Finding Hoi San (Tai Shan) with Emily & Ray: Episode 4 - Going Deep with Hoi San! in Taishanese 台山话
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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Join Emily (余小平) & Ray (趙仕文) as we introduce Hoi San native Chris in Brooklyn, NYC! We talk about Chinese New Year traditions, as observed by ABCDescendants and also Hoi San expatriates.
We are both ABC's with family lineage of Tai Shan (Hoi San). Please share with us, any fun facts or topics of discussion that interest you.
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I am third generation borned hoisan girl from Malaysia. My late mother also cooked vegetarian lunch for the family every first day of the Chinese New Year. We are not allowed to wash our hair and also not allowed to cut our nails. We must wear our new Chinese New Year clothes! My mom also return two oranges to visitors because my mom said everything must be in pairs in our Chinese culture. My paternal grandparents are Hoisan and my maternal grandparents are Cantonese so therefore I can speak both Hoisan and Cantonese. Thank you very much for your video! I feel so happy hearing you speaking Hoisan.❤
GREAT VIDEO, Ray! I think you and Emily are BOTH CORRECT! Both my parents immigrated from a village in Tai Shan(my Dad around 1920 and my Mom after WW2). so I grew up in Seattle with Toi Son as my first language. Because Seattle Public Schools in the 1960s had no Special Programs at that time to aid non-English speaking Students, they purposely scaled up speaking English around the home, so I could become more proficient with my English skills. Although I can still understand someone speaking Hoisan, I no longer speak it very well now and there is no one in the home that I can practice speaking it with. Also both my parents and grandparents have passed on, too! I met this waiter at a local Chinese Restaurant, who did speak Hoisan and he told me that on a recent trip back home to China, he already found very little Hoisan being spoken there!
Three years late to the party but what a moving story of your original motivation. I am so glad you enriched your dad’s life with this project. And I’m amazed how much I understand! Thank you.
So so wonderful to hear all you speak in Hoi San! Thankfully I still speak it fluently and my daughter understands 😉 though when she speaks she sounds American 🤣
I so very happy to hear both of you speak Taishanese. I myself Indonesian born Chinese. My Mom and Dad are speaking like you. I also have the same family name like Emily (余).
So sorry for your loss.
Thank you for doing these episodes
My deepest condolences to you and your family for the loss of your beloved father ... he must be so touched by this legacy you are creating to honor him. You and Emily are adorable and engaging as ever. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for doing these. Towards the end of my dads life he was shocked at how bad my hoisin wah was. At this point it was more Chinglish and even that was bad. I told him I have no one to converse with and its usually Cantonese so I'm very happy to hear our language here. Thank you from my heart!😍
Ohhh I wish you can continue your videos!! These are so great! Feel so connected to y ‘all ABC Toisan kin!
Thank you Emily and Ray for these wonderful, valuable videos. I don’t know what the word to describe the delight I feel in my soul watching this. Ray, this was a lovely way to honor your father. Thank you for sharing that happy photo of him and condolences to your family. Look forward to the next installment. Stay safe and well.
Thanks for sharing this 4th installment! Keep these episodes coming! Emily, always nice to see and hear you!!! Toison 4-ever!!
Ray, sending you and your family my deepest condolences. We just lost our beloved mother to GBM on 3/17/2021.
Joanna, you know full well what I went through. I am so sorry