My recommendations for books
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Hello, I would strongly recommend the following books, clicking the Amazon UK links will take you straight to the relevant Amazon description page, I would recommend you buying at least one of the following books, only for inspiration, if nothing else 
Here you go:
Teach Yourself Cantonese: Complete Audio CD Program (Teach Yourself Language Complete Courses)
I strongly recommend this book:
- very clear
- a lot of information
- I have recommended this book to some of my friends
Colloquial Cantonese: A Complete Language Course (Colloquial)
- takes you from ground up
- pretty solid
Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars)
- very solid grammar book
- fairly-priced dictionary
That’s about it for now. Yep, buy at least one of these books. You will find that it is a good investment. Regarding online bookshops for Cantonese learning materials, I think that Amazon is the most comprehensive.
I welcome suggestions. Thanks. Benson 
September 14th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
The best Cantonese beginners’ book I’ve found so far (and I’ve used quite a few) is called No Sweat Cantonese. It’s easy, helpful and up to date, and the accompanying CD is great. I wouldn’t recommend the English-Cantonese dictionary as it’s idiosyncratic and full of errors. But I don’t know of any other paper dictionary that’s in print. I guess the market has been taken over by the electronic dictionaries.
June 15th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Inspiring, Benson! Keep up the good work. Hope to get more podcast from you too. Will you join the upcoming http://cantonesePod.com shows when you have time?
Paul
August 17th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Yes, I’m familiar with those “Teach Yourself” books and they are good ones. Regardless of which book or program you choose, be sure that it includes audio lessons like those do. Cantonese is nearly impossible to learn if using just written or pinyin instructions. There are also some good online resources for helping to learn Cantonese like http://www.learnchineseez.com and others.