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Interesting Cantonese by Susanna Ng
Hey everyone,Tomorrow I have a big job interview and can't sleep, so I decided to put up information about a book I've been studying for the past six or seven months. Sorry if any of you have already...
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Leih yauh moh sih a?你有冇事呀?Wrong.Nei5 Yau5 Mou5 Si6 a3 in Yale
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For the case of Kwun Tong, I have read that it isn't the result of a merging, but the result of the street name Romanization changing u-acute from Eitel to wu for some places but not all.As for gwi,...
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Hong Kong Cantonese has loanwords such as dik1 si2 when Canton uses gai3 cing4 ce1. (EDIT: Although Shadow seems to think otherwise) But the ones OP listed are NOT differences between Canton and HK...
View ArticleRe: "出嚟碌"?
QuotetymI can find these two characters using MS Windows' Traditional Chinese Jyutping keyboard as well as Google Input Tools for Chrome's 廣東話 keyboard.Does anyone know how to access the Jyutping...
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QuoteChanggi Leih yauh moh sih a?你有冇事呀?Wrong.Nei5 Yau5 Mou5 Si6 a3 in Yale "Leih yauh moh sih a?" is not exactly wrong (lazy sound notwithstanding). It's just that the Yale diacritical marks are...
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Thanks for the input, I looked again and found the book uses Neih instead Leih. I know it's standard pronunciation but I have been saying it the lazy way as long as I can remember after I was told...
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QuoteMatFayLong However the book doesn't use any numerical tone system, only accents on different parts of each word. If someone is brand new to Cantonese then Yale or Jyutping systems won't be...
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Hi. I am interested in teaching my kids to understand more of the cantonese language. As babies, I found it easier to converse mostly in cantonese, but as they got older, I find it a bit more...
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Thanks Tony, I feel the need to defend Susanna Ng a bit because the first pages of her book list 6 tones (High level, High Rising, Middle Level, Low Falling, Low Rising, Low Level). The Romanized...
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The Interesting Cantonese books are based on a standard Yale system - I don't think there's any deviation from common conventions you see in many other Cantonese learning materials such as those...
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One question comes to mind - why bother?What's missing from existing romanisation systems that compels further re-invention of the proverbial wheel?
View ArticleRe: "Vegetable" and "Sunshine"
Yes -- involving those two characters. Now, however, under the vegetative entry in CantoDict, I am seeing only the character on the right and am no longer seeing the character on the left. Thank you.
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Re: "Vegetable" and "Sunshine"
They are two different typeface styles of the same character. Probably your internet browser's default Chinese font is different from the default Chinese font of your application you're pasting to.We...
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Thanks for the info that it is Yale. In the original post, the transliterations were not correct so it seemed like the author invented her own scheme.-Tony
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You can search it on the internet. Cantonese it is a very good language for children and adults to learn.
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Checked out [kidslearninghub.com] you can found here a materials to get your child excited about learning.
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