(Hong Kong linguists Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip have written a terrific, lively, and readable book on Cantonese grammar.) Finally, one afternoon in the student lounge, I totally lost it ...

Cantonese and Mandarin are both written in Chinese characters, but Cantonese has some differences in grammar, terms and structure. With the help of the US tech company's PaLM 2 large language ...

Putonghua is the official language on the mainland, but if history had played out differently the vast majority could have been speaking Cantonese. In 1912, shortly after the fall of the Qing ...

Tang said many Hongkongers at school were not taught the basics such as Cantonese romanisation and grammar, let alone the history and origins of the language. “Learning a language is not only ...