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Lonely Planet Phrasebooks
Lonely Planet Phrasebook: Cantonese
More kick than kung fu, more bite than dim sum, more astounding than a Hong Kong skyscraper - Cantonese is the trademark of success for your travels in southern China. Get talking and put your best face forward with this phrasebook in your hand.
Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat with the locals and discover their culture - a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience.
260 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1995
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A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
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March 8, 2018
Very good.
April 7, 2022
Extremely helpful in my pursuit to further my cantonese speaking. This book is detailed and highly organized and I plan to keep it on hand for daily conversations.
April 21, 2020
This book covers a lot of basic phrases which is good. However, I don't understand why the authors invented a new and defective Romanisation system just for the book rather than using any of the established systems that already exist.
September 6, 2009
Uhhhh...this book is super funny...I don't think it was helpful in actual practice except for pointing to the Cantonese characters when desperate with a language barrier because of the 10 tones in Cantonese and the inability to actually learn those tones simply by reading about them in a phrasebook. However, that said I really enjoyed the "romance" section, which included all sort of things I would never use but I'm sure some white nerd from the states would use to get his Cantonese booty call...oh my...I did think that other than all that the book is a good preface to everything you'll hear, but you should really take a class before hand or get one of those computer programs...
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