Speak Cantonese, Book One, is tone of a series of books that teaches the modern spoken language of Cantonese, one of the major "dialects" of Chinese. As appropriate for a test of its kind, it is entirely in romanization. In response to many requests for a character version of the romanized text, the present volume has been printed. It is a word by word, faithful transcription of the entire content of the "parent" volume in traditional characters. No romanization is used in this text.

This book completes the Written Standard Chinese series. It resumes from the end of Book Three and is designed to bring the student to the 1300 character recognition level, in both traditional and simplified forms. After Book Four, the student will be prepared to start reading Chinese newspapers, periodicals, or literature.