attempting to speak my native language (hakka) vlog (美国人说客家 kejia)
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- Опубліковано 18 січ 2020
- So I am from the Hakka ethnic group and since not a lot of people speak it anymore (especially in America where I am from) this is a video of me attempting to speaking my mother tongue for 24 hours. It was challenging to say the least and definitely made me realize I have a lot more to improve on.
To hear my family's Hakka dialect more clearly, here is a video I made of my dad speaking fully in Hakka and cooking Hakka traditional foods: • Three Traditional Hakk...
This is a vlog that features my dad cooking Hakka chicken and speaking Hakka: • Video
Comment below if you want to start a global Hakka community or in-person meet up in the Massachusetts area!
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I'm Hepo Hakka from Singapore! Really glad to see young people trying to keep the language alive. Super heartwarming!
What a coincidence! I'm a fellow Singaporean, Hakka and our surnames are Lieu/Liew.
I'm trying to learn the language too but constantly being laughed at for getting the wrong pronunciation 🤣
The difficult thing about Hakka is that there are so many variants and some aren’t even mutually intelligible. With that said, you can still be proud of your ancestry and preserve as much of your preferred Hakka!
Lots of love from Malaysia :)
Thank you for doing this vlog. Outside of my family, I've only met one person who speaks Hakka. Watching this made me really happy. I don't have many opportunities to practice anymore which is really unfortunate.
There are many Hakka dialects btw. As hakka ppl are known as nomadic that emigrates to southern china back centuries ago, hence the difference. Glad i learnt Hakka in these two years.. we in Malaysia have preserved well our dialects such as canto, teochew, hainan, chao ann, xinghua, hokkien, foochow, etc.. I'm hakka and my mom is hokkien so we speak hokkien more. If you realise it, some words in Korean language has similarities with hakka.
Don't confuse between Cantonese and Hakka, two different dialects altogether. I'm Hakka and I can understand your grandparents perfectly, even though my Hakka is from a different part (New Territories, HK). Try not to lose your roots, easier said than done, of course.
Absolutely, both Different languages yes.
@@OMG-zg7cj Grandma here started off with standard Cantonese & hen switched to Hakka...
@@JS-rm2ws it's because cantonese is the lingua franca for chinese poeple in north america. just like hokkien is the lingua franca for chinese in south east asia. so most chinese descendant in that area can speak both their mother tounge and the lingua franca to speak with other chinese group.
The Main Hakka region is Meixian and the surrounding this is Hakka I understand
Ngai Hakka Nyin. Jin Ni het to. Jin Ni (Indonesia)
you're probably the only person that actually vlogs in Hakka somewhat lol, try to make more.
thanks for the input!
There’s actually another UA-camr called inmimisbowl
I am Hakka speaker in Los Angeles, California. There was a lot of us here in the 1980s that spoke Hakka.
What happened? Where did they go?
In pontianak, we still speak hakka and teo chew language. Pontianak is in Indonesia, west borneo. Near Singkawang which is "chinatown" for Indonesia. In Singkawang, chinese is a majority. Hakka is also main language in that city. sorry my english is bad ehehe
@Saiful Pulau besar di Kalimantan Barat sebagian besar masih bisa, di Jawa yang banyak udh g bisa bahasa chinese
iam hakka from belitung island..stay in jakarta city
Me from Sabah.
