The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG
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The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG
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#2Very neat!
I've only studied Mandarin though, are you aware of a similar game for that ?
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#3Very neat! I've only studied Mandarin though, are you aware of a similar game for that ?
Not that I'm aware of. I believe I'm the first person to frame (and in a way "open source") a language program in this type of way. My perspective is a mixture of a lot of different things including my love for Diablo 1 (and its minimalism and simplicity) and 2 (Original, not Resurrected).
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#4This is pretty cool! Well done!
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#5This is excellent. Gamify learning. Nice way to learn.
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#6Heartwarming to see learning material for Cantonese.
Does anyone have any good material for speaking? I've grown up watching Cantonese movies and have tones and pronunciation down ok, but I'm finding it hard to progress through private study with regards to reaching conversational levels of vocab/grammar.
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#7Very neat! I've only studied Mandarin though, are you aware of a similar game for that ?
I have been using Duolingo for a couple years to learn some Mandarin. Its resources are pretty good, if a bit dodgy here and there (some occasional weird pronunciations or translations).
I'm really excited about a Cantonese resource though. I have a few Cantonese-speaking friends and I would love to learn some myself!
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#8Heartwarming to see learning material for Cantonese. Does anyone have any good material for speaking? I've grown up watching Cantonese movies and have tones and pronunciation down ok, but I'm finding it hard to progress through private study with regards to reaching conversational levels of vocab/grammar.
Hop on OpenAI voice mode and start speaking. I do this for Mandarin and Spanish, it even speaks my native Afrikaans! Valuable and only $20 a month. Also, it's great because it can speak about anything, which I find refreshing rather than having domain specific resources.
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#9Awesome!
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#10> - Characters starting with the vowel i sound more an e. Therefore, "to invite", 請 (cing2), sounds more like ceng2, and "to hear/listen", 聽 (ting1), sounds more like teng1.
As a Cantonese speaker, I love the effort here! However, the above isn't correct. This is an example of vernacular vs. literary pronunciation, and 請 has both pronunciations, depending on context. For instance, 請 is ceng2 when used as the verb "to invite", but cing2 in compounds like jiu1 cing2 邀請.
It shouldn't be conflated with the phenomenon later in that same paragraph about 懶音 "lazy pronunciation".