Teochew Rap

[4agyJenny]

I just realized it was part Malay because I know a bit of indo and it sounded familiar so I was like wtf

[4agyJenny]

Ummm dude I dint understand a word in the song even though I speak teochew

[AeonX7]

yes its a vid made in malaysia on the hardships and language difficulties their grandparents faced when they migrated from china.

[copperbed100]

sounds like hokkien

[magicoliv]

so proud to be teochew !! haha

[imjustpassinthru]

How do I pronounce the word Teochew? My Chinese friend says that her main dialect is "chow-cho." That's what the word sounds like when she says it. I've never been able to find that word on the Internet. Just now I happened to run across the word "Teochew" and I'm finding lots of references to Teochew including this video, but I still don't know how to pronouce the word.

[xpXThiefXqx]

@imjustpassinthru Te-oh J-iu

[bicycleluvr]

@imjustpassinthru [dieh jew] first tone on both.

[ILuvJustinBeaver]

@imjustpassinthru It is pronounced as "chao-zhou" in Mandarin. "Teochew" is in Teochew.

[dreamer316]

Didn't understand most of the song, but what I could understand was pretty fuuny :D

[suasanasunyi]

which country this video come from? there are malay/indonesian words in this MV

[eve22112]

@suasanasunyi i'm guessing malaysia :)

[yuskisakura]

I understand this Teochew song and I speak Teochew, but does anyone else that speak Teochew find "regular" Teochew songs very hard to understand? I understand when they're speaking, but it's hard to understand for me when the sing even if it's something like a translation song of "My Heart Will Go On" from the Titanic. :/ I wish I could understand the songs better I really have pride in my language.

[bicycleluvr]

@yuskisakura HAHA omg me too. this shit is hard as fuck. ga gi nang woot!

[awhatzable]

@yuskisakura me can barley understand her high pitch voice haha

[SaveChinaTiger]

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[Dereklishious]

wo see teo chew nang XD

[wenpinchen]

I'm a Teochew Indonesian...yeahh!

:P

[missrocknrockstaaa]

omg i always wanted to know what this language was called in english! ive been wondering what it was called for all my life, (which is 14 years!) but i am so happy that i know what it is now :D

[bassonova555]

im finlands theochew nang..:D



[henrydang1]

teochow nang all on the world, USA. Canada, England, Australia, thailand, singapore, hongkong, vietnam, malay, indonesia, campodia,,,,,,we all thanks for the good song. i stand for all of my friends group of Wholesale and Export in CA and NY and thailand. thanks ,

[CinDyBear09]

I understand this.. I was youtubing some teochew songs and i cant understand the other ones.. : /

[0nikage781]

i speak teochew and this is pretty cool since i live in boston and go to harvard and nobody speaks it outside my family. reppin' hard!

[rawrrawkstarx3]

At first, i didn;t know what to call it in english :P

LOL. IM VIET AND Teochew

[AzNBr3aKeR2]

lol i cant believe i can understand this xD

[buckweed226]

I speak Teochew too! :D

[Crysez]

LOL YESS Teochew! :D

Teochew people are so rare in canada

unless they're old bahaha ;3

[trunkdk]

@Crysez I'm a Teochew Canadian!!!  Yeah Yeah!!! lol

[iheartfrappuccinos]

IM TEOCHEW AND IM PROUD!

[pete6851]

im teochew but i have to say...teochew songs need some revision lol, check teochew rap..old song just too ...outdated.

[zhanpengthailand]

I love it. We have a lot of teochew people in Thailand too.

[jusblazin8888]

BWAHAHAHAH WBAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[TheKavebear]

I speak it and love it. It so unique unlike Mandarin or Cantonese we still retain many of the ancients sounds from Confucius' times. I think China really needs to allow more of the dialects into schools. Mainland mandarin is really formal and soft and pitchy. I like taiwainese mandarin better

[kii123]

LOLL we teochew people sure love these old fashion beats!

[BorneoUnited]

Akong Ama theng sua lai,U lho bo chu...u choi bo di gai,

thi thi kia khi mata chu,em chai mata tha mik kai.....tha mik kai...tha mik kai..ler tha mik kai

greeting teochew nang.kha ki nang.

[ch1nkpr1d3]

omg

teochew songs shouldn't exist

LOLLLLL

i'm embarassed to speak it now

HHAHAHAH

[tkytan73]

embarassed ???? U english nobody understand bully.