@@kevinjonathanli ini saya saiful😁 Chanel yg baru.. Iya saya melayu dari Malaysia... Saya suka dengar org cina yg masih bisa bertutur cina asal mereka(native).. Dari pada mandarin😁kalau diindo kbykkn cina yg ga bisa bahasa cina asal mereka kerana dipaksa oleh sistem geopolitik.. Tp di malaysia pula mereka lebih memilih mandarin 😁kerana mereka byk yg brsekolah cina.. Jadi byk generasi muda hakka dan beberapa bahasa lain menggunakan bahasa mandarin dirumah... Kerana dilatih org tua mereka begitu.. So sad... Kecuali kantonis dan hokkien yg masih kuat bahasanya
halo kawan , saya juga orang singkawang
ngai san khew jong nyin (hakka language )
My daddy is hakka, and my mom is Teochew, so i learn both of them language, my ancestors is from mainland china and live in Indonesia start 1910s or 1920s(i don't know the specific time) ,
I'm pasif Mandarin and learn from school😁, so yeah even far from mainland china, I'm still Chinese
Stefanie Avery cool to see that Hakka people are in Indonesia :D
My dad is hakka and my mom is teochew too and i learn both languages as well! Coincidence? 😁 (I'm from Indonesia too)
i live in pontianak, west borneo. And i can speak Singkawang Hakka
Aku dari ntt dan orang tua aku omong khek, aq gak bisa ngomong bahasa buyut aq smpai hari ini 🤣
same, my dad is hakka and my mom is teochew. i just can speak teo chew, can hear hakka but can't speak
Love this video! I find it amazing when people connect with their roots
This is a lovely video, your grandparents remind me of mine :) It's kind of bizarre to hear my rare language spoken in other parts of the world. I'm a Hakka Timorese born in Australia and the dialect we speak here is a little different in pronunciation but I understood most of what you said. Si mun anh doh! (Thank you very much!)
Wow... I am of Hakka descendant from Malaysia and I am now in Boston. So great to see young people trying to practice Hakka!
Call back to malaysia. N speak more hakka.. My son reside in canada speaks hakka to his dog. Lol
this video gave me such a warm fuzzy feeling! great job girl :)
thanks! glad to warm your soul :D
Thanks for sharing! It was interesting to learn something new.
Hi, interesting video, thanks. I'm just discovering about my Hakka heritage. I'm from Mexico and I'm mixed indigenous and Hakka. Blessings.
Great video, cherish our elders. Growing up in Canada, most family spoke Cantonese (Hong Kong), and there were not a lot of folks speaking Hakka besides grandparents (Fengshun Hakka). Sadly they've pass many years ago and wished we did more video recordings back then. I learnt there are 40 million Hakka speakers worldwide, so hoping to absorb some more and honour our heritage.
great work! make more vlogs in Hakka please :)
btw your grandma speaks fluent cantonese too!
I'm from the UK, and Hakka was literally my first language but I haven't spoke this since dialiect since I was maybe 5years old. I'm 39 now. In your video, I'm hearing Hakka, canto, and mandarin. Your family are throwing multiple dialects around at the same time. Impressive:-))
Swearing in Hakka is the best!! It's so harsh sounding!
delloda hahahaha 😂
Sai Tze....
Del zyah meh
Chap Cung Ci (Incorrect spelling, I know!) lol
@@airguy yeah hakka always swear chap cung. Which mean bastrad.lol
It feels so weird as a foreigner who only knows Mandarin I can't understand anything in Hakka if I don't look at the subtitles, but once I read the subtitles I can see it is very similar to Mandarin.
@@JS-rm2ws Yes.I think the difference between Cantonese and other Chinese dialects/languages is much bigger than between Mandarin and Hakka.When I watch something in Cantonese with subtitles, it looks very distantly related to Mandarin.
Even more astonishing fact is that there are many variants (or sub-dialects) of Hakka and one sub-dialect can be very different to another
My dream is that, one day, we can all download languages into our head instantly, so no dialect on earth will ever be lost
That's a great thought
Will support you if you can do that..
Halloo, I'm also Hakka and your grandmother's dialect is nearly similar with mine that I use to communicate with my Hakka family in Indonesia. But, I struggled a little bit to understand all of the dialects because in my hometown, Hakka language already assimilated and mixed with Indonesian language.
So glad that I found your video. Thank you for sharing your life and cultures with us 💜
(Sorry for my bad English :))
It is cool that my mom speaks Hakka and we are in Massachusetts as well.
Wow, pretty cool. I'm a native Cantonese speaker originally from Hong Kong, who has never ever learned Hakka and only rarely get exposed to it, and when you speak it very slowly, I can actually understand a bit of Hakka (And of course I understand 101% of your grandmother's Canto at the beginning of this vid)!
Awesome vid I'm Hakka too, the struggle is real 😂
Your YT handle name's funny. Only those who knows Cantonese curse words know.
