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 books
Cantonese Children’s Books 2022 Mid-Year Roundup
A review of 16 delightful Cantonese Children’s Books – perfect for our mid year roundup Read More
Chinese Books For Kids With Jyutping 粵拼 for Cantonese Reading
Are you wanting to teach reading and writing Chinese characters in Cantonese, but need some help with the pronunciation? This selection of Chinese books for kids with Jyutping粵拼 would be perfect. Ranges from storybooks to poetry to activity books. Read More
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
Colloquial Cantonese Books for Kids Part 2 – Storybooks 廣東話口語兒童書 (2) – 故事書
Following on from the previous post Colloquial Cantonese Books for Kids Part 1 – Visual Dictionaries, comes Part 2 which is about Colloquial Cantonese storybooks. Visual Dictionaries help children with expanding their vocabulary, but with storybooks, kids hear more of entire sentences, and stories read out. This helps with grammar and fluency. When I first read Read More
Colloquial Cantonese Books for Kids Part 1 – Visual Dictionaries
If you are teaching Colloquial Cantonese or Conversational Cantonese, here are a variety of Vocabulary Books and Visual Dictionaries for kids. 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