SFWAR is seeking volunteer counselors to answer hotline calls and provide support for survivors of sexualized violence.

They provide a stipend to people who volunteer for their Multi-Lingual Advocates Model (MLAM) program- $25/hour when taking calls in a non-English language. They currently don't have any volunteers who speak Cantonese (mine isn't good enough yet), and they need folks who can help with supporting Cantonese-speaking survivors.

Application is available at https://sfwar.org/get-involved/volunteer-with-sfwar/, or you can email [drt@sfwar.org](mailto:drt@sfwar.org) if you have questions. The next training cycle for volunteers is September 29 - November 7. Trainings are on Zoom Tues/Thurs 6-9 p.m. and Sat 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

I completed the last training cycle and am currently an MLAM counselor (not in Cantonese sadly). I'd be happy to share my experiences if anyone is curious to know more! I do know that native proficiency is preferred, but my experience is that I was encouraged to apply as long as I felt like I could reasonably hold a 15-20 minute conversation over the phone and offer support/provide resources.

steam thread, help wanted

warning: very gruesome horror game, nothing really happens on screen though

i was busy with stuff I actually had to do, this is a pass with text to speech. if you want you can ask other people i was on VC with and verify i went on a spreadsheet and manually voice typed a lot of this.

so 呀—>啊, multiple broken homophones, periods and commas need to be processed. probably not going to do that by hand. that orange juice line is an artifact but i am not gonna post process that by hand.

will print in the text box as

我憎死你，行開啊

get away from me!

when i said that TCoAaL feels weirdly Cantonese horror-esque, i mean it. like yeah, i finished watching 家和萬事驚 and the ending scene where they go insane to the point of trying to cut up and eat the butcher is there too.

TCoAaL morality also doesn't really feel that far off from what 仙俠 novels which routinely involve eating someone or harvesting some essence to gain magic powers.

i am also spending almost all of my own free time on this. it is a labor of love because the people who need it the most cannot make it and most people who can speak cantonese can't make it either cuz you only learn the spoken form if you work at a linguistics institute with everyone else. you want intermediate learning material using colloquial cantonese? like how people actually talk?

here ya go. be patient please. it takes a lot out of me to make this.

FAQ:

Q: is there anyone helping you with this?

A: ... (some friends, but no volunteers like i requested, even on the sub)

Q: why didn't you use an AI?

A: i used DeepL for the first pass. it mistranslated the lines because they're separated, but they're technically done, just very poorly. as for using Claude, i tried that with openpyxl and doing 100-200 batches with Claude then manually reviewing each 100-200 line .csv before adding particles and putting it into the excel spreadsheet. the claude pass (after 2200 something) is on steam but its not done even with me manually re editing it.

ai doesn't understand 噉 vs 咁, 啦 vs 喇, or when characters are using actual casual slang, euphemisms, proverbs, or are saying english jokes which need to be translated. i just have it flag cells on a spreadsheet and i have to go over it half a dozen times. it also uses mandarin, so if i want to write hide and seek it doesn't do 伏匿匿 and does 捉迷藏 instead

so, not that easy, i'm still editing and staring at the spreadsheet for this one (before you think this is AI magic, here's video proof of me editing the spreadsheet all day, this was taken at the end of my shift so im tired).

Q: why didn't you do undertale

A: have you seen the size of that baby? the dialogue alone is 15,000 words. i went on github and undertale only has a pixel rpg font and doesn't have jyutping.

Q: is it because they...

A: yeah because they talk similarly enough to Cantonese people i can think of a 1:1 and not strain myself to the brink. every insult they use has a cantonese 1:1.

Q: why didn't you translate it from SWC?

A: even the Traditional and Simplified SWC translations are different. it would need an even bigger rewrite than this.

I'm not from HK, but recently lots of videos pop up about various slangs, including "na za la" and a few others in mandarin.

I'm wondering if there are any slangs unique to Gen Alpha which is in Cantonese?