are courses that teach dialect available?

playboy_1985 SG

not sure. are there courses that teach you to speak dialect and other nationality language?

kohkt SG

e buildin beside funan.. i tink peninsular or something like tt gt teach other countries’ languages.. but dialect no..

~leXX SG

You want course in dialect? Can...just go visit those old folks in nursing homes and try to communicate with them lor. Got wide variety of dialect to choose from there, maybe even other languages if you lucky Laughing

playboy_1985 SG

sian lor.

~leXX SG

on the other hand can try those “huay guan” or clan association….dunnoe whether they give formal lesson anot. How come your dialect never pick up from parents or grandparents?

playboy_1985 SG

im a hainanese yet i duno how to speak the dialect. only some simple words nia. haha cuz at home everybody speaks english

polarsnake SG

I want learn cantonese Razz

~leXX SG

cheers...join the club, where your parents speak only english at home and never bother to learn their dialect properly to pass on Rolling Eyes The sins of the parents are indeed visited on their offspring. I'm cantonese and don't speak a word of dialect at all, except for the usual hokkien vulgarities that you learn in the army Learning a dialect is a goal i want to achieve in the near future....

ShrodingersCat SG

I'm hainanese. Check out the Hainanese clan association for Hainanese courses.

playboy_1985 SG

well my dad does speak good hainanese, cantonese and hookien. but only that when i young the time didnt bother to learn. i have the same goal as you. cheers Very Happy

technoboy SG

For cantonese maybe you can rent those hong kong drama to watch.

My friend always watch them and she speaks real fluent cantonese Laughing

playboy_1985 SG

i also watched drama series in cantonese and listen to cantonese songs leh.. until now picked up abit of cantonese nia. the fact that i was in HK for a month also didnt help in learning the language.

praetor81 SG

Now y d’you need dialect stuff. Chinese, Real Chinese is whats you shoulds be learnin. Anyways if you really wants em dialects can be learned in neighbourhoods or them chinese friends/schoolmates. sees no money spent. can be picked ups like that easily.