This is so precious 🥺
Do more videos in Hakka, it's so nice to hear people speak our language x
Hakka in Boston over here as well! My family is Ngai Hakka from Vietnam and sounds a little different. Cool to see you practice the language in a vlog in MA!
2:16-3:17 Her grandma is actually speaking in Cantonese. Then from 3:17 onwards the grandparents speak in Hakka. The grandpa and the other grandma in red hat speaks the same Hakka as mine. Actually Yi and her mum’s sound more towards a mixture Cantonese and Chinese instead of Hakka.
her grandma hakka is very similar to mine. Dabu Hakka. Im from Singapore and I can say my hakka is also mixed with some cantonese and mandarin haha
I'm imagining my mom yelling at me in Hakka because i didn't do the house chores XD
Mizuka Miyu oh wow same here 😂
Yep! Most of my Hakka know is the same!🤣
OMG I am from Xingning ,so happy to hear your grandpa say it
Love this! Greeting from fellow Hakka in Philly! I don't speak well I have also started learning this dying language from my Mom! Growing up the elders often say to learn the language, but of course as a kid I ignored it. Now, I am ashamed of myself lol!
Hi there
Thanks for the vlog. I a South African and have worked in Mainland China for a few years. It is sooo funny when you interject your (English) sentences with "low key" - this is not a phrase we use nor one I have ever heard Chinese people say so I smile every time you say that.
Hi..!, I am Hakka from Thailand. Please keep Hakka language alive. :)
What a very beautiful video. What a lovely close family. My mother was born in Jamaica to a Hakka father who emigrated from Guangdong at the end of the 1800s, and a mixed race Jamaican mother (half Scottish, half black). My mother could speak the language very well, which she used top speak with her father. This is lovely and heartwarming to see. I regret not having learnt the language when my mother attempted to speak with us when she emigrated to England.
Thanks for sharing your story! I recently moved from London and met some Hakka Jamaicans there as well. It is hard to start but even learning a couple of words can be an interesting start
@@vitaminme Wow, what an interesting surprise. My mother taught me how to say her name in Hakka. She was given the Hakka name Gold and Jade: 金玉 She also taught me to count, which is as much as I can remember.
I am Jamaican Chinese too. My dad and maternal grandparents are Hakka from Guangdong too. My mom is from Hong Kong. Since she didn't speak Hakka til she married him and he died young, my Hakka has a cantonese accent! 😆
i’ve been trying to find what my language is and i finally found it . thank the lord
Wow, my hometown is where your grandmother used to live so I have exactly the same Hakka accent with your grandmother!!!
@jkdsmd lsbbs Lianping country in the city of Heyuan. Northeastern Guangdong province.
Grand ma was speaking Cantonese at first. Then she spoke Hakka.
It's so many hakka in Indonesia especially in Singkawang
Wow. I am Hakka too and, like you, I don't speak very well. I think you are better than me (though with a Mandarin accent). It is definitely a dying language here in Miami, FL. Almost everyone I know who spoke it has died. So watching this video brought me to tears! Thanks so much!🥰
I’m in FL and half Hakka but my Sichuan Hakka grandparents spoke Cantonese.
Her grandma was speaking some Cantonese lol, I can speak Hakka so I can tell and some Cantonese, but some Hakka people also speak Cantonese.
Your grandma Hakka it’s my family Hakka, here in Panama City most of the Chinese speak Hakka from Guangzhou huadu.
Keep practicing ✨✨
我就是兴宁的，爷爷讲的我听的懂。很亲切的客家口音。
My ancestor also from 兴宁. Is this place far from Guangzhou? Thanks
@@steveyup5637 Same province, but not close. Guangzhou's in central Guangdong, while Xingning is part of Meizhou city in northeastern Guangdong. They're about 350km away from each other, or a 4 hour drive.
Love your vlog! My family are Hakka, from Yuen Long, Hong Kong. Growing up my parents spoke both Hakka and Cantonese, however we only ever replied in Cantonese. I simply cannot speak Hakka even if I tried but I understand it perfectly. As I got older I remember saying to my mum I didn't want her speaking Hakka anymore as it sounds so harsh lol.
