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  • Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar

    by Stephen Matthews, Virginia Yip ...
    Series series Routledge Comprehensive Grammars
    Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to Cantonese as spoken by native speakers in Hong Kong. It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in current Cantonese. This makes it the ideal reference source for all learners and users of Cantonese, irrespective of level, in schools, colleges, universities and adult ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Basic Cantonese

    A Grammar and Workbook

    by Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews ...
    Series series Routledge Grammar Workbooks
    Basic Cantonese introduces the essentials of Cantonese grammar in a straightforward and systematic way.Each of the 28 units deals with a grammatical topic and provides associated exercises, designed to put grammar into a communicative context. Special attention is paid to topics which differ from English and European language structures.This new edition features:• clear, accessible format• lively ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Intermediate Cantonese

    A Grammar and Workbook

    by Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews ...
    Series series Routledge Grammar Workbooks
    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.Features include:Many authentic examples from contemporary media, including films, advertising, songs and soap operasClear ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Bilingual Child

    Early Development and Language Contact

    by Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews ...
    Series series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
    How does a child become bilingual? The answer to this intriguing question remains largely a mystery, not least because it has been far less extensively researched than the process of mastering a first language. Drawing on new studies of children exposed to two languages from birth (English and Cantonese), this book demonstrates how childhood bilingualism develops naturally in response to the two ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

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  • Languages Fast and Easy ~ Mandarin

    by O-O Happiness ...
    2nd edition of our popular Manadarin course - improved! Remember trying to learn a language at school? Remember trying to get your head around conjugating verbs? Past tense, present tense, present participle, imperfect subjunctive? Yes, that's right, it was all mind numbing. Language is not about perfect grammar. Language is about communication. This edition includes a comprehensive phrasebook ... Read more

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  • Linguistics

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    by P. H. Matthews ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional organization of many contemporary introductions to the subject, the author of this stimulating guide begins his discussion with the oldest, 'arts' end of the subject and moves chronologically through to the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Language Attrition

    by Monika S. Schmid ...
    Series series Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
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  • A Dictionary of Chinese Characters

    Accessed by Phonetics

    by Stewart Paton ...
    By arranging frequently used characters under the phonetic element they have in common, rather than only under their radical, the Dictionary encourages the student to link characters according to their phonetic. The system of cross-referencing then allows the student to find easily all the characters in the dictionary which have the same phonetic element, thus helping to fix in the memory the link ... Read more

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  • Basic Chinese For Beginners! Book 1 & 2: Your First Mandarin Book & Your Second Mandarin Book

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    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Linguistics Made Easy: Flash

    by Jean Aitchison ...
    This new title in the popular 'Flash' series gets straight to the key facts of linguistics. In just 96 pacy, jargon-free pages, you will:- look at language- understand sound- get to grips with semantics- consider language change- explore psycholinguisticsand much more besides! ... Read more

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  • A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese

    Core Vocabulary for Learners

    by Richard Xiao ...
    Series series Routledge Frequency Dictionaries
    A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese is an invaluable tool for all learners of Mandarin Chinese, providing a list of the 5,000 words and the 2,000 Chinese characters (simplified) most commonly used in the language. Based on a fifty-million-word corpus composed of spoken, fiction, non-fiction and news texts in current use, the dictionary provides the user with a detailed frequency-based list, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD