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Pieng yiu - Friend Lam Pieng yiu - Boyfriend Du pieng yiu - Girlfriend Tak Tse - schooling tsu Lai - House tsao - smells bad che che - sit down Months: (geh) it geh - January

di geh - February sa geh - March si geh - april go geh - May lak geh - June chit geh - July pue geh- August kaw geh - September Chap geh - October Chap it geh - November Chap di geh - December Shobe, My Grandfather and his family fled away from China because they can't bare the leadership, the abuses and also the poverty in china at that time... Before they can ride the boat, they have to give up everything they have... They have to give away their money, clothes and all the things they have just to escape from china... All they had where the clothes they are wearing... Then when they came here in the Philippines, they had to start from scratch... It was really tough for our ancestors at that time... That's why I really look up to them... I studied in a Chinese school since Elementary to high school... But Just like you, I didn't take Chinese classes seriously... I didn't even mind studying mandarin... gaaah!! I regretted it a lot...Look at me now? I'm dying to understand F4's language... :cryoutloud: If I have only known F4 when I was younger, I could have studied Chinese..huhu... As to Fookien, I learned fookien at home... But I'm not as fluent as my dad... I actually sound like a pre-schooler who just learned how to talk..lol... Shob, what you said about learning chinese in school is correct! you don't learn it in school... you learn it at home.. because when you study it but don't practice it, it's no use.. you'll just forget everything... You really have to use the language...

ilovycx said: Achi, do you know what "di chige chonge-chonge a!" means? lol. My dad has a funny friend who always say that. It's really funny hearing it..

As to ' di chige chonge chonge a!" I can't understand it... is it the complete sentence already? or is there lacking? "Di" is you "Chige" is this "Chonge " is how... waah I don't know what it is in english it's "paano" in tagalog I think??? I'm not sure... It has to be continued..LOL... Or my comprehension is just too small to understand it.... Chel!!! glad to see you here and I'm smiling every time you use the fookien words you just learned..keep it up!! hehe... Your doing right... BTW about hookien... hookien looks like it's a combination of Fookien and Mandarin right? some word are really different... This post has been edited by : 22 May 2008 - 08:42 AM 0 ð? ð? ð?

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Posted 23 May 2008 - 01:02 AM _chi yeah!! me too!! if only i knew F4 much much earlier! argh. My ancestors started from scratch too, with no idea about tagalog and with no money and food. I'm even wondering how they learned how to speak tagalog.. My mom doesn't understand and speak Mandarin.. (she said she forgot it already. lol; how dare she scold me! ) My dad speaks and understands just the basic but they are very fluent in

fookien (esp my dad). My parents are so happy (or they are just overreacting. ) when i understood what they were talking about yesterday. January can also be cha geh dui bu dui? (lol. okay, i shouldn't mix up mandarin words here. lol) oh, and i ed the fookien of cat! i find it funny though.. meow - cat (mau in mando) some words: ban ban - slow tan se - wait po - clothing

hitokiri6993 says Fookien/Hokkien/Minnan (Î fu2 jian4 hua4/ min3 nan2 yu3) is a Southern Sinitic Language spoken by Chinese who live in Fujian province, with a majority spoken in Taiwan and here in the Phils. It has 9 tones as compared to Mandarin, which only has 4 tones. In the Philippines, all Chinoys speak Lan-nang-oe , a dialect of Hokkien which originated in Xiamen, China and has evolved over time with some Spanish and Filipino loanwords. In Manila Chinatowns such as DIVISO|IA and BINONDO...you can hear Lan-nang being spoken. Lan-nang and Amoy Minnan () are mutually intelligible. I'm not sure with Taiwanese (which is also a dialect of Minnan) though. However, with "President" (Dictator) Marcos establishing Martial law sometime around the 70's, Mandarin became the medium of instruction in Chinese schools here. That being the reason why most Chinoys could both speak Minnan and Mandarin, along with English and Filipino/Tagalog. However in the Sta. Mesa area (Manila? right), there are LOTS of Chinoys of Cantonese descent (including yours truly). Originating in the Toisan county inside Guangdong Province, most Cantonese here speak Hoisan/Toisan Cantonese and/or Standard Cantonese . In the Philippines though, HK Cantonese (Cantonese with a mix of English, French, Japanese, Mandarin, Taiwanese, and -slang) makes it hard for other Cantonese (specifically the ones from HK & Macau) to converse with each other, thus making Standard Cantonese and HK Cantonese almost not mutually intelligible (unless you know the slangs and the loanwords). I mean Sta. Mesa Cantonese is like PU|E CANTONESE...as in perfect CANTO...you should listen to them speak! You can easily identify the 9 tones, not like HK Cantonese which only has 6 tones.

Anyway, here in C-pod, all the lessons are in Mandarin Chinese- Standard Mandarin (- pu3 tong1 hua4). Enjoy the experience here, but first pick which Chinese language you're going to learn first! :)