@80sGuy Hong Kong was multicultural to begin with. There are four recognised indigenous groups; Hakka, Weitou, Hoklo, and Tanka. Hakka and Weitou were the largest in numbers and concentrated on farming, while Hoklo and Tanka were concentrated on fishing.
This is really cool. My entire mom side is Hakka in Thailand and only my grandfather can only speak Hakka (some of my relative) so I hope I could learn this dialect. Even my Mandarin is so bad tho.
Super interesting! My (white) grandfather spoke Hakka, but he lived in the mountains near Heilongjiang as a missionary
Hi Hakka moi ! I enjoy your show …
Well done girls! love from Singapore ..
Omg! I should try that too! But I think it will be super difficult! Mauritian Hakka here! :)
Nice vlog, I am also a hakka in Singapore now
My grandparents are from Meixian china the capital of Hakka
Alive and well!!!!!
Im Indonesian hakka that was born of Hakka father originated from San Khieu Jong (Singkawang in West Kalimantan) and Teochew mother but i understand more hakka than teochew. While your hakka was hardly understandable to me i was able to understand some. Some of the clear differences we had were that, you pronounced (you) as "nghi", while in here we say "nyi"..
But words you said that are same to how we speak in here are
nya = your
sam ku = clothes
ngai = me
kong = say
mai = buy
chu nyuk = pig meat
ngai teu = us
ma'ai/ma'kai = what
I think it was very cool to see someone very far that lives on another side of the planet have similar culture to mine
Hakka hereeeeee. And i understand your grandma said a little bit.
Hello, i'm from San Kho Yang, Hakka,nice to meet all of you
I am born in Canada, my family speaks a certain dialect that sounds like Cantonese in a way. I was so sure it was Hakka but after this video, I’m not sure haha! It sounds the same but also not. My parents migrated to Vietnam and back to China later. Thank you for this insight!
Hakka in the house ! Chee Gah Ngin ! I hope you learn it well, as it is a dying dialect. 👍
Yup, its a dying dialect, but don't die before i die.
GOOD JOB!!!
I grew up with my family speaking Hakka!
I'm so sad that I'm a hakka but can't speak the language, it's always nice to watch vlogs in hakka
I'm from Jember city, East Java province, Indonesia. Here most of youths are lack ability of speaking their dialect even doesn't be able to speak on their own dialect at all. Though I've been heard an advice that said it'll be an important thing. That makes me want to learn my dialect that's Hainanese and Teochew. And currently Hakka is on my list to learn cause it also used by most of my Hakka relatives from Grandpa, in other hand I'm a polyglot, I can speak over 15 langs 😁.
Btw, this video a bit help me to understand Hakka.
Thanks for making this video, greetings from Indonesia!
Hello from indonesia, at my country especially in west kalimantan island , singkawang city . A lot of HAKKA people still speak our mother language . But i saw a lot of difference between your and ours talking way. At least i still understand a lot of conversation in your video , cause we share same ancestor haha. Ngai oi nyi :D
and sorry for my bad english hahah
I speak Teochew. Some of the Min dialects like mine share words and phrases, similar to Cantonese. Having become so Americanized, I long to reconnect my culture so much.
Haha i could understand but couldn't speak anymore. Grown up with the language. Your popo spoke just like my grandmother
wow your grandparents also speak perfect Cantonese.
It's like a twilight zone between Putonghua and Cantonese, I think my grandmother speaks the same.
You are so amazing...can speak Hakka
i can understand every hakka word that u said,is same with my hometown hakka .my grandfather come from meizhou.i'm from west borneo indonesia.
