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"Learn cantonese". Let's see how that one goes. Click. "I would like to welcome you to the Cantonese lessons. I'm here to help you (bold)learn Cantonese(/bold)

"Learn cantonese". Let's see how that one goes. Click. "I would like to welcome you to the Cantonese lessons. I'm here to help you (bold)learn Cantonese(/bold)". Hello there, content-farm-robot-pretending-to-be-a-person. Lesson 1: "Cantonese Alphabet". There is no alphabet in Cantonese, it's a Chinese language. Click. "Today I will teach you the (bold)Cantonese alphabet(/bold). If (...more filler...). Cantonese contains more than 9900 letters". Hu, OK, let's stop here for the 'alphabet'. A quick look at the other 'lessons' shows what is obviously missing but would be in any true '101' Cantonese course: it's a tonal language, so you'd have to explain the tones first. If you skim through multiple languages you will see a 'Translation' service (with a paid option, but it's the same page as the free one) that always point to the same (stock photo) translator. Not sure what that website is for, but it's not for learning any language.

JimXugle 10y ago
I clicked on Cantonese as well. Their "alphabet" is just a bunch of Hanzi with Mandarin Pronunciations next to them.
- Hasknewbie 10y ago
  It looks like they have switched the Cantonese and Chinese content, the "Chinese" vocabulary is Cantonese written in Yale romanization (edited to add: I assume, being a non-speaker. On second look I'm not so sure of myself). Since there is not a lot of learning material for it online, I find Cantonese to be a good 'BS-meter' for language websites (in that it's not too hard to see if they got the basics wrong or not).
  - DonaldFisk 10y ago
    Chinese is Mandarin and uses Pinyin. There are one or two mistakes. Re Cantonese: There are numerous mistakes - the romanizations don't always correspond to the Chinese characters, and many of the phrases are Mandarin idiom, which is different from Cantonese. So I can't recommend it. I think it's Jyutping romanization. I wish it did use Yale, which I prefer, mainly because of how the tones are represented. Cantonese has several competing romanizations. This site's better: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/ http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/

JimXugle 10y ago

I clicked on Cantonese as well. Their "alphabet" is just a bunch of Hanzi with Mandarin Pronunciations next to them.

Hasknewbie 10y ago
It looks like they have switched the Cantonese and Chinese content, the "Chinese" vocabulary is Cantonese written in Yale romanization (edited to add: I assume, being a non-speaker. On second look I'm not so sure of myself). Since there is not a lot of learning material for it online, I find Cantonese to be a good 'BS-meter' for language websites (in that it's not too hard to see if they got the basics wrong or not).
- DonaldFisk 10y ago
  Chinese is Mandarin and uses Pinyin. There are one or two mistakes. Re Cantonese: There are numerous mistakes - the romanizations don't always correspond to the Chinese characters, and many of the phrases are Mandarin idiom, which is different from Cantonese. So I can't recommend it. I think it's Jyutping romanization. I wish it did use Yale, which I prefer, mainly because of how the tones are represented. Cantonese has several competing romanizations. This site's better: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/ http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/