Hi there! I found your site while searching for "learn to read Chinese menus". I'm a Canadian-born Chinese and my parents speak Cantonese. However, I'm barely fluent in casual conversation and pretty much illiterate. So I've also been trying to learn to read Chinese, starting off with the most practical: Chinese menus!
Do you have any Chinese friends? It would be much easier to help you with pronunciation and translation?
As for the missing characters in your transcription, I found that (if you have one, I don't) on iPads and iPhones, you have the option of turning on language keyboards. You can choose to handwrite characters as well, so if you know the correct order of strokes, it will convert your handwritten character to the computerized version. It seemed pretty useful to me when I was trying to transcribe menus too.
Chinese menus
Date: 2011-11-02 03:52 am (UTC)Do you have any Chinese friends? It would be much easier to help you with pronunciation and translation?
As for the missing characters in your transcription, I found that (if you have one, I don't) on iPads and iPhones, you have the option of turning on language keyboards. You can choose to handwrite characters as well, so if you know the correct order of strokes, it will convert your handwritten character to the computerized version. It seemed pretty useful to me when I was trying to transcribe menus too.