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  • čas přidán 18. 01. 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!
    #hakka #hakkachinese #客家话 #chinese #24hours #foreignlanguage #ethniclanguage #language #chineselanguage #languagevlog #hakkavlog #learninghakka #kejiahua

Komentáře • 313

  • @unclescandal
    @unclescandal Před 2 lety +16

    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 :)

  • @liewshanhao1495
    @liewshanhao1495 Před 3 lety +25

    I'm Hepo Hakka from Singapore! Really glad to see young people trying to keep the language alive. Super heartwarming!

    • @matildalieu8139
      @matildalieu8139 Před 3 lety +2

      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 🤣

  • @celloting01
    @celloting01 Před 3 lety +37

    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.

    • @OMG-zg7cj
      @OMG-zg7cj Před 3 lety +3

      Absolutely, both Different languages yes.

    • @Jumpoable
      @Jumpoable Před 3 lety +3

      @@OMG-zg7cj Grandma here started off with standard Cantonese & hen switched to Hakka...

    • @michael-qt3er
      @michael-qt3er Před 2 lety

      @@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.

    • @jamestse492
      @jamestse492 Před rokem

      The Main Hakka region is Meixian and the surrounding this is Hakka I understand

    • @lysu80
      @lysu80 Před 3 měsíci

      Ngai Hakka Nyin. Jin Ni het to. Jin Ni (Indonesia)

  • @eu8235
    @eu8235 Před 4 lety +37

    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.

    • @moberson
      @moberson Před 4 lety +1

      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.

  • @dchinsee
    @dchinsee Před 4 lety +68

    you're probably the only person that actually vlogs in Hakka somewhat lol, try to make more.

    • @vitaminme
      @vitaminme  Před 4 lety +3

      thanks for the input!

    • @tracy_5577
      @tracy_5577 Před 4 lety +4

      There’s actually another CZcamsr called inmimisbowl

  • @kevinjonathanli
    @kevinjonathanli Před 4 lety +27

    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

    • @kevinjonathanli
      @kevinjonathanli Před 3 lety +3

      @Saiful Pulau besar di Kalimantan Barat sebagian besar masih bisa, di Jawa yang banyak udh g bisa bahasa chinese

    • @hendrasolderpanas8533
      @hendrasolderpanas8533 Před 3 lety +4

      iam hakka from belitung island..stay in jakarta city

    • @OMG-zg7cj
      @OMG-zg7cj Před 3 lety +3

      Me from Sabah.

    • @anakitiktokwi2939
      @anakitiktokwi2939 Před 3 lety +3

      @@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

    • @Valsenhuang
      @Valsenhuang Před 3 lety +3

      halo kawan , saya juga orang singkawang
      ngai san khew jong nyin (hakka language )

  • @stefanieavery
    @stefanieavery Před 4 lety +28

    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

    • @vitaminme
      @vitaminme  Před 4 lety +9

      Stefanie Avery cool to see that Hakka people are in Indonesia :D

    • @lolawn2216
      @lolawn2216 Před 4 lety +7

      My dad is hakka and my mom is teochew too and i learn both languages as well! Coincidence? 😁 (I'm from Indonesia too)

    • @kevinjonathanli
      @kevinjonathanli Před 4 lety +4

      i live in pontianak, west borneo. And i can speak Singkawang Hakka

    • @ombbpubg9557
      @ombbpubg9557 Před 4 lety +4

      Aku dari ntt dan orang tua aku omong khek, aq gak bisa ngomong bahasa buyut aq smpai hari ini 🤣

    • @ivander2329
      @ivander2329 Před 3 lety +1

      same, my dad is hakka and my mom is teochew. i just can speak teo chew, can hear hakka but can't speak

  • @jimbochoo3316
    @jimbochoo3316 Před rokem +3

    I am Hakka speaker in Los Angeles, California. There was a lot of us here in the 1980s that spoke Hakka.

    • @patrickochinski6754
      @patrickochinski6754 Před 2 měsíci

      What happened? Where did they go?

