April 3, 2018
I haven't had a lot of time to update the site lately, so I'm going to add an update today, even though I'm adding a feature that needs a lot of work. I started to add some pages for Chinese characters. You'll notice that the search bar in the top now says "Enter English or Chinese word". The site should be smart enough to know which one you want.
I also added some more words and sounds!
March 28, 2018
I finally uploaded sounds for everything I wanted to! Everything but some of the larger numbers and some times should have an audio clip. I also added a new category for words related to things in a House, and I reorganized the number section a little. I should be able to get back to actually adding more words though!
Apparently when you search "Teochew" in google, google also thinks you want results for "Hokkien" which is kind of annoying.
March 25, 2018
I'm slowly adding more sound clips. As for other things I've changed...
- Fixed the translation for "child" (it's nasal)
- Fixed a bug where notes weren't showing up on translation pages
- The Updates are paginated
- Flashcards that used to have parentheses look a little better
March 24, 2018
Lots of backend changes! Which means you probably won't notice a difference unless I broke something.
I went and restructured the database again. Previously I had been storing the pengim with the tone marks, and I decided that it was way easier to store them with the tone numbers and just add the tone marks when it gets displayed in the browser. I also went and re-looked up every single word to see which words are nasal. Now all of the nasal syllables with have a : ending.
Oh, I also recorded a bunch of words and added even more chinese characters. This is tedious. Saying the same word over and over to try and get the pronunciation better just gets me more confused. I've been trying to practice the nasal sounds, but I just don't think I'm able to hear the difference. I'm hoping to have all of the basic words on the site recorded this week. Obviously I can't record pronunciations of all the numbers, but I'll try and do the smaller ones.
March 18, 2018
I officially have sound clips now! (On five words only. See if you can find them.) Hopefully my pronunciation isn't awful. I still have to find a decent audio recording software. Using a chromebook seriously limits my options though.
Other changes:
- The translate feature is now case insensitive.
- The translate page has a new format.
- I had to fix the translation for one of the "uncle" and "aunt" words.
- More words and more chinese characters were added.
There are a few words I'm having trouble finding what the "correct" chinese character is. Looking up the character for "orange" came up with a character that has completely different pronunciation that I'm used to. I also had trouble with the word "wife".
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