How many of u here got parents who speak..teochew/hokkien?
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How many..
me lor
my parents speak teochew lor, but then hor i prefer mandarin leh..
ppl say angmoh more high class, but i nvm lah, chinese can liao but then hor my mummy keeps on speaking teochew to me leh..
ask her speak chinesne she dun want..sian..hahaha
cos u know what speak angmoh or chinese got more benefits cos next time u go working train ya speaking language skill
if u speak or alway listen to dialects at home, not beri good lor..
not that we must forget our roots, but we must go according to times mah, agree with me?? :):)
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i is teochew
oni use at home with grandparents -
i agree with you.
we can maintain culture, but we also have to suit the times.
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thank u for agreeing
to speal dialects with granny is okay, bt even my granny also speak chinese to gransons lol haha
maybe my mother used to it liao lah so har dto change
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they grew up with dialect in their younger days, so it could be something sentimental to them... something for them to remember the old days when the kampong spirit was strong.
so be understanding towards their needs too.
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Dad's Canto
Mom's Hokkien.
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My dad cantonese
everytime speak cantonese to mi
at least i understand
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My dad's hokkien, my mum is teochew, but they speak cantonese.
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dialect is our real mother tongue, mandarin is not
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Originally posted by cutepanpan:
cos u know what speak angmoh or chinese got more benefits cos next time u go working train ya speaking language skill
if u speak or alway listen to dialects at home, not beri good lor..
not that we must forget our roots, but we must go according to times mah, agree with me?? :):)
completely disagree. actually, it is all PAP propaganda.
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though i am pure Hainanese....i can speak all other dialects fluently becos of SAF...lol...being the minority dialect group...
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Originally posted by cutepanpan:
How many..
me lor
my parents speak teochew lor, but then hor i prefer mandarin leh..
ppl say angmoh more high class, but i nvm lah, chinese can liao but then hor my mummy keeps on speaking teochew to me leh..
ask her speak chinesne she dun want..sian..hahaha
cos u know what speak angmoh or chinese got more benefits cos next time u go working train ya speaking language skill
if u speak or alway listen to dialects at home, not beri good lor..
not that we must forget our roots, but we must go according to times mah, agree with me?? :):)
kinda agree but we should not lose our asian heritage....it must be passed down...
as for english and mandarin, they are economic languages and powerful networking tools when u wanna do biz in potato or chinese countries..
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Father teochew mother hainanese
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Originally posted by BanguIzai:
dialect is our real mother tongue, mandarin is not
Agree. Dialect is our real mother tongue, mandarin is not.
Speak dialects preserve one's roots.
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mandarin was the dialect of Beijing residents in the past. Afterwards became common language of people in China.
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Mandarin was a dialect? Wow! What did the Beijing people normally speak then? Anyway, both my parents and my entire family and relatives all speak Cantonese, including me. Cantonese is our primary language, although I seem to be more fluent in English.
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i speak hokkien, cantonese, english (my standard is: i could write and did write a phd thesis in english), mandarin (my standard is: i can write articles in chinese), japanese, vietnamese
ahem hao lian hor
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Time has changed, now the younger Singaporean Chinese parents talk to their children in English.
I think some years later, the PRC-turned-Singaporean parents will be the only one talking to their children in Mandarin.
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well, my mom and my grandmother could speak most of the chinese dialect like hokkien, teochew, cantonese, hakka and some others...
I can only speak hokkien, understand abit of cantonese...
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
well, my mom and my grandmother could speak most of the chinese dialect like hokkien, teochew, cantonese, hakka and some others...
I can only speak hokkien, understand abit of cantonese...
not bad liao.
many youngsters quite impossible to speak in any dialects at all.
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We definately dont want to make our mother tongue go extinct right?
My cousing now dont even know how to speak in dialects for they speak mandrian and english since young. So sad.
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
not bad liao.
many youngsters quite impossible to speak in any dialects at all.
well quite true...Remind me of an incident where I saw a fren of mine quarreling with some young punks... my fren was speaking to them in hokkien and they dun even understand...
imagine some ah beng paikia wannabes who dun even speak hokkien...
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hi ya low class
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My parents speak teochew amongst themselves...
They initially wanted me to know mandarin and english only....
but ended up i keep asking them word by word what it means...
Now i can speak singapore-standard teochew.... to my grandparents.... =) -
Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
well quite true...Remind me of an incident where I saw a fren of mine quarreling with some young punks... my fren was speaking to them in hokkien and they dun even understand...
imagine some ah beng paikia wannabes who dun even speak hokkien...
ah beng paikia dunno hokkien = FAIL
ah beng dunno mandarin only know angmoh = BIG FAIL