Cantonese is an official language of Hong Kong and Macau, and the dominant dialect of Chinese spoken in the province of Guangdong. Spoken by nearly 60 million people worldwide, it is understood by much of the Chinese diaspora population across the world and rivals Mandarin as the lingua franca of south China and ethnic Chinese living abroad.

This new series of dictionaries makes learning vocabulary in a foreign language at an early age easier and more enjoyable than ever!

• Designed to be a child’s very first foreign language dictionary for ages 5-10.
• 500 entries, each accompanied by a large illustration.
• The book design allows a young child to focus on each word and picture and make the connection between them.
• Each entry features the word in English and its foreign language equivalent, along with commonsense phonetic pronunciation.
• Entries include people, animals, colors, numbers and objects that children encounter and use every day.

"In Chinese Through Tone and Color, Nathan Dummitt presents the radically innovative suggestion that beginners might associate Chinese tones with specific colors--red for one tone, orange for another, and so on. For the psychology of the beginning learner, this approach has the important advantage of making the tone seem part of the very nature of a word--not something added optionally, as intonation can be added in any languages... I look forward to seeing the results that Chinese Through Tone and Color might make. It could be that this book will make a major contribution to the second-language learning of Chinese."

-Perry Link, Princeton University