Guest Chai Tea Posted April 16, 2023 Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 Some are multilingual here. In the office mostly speaks Mandarin and English. I find Hokkien interesting but I only know few words. How fluent are you in this dialect? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityhallguy Posted April 16, 2023 Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 I can speak decent SG Hokkien as I used Hokkien with my parents, siblings and other elderly relatives. Why I emphasize SG because not all hokkien are the same like Malaysia, China and Taiwan. Our SG hokkien had actually mixed with other languages like Cantonese, English, Malay, so not really clean and pure hokkien. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.0284 Posted April 16, 2023 Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 6 minutes ago, cityhallguy said: I can speak decent SG Hokkien as I used Hokkien with my parents, siblings and other elderly relatives. Why I emphasize SG because not all hokkien are the same like Malaysia, China and Taiwan. Our SG hokkien had actually mixed with other languages like Cantonese, English, Malay, so not really clean and pure hokkien. actually the pure hokkien are from anxi prefecture. they still retain the ancient musical form of namimm. which dated back to the first century AD. Singapore and Klang are populated by anxi hokkien which people often regards as the mountains hokkien. it is estimated that the population of anxi hokkien in singapore is around 15-20 percents of singaporeans population. PlayersGroup 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Why? Posted April 16, 2023 Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 I thought someone had mastered hokkien if they could use a lot of profanity in one sentence.😶 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quanjishou Posted April 16, 2023 Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 my english little bit hokkien no limit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fab Posted April 16, 2023 Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 Quote 鍾意就好,理佢男定女 never argue with the guests. let them bark all they want. 结缘不结怨 解怨不解缘 After I have said what I wanna say, I don't care what you say. 看穿不说穿 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin Posted April 16, 2023 Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 I only speak Hokkien to my parents (not my siblings) but as I am interested in the dialect, my proficiency in the language is not bad. Several old folks commented that my accent is very ‘old school’ & I am pretty happy about it 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.0284 Posted April 16, 2023 Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 1 hour ago, robin said: I only speak Hokkien to my parents (not my siblings) but as I am interested in the dialect, my proficiency in the language is not bad. Several old folks commented that my accent is very ‘old school’ & I am pretty happy about it 😎 the original hokkien use a lot of humming sound and 8-9 tune just like cantonese. as a language used in tang and jin dynasty, many poet uses hokkien to compose their poems. therefore even today the chinese term "humming poem". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Push chee bye Posted April 16, 2023 Report Share Posted April 16, 2023 My fave - kan ne na. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pubic01 Posted April 17, 2023 Report Share Posted April 17, 2023 Dirty talk in Hokkien mmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agoenk_pku Posted April 17, 2023 Report Share Posted April 17, 2023 I speak hokkien fluently and talking in hokkien with some colleagues, with my parents, and some of my hokkien friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And then Posted April 17, 2023 Report Share Posted April 17, 2023 my level of fluency -> English>Mandarin>Hakka>Cantonese>>Hokkien> Teochew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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