Are there any schools in Kunming? Or do I have to go to Guandong? What about the material?

Any cool books with English explanations?
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Mandarins has 4 pitches while Cantonese has 9. If you do read Chinese then it'd be easier because you can focus on speaking and listening . Also as a native speaker, I think the pinyin system is not well organized so it's kind of tricky, if not impossible, to learn . Books you can look on taobao etc loads of them but I am not sure how helpful it can be . Guangdong is more a Mandarins speaking place now unless you go to smaller cities. HK might be better. To start I d say include some canton pop in your playlist .

I heard the number of tones in Cantonese varies with the place.

I could teach Cantonese and Manderin. I speak good English. no cantonese -English study material readly available, but I could make one for you with audio the same time. even though it is said cantonese has 9 pitches, but its not very true. pitches are less a problem compared to manderin.
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I use www.cantoneseclass101.com/ although I find it's more geared to students who don't already know putonghua. Using the pdfs in combination with the podcasts at least helps you lean how the characters should be pronounced differently.