Just decided to start learning something from the SIno-Tibetan family but I'm not sure where to start. So I'm wondering whatever I choose to specialize in would it help smoothen the transition into other languages of China and even outside the traditional Sino-Sphere like Karenic and Zeme? How mutually intelligible would languages in this family be with each other assuming a bunch of random people from across China, Burma, and India who speak them suddenly gets transported into a bar? Does ease of learning another specific family in the branch depends on proximity of the place of origins of the specific languages known and being studied? Is it similar to the Indo-European family where say someone who grew up as Dutch native would have a much much much harder time learning Farsi than learning English? And Pole would quickly transition in Russia quicker than trying to learn Gaelic and same with a New Dehli inhabitant learning Punjabi would find Romanian more time consuming? Something like that for native speakers of the Sino-TIbetan branch trying to learn other family members like Cantonese would find Mandarin far easier than Jingpho and Olekha?

VoxCroft Analytics builds language technology for low-resource languages across the globe for a variety of applications. We are looking for speakers of Hokkien to participate in a Corpus Creation Project to build bilingual language data sets that will be used to train and build language models. Native speakers of Hokkien will be required to complete the following tasks:

• Translate sentences from Hokkien to English
• Translate sentences from English to Hokkien
• Transcribe audio content into Hokkien
• Translate Hokkien transcribed sentences to English
• Record themselves reading sentences in English and Hokkien
• Assess sentences transcribed/translated by peers using VoxCroft’s quality matrix
• Improve the quality of transcribed/translated sentences, where necessary

Potential candidates:

• Do not need to be professional translators but must display language proficiency in translating written English sentences accurately into Hokkien and from Hokkien into good quality English.
• Must portray excellent attention to detail and a good grasp of the spelling and grammar rules in their mother tongue.
• Must be available to work at least 15 hours per week over 3-4 months.

Successful candidates will:

• Work online remotely,
• Must have a computer/laptop and access to reliable Internet for the duration of the contract.
• Candidates must have a local currency bank account that accepts international payments.
• Candidates must have proof of identification (passport etc.)
• All shortlisted candidates will undergo a test, and only those who meet the required standards will be selected.

Work will begin once the contract is signed. All contracted workers will receive training

Interested candidates are requested to upload their CV and a cover letter explaining how they meet this project's requirements.

https://voxcroft-analytics.breezy.hr/p/d0ca99dbf55b-mt-hokkien-linguist

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Struggling to find any audio of how to pronounce this word, all I have is it spelled out phonetically as kôe-chiap, but want to make sure I'm saying it right if someone wouldn't mind sharing a clip of how it's pronounced. Thank you in advance!