Chinese languages

Hi How can I get a structure of a verb and an adverb as something like: Verb+Adverb where the adverb is placed after the verb? For example, to say "walk slowly" I could say "ban7 ban7 kiann5" but how can I get something like this structure in Mandarin "zou de man"? Than...

Is it possible to use this for Mandarin - Taiwanese?

Thank you very very much duaaagiii! Looking at the pronounciations of some of the words I'm assuming it's in literary Hokkien so I'd like to ask whether thau5 is a literary pronounciation for 頭 and whether it can be used in the poem or not. Is this poem often read in Hokkien or the Hokkien pronounci...

Thanks for your help ong.

Is 永春方言志a dictionary or an article?

Is the article you mentioned on 惠安 on the internet? If so, could you please give me the link.

Also, if possible, I still would like to know the answer to the questions.

Hi

Some of you might know the poem "静夜思". Does anyone know the Hokkien pronounciation of it?

Thanks
~Jilang

Thank you duaaagiii for help with those words. In general, can Hokkien verbs also be used as nouns such as with 'suggest'? I have a few questions about Hokkien dictionary. 1) What is the most comprehensive dictionary available? 2) Does it include Hokkien-English and English Hokkien? 3) Is it in POJ ...

Thanks duaaagiii!

On a slightly different topic, how do you say these terms in Hokkien?

"suggest" & "suggestion"
"farm"
"farmer"

jiliang,both huian and some yongchun 8th tone is a rising type,so there are no way you can get confused .

Thanks. That should help me identify tones. By rising, do you mean a 5th tone sound except with a glottal stop?

They say that -ian used to be pronounced as /ian/ a long time ago, but due to phonological assimilation, /ian/ became /ien/. I believe this is also the case for Mandarin and Hakka. That's interesting. Do you have any idea as to how long ago the original 'ian' might have been heard? Many Taiwanese s...

Hi This is just something that only just occured to me. For words like "pian3 - change" or "hian1 - open" or "lian2 - wheel" we use "ia" in romanizing them. Why is it romanized like that when "ia" is a different sound in other uses such as "ia7 ...