A list of the many Cantonese children’s books – board books, picture books, storybooks, graded readers, visual dictionaries, workbooks, activity books and more. Read More
Category: Cantonese Literature
Cantonese Childrens Book Reviews for Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2022
Cantonese books need to be more visible. To promote Cantonese books and authors, it is fitting I review four recently published works, and a reprint of a previously out-of-print series this Multicultural Children’s Book Day. Read More
Forty New Cantonese Graded Readers – Perfect for Improving Cantonese
Resource Spotlight: 冚唪唥粵文讀本 Hambaanglaang Cantonese Graded Readers – written for Cantonese learners of all ages. With tons of special features to help you read and learn Cantonese, and enjoy the process. Read More
MZ Level 1 Reader Transcripts in Colloquial Cantonese with Jyutping
I have previously blogged about my fabulous find – 71 levelled Chinese readers from Meizhou Chinese , of which 48 had audio in Colloquial Cantonese and Formal Cantonese audio. All for free. However, the print readers only come in Standard Chinese. Colloquial Cantonese Transcript I had always been meaning to transcribe the readers to Read More
What You Need To Know About Cantonese: the Vernacular and the Formal
Cantonese is not a straight forward language. What you read is not what how you speak. Linguists refer to this as Diglossia, where two languages are used under different conditions within a community, often by the same speakers. Learn more about Colloquial Cantonese, Formal Cantonese, Written Cantonese, and Standard Written Chinese. Read More
Free Online Cantonese Literature
Recent years have seen a rise in (Colloquial) Cantonese literature, both online and in print. These are very helpful for learners of Cantonese who wish to have more material to improve their Cantonese. Check out what free ebooks are available: Story Collections: Cantonese Learning Centre (CLC) EBooks Recommended for Beginner and Intermediate Levels. Read More
Cantonese Flashback: Readings In Cantonese Colloquial (1894)
While researching Cantonese literature to improve my Cantonese, I stumbled upon a century old book, Readings In Cantonese Colloquial: Being Selections From Books In The Cantonese Vernacular by James Dyer Ball (1894). Amazingly, the most of the text still makes good reading today. Download a free copy today. Read More
Review: How to Study Cantonese 粵塾
Spoken Cantonese or Colloquial Cantonese has its own grammar and vocabulary. Many of us who have learnt to speak it at home, but not formally in class, would have internalized the grammar from exposure from an early age . Yet when asked to explain or describe the rules, it becomes hard as this knowledge is Read More