[tarobunny]

@ch1nkpr1d3

OMG LOLLLL I agree!! But its funny ahha!! :)

And its nice knowing theres teochew around! I used to think I was an alien :(

[leemmee]

love it or hate it, its ticklish haha

[shejockit]

@ch1nkpr1d3 u should be ashamed of yourself

[TheCowSaidQuack]

all I understood was "what are you saying"

[fen1moy]

funny

[rapidboon]

teochew rox ! =D

[pixelated111]

LOL this thing is so goofy lol

only thing i could understand was:''what happened?'' .....

[JeromeLeong]

i've been to thailand before , there's a lots of chinese over there , they speak teochew too , 8 mil chinese population over there and mostly are teochew =]

[Seikisho]

Talented.

[pochacco4me]

hahahaha nice songg LOL

i speak that languageee (: i understand sommeee (: LOL

[bobkee]

ROFLMAO!

[pennueng1990]

hao ting

- chao zhou - thai guo ren

อากง อาม่า ตึ่งซัวไล้

[CCK2285]

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[kodochasanastage]

i understand some cuz i grew up with my cuzzin and his dad speak this language plus its almost the same as hainan whiich i speak fluently XD

[xVanillaSunset]

Dah mit gai?

lol.

@cleen

I know right?! xD

[evodevil105]

this is a rap?

[LaksaMedan]

Chinese has its style of singing that resemble modern rap.

This particular one has been arranged with instrument . hence it resemble common pop song.

But note the ryme and choice of words.

African America Popularized the modern urban rap. but roots of raps goes way back in many cultures.

I have never see it that way until it click in my head one day that an old chinese uncle beating a bamboo and sang is actually RAPPING :)

May you one day enjoy the moment of ephiphany too :)

[LaksaMedan]

Chinese has its style of singing that resemble modern rap.

This particular one has been arranged with instrument . hence it resemble common pop song.

But note the ryme and choice of words.

African America Popularized the modern urban rap. but roots of raps goes way back in many cultures.

I have never see it that way until it click in my head one day that an old chinese uncle beating a bamboo and sang is actually RAPPING :)

May you one day enjoy the moment of ephiphany too :)

[cleen]

wow i understand this song. hahah

[BabiiKittay]

YAY FOR TEOCHEW :D

[slappy135]

my grandparents traveled like that to indoneasia, then my parents went to San Francisco, and thats where I wuz born. I wanna learn teochew instead of mandarin

[SupaKaylynn]

omgg. watching this makes me cry :( I can't speak teochew to anyone in Australia.

[goktimusprime]

な・・・何かこりゃ？！＜大笑＞家内はこのユニークな言語が話せ­るぞ(^^;)

[SMD77777]

fucking teo chew parents i swear

[asaingirlz123]

you are not even teochew asshole so why are you talking about them mother fucker

[sieuquach]

i am teochew nang, are you lol?

[SMD77777]

i am teo chew bitch so fuk u

[WeihongTan]

ka ki nang ~~

[sieuquach]

wait you are teochew nang too? me too, i thought was the only one teochew exist in this world. lol

[BabiiKittay]

LOL, actually there is about 20 million of us teochew ppl in this world ^^

[tankuithong]

Jin Ho tianh

[likeavirjenn]

what the hell are those english words? i speak teochew fluently but what the heck were those english words?

[Choson4eva]

It's malaysian

[Choson4eva]

My last comment was directed at likeavirjenn

[BabiiKittay]

its teochew -.-'

[Choson4eva]

@ babiikittay

my comment was directed at likeavirjenn

[blueyun08]

kiam sia! not many teochew items on Youtube

so it's nice to hear some teochew raps and songs here:)

cheng hol !!!!

[wildlily11]

so funny, thanks

[zingbean]

my god ! laughed until i was rolling on the floor !!

[gotentk4]

for real?

[viceg321]

Congratulations, I think your video is absolutely fantastic. Please produce more teochew ones like that because it is so enjoyable for teochews like myself. Thank you. Look forward to more of these real teochew raps.

[sluseter2123]

wa si hokkien lang, wa si teochew nang.

[BabiiKittay]

o and im teochew cambodian, and i understand most of it, but other songs i cant. my dad says that the accent ur used to is different, and our teochew is kinda broken language lol

[BabiiKittay]

o and heng heng isnt "hurt" it actually means dizzy lol. hurt is something like tia

[sluseter2123]

Bua to tia.

[BabiiKittay]

teochew was originally from hokkian language, but overtime teochew created their own language. and basically hokkian is like the language ancestor of teochew. and hokkian can understand teochew, but teochew cant understand hokkian. X3

[narutokyubi9]

That's what my mom told me when I was like... 5.

