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A. Instruction
1. You can use Yale or other romanization systems.
2. The following tone numbers (or sequence) are the same as what traditional Cantonese use and compatible with most romanization systems such as Sidney Lau and Yut6Ping3.

Corresponding
Tone No.		 Tone Names in Yale Yale You can just ignore the tone marks You can bracket tone names in crucial or confusing cases
1 HL/HF sung seung seung (HL)
2 HR sung seung seung (HR)
3 ML seung seung seung (ML)
4 LF suhng seuhng seuhng (LF)
5 LR suhng seuhng seuhng (LR)
6 LL seuhng seuhng seuhng (LL)

 

B. Example for Yale chat

English translation for the above example

aa : What is your name?
bb : I'm called "bb"
aa : Where do you live?
bb : I live in Hong Kong. How about you?
aa : I live in America
aa : How long have you been learning Cantonese?
bb : One year
aa : I'm not free now and I have to leave, let's chat again next time!
bb : Okay, let's chat again next time, bye!
aa : bye!

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