Omg i'm hakka too but i'm from indonesia ,i love this video❤
Hakka is a common daily converse for the Chinese Community here in Kota Kinabalu, Northern Borneo island.
you have more mandarin than the hakka alone :) thanks for VLOG
greetings from hakka indonesia
Singkawang city❤
3:18 OMG THE CALENDAR AND THE CLOTHES PIN. My Hakka grandparents (who I live with) literally have the same calendar hung like that 😭
3:56 Okay, now I'm convinced every Chinese household is the same like that Pei Pa Koa syrup... No running from that
Personally, my father(who's Hakka) and my mother(who's Cantonese) never spoke to my siblings and I in any Chinese dialects other than Mandarin and I'm lowkey disappointed so here I am, starting to learn to keep the possibly dying dialect from literally vanishing
Chinese is not one single uniform language, it is one large language family consisting of many languages within such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka etc. So Chinese is like the Latin language family which consist of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Romanian etc. As such, Hakka in Chinese is like Spanish in Latin language. Much like Polish being part of Slavic language and Danish being part of Germanic language. Latin, Slavic and Germanic are part of a much larger language group called Indo-Aryan Language. Chinese however is also part of a larger language group called the Sino-Tibeto language group
Hi ! I'm from Panama. Do you know that Panama is a country where there are many Hakka-speaking Chinese? Many Chinese immigrated to Panama in the past. My family are from Guangzhou. Hakka also has different accents.
Mine is different than yours. LOVE YOUR VIDEO :3 I´m proud of be Hakka ren.
Hey im from panama my parents are from guanzhou too also speak hakka
Nice attempt...keep it up...
Wow I've been trying to found where my language's origin and your grandma's accent is the closest hakka im speaking, im sure my grandparents have the exact accent too. Like these comment said, many hakka even younger generation like you and me in indonesia still speak the language. Alright imma go search where Lianping is sksks
Omg, I was thinking the same thing. I guess my ancestors were from Lianping
I am 4rd generation Chinese from Malaysia. I speak Hakka as well with Huizhou slang. I'm really delighted to watch this amazing video.
May your grandparent always be blessed and stay healthy!
*Zuk fuk tai ga shin ti gian Kong !(Hakka)
Thank you for your blessing! :) Glad you can speak Hakka!
Hello... Borneo Island Hakka here.
Hakka Indonesian who doesnt speak Hakkanese and migrating to HK now. Really want to connect to my ancestry so I looked up for Hakka language videos. Thank you :)
Sama di indo betah mana bro
You grandma hakka same with me,i can understand all she say..☺️, i'am indonesian hakka🤗🤗
my mum's mum is hakka and her entire family speaks malaysian hakka！it's so nice to see hakka representation，it's all over east malaysia，indonesia and we have quite the lot of hakkas in hong kong and also in taiwan (where it's a national language taught in schools！) 。it's a shame you use simplified characters and don't explore the true beauty and history behind traditional characters but i hope you will learn traditional characters as well！💞💓
I want to learn traditional one day! Some of my family is from Singapore and they often talk about Malaysia hopefully one day I can go
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Hakka is also a very ancient Chinese language too, just like Cantonese....I am Hakka too
As a Guangxi Cantonese speaker, this sounds understandable at times
Ah Poh Kong Fuijiu wa 👍
Young lady must buck up 😁
I am Hakka from Malaysia.Fourth generation in Malaysia.
好片
saya sangat senang bisa mendengar kan bahasa hak ka
ur grandma speaks cantonese too haha. I'm Dabu Hakka from Singapore
my grand parents are hakka from Meixian .We lived in Penang,Malaysia. I can speak Meixian Hakka but not too deep.
I commend your attempt. I'm pretty sure that by now you have been told there are many different dialects in Hakka alone, and that although I am also Hakka, we don't necessarily say things exactly the same. I'm from Jamaica and i speak Bao An Hakka.
Usually, a "video" is called luk yang 录影.
录像 would be pronunced luk siong.
i speak hakka too!
You should do more video about hakka
At 0.00 you started off in Cantonese! 😁
Hi dear.. im from Malaysia and mostly my friend in my area is Hakka..
manny people still speak hakka here in indonesia, it’s not a dying language here, fuzhou is rare here
Continue our Hakka culture, and speak Hakka at home.
Good
Hi, we speak hakka too in Bangka, indonesia
What's province your grandparents come from? Majority of Chinese who speak Hakka came from Guangzhou Province.
I am in Tyngsboro, Mass.