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
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Free Sagebooks Wordlists Printable with Cantonese Jyutping
Free Printables: Sagebooks 500 Chinese characters with Jyutping PDF available for download. Read More
10 things to Say Instead of Stop Crying (Cantonese version)
When a child is upset and crying, they need empathy. Sometimes when they hear “Stop Crying”, no matter how well-intentioned, it makes them feel dismissed. Here’s the Cantonese version of 10 Things to Say Instead of Stop Crying. With free printable. Read More
How To Read To Your Child When Your Cantonese Is Not Fluent
Most parents understand the many benefits of reading to your child, especially in the minority language – to help boost language acquisition and literacy skills. The challenge lies in the difficulty of reading in Cantonese when you are not fluent. Here are some tips that can help. Read More
Colloquial Cantonese Kids’ Educational Resources and Printables
If you are looking for Colloquial Cantonese resources for kids, here are quite a few that you might find useful. Read More
Storybooks Canada: Free 40 Leveled Readers in Colloquial Cantonese with Audio
Storybooks Canada offers early learning Storybooks with Colloquial /Spoken Cantonese books and Colloquial Cantonese Audio. Also, find out how you can download them in one zip file, or where to find the Standard Chinese version in Traditional Chinese or the printer friendly outline version, which are not on the main site Read More
Cantonese Storytime and Book Reading on YouTube
A number of native Cantonese speakers have generously spent their time recording videos of themselves reading kids’ books in Cantonese. Here we have a list that would include more than 25 channels and a few hundred stories. and counting . Read More
Why it is hard for many ABCs to pass on Cantonese?
Passing on languages are not easy. But ABCs face additional challenges due to the unique character of Cantonese Read More
