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For as long as she can remember, Assistant Professor of Languages and Applied Linguistics Ariel Chan has lived her life in ...
China's effort to back Mandarin over Cantonese caused hundreds of campaigners in Hong Kong to protest against the move.
Their goal is to preserve Cantonese language and culture while helping Cantonese-speaking immigrants settle in Ireland. “It’s the brainchild of three concerned mothers,” Chau said.
This week, students write about the importance of preserving languages, protecting endangered species and the impact of AI on art.
Today’s AI models struggle to operate in smaller languages like Cantonese and Vietnamese, which are still spoken by tens of millions of people.
Just in time for its 100th anniversary, a Vancouver Cantonese language school says it has enough adult students again to reopen its doors despite the growing dominance of Mandarin in Canada.
Debuting in 2001, Cantonese-English bilingual rapper Jin Au-Yeung, better known as MC Jin, has been a longstanding figure in the Asian American hip-hop community. His professional and personal journey ...
This paper aims at studying the use of address terms in the Cantonese language as spoken in Hong Kong. It focuses primarily on the kinship system, examining both vocatives and designatives, and ...
Eleven-month-old infants can learn to associate the language they hear with ethnicity, recent research from the University of British Columbia suggests. The study, conducted in Vancouver and published ...