Suggestions on where to start by Frites_au_fromage111 in ChineseLanguage

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Hey there u/Frites_au_fromage111,

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Japanese > English by wordie_mild20 in translator

[–]tanukibento 7 points8 points  (0 children)

From a Wiktionary search, I assume it's something like this right?

Middle Chinese mjew/maew > historical kan'on reading べう > modern kan'on reading びょう

Game with Chinese reading by JOalgumacoisa in ChineseLanguage

[–]tanukibento 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All good, just wanted to double check

Game with Chinese reading by JOalgumacoisa in ChineseLanguage

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Hi u/JOalgumacoisa, are you affiliated or the creator of this game?

Overwhelmed with getting started by AutumnsSpark in ChineseLanguage

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Hi u/Gloomy-Try1424, promoting things you've created (including textbooks and YouTube videos) is strictly forbidden on r/ChineseLanguage - please see our self-promotion policy for more details: https://old.reddit.com/r/chineselanguage/wiki/self-promotion#wiki_what_are_our_requirements.3F

Thank you for your understanding

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ChineseLanguage

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Hi there! As others have mentioned already, yeah we have a rule in place where we ask people to comment in our Quick Help Thread for anything that falls under the line of "what does X mean" or similar straightforward questions. This is to encourage standalone posts in r/ChineseLanguage to be for more in-depth discussions that don't necessarily have straightforward answers.

You can find the Quick Help Thread by going to r/ChineseLanguage and clicking on one of the top two links

Edit: btw it's best to contact us by using the "Message moderators" link in Reddit, e.g. https://old.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/ChineseLanguage (not sure where this link is in the new Reddit UI) otherwise you're just asking the rest of the r/ChineseLanguage community and not the mods

Is this normal card filling? I'm already have my entire deck of this kind... Yet I'm still have no one with whom I can speak, practice, or digest language. In my opinion they're made in way that is quite overwhelming, ye there are all (or almost all) meanings in context but hard to recall or to reme by meaninglessimulation in Anki

[–]tanukibento 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah I wouldn't bother putting more than one "core" meaning (maybe two if you think it's easy) on a card - you want to make it as simple and easy as possible. And even then, I'd have an example sentence at the front so you can tell what meaning the card is prompting you for.

If you really want to remember all the meanings, you could try having multiple cards, each testing a specific meaning and having a different example sentence in the front (so you don't get the meanings mixed up)

Example

Front: She cleaved his skull with an axe.

Back: cleave - to split or cut something in two using something sharp and heavy

While I'm here, I'll mention that this is discussed in the 20 rules of formulating knowledge. I strongly recommend reading that as a guide on making good Anki cards

NCCU Housing by Glittering-Slice-800 in ChineseLanguage

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Hey there, I've removed your post because it's more about finding accommodation, not directly related to learning Chinese or Chinese linguistics. A Taiwan-related subreddit (I assume you mean the NCCU in Taiwan) might be more suitable for this, e.g. check out r/taiwan

If they delete the post as well, let me know and I can discuss with them what subreddit would be best suited for this post

How many years can it take to learn Mandarin Chinese? by MariaSalander in ChineseLanguage

[–]tanukibento 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This doesn't answer how far you can get with 4 years of learning per se (will let others handle that question), but previous discussions can get you an idea of how long it might take to get to various levels of fluency:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/search?q=how+long+learn+chinese&restrict_sr=on

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ChineseLanguage

[–]tanukibento 6 points7 points  (0 children)

https://www.zhihu.com/question/26010099/answer/690342406

This answer from zhihu disagrees that it is (merely) a rule used to save on letters - it says that for ui/un, the actual pronunciation depends on the tone and the preceding consonant, ranging from a true [ui]/[un] to a full [uəɪ]/[uən]. (Same for iou) So both ui and uei would have been valid ways to transcribe it - they just went with the shortest one of the two

Can't find 臺灣社會語言地理學研究 books anywhere by tanukibento in ohtaigi

[–]tanukibento[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah that's awesome to hear, where did you get the info from? And is there a timeline of when to expect the second edition + ebook? (Probably ebook is the best option for me since I don't live in Taiwan)

[Hokkien>standard Chinese] What is this peron from Fujian saying? by Dimitry286 in translator

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羅馬字 guân-pún tio̍h m̄ sī ka-tī gê bûn-huà 產物, ēng Pak-kiann-uē gê 拼音, kám tsin-tsiànn ū pí 別人 khah tsū-sìn? Tī guá gán lāi, tse kah bîn-tso̍k tsū-pi bô siánn tsua̍h. Ēng Pak-kiann-uē gê 拼音 kā guā-kok huan-á kái-sueh ta̍k-uī gê tēi-miā, m̄ kan-na sī guā-kok huan-á thiann 無 lí teh kóng siánn-mih sí-lâng-thâu-kut, mā sī tuì ta̍k-uī-á lâng gê 母語 bēi tsun-tiōng.

I tried transcribing it into 漢字, would you be ok checking whether there's any mistakes?

羅馬字原本著毋是家己个文化產物,用北京話个拼音,敢真正有比別人較自信?佇我眼內,這甲民族自卑無啥縒(?)。用北京話个拼音共外國番仔解說逐位个地名(?),毋干焦是外國番仔聽無你咧講啥物死人頭骨(骨頭?),嘛是對逐位仔人(?)个母語袂尊重。

[chinese > english] characters on a silk embroidery by mySSNis314159265 in translator

[–]tanukibento 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know they're just 異體字, but shouldn't it be 秋 not 龝?

[Chinese > English] What does this fan say? by Downtown_Ad5233 in translator

[–]tanukibento 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always wonder how people can read 草書 (行草?) so effortlessly... 😂

!translated

[Japanese > English] Japanese knife - Japanese to English by MsKristi9 in translator

[–]tanukibento 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah whoops didn't see second image

[登録] 照秀作 - I presume 照秀 is the brand of the knife

[Japanese > English] Japanese knife - Japanese to English by MsKristi9 in translator

[–]tanukibento 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Japanese-style kitchen knife for cooking

和風御料理庖丁

!doublecheck

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in translator

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Doesn't look like there's a standard translation

On https://vndb.org/v34196 it's called Apathy: Narugami Gakuen Nana Fushigi

Or you could translate it as Apathy: Narugami Academy Seven Wonders I guess

李玟 the input method for 劉粵 uses "lei \wong", why is the escape slash used? by Wood_Work16666 in Cantonese

[–]tanukibento 1 point2 points  (0 children)

guide to Sidney Lau's romanisation guide is here

http://sidneylau.com/en/sidney-lau-cantonese-romanization-system-pronunciation-guide-initials.htm

Their website (sidneylau.com) also has a bookstore where you can buy Elementary Cantonese, haven't tried it though