Bøger af Robert S. Bauer

Cantonese is spoken by an estimated 73 million people worldwide. It remains a source of great pride for its speakers in Hong Kong. The ABC Cantonese-English Comprehensive Dictionary comprises about 15,000 lexical entries that are unique to the colloquial Cantonese language as it is spoken and written in Hong Kong today.

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