Speak : English, Malay, Mandarin (very little), Hokkien (a little better than my Mandarin!) Write : English, Malay, some HTML Want to learn : German and French (and PHP!!!!)
Your Hokkien is a lot better than me!! Speak: English, Malay, Cantonese, Chinese (very little, and struggling to now fully speak it!), Japanese (rudimentary) Write: English, Malay, Japanese (rudimentary, only Std 2 level!), some German, some Dutch, Microcontrollers PIC 16/18F (C and Assembly okay) and Microcontroller 68HC11 (basic only!). Want to learn: German, Dutch, Japanese, ARM Processors, 8051, AVR!!
Scandinavian language (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) are even tougher! And, they aren't even closer to English compared to German and Dutch! I'm curious of how am I gonna pronounce furniture names in Ikea where some of them uses Swedish names?
Mandarin, English, Malay, Hakka, Hokkien and Japanese is the language that I would like to learn most.
Yeah, I think it's Nee-Kon, but many people still call it Nai-Kon. Okay, we better get back to topic! Maybe we should split this out to a Pronunciation thread!
Understand: English, Nyonya/Northern Hokkien, Bahasa Melayu, casual Japanese, limited Mandarin and Cantonese ( I dislike these two so I don't practice speaking Mandarin & Cantonese) Speak : English, Nyonya/Northern Hokkien, Bahasa Melayu Write : English, BM. Want to learn : read and write Kanji, Spanish and French.
Are you a nonya??? BTW, I have never met a Nonya before... so what exactly is the Nonya dialect/language? Is it Hokkien??
Nyonya descendant and very proud of it!! Both sides pure baba nyonya. Well, I think most Penangites speak the same hokkien. We use a lot of Malay words in our hokkien. Intonations and words used are very different from Klang Hokkien.
Okay, so I've actually met a real nonya la!!! Hey, doesn't that make you a "bumiputra"??? Haha.. Yeah, Penang Hokkien.
Lol yeah, even in Singapore too! Need that for primary communication since many of those people who don't speak Cantonese, they often speak Hokkien! Wow that's cool! You will pass with the hard work!
thanks only if you are comfortable remembering exception and reading unrelevant from its word, e.g. 3 = written trois, read "twa"
Yeah... they don't spell it letter-by-letter. Good example is "Galoises" which pronounced like "ga-lwah" or something like it...
Hey I'm peranakan/baba nyonya too Have got the blood on both parental lines so I'm relatively undiluted as well
