“Learn Cantonese with Big Data” Launched to Enhance the Effectiveness of Learning Cantonese
- 2022
- Knowledge Transfer/Research
- Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies
The mobile app entitled “Learn Cantonese with Big Data”, funded by SCOLAR and Language Fund, was launched in March 2022. Different from traditional dictionaries and online dictionaries, this mobile app adopted a corpus-based approach by analysing authentic language data of a two-million Chinese character corpus which cover a wide range of genres and topics used in daily situations. Besides basic lexical information such as pronunciations in Putonghua and Cantonese, radicals and stroke numbers, the mobile app provides usage information, including frequencies of the entries, verb-object and classifier-noun collocations. The mobile app is a knowledge transfer outcome of Digital Humanities research in data-driven learning and mobile-assisted language learning. It is a portable and accessible self-learning tool that can enhance the effectiveness of learning Cantonese. The project was led by Dr Andy Chin (Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies), Dr Tse Ka Ho (Department of Chinese Language Studies) and Dr Shin Kataoka (Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies). Interested parties can download the mobile app at Google Play Store and App Store with the phrase “Learn Cantonese with Big Data” or scan the QR codes below.
EdUHK launched a Cantonese self-learning mobile app
QR codes of “Learn Cantonese with Big Data”
QR codes of “Learn Cantonese with Big Data”
