Hi, your Hakka is same as mine. I’m from Kota Kinabalu, east Malaysia and all Chinese speak same Hakka. My grandfather was from Guangdong, China. Now I live in Perth. Plenty Hakka here also…
So happy to hear you speak Hakka which is very interesting. The Hakka had been always migrating/going from north China to the south, then to, all over the places/world all the time for a very long time, I think, since the Tang dynasty. Since they move/migrate at different period of time, they carried the Hakka phrase, pronunciation etc., of that period wherever they go. Also, the local place/language wherever they went, also influence their Hakka. Hence, there are so many different Hakka dialects, some of which I could only understand around 30% (Yongding Hakka which is heavy influenced by Fujian). Your Hakka sound similar to mine, the Guangdong Meixian/Moiyan Hakka (Older name Kaying Chu, (I am in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) but the words/phrases used were from an older generation, like my grandparents used to speak...that was very nice. Thanks.
This is a little helpful of looking into your root and learn about who you come from. I am Vietnamese living in USA where I know my father family is rooting from Hakka people in the past. This kind of cool to learn the language of your ancestral. Thanks!
Your Hakka is quite different from what I use in daily life. I'm a Hakka from Indonesia. I assume it's the different diaspora that makes our language different as well 😝 even the Hakka across Indonesia doesn't completely the same. Each Hakka from a particular island will sound and talk kinda differenly from another one. But still, if we meet and somehow talk to each other, we will understand.
Love this video. I am Hakka as well, and my grandmother used to speak to me in Hakka. I was born in Jakarta. I live in the US now and started to embrace my Hakka root and doing my best to speak Hakka with my mom. So thank you and keep posting videos please!
Awesome, thanks for telling me where you're from. It's so nice to hear where everyone is in the world! Thanks for watching too, let me know if you have any video suggestions :)
I'm Hakka. Was born in what is now Kota Kinabalu Malaysia. Currently in Canada. So great to hear how we would speak back in the home country. Funny too. Thanks.
Hi Michelle. Thank you so much for posting these videos. I’m a Chinese American and it upsets me that I cannot speak my grandmas language because I’ve only learned Cantonese through TVB. I’m hopeful that I can communicate with my grandma in Hakka one day
Hi, enjoyed your video very much. It was funny, interesting and helpful for me to understand hakka better. Reminding me of so many expressions I forgot. Hope to see more of your videos in future. Here are some more expressions to add to the video (excuse my spelling/translations if incorrect): (We can use "Lem Poot Poot" to describe Cha Sao Bao) 1) Man Man Loy = very slowly come here 2) Kai Kai Zeou = very quickly run 3) Keang Keang Soo = very carefully drive 4) Peang Tat Tat = very, very flat (like to describe nose...haha) 5) Soy Dak Dak = very bad, not good 6) Lak Lak Fan = upside down, wrong-sided 7) Loong Loong Hee Lai? = not sure how to translate....searching, searching to go where? 8) Ngam Ngam Dook Dook = not sure how to translate....very nagging (like to describe person)
I had many dogs in China. They were left behind in China when we moved to the Canada. I can understand good amount of what you are saying as a Cantonese/Mandarin speaker.
I’m so happy I came across your channel while trying to discover more about Hakka culture. My grandparents were Hakka gnyn from Meixian and I’m now living in Mauritius. I would have loved to be as fluent as you and though some word pronunciation is slightly differently, I somehow do understand! It’s great to know that Hakka people is everywhere. I really love watching your videos because your cheerfulness makes them so enjoyable! Keep up the good work and looking forward for your future videos! Btw, which part of China are your parents from?
Thank you thank you for making these fun videos. 🙏 Keep making them 😀 My grandparents (the 19th century people 😀) were from a village (now it’s a city) in Guang Dong area. They didn’t speak Mandarin. They spoke Hakka. Your videos have helped me in remembering what they told over the years.
Thank you so much for your videos! Hakka zei from Sandakan Malaysia, now in Canada. Really enjoy your videos and your priceless expressions. Keep going!
