In My Home English Cantonese

Author : John C. Wakefield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351184237
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cantonese as a Second Language written by John C. Wakefield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cantonese is a language from southern China that is spoken by roughly 70 million people worldwide. It is the language of Hong Kong cinema and has traditionally been the most prominent language spoken in Chinatowns around the world. People choose to learn Cantonese for a variety of social and economic reasons: because it is a heritage language that one’s relatives speak; because it is the language of one’s partner and monolingual in-laws; because it is necessary for living and working in Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou, or other Cantonese-speaking communities; because it is the bridge to fully appreciating and understanding Cantonese culture; or simply because it is an irresistible challenge. Whatever the motivation, more and more people are choosing to learn Cantonese as an additional language. This book discusses many issues related to both acquiring and teaching Cantonese. If you are a learner of Cantonese, this long overdue volume is essential to understanding both the grammatical and the social issues involved with learning this notoriously difficult language. If you are a teacher, this book will be invaluable to gaining insight into your students’ motivations and needs. And finally, if you are an applied linguist, the unique aspects related to the acquisition of Cantonese offer a fascinating contribution to the literature.

Author : David Nunan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135153914
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Culture written by David Nunan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This state-of-the-art exploration of language, culture, and identity is orchestrated through prominent scholars’ and teachers’ narratives, each weaving together three elements: a personal account based on one or more memorable or critical incidents that occurred in the course of learning or using a second or foreign language; an interpretation of the incidents highlighting their impact in terms of culture, identity, and language; the connections between the experiences and observations of the author and existing literature on language, culture and identity. What makes this book stand out is the way in which authors meld traditional ‘academic’ approaches to inquiry with their own personalized voices. This opens a window on different ways of viewing and doing research in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. What gives the book its power is the compelling nature of the narratives themselves. Telling stories is a fundamental way of representing and making sense of the human condition. These stories unpack, in an accessible but rigorous fashion, complex socio-cultural constructs of culture, identity, the self and other, and reflexivity, and offer a way into these constructs for teachers, teachers in preparation and neophyte researchers. Contributors from around the world give the book broad and international appeal.

Author : Farina Leong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My House Cantonese-English written by Farina Leong and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *WITH FREE AUDIO FILES* Teach your child spoken Cantonese with this book covering rooms of the house and everyday objects in your household. Your house is the main setting for interactions with your family and familiarity with this vocabulary helps to build on conversations in Cantonese. Whatever your level of fluency in Chinese, this book is designed to help your child learn and improve his or her Cantonese vocabulary. Packed with bright, colourful photos and illustrations, you can play the accompanying audio files alongside the book to check your pronunciation! Each word or phrase is written in traditional Chinese characters with Jyutping pronunciations and English translations. Sentences are colour-coded to both the Jyutping and English translation to help learn about sentence structure. Interesting facts about the language are also included in the footnotes for adult learners. This edition includes sections on: Bedroom Bathroom Toiletries Living Room Dining Room Kitchen Household Appliances Electrical Appliances Garden Other books in this popular series include: Animals Food & Drink Daily Vocabulary

Author : Karen Yee
Publisher : Cantonese for Kids
ISBN 13 : 9781955188050
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My First Everyday Words in Cantonese and English written by Karen Yee and published by Cantonese for Kids. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My First Everyday Words in Cantonese & English focuses on conversational - not formal - Cantonese. Traditional Chinese (with Jyutping+alternate romanizations) are color-coded to English. Free online audio.

Author : Hippocrene Books (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780781812795
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cantonese Dictionary & Phrasebook written by Hippocrene Books (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spoken by nearly 60 million people, Cantonese is an official language of Hong Kong and Macau, and the dominant dialect of Chinese spoken in the province of Guangdong. This convenient dictionary & phrasebook provides travelers to south China with the tools they need to communicate effectively in Cantonese.

Author : Mirjam Schmalz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110733803
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acquisition and Variation in World Englishes written by Mirjam Schmalz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first of its kind to provide an integrative look at World Englishes, (second) language acquisition, and sociolinguistics in a variety of contexts of English around the globe with a focus on the language of children and adolescents. It thus aims to bridge the paradigm gaps that have been identified between these approaches but have rarely been explored in greater detail. The range of topics includes the areas of first and second language acquisition; sociolinguistic variation and awareness; language use and choice; family language policies; language attitudes and perception; modelling children’s and adolescents’ language in World Englishes; the role of child language acquisition in processes of language change; as well as methodologies of eliciting speech and writing from children and adolescents. The book combines qualitative and quantitative approaches and draws on psycholinguistic, corpus-linguistic, and ethnographic methodologies. What unites the contributions to the volume is that they all address the theoretical implications that a joint approach between World Englishes, sociolinguistics, and language acquisition has, i.e. why it is fruitful and how it can contribute to a deeper understanding of the different research paradigms.

Author : James E. Alatis
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589018549
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1999: Language in Our Time written by James E. Alatis and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-07 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the return — after a two-year hiatus — of this annual collection of essays on linguistics and language education, the 1999 volume speaks to the most pressing social issues of our time. More than thirty contributors from around the world take up longstanding debates about language diversity, language standardization, and language policy. They tackle such controversial issues as the Official English movement, bilingual education, and ideological struggles over African American Vernacular English.

Author : Jock O. Wong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139992449
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Singapore English written by Jock O. Wong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh approach to Singapore English, by focusing on its cultural connotations. The author, a native Singaporean, explores a range of aspects of this rich variety of English - including address forms, cultural categories, particles and interjections – and links particular words to particular cultural norms. By using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach, which is free from technical terminology, he explains the relationship between meaning and culture with maximal clarity, and an added strength of this study lies in its use of authentic examples and pictures, which offer a fascinating glimpse of Singaporean life. Through comparisons with Anglo English, it also explores some difficulties associated with Standard English and cultural misunderstanding. Lending a unique local perspective and written with an incisiveness that makes it ideal for both academic and non-academic readers, this book will appeal to all those interested in Singapore English and its cultural values.

Author : Li Wei
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317638980
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multilingualism in the Chinese Diaspora Worldwide written by Li Wei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Li Wei brings together contributions from well-known and emerging scholars in socio- and anthropological linguistics working on different linguistic and communicative aspects of the Chinese diaspora. The project examines the Chinese diasporic experience from a global, comparative perspective, with a particular focus on transnational links, and local social and multilingual realities. Contributors address the emergence of new forms of Chinese in multilingual contexts, family language policy and practice, language socialization and identity development, multilingual creativity, linguistic attitudes and ideologies, and heritage language maintenance, loss, learning and re-learning. The studies are based on empirical observations and investigations in Chinese communities across the globe, including well-researched (from a sociolinguistic perspective) areas such as North America, Western Europe and Australia, as well as under-explored and under-represented areas such as Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, and the Middle East; the volume also includes detailed ethnographic accounts representing regions with a high concentration of Chinese migration such as Southeast Asia. This volume not only will allow sociolinguists to investigate the link between linguistic phenomena in specific communities and wider socio-cultural processes, but also invites an open dialogue with researchers from other disciplines who are working on migration, diaspora and identity, and those studying other language-based diasporic communities such as the Russian diaspora, the Spanish diaspora, the Portuguese diaspora, and the Arabic diaspora.

Author : Priya Shimpi
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832508812
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Experience in Children’s Language Development: A Cultural Perspective written by Priya Shimpi and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: