Product Description
Cantonese Beginner Course
The Cantonese Beginner course is for Cantonese beginners, especially recommended for people living in Hong Kong. As Hong Kong is an international city, people are accustomed to speaking English. You will have no problem for survival without knowing a word of Cantonese. However, without knowing any Cantonese, you are limiting yourself in exploring the exciting culture of Hong Kong. This course will be delivered in a fun way! Besides classroom lessons, Sunny Day will take students to famous dim sum restaurants, visit heritages and monuments, explore many of Hong Kong’s street markets, sample the fresh seafood on the outlying islands, go on a boat trip or hike to escape the city’s hustle and bustle, etc. Children are also welcome to join this course.
Total Hours: 45
Suggested Frequency: Once a week
Duration of each Lesson: 1.5 hours
Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to:
- Use daily expressions correctly
- Make simple sentences with the “Subject+Verb+Object” sentence structure
- have a basic knowledge in the history and geography in Hong Kong
- buy and shop by using simple Cantonese words
- communicate (to the driver)in a public transport
- make sense of the table manner in a Chinese meal
- hunting for food and drink around the city
Topics
- Introduction to Chinese Language
- Yale Phonetic System or “Jyutping Phonetic System”
- 6 Tones in Cantonese
- Numbers
- Money
- Useful Daily Expressions
- Directions
- Date and Time
- Introducing a friend
- Shopping for clothes
- Buying food and drink
- Inviting woman/man for a movie
- Gossip
- Talking to people in the office
- Dim Sum
- A Chinese Meal
- Where do you live?
- Weather
- Location
- Tour in Hong Kong
- “Tenses” in Cantonese
Textbook:
Chan, Kwok Kin and Hung, Betty. (2009) A Cantonese Book Third Edition. Hong Kong, Greenwood Press.