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The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG

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Re: The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG

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Very 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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Re: The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG

#12

Very 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).

This is amazing! Consider potentially adding support for WebSpeech api to make it easier. Something like

    const voice = speechSynthesis.getVoices().filter(e => e.lang==='zh-HK').at(-1)
    const utterance = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance('你好')
    utterance.voice = voice
    speechSynthesis.speak(utterance)

Re: The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG

#14

I'm confused, is there supposed to be some kind of game on the site that isn't loading for me? There are references to things like "dungeons" and "encounters" and so on, but all that I see are a bunch of pages with lists of words/phrases in boxes.

I was about to say the same thing, the whole thing is just confusing to me. There doesn't appear to be any game.

Re: The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG

#16

Very neat! I've only studied Mandarin though, are you aware of a similar game for that ?

Pingtype isn't a game, but you might find it interesting. It does the pinyin and word-by-word romanisation of whatever text you put in.

https://pingtype.github.io

Re: The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG

#17
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Very 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!

I've seen weird tones, but IMHO the biggest limitation of Duolingo Mandarin is the lack of a traditional character option.

Re: The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG

#19

This is awesome, there aren't many good resources to learn Cantonese, especially compared to Mandarin

It's crazy that in some ways cantonese is a dying language, or at least one that's being sidelined by the government, esp. as Hong Kong is being fully transitioned back to China.

But just as many people speak cantonese as speak italian.

Re: The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG

#20

Heartwarming 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.

I've found it often answers a Cantonese question in Mandarin. I'm not sure if that's because it converts to written Chinese, then answers the text, then reads it in Mandarin. But sometimes if you use a Cantonese specific word like 乜野 it'll be (presumably) converted to written Cantonese and then will answer in Cantonese.
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