Learn how to speak Cantonese
Cantonese is the principal
language of the Kwangtung province in Southeast China, parts
of neighboring Kwangsi province, and Hong Kong and Macau on
China's southeast periphery. In addition, Cantonese is
spoken by ethnic Chinese in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos,
Singapore, and Malaysia, with the number of speakers in
Southeast Asia being between 45 and 50 million altogether.
Americans of Chinese decent in the US are mostly of
Cantonese origin.
This foreign
language course was developed by The Foreign Services
institute. It is meant to be used as a crash course in
a foreign language for basic conversational ability by a
foreign traveler or diplomat. It is an introductory
course meant for beginners and includes basic conversational
language by native speakers.
This course
consists of 45 lessons in mp3 format, with 2 student texts
in PDF format of over 800 pages. Adobe Reader is
required to view the PDF files, while the mp3 files can be
listened to by any audio player on your PC.
Total run
time of course: 23 hours, 17 minutes, 36 seconds.
A must have resource for any foreign traveler!
Notice:
Please note, this disk is only for use in your computer's
drive! It will NOT play in the DVD Player hooked up to
your TV or the CD player in your car!
This is a CD-ROM disk, so you need a CD-ROM drive on your
PC to play it.
This disk contains this
foreign language course in MP3 format. This is not for
use in your CD player, it is not for your DVD player, even
if they play MP3 disks. This disk is only formatted to
be opened in your computer. You have to insert this
disk in your PC, click on "My Computer" and click on the
disk to open the files. You can copy the MP3 files to
your PC, and then load them on to any MP3 player of your
choice. Please note: that if you try to
play this disk on anything other than your computer, it
won't work! |