April 21, 2025
I've added a bunch of grammar-y things:
- question particle
- classifier (for round objects)
- classifier (for large objects or animals)
- a car
- to know (familiar with someone or something)
- type, kind
- many kinds of things
- to add (to a food or a mixture)
- place
Some of those words are italicized, which means it isn't a direct translation, but more like a definition because it's hard to come up with a direct translation. I noticed that wiktionary does this, so I've added the feature here as well.
April 19, 2025
After listening to a previous conversation with my aunt, I think I understand the difference between chiu1 gue1 and gak(8) gue1. So both are in the database now! (under the word "luffa"). I've also added these other translations
- lazy
- here
- there
- how (to what degree)
- how large
- how late
- how high
April 17, 2025
More translations!
- wet
- last night
- bitter
- to peel (with a blade)
- mango
And I also unhid "towel gourd". I'm not really sure if "towel gourd" is the best main word for this. I might switch it to luffa or Chinese okra but I'm still trying to understand what exactly is gak8 gue1? More to come on that later.
I was curious how many translations I've added to the site, and while it's impossible to get an exact number, I did write up some SQL to get an approximation. It's now listed on the About page!
April 16, 2025
I was thinking about all the different ways to say "more" in Teochew, and I realize I don't even understand how to properly use each of them. It's one of those things that you pick up from hearing it, but I don't really the nuances of when it's appropriate to use one term or another. So, I need to ask my aunt more about this.
I did add a bunch of new translations:
- five dollars
- ten dollars
- sunny
- drizzle
- all day
- thing
- cake
- plate
- breakfast (I already had one translation, but I added another one)
I also fixed a bug that made it so searching traditional characters resulted in nothing being found in the "Words containing..." table
And finally, I started working on a tagging feature. Right now words are in categories, and there are times where I feel like a word could be in multiple categories. So I'm trying to see if a tagging system will be better. Of course this means I need to go and add tags to everything, and that will be a slow process.
April 15, 2025
More translations:- to clean and sweep
- to stir
- enough
- a minute
- an hour
I spent a bunch of time yesterday watching a video on how to remove mouth clicks from an audio clip and then trying to do that myself. I think I was successful! Not sure if this is easier or re-recording a clip is easier. But sometimes I just cannot avoid the clicking sounds when I'm speaking so it's good to be able to clean up the audio.
I also split up the translations in day, week, and month so it specifies "a day", "a week", and "a month". I'm thinking that eventually I'll want to add more examples with classifiers or measure words and they'll be similar to this.
Finally, I've tweaked the styling a bit on the translation pages. Hopefully it looks a little better and less cluttered!
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