The above link is for a Cantonese course.

For a full description of a previous course:

Cantonese I (Fall 1999)
Instructor: Dr. Chi-hung Yim Office: 715 Broadway, 3rd Floor, Rm. 310 (East Asian Studies Program) Phone: 998-9067 Fax: 995-4682 E-mail: chy2@is7.nyu.edu Office hours: T & W, 4:30-5:30 **Preferred way to communicate: email; I seldom return phone calls. The Cantonese program offered through APA at NYU is a two-year curriculum, Cantonese ICantonese IV. Students complete all four courses fulfill the foreign language requirement of CAS and other schools. Students can be exempted form certain levels by taking placement tests operated at APA. (Please contact Ms. Risa Morimoto at APA for all concerned questions, either by e-mail, risa.morimoto@nyu.edu; or by phone, 998-3692.) Cantonese I introduces both the spoken and the written language, with conversational proficiency as the primary goal. The course emphasizes oral expressions, listening comprehension, and grammar. It is designed to give beginning students a practical command of the language. Upon completion of this course, students can expect to converse in simple sentences, and recognize and write about 350 Chinese characters. Students with passable conversation ability or native speakers from Cantonese speaking communities should not enroll in this course. No prerequisites. Permission of the instructor required.
Text and tape:
1. Textbook: Man, Chik Hon. Everyday Cantonese. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992.
2. A set of 2 tapes to be purchased at New University Copy (11 Waverly Place, Bet. Mercer & Green)
Grading system: 1. Classroom performance, homework assignments (20%)
2. Weekly quizzes (50%) 3. Mid-term exam (15%) 4. Final exam (15%)
Attention: 1. Absence will NOT be tolerated. Every absence will cause one point to be taken away from your final, semester score. 2. No make-up quiz will be granted unless you have a legitimate reason and supporting documentation (e.g. a doctor’s note, a dean’s memo). Five points may be taken away from your score for a make-up quiz, depending on the situation. If a make-up quiz is granted, it must be taken during my office hours. Syllabus (Fall 99)
· Week 1: Introduction to the romanization system; sounds and tones drills
· Week 2: Lesson 3: Greetings
· Week 3: Lesson 4: The family
· Week 4: Lesson 5: At the market
· Week 5: Lesson 6: Shopping
· Week 6: Lesson 7: In a Chinese restaurant
· Week 7: Lesson 8: In an interview
Mid-term exam
· Week 8: Lessons 9 & 10: Taking a taxi; on a bus
· Week 9: Lesson 11: Getting to the office
· Week 10: Lesson 12: Telephone conversation--renting an apartment
· Week 11: Lesson 13: Telephone conversation--relating a message; getting a wrong number
· Week 12: Lesson 14: Returning a telephone call
· Week 13: Lesson 15: Dining at a friend’s
· Week 14: Lesson 16: With the parent
Final Exam
Why study Cantonese? The Chinese American population in the US totals no less than 1 million today. Among the variousChinese dialects, Cantonese is the most popular language spoken in Chinese American communities. Thefact that since the 1980s a sizeable number of Mandarin speakers immigrated from Mainland China,Taiwan, and other Chinese communities to this country does not change this status.The Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program undertakes to offer Cantonese instruction in recognizing the importance of the home and community language to be supported in the minority communities. Mastering the language will surely help students further understand the critical social and cultural issues facing the development of Cantonese/Chinese American communities on the one hand, and will prove to be useful for their future careers on the other.Cantonese is the language spoken by most of the overseas Chinese, and an overwhelming majority of the Chinese Americans in New York City came from areas in which Cantonese dialects are used. Cantonese is also the predominant language spoken in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. As globalization of these economies and U.S. continues, Cantonese also will be important in international relations and commerce. Cantonese I introduces students to the basic skills of speaking, listening, and understanding of the language. The major goal of the course is to have students use Cantonese in as large a variety of real-life situations as possible. Romanization system will be used in instruction; Chinese characters will also be taught. Cantonese I teaches students the living language through carefully selected textbooks with the aid of other simulating materials such as movie clips and songs. Upon completion of Cantonese I, students can expect to converse in simple sentences, and write and recognize about 350 Chinese characters.