[BabiiKittay]

well yeah, the only reason i posted was cause someone asked like 4-5 months ago

[bofofu]

im a bit confused. cause i speak teochew pretty well. but i dont understand anything these people are saying. why?

[goshashygeez]

lol i got it a little in the beginning xD it says something about grandpa grandma come back from the mountain...? and then it was saying how hard it is to work in the day/morning so do it at night and then it was funny when they said "tao heng heng" head hurts xD and "le da mekai" what are u saying..xD

[bofofu]

haha i must speak a different one or something cause i noe tao is head. but i say hurt differently. but thank you =)

[shant0n]

The "mountain" that you are referring to is:

China.

[Souw92]

Please someone tell me what's the difference between Teochew and Hokkian language? I'm a bit embarrasing as my grandgrandparents were Hoakiau in Indonesia but not knowing it.

[Shainayz]

TeOChew & Hokkian have sOme differences by their tOnes & sOme wOrds.

But it's rather similar, in fact ;)

Me, I'm TeOChew frOm France.

My parents cOme frOm CambOdge & My gd-parents are origin frOm China ^^

[Souw92]

Did you mean 'Cambodge'=Cambodia? Well, thanks for the explanation; and greeting from a Teochew from Indonesia!

[Thief9160]

Ha Ha !I am 4th generation of TC soong kia !

[lydie71]

lol

[shant0n]

Great song! Love it! Wah soo kah!

[QrafTee]

I've totally lost all my ability to understand/speak this language... Kinda embarassing when you can't speak to your own grandparents. Anyway, I don't think it really rap, but entertaining nonetheless... it's a lot better than their operas. :-x

[Kevintsy4]

Haha ka ki nang, i'm teo chew as well

[sylvester134]

Wa ma shi teochew nang ..

[chun1]

754 city all dayz baby!

[Aznbabyboi84]

it actually it teochew not hokkien.

[jaybaby57]

YES TEOCHEW NANG!

[tkytan73]

yap, "ah kong & ah ma tensua nai", kelam kabut ( cik chok lok kio )......This is our grandparent who come from Teochew to South East Asia and only we know it.....thanks for uploading.

[bonzibon08]

Teo chew nan, ka ki nang :) I love this video so much, thanks a lot.

[goldy1357]

This is about chinese immigrants in Malaysia/Singapore/Indonesia during the 19th C. This could be the situation that my grandfather and grandmother had when they found themselves encountering the native speakers. "Hari hari" means daily situations in the Malay language. Quite meaningful to the Ga Gi Nan born in the Malay Straits. Thanks for uploading

[fooky76]

when i listen to this song, i think that my great-grandparent (lau-lau con/ma) has been in the same situation when they left china and arrive around 1910 in vietnam. I'm now the first generation who grow up in holland.

The nearest teochew community is in Paris, not next door :P

thanks for uploading this song...

Can you upload more other teochew/ tiociu song?

[vlag]

ok this is now bugging me.. it doesnt sound teochew to me but then sometimes it does. upon further examination though, the word for 'person' in teochew is 'nan', but here in this vid, person is 'tsip' which is neither teochew or hokkien.

[jerazz]

You are probably not familiar with the Chinese characters also, the "Tsip" you are referring to is "ru" in Mandarin, meaning "Go in". "Ru" is written differently from "Ren", which as you say is "nan" in Teochew. One of the lines "tik tik kia tsip mata chu" meaning "Walk straight into the police station"

There is nothing wrong with the teochew (more like Nanyang or S'pore/M'sia teochew then mainland chinese teochew).

[vlag]

Oooohhh Thanks for the explanation. Yes I just thought the 'ru' character was 'ren' in the subtitles! That was the confusion. And yes this makes it clearer to me now.

[jerazz]

Just to add: the "tsip" would be more accurately pronounced and spelt "jiup" ...

[vlag]

it sounds very Hokkien.. angkong amah tng swah lai!

[jerazz]

Nope, it sounds very Teochew not Hokkien. The intonations are very different.

[fooky76]

funny song... but my ancestors moved to vietnam and i grew up in holland :)

[melofeee]

ça fait du bien de voir des video teochew sur le net :)

[lequach89]

ka ki nang merry christmas

[LaksaMedan]

Yes it is Teochew mix with a bit of malay to represent Teochew experience in Malaysia.

It could also represent Teochew immigrant in Indonesia

[whatmatt3rs]

Is this really Teochew?