Tag: hoisan
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Learn Taishanese (台山話 aka Toisanwa aka Hoisanva)
For those who are interested in learning Taishanese (台山話 aka Toisanwa aka Hoisanva), I finally got a chance to put up a web page linking to the Taishanese learning material that I found (as mentioned in my previous blog post, ‘Learning Chinese: Cantonese or Mandarin? Or…? Taishanese!’). You may go to Learn Taishanese (台山話) (alternate link:…
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Learning Chinese: Cantonese or Mandarin? Or…? Taishanese!
A few years back, I tried looking for material on Toisan (aka Taishanese). The most I found was this linguistic paper, Toisan: A Cantonese Dialect by Aaron Lee, which I thought was fairly good in terms of giving you an understanding of the pronunciation in Toisan. What I didn’t know then was that the name…
Pneumatised! 