The Right Word in Cantonese

By Kwan C. Wah, Choi Wah Kwan, Tsai-Hua Kuan

A quick reference to Cantonese especially the words and expressions for everyday use in Hong Kong and Canton. Complete with English entries, Yale Romanizations and Chinese Characters. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: 9620711963
• ISBN13: 9789620711961
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Cheng & Tsui
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A wonderful supplement and mini-travel dictionary

This is not a huge lexicon. It is a thin little book with a very limited number of words. However, the words included are often not defined in standard English-Cantonese dictionaries and all the translations are "spot on". Moreover, the appendices contain numerous specialized vocabulary for travel in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. As icing on the cake there is a short list of short, useful phrases a tourist is likely to want to use on a trip. The little powerhouse of a reference is complete with a phonetic guide to Yale romanization, so it makes for a nice springboard to serious study and is a good long-term study-aid. I would recommend this to any but native/near-native level speakers of Cantonese and most enthusiastically to non-students of Cantonese who are taking a trip to Hong Kong or Canton (Guangzhou).