A Shanghainese dialogue (with audio)

[atitarev]

比較

I think Quest is trying to do the Cantonese equivalent of your Shanghainese dialogue in his own romanization. Here are the corresponding characters for Cantonese:

A: 請問，你知唔知圖書館喺邊呀？ (唔 = 不; 喺 = 在; 邊 = 哪裡; 呀 = question ending particle)

B: Erm，唔知。

A: 噉呀，你知唔知附近有冇啲比較好嘅書店呀？ (噉 = 這樣; 冇 = 沒有; 啲 = 些; 嘅 = 的)

B: 對唔住，我都係唔清楚。 (對唔住 = 對不起; 係 = 是)

A: 算喇，唔該晒。 (喇 = 了; 唔該 = 謝謝; 晒 = verbal particle that gives the meaning' date=' "completely")

B: 唔使唔該。 (唔使 = 不用)[/quote']

That's the same in Yale romanization - I hope it's correct, can't put tone marks, only tone numbers:

A: 請問，你知唔知圖書館喺邊呀？

A: cheng2 man6，nei5 ji1 m4 ji1 tou4 syu1 gun2 hai2 bin1 a1？

B: Erm，唔知。

B: Erm，m4 ji1。

A: 噉呀，你知唔知附近有冇啲比較好嘅書店呀？

A: daam6 a1，nei5 ji1 m4 ji1 fu6 gan6 yau5 mou5 di1 bei2 gaau3 hou2 ge3 syu1 dim3 a1？

B: 對唔住，我都係唔清楚。

B: deui3 m4 jyu6，ngo5 dou1 hai6 m4 ching1 cho2。

A: 算喇，唔該晒。

A: syun3 la1，m4 goi1 saai3。

B: 唔使唔該。

B: m4 sai2 m4 goi1。

[Quest]

daam6

you mean gam2?

[atitarev]

you mean gam2?

Isn't 噉 pronounced as daam6/daahm?

I removed the explanations in brackets from my post to avoid confusion - I used HanConv software to romanize - the only program I know, which can romanize a block of Cantonese text (can do both Jyutping (粵拼) and Yale.

[Quest]

Isn't 噉 pronounced as daam6/daahm?

I dont think so. daam6 would be 啖.

[Yuchi]

It can be pronounced both ways..

http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=5649&useutf8=false

[skylee]

Shouldn't it be 咁?

[Hofmann]

I think 咁 is the one.

而家 sounds like 而今, but that's just a guess.