Support requests for Cantonese?

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I have a few requests of the support team at LingQ for Cantonese.

-Make Bing translate one of the available dictionaries. It actually has a Cantonese! The cantodict one is great for individual words, but not helpful for phrases.

-for youtube import code “Chinese (Hong Kong)” subtitles to import. I don’t know why youtube doesn’t call it “Cantonese”, but I think that may be why I can never import cantonese videos from youtube, but Chinese ones are no problem.

-for netflix, allow “traditional Chinese” to be imported to Cantonese. As anyone familiar with Cantonese knows, actual “Cantonese subtitles” aren’t a thing in movies. Standard written Chinese is the best we got.

Any other ideas from Cantonese learners?

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I’ll pass this on to development and see what they can do!

One note, unfortunately, the Bing dictionary is unable to be added to LingQ :frowning: Sorry

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Please update this thread when changes have finished being made.

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Can you link me to a YouTube video that has Traditional Chinese closed captions? As well as Netflix.

Thanks

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as you can see if you open the subtitles it says “Chinese (Hong Kong)”, which denotes Cantonese.

https://www.netflix.com/watch/70033611?trackId=13630398&tctx=1%2C0%2C12b66914-b654-4a8e-ad84-ce24f1ad415f-72929860%2C3359409b-112e-4f32-a332-6a85c0dca500_30169902X6XX1580526060460%2C3359409b-112e-4f32-a332-6a85c0dca500_ROOT
here’s an example on Netflix (film is “Justice, My Foot”) subtitles are called “Traditional Chinese”

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Thanks, I have messaged development.

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Importing YouTube videos into Cantonese LingQ works now.

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-for netflix, allow “traditional Chinese” to be imported to Cantonese. As anyone familiar with Cantonese knows, actual “Cantonese subtitles” aren’t a thing in movies. Standard written Chinese is the best we got.

Please let me know if this is still an issue. ^

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Youtube works!
Netflix has the same issue. It says “no appropriate captions found. available languages are: English, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese.”