do you know some materials to help me learn cantonese easily?
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You could possibly find what you need at a local book store. They now have hand held computers for about $100.00 that have up to 10,000 words.
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Try to go to China and stay there for a period of time, which I think is the best way to learn spoken Chinese. Make sure your Chinese teacher speaks standard Chinese - Mandarin or Putonghua unless you really want to learn Cantonese or other dialects.
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I got pages to come up searching on Google, but they don't appear to be in English.  If you speak Malaysian (or whatever the language is) you can search Google and probably find what you need.
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Try the Muzzy Language Courses. The site below gives a 30 free trial.\nESLKidstuff has flashcards and worksheets\nESLkid has more
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go meet a chinese person and ask the t teach you. the best way to learn is from who has the experice
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The one I've been using for a while is the best:\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/\nThey teach you common phrases, words, how to survive the most common situations etc.\n\nTry it, you won't be disappointed
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http://chineseculture.about.com/bl_index.htm
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get a software called "Rosetta Stone". It's very good.
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I dont know about practicing, but for helping me with chinese I like:\nwww.mandarintools.com (good dictonary and other links)
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http://www.chinesepod.com/\nhttp://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Learn/Mandarin.asp\nyahoo chat china room, just say you want to learn mandarin and see who's out there!
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Chinese is a written language, Cantonese and Mandarin are spoken dialects.  Cantonese and Mandarin speakers generally cannot understand each other speaking, but both can read Chinese language.\nConfused enough?
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I find these dictionaries useful, sometimes:\nhttp://tw.dictionary.yahoo.com/\nhttp://www.pristine.com.tw/lexicon.php\nhttp://www.mandarintools.com/worddict.html\nhttp://zhongwen.com/m/hello.htm\n\nFor learning Chinese, check out the links & downloadable software on this site:\nhttp://eastasia.hawaii.edu/yao/icusers/\nMost of these are not dictionaries, but my students have gotten a lot out of them, especially when used in conjuntion with the Integrated Chinese textbook:\nhttp://eastasia.hawaii.edu/yao/icusers/ICTxtbk.html\n-or-\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0887272630/002-8966706-8563246?v=glance&n=283155\n\nBut none of these are trilinguial English-Chinese-Vietnamese -- sorry.
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If you want to learn a language without spending any or too much money?  One way is to get the materials from your local public libraries, they can be CDs, books, tapes and so on.  These days, they have it on both Mandarin as well as Cantonese.\n\nIf there's a local Chinese community club/society, often times, they may have a Chinese or Mandarin lessons for beginners at no cost or small fees.  \n\nWhen it comes to your school (high school, college & university), there might be an Asian Student Club.  Join them.  Or, try to meet your fellow Asian schoolmates.  After that, interaction is very important.\n\nFinally, practice.  That's the single most important and effective way for you to master Chinese.  You listen, speak, read & write.  You will need a partner or friend to do this with you.  Never be afraid of making mistakes, that's how we learn and improve.\n\nOh, one short cut, watch tons of Chinese movies or tv series.  I find TV dramas the best, though long and boring, I think more effective than watching a movie.  This is to improve your listening skills.   \n\nRemember, practice x 3.  That's the key.  Incidently, that's what I am trying to do for myself.   Good luck and happy learning.
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There are many options available on the web. Some are free some are paid for. The best way would be to go to free sites, get your bearing right on the language. Then go to a paid site and learn them fast.\n\nHappy learning.
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Absolutely!  I had the same need, and I found the following website very helpful:\nhttp://www.mandarintools.com/cgi-bin/wordlook.pl\n\nNow I can talk to my chinese business contacts and friends all day long!
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besides reading, like everybody is saying, if you are trying to learn the language practice with close captions you will learn the spelling, the pronunciation and how to use the word according to the situation. music lirycs, with the music of course, is a fun way to expand it. hopefuly you will try with "polite" music. good luck.
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I teach Chinese (dreams_to_print@yahoo.com).  Become my penpal.  Polyglot.com offers native penpals.  Get CDs to hear the pronunciation; mimic.  Pimsleur is popular.  Transparent Language is better.  The United States Armed Forces Institute course is the most comprehensive and the most expensive.\n\nChinese is actually very easy.  It has no verb conjugations, no tenses, no noun declensions, no prepostions.  Words are short, usually one or two syllables.