Learn Basic Hakka Chinese - Moiyan Dialect - Part 1

[videoraver]

Your videos are great, keep it up! Just wondering if this is the same hakka? As I can only understand a few words, I think because they speak fast, cheers! :) Search on youtube: 'hakka ipman2 - lao yong (part a)'

[bigfoot623]

@videoraver no, it isn't the same hakka. it's hakka but it isn't the same. i couldn't make much out of it either.

[videoraver]

@bigfoot623

Thanks for the reply! I think this video is the same hakka right? As I understand 'fight', 'open door' 'i want to do government' ' eat rice' 'his name is'. Please search on youtube "Lao Yong 1 With Chinese and English Subtitles" Cheers!

[05werewolf]

looks a lot like cantonese o.o

[hicksiskool]

@05werewolf No, cantonese is crap!

[05werewolf]

@hicksiskool hahahahahaha idk....maybe just because of the writing.....

[bigfoot623]

@hicksiskool can't we respect all the languages?

[33hunting]

bigfoot623, watch the Taiwanese Hakka youtube videos. Can you understand the Taiwanese Hakka dialect?

[bigfoot623]

@33hunting not really.



[33hunting]

@bigfoot623

Can you understand Cantonese?

[bigfoot623]

@33hunting Nope, not at all.

[Cutieboobee]

It's too fast for me to follow you ><

[Fatpandas2014]

sorry for my ignorance. Is this intelligible by Mandarin speaking people? Or is it totally different?

thanks!

[bigfoot623]

@Fatpandas2014 non-intelligible. 

[aZian13]

From Toronto and I was trying to teach gf some Hakka and decided to look if there were videos for Hakka and surely there was. Thanks as my Hakka isn't the greatest

[bigfoot623]

@aZian13  You're welcome! I suggest going to lesson 5 and starting from there for good simple phrases with better practical usage. and I'm also from T.O!

[yyzallan]

@bigfoot623 You did a great job making these video !! You must be from India and now live in Toronto ? Well done !!

[bigfoot623]

@yyzallan Thank you very much! I'm born in Toronto while my parents were born in India however. I just used the phrase as an example haha.

[yyzallan]

@bigfoot623 Very good indeed ! Your Hakka is as good as those born in India ! I am sure we know your family !! We are Liu family from near Orient Cinema and if you ask your parents they might know us.

[bigfoot623]

@yyzallan They're aware but ultimately do not know.

[MissAngie86]

my hakka is from guang dong too but its slightly different... eg: id say "ngai m hiao kong hakka wa" n im busy would be ngai "uhm tet han"... very interesting vid tho! good job, keepin the dialect alive :D

[harajukustar]

you should speak slower :p

[Fireprince777]

At least i know how to figure what my grandma is saying...

[xl3smecxl3]

omg ive been trying ot find out what dialect my family speaks and this is it! Hakka-fah...!

[ttnn4d87j6151c]

Nice video, I pretty sure u wont have any communications issue when u go to Moiyan.

[bigfoot623]

@ttnn4d87j6151c Thanks for the comment!

[MrMrZHao]

We hakka chinese is the strongest! :D

[yofiesetiawan]

Dude, i speak this language with my mom from i was a kid. I live in jakarta, indonesia, my mom come from singkawang, kalimantan. i never realize that this language is that important until i saw this video, maybe this language is more serious than i thought haha, thx!

[ChienSiVoDanhVN]

Ngai thang um tao, you should speak louder ( I can't hear you, pls speak louder!)

[bigfoot623]

@ChienSiVoDanhVN Thanks for the feedback. I will try to fix that in my upcoming videos.

[ChienSiVoDanhVN]

Nie con hao sie sang( you speak to soft) :):)

[meowtrox]

this man sounds like the guy on "OWNAGE PRANKS"

[wenqiweiabcd]

When I look at the meaning and the romanisation, I can sort of make out the actual word in Chinese and see its meaning. But when I just listen to it trying to make some sense its a mess.

[DreadlockDrummer]

fuck no wonder chinese people are so damn good at math, just to say a number they have to add numbers together. sometimes i love how simple english is

[shannan2000]

A POR MY HAM CHOI XXXX

[shannan2000]

YEE GONG MA GUY ORRRRRRRR??????????

[cutelittletingting]

i speak this language :D :D wait you say it wrong o. O

[angel2559]

@cutelittletingting His not saying it wrong, it's just his accent

[cutelittletingting]

i speak this language :D :D

[raymanceful]

So many dialects who can keep up

[jan8919]

I know that china has over 200 to 300 dialect

But Hakka has a couple or a few words that are hoisan or Taisanese

[saluteavatarang]

Hey!

