With nine tones, Cantonese is even more challenging to learn. Scholars say it is closer to ancient Chinese than Mandarin is — a Tang Dynasty poem would sound more like the original if read in ...

Lexical tones, which involve specific pitch contours that differentiate word meanings, are fundamental to tonal languages such as Mandarin and Cantonese. In both languages, subtle variations in ...

He now runs his own Cantonese language school, which has served 20,000 students to date. By Wu Yue and Daniel Holmes/Sixth Tone After Lou was laid off from his finance job in 2013, he decided to ...

In the new study, Wong and his colleagues performed listening tests on more than 400 native Cantonese speakers to determine each participant’s proficiency at distinguishing the language’s six ...

ALICE Y. W. CHAN, Cantonese English as a Second Language Learners' Perceived Relations Between "Similar" L1 and L2 Speech Sounds: A Test of the Speech Learning Model, The Modern Language Journal, Vol.