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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In contrast, Cantonese has maintained its primacy in Hong Kong. It’s the city’s lingua franca, used by 90% of the population, said Lau Chaak-ming, assistant professor of linguistics at the ...

These dishes are a far cry from the typical, westernized Cantonese staples that were invented by immigrants from southern China’s Guangdong province, who primarily settled in California in the ...

Rika Woo, 31, poses while dressed in traditional Cantonese opera attire, and J-Pop costuming, in Hong Kong, China September 17, 2024. REUTERS/Joyce Zhou ...

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 ...

Three decades ago, finding opportunities to learn Cantonese in San Francisco wasn't hard. But today in the city that's drawn Cantonese speakers from South China for over 150 years, there's fear ...