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Cantonese audio for a foreigner

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    Cantonese audio for a foreigner

    Is there a site where if you input traditional chinese characters, it will pronounce it in cantonese instead of mandarin?

    Please note I don't know if cantonese and taiwanese mandarin have the same writing characters.


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    http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-can/ — click Engl. at the top; requires browser plugin to play the .WAV files though

    http://forvo.com/ — not all words available, but most popular words and terms covered

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    Quote Originally Posted by Guyper:
    Is there a site where if you input traditional chinese characters, it will pronounce it in cantonese instead of mandarin?

    Please note I don't know if cantonese and taiwanese mandarin have the same writing characters.
    i presume you are not familar with spoken cantonese and written chinese

    written chinese, literature largely the same regardless whether from china, hong kong and taiwanese, except, mainland china use simplfied chinese, HK and TW uses traditional chinese, but there are a few difference, also mandarin is the same as written chinese

    But spoken cantonese ( or it's accepted written form) has a lot of slang, transliterations from english and very different in written form ( hence, why google translate struggle to translate spoken cantonese in written form)

    example, strawberry

    士多啤梨 = cantonese ( si dor be lei) hence, it's transliterations from english
    草梅 = mandarin (cao mei) means grass berries
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