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2023年5月9日 · Fukienese Now look I'm sorry I know this isn't the best place to ask this but there is no other place I can think of to ask this type of question. When I was growing up, my mom used to say "ptooey" and when I asked what she was saying she would say "its something that my parents used to say in Fukienese, and its something like ptooey".

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2022年7月27日 · Earlier today, I saw a thread on r/Europe which talked about how Belarusian and Ukrainian weren’t spoken as much before the war because people viewed it as a peasant/hillbilly language, and instead preferred to use Russian.

2023年11月20日 · It is very different. Vast majority of local HKers have been in HK for generations. Most of my friends do not have any living relatives that were not born in HK (and people born in HK by and large only speak Cantonese NOT mandarin or that was the case until the last ten years).

2011年10月24日 · Posted by u/chiv - 3 votes and 1 comment

2023年11月14日 · There is a robot that would pronounce the sentence for you in Tâigí (Taiwanese Hokkien). First, download and install the LINE app on your mobile phone.

But you could also run into Mandarin, Taishanese, Teochew, Fukienese, or another (probably southern) dialect. There's no one right answer. It would probably be best to learn greetings in both Cantonese and Mandarin and either ask the translator what to use, or figure it out from listening to the conversation.

2020年1月19日 · “Up the Mountains and Out to the Sea: The Expansion of the Fukienese in the Late Ming Period” by Eduard B. Vermeer in Taiwan, A New History edited by Murray Rubinstein Barangay: Sixteenth-Century Philippine Culture and Society by William Henry Scott State and Society in the Philippines by Patricio Abinales and Donna Amoroso

2023年7月8日 · My mom, born in Vietnam, always remembers her mom saying something that she remembers sounding like "ptooey" almost as a knock on wood expression, or when she said something that her mom didn't want wished onto someone, in …