Chinese languages

Thank you for the helpful responses everyone. Ah-bin has sent me a recording of the tones. I'm curious though, do the tones really vary that much from dialect to dialect, for example Penang to Amoy, that no recording would work for every dialect (or at least most of them)? I know that words are goin...

I made a a thread like this last year and got some very helpful responses: http://www.chineselanguage.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8733&p=29932#p29932 I'd like to get back into Amoy Hokkien and I just have a question about the tones. The thing is I don't have a clue how to pronounce any of...

Wow... that's super confusing, haha. So the names of the tones don't mean anything, neither do the IPA symbols. Great success? Lol. Can I listen to recordings of the tones anywhere? If not, might anyone here be troubled to grab their mic and record the tones for me, so I can hear exactly how they ar...

When you say 51 and 21, do you mean the word is pronounced with a combination of tone 5 and tone 1, or tone 2 and tone 1? Or does that mean something else? :\ Sorry, I'm a total beginner. Edit: I just read that the acute accent is used for tone 2 (yin rising) and the vertical bar for tone 8 (yang en...

Hey I have a quick question about a certain character used in the POJ romanization. Let's take for example the word for chemistry, hòa-ha̍k. According to wiktionary, the second 'a' has a little vertical line above it, but my dictionary gives the word as hòa-hák, that is, with an accute accent rather...

Bodman specifically teaches the Amoy variant. It is just the dialogues that are set in Malaya. Occasionally he points out how the Amoy variant is different from that spoken in south Malaya/Singapore. The north Malaya variant is largely ignored. Really? Okay, well that sounds good. Well I guess I sh...

Thank you for the informative response. So, if I wanted to learn "standard" Amoy, then a book on the Malaya variant (be it either Quanzhou or Zhangzhou) is not a good idea, am I correct? Hmm, tough situation here... It really depends on where you want to use it. For foreigners ie. non nat...

jopas nyt jotaki! joku toinen suomea-osaava kaveri haha hauska tavata. en itekää oo suomalainen vaan semmonen suomee-opiskeleva ulkomaalainen (amerikkalainen täsmälleen) ja oon asunut aikoinani suomessa ja nyt olen parisuhteessa suomalaisen miehen kaa ja myö puhutaa vain suomee keskenämme. entäs sie...

Thank you for the informative response.

So, if I wanted to learn "standard" Amoy, then a book on the Malaya variant (be it either Quanzhou or Zhangzhou) is not a good idea, am I correct?

Hmm, tough situation here...

Hey everyone, So I've had my eye on Spoken Amoy Hokkien by Nicholas Bodman (http://www.amazon.com/Spoken-Amoy-Hokkien-2-Set/dp/0879504501) and another forum member told me that it was a good resource... for the variant of the language spoken in Malaya. 6 decades ago. Are there are any books or resou...