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Everyday Cantonese for Parents: Learn Cantonese: a practical Cantonese phrasebook with parenting phrases to communicate with your children and learn Cantonese at home. JYUTPING edition

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Learn Cantonese as life happens!Do you want your family to learn Cantonese but not a native speaker or fluent?



There are many parents and carers who wish to raise their children to be bilingual for many reasons, however they may not be fluent themselves or they may have lost fluency with time.

Children learn to talk from their parents however, the toughest part of learning Cantonese is learning how to speak like a native.

Most Cantonese books cover travel and business affairs, this unique book covers every day phrases spoken to children such as feeding, daily activities right through to bedtime and talking about feelings.

Start introducing common phrases that you would normally speak to your children but replace them in Cantonese!

✓ This book covers common phrases and words when communicating with your baby and older children. 

✓ Start speaking Cantonese straight away and learn as life happens!

✓ Useful and relevant phrases to communicate with children in Cantonese

✓ Phrases come in traditional Chinese characters and pronunciation guide is in the JYUTPING romanization system (Yale edition is also available see here )

✓ Written by a BBC parent raising their children to be bilingual. 



TOPICS (40 Chapers)

The BasicsDaily RoutineHealth & Personal CareDaily ActivitiesEarly Learning & PlayEatingSocial Skills & EmotionsSleepingBook dimensions : 5.5x8.5"

Number of pages 98

Kindle Edition

Published June 5, 2020

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April 10, 2021
Excellent Introduction ✅

Excellent Introduction ✅

陸方旅 😇

I’ve been working at Cantonese since 1977 😩
I read this book for FREE on Kindle Unlimited 👨🏻‍🎓
2 screenshots simplified Jyutping for me ♨️
Pages 9 & 10; saved to a folder in Photos 🎯
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July 5, 2021
Worth buying if you’re anABC who needs some basic refresh to teach your kid how to potty. Not so easy for my non speaking husband to work through. As it’s an E-book, so much better if it included audio files too.
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