Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from How to Speak Cantonese: Fifty Conversations in Cantonese Colloquial; With the Chinese Character, Free and Literal English Translations, and Romanised Spelling With Tonic and Diacritical Marks, &C
There being a desire for more lessons in Cantonese Colloquial than the fifteen contained in Cantonese Made Easy, ' the Author has prepared this book. It has been his endeavour to make it practical. Conversations which those desirous Of speaking Cantonese are likely to wish to engage in have been compiled. It is no doubt a difficult matter to launch in medias res, especially with a language like Chinese; the learner will, however, find that in this book he need not expect to have his breath taken away by a sudden plunge, as the first few conversations are as easy as it is almost possible to make them while endeavouring at the same time to ensure consecutiveness, to keep the idea of a conversation up, and not to present merely scraps Of sentences.
This book is intended as a companion volume to Cantonese Made Easy.' All the tones, tonic marks, spelling Of Chinese words in English, and diacritical marks are fully explained in the Introduction to that book; and the numbers attached to the finals refer to the list Of finals near the end of that book.
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