Chinese languages

"Bo" with the -o- pronounced as in English "go" ?

Did not see the movie. Could it be "treasure" ?

It is unlikely that the problem has to do with her speaking Cantonese. Ideas: 1) traditional translation is really bad, because the translator is not really good at traditional characters 2) the text contains a lot of specific technical terms concerning a subject that your friend is not familiar wit...

Wade-Giles would fit for "Takungpao".

Not so sure about "Singtao". Maybe a simplified Wade-Giles ?

There are websites with conversion lists.
E.g. http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/e ... table2.htm
or http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/eastasian/

There are old romanisation systems, that use only T, K and P, but no D, G and B.

This name looks very much like such a system applied. It is still Mandarin. Just not modern pinyin.

Example (this time in Cantonese): HK street and place names never start with D,G or B, for the same reason.

Last year we had a discussion in this forum about tone sandhi and tone change. Try this link http://www.chineselanguage.org/forum/read.php?f=1&i=1405&t=1405#reply_1405 or if the link does not work, use the forum search facility by using the term "tone sandhi pattern". The thread co...

Ceoi4 zo2 gaa3 kei4 zi1 ngoi6, ngo5 dei6 . . .

Would you say 'zi1 ngoi6' is necessary, optional or wrong here ?

Cantonese to the GCSE level ? You are really lucky. This course is clearly your best bet. You want to learn something before joining the class ? Apart from the mentioned websites which are free of charge, you may consider to buy a beginners course (book with tapes). My personal favourite is "Co...

The -r- can be found in Cantonese romanisation in two cases. Case 1: In some elaborate but not popular romanisation systems, the -r- is used to indicate tones. The current version of Teach Yourself seems to be doing that. Probably not the case here in the forum. Case 2: Basically what Thomas Chan wa...

From a pure language point of view, Cantonese is not a more difficult language than Mandarin. E.g. the famous 9-tone system has only ethymological importance. In real life, modern Cantonese has 6 tones, which is not so different from the Mandarin 4 or 5. However, there are a few rather technical pro...

floreo wrote > Well, I will begin with your original issue " PinYin" alphabetic > system for chinese pronunciation. It's quite odd, tho we chinese use > Letras Romanas( roman letters) we don't acutally pronouse them like > they should be in latin language. Well, nobody today pronounces rom...