    • @dl2997
      @dl2997 Před měsícem

      @jimbochoo3316 are you part of the DABU Association in LA?

  • @YaoHongKok
    @YaoHongKok Před 3 lety +6

    Wow... I am of Hakka descendant from Malaysia and I am now in Boston. So great to see young people trying to practice Hakka!

    • @lindaliew8865
      @lindaliew8865 Před 2 lety +1

      Call back to malaysia. N speak more hakka.. My son reside in canada speaks hakka to his dog. Lol

  • @wangasm
    @wangasm Před 4 lety +10

    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!)

  • @mistressfannypack9184
    @mistressfannypack9184 Před 4 lety +25

    My dream is that, one day, we can all download languages into our head instantly, so no dialect on earth will ever be lost

  • @memomartinez4685
    @memomartinez4685 Před rokem +2

    Hi, interesting video, thanks. I'm just discovering about my Hakka heritage. I'm from Mexico and I'm mixed indigenous and Hakka. Blessings.

  • @delloda
    @delloda Před 4 lety +15

    Swearing in Hakka is the best!! It's so harsh sounding!

  • @deacudaniel1635
    @deacudaniel1635 Před 4 lety +14

    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.

    • @deacudaniel1635
      @deacudaniel1635 Před 2 lety +1

      @@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.

    • @LearnHakka
      @LearnHakka Před 3 měsíci

      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

  • @ktwpl28
    @ktwpl28 Před 10 dny

    So pleased to hear them speaking Hakka dialect.Most of our parents. and grand parents came from Meizhou & we are very proud to be HAKKA.

  • @lovepassiondream
    @lovepassiondream Před 3 lety +5

    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.

    • @kennyzeng21
      @kennyzeng21 Před 2 lety

      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

  • @davidwong4821
    @davidwong4821 Před 3 lety +2

    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.

  • @edysusanto4323
    @edysusanto4323 Před 4 lety +8

    It's so many hakka in Indonesia especially in Singkawang

  • @scottscott232
    @scottscott232 Před 4 lety +2

    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.

    • @vitaminme
      @vitaminme  Před 4 lety +1

      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

    • @scottscott232
      @scottscott232 Před 4 lety +1

      @@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.

    • @joditc
      @joditc Před 3 lety

      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! 😆

  • @kelmok
    @kelmok Před 3 měsíci

    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.

  • @Miyu_ftadell
    @Miyu_ftadell Před 4 lety +13

    I'm imagining my mom yelling at me in Hakka because i didn't do the house chores XD

    • @dheanadaffodils2752
      @dheanadaffodils2752 Před 4 lety +2

      Mizuka Miyu oh wow same here 😂

    • @joditc
      @joditc Před 3 lety

      Yep! Most of my Hakka know is the same!🤣

  • @Neyobe
    @Neyobe Před 3 měsíci

    Love this video! I find it amazing when people connect with their roots

  • @dololomo7157
    @dololomo7157 Před 4 lety +7

    Awesome vid I'm Hakka too, the struggle is real 😂

    • @txtrang2515
      @txtrang2515 Před 3 lety +1

      Your YT handle name's funny. Only those who knows Cantonese curse words know.

  • @ahenrycc84
    @ahenrycc84 Před 2 lety +2

    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)!

  • @carnival5925
    @carnival5925 Před 3 lety +1

    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

  • @user-bu6ur1mo2h
    @user-bu6ur1mo2h Před 4 lety +6

    我就是兴宁的,爷爷讲的我听的懂。很亲切的客家口音。

    • @steveyup5637
      @steveyup5637 Před 4 lety

      My ancestor also from 兴宁. Is this place far from Guangzhou? Thanks

    • @liongkienfai104
      @liongkienfai104 Před 3 lety +2

      @@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.

