Cantonese - English dictionary for pleco

[Junso1]

Are there any Canto - EN dicts for pleco? I find one of the most useful things about pleco is that I can take a big list of words, import it into pleco and export the list with all the dictionary definitions. I would like to do the same thing with a list of Cantonese words (used in spoken Cantonese). If pleco doesn't have a dictionary that can do this, is there any online dictionary that can do bulk Cantonese lookups?

 

Also, anyone know of any good spoken Cantonese word frequency lists or good dialogue?

[mikelove]

We don't offer one yet but we will be adding one later this summer - one we created ourselves, actually. The current PLC and CC databases together cover quite a lot of Cantonese, though, and our flashcard importer can automatically generate Jyutping readings, so you might find that even the current system can save you a good bit of time. I'm not aware of any online Cantonese dictionaries that offer wide-ranging access to their data like you describe.

If you don't mind my asking, is there a particular list of Cantonese words you're eager to use? Where is it? We've been benchmarking our effort by sampling it against other dictionaries / wordlists / etc (pick 200 random entries and see how many of them we cover and how accurately) so we're always on the lookout for good new Cantonese wordlists. I'm afraid I don't know of any good spoken Cantonese frequency lists, we'd love to find one of those ourselves - not sure if anyone has even done a study on that subject recently.

[carlo]

@Mike, you may have seen these already:

 

- In 2014 Greenwood Press published a "Putonghua Cantonese English Converter" by Shin Kataoka and Cream Lee that is essentially a frequency list of 6000+ words based on actual HK usage. You can look up words by Mandarin or English:

 

http://www.green-woodpress.com/products_detail.php?id=118

 

- The old "Colloquial Cantonese and Putonghua Equivalents" by Zeng Zifan could probably also be used as a frequency list by topic.

[mikelove]

@carlo, thanks a lot - just ordered that Greenwood book.