EXCERPT
This long overdue book on teaching Cantonese as a second language consists of three parts. Part I contains five chapters on teaching and learning Cantonese, Part II consists of five chapters chronicling advanced learners’ experiences and advice, and Part III comprises three chapters discussing the learning of Cantonese as a second language in the Hong Kong education system. Because of space constraints, this review focusses on the first and third parts of the book. For future reference, only the chapter titles and authors of Part II are given here, and these are as follows: Chapter 6 My Cantonese Odyssey (by Robert S. Bauer), Chapter 7 Self-reflective ethnographic analysis of a Singaporean learner of Hong Kong Cantonese (by Lian-Hee Wee), Chapter 8 “Do you dream in Cantonese?” The long road to a competent L2 (by John Guest), Chapter 9 Striving for linguistic and cultural assimilation in Hong Kong (by John C. Wakefield), and Chapter 10 Cantonese as seen from Japanese eyes (by Shin Kataoka).
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