Tag: Chinese
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How and why our kids are learning Chinese
“Are you teaching your kids Chinese?” and “how are you teaching your kids Chinese?” are two questions we get a lot from Chinese American parents. One question I wish more parents asked us is “why?” When I was picking a major course of study in college, I consistently gravitated towards East Asian Languages and Culture…
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Building a CEDICT parser in Rust with Nom
The CEDICT format is a simple, creative commons-licensed file format for Chinese/English dictionaries. While Mandarin-only CEDICT parsers abound, there is basically no support for Cantonese jyutping in the English-speaking programming world. As someone who would have liked to use Cantonese pronunciations in my programs, at first I was stuck. I considered adding jyutping support to…