Chinese languages

I'll add this one that I learnt today:

五仁 Ngó·-jîn - a kind of filling for a mooncake made from various mixed nuts and seeds

Kám-siā Amhoanna. Nō·lê link chin-chiàⁿ ū hèng-chhù, khi-sian ê sī i kóng--tióh há-lê sī-lâng ê "Learn Penang Hokkien" ê míh-kiàⁿ. Kóng tó-túiⁿ ōa-tê... Wá bat khòaⁿ--kòe chít-pún chhe·h ū siá (tó-lo̍h chi̍t-pún chhe·h wá bē-kì iáu) kóng Kelantan ê Hok-kiàn-ōa siu--tióh Hoan-á-ōa ê éng-hió...

Thanks for raising awareness of this article Amhoanna. I have found it very useful for many indications of words that people use and know, although I find it a pity that the phonetic realisations of the Malay loans are not noted, as there seems to be no rule on what tones a Malay word will take on w...

Yes, I've seen it, and it's very cool. I particularly like the nice script you developed for it. I hope some time you could start to write a dictionary of Bagan Hokkien with example sentences (although perhaps in POJ rather than the script you invented, unless you can make a font for it and I can le...

This time I let him speak for himself. I hope no-one dies in the stampede to learn free TJ. LIMITED TIME OFFER TO PENANG HOKKIEN TEACHERS For a limited time only, I will teach my system for writing Penang Hokkien to teachers of Penang Hokkien in Penang for free. People who are teaching Penang Hokkie...

Ok, so this is a direct quote from the infallible Pope of Penang Hokkien himself. For me, the only subject in English in school is English. The rest is in Bahasa Malaysia. Yet I think in English. I am training myself to get used to thinking in Penang Hokkien now, and am able to do translations from ...

Sorry Tamoe, I didn't look at the forum for a while. I can try and say these in Northern Malaysian/Penang/Kedah Hokkien. I am not a native speaker, but I've thought about some of these things for years. You can search for a lot about Penang Hokkien grammar in this forum, and find some of the most re...

Amhoanna, I have been thinking similar thoughts about the action verbs. I have been leaving them as squares for the time being rather than using the Mandarin ones like 揣 for chhōe get on my nerves. Then again I don't mind reading all kinds of Hokkien character choices, as long as I can read the text...

A lot of reading material has been added to the site recently, and I feel it is time to warn prospective learners that it is not the amazing treasure trove of teaching materials it purports to be. Unfortunately it appears that the more reading material and sample sentence added to this site, the les...

This makes a lot of sense. and it is also the sort of thing that gets missed when people are explaining how to say things in Hokkien. recently I came across "chi-le si ichit-hang e kheh-lang e chiah" (= This is a kind of Hakka food) in a site purporting to teach a kind of Hokkien (I'll let...