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Cantonese Resources?

Postby Ug_Caveman » Thu Feb 11, 2021 4:00 pm

Once again, sorry if this one has already been done, but I wasn't able to find a thread on it:

Are there any Cantonese resources people would recommend? At present, the only ones I can find are:

Colloquial Cantonese (which has middling reviews)
Teach Yourself Cantonese
Some Routledge Cantonese grammars
A few short-scale Pimsleur courses

Any recommendations to add to the list?
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Re: Cantonese Resources?

Postby rdearman » Thu Feb 11, 2021 5:51 pm

Here is what I could find. It isn't pretty, I'll tidy it up later. There may be duplication and other problems.

https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/language ... onese.html
https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/language ... onese.html
https://cantolounge.com/complete-guide-learn-cantonese/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNKyBX ... lja3VZG6AQ
https://www.youtube.com/c/CantonesewithBrittany/videos
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S6G ... e1k14yugtx
https://cantolounge.com/complete-guide-learn-cantonese/
https://livefluent.com/learn-cantonese/
https://learn.iwillteachyoualanguage.co ... versations
https://www.cantoneseclass101.com/
http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... nohboldhip
https://www.cantoneseclass101.com/
https://www.cantoneseclass101.com/visual-flashcards
https://www.cantoneseclass101.com/learn-with-pdf
https://corpus.eduhk.hk/cantonese/e_index.html
https://www.livelingua.com/courses/Cantonese/
https://www.eduhk.hk/cle/resources/cep/ ... index.html
http://ilovelanguages.org/cantonese.php
https://inspirlang.com/sunday-cantonese-2/
https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~canto/index.htm
https://livefluent.com/learn-cantonese-app/
https://www.omniglot.com/chinese/cantonese.htm
https://www.101languages.net/cantonese/ ... se-course/
https://fieldsupport.dliflc.edu/product ... fault.html
https://www.hk01.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTxyBu ... XezXwy_SGg
https://hk.appledaily.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC03mRl ... ohYaIj9lHg
https://podcast.rthk.hk/podcast/
https://podcast.rthk.hk/podcast/item.php?pid=292
http://app3.rthk.hk/special/pau/article.php?aid=2315
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoUnIZ ... tKnPRxlaxQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJl_Jo ... vbFGlKjQgA
https://www.youtube.com/user/linglingchengg/featured
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong
https://www.discuss.com.hk/index.php
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/zh
http://www.clc.com.hk/
https://librivox.org/search?primary_key ... et_results
https://cantonese.ca/
https://cantoneseforfamilies.com/
https://cantolounge.com/complete-guide-learn-cantonese/
http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... rcantonese
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... neselocker
https://cantolounge.com/cantonese-grammar-series/
https://www.hkanime.com/category/4x1
https://thelesserevil.co/podcast
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Re: Cantonese Resources?

Postby księżycowy » Thu Feb 11, 2021 6:04 pm

In addition to what Rdearman posted, I also suggest a browse of the following site:
http://www.green-woodpress.com/products ... antonese=1

I have quite a few of their titles, and would easily recommend them.

There is also the very comprehensive and extensive set of materials by Sidney Lau. I have not bought any of Lau's materials from the following site, so I can not personally vouch for it. But I can vouch for the books themselves. Unfortunately, the audio is not easily obtainable (with the exception of the audio that is on Skydrive I think it was, but that is not the original audio to the book). I'm still looking for the original audio myself.
http://sidneylau.com/

I guess it depends on how deep you want to get into Cantonese.

EDIT: Here is the Hong Kong government press, which may still have Lau's books on print.
https://www.gov.hk/en/residents/governm ... kstore.htm
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Re: Cantonese Resources?

Postby vonPeterhof » Fri Aug 05, 2022 5:45 pm

I just found out that a beta Duolingo Cantonese course has been out for half a year or so! However, it's a) only available via Mandarin, b) only has 18 skill units with two checkpoints and c) doesn't make use of any romanization or phonetic transcription system whatsoever, just using Traditional characters for the Cantonese sentences and Simplified ones for the Mandarin translations (although it does at least use the Cantonese-specific characters, unlike certain other courses I've seen, like the one in uTalk).
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Re: Cantonese Resources?

Postby vonPeterhof » Sat May 06, 2023 6:39 am

vonPeterhof wrote:c) doesn't make use of any romanization or phonetic transcription system whatsoever, just using Traditional characters for the Cantonese sentences and Simplified ones for the Mandarin translations

Update: they've added jyutping romanization for Cantonese words. Like with Duolingo's Mandarin courses through other languages, the romanization can be toggled on and off, as well as set to appear either above all words or only newly introduced ones.
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