111–120 of 166 posts
Just curious - would you need insane HW infrastructure to begin with, or hosted/managed. And what tooling is preferred by the industry for the "training"?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not familiar with this slang: what's a big plate?
the commenter's username (i'm guessing they mean 大胖子, feel free to google translate)
I was first called this by a Chinese classmate from Beijing with a biting sense of humor, when I was at university in Tokyo.
We got on really well, to be clear. :)
Hanging out with him was actually how I got started with Mandarin, probably why I chose this username.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The reason why Chinese people have difficulty pronouncing Indo-European languages is that Chinese has a very limited set of syllables, and they always follow the pattern (consonant) + vowel + (nasal/rhotic consonant), with possibly one of the consonants being dropped. Chinese does not have clusters of consonants like "rst" in "first." The closest thing in Chinese phonology to "first" would be something like "fi-re-se…
> This is all related to the existence of tones, but tones are not the direct reason why Chinese people have difficulty pronouncing words like "first." Actually they kind of are. The tonal system of modern Chinese dialects developed from voiced initial constants of syllables. Old Chinese (Han dynasty and older) might not have been a tonal language altogether. Many linguists think that they developed from final conson…
They're indirectly related to the difficulty Chinese native speakers have with learning to pronounce Indo-European languages, in that the tones developed as Chinese syllables became more simple and restricted.
I'm sure there are a bunch of apps out there that claim they do the same thing, but they don't, IMO. Even if they do, as you said, where is the fun in that?
Great post, thanks for it!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
the commenter's username (i'm guessing they mean 大胖子, feel free to google translate)
This is the correct. I was first called this by a Chinese classmate from Beijing with a biting sense of humor, when I was at university in Tokyo. We got on really well, to be clear. :) Hanging out with him was actually how I got started with Mandarin, probably why I chose this username.