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twilightwind -

Does anyone know a program or website that can translate large amounts of text of traditional
characters into the Yale Cantonese romanization (with diacritics). thank you.



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atitarev -

Try downloading HanConv from

http://www.icycloud.tk/










twilightwind -

HanCov doesn't have the diacritics though for the Yale.










wai ming -

Cantonese tone tool










skylee -



Quote:


Originally Posted by wai ming

Cantonese tone tool


the link led me to a page with "jung3 leui5 cham4 ta1 chin1 baak3 dok6。" in the text box, and it
took me about 3 minutes to figure out that it probably meant "眾裏尋他千百度". I still
don't know why there is a "k" for "度". "度" is pronounced "dok" when it has to do with
measurement. It is pronounced "dou" when it means the number of times.










wai ming -



Quote:


Originally Posted by skylee

the link led me to a page with "jung3 leui5 cham4 ta1 chin1 baak3 dok6。" in the text box, and it
took me about 3 minutes to figure out that it probably meant "眾裏尋他千百度". I still
don't know why there is a "k" for "度". "度" is pronounced "dok" when it has to do with
measurement. It is pronounced "dou" when it means the number of times.


I've yet to find a Cantonese (or Mandarin, even) conversion tool which automatically selects the
correct pronunciation for a character with more than one pronunciation based on context. That
would have to be quite a sophisticated program, surely.










Quest -



Quote:

the link led me to a page with "jung3 leui5 cham4 ta1 chin1 baak3 dok6。" in the text box, and it
took me about 3 minutes to figure out that it probably meant "眾裏尋他千百度".

I had to use my fingers to count the tones.... then there's the tone 3 and tone 5 mixup... these
two tones always confuse me.










skylee -



Quote:

then there's the tone 3 and tone 5 mixup... these two tones always confuse me

You are not alone. I confess that I can't always tell the difference. Pazu once said that we could
remember the 6 tones as 三碗細牛腩麵 (easy to remember, isn't it?). But frankly I think the
3rd (細) and the 5th (腩) tones are difficult to tell apart.










pazu -

It seems to me the 3rd tone and 5th tone of Cantonese, are similar to the mid and rising tone of
Thai.

Thai:

maa (mid) = coming
maa (rising) = dog












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