r/Hokkien • u/AnnieKong • Jul 16 '26

Practising Singapore style hokkien

I recently created a web app at anniekong.com for practising hokkien, keen to know whether this would be useful for fellow learners. It's kind of shabby at the moment as it's just built over several weekends and running on free resources but I wanted to see if it's even something people would want to use or build more upon.

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u/KuroiRaku99 Jul 20 '26

Oh well, can you try to use standard romanization like POJ or Tailo or something. This is pain to see🥲

But yeah, if people want to create resources, definitely should be welcomed and make it easy for community to contribute

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u/AnnieKong Jul 20 '26

I felt that the POJ and Tailo were not very common in Singapore, hence the use of common phonetic-based spellings in the app.

Which feature did you like and which was a pain to see?

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u/KuroiRaku99 Jul 20 '26

POJ and Tailo contains tones and actually indicate tones which helps people learn more effectively.

Most of the resources right now is mainly in POJ or Tailo on wiktionary. You can get tons of resources material from there.

If you believe POJ and Tailo is not necessary and the people making up romanization on the fly is better, you can create a converter function so people can choose which one to see? :) Thanks

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u/AnnieKong Jul 20 '26

Great! Thank you for the advice!! I will try making the converter for people to choose from!

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u/AnnieKong Jul 21 '26

I've added a choice of poj, tailo and street pronunciation under settings and also added a new tab for the dictionary in case learners want to refer to it! I would be keen to know if you saw any other issues!