{"id":1943,"date":"2015-04-28T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T20:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2015-04-28T15:19:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T20:19:22","slug":"learn-taishanese-aka-hoisanva-toisanwa-%e5%ad%b8%e5%8f%b0%e5%b1%b1%e8%a9%b1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/?p=1943","title":{"rendered":"Learn Taishanese (aka Hoisanva, Toisanwa) &#8211; \u5b78\u53f0\u5c71\u8a71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u6211\u8b1b\u53f0\u5c71\u8a71\uff0c\u672a\u8b1b\u666e\u901a\u8a71\u3002\u6211\u66c9\u5c11\u5c11\u5ee3\u5dde\u8a71\u3002I speak Taishanese, but I don&#8217;t speak Mandarin yet.  I know a little bit of Cantonese.  It&#8217;s taken some time, but I can finally type a bit of Chinese. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Some time ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/?p=1272\">I mentioned that I had found learning materials for Taishanese<\/a>.  I have finally finished volumes one and two of that material. \ud83d\ude00  The process of going through the <a href=\"http:\/\/eric.ed.gov\/?id=ED022176\">DLI Chinese-Cantonese (Toishan) material<\/a> has been slow-going for a few reasons (the material consisted of hand-written characters and I also had to make notes and flash cards by hand since I could not type Chinese characters at first), but now I should be able to make it through the next few volumes in a shorter time frame (there are seven volumes in total, though the last volume appears to consist of mostly military and political vocabulary).<\/p>\n<p>Once I started learning how to type Chinese characters (using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cangjie_input_method\">the Cangjie input method<\/a>), I set up an <a href=\"http:\/\/ankisrs.net\/\">Anki<\/a> deck.  If you use Anki, you may download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feymorgaina.com\/taishanese_materials\/DLI%20Toishan-Cantonese%20Chinese%20vols%201%20and%202.apkg\">my Anki deck consisting of characters, vocabulary, and expressions from Volumes One and Two of the DLI Chinese-Cantonese (Toishan) material<\/a>.  A permanent link can be found on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feymorgaina.com\/learntaishanese.html\">LEARN TAISHANESE (\u53f0\u5c71\u8a71)<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>I have also created corresponding courses on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memrise.com\/\">Memrise<\/a>.  If you use Memrise, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memrise.com\/courses\/english\/taishanese\/\">search under Taishanese<\/a> for my courses.  The direct links to the courses are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.memrise.com\/course\/476393\/dli-toishan-cantonese-volume-1\/\">DLI Toishan-Cantonese Volume 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.memrise.com\/course\/480073\/dli-toishan-cantonese-volume-2\/\">DLI Toishan-Cantonese Volume 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the Taishanese courses, you will also see a short course called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memrise.com\/course\/471084\/beginners-chinese-characters-in\/\">Beginner&#8217;s Chinese Characters (in \u53f0\u5c71\u8a71)<\/a>.  This is based off another Anki deck of mine, which is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feymorgaina.com\/taishanese_materials\/Beginner's%20Chinese%20Characters.apkg\">available for download<\/a> (permanent link can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feymorgaina.com\/learntaishanese.html\">LEARN TAISHANESE (\u53f0\u5c71\u8a71)<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m ready for Volume 3! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\u5468\u5a49\u84ee<\/p>\n<div name=\"googleone_share_1\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:5;float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;\"><g:plusone size=\"medium\" count=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/?p=1943\"><\/g:plusone><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u6211\u8b1b\u53f0\u5c71\u8a71\uff0c\u672a\u8b1b\u666e\u901a\u8a71\u3002\u6211\u66c9\u5c11\u5c11\u5ee3\u5dde\u8a71\u3002I speak Taishanese, but I don&#8217;t speak Mandarin yet. I know a little bit of Cantonese. It&#8217;s taken some time, but I can finally type a bit of Chinese. \ud83d\ude42 Some time ago I mentioned that I had found learning materials for Taishanese. I have finally finished volumes one and two of that material. \ud83d\ude00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[38,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}