What's up Michelle, Something made me youtube my Hakka background today and I found your channel. It's so refreshing to hear hakka from someone else other than my parents. Lol.. I was born in Vietnam and currently living in Toronto, Canada. Just subscribed, and I'll be watching. Keep up the great work!
@@user-tg9kg6sw2e Yes.. I mainly speak hakka with my parents and even than, I'm kinda mixing it up with Vietnamese and English for words I don't know how to say. I'm in Toronto, where are you?
@@Klas6ixx Ahh! I always found Vietnamese difficult to learn. I'm in Toronto as well and actually looking for a fluent Vietnamese speaker for interpretation!
@@user-tg9kg6sw2e I picked up Vietnamese when I was a child in a refugee camp horsing around with other kids. I can also speak a bit of Cantonese from watching hk movies growing up. Any chance you speak Mandarin? I would like to learn it for my travels to China in the future. Maybe we can help each other out by exchanging languages?
Hello, I have hakka blood from my dad who is born in French Guyana near Surinam. As a matter of fact, he got the same pronunciation as yours! I am from Paris and my hakka is improving thanks to your videos. Didn't have the chance to inherit from my dad...so sad
In Malaysia, a lot of tradional expressions have been simplified. So instead of fui toot toot, I now say hao fui. The word hao is now used as very. Saying this the hakka diversity is so huge depending on where one ancestor's come from in China. So a fui chiew hak pronunciation may be different than a hor por hak which also may be different than moi yen hak or even a guandong hak.
I was born in Indonesia, hakka is my native language although my mum is thiew chiu. Now I am living in Australia, barely know anyone that share the same language...
My maternal and paternal grandmother are Hakka and married to hokkiens my both maternal and paternal grandfather. When I am small I very enjoy listen my grandmother talks in Hakka. My mother in law is a Hakka too but when she speaks it's different and quite hard for me to catch what she says. She is from Penang Northern side of peninsula Malaysia. I am from central peninsula Malaysia Kuala Lumpur.
HI, your hakka reminds me of my childhood when we ,especially the elders speak quite similar as yours. But the tune is a little different. my homeland is west Fujian
Is it possible to share the facebook group? Both my parents side strangely speak Hakka and while I knew it conversationally as a kid and used a mixture of hakka, canto, and english to speak with my parents and grandparents, ever since I went to college and now living away and working full-time, I've lost a significant portion of it.
I’m Hong-Kong Hakka village from Lai Chi Wo I don’t know ANY Hakka and only a little Cantonese P.S I live in England now. Also this Hakka sounds different to the Hong Kong area Hakka
i'm an Indonesian-hakka living in Japan but i can't speak Hakka at all and my mom won't teach me (she gave up before even trying lol). So i'm trying to learn Hakka through learning Japanese, Mandarin, and Cantonese (because i think these three have kinda similarity with Hakka in their own ways).. glad to see your video right now because i didn't find anything good and stopped searching since like 2 years ago 😂
oh waw that's such an interesting combination! I agree, I think those languages sound very similar indeed. If you have any suggestions what you'd like me to share, let me know :)
@@inmimisbowl i don't even know where to start tho 😅 but maybe a brief explanation about intonation could help, since Hakka seems to have more intonations than Beijing Chinese. i found several sources on the internet but most of them are written like chinese's pinyin, so i think i want to have a grasp about how to pronounce the words correctly (plus, my mom always complains about my intonation lol)
stunt 4rd since I grew up learning hakka without taking lessons, I’m not familiar with the different intonations, because I learned it through listening, if that makes sense. I’ll try to come up with some basics and conversational topics :)
@@inmimisbowl ah btw, could you make a video about words such as "oh my god!", "crap!", "that's great!", "see?", "what was that again?", etc that we usually use by reflect (i want to say ejaculation in linguistic term, but it might cause a big misunderstanding lol)? i like your video about words that could behappy our mom, but too bad i can't use those words because of distance problem 😂
I had way too much fun listening to you in this one LOL.. all these expressions always made us lai aps laugh so much...you forgot the tiam tjiet tjiet?
