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Forum: Speaking and Listening 4th May 2004, 12:36 PM
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See the link here:...
See the link here:
http://www.kanjistep.com/en/about/
They not only copied the script to transcribe Japanese words, but also borrowed 100% (not just
80%...) of Chinese vocabulary, although 90% of...
Forum: Speaking and Listening 2nd May 2004, 12:07 PM
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You're not Japanese, how do you know a Japanese...
You're not Japanese, how do you know a Japanese doesn't know ancient chinese pronunciation :wink: ?
(See here for a similar story:
http://www.chinapage.com/story/fish.html
)
English and German...
Forum: Speaking and Listening 1st May 2004, 04:53 PM
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It's Hán Vit (Chinese pronounced Vietnamese...
It's Hán Vit (Chinese pronounced Vietnamese way). You can take any Chinese text, modern or
classic, and pronounce it Vietnamese way: it's Sino-Vietnamese.
A modern Chinese text in Hán Vit,...
Forum: Speaking and Listening 1st May 2004, 04:13 PM
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We should distinguish Hán Vit words and Hán Vit...
We should distinguish Hán Vit words and Hán Vit as Sino-Vietnamese (Chinese language with
Vietnamese pronunciation).
Vietnamese do not "speak" Hán Vit, but Vietnamese vocabulary is full of Hán...
Forum: Speaking and Listening 30th April 2004, 12:46 PM
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Posted By nnt
I've found an interesting link (Big5 code)about...
I've found an interesting link (Big5 code)about William H. Baxter:
http://www.geocities.com/sgoertzen/Chinese/mcb5.htm
Li Bai's rhyme words:
明 [微庚開三] ming2 (minh) < mjaeng 'bright'
...
Forum: Speaking and Listening 28th April 2004, 01:54 PM
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Chinese roots in other languages
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Posted By nnt
shibo77: Could you find a reconstruction of...
shibo77:
Could you find a reconstruction of Tang's era pronunciation of the above text? I think it would be
even more interesting than the E-zhou pronunciation (from which all variants have much...
Forum: Speaking and Listening 28th April 2004, 09:06 AM
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Chinese roots in other languages
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Posted By nnt
道可道, 非常道. 名可名, 非常名. 無, 名天地之始; 有, 名萬物之母. In Han...
道可道, 非常道. 名可名, 非常名. 無, 名天地之始; 有, 名萬物之母.
In Han Viêt:
Dao kha dao, phi thng dao. Danh kha danh, phi thng danh. V^o, danh thiên
dia chi thuy, hu, danh van v^at chi m^au.
(There is...
Forum: Speaking and Listening 27th April 2004, 02:57 AM
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Posted By nnt
39degN and shibo77 : As linguists say: "The...
39degN and shibo77 :
As linguists say:
"The proof of a pudding is is in the eating" :wink: (I love pudding theory...)
So I'm waiting for your poem in Classical E Zhou pronunciation, in order to...
Forum: Speaking and Listening 26th April 2004, 03:05 PM
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You needn't... You just have to learn Vietnamese...
You needn't... You just have to learn Vietnamese "Pinyin" (Han Viêt) to read Chinese texts
Vietnamese way.
It seems to me that the Vietnamese pronunciation of 法律 (pháp lut with ph=f) is closest...
Forum: Speaking and Listening 10th April 2004, 03:38 AM
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Posted By nnt
I think that initially, they adopted the script...
I think that initially, they adopted the script and the pronunciation (although with some foreign
accent, but certainly without the mandarin's 儿 :wink: ). For Classical Chinese was, at least
in...
Forum: Speaking and Listening 9th April 2004, 05:02 PM
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Posted By nnt
About relationship between Classical Chinese,...
About relationship between Classical Chinese, spoken Chinese and Vietnamese, you can see this link:
http://www.cjvlang.com/Writing/writsys/writviet.html
more particularly:
I think was is common...
Forum: Speaking and Listening 8th April 2004, 04:33 AM
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Posted By nnt
Lu Yi Si: You just forget that Thai peoples...
Lu Yi Si:
You just forget that Thai peoples (including Tay in Vietnam and Laotians in Laos) came from Yunnan
around the 12th-13th century, so it's no surprise that some words may be borrowed from...
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