教院式拼音(HKIEd) Tone Diacritics
I'm aware that 教院式拼音(HKIEd) employs the numbers 1 through 9 officially and 1 through 6 unofficially to represent the tone of each syllable, but I thought it might be beneficial to introduce an...
View ArticleRe: 粵拼合併方案 (Jyutping + Pinyin)
QuoteEnigmatism415 Quote白正達 QuoteEnigmatism415Assuming that most of us would rather put the old Yale system out to pastureI'd just like to point out the fact that Yale is still the de-facto standard...
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Quote倉頡You want to dissuade learners from using these materials?I am actively dissuading students of Cantonese from adopting Yale as their customary Romanisation scheme. If they desire to make use of...
View ArticleCantonese: Not a Useless Language
Good article! http://thehousenews.com/personal/cantonese-not-a-useless-language/"At a local international school two girls, recently transferred from elite local schools, share a joke in their mother...
View ArticleRe: 粵拼合併方案 (Jyutping + Pinyin)
QuoteEnigmatism415 Quote倉頡You want to dissuade learners from using these materials?I am actively dissuading students of Cantonese from adopting Yale as their customary Romanisation scheme. If they...
View ArticleRe: Cantonese: Not a Useless Language
Thanks for the link. An excellent article. I once met a Cantonese student at my university in Canada, and I spoke to him in Cantonese.He replied that he couldn't speak it, so I said the same thing in...
View ArticleRe: 粵拼合併方案 (Jyutping + Pinyin)
Quote倉頡If they have lots of books that are in yale (as most materials are), then you're just confusing them by asking them to use jyutping.My qualm with Yale isn't age but inaccuracy. First of all,...
View ArticleRe: 粵拼合併方案 (Jyutping + Pinyin)
For me, I read characters. Romanization is a guide I use to see how to pronounce new characters that I come across. In fact, I favour dictionaries which use 同音字 or other methods over romanizatin. When...
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Truth be told, I actually detest using systems of Romanisation to learn East Asian languages (except for IPA if oral instruction is unavailable). I only encourage students to adopt a Romanisation...
View ArticleAndroid App - Cantonese/Mandarin/English Dictionary
Hi everyone,I just wanted to share a small home project that I put together over the past few weeks. I have developed an offline android app that allows you to search for...
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Posted a thing I could use help with[tcchinese.tumblr.com]
View ArticleRe: 粵拼合併方案 (Jyutping + Pinyin)
I just read the first post.I call it the "EDB Romanization"Considering how people like to simply pronounce things the way they look, I would have a few suggestions.Although, there are quite a...
View ArticleRe: 教院式拼音(HKIEd) Tone Diacritics
This seems close to what I use:tones 1 to 6: \ / - \/ /\ (unmarked)The reason is that HKers are mostly familiar with Hanyu pinyin and when they see diacritics in French and other languages they call...
View ArticleRe: Input method, which do you use ?
I have opted out of downloading any input methods, so I use the HK Cantonese (Jyutping) Input Method.Originally I was able to type characters like ge3 but after some technicians "fixed" my computer I...
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I mostly use Cangjie, with Taiwan Zhuyin for characters I cant remember how to type
View ArticleRe: Input method, which do you use ?
I have been using the Google Input method 廣東話輸入法 as well. Very convenient and easy to use. The great thing about it that one doesn't have to know the exact romanization.
View ArticleRe: Input method, which do you use ?
Quote白正達 I think the best Cantonese input method available at the moment is Google input tools 廣東話輸入法: [www.youtube.com] which also accepts many different romanisation systems.HiGoogle input is only...
View ArticleRe: Help me figure out cantonese grammar.
I am wondering since you guys obviously know a lot about cantonese and how it works if you would rather translate this into a cantonese teaching material. If you would then I can set up a wiki or...
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OR shall I ask which one is better for me Yale or jyutping ? As I already speak cantonese but cant write much in chinese
View ArticleRe: Cantonese: Not a Useless Language
> When they sent out a letter asking for ideas on how to teach Chinese in their school, I suggested that they should first of all actually use it in the association, since the overwhelming majority...
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