Patrick O'chinski Yes. Ah Mei (or ah Moi I’m Cantonese) means little sister or little miss. It can be used as a term of endearment or used to address a girl younger than you~
I've got a few more to share Long lee long tong Ngan ji ngan tok Tiam yea yea Sui wong wong Wat tat tat Lon lon chon chon Laem chi chi Sam kong pan yea
It’s amazing, Hakka Chinese spread all the way to Jamaica, many Jamaicans have Hakka surnames or blood, it’s really cool
Hi, your Hakka is same as mine. I’m from Kota Kinabalu, east Malaysia and all Chinese speak same Hakka. My grandfather was from Guangdong, China. Now I live in Perth. Plenty Hakka here also…
So happy to hear you speak Hakka which is very interesting. The Hakka had been always migrating/going from north China to the south, then to, all over the places/world all the time for a very long time, I think, since the Tang dynasty. Since they move/migrate at different period of time, they carried the Hakka phrase, pronunciation etc., of that period wherever they go. Also, the local place/language wherever they went, also influence their Hakka. Hence, there are so many different Hakka dialects, some of which I could only understand around 30% (Yongding Hakka which is heavy influenced by Fujian). Your Hakka sound similar to mine, the Guangdong Meixian/Moiyan Hakka (Older name Kaying Chu, (I am in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) but the words/phrases used were from an older generation, like my grandparents used to speak...that was very nice. Thanks.
See Chun Chong thank you for watching :)
This is a little helpful of looking into your root and learn about who you come from. I am Vietnamese living in USA where I know my father family is rooting from Hakka people in the past. This kind of cool to learn the language of your ancestral. Thanks!
Your video is so cool for Hakka diaspora like me. Thank you, love your video
Your Hakka is quite different from what I use in daily life. I'm a Hakka from Indonesia. I assume it's the different diaspora that makes our language different as well 😝 even the Hakka across Indonesia doesn't completely the same. Each Hakka from a particular island will sound and talk kinda differenly from another one. But still, if we meet and somehow talk to each other, we will understand.
Love this video. I am Hakka as well, and my grandmother used to speak to me in Hakka. I was born in Jakarta. I live in the US now and started to embrace my Hakka root and doing my best to speak Hakka with my mom. So thank you and keep posting videos please!
Awesome, thanks for telling me where you're from. It's so nice to hear where everyone is in the world! Thanks for watching too, let me know if you have any video suggestions :)
it's funny how we want to embrace our (Hakka) root even more after we went far away from our home 😂
Hahaha you really got me at Am Moh Si Soh! My grandmother uses that phrase a lot and it reminded me of her! Sending love from Malaysia. :)
Haha it makes me happy to hear! Thank you :)
Born in Malaysia, now in Singapore. Amazing! There are many variants of Hakka. Surprisingly, yours is quite similar to mine.
I'm Hakka. Was born in what is now
Kota Kinabalu Malaysia. Currently in Canada. So great to hear how we would speak back in the home country. Funny too. Thanks.
Hi Michelle. Thank you so much for posting these videos. I’m a Chinese American and it upsets me that I cannot speak my grandmas language because I’ve only learned Cantonese through TVB. I’m hopeful that I can communicate with my grandma in Hakka one day
I'm hopeful too! a little at a time
Hi, enjoyed your video very much. It was funny, interesting and helpful for me to understand hakka better.
Reminding me of so many expressions I forgot. Hope to see more of your videos in future.
Here are some more expressions to add to the video (excuse my spelling/translations if incorrect):
(We can use "Lem Poot Poot" to describe Cha Sao Bao)
1) Man Man Loy = very slowly come here
2) Kai Kai Zeou = very quickly run
3) Keang Keang Soo = very carefully drive
4) Peang Tat Tat = very, very flat (like to describe nose...haha)
5) Soy Dak Dak = very bad, not good
6) Lak Lak Fan = upside down, wrong-sided
7) Loong Loong Hee Lai? = not sure how to translate....searching, searching to go where?
