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About your calligrapher: The webmaster, Tai Oi Yee, is a skilled calligrapher with university education in both Hong Kong and North America. She is a native speaker of Chinese, fluent in both Cantonese and Mandarin dialects. She also tutored under the late Master Lai Yuk Hei (¾¤·¶º³)who was a renowned artist trained by the grand master of Chinese painting, the late Lam Fung Min (Lin Fengmian). Her calligraphy and artwork combines both traditional techniques and creative flair.
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About your translators: The translation team of Tai Oi Yee and Lee Sang will provide you with a translation that not only embodies the essence of the word/phrase but is also grammatically correct and sounds beautifully in Chinese. Some other sites may have standard phonetic translations for English names, with no attention paid to the meaning of the individual characters. Our team will give each name careful thought, and with your input, will come up with a meaningful phonetic translation. University educated in Hong Kong and North America, both Oi Yee and Sang are native speakers of Chinese, fluent in the Cantonese, Mandarin and Toisan dialects. Their mastery of both the English and Chinese languages will guarantee the most accurate and appropriate translation for you.
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About written Chinese and spoken Chinese: The same Chinese character may be pronounced differently in different dialects. There are many dialects in Chinese, with the 2 major ones being Mandarin and Cantonese. Many Chinese software offer pronunication input methods for both dialects.
Mandarin (also known as Putonghua) is widely spoken in many parts of China, Taiwan and Singapore, while Cantonese is prevalent in Hong Kong, southern China, Singapore and overseas. Many words sound similar in these dialects but there are more tonal variations in Cantonese than Mandarin. Our translation team is fluent in both dialects, and thus will pick a phonetic translation which will sound right in both Mandarin and Cantonese.
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