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Online resources about Chinese dialects (Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew, Taiwanese and others).

Taiwanese Language Page
Taiwanese culture, language, writing both in Chinese and English. Great resource. Highly recommended.

Cantonese Language Association
Some Cantonese resources.

The OSU Cantonese Project.
Info on the Kaleidoscope Series, a set of multimedia course materials for spoken Cantonese at the intermediate to advanced levels. (See catalog.)

Cantonese Revision Aids
Teaching Cantonese and written chinese to beginners. It contains many pages of print-friendly revision sheets, tests and essays.

Cantonese Syllabary
An electronic version of Wong Shik-ling's Classic Syllabary. A.k.a. "A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced According to the Dialect of Canton". Traditional Big5.

Hakka Dialect
From Polytechnical University of HongKong.

Online searchable Chinese Dialects Database
By S. Starostin & Y. Bronnikov.

Dialects of the Chinese language
General information.

Shataukok
A regional Hakka dialect of Chinese. Extensive page with nearly all possible information both on Standard and Shataukok Hakka.

Hakka Dialect (Language)
Superb resource by S. L. Lee.

The Toronto Hakka Conference
Hakka Canadians cultural function1

Dictionary of Chinese Characters
Mandarin-Cantonese-Hakka-English Character dictionary, with several different look-up methods for characters and Romanizations

Hakka Pronouncing Dictionary
Hakka dictionary of Chinese characters, including Mandarin, and Cantonese, and English.

Samples of Chinese Dialects
In Chinese, with audio files

DOC (dialects of China) Files
Measuring Relationship among Dialects: a downloadable .doc file and a font to read it (in Chinese). From City University of Hong Kong.

Hakka Survival Guide
These pages are a collection of Hakka words, phrases, and texts. GIF images are used for Chinese characters, and therefore no Chinese browser is needed (though it is a bit slower).

Introduction to the Shanghai Dialect
Basic dialogues, presentation in Pinyin-based transcription and characters. 1The only web resource on Shanghainese. In Japanese.

Tai Yu Tian Di
Research papers and resources about Taiwan dialects such as Taiwanese Minnan, Taiwanese Hakka and so on.

Hokkien Profile
The Hokkien (Fijian) dialect description.

Cantonese Language Profile
The Cantonese dialect description.

Taiwanese Dictionary
Taiwanese-English and English-Taiwanese resources. Output in Chinese, English and phonetic transcription.

Barefoot Cantonese
Humorous page on survival Cantonese.

Colloquial Cantonese
A light-hearted compendium of useful (and not so much) Cantonese phrases with literal translations, English explanations and sound files.

Cool Cantonese Phrases
Some 20 useful colloquial Cantonese phrases with WAV pronunciation files.

Learning Cantonese
Some basic phrases and words with character gifs, standard transcription and audio files.

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