 | Chinese-English Dictionary by Chik Hon Man
Buy new: $17.10 / Used from: $11.90 Good dictionary--remember that Cantonese is not usually written. Many characters actually obscure. And some Cantonese words have no character!
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 | English-Cantonese Dictionary
Buy new: $36.10 / Used from: $14.95 Good only for conversation--no characters appear, so homonyms all lump together and there are LOTS of 'em! I still like it.
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 | Basic Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook (Routledge Grammars) by Virginia Yip
Buy new: $35.95 / Used from: $23.57 Very nice basic grammar with exercises to practice. But they sometimes test vocabulary they never present in the text. Still, very good for an understudied grammar.
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 | Intermediate Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook (Routledgegrammars) by Virginia Yip
Buy new: $36.03 / Used from: $32.91 Even better than the "basic" level text. Really gets into a lot of colloquial usage. Shows fine points of verbs and adjectives, which are so hard to absorb, and the use of sentence particles.
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 | Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars) by Steven Matthews
Buy new: $54.80 / Used from: $25.90 THE exhaustive grammar, clearly written, very colloquial, not British English. A plethora of clear examples. Good backup for the serious.
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 | Teach Yourself Cantonese Complete Course by Hugh Baker
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $12.89 Fun, clear, grammar & conversation book. Not organized intuitively. Glossary so-so. Good, yet idiosyncratic transliterations.
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 | Learn to Write Chinese Characters (Yale Language Series) by Johan Bjorksten
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $4.23 Very nice guide to the how and why of "hard pen" school writing. Characters are NOT Cantonese; only word order and grammar are! Be aware!
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 | Chinese Calligraphy: From Pictograph to Ideogram: the History of 214 Essential Chinese/japanese Characters by Edoardo Fazzioli
Buy new: $32.05 / Used from: $2.71 Excellent guide to stroke order and some histories of the most important basic or "root" characters.
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 | Chinese (Cantonese): Learn to Speak and Understand Cantonese with Pimsleur Language Programs by Pimsleur
Buy new: $215.35 / Used from: $99.95 A very good, totally "by ear" approach to Hong Kong Cantonese. Practical and "touristy," this has a natural content with no focus on grammar, per se. Sadly, no level 2, yet.
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