Courses
Basic communications in Cantonese is not hard to attain even if your mother tongue is non-Sinitic. Every year, thousands of domestic workers --- mother tongue being Bahasa Indonesia or Tagalog --- learn enough Cantonese to start work in Hong Kong, and gain further proficiency through immersion. Latter Day Saints (Mormon) missionaries start their missions with only three months of training.
Cantonese is often made difficult. Adults learning in non-immersive academic environment needs goals that are
- realistic
- measurable
- meaningful for the learner
and steadily worked towards through
- comprehensible input
- output that is
- spaced
- repeated
- multimodal, with
- timely specific feedback
The courses are designed to provide structure and resources for adult learners, who speaks English (but not Mandarin), and cannot attend intensive immersion studies, to attain basic Cantonese oral proficiency.