Cantonese has nine tones. Beginning in the 1950s, the Chinese government tried to make Mandarin the national language in an effort to bridge the myriad dialects across the country.

Released last August, it is one of the first children’s books to teach Cantonese nursery rhymes with Jyutping, a romanisation system that helps people learn Cantonese tones and pronunciation.

Sixth Tone: How did Cantonese cooking shed that reputation? Zhou: The elevation of Cantonese cuisine’s status is closely tied to the upheaval of the early 20th century. First, popular perceptions of ...

Released last month, Visual Fonts uses Jyutping – a Cantonese romanisation system that has letters and numbers representing sounds and tones – to annotate Chinese characters on the screen of a ...

That's a far cry from the U.S., where even in San Francisco there are few opportunities to pursue Cantonese in high school and beyond. The San Francisco Unified School District has Cantonese and ...

The college was expected to launch two Cantonese certificate programs this fall. One program isn’t moving forward, and advocates are upset by the delay. City College of San Francisco was expected to ...

Videos of the language learners, with some using peculiar tones and speaking in trembling voices, have since gone viral on social media. Hu Yonglang, a fan of Hong Kong popular culture who graduated ...

By Joyce Zhou and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -In a Cantonese opera inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump, a Chinese actor donning a blond wig spars on a Hong Kong stage with a man playing a ...

Update, 6 p.m. June 26: City College of San Francisco plans to offer its new 16-unit Cantonese Certificate of Achievement program in the 2024-25 academic year, the president of the board of trustees ...

While Cantonese opera has deep roots in Chinese culture, the underground J-pop scene only emerged in the city in 2015. For opera, ... Tone Music Festival and Unison Fest.