8) Ngam Ngam Dook Dook = not sure how to translate....very nagging (like to describe person)
Got another one :) 9) Zeou Giak Giak = Run very fast, similar to (2)
Omg!!..so much fun watching this vid😂😂😂..it’s been awhile I haven’t hear these hakka words..missed hearing them
I had many dogs in China. They were left behind in China when we moved to the Canada. I can understand good amount of what you are saying as a Cantonese/Mandarin speaker.
i am hakka from hong kong , thanks for your video.
hakka from Guyana. very good, great lessons.
I’m so happy I came across your channel while trying to discover more about Hakka culture. My grandparents were Hakka gnyn from Meixian and I’m now living in Mauritius. I would have loved to be as fluent as you and though some word pronunciation is slightly differently, I somehow do understand! It’s great to know that Hakka people is everywhere. I really love watching your videos because your cheerfulness makes them so enjoyable! Keep up the good work and looking forward for your future videos! Btw, which part of China are your parents from?
they’re from Guang Dong, I forgot the village names though 😅
East Timor (tung ti wbum)
From Moiyan
Thank you thank you for making these fun videos. 🙏 Keep making them 😀 My grandparents (the 19th century people 😀) were from a village (now it’s a city) in Guang Dong area. They didn’t speak Mandarin. They spoke Hakka. Your videos have helped me in remembering what they told over the years.
Thank you so much for your videos! Hakka zei from Sandakan Malaysia, now in Canada. Really enjoy your videos and your priceless expressions. Keep going!
What's up Michelle,
Something made me youtube my Hakka background today and I found your channel. It's so refreshing to hear hakka from someone else other than my parents. Lol.. I was born in Vietnam and currently living in Toronto, Canada. Just subscribed, and I'll be watching. Keep up the great work!
Do you speak Hakka? I don't encounter many Hakka speakers in Canada!
@@user-tg9kg6sw2e Yes.. I mainly speak hakka with my parents and even than, I'm kinda mixing it up with Vietnamese and English for words I don't know how to say. I'm in Toronto, where are you?
@@Klas6ixx Ahh! I always found Vietnamese difficult to learn. I'm in Toronto as well and actually looking for a fluent Vietnamese speaker for interpretation!
@@user-tg9kg6sw2e I picked up Vietnamese when I was a child in a refugee camp horsing around with other kids. I can also speak a bit of Cantonese from watching hk movies growing up. Any chance you speak Mandarin? I would like to learn it for my travels to China in the future. Maybe we can help each other out by exchanging languages?
Thank you for video Michelle, made me LOL
I'm Hakka, born in Canada, grew up in French Guiana, and I've also been to Surinam a couple times.
Hi, nice to meet you! Waw, we were neighbors haha
Actually, there are a whole lot of similarities in Hakka and Cantonese. My grandfather's dialect is Cantonese mixed with features of Hakka.
Hello,
I have hakka blood from my dad who is born in French Guyana near Surinam. As a matter of fact, he got the same pronunciation as yours!
I am from Paris and my hakka is improving thanks to your videos. Didn't have the chance to inherit from my dad...so sad
Hey, that's awesome! I'm glad these videos are helpful :)
In Malaysia, a lot of tradional expressions have been simplified. So instead of fui toot toot, I now say hao fui. The word hao is now used as very. Saying this the hakka diversity is so huge depending on where one ancestor's come from in China. So a fui chiew hak pronunciation may be different than a hor por hak which also may be different than moi yen hak or even a guandong hak.
