Chinese languages

This forum seem a little bit dead nowadays. I do have some sparse contact from time to time with some of members outside here tho :) As some of you might know, I do have an inclination towards Singapore. Anyway, I just wanted to share a few Singaporean short movies with some Hokkien I've seen lately...

Creo que el término "fukienés" todavía no se ha establecido en este mundo. Why help build up a Mandarism? There are very few real hits for this word on Google. In a few days, people anybody who Googles it will find this thread. Pero "Fukien" como topónimo me parece establecido e...

She sent me a quick message: eh tsoi is usually used in asking questions. Most of the time is used to ask questions like for example "eh tsoi tsio din eh tian oi boh? - can i borrow you're phone?" then you would answer "tong dian mah eh tsoi - of course, you can". Anyway, I'll as...

Thanks, amhoanna. Si tengas la oportunidad de estudiar el idioma joquien de Cebu (o de cualquier lugar en las Filipinas) con otro maestro, creo que tienes que considerarla también. Un maestro que no maneja el mandarín muy bien sería lo máximo. :oops: Ya me gustaría, pero mis intentos de encontrar ts...

I see. For some reason, I thought "ē-sái" was the one that expressed permissibility, like if the mother tell their kids: "tī Tâi-oân boē-sái kóng chi̍t-kù Eng-bûn-oē", or if you ask permission to get in: "góa ē-sái li̍p-lâi bô?", but I guess I'm confused about how to us...

l-/d- and -o/-or are not phonemic differences... Why distinguish them in your spelling? Just a reminder so that I don't end up pronouncing it as l-. Like-wise, I shouldn't have marking vowels with -r either, or remove the nasalization, but still... *shrugs* Honghù smells like a Mandarism to me. I'm...

Abun wrote:I'm curious though, where do your speakers come from?

Somewhere in Tâi-lâm. I can't remember the name of the district. If only I had seen it written...
I'll ask again next time I see them. I've only met them once this year...

In another thread, I commented about "五語快易通", a wonderful material containing 200 sentences in 10 (despite the name! :mrgreen:) languages: Hokkien (Taiwanese/Tâi-lâm, Quemoy) + Foochow (Matsu) + Hakka (Si-yen, Hoi-liuk, Thai-phu, Ngieu-phin, Tsau-on, Wu-hua) + Ami + Atayal + Bunun + Puyuma...

I did notice that with -k of course, but I always heard the vowel before -h as a real o (the one without a dot in POJ)... Actually, when I mean "or", I mean the "o" as they pronounce it in Tâi-lâm... (not sure if it's everywhere in Tâi-lâm tho xD) I guess that's similar to /ə/? ...

amhoanna, chin hoaⁿ-hí lí ū hoat-piáu chit-kōa ê thó-lūn, chin to-siā. After an one month and a half break from Hokkien classes because of finals and re-tests, I'm resuming classes with my teacher today. But oh well, I won't bring up my off-topic bullsh*t to this thread :mrgreen: What I mean is, U'l...