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I clicked on Cantonese as well. Their "alphabet" is just a bunch of Hanzi with Mandarin Pronunciations next to them.
by JimXugle 10y ago
I clicked on Cantonese as well. Their "alphabet" is just a bunch of Hanzi with Mandarin Pronunciations next to them.
- Hasknewbie 10y agoIt looks like they have switched the Cantonese and Chinese content, the "Chinese" vocabulary is Cantonese written in Yale romanization (edited to add: I assume, being a non-speaker. On second look I'm not so sure of myself). Since there is not a lot of learning material for it online, I find Cantonese to be a good 'BS-meter' for language websites (in that it's not too hard to see if they got the basics wrong or not).
- DonaldFisk 10y agoChinese is Mandarin and uses Pinyin. There are one or two mistakes. Re Cantonese: There are numerous mistakes - the romanizations don't always correspond to the Chinese characters, and many of the phrases are Mandarin idiom, which is different from Cantonese. So I can't recommend it. I think it's Jyutping romanization. I wish it did use Yale, which I prefer, mainly because of how the tones are represented. Cantonese has several competing romanizations. This site's better: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/ http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/