  • @JS-rm2ws
    @JS-rm2ws Před 2 lety +1

    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:-))

  • @caylateng5942
    @caylateng5942 Před 3 lety +1

    Hi..!, I am Hakka from Thailand. Please keep Hakka language alive. :)

  • @serena-uo4cx
    @serena-uo4cx Před 4 lety +4

    i’ve been trying to find what my language is and i finally found it . thank the lord

  • @bostonskin32
    @bostonskin32 Před 4 lety +3

    It is cool that my mom speaks Hakka and we are in Massachusetts as well.

  • @Robgti180
    @Robgti180 Před 3 lety +3

    Grand ma was speaking Cantonese at first. Then she spoke Hakka.

  • @calistaguo5182
    @calistaguo5182 Před 3 lety +1

    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 :))

  • @seanxim3697
    @seanxim3697 Před 3 lety +1

    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

  • @yiyan338
    @yiyan338 Před 4 lety +3

    Wow, my hometown is where your grandmother used to live so I have exactly the same Hakka accent with your grandmother!!!

    • @liongkienfai104
      @liongkienfai104 Před 3 lety

      @jkdsmd lsbbs Lianping country in the city of Heyuan. Northeastern Guangdong province.

  • @chaakming
    @chaakming Před 3 lety +2

    great work! make more vlogs in Hakka please :)
    btw your grandma speaks fluent cantonese too!

  • @yasashiihitodesu
    @yasashiihitodesu Před 11 měsíci

    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!

  • @IncorrectTarget.
    @IncorrectTarget. Před 4 lety +3

    Thanks for sharing! It was interesting to learn something new.

  • @inmimisbowl
    @inmimisbowl Před 4 lety +2

    this video gave me such a warm fuzzy feeling! great job girl :)

    • @vitaminme
      @vitaminme  Před 4 lety +2

      thanks! glad to warm your soul :D

  • @lilychong859
    @lilychong859 Před 3 lety +1

    Your grandma Hakka it’s my family Hakka, here in Panama City most of the Chinese speak Hakka from Guangzhou huadu.
    Keep practicing ✨✨

  • @joditc
    @joditc Před 3 lety +1

    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!🥰

    • @zeitgeistx5239
      @zeitgeistx5239 Před rokem

      I’m in FL and half Hakka but my Sichuan Hakka grandparents spoke Cantonese.

  • @papijaddy2963
    @papijaddy2963 Před 4 měsíci

    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!

  • @etone888
    @etone888 Před 4 lety +3

    Hakka in the house ! Chee Gah Ngin ! I hope you learn it well, as it is a dying dialect. 👍

  • @airguy
    @airguy Před 3 lety +1

    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!

  • @poompatpetkhai3795
    @poompatpetkhai3795 Před 3 lety +2

    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.

  • @yeemingwong7474
    @yeemingwong7474 Před 4 lety +11

    Come to malaysia we have so many hakka people..

    • @patrickochinski6754
      @patrickochinski6754 Před 4 lety +2

      What kind of Hakka you guys speak?

    • @SlowReactionDriversAreTheWorst
      @SlowReactionDriversAreTheWorst Před 4 lety +2

      Really, Malaysia has alot of hakka people.
      Then i need to go there for vacation to reunite with my people

    • @yeemingwong7474
      @yeemingwong7474 Před 3 lety

      @@MrRowley5 yes im hakka ngin

    • @seanxim3697
      @seanxim3697 Před 3 lety

      Hakka is also a dying language in Malaysia especially amongst the younger generation. Hakka in Malaysia varies, the states with probably the largest Hakka population is Sabah, Sarawak and Perak. In Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia you hear Hakka saying “how are you” as “Ngi haomao”, in Sarawak people say “Ngi homo”

    • @yeemingwong7474
      @yeemingwong7474 Před 3 lety

      @@seanxim3697 yes I'm sabahan people..hehe

  • @martinjohnson3461
    @martinjohnson3461 Před 4 lety +2

    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)

    • @vitaminme
      @vitaminme  Před 4 lety +2

      Thank you for your blessing! :) Glad you can speak Hakka!

  • @DisnStukKk
    @DisnStukKk Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @sharony16
    @sharony16 Před 3 lety +2

    I grew up with my family speaking Hakka!