We're both Canadian and speak the same language!

Same moi-yan dialect. great vid! only thing - you've got a pretty harsh accent LOL!

[bigfoot623]

@saluteavatarang yeah, it's a harsh canadian english accent haha; I did grow up on english so that's why.

[loverofpie32]

its not joh its more of a zt kind of noise can really explain it

[bigfoot623]

@loverofpie32 Yeah, I think you're definitely right. It's like 'zt' haha.

[nokkaewblue]

Pronunciation is not clear.

[solitonstar]

There is no standardised Hakka language. There is a prestige dialect called Moiyan/Moiyen (Meixian), the Hakka heartland dialect. But here are some differences between it and Ho-ngien (Heyuan) prefect next door

MX / HY / English

ngip / zip / enter

ng / ngiu / fish

a tsi / a tai / elder sister

soi / fun / to sleep

My dialect is from the south coast - Hong Kong to be precise, I say soi-muk or duk-muk-soi for sleepy -in HY it's fan-gau or ngan-fun. Different areas differ in words and pronunciation.

[cynthiacct]

@solitonstar hakka and cantonese is 2 different dialects....for sleep/sleep hakka is soi muk/duk muk soi...canto it's ngan fan /fan gau~...

[solitonstar]

@cynthiacct There are other dialects of Hakka that perhaps you are unaware of with their own dialect terms. The Heyuan dialect I am familiar with as I have family not far from TuoCheng, and it's only about 100km from Meixian. For grandmother they say a-tsai, and for sons and daugters they are tsai-ngiu-e. For dirty they say lei, and for I they say nguoi rather than ngai.

[chriszzz1225]

im a hakka and dam u speak like bloody hakka "yin" urself :)

[tpandd]

lol, you sound like a white man speaking my language, you are better than most though

[christinaaaaa]

awesome!!!! ^________^ i already know all of this but it's cool that you're teaching people!

[Mik3Minor]

ngai yo fang bun nai mo?

[cyyap]

98% accurate!

[Y3n26]

sigh... my dad is hakka and he never teach me how to speak hakka. i speak cantonese instead of hakka at home .... sigh /.\

[kingysk]

what's your age? should be (ungh git doh SOY)

[kingysk]

let me correct you, how to speak "10"

should be sound like "zip" not "suep" ^^

[bigfoot623]

@kingysk Are you talking about the moiyan dialect here? I'm certain this is for the moiyan dialect; this is how everyone I know says it. Suep for ten and say for age :S

[christinaaaaa]

@bigfoot623 i speak the moiyan dialect and suep is correct. it's not zip.

[cynthiacct]

@christinaaaaa i say "sip" for ten...

[stevensan92]

@cynthiacct my grandfather and grandmother are of Moiyan Hakka dialect. And yeah, I dunno how to write it down, but it's kind of "sep" or "tsep" for number 10. :)

[33hunting]

I heard that the Guangdong Hakka dialect is not mutually intelligible with the Fujian Hakka dialect. Is this true? Fujian Hakkas pronounce their numbers differently.

[bigfoot623]

@33hunting Well, I'm not entirely sure but usually the dialects are not intelligible with each other so I'm sure your case would be the same.

[33hunting]

@bigfoot623

You should read about different chinese dialects in Wikipedia. Cantonese is quite uniform. But Hakka dialects are different. My Hakka friend is from Fujian and he can't understand the Guangdong Hakka.

[raymanceful]

hes not pronouncing words correctly

[bigfoot623]

@raymanceful Although there are some discrepancies, the majority of what is being said is correct. I'm fully aware of which words were and were not were pronounced right. Then again, I acknowledge the fact that my hakka isn't that great. A rather bad first lesson too, I didn't spend much time on it.

[christinaaaaa]

@raymanceful yes he is, he's pronouncing them perfectly.. with some off words, but most of it is correct!

[87maureen]

It is the same that I speak and it is from Meixian, in Guangdong China....

[bigfoot623]

@87maureen. yup, it's the moiyan dialect; pretty much the guangdong hakka dialect.

[yoshi360360]

you just covered 80 percent of what I know lol

[vvirex]

@yoshi360360 he just covered 100% of what i know. LOL, i wanna learn hakka instead of mandarin.

[darko123456]

HOLY CRAP!!

WHere are you from?!

Im from Malaysia and my whole family speak hakka wa

Im living in NZ

I cant speak it but i can understand it =]

[bigfoot623]

@darko123456

sorry for this extremely late reply. I'm living in Canada and my parents are from Calcutta, India. I tend not to speak really well too but can understand it fluently.

[bigfoot623]

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