DIY Toishan Dialect

[danielboey]

Anybody know of any guidebooks/tapes/CD's/URL's that are guide-books on the learning of the Toishan dialect?

If not, somebody somewhere should do it before it goes into oblivion. Overseas Toishanese only speak the languages of their adopted lands & the mainland Toishanese will be swamped into extinction by Cantonese & Mandarin!

daniel ([e-mail])

[laohuaqiao]

A dictionary of Taishanese pronunciation came out about a year ago, Taishan Fangyin Zidian. It includes about 9,000 words and a number of Taishanese phrases or idiomatic expressions.

The dictionary is available in bookstores in Taicheng/Taishan City, I don't know of any place else other than that. Request your local bookstore for it. More copies sold will mean future editions with updates.

isbn 7-5355-4807-5/G.4802
Hunan Jiaoyu Chubangshe (Hunan Educational Publisher)
Price: 20 yuan