Cantonese tuition

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    EUChinese

    I hope that wasn't a comment on my standard of English!!! Maybe I need English lessons too.

    BTW - Why did you assume I attend a college or a place of work ?

    Who, thanks for the offer. I don't speak any Cantonese and therefore it wouldn't be so much a language exchange, rather more tuition. I am keen to attend some lessons, if nothing more than for the discipline it offers.

    But once I make a bit of progress I think a language exchange would be a great idea!


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    How would you rate it overall? At the end of the day, was it a worthwhile exercise and how many hours would you sign up for initially.

    I am looking for for conversational cantonese rather than business cantonese.

    Did you attend a group class or was it one on one tuition.

    Thanks


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    Quote Originally Posted by EUChinese:
    Who, how did you assume Engish is HKNewbi's native language?
    yes, I should ask first......

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    Quote Originally Posted by PSMaverick:
    I'll be interested if it will help me polish my cantonese!!
    I put it this way, if you got a basic level of cantonese, it will help you a lot. Otherwise, you need to attend a class.

    Anyway, send me a PM if you're interested. We can work out the details. Btw, where are you from??

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    Hello HKNewBi, my husband is using an electronic talking dictionary to learn Cantonese and Mandarin (very small and portable, like a mobile phone). You can get this from Fortress. You just need to key in English words, and the Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) words will come up. You can press the "talk" button and the machine will read the word/sentence for you.


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    I was wondering if they sold Cantonese talking dictionaries. I came across one that translated into Mandarin (but not Cantonese) and thought I would get that if it could do Cantonese too. I will head down to Fortress and get one.


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    For conversational Cantonese I went to the Hong Kong Language Learning Centre (http://www.hkllc.com) in Central for a 1 week crash course, was $3000 something. I did intermediate level, 4 hours a day. Basically there were 2 other ppl in my class (group size is meant to be 2-6), and they give you 2 teachers a day and use their own textbook with lots of phrases and sentence structure stuff. You do learn quite a bit, but we had 3 different teachers and one called Clara was the best by far, she could teach and explain really well, and spoke fluent English.

    At HKLLC you can't choose your teacher unless you're having private lessons, and I think this is the same as other language centres. Anyway, wherever you go, I think the best is to sign up for a short course first just to see because it sucks to be stuck with a teacher that isn't very good; it gets really frustrating!


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    Quote Originally Posted by HKNewBi:
    PSMaverick

    How would you rate it overall? At the end of the day, was it a worthwhile exercise and how many hours would you sign up for initially.

    I am looking for for conversational cantonese rather than business cantonese.

    Did you attend a group class or was it one on one tuition.

    Thanks
    I did have a chance to try the institute on Wellington Street (HKLLC, I believe) for 1 session. Which means can you can sit in a trial class too.I did think that it was better and obviously more expensive!
    I signed up initially for the shortest course but I didn't have to start from the basics since I had learned that already.It was a just 2 of us in the group.
    It was conversational cantonese.
    Last edited by PSMaverick; 25-11-2005 at 12:53 AM.