Can you speak a second language?
Yes, English is technically my second language or is it my third or my fourth? My native tongue is a Chinese dialect that is now on the verge of extinction. Not many people speak it and even if they do, it’s only among family members. Then there’s Cantonese and Mandarin, people like to combine those and call it Chinese but they are so different. If one can speak Cantonese, most likely, they can understand Mandarin but it’s not vice versa.
Can you remember any popular novelty gadget from the past that is not so widely available today?
I remember when I was in school, my classmates used to gather around at recess to see if their electronic pet need feeding. I had to search it as I’ve never had one and apparently, it has a name – Tamagotchi.
Can you juggle?
No, I think I will duck or run away after whatever object I just threw comes back around.
What is your favorite snack food?
I’ve never been much of a snacker until recently. I don’t know what my favorite snack is, perhaps a banana?
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Thanks for joining in and sharing your world this week Yinglan.
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Interesting. My husband can speak fairly fluent Mandarin (first learned at an LDS MTC). His Cantonese is passable… but gets some funny looks. He also picked up Thai while living in northern Thailand, and was able to muster functional Lao (“Isan”), which is similar and commonly spoken there. I think he has a good feel for tonal languages. His Japanese is terrible.
I’m curious about you local dialect?
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Wow, your husband knows how to speak a collection of language. I think my most treasured language is my dialect because it’s endangered. It’s Cantonese-based but those who knows how to speak Cantonese won’t neccessarily understand my dialect. It’s always been something of a secret language between me and my mom because no one can understand what we say even if one can speak Mandarin or Cantonese.
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I had to ask my husband, but “Taishanese” or “Hoisanwa” was what I was wondering about. It used to be spoken by a lot of people in San Francisco’s Chinese district, and he couldn’t understand it. But he said it was a dialect regional to the Guangzhou/Pearl River Delta area. He worked for awhile in Guangzhou, setting up some Chinese production for a US company.
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Oh no, taishanese is not what I speak. My hometown in China is actual now a subdistrict of Zhongshan, and my dialect is from that tiny area. I’ve heard people describe it as the Zhongshan dialect and even then, that’s vague because there are now quite a number of variations for this dialect.
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