a single Chinese language for cultural or nationalistic reasons, though in practice Cantonese, like many other Chinese language varieties, is mutually unintelligible with many other Chinese "dialects". Source: Wikipedia - Cantonese (linguistics)
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What satisfied customers say about the Pimsleur CANTONESE audios:
This is the best program to begin learning Cantonese. The recordings in this set will mainly give you just the taste of Cantonese, or rather if you considered learning Cantonese hard and even impossible, this program will convince you that you can learn Cantonese easily.
If you're committed to learning Cantonese, you may as well just go and get Cantonese I. -- Laura De Giorgio, Canada
Of all of the languages that I've learned so far, Cantonese is the most difficult. Pimsleur makes learning such a complex language enjoyable and stimulating.
I really like the way the narrator goes into detail about the Cantonese word order and the variety of tones associated when speaking the language.
So far, my progress has been excellent. When I speak the small amount of Cantonese that I've learned, people tell me that I sound like a native speaker.
Who knows, I might even purchase the Mandarin in order to be knowledgeable of both Chinese dialects.
I think that anyone considering to study an Asian language should definitely try the Pimsleur Chinese programs. It would give that person such an advantage to a complex language. -- Millicent Y. Curtis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
I am also a native Cantonese
speaker - born and raised in Hong Kong. My caucasian
wife purchased this system about a month ago and it has worked
wonderfully for her. I have listened in on the CDs and
have offered help from time to time. The system does what it is
designed to do and NONE of the pronounciations are wrong. Some
of the lessons and phrases are purposefully simplified for the
beginners. The idea here is to equip the student with some
basic conversation skills and not turn them into a native
speaker.
Cantonese is a VERY difficult language. It has more exceptions
than rules. There are multiple ways of saying the same thing.
The Pimsleur system is well thought out and breaks it
down so that leaning is fun and possible. -- C. Ng
NH, USA
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