Want to learn hokkien, how?

last SG · 2011-04-14T14:44:20+00:00

oh, i dun swear, u must hv got the wrong gal, my dog maybe.. so you lonely got get your dog to dog on you or not?

Chunhow SG

I want to learn hokkien, not only will help me talk to elderly folks also can let me appreciate music from taiwan better ( 五月天，强辩乐团，伍佰 etc). I work during the day. Are there weekend or night classes in hokkien ah?

I googled and all the only school I can find is "Spring International" but they don't seem to have much details such as costs.

of course it's much easier to learn while growing up from parents or grandparents, but spoke mostly mandarin :/

ditzy SG

Hokkien is harder to learn than cantonese. If you ask me, to speak hokkien, it has to come from the blood. I spoke hokkien when I started living with my grandma since I was a kid, and it just came naturally, serious.

FireIce SG

i tot u wanna understand wa mng tee................

u can hang around in food centres and kopitiams

sure can pick up a lot

Darkness_hacker99 SG

Learn canto and appreciate music from Beyond

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngqRqeLrLeI&feature=related

Ä«Õß:¸ïÀë SG

Learn canto and appreciate music from Beyond

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngqRqeLrLeI&feature=related

BEYOND !!

YEAH!!!

angel7030 SG

I googled and all the only school I can find is "Spring International" but they don't seem to have much details such as costs.

of course it's much easier to learn while growing up from parents or grandparents, but spoke mostly mandarin :/

First learn to eat hokkien mee, taiwanese mingnan hokkien, different from here, if I really speak mingnan to you, you understand nothing except my sweet voices.

I dunno why singapore erase the dialect speaking, soon, it will be a lost culture, today, you got bangala speaking their native dialects, indian speaking their own dialects of their village, etc etc...and Singaporeans cannot speak their own dialect, quite shameful.

BanguIzai SG

Blood !

Chunhow SG

First learn to eat hokkien mee, taiwanese mingnan hokkien, different from here, if I really speak mingnan to you, you understand nothing except my sweet voices.

yeah I heard mingnan is different from the SG hokkien. should have picked it up from my parents from young :/ what a shame!!

maybe i'll search for mingnan classes instead.

Chunhow SG

yeah cantonese is more similar to mandarin? also can pick up quite a bit of cantonese just by watching dramas....but hokkien different. the context of all the words is very important in conversation, all very subtle and hard to catch by someone not taught by a native speaker

Junyang700 SG

First learn to eat hokkien mee....

eat hokkien mee can help?

Fcukpap SG

watch taiwanese dramas in original hokkien

the Bear SG

how to speak hokkien

=> Part 1

=> Part 2

BanguIzai SG

yeah I heard mingnan is different from the SG hokkien. should have picked it up from my parents from young :/ what a shame!!

maybe i'll search for mingnan classes instead.

If u managed to find any course pls share with us here so that we all oso can go and learn

Chunhow SG

how to speak hokkien

=> Part 1

=> Part 2

-.- no need classes to learn those....got free lessons in army

angel7030 SG

eat hokkien mee can help?

Yes, most who fry hokkien mee are hokkien peoples, you can learn from them, ask them to teach you hokkien, in return u patronise them. There are many types of hokkien, if you learn from our taiwanese drama mingnan hokkien, which is pure hokkien, you can get laughed in singapore, just like me, when i speak hokkien to singapore, they laughed but get bewildered by the pureness of it. But sg guys love it when i speak to them in my native hokkien, they find is very lovely.

Eng Choon Hokkien

Cheow Huang Hokkien

Chin Men Hokkien

A Men Hokkien

Nam new hokkien

Huang Kuay hokkien

etc etc

M the name SG

You can contact Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan/新加坡福建会馆 to find out if they organized any Hokkien Conversation lesson : http://www.shhk.com.sg/index.html . Otherwise you can try your luck at your nearest Community Centre.

chisinau SG

Ironically, when I contacted the Hokkien Huay Kuan for Hokkien lessons, they told me to ask my parents to speak to me in Hokkien instead.

I'm also interested to learn Hokkien since is still somewhat useful in Singapore, but the dearth of avenues to learn Hokkien is a huge turn-off!

kengkia SG

Ironically, when I contacted the Hokkien Huay Kuan for Hokkien lessons, they told me to ask my parents to speak to me in Hokkien instead.

I'm also interested to learn Hokkien since is still somewhat useful in Singapore, but the dearth of avenues to learn Hokkien is a huge turn-off!

angel7030 SG

Ironically, when I contacted the Hokkien Huay Kuan for Hokkien lessons, they told me to ask my parents to speak to me in Hokkien instead.

I'm also interested to learn Hokkien since is still somewhat useful in Singapore, but the dearth of avenues to learn Hokkien is a huge turn-off!

Call Hokkien Huay Kuan for what, most are busy playing mahjong there, you go there, help those hokkien lau ah pek and ah ma buy food, make tea and on fan, listen to the way they interact in hokkien, then slowly learn from there lor.

BanguIzai SG

Can learn better thru those ways but it is definitely longer in time.

Your above post, you speak Taiwanese Hokkien to people in Singapore? Sometimes not easy for Singaporeans to understand

Eng Choon Hokkien 〉永春 Hokkien

Cheow Huang Hokkien 〉詔安 Hokkien

Chin Men Hokkien 〉金門 Hokkien

A Men Hokkien 〉廈門 Hokkien

Nam new hokkien 〉 What's this? There's 南安 Nam UaN or Lam UaN but never heard of Nam new

Huang Kuay hokkien 〉安溪 Hokkien (should be An Kuay or An Kh'uay , not Huang Kuay > sounds like 風雞 )