My First Words in Chinese

Author: Farina Leong
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54

Book Description
This large-format book is perfect for introducing new learners and children to their first words in spoken Cantonese. Encourage your child to be bilingual by introducing Cantonese words at an early age, through colourful illustrations and photos that make the vocabulary fun and easy to learn. Over 400 words are written in traditional Chinese, accompanied by the Jyutping pronunciation and English translation. You can scan the QR codes at the back of the book to hear the words spoken by a native speaker, and play the audio whilst you are reading along to help with pronunciation. Topics include: Colours Shapes Numbers to 100 and beyond Seasons Months Days of the week Time Weather Nature Solar system Parts of the body Feelings Relatives and family tree Animals Insects Ocean life Vehicles Sea & air transport Fruit Vegetables Food Clothes

Growing Up with Languages

Author: Claire Thomas
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847697151
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
Primarily aimed as a practical resource for parents, but also of interest to students and researchers because of its unique content, this book includes recollections of and advice on many of the common issues or dilemmas that arise in multilingual families.

Goh Goh and Dai Dai's Big Day with Elephant

Author: K. Yee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999273067
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
Goh Goh (Big Brother) and Dai Dai (Little Brother) have an unexpected visitor! Join Goh Goh and Dai Dai on their adventures around the house with Elephant. Along the way, your child will learn everyday dialog and household vocabulary. Vocabulary lists allow parents and children to point-and-name items on the page together. This book is unique in its focus on spoken Cantonese, not formal Chinese. Each word is written in traditional Chinese characters, Jyutping and alternate phonetic pronunciation, and English. Select characters are color-coded to their English translations.

Growing up with Three Languages

Author: Xiao-lei Wang
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847695671
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
This book is based on an eleven-year observation of two children who were simultaneously exposed to three languages from birth. It tells the story of two parents from different cultural, linguistic, and ethnic-racial backgrounds who joined to raise their two children with their heritage languages outside their native countries. It also tells the children’s story and the way they negotiated three cultures and languages and developed a trilingual identity. It sheds light on how parental support contributed to the children’s simultaneous acquisition of three languages in an environment where the main input of the two heritage languages came respectively from the father and from the mother. It addresses the challenges and the unique language developmental characteristics of the two children during their trilingual acquisition process.

Matched for Eternity

Author: Carmen Lin
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512782327
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 465

Book Description
Have you struggled in your Christian faith, thinking the Bible is too hard to understand and Gods will too elusive to know? Or have you thought there are no more miracles today and God does not care about you? Or do you think that in our day and age, the Bible is no longer relevant? Do you think life is too hard, your marriage is hopeless, nobody understands, and you want to give up? Do you think divorce will solve your marriage problems? Do you think you have suffered too much? Have you blamed your parents or the society for all the troubles in your life? Have you dabbed in occult practice thinking it is fun? In this book, Carmen shares the inspirational story of her marriage to her husband and their ministry. Their story provides insight and answers to these questions and more.

Identity and Language Learning

Author: Bonny Norton
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1783090553
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Identity and Language Learning draws on a longitudinal case study of immigrant women in Canada to develop new ideas about identity, investment, and imagined communities in the field of language learning and teaching. Bonny Norton demonstrates that a poststructuralist conception of identity as multiple, a site of struggle, and subject to change across time and place is highly productive for understanding language learning. Her sociological construct of investment is an important complement to psychological theories of motivation. The implications for teaching and teacher education are profound. Now including a new, comprehensive Introduction as well as an Afterword by Claire Kramsch, this second edition addresses the following central questions: Under what conditions do language learners speak, listen, read and write? How are relations of power implicated in the negotiation of identity? How can teachers address the investments and imagined identities of learners? The book integrates research, theory, and classroom practice, and is essential reading for students, teachers and researchers in the fields of language learning and teaching, TESOL, applied linguistics and literacy.

Speak Cantonese

Author: Parker Po-fei Huang
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN:
Category : Cantonese dialects
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
Speak Cantonese, Book Three, is one of a series of books that teaches the modern spoken language of Cantonese, one of the major dialects of Chinese. As appropriate for a text of its kind, it is entirely in romaniation. This volume is the last of the Speak Cantonese series. It emphasizes introducing more idiomatic expressions heard in daily-life situations- a chat in a teahouse, an argument on a bus, a skit broadcast on the radio, etc.

Language and Culture

Author: David Nunan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135153914
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
This state-of-the-art exploration of language, culture, and identity is orchestrated through prominent scholars’ and teachers’ narratives, each weaving together three elements: a personal account based on one or more memorable or critical incidents that occurred in the course of learning or using a second or foreign language; an interpretation of the incidents highlighting their impact in terms of culture, identity, and language; the connections between the experiences and observations of the author and existing literature on language, culture and identity. What makes this book stand out is the way in which authors meld traditional ‘academic’ approaches to inquiry with their own personalized voices. This opens a window on different ways of viewing and doing research in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. What gives the book its power is the compelling nature of the narratives themselves. Telling stories is a fundamental way of representing and making sense of the human condition. These stories unpack, in an accessible but rigorous fashion, complex socio-cultural constructs of culture, identity, the self and other, and reflexivity, and offer a way into these constructs for teachers, teachers in preparation and neophyte researchers. Contributors from around the world give the book broad and international appeal.

The Face

Author: Tash Aw
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1632060450
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
A whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage

Loop of Jade

Author: Sarah Howe
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448190681
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 71

Book Description
*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015* *WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015* There is a Chinese proverb that says: ‘It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots. With extraordinary range and power, the poems build into a meditation on hybridity, intermarriage and love – what meaning we find in the world, in art, and in each other. Crossing the bounds of time, race and language, this is an enthralling exploration of self and place, of migration and inheritance, and introduces an unmistakable new voice in British poetry.