Chinese languages

Hi. A friend of mine is doing research on how Chinese is taught. He isn't getting much of a response and is hoping people with experience learning Chinese can help him. He has a form he has created to give him feedback. It takes less than ten minutes to complete. If you're willing to help out you ca...

Adam's chat is located at:

http://www.scathecentral.com/cantonesechat/

Hey, that rhymed!

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The US and Canada:
Cantonese and Toisanese (related dialect) are second to Mandarin.

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It's possible that you're dealing with a problem with encoding. Try switching the encoding back to simplified characters. It may be that when the person typed it up that it was viewed in traditional but the actual encoding was simplified. Look at www.mandarintools.com and see the encoding converter....

Since "bou bui" can be either an adjective or a noun, I guess it could be either.

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Ngo Ho Ngooi Neih! Ngo=I Ho=very Ngooi=love Neeih=you I guess you didn't read what the person wrote in the first post. "Not in the man loves a woman way." So, no, that isn't really how you'd say that. /ngoh/ ngoi /neih/ would probably be romantic love, although there are some exceptions. ...

Expressing deep affection explicitly is not something typically done in Chinese. As Dylan said, you can say "sehk" to express sort of parental affection, but otherwise you wouldn't say that. I find many Chinese who choose to express something like that default to an English word. e.g. /ngo...

According to my sources it is the same character. 點

But these are clearly two separate morphemes. Related in a way, but separate.

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Matt, As far as using /dim/ for touching is concerned, I'm not sure if it is the same character or not. But it would make sense if it were since when you /dim/ someone or something you are talking to even the slightest distrubance of it. For example, m'ou /dim/ /ngoh/! would mean "don't touch m...

The IME will let you input the characters. If you just want to view them you can just download Traditional Chinese Language Support from Windows Update. Netscape has a similar update available.

You can also use NJStar's demo version of NJStar Communicater at www.njstar.com.

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