Fui ngin. 🤣
Me and my family lives in Austria, Vienna :)
I was born in Indonesia, hakka is my native language although my mum is thiew chiu. Now I am living in Australia, barely know anyone that share the same language...
ay theres actually a decent number of people who are hakka in melboune
I'm from perth with quite a number of relatives that mostly speak hakka :)
My maternal and paternal grandmother are Hakka and married to hokkiens my both maternal and paternal grandfather. When I am small I very enjoy listen my grandmother talks in Hakka. My mother in law is a Hakka too but when she speaks it's different and quite hard for me to catch what she says. She is from Penang Northern side of peninsula Malaysia. I am from central peninsula Malaysia Kuala Lumpur.
HI, your hakka reminds me of my childhood when we ,especially the elders speak quite similar as yours. But the tune is a little different. my homeland is west Fujian
Hometown and not "homeland".
Hakka speaking born and raised in Aruba. Hi everyone!
Is it possible to share the facebook group? Both my parents side strangely speak Hakka and while I knew it conversationally as a kid and used a mixture of hakka, canto, and english to speak with my parents and grandparents, ever since I went to college and now living away and working full-time, I've lost a significant portion of it.
I’m Hong-Kong Hakka village from Lai Chi Wo I don’t know ANY Hakka and only a little Cantonese P.S I live in England now. Also this Hakka sounds different to the Hong Kong area Hakka
Good day. I'm just asking. Is this moiyan Hakka?
Hoi,
Love from Suriname. Geweldige video. Ik kan niet wachten om hakka te leren.
Well done !!
i'm an Indonesian-hakka living in Japan but i can't speak Hakka at all and my mom won't teach me (she gave up before even trying lol).
So i'm trying to learn Hakka through learning Japanese, Mandarin, and Cantonese (because i think these three have kinda similarity with Hakka in their own ways)..
glad to see your video right now because i didn't find anything good and stopped searching since like 2 years ago 😂
oh waw that's such an interesting combination! I agree, I think those languages sound very similar indeed. If you have any suggestions what you'd like me to share, let me know :)
@@inmimisbowl i don't even know where to start tho 😅
but maybe a brief explanation about intonation could help, since Hakka seems to have more intonations than Beijing Chinese.
i found several sources on the internet but most of them are written like chinese's pinyin, so i think i want to have a grasp about how to pronounce the words correctly (plus, my mom always complains about my intonation lol)
stunt 4rd since I grew up learning hakka without taking lessons, I’m not familiar with the different intonations, because I learned it through listening, if that makes sense. I’ll try to come up with some basics and conversational topics :)
@@inmimisbowl well, most of people "learned" Hakka that way, so i can understand..
and yeah, just come up with anything, i'll enjoy your vids..hahaha
@@inmimisbowl ah btw, could you make a video about words such as "oh my god!", "crap!", "that's great!", "see?", "what was that again?", etc that we usually use by reflect (i want to say ejaculation in linguistic term, but it might cause a big misunderstanding lol)?
i like your video about words that could behappy our mom, but too bad i can't use those words because of distance problem 😂
Hakka from Bali..... Indonesia....
Proud to be hakka
I had way too much fun listening to you in this one LOL.. all these expressions always made us lai aps laugh so much...you forgot the tiam tjiet tjiet?
Haha yeah these expressions are fun to say and to hear XD I think there are many more, maybe I can make a part 2 hihi but I say tiam kiah kiah
I have a friend that speaks Hakka, but I heard there's 10+ dialects of Hakka itself, how do I make sure I'm learning my friend's version?
your english is so good ,
I have my grandmother little sister(ie pho) living in Suriname
An kong... Ho kong... Hahaha ngia phi an kong you skin so bright
I am interested going to sweden, can you help?
Greetings from Suriname
How do i say hi in Hakka and bye bye
i am hakka/cantonese speaker, have to say these expressions r quite similiar to cantonese .
These expressions is what my grandma would say..lol...representing L.A. hakka. First generation.
Hi Michelle, I am Gary Tai from Kuala Lumpur, your Hakka very much like mine ..
Malaysia, Hakka yin
Do you know bu tak tak mean in hakka
Jenny Meao i know wu tak tak and that means very dark I think :)
@@inmimisbowl yups.. right, Thats mean very dark or very black..
