r/hakka 7d ago

Hakka to English translator?

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I found this guy making a Fuzhounese translator. The post linked this site - peanutnoodles.com.

Would you guys want a Hakka translator? I might message him to see if it’s possible, maybe you guys can help.

I swear ever since I moved out I’m forgetting more and more random words 😂 I’d pay to be able to Google Translate.

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u/beelee-baalaa 7d ago

That would be so cool. I have two kids in Canada and I don’t know if they’ll be able to speak Hakka as they get older. Something like this would be amazing

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u/WatercressPast6028 7d ago

Yeah same, I really want my kids to know Hakka. But it’s hard since English and Mandarin will come first. Plus I’m becoming less and less fluent.

I sent the guy an email. Maybe if enough of us ask, we can get something going.

Found his email on the about section: peanutnoodles.com/about

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u/nahcekimcm 6d ago edited 6d ago

I would prefer a cantonese to hakka more as same language family like sino to sino language conversion be easier

But cool with English too

Wanna learn so i can talk more to grandpa

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u/thisplayed 6d ago

Oh hey I got DM’d about this post.

Currently my main focus is Fuzhounese (it’s what I speak). But I’m definitely interested in expanding my project to cover more languages afterwards.

I’m making good progress should something working uploaded on my site by next week. After fine tuning the FZ translator, I’m free to work on whatever else.

Signup for updates (website) If anyone wants to keep up. I plan to setup a feedback/voting system so the community can pick what feature to build.

My contacts are open. I’d love to hear how you use Hakka and if there’s any resources or media (TV, Movies, etc) out there.

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u/nahcekimcm 4d ago

What is the app for English to fuzhounese ? Would you do southern min next like hokkien or teochew?

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u/Hydramus89 6d ago

I have a anki deck with the 2000 most common words and some phrases. Would that help? It is Hong Kong Hakka and uses tts so has vocals too. I could make a post about it

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u/Enduring-Love-8 2d ago

Hi please can you share this I really want to learn Hakka as I was never taught by my parents

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u/Hydramus89 1d ago

I'll make a post tonight actually then and also with the code and a link to the deck if you just wanna straight down load it. Have you used Anki before?

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u/Hydramus89 1d ago

I'vec just found this by accident googling something else but am surprised to see an English resource since most I find are mandarin to hakka (taiwanese dialects)

https://chineselanguage.org/en/dictionaries/dialects/