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fearedbliss

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    Hello all, I'm happy to announce my new edition of The Cantonese Scrolls. There have been many foundation updates to this and now all of the encounters in all 30 quests (5 acts) ha…

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    Comment #45142004

    Hey all, I posted this a few years ago (2023) when I initially released it. Now that the Windows 10 EOL is almost here (Next month 10/14/25), I've decided to re-post to raise visib…

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    Comment #42931826

    I definitely read that as "gam3 do1". I never heard "doe1" for this character, there is always something more to learn ;).

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    Comment #42931458

    I'm happy to hear that both can be used, normally I always have heard more of the "e" shift in a relatively consistent way. I normally say "大減價" for a big sale, but I understand yo…

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    Not necessarily, the way I see it you can just jump in and start learning and practicing. Now is there a correct way to write the strokes, technically yes there is (which fun fact,…

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    Thank you for the corrections, I definitely agree that while I've learned a lot of Cantonese in the past 11 years, I still have a long way to go and loving the process. Given that …

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    Comment #42931348

    Cantonese has no: - Standard - Country that speaks it (only Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau, and the Overseas Diaspora speak it). - Learners of the language are primarily within the ab…

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    Hey @dbtc, I did think about doing this but originally decided to try and find another solution. Reason being that atm my current directory structure is nested (with a variable len…

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    Comment #42927656

    Definitely. I'm not saying the word 申請 itself isn't used in normal speech, but more that the pronunciation of 請 in normal speech would sound more like an e. So I would rather teach…

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    Good question. I have actually and was recently playing around with that. The problem isn't necessarily the recordings (since I've accepted that I'm willing to record all the possi…

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    I'm aware of this and I've made a conscious decision to use the lazy pronunciation. I'm actually thinking of switching to lazy pronunciation as the standard pronunciation for a lot…

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    Thank you :). Definitely feel free to use, download and share 粵卷 for your learning. I'll be continuing to make improvements to it over time. This is a life long project of mine so …

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    Thank you :).

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    Thank you :).

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    Thank you :).

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    Comment #42927197

    哈哈。嗰個AI覺得廣東話同國語一樣. -.-