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Hokkien - a Dialect, a very familiar, close, warm and touching type of language that our fore-fathers passed down to ALL of us.
Due to the fast-pace changes happened around us, this language has been eliminated by a lot of the people - a lot of ignorant people - it's totally sad and disappointed to see and know that.
Is it important to keep it going?
My reply is Yes, Definitely Yes and a MUST YES.
Hope that by introducing the various songs in my web, by putting in the Pin Yin and brief explanation on the songs, it can somehow create a small awareness to those who have yet to THROW away this language to come back to learn a little bit more on our precious language - Hokkien.
Your support will make this culture go a longer journey.
Here's the link to the web:
http://hokkiensong.multiply.com/
Million thanks.
Jave Wu made my kowtow.
Not ALL of us, some of us are not Hokkien. ;-) One thing Hokkien speakers can do to promote the language in Singapore is to speak the language better, watch your diction and enunciation. Hokkien is a beautiful language but too many Hokkien speakers here butcher it. For examples of good spoken Hokkien try the radio news broadcast in Hokkien daily (I think)
ReplyDeleteAnd keep the vulgarities out of the language thank you very much.
Hahahahaha, my ALL refers to the Hokkien only la, not all other Dialects.
ReplyDeleteToo bad is that, alot of people tend to treat this language as a old fashion,out-dated, not up to standard language, so they give-up.. haizzz... what to do... we are in an Ang Mo country..
I don't agree we are in an Ang Mo country. We are a cosmopolitan city in the original sense of the meaning. Having travelled around quite a bit I feel Singapore has retained its Asian character.
ReplyDeleteI think promoting Hokkien songs and Hokkien shows is one good way. The best way as always is to speak the language properly. Most Hokkien speakers here are terrible, they speak it in a very gutteral, vulgar manner, even the women. Maybe the various Hokkien clan associations can hold Hokkien language classes. You can even recite Chinese classic poems in Hokkien, some of them sound very good in this language.
bro, i would like to say that, i m one who still held on to my roots proudly.
ReplyDeletedaily conversation were done in ann kway hokkien minus away the vulgarities.
but i still have a lot to learn from my families.
This is good, as long as you proud of speaking ur root language, thats mean that there still hopes in bringing our culture going.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good job :P
I'm also an Ann Kuey person.
i see. which part of Ann Kway?
ReplyDeleteMe - Yan Ling.
ReplyDeletemine is Heng Yit
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