A Glossary of Common Cantonese Colloquial Expressions
Target Readers \ This book is a very good and convenient reference for foreign students of Cantonese, for interpreters and translators in Cantonese and English, and for non-Cantonese Chinese learning Cantonese.\ \ \ About the Author\ Simon Siu-Hing So was born in Canton and grew up in Hong Kong. He has been a school teacher and then a university administrator. Before his migration to Canada, he was a senior assistant registrar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has obtained various...
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Cantonese has a wealth of colloquial expressions on various daily life situations which are very descriptive but not easily comprehensible to non-Cantonese. This book collects and compiles over 3,000 entries of the commonly used ones and presents them with their English translations for English-speaking students learning Cantonese. Besides listing the expression in Chinese characters with its literal translation in English, each entry also contains its phonetic transcription in the Yale Romanization System, and a description of its meaning and sometimes its origin. The entries are arranged alphabetically according following Yale Romanization System, and for ease of reference, an index by the strokes of the Chinese characters of the expressions is included. There is also an elaborate description of Yale Romanization System.