I am enjoying your videos. Keep it up. loh loh soh soh in my dialect would mean someone talking too much or talking non sense .
I hakka too some actor are hakka michael chan 70s
Your hakka is more likely in Kwangtung China and also same with our side here Malaysia
yep, hakka is really cool!
hi。I'm curious if some people in the place where you live speaks Cantonese? I wonder if lunlunzunzun is from Cantonese.
Yes, definitely. I’d say lunzun is Cantonese as well
And there is a Hakka diaspora coming from Guangdong. And we call them Guandong Hak
I am a Sarawak, Borneo Hakka.
Kalimantan nyin
I personally would say lon san san for very messy and very hard I’d say ngang dang dang :)
Cute and smile expression
ben je ooit naar China geweest?
I’d like more lesson
u are damn good...just like watching your videos...
i am from singapore.
I found out I’m part Hakka, born in Australia
Thanks
Michell, have you read my message ?
Ngi kong mai si? Ka ngin Kong ka bui? 😂
Nice....
They are several sub Hakka groups:
Ta Po Hakka
Fui Chew Hakka
Ho Po Hakka
Mui Yen Hakka
FYI,I am Ta Po Hakka.
My first language is English then Cantonese then Hakka or mandarin then French and Spanish
Stephanie T waw go get it haha
Hi Michelle, could you share the Hakka Facebook group please?
it's a private group called 'Hakka Ngin 客家人'. Hope you can find it :)
I used to have dog name 'Fui Toot Toot'
涯都係客家人呀！涯來自香港同野馬來西亞！
Iam hakka indonesian.. Why diferent?
there are many different hakka dialects, so it's very normal when it sounds different
@@inmimisbowl oke..😁
Nyi an ciang , co nga oi chin , oi mo?
Are u a kuima
Kie... Ja bo song a....
Ngai me hakka ngin
Mo nyin mun....
@@machao2279 ha..ha..ha,boi siau si u😀
Hou chang gnan
liang moi..hao chan oh...
really from Suriname?...how come I don't see you..hahaha
Ah May? Anyone knows what it means? Thx!! Also, Net Gong...is moon?
Patrick O'chinski Yes. Ah Mei (or ah Moi I’m Cantonese) means little sister or little miss. It can be used as a term of endearment or used to address a girl younger than you~
Am mo ting tung, ma kai khon ng toh = hakka singkawang
When ever I speak Hakka and then people are like *she is speaking Chinese*
So I interesting I jes sub..tho this vid is 1 year old😊
So King Kong is really called king bright? 😁😂
WolfGirlBeLike haha exactly!
@@inmimisbowl haha 😁
I'm Thai
Tq,please makes more videos, tqtqtqtq
I've got a few more to share
Long lee long tong
Ngan ji ngan tok
Tiam yea yea
Sui wong wong
Wat tat tat
Lon lon chon chon
Laem chi chi
Sam kong pan yea
Oh great! I’ve heard of most of these before, but don’t remember all their meanings. Can you also add what each of them mean? :)
Fat in a bit negative way =. Foei sie lak tsak
omg...je bent van suriname...ik ook
young turd omg ik ook...
Zoveel surinaamse chinezen hier :)
I,m hakka borneo indonesia..be make freind
Does anyone here join World Hakka Congress. (see its website) ?
光燦燦，暗咚咚，漢語方言
I'm don't understand with this Hakka language.. i'm Hakka people.. very red in my Hakka language said "AN FUNG"
Very swett "AN THIAM"
Very hard "AN NAN"
Usually "ngang" just for object
and then we have "AN NGONG" .. lol
My mom say amm tung tung dark
pretty
Ngi How Li Hoi.
Hakka Liang Moi. Kon Yin Woon (Good English) It Liu. Mao Tek Tin.
How mau ? Liang moi
Randomly came across this and a few of your pronunciations are wrong and I think you got a few things mixed up
Hey, im Hakka Chinese Indonesian
fui yong hakka moi