  • @diva3713
    @diva3713 Před 4 lety +4

    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!💞💓

    • @vitaminme
      @vitaminme  Před 4 lety +2

      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

  • @Steven-ep7ed
    @Steven-ep7ed Před 2 lety

    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!

  • @sautsan8120
    @sautsan8120 Před rokem

    Hi Hakka moi ! I enjoy your show …

  • @peachesbunny
    @peachesbunny Před 2 lety +1

    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

  • @emilieng29
    @emilieng29 Před 3 lety

    I'm so sad that I'm a hakka but can't speak the language, it's always nice to watch vlogs in hakka

  • @sho9214
    @sho9214 Před 4 lety +1

    Nice vlog, I am also a hakka in Singapore now
    My grandparents are from Meixian china the capital of Hakka

  • @susanmo8417
    @susanmo8417 Před 3 lety

    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.

    • @liongkienfai104
      @liongkienfai104 Před 3 lety

      ​@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.

  • @loganperry9013
    @loganperry9013 Před 3 lety

    OMG I am from Xingning ,so happy to hear your grandpa say it

  • @prettytse7762
    @prettytse7762 Před 3 lety

    Alive and well!!!!!

  • @ron321tube
    @ron321tube Před 3 lety +1

    Come to Toronto, Ontario, Canada where there is large Hakka population.

  • @bruceming3810
    @bruceming3810 Před 3 lety +1

    wow your grandparents also speak perfect Cantonese.

  • @bryanleon1436
    @bryanleon1436 Před 3 lety

    Continue our Hakka culture, and speak Hakka at home.

  • @darrellng7617
    @darrellng7617 Před 4 lety +1

    It's like a twilight zone between Putonghua and Cantonese, I think my grandmother speaks the same.

  • @txtrang2515
    @txtrang2515 Před 3 lety +1

    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.

  • @FlaneganB
    @FlaneganB Před 3 lety

    Hakka is a common daily converse for the Chinese Community here in Kota Kinabalu, Northern Borneo island.

  • @castoo
    @castoo Před 3 lety

    Super interesting! My (white) grandfather spoke Hakka, but he lived in the mountains near Heilongjiang as a missionary

  • @phoebedobson7570
    @phoebedobson7570 Před 3 lety

    Do more videos in Hakka, it's so nice to hear people speak our language x

  • @lawrencechong7590
    @lawrencechong7590 Před 2 lety

    I am Hakka from Malaysia.Fourth generation in Malaysia.

  • @kopisusu552
    @kopisusu552 Před 3 lety

    greetings from hakka indonesia
    Singkawang city❤

  • @virtuallyly9045
    @virtuallyly9045 Před 3 lety +1

    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

    • @airguy
      @airguy Před 3 lety

      Omg, I was thinking the same thing. I guess my ancestors were from Lianping

  • @Valsenhuang
    @Valsenhuang Před 3 lety

    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

    • @Valsenhuang
      @Valsenhuang Před 3 lety

      and sorry for my bad english hahah

  • @mahonah
    @mahonah Před 2 lety

    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.

  • @thaulai1187
    @thaulai1187 Před 2 lety

    Ah Poh Kong Fuijiu wa 👍
    Young lady must buck up 😁

  • @jokatosaminos9930
    @jokatosaminos9930 Před 3 lety

    Hello, i'm from San Kho Yang, Hakka,nice to meet all of you

  • @josechong8207
    @josechong8207 Před rokem

    I don't think our language (Hakka) is a dying language when close to 50 million around the world consider it as their native language. Never too late to get connected to one's own roots and language. Congratulations on your own personal journey to rediscovering your roots.

  • @jxshplayz9742
    @jxshplayz9742 Před 3 lety +1

    Same i also speak Hakka but Hakka Chin who else speak Hakka Chin?

  • @ken2633
    @ken2633 Před 3 lety +1

    At 0.00 you started off in Cantonese! 😁

  • @tfchin23
    @tfchin23 Před rokem

    Grandmother making sure the grandchild is not hungry ... Grandmothers all over the world are the same!!

