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Multilingual Books FSI Basic Cantonese Cassette Course (Now on CD!) This is the principal language of Kwangtung province in Southeast China, parts of neighboring Kwangsi province, Hong Kong, and Macao. In addition it is spoken by many people in Southeast Asia, and is the original language of many Chinese-Americans; some 50 million people in the world speak it. It has many dialects, but the Prestige variety, spoken in Canton, is standard, and is used over a wide area, including Hong Kong; these tapes are made in the Prestige dialect. The course is divided into two levels; each book has a handy glossary presenting a romanization, characters, and a brief definition. Level One comes with 14 tapes or CDs and a book; Level Two with 15 tapes or CDs and a book.
Pimsleur Comprehensive Cantonese Course This is a state-of-the-art language learning course for spoken Cantonese. The popular Pimsleur course does not use a book but uses a completely aural approach to language learning, perfect for learning quickly. The course features a proficiency-based system that helps the student learn through listening and speaking practice. 16 cassettes or CDs. Shipping weight 3 lbs. CD Version Retail Price $345 - Our Price $249 (You Save $96) $249 More information for Pimsleur courses...
Pimsleur Bookchip for Comprehensive Cantonese Bookchips are compact digital memory cards that can hold five, ten, fifteen hours of spoken audio or more. A single Bookchip - not much larger than a postage stamp - can hold entire audiobooks that would traditionally require a half-dozen to a dozen compact discs or cassettes. Bookchips work on many desktop computers, laptops, other handheld PDA devices and mobile Smartphones with SD memory card slots. Bookchips move seamlessly from device to device, remembering your listening position each time. With Bookchips, it's easy to pick up from where you left off the day before, or skip to any chapter you like. Not only do Bookchips hold hours and hours of high-quality digital audio, they are rugged and reliable. Bookchips are completely electronic, and can be played by devices without any spinning or moving parts - which means Bookchips never skip! Bookchips are much easier to travel or exercise with than cassette or compact discs... and lighter, too. The Bookchip contains the Pimsleur Cantonese Comprehensive course, with 30 lessons, normally on 16 CDs. $199 More about Pimsleur Bookchips...
iofy Audio Player The iofy Player is back and better than ever. With new enhanced features it delivers the same reliable performance of the original in a sleek new design. Easy to use, the iofy Player is designed specifically for audiobook chips, such as the Pimsleur Bookchip. This intelligent device is the only audiobook chip player on the market today that automatically bookmarks your listening position! Unlike cassettes or CDs, just one audiobook chip can hold 5, 10, 15 hours or more of reading material, and plays without spinning parts that might break or cause skipping when you're on the go. With an iofy player, you can "zip" downloaded audiobooks to chips and listen to them anywhere - while you're driving, exercising, or just relaxing. Alternatively, you can buy premade chips, or you can put your own music or other MP3 content on a chip and listen to that as well. The iofy player comes with Earphones and two AAA batteries. With a 16GB SD Memory Card (not included), it holds up to 2400 hours of spoken audio, or 3840 songs in 128-Kbps MP3 format. Supports Content on SD card, MMC-ROM, MMC Flash, Mini-SD, and Micro-SD (requires adaptor). Skip-free playback; Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz; MP3 (8 to 192 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Speex; One step MP3-CD to chip conversion; CEA 2003 compliant; MPV compliant. $49 More about the iofy Audio Player...
Kaleidoscope Intermediate/Advanced Cantonese Course This is an intermediate course and advanced program of study in spoken Cantonese based on the Cantonese television series Kaleidoscope. The goal of this course is to enable learners to dramatically increase their oral and aural language skills through an interactive and comprehensive program utilizing video, audio, and printed materials. Because this series is based on authentic materials, it leads the learner to develop an understanding of daily communication in Cantonese. The Kaleidoscope series consists of interdependent video, audio, and text materials. The video program consists of 12 twenty-five minute episodes that provide the context for each unit. The audio tapes contain explanations, pronunciation practice, drills, cues, exercises with answers, and vocabulary items. The textbook accompany the audio and video materials, and a separate guidebook is provided for those taking the course without benefit on an instructor or tutor. The following levels are available: Level One: Spoken Cantonese: Context and Performance Textbooks, 19 audio cassettes, 1 video $345 Level Two: Spoken Cantonese: Performance and Acquisition Textbooks, 12 audio cassettes, 1 video $275 Level Three: Spoken Cantonese: Acquisitions & Presentation Textbooks, 11 audio cassettes , 1 video $275 Level Four: Spoken Cantonese: Presentation and Context Textbooks, 9 audio cassettes, 4 videos $275 Level Five: Spoken Cantonese Recap Textbooks, 4 audio cassettes, 4 videos $275 All 5 Levels - Save $250! $1195
Let's Talk Cantonese! by Victoria Liu and Joseph Durra This is a good course in basic Cantonese for the linguistically-challenged. This is our most popular Cantonese course because it's compact, easy to follow, and sticks to the basics. Finally, there is an authoritative language tool for learning Cantonese. If you've been confounded by others, you will find this one refreshingly easy to use. It focuses on the most useful words and phrases in a well-organized format. It comes with four one-hour audio cassettes; 251 pages, illustrated, 6" x 9". $59.95
Colloquial Cantonese This course, available in nearly ever major language, is another fine language tool from the popular Colloquial series. The course calls itself complete, but is really a basic introduction to the Cantonese dialect and suitable for students, businessmen, and tourists who wish to achieve a rudimentary level of Cantonese quickly and efficiently. Includes two CDs and a book. Shipping weight 2 lbs. $79.95 More about Colloquial Language...
EuroTalk Network Editions Now you can run Vocabulary Builder, Talk Now!, World Talk, and Movie Talk through your school or college CD server or CD tower for simultaneous use of these titles on your network! You'll have access to permanent reports for all the activities done by each student in the class for such things as time and sessions spent on each activity, scores in the quizzes and games. These network discs operate on most networks that are in common use in schools and colleges, such as NT, Novell, and Macintosh networks. Students can select their names from classes, and run the program currently assigned to that class, and students may optionally also be allowed to join classes. Teachers can see at a glance which students are currently logged on and what they are doing, and they can add students to classes, remove them, or move them around. A reports facility allows you to display or print reports for entire classes, or for individual students. Student reports show the number of sessions, the time spent on each activity, and scores in the quizzes and games, and times and scores can also be displayed in chart form. The prices are highly competitive, and the price per unit goes down dramatically as one goes up in the number of users and units. With a configuration of 100 users and 100 units, which goes for $9,995, you pay less than $1 per unit per person! More about EuroTalk Network...
Talk Now! CD-ROM Course for Cantonese The Talk Now! series is for any language beginner who wants an entertaining self-study course to learn basic phrases, such as colors, numbers, food, shopping, and time. We have been selling this European-produced CD-ROM for a few years and find that it is highly praised by people from all over the world. Designed by language experts, Talk Now! includes great features like speak and repeat, interactive games, and digital recordings with native speakers. Interactive and fun, it is ideal for beginners and travelers. Test your knowledge with easy and hard quizzes and play a challenging memory game. Monitor your progress: keep your total score and print your own awards. You can also print your own picture dictionary for handy reference. On-screen help is available at all times in over 50 languages. Talk Now! runs on both Macintosh and Windows computers. Shipping weight 1 lb. $45 More about the Talk Now! series...
Talk More! CD-ROM Course for Cantonese Talk More! continues the Talk Now! series using broadcast quality video and the latest interactive techniques in a software package that is ideal for travellers, holiday makers, business people, students and families. The software uses the familiar Eurotalk interactive style of learning, with topics such as The Alphabet, Greetings, At The Restaurant, Shopping, Getting Around, At The Hotel, One The Phone, Emergencies, Leisure, and Business, and modules on phrases and conversations, and entertaining quiz games to test and further learn the language. Help is available in over 25 languages and the package includes an Talk More! Extras disc with additional help languages and bonus material. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. $45 More about the Talk More! series...
Talk Now! / Talk More! / World Talk Package for Cantonese Now get Talk Now!, Talk More!, and World Talk from Eurotalk in a bundle and save $40! These courses perfectly complement each other, with World Talk and Talk More! at an intermediate level taking up where Talk Now! for beginners leaves off. Both offer the same format of interactive learning with fun games and tests that monitor your progress while you are having fun and learning. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. $99
World Talk from EuroTalk for Cantonese (for intermediate learners) World Talk is the perfect follow-up to EuroTalk's popular Talk Now! series. As well as having new activities, there is also dictation, worksheets and a brand new recording section. Topics covered include: the calendar, sentence building, asking directions, the weather and numbers. The interactive TV Quiz is a definite hit, where the resident champion may turn out to be more intelligent than he looks. You can also compete in a one-to-one match with a friend! World Talk is now available for learning Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, American English, British English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Welsh. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. $49 More about World Talk...
Vocabulary Builder from EuroTalk for Cantonese (for absolute beginners) Vocabulary Builder is an interactive flash card system for parents and teachers to help teach basic language, and for children to play games and record their own words and sentences. Help is provided in over 40 languages by a talented talking tiger! Now available for learning Albanian, Arabic, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Norwegian, Papiamento, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Welsh. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. $49.95 More about Vocabulary Builder...