[SG Talk] Which dialect group do you belong to?

[DragonPrince]

In Singapore, Chinese can belong to certain dialect groups.

My father is a Hokkien and my mom is a Teochew.

Whats yours?

I heard that Taiwanese and Hokkien is different, and I asked. They couldn't give me an example of how different they are.

[Edweenie]

:D Ohhh...first one to post in this thread....hehe.... Im not Singaporean but since u mentioned about dialects, both of my parents are Hakka ...:wave:

Anyone here hakka-nese? xD ....

[jacelyn_edison86]

hum... dialet thread here, my dad is hainanese and my mom is hokkien but i can't speak hokkien but i speaks fluently in hainanese.hehehe.....

[petricia]

My dad is Teochew and my mum is Hokkien.

I wouldn't say I am fluent in either but basically I can converse okay in both.

Dragonprince: Bascially Singapore's dialects (like it is everywhere else) have been localised. Hence the slight difference in tones, nouns and words used here and there. Basically, I think they are largely the same... I can understand (most of) the Taiwanese Hokkien so i think there aren't alot of difference. However, communicating wise... i think it is would be some problem though.

[Wendy]

Both my parents are cantonese.. my whole family (uncles, aunties, grandma...) are all cantonese.

I used to be able to speak quite well in the past, but due to lack of practise, I can't really speak cantonese that well now, but I can still understand it when ppl speak cantonese to me.

[DragonPrince]

I think we better stick to Chinese then if we want to speak to Taiwanese. There are some words that are deeper. So far, I have not notice the difference. Maybe I didn't speak a lot of Hokkien, thats why I don't know if its local Hokkien or Taiwanese Hokkien. My father used to ban me from using dialects, he thinks its low class.

I fear using cantonese the most.

[josh_yth]

I fear using cantonese the most.
why:cry: ???
cantonese is my favorite language, and i use it almost every single day even though i live in the US, and most of my friends are english speaker.
Anyway, i don't really have any idea which dialect group i belong to, because i can speak like 3 or 4 chinese local dialect from different part of my families.

[Starylosophy]

I'm cantonese, but I don't know how to speak cantonese. I don't even understand. Hmm, I think I know a few vulgar words in cantonese :sealed:

I know teochew though, because I'm more closer to my mother's side and they speak teochew all the time.

DP: I think I understand why you're afraid of cantonese. Is it because they sound very rowdy and and vulgar? I've heard worser arguements than the 'HK bus uncle' incident and also others involving women. It's rather scary!

[DragonPrince]

No, no, no. Its not that. Its just that my Cantonese is as lousy as Jay's. LOL. No hard feelings about that beautiful dialect. No hard feelings, ok? *sweats*

[Starylosophy]

As bad as Jay? I think he's much better than me. I'm totally hopeless. A cantonese who doesn't know to speak simple cantonese. :depresse:

[jacelyn_edison86]

humphs, i speaks well in cantonese as well as the vulgar words*opps*
cause most of my friends at KL speaks cantonese with me but now only speaks with my brother in law in cantonese wherelse at school speaks English and some of my friends forgot that I can speaks well in Malay. Once they speaks*coughbadthings'boutourfacilitatorcough*I look at them and tell them to talk bout other things.

[DragonPrince]

Actually, the uncle who scolded the boy in the bus was really ugly. I don't know what really trigger that to happen. It does not represent the whole Cantonese committee. Cantonese does not only exist in Hong Kong.

Jacelyn, you are very naughty. I know that there are foul words, but I don't use them. Its good to know all the foul words, just in case someone use it on you, and you know what it means. Not just smile like a silly person and continue to think that that person is talking nicely to you, in fact they are cursing.

[cacky]

:D Ohhh...first one to post in this thread....hehe.... Im not Singaporean but since u mentioned about dialects, both of my parents are Hakka ...:wave:
Anyone here hakka-nese? xD ....

Yeah, I'm a fellow Hakka coz' my dad is. My mom's Hokkien though. But I can hardly speak these 2 dialects well.

The funny thing is, I'm best in Cantonese due to all the Hong Kong drama serials which I have been watching! :D

[weemalyn]

I am a Hainanese. Both my parents are hainanese

[DragonPrince]

I heard that both Cantonese and Hainanese are very good at cooking.
Teochews are mostly merchants in the past and Hokkiens...oh, I had forgotten so much. I used to work in a kitchen with a lot of Cantonese and Hainanese, they always come up with very yummy dishes!

[jacelyn_edison86]

hey Weemalyn, I'm Hainanese too.:excited: At lat found 2 people who is hainanese in here. There's very few people in SG can speak Hainanese. that's what my grand aunt told me >.<

WY you are correct,Hainanese chicken rice is the best. i love chicken rice. ^.^

[Legend_killer]

I am American born chinese, my mother is Mando, and my dad is cantonese. I can speak and understand both. I am not sure what group I'm in but thats what I am.

[liwei_jay]

LoL..
i'm a mix of Hainanese and Hokkien..
was quite good at both when i'm young..
but lack of practise since then..
and spoke mostly cantonese with friends at school when i was in KL..
until most of them thought i'm a hongkie.. :bleh:

now catching up on my hokkien.. :P those who went TW would knw.. ;)
and my chinese (mando).. >.<

sometimes i felt abit ashamed as i'm a chinese but not fluent in it..
Luckily i can speak my own dialect well.. or my ancestors gonna rise and kill me.. :roll:

[shxn]

i'm hokkien! but i like hainanese chicken rice! ok. that doesnt make sense. -.-

[ho_yt]

Both of my parents are Hokkien, however my birth cert does not show that I'm a hokkien but it is shown as HengHua, I do ask my mum about it and she says that its one of the groups in hokkien, I can understand them better than saying them...

