ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
unit 1|6 pages
Consonants and vowels
unit 2|5 pages
Tone contours
unit 3|8 pages
Changed tones
unit 4|9 pages
Reduplication
unit 5|6 pages
Word formation
unit 6|6 pages
Verb-object compounds
unit 7|5 pages
Adjectives and stative verbs
unit 8|8 pages
Classifiers revisited
unit 9|6 pages
Topic and focus
unit 10|5 pages
Using jēung 將
unit 11|7 pages
Serial verbs
unit 12|9 pages
Aspect markers
unit 13|6 pages
Comparisons
unit 14|7 pages
Resultative and causative sentences with dou 到
unit 15|10 pages
Quantification
unit 16|6 pages
Negative sentences
unit 17|7 pages
Questions and answers
unit 18|7 pages
Relative clauses
unit 19|7 pages
Subordinate clauses
unit 20|8 pages
Conditional sentences
unit 21|7 pages
Reported speech
unit 22|7 pages
Cantonese speech conventions
unit 23|8 pages
Particles and interjections
unit 24|8 pages
Colloquial syntax
unit 25|7 pages
Code-mixing and loanwords
