This can be a little confusing at first, but in essence, if you use written Chinese, you are essentially speaking Mandarin with a Cantonese pronunciation of the characters. So does that mean Cantonese is never actually written down? No, not at all! Spoken Cantonese is commonly used for texti...
4. The City of Hong KongOn top of that, you can explore the city of Hong Kong itself, taste the local Cantonese food, and speak with local people! Cantonese people are very happy to hear when foreigners choose to learn Cantonese instead of Mandarin and speaking Cantonese will be sure to ...
In terms of digital language support, Mandarin Chinese thrives with a mature Natural Language Processing (NLP) environment. Chinese NLP has a versatile and growing literature from major conferences, such as ACL and COLING. In contrast, as for digital language support Cantonese is at the vital leve...