[Prince_Jay]

I am a Hokkien. I think most Chinese in Singapore are either Hokkien or Teochew. Maybe Cantonese come in third.

[ziai]

I am hokkien... I know how to speak hokkien perfectly cos I grew up in my grandmother's house... So she taught me.. Till now, I still use hokkien to communicate with my cousins, parents and relatives....

haha.. I heard my relatives say that cantonese people are fiercer, teochew people are more 'haolian' (proud) and hokkien people like to brag.. haha.. No offence though, I dont think there's any prove to this...

As for taiwanese and hokkien.. Some of it is the same... Like pretty (or nice), 'Sweè!', it's the same.... There are many cases where they are the same too... As for the difference.. I have no idea...

[icetears-]

My father is a Hokkien and my mom is a Teochew.

Ahahahas everywhere I go, I see the user, Dragonprince. it brightens my day :D

Lalalas` oh interesting question. My father's a Hokkien & mother's a Teochew too! But i can't speak a word of dialect. Zzzzzz. Oh well. Earth to English :D

[DragonPrince]

Thanks, Icetears. Its no longer tears anymore. The skies are clear, and what a nice day.

Looks like we come from the same culture. I heard that in the past, people who belong to one dialect group are not allow to shop or go close to people of another group. They are not suppose to marry people or be friends with people of other dialect group. Now, they just don't care anymore.

Luckily, our social groups don't work like this in JCNet.

World peace.

[no_pride]

Hmm, my father's a Hokkien and my mother's a Teochew. Sadly, I can speak neither of them, cos I grow up in a Chinese-speaking enviroment. But I can understand a little bit of simple Hokkien though, and I would love to learn to speak the dialect if possible. Hehe...

[.huifen.]

Im Hokkien and speaks no Hokkien, at all.
Im not Cantonese but able to speak the basic.

Im practically hopeless. ):

EDIT:
I just realised this is my 500th post! (:
GO JCNET! i loveeee you.

[esther]

Hee. same here.. Not really into dialects.
Mum's Hokkien and i only know how to speak basics..
Dad's Cantonese but i can only understand when people speak. cant speak Canto myself..

[midori]

I speak Cantonese, both of my parents speak cantonese. My dad can speak mandarin too though.. lol they should have raised me speaking both cantonese and mandarin XD

[jacelyn_edison86]

LoL midori,Your parent should have teach you in mandrin.... i can't speak mandrin as no one in my family speaks mandrin and i speak cantonese with my friends.

[DragonPrince]

Huifen, I only seen that you had thank a lot of people posting pictures in the gallery portion of this site. Congrats on your 500th post.

Yes, I agree that most of us don't really speak dialects thesedays. Its very lucky to know which dialect group you belong to.

[cinnimon~]

my dad's hokkien and my mum's hakka.

i know nuts about dialects
=)

[Lai Cheng Hung]

my dad is hakka and mum cantonese
i can apeak both and trying to learn hokkien now... find it hard tho...
we shud reali preserve these dialect as less n less people know the nowadays...

[weiz]

my dad frm hainan, mum frm hokkien.....
but donno how to speak hainan,hokkien soso only.... hainan sounds so weird....

[henry]

i belong to hakka...haha..people say this kind of people is very polite..but i dun think so..cause i am really bad temper..

[deeyan]

wow? i didnt know singapore has so many hakka people..i thought is only filled with hokkien..heehee..i`m hakka here ~! :) but not singaporean lols..

[joyangel]

:Anyone here hakka-nese? xD ....

yah! i'm a hakka too. although i cant really speak it, i understand it and can only speak a bit to my grandparents. i am learning hard!:wink2:
my mum is a teochew though.

[fRost`gEr]

im cantonese. my mother's hakka. but she only speaks hakka with her family in malaysia. haha. but in singapore my parents communicate in cantonese~~

[rainbowballoon]

I'm Hokkien but my spoken dialect is very 'broken'. I wonder if they hold dialect classes for interested students? It'd be great if they do. Yep taiwanese and hokkien is a little different.. but you can roughly get the overall gist when they speak cause they're alike in some parts.

[¦-Metal-Gear-¦]

hmm. im Hokkien. wa si hokkien lang. LOLS~

but i cant speak hokkien reli that well. listen is ok. lols.
=D

[weemalyn]

Both my parents are Hainanese, so I am a 100% Hainanese, but I only know how to speak a little..

[lurving_jay]

hahas. my father is i Hokkien and my mom a Teochew. and i only know how to speak Teochew. though it's abt the same as Hokkien, i cant really speak in Hokkien. well, i understand the both dialects perfectly well though. hahas

[loveillusion]

As bad as Jay? I think he's much better than me. I'm totally hopeless. A cantonese who doesn't know to speak simple cantonese. :depresse:

i think that jay cantonese has improved a lot recently. haha. dont be depressed=)

my dialect is hokkien. bud seriously i cant speak it well.
i can only understand but i cant speak cos it wil be very funny.
haha