今天好辛苦地從網上找到一堆中國方言的例子，紀錄下來跟大家分享一下。我只懂粵語，所以好不容易才找都其他方言的紀錄，如有什麼地方弄錯請見諒。

暗殺者 (台語)

阿明半暝轉來到厝，老母猶未睏teh等伊，入門tō問：“敢有影？美國á kap咱斷交”“有影lah，新聞teh報。”“是按怎beh kap咱斷？”阿明無想著老母thàn食人賣蚵te，也會問這款kap美國á外交ê問題，tshìn-tshái tō應：“Khi-moo-tsih bái tō斷。” “Ah有要緊無？”這日有人客買蚵te，kā伊tâu:“Tann台灣知慘a。”所以這暗蔥命猶m̄睏，專工等阿明轉來，beh問伊有要緊無。“阿母，你ta̍k日tī巷á頭煎蚵te，我tī市á賣虱目魚丸湯，hit個美國á總統腳踏，敢成實bat來交關一擺？斷無斷，生理照作，有啥關係？…作你去睏lah，免煩惱tse有ê無ê。”蔥命坐hia想，這個美國á總統mā是真無情，huah斷tō斷。

http://tailo.fhl.net/Tanlui/Tanlui41.html

蘇州話

搿么今朝头正好，倪一淘去哉啘。

http://www.suzhouhua.org/home/jc/nwts.asp

茶山情緣 (客家)

阿土嫂唱：老公逐日走四方，遊遊野野真放蕩。厓無閒直掣捩捩轉，汝毋曉佬厓來幫忙。 阿土哥： 晡娘姐，汝莫怨怪來莫受氣，換領靚衫厓渡汝上街去。

溫秀琴： 有啦有啦！蘭英該額恩俚較煞猛兜仔匉忒佢，佢个工錢會分恩俚兩儕匉啦！ 溫秀鳳： 恁樣還差毋多！

http://www.hakka.gov.tw/public/Attachment/813111471371.pdf

每日一句 ---- 上海闲话

侬晓得伐,昨捏化半体落度雨来,度是度的来交关陌路散接撕了,侬看到伐,今早地思里刚,有一部帕萨特搓子雨司从门分里进到里巷,搓子里巷蚕撕司,老哈拧格.

http://travellife.org/forum/viewthread.php?tid=51924&highlight=

哈我讲温州话！(是溫州話嗎？)

亡天阿~短命儿啊~你非死网吧里那,你阿伯哈你急活那,哈我过做起,把你生类那~人死亡啊,哈我肚生大沃那.

http://www.703804.com/viewthread.php?tid=323443&page=1#pid5012097

旅遊人生 討論區 (粵語)

幫襯佢一杯野飲就可以攤係個海邊耐耐GAM 吹住海風 睇住日落 落水浸浸身 再上番黎飲啖野飲><

而如果係酒店既住客就有優先啦~~~ YESSS ~ 唔駛去旅行都霸位呀MA真係><

http://travellife.org/forum/viewthread.php?tid=52826&highlight=

2009.07.19 [language, chinese] - comments

繼續談一下學習粵拼的心得，我對拼音掌握得不好，常常分不清正確的讀音。粵語裡面有oe和eo兩個音我便分不清。幸好用oe和eo的韻母只有六個，我便編了一個口訣來幫忙，就是「靴雙腳，居鄰出」。這六個字正好用了全部六個含oe和eo的韻母，

靴hoe1
雙soeng1
腳goek3
居geoi1
鄰leon4
出ceot1

這個口訣有點是《鄰居穿了鞋子出來》的意思。當我不肯定某字是否用那個韻母時，唸來看看是否跟其中一字押韵便知道了。

2007.12.07 [jyutping, chinese, language] - comments

前幾天開始應真練習粵拼，不過幾天已經很有成果，現在打一編長長的帖子已沒有什麼問題。以前用簡易倉頡，就算一百字之中懂打九十五個字，就是偏偏有三五個字特別難打，特別是一些筆畫少，但又不易分拆的字，真是絞盡腦汁也想不到怎樣拆。於是就是為了幾個字一編短編打了半天也打不成。現在用粵拼，固然不時會遇到不會拼的字，但是猜下猜下總會猜到。很少像倉頡會被某些字難到。現在練得多了就更得心應手，今天正是要用中文來寫這篇網志，以使學以致用。

現在的學習方法是這樣，我編了一個簡單的程式，可以把中文加上粵拼音標。然後我每天找一篇一二百字的文章標音後練打，除了一些難字以外我盡量避免查看粵拼音標，真的不懂才看。那幾個難字再記下來，明天再試打。這樣不用幾天已經掌握了粵拼音法。

2007.12.06 [jyutping, chinese, language] - comments

Initially my blog was focused on technical IT subject. Overtime I have wrote less about that and more on general topics like travel. Today I will return to a technical topic about the Jyutping(粵拼) Cantonese romanization system.

I start off with the quest to learn and master a Chinese input method. Years ago I started with the Cangjie (倉頡) system. I never get much beyond basics because it is a difficult system to learn, let alone to master. Then I looked at pronunciation based system. I am glad to find out Cantonese based system is readily available. Out of the multiple romanization system, people seems to have gravitated toward the Jyutping system by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.

So the next step is to get familiar with the Jyutping system, which is not trivial for me because I am weak in phonetics. It will be very useful if there is a service to annotate a piece of Chinese text with the pronunciation under each character. Unfortunately I can find no such software besides some dictionary that does it character by character. Instead I have decided to write one myself, as a naïve translation should not be difficult to write.

Now all I need is a table of all Chinese characters and its Jyutping, i.e. the Jyutping specification. I have spent days searching the internet and come out empty handed. Linguistic Society of Hong Kong themselves provides little more than a general description. It is a shame even some links to its description are broken.

The good news is I have finally found it from the Unicode Han Database, a place I have crossed many time but have not realized they have compiled the most comprehensive data on Chinese characters, including Jyutping and even Cangjie code. With the database here I am ready for business!

(2010-02-17 Thanks Helena for the heads up. The Unihan database format has since changed. The new download link is Unihan.zip. Some general description such as Unicode NamesList File Format are also available. )

2007.11.29 [jyutping, chinese, language] - comments

The original Thai "Hello" actually means "Have you eaten rice yet?", says this short article about travelling in Bangkok. It brought a smile to my face because this is identical to the Cantonese greeting <食咗飯未> that I have grown up with. Have you eaten rice yet? Its use has long since faded and it sounds funny today to greet each other with this. Who care about the boring rice when you can have any fancy food throughout the day? This phrase really takes you back to a time when after a hard day at work, people would enjoy the simple pleasure - a meal with a bowl of rice.

2006.08.07 [culture, language] - comments

I have found a new use of google. For years I was looking for an excellent electronic English dictionary to no avail. It turns out Google is the answer.

For example, I want to use the phrase at no avail but I am not sure if it is used correctly. It does not help that the dictionary does not have such entry. But a search with news.google.com quickly turns up many examples. It also shows me that the correct phrase is to no avail instead of at no avail. Now I can use the correct phrase with confidence.

2003.07.29 [language] - comments