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I can read Chinese pretty well but my Taiwanese sucks. Is there
a place like Babelfish that can translate Chinese written in
Taiwanese tones into standard Chinese? Secondly is there a
place that gives you proper Taiwanese pronunciation? Thanks.
\_ what I would like is a dictionary that can map from Chinese
characters to the different dialects (Guowu, Ping, Yue, Min,
Hakka, etc). It's pretty irritating reading HK news papers
especially when they "overload" words with Cantonese sounding
Zhongwen that makes absolutely no sense to Mandarin speakers.
Speaking of Zhongwen, which dialect was it developed with?
\_ for Question 1, no. For second question, there is a romanized
pronouciation symbols invented by early missionaries for
the MingNan dialect. and in Taiwan, there are dictionaries which
you can buy. But i don't know details. Mind you, much of these
"Taiwanese" characters are only invented recently as part of
"De-Sinofication" cultual movement. Most people in Taiwan
doesn't know themselves. You will be better off to find a
dictionary which uses the MingNan romanized pronouciation symbols.
\_ one thing that makes me really sad is that Taiwanese people
try to promote independence and their culture yet after all
these years they can't even get their acts together to put up
good Taiwanese classroom materials. There are tons of stuff
using standardized Jo1Ying1Fu2Hou4 or Romanization for people
to learn yet almost nothing on Minnan languages. Even the
De-Cal Taiwanese class is pretty primitive compared to
the materials that exist for learning Mandarin.
\_ may be this entire idea of promoting MingNan (literally means
South of FuJian province) dialect is a silly idea. and no,
there is no such thing as "Taiwanese." |
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