Boekvertaler van Frans naar Chinees (Kantonees)

French is a Romance language spoken by about eighty million native speakers and 230 million total speakers worldwide, an official language in twenty-nine countries and a working language of the United Nations. Crossing from the Romance family into the Sino-Tibetan family requires the translator to rebuild grammatical scaffolding from scratch, since these branches diverged thousands of years ago and share little inherited vocabulary.

Cantonese is a valuable target for reaching eighty-five million speakers in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau, and the global Chinese diaspora that prefers Cantonese over Mandarin. Moving from Latin to Han script means foreign proper nouns are rebuilt syllable by syllable using established character-for-sound conventions, with prestige brands and place names having their own canonical renderings.

French literature includes Montaigne, Moliere, Voltaire, Hugo, Proust, Camus, and fifteen Nobel laureates in literature, more than any other country. Cantonese is used in Hong Kong government, the city's vibrant film and music industries, religious publishing, and a growing volume of vernacular online writing.