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.
* Suitable for independent learners and students on taught courses
* Many authentic examples from contemporary media, including films, advertising, songs and soap operas
* Clear distinction between colloquial and more formal speech registers
* Teaches contemporary Cantonese as spoken in Hong Kong
Intermediate Cantonese and its sister volume, Basic Cantonese, form a structured course of the essentials of Cantonese grammar.

chapter 1|6 pages

Consonants and vowels

chapter 2|5 pages

Tone contours

chapter 3|8 pages

Changed tones

chapter 4|8 pages

Reduplication

chapter 5|6 pages

Word formation

chapter 6|6 pages

Verb-object compounds

chapter 7|5 pages

Adjectives and stative verbs

chapter 8|8 pages

Classifiers revisited

chapter 9|5 pages

Topic and focus

chapter 10|5 pages

10Using jēung

chapter 11|7 pages

11Serial verbs

chapter 12|9 pages

12Aspect markers

chapter 13|6 pages

13Comparisons

chapter 15|9 pages

15Quantification

chapter 16|6 pages

16Negative sentences

chapter 17|6 pages

17Questions and answers

chapter 18|6 pages

18Relative clauses

chapter 19|7 pages

19Subordinate clauses

chapter 20|7 pages

20Conditional sentences

chapter 21|6 pages

21Reported speech

chapter 22|7 pages

22Cantonese speech conventions

chapter 23|8 pages

23Particles and interjections

chapter 24|7 pages

24Colloquial syntax

chapter 25|7 pages

25Code-mixing and loanwords