Are dialects important to you?
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I would suggest teaching of dialects to kids when they are below 6 years old
school work is not so hectic and kids are nurtured through a fun way of learning a language
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i think the leaders of this country have a different view. Dialects are useless. Mandarin is enough to engage with China.
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I learnt how to speak and understand hokkien because I grew up in primary school under my grandmother's care. She only knew how to speak hokkien. My command for english language was also much better than my chinese because during the same period I was exposed more to channel 5 cartoons.
And the fact that my folks communicated with me more in english than anything else.Primary school chinese wasn't too bad, till I reached upper secondary. And my insisted I focus more on english language at O levels than anything else because if you flunk that, you kind of flunked the entire O levels technically.
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i think the best way to retain dialect is still remain with family that speaks. But it is difficult to retain full dialect as it is phonetics it does not hold its own written form.
Written mandarin will also evolved to keep up with technology.
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the responsibility of passing on dialects does not lie with the govt but with parents.
many have adopted english as their mother tongue. i feel the situation is no longer reversible.
there are people who can speak dialect, english and chinese. and frankly you need not have to be an A student to do it.
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I guess I am a banana split. Can read and write in english, can speak but cannot read and write mandarin, curse and do business in hokkien.
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so let's all start speaking our dialects and write them down so that it can be passed on to the next generations
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Here's something on dialects~~~ and a laugh
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
Here's something on dialects~~~ and a laugh
very interesting and so good, funny.
thanks for the post
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IC also has no dialect group already.
Now, cannot tell whether you are cantonese or hokkien by looking at the IC loh.
So, you say dialects important or not important ?
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Originally posted by BanguIzai:
very interesting and so good, funny.
thanks for the post
ahhh... u understood everything or some dialects dun understand...? -
Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
Here's something on dialects~~~ and a laugh
funny.
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
ahhh... u understood everything or some dialects dun understand...?i understand everything, hokkien, cantonese and hakka
how about you?
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Originally posted by BanguIzai:
i understand everything, hokkien, cantonese and hakka
how about you?
hokkien yes... cantonese abit... hakka I gotta ask my mother help translate for me >___> -
Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
hokkien yes... cantonese abit... hakka I gotta ask my mother help translate for me >___>
your mummy is hakka people ah? -
Originally posted by BanguIzai:
your mummy is hakka people ah?
nope... my maternal side de is hokkien... but my mother understands alot dialects >___> -
Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
nope... my maternal side de is hokkien... but my mother understands alot dialects >___>
your mummy
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wah, all so smart, me understand only Hokkien.
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Originally posted by Rock^Star:
I guess these dialects evolve. Dialects will never die off, at least not in China. In south east asian countries like ours, yes it will....sooner or later.
Rock^Star, dialects in China are really on the verge of dying off already
On top of the 6 pointers which I pointed out to you in a previous post, read these threads:
Nanning Cantonese has disappeared under age of 12:
http://www.360doc.com/content/09/0322/23/112853_2887071.shtmlShandong Weifang dialect is disappearing under age of 40:
http://www.360doc.com/content/09/0627/20/31214_4053853.shtmlArticles on the imminent dangers of Cantonese disappearing soon and how to preserve it:
http://www.360doc.com/content/06/0821/12/7579_186549.shtml
http://www.360doc.com/content/07/0611/20/14386_552578.shtml
http://www.360doc.com/content/07/0114/12/14303_330042.shtmlLoss of reading ability in Shanghai dialect in youngsters:
http://www.360doc.com/content/07/0911/13/43414_736045.shtmlShanghainese despising their own Shanghai dialect:
http://www.360doc.com/content/09/0217/09/13037_2566490.shtmlSteps to protect dialects in China:
http://www.360doc.com/content/05/1119/14/2072_32982.shtml -
tks :) didnt realise that it happens in china too. Weird cos they speak chinese which is closely linked to dialects. Here dialects die becos children wanna speak english.
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Originally posted by Rock^Star:
tks :) didnt realise that it happens in china too. Weird cos they speak chinese which is closely linked to dialects. Here dialects die becos children wanna speak english.
oh no it's happening everywhere and we are helpless.
Taiwan's languages are also going for the worse, see here for one of my observations.
Now my mummy is in Guangzhou and Swatow and Fujian Province, she will report to me on the observations on language usage once she comes back.
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Originally posted by BanguIzai:
oh no it's happening everywhere and we are helpless.
Taiwan's languages are also going for the worse, see here for one of my observations.
Now my mummy is in Guangzhou and Swatow and Fujian Province, she will report to me on the observations on language usage once she comes back.
Language observation course?
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
Language observation course?
No la, she go take a look nia. Language observation is an incentive for me.
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oic.
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We must observe our dialect usage, start using and start promoting among ourselves.