  • @stephenahsen
    @stephenahsen Před 3 lety

    Omg! I should try that too! But I think it will be super difficult! Mauritian Hakka here! :)

  • @ksc888
    @ksc888 Před 10 měsíci

    Hopefully Hakka won't die just yet! Not heard this language in over 20 years! (Mine is HK NT Hakka)

  • @alexanderyau6347
    @alexanderyau6347 Před 4 lety +3

    I think the old lady speaks both Cantonese and Hakka.

    • @vitaminme
      @vitaminme  Před 4 lety +1

      yes! my grandma moved to a hakka village after her home was destroyed in WW2
      she talks about it in my other hakka video at 9:48 czcams.com/video/bxfT3F_zQvU/video.html

    • @alexanderyau6347
      @alexanderyau6347 Před 4 lety

      Wastelandian Haha because Haka is my mother language and I can also speak Cantonese

  • @dlluo8616
    @dlluo8616 Před 4 lety +3

    I am a Hakka from Xinyi, Guangdong Province,from China.我是广东省信宜客家人

    • @fcyvr5860
      @fcyvr5860 Před 3 lety +1

      Born and raised in Malaysia, now living in Canada. My ancestors came from China, Guangdong, 宝安区

    • @dlluo8616
      @dlluo8616 Před 3 lety +1

      I am now working in Bao'an District of Shenzhen

    • @dlluo8616
      @dlluo8616 Před 3 lety +1

      You are also a Hakka,现在是否还在说客家话,

    • @fcyvr5860
      @fcyvr5860 Před 3 lety

      @@dlluo8616 What a coincidence... such a small world 👍 Yes I still speak Hakka with my family everyday. My children were born in Canada and they are fluent in Hakka as well. I can only hope that they will pass on the language to their children as well

    • @dlluo8616
      @dlluo8616 Před 3 lety

      @@fcyvr5860 Yes, there are Hakkas where there is the sun. We Hakkas originated in the Central Plains. We also have Hakka brewed tofu. In China, Hakka is only used at home. It is not popular outside. Take Guangdong as an example. Guangdong is Cantonese and Putonghua

  • @ferrroesdaryl7650
    @ferrroesdaryl7650 Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @Asdi-tw9hp
    @Asdi-tw9hp Před rokem

    saya sangat senang bisa mendengar kan bahasa hak ka

  • @SlowReactionDriversAreTheWorst

    Your grandparents hakka words sounds like they are mixed with other chinese dialect.

    • @chrissyly5026
      @chrissyly5026 Před 4 lety +2

      It is, they’re switching off from Hakka canto and mandarin

    • @fcyvr5860
      @fcyvr5860 Před 3 lety +1

      In Malaysia, especially East Malaysia, we often mix our Hakka with Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay and English. My children were born in Canada so their Hakka is mixed with English

    • @doriswaddington2418
      @doriswaddington2418 Před 3 lety

      Where do you come from in East Malaysia? I’m from Kuching Sarawak I now live in Cambridge England

  • @ilmnt.guidance
    @ilmnt.guidance Před 3 lety

    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 :)

    • @andia968
      @andia968 Před 3 lety

      Sama di indo betah mana bro

  • @zephure88
    @zephure88 Před 3 lety

    Well done girls! love from Singapore ..

  • @jeffc899
    @jeffc899 Před 4 lety +1

    Hello... Borneo Island Hakka here.

  • @JP-hn4vl
    @JP-hn4vl Před 3 lety

    This is so precious 🥺

  • @aldoiskandar4665
    @aldoiskandar4665 Před 3 lety

    manny people still speak hakka here in indonesia, it’s not a dying language here, fuzhou is rare here

  • @bennohoja4195
    @bennohoja4195 Před 4 lety +2

    sounds like the senior lady has Meixian accent....keep it up.

    • @jcjc3671
      @jcjc3671 Před 3 lety +2

      Definitely Meixian!

