Tag: taishanese
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Learn Taishanese (aka Hoisanva, Toisanwa) – 學台山話
我講台山話，未講普通話。我曉少少廣州話。I speak Taishanese, but I don’t speak Mandarin yet. I know a little bit of Cantonese. It’s taken some time, but I can finally type a bit of Chinese. 🙂 Some time ago I mentioned that I had found learning materials for Taishanese. I have finally finished volumes one and two of that material. 😀…
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Language Learning – Working on More Languages
My recent study list has been mostly languages – Chinese (Hoisanva aka Taishanese), Korean, Spanish, Dutch, Irish, and Russian. I have yet to add German and Japanese to that. Technically, I’m bilingual as I’m able to speak and understand English and my dialect of Chinese (which is a weird mix of Taishanese and Cantonese due…
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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…
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