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...
While for Mandarin learners, choosing between simplified and traditional characters is a difficult choice, for Cantonese learners it is really a no-brainer. Almost all Cantonese media being published today is from Hong Kong, meaning that it all is published with traditional characters. ...
Learning Cantonesehad more in common with MiddleChinesethan Mandarin did. In terms of vocabulary, some common terms retained from Middle Chinese are:hai(係) ‘to be’ andwat dat(鶻突) ‘ugly’ – both of which cannot be understood in Mandarin...