  • @ct2568
    @ct2568 Před 4 lety

    Hakka hereeeeee. And i understand your grandma said a little bit.

  • @meibeliny.2769
    @meibeliny.2769 Před 3 lety +2

    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.

    • @dd-rd1ds
      @dd-rd1ds Před 3 lety +1

      Hey im from panama my parents are from guanzhou too also speak hakka

  • @delloda
    @delloda Před 4 lety +1

    I can speak Hakka and it is far from a dying language. Most of the areas around northern Guongdong if not more speak it as the local language and that is a huge area. I was freaked out at first when I visited Huiyang and Huizhou and everyone spoke Hakka which I would only speak at home or with relatives since I was born in Scotland. Every time someone shouted something in the street, I thought that my parents were calling me! Another thing, Do your parents also always laugh when they hear some Hakka person on the news in Chinese channels?!?

    • @prakorngirodkunkid7877
      @prakorngirodkunkid7877 Před 4 lety

      The capital of hakka is Meizhou in Guangdong China. I'm hakka live in Thailand.

    • @delloda
      @delloda Před 4 lety +1

      @@prakorngirodkunkid7877 It's not the capital as such as there is no such place but Meizhou is considered the centre of "standard" Hakka called Meixian Hakka in china as many located there and also returned there. My style of Hakka slightly closer to Cantonese and stresses the "Tze" sound less, meaning that I understand about 80% of Meixian Hakka but I could probably adapt after a month of speaking it.

    • @prakorngirodkunkid7877
      @prakorngirodkunkid7877 Před 4 lety +1

      @@delloda I know what you mean. Hakka have >10 accents depend on the area. My parent come from Fengsoon(locate bet. Chaozhou and Meizhou.So accent mixed with Chaozhou call "ban sun kuk"=half mountain kejia.I think each accents 60-70% are the same words in common. Majority of Hakka (kejia) people live in Meizhou. So if you come to Meizhou you will see"Meizhou is the capital of Hakka"before enter the city. You can visit Hakka museum that has a lot of detail about Hakka.

    • @delloda
      @delloda Před 4 lety +1

      @@prakorngirodkunkid7877 My father is from Huiyang in a place called "Kee leng ha" meaning something like "below the city district. It's right next to the new Huizhou South train station. I went to the station to take photos of it and a police officer shouts at me questioning what I was doing cause I got a big slr camera and dressed like a British guy. I told him that I was taking photos of this cool station in Hakka and his demeanor totally changed! Take as many as you want and publish them every he says laughing! I posted some of them on google maps! :)

    • @LearnHakka
      @LearnHakka Před 3 měsíci

      @@prakorngirodkunkid7877 There is also a Hakka museum in Indonesia

  • @kennyzeng21
    @kennyzeng21 Před 2 lety

    ur grandma speaks cantonese too haha. I'm Dabu Hakka from Singapore

  • @renisusanti21
    @renisusanti21 Před 3 lety

    Haha i could understand but couldn't speak anymore. Grown up with the language. Your popo spoke just like my grandmother

  • @jadehalls5169
    @jadehalls5169 Před 3 lety +1

    GOOD JOB!!!

  • @MindofYǒng
    @MindofYǒng Před 3 lety +1

    Actually you can speak Hakka, just practice more with your grandparent. Your grandma Hakka was good, her accent / intonation are similar to my kinda Hakka. Cheers from Indonesia

  • @jimmychen5407
    @jimmychen5407 Před 3 lety

    you have more mandarin than the hakka alone :) thanks for VLOG

  • @chai_0408
    @chai_0408 Před 3 lety +1

    2:59 婆婆那些补血的汤

  • @cushuyi369
    @cushuyi369 Před 3 lety

    Omg i'm hakka too but i'm from indonesia ,i love this video❤

  • @Whois514
    @Whois514 Před 3 lety

    my grand parents are hakka from Meixian .We lived in Penang,Malaysia. I can speak Meixian Hakka but not too deep.