Pocket Cantonese Dictionary: Cantonese-English English-Cantonese (Periplus Pocket Dictionaries)
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Part of our popular Pocket Dictionary series of titles covering every major Asian
language. Current titles include: Cambodian, Filipino, Japanese, Indonesian, Korean, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese. These are the ideal dictionaries for beginning students and travelers.
Each contains:
General vocabulary appropriate to beginning and lower intermediate students, and covers all the words needed for the everyday situations encountered by travelers.
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Great dictionary for beginning students,
I don’t think the other reviewers actually read cover of the dictionary. It says, “Contains the 3,000 most useful words for everyday communication”. I’m not sure why someone would be surprised by the fact that it has “limited vocabulary”. That’s actually the point. Direct your attention to the words needed for daily communication before learning how to say things like, “grandiloquent”. Basically, if it’s in this dictionary, you need to know it. Not to mention, it is a pocket dictionary. Also, it’s not a character dictionary. You look things up either by Cantonese pronunciation or English.
As far as Cantonese being a “fading” language, there are 55 million speakers worldwide, in Guangdong province in China, news is broadcast in Cantonese, school up to university level is conducted in Cantonese. Cantonese won’t be making its exit from the world language stage anytime soon.
This dictionary does what it claims to do very well, namely giving you simple definitions for the most common 3000 words (not characters, although the characters for each word are given which is a huge plus). In addition, it works great as a list of “must know” vocabulary. Once you finish some beginning course (I highly recommend the two FSI courses by Elizabeth L. Boyle), this is a great way to expand your vocab.
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|Excellent Quick Reference,
I’m in agreement with one of the reviewers below; I’m curious what other two critics were looking for too, because this is meant to be a limited vocabulary reference book. I like that this includes words not common in most of the other dictionaries, and an additional bonus is that it has the Chinese characters, which are legible and clear. This is the one title that consistently comes up in the “recommended texts” at universities and language schools. Thumbs up for me.
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|Delivers what it promises,
As the cover says, this dictionary is for travelers and beginners of Cantonese, so the focus is on daily and useful expressions. The Cantonese-English part is arranged alphabetically using the Yale romanization, so no knowledge of Chinese characters is required. The definitions are short and clear.
The only problem is that the author favors more formal expressions. For example, if a certain verb has a colloquial/slang variant that is used by most Cantonese speakers in daily life and a more formal variant that is used in both spoken Cantonese and written Chinese, the author selects the latter.
Nevertheless, I find this dictionary extremely useful.
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|Woke up about one million and eight times last night. Feels like a legit guestimation.
RT
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Thank you Saleh, i have to correct this:
Delivery of items takes between 70 minutes and 48 hours..depending on where they are held..”that what was written in their brochure”. i think for a library with a huge collections of resources over 14 million books, it is not that much consuming of time.. from 70 minutes which means one hour to 48 hours “two days”. The user request the item and the library has the responsibility to deliver the item to the user..they save the user time searching the shelves between 14 million books, journals, or any specific item.
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