Selected Bibliography of Cantonese Pedagogical Works
· Boyle, Elizabeth, L. Cantonese Basic Course. 2 Vols. Washington, D.C.: Foreign Service Institute,1970.
· Chan, Marjorie K.M. "Gender-marked speech in Cantonese: the case of sentence-final particles je and jek." Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 26.1/2 (Spring/Fall 1996):1-38.
· Chao, Yuen Ren. Cantonese Primer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947.
· The Ohio State University Foreign Language Publications. Kaleidoscope: An Intermediate and Advanced Course In Spoken Cantonese.
· Hong, Wei. "Language change in Chinese: evidence from the service industry." Linguistische Berichte 167:23-31.
· Huang, Parker Po-fei and Gerald P. Kok. Speak Cantonese. New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, 1973.
· Huang, Parker Po-fei and Gerald P. Kok. Cantonese Sounds and Tones. Yale University Press, 1975.
· Jernudd, Bjorn H. and Yan Yan Eleanor Yue. "A secret language in Hong Kong." Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 24.1:155-166. (Cantonese secret language used by girls in a secondary school in Hong Kong.)
· Lau, Sidney. Elementary Cantonese. 2 Vols. Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1972.
· Lau, Sidney. Intermediate Cantonese. 2 Vols. Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1972.
· Lau, Sidney. Advanced Cantonese. 2 Vols. Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1975.
· Leung, Peter C.Y. Chinese Characters Manual & Workbook 1. U.C., Davis. (Cantonese pronunciation)
· Leung, Peter C.Y. Chinese Character Text for Cantonese Speakers with one cassette tape, U.C., Davis.
· Leung, Peter C.Y. Essential Cantonese Grammar with three cassette tapes, U.C., Davis.
 Leung, Peter C.Y. Essential Cantonese Reader with six cassette tapes, U.C., Davis.
· Leung, Peter C.Y. Intermediate Cantonese Reader Book Two, and Three. U.C., Davis.
· Lung, Sing. Basic Course in One Hundred Hours. Hong Kong, 1991.
· Lung, Wai-chu Rachel (Às´f¯]). "Xianggang nanxing-nyuxing dui Putonghuade taidu"
  (Sex differences in attitudes towards Putonghua in Hong Kong).
Lunwen Jianshe Tongxun (Chinese Language Review (Hong Kong)) 53:78-79.
· ------"Language attitudes and sex-based differences in Hong Kong." Linguistische Berichte 171:396-414.
· Man, Chik Hon. Everyday Cantonese. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992.
· New Asia Yale-in-China. Survival Cantonese in two volumes. New Asia/Yale-in-China Language
Center, 1979.
· Tong, Keith S.T. and Gregory James. 1994. Colloquial Cantonese. London: Routledge.
· Zheng, Ding'ou, ed. Jinri Yueyu, Vol. 1. [Today's Cantonese] Guangzhou: Jinnan University Press,1993.
· Zheng, Ding'ou et al, eds. Cantonese for Mandarin Speakers. Hong Kong: Wenhua Jiaoyu Chubanshe,1991.
Dictionaries and Supplements
· Dew, James E. 1994. Character index for Sidney Lau Dictionary.
· Huang, Parker Po-fei. Cantonese Dictionary: Cantonese-English, English-Cantonese. New Haven:Yale University Press, 1970.
· Lau, Sidney. A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary. Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1977.
· Man, Chik Hon and Ng Lam Sim Yuk, eds. Chinese-English Dictionary. Hong Kong: New Asia/Yalein-China Language Centre, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989. 512 pp. appendix 9 pp. (paper)
· Kwan, Choi Wah et al., eds. English -Cantonese Dictionary. Hong Kong: New Asia/Yale-in-ChinaLanguage Centre, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989. xxii 579 pp. (paper)
· Kwan, Wah Choi. The Right Word in Cantonese. Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, 1989.
Computer Programs· Leung, Peter C.Y. Cantonese Pronunciation in Hyper Card U.C., Davis.