Cantonese Today [Xinbian Jinri Yueyu] Vol. 2. ISBN: 9787561952115

English Title: Cantonese Today Vol. 2
Chinese Title: 新编今日粤语·下册
ISBN-10: 7-56-195211-2, 7561952112
ISBN-13: 978-7-56-195211-5, 9787561952115
Binding: softcover
Pages: 344
Shipping Weight: 680g
Size: 184mm x 260mm
Language: simplified Chinese, Jyutping, with putonghua annotations
Verlag: Beijing Language and Culture University Press (北京语言文化大学出版社)

This is Book 2 of Cantonese Today, a Cantonese teaching material for learners who want to further improve their Cantonese practical ability. Based on Book 1, this book pays more attention to the cultural aspect apart from teaching vocabulary and sentence patterns needed in daily communication. The texts and dialogues embody heightened situational and cultural properties, exposing learners to the most authentic situational contexts and helping them master the most practical communicative techniques and skills by means of specific real-life situations, characteristic language styles, and all-inclusive communication themes. Besides, this book has some additional contents such as “Cantonese culture”, “kinship diagram and comparison table of kinship terms in Mandarin and Cantonese”, “binding words specific to the Cantonese dialect”, and “lively forms of Cantonese adjectives”, which may deepen students’ learning of Cantonese and their understanding of Cantonese culture. By using this book, learners can not only master the Cantonese vocabulary and sentence patterns essential in communication, but also get a further understanding of the deposits and development of Cantonese culture. We recommend to use this book if you have some preknowledge of Cantonese, like you already worked with Cantonese Today Vol. 1 or some other beginners book. Also please note that the annotations like the vocabulary notes are explaining the terms in the Chinese Standard language putonghua, so you should have the ability to understand these annotations to work with this book. 

Structure of the lessons. Typically, the lessons include vocabulary, additional vocabulary, dialogues, lesson texts, cultural texts, grammar notes, and exercises. Attached is an alphabetical vocabulary list and the answers to the exercises. This textbook has been edited for learners who have already gained knowledge of Standard Chinese and can read Chinese texts. All notes are in Chinese only, also the vocabulary notes. The lesson texts and the vocabulary are accompanied by the Cantonese transliteration "Jyutping" (also "Jyutpin").

新编今日粤语·下册
本书是《新编今日粤语》的下册，是专门为进一步提高粤语实践能力的学习者编写的粤语学习教材。本书以上册为基础，除了为学习者提供日常粤语交际所需要的词汇以及句式之外，进一步向文化方向延伸。本书在课文及对话方面进一步加深了情境性及文化性，通过特定的生活情景、富有特色的语言风格、包罗万象的交际主题，能够使学习者能够接触到最真实的交际语境、掌握最实用的交际方式和交际技巧。此外，本书增设了“广府文化”“亲属关系图及称呼普粤对照表”“粤方言中特有的连绵词”“粤方言形容词生动形式”等内容，更能加深学习者对粤语学习的深度，增强学习者对粤语文化的了解。相信通过本书的学习，学习者不仅能够掌握粤语交际词汇、句式，更能进一步了解粤语文化底蕴及变迁。

编辑推荐
《新编今日粤语》共上、下两册，上册以广州日常生活情景为主题，旨在满足学习者基本的日常粤语交际需求；而下册则由生活情景延伸至文化习俗，学习者可以由具体的词句、对话感受真实的粤港澳市民生活，以及蕴含在他们生活中的习俗底蕴以及文化变迁。

本书从普通市民生活到多彩港澳之旅，从饮食、购物、旅游到婚嫁、建筑、商贸，再到环境、生活、文化，不仅为学习者提供日常交际所需要的地地道道的粤语词汇与句式，更为学习者提供了粤语所根植和浸润的文化底蕴和语言承传。