[HN Gopher] The Cantonese Scrolls (Yue Juan ) - A Cantonese Lang...
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The Cantonese Scrolls (Yue Juan ) - A Cantonese Language Learning
Mental RPG
Author : fearedbliss
Score : 33 points
Date : 2025-02-03 19:48 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (cantoscrolls.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (cantoscrolls.com)
| 999900000999 wrote:
| Very neat!
|
| I've only studied Mandarin though, are you aware of a similar
| game for that ?
| fearedbliss wrote:
| 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).
| Svoka wrote:
| 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('Ni Hao ') utterance.voice =
| voice speechSynthesis.speak(utterance)
| chongli wrote:
| 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).
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| I'm really excited about a Cantonese resource though. I have a
| few Cantonese-speaking friends and I would love to learn some
| myself!
| ViktorRay wrote:
| This is pretty cool! Well done!
| ww520 wrote:
| This is excellent. Gamify learning. Nice way to learn.
| fredrikholm wrote:
| 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.
| jhsvsmyself wrote:
| 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.
| johnzim wrote:
| Awesome!
| gfaure wrote:
| > - Characters starting with the vowel i sound more an e.
| Therefore, "to invite", Qing (cing2), sounds more like ceng2,
| and "to hear/listen", Ting (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 Qing has both pronunciations,
| depending on context. For instance, Qing is ceng2 when used as
| the verb "to invite", but cing2 in compounds like jiu1 cing2 Yao
| Qing .
|
| It shouldn't be conflated with the phenomenon later in that same
| paragraph about Lan Yin "lazy pronunciation".
| 10594891 wrote:
| I'm confused, is there supposed to be some kind of game on the
| site that isn't loading for me?
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| 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.
| littlekey wrote:
| I was about to say the same thing, the whole thing is just
| confusing to me. There doesn't appear to be any game.
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