September 1, 2022
I was re-listening to all the translations I had in the Colors category, and I found that my "chen1" and "gan1" didn't sound nasal enough so I re-recorded them. I'm unsure if I made it any better. I was comparing the word "green" with "fork" and "orange" with "to cut" (which I just added!). Trying to make the nasal sound at the end of a word is hard.
I also realized the my Miscellaneous category was hiding a bunch of words that I didn't mean to hide, so I made a small code change to fix. Now there are many more words on the Miscellaneous category page!
August 31, 2022
I added three more audio clips:- black olive
- chewy
- crazy
And I started to feel like I was going crazy as I was saying the words over and over, wondering if I was getting the pronunciation correct.
Since I joined the Gaginang discord server, I've learned that they're working on a Gaginang Peng'im standard. It's mostly the same as What TC Say had before, but I noticed that the "t" consonant ending, like in the word white was replaced with "h", because some other accents actually do pronounce it like a harder t sound (but most don't), and they wanted to differentiate.
I'm not about making my own standard, so I'm going to try and follow this. I'm in the very slow process of reviewing my own translations and audio clips, so I only changed this for the words "white" and "napa cabbage", but I'll get to the rest eventually.
August 30, 2022
I just added three audio clips:- cooked
- When are you coming?
- I'm sleepy
And it doesn't seem like much, but I did a lot of fidgeting with Audacity, and now I am very very sleepy.
August 26, 2022
I saw a post on Facebook about a Netflix show called Flavorful Origins, and I watched the first episode on olives. It made me really want those Chinese black salted olives.
I added a few translations for words I heard my grandma say today:
- black olive
- cooked
- chewy
- crazy
I have not added the audio for these yet. I've had to modify some of the scripts I wrote years ago to handle UTF-8 better.
Finally, I've added a little more to the About page, so it says which dialect of Teochew my family speaks.
August 25, 2022
4 years later!!
Since my last update, I've added a few words and removed a lot of words. It's been years since I've updated the site, and I wanted to remove all the translations I didn't immediately recognize.
I also changed the romanization of the words so it's using the tone numbers instead of accent marks. The accent marks were originally taken from What TC Say, and using numbers is more of the standard. Plus now I don't have to render accent marks.
Finally, I've updated the Links and the About page.
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