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If you want to learn Cantonese in Sydney, then this course is for you.

Travelling or doing business in Hong Kong? Or simply want to communicate with your neighbours and colleagues in multicultural Sydney?

Expand your horizons, enrich your life, understand some of the cultures around you.

• Discover how the language works
• Learn the foundations of the language – solid foundations make it easier to build later
• Pronunciation skills from a teacher who is a native speaker
• No prior knowledge of the language is assumed

This level will offer you a basic language framework to operate within. After completion of level 1 you are ready to study in level 2.

Agenda

During this course the intention is that most of the following topics will be covered, however not necessarily in the order given. The classes will focus on communicative skills and only basic grammar will be discussed. Due to the flexible nature of Adult Education classes, parts of the curriculum may be adapted to suit the needs of the class.

• Alphabet/characters – Identification and Pronunciation (vowels, consonants, tones in words and structures)
• Greetings (meeting people) – Introducing and describing yourself and others
• Asking and responding: your and someone’s name; country of origin; your well being (for example ‘How are you?’, ‘Where are you from?’ or ‘What’s your name?’).
• Using basic communicative expressions in formal and familiar forms
• Small talk – idioms
• Time – time of the day, days of the week, months. Birthdays.
• Numbers – For example telephone number, address, money, age
• Commuting – basic directions (for example ‘Where is the train station/hotel?’)
• Cultural perspective – geography, demography, and social customs
• Practice – Some language learning/study strategies

Objectives

The intended Learning Outcomes for this course are as follows.

By the end of the course the students will be able to:

• Identify the alphabet/characters and basic sounds/tones
• Pronounce competently some vocabulary, expressions, intonations, pronunciations
• Communicate using basic sentences, interrogatives and requests
• Have some basic grammatical concepts: nouns, adjectives and verbs, sentence structure
• Have some basic reading and writing skills
• Appreciate the language culture
• Have confidence in using basic forms of the language

Other Information

Text required: ‘Colloquial CANTONESE’ by Keith S.T. Tong and Gregory James, Routledge, London, 2003. Approx. $35.00.
ISBN # 0415082021.
The book is to be used in Cantonese Level 1 and Cantonese Level 2.

All books can be obtained from Abbeys Bookstore in York St in the City, where Sydney community College students can get 10% discount.

Listening CDs/tapes are optional and can be purchased in conjunction with text for $78.

Please bring notebook and pen to class.

GEOS College is located on Level 5, 56–58 York Street
Sydney (between Market & King Sts).

PLS NOTE: All classes need a minimum number of students to go ahead. If your course does not have enough students it will be cancelled and you will be informed. ***Please be aware that you maybe be informed of a cancellation &/or change via SMS or E-mail.