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ALmom
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Posted: July 04 2005 at 2:25pm \| IP Logged

Does anyone know where I can find a fun language tape for Cantoneese? Our dd would like to learn it, but most Chinese language tapes are Mandarin and so is the local Saturday Chinese school. We know that Mandarin is now the official language of China but the grandparents speak Cantoneese and the two dialects are so totally different that cannot speak to each other.

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Posted: July 04 2005 at 3:40pm \| IP Logged

Pimsleur makes one, but fun is not a word I'd use for it. Still, Pimsleur is supposed to be the easiest way to learn Chinese. Read more here.

Perhaps a better choice for children might be found here:

Chinese tapes. This site includes Christian and homescholing materials in both dialects. I cannot vouch for them, just popped up in a search...is that Barney in Cantonese?

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Posted: July 04 2005 at 4:29pm \| IP Logged

Hong Kong? I wonder if there is a Hong Kong equivalent of Amazon?

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Posted: July 06 2005 at 2:31pm \| IP Logged

Kathryn,
We use the Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese tapes and as MacBeth pointed out, no, they are NOT fun... but YES, they work! Way 'back in the dark ages, I studied Mandarin the traditional way, with a mix of oral, grammar, writing--- it was agony (and I really like studying languages). I really think that Pimsleur,or any conversational method, is the way to go with beginning Chinese, be it Mandarin or Cantonese. Pimsleur does offer Cantonese Chinese.

Kelly in FL (not on a retainer for Pimsleur

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Posted: July 11 2005 at 9:02pm \| IP Logged

Try Chinasprout I recognize some of the products as those that I grew up on.

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Posted: July 12 2005 at 10:01pm \| IP Logged

MacBeth,

Thanks for the info and links to Cantoneese language programs. We will definitely be purchasing one of them and children's grandparents will be very tickled. They couldn't get their son (my dh)to learn - he can say Happy New Year and Wash Your Face and Wipe your hands in very slaughtered, accented Cantoneese and that is the sum total of his vocabulary.

Now if we could only decide - price may dictate where we start but if anyone has any experience with the $13 - $14 tapes MacBeth mentioned, we'll be more confident.

Again - thanks. Next time we go to a Chinese restaurant all of us Low Fawns may surprise the crew and order in Chinese! What a shock - since my dh still always gets my tea and I get his Sprite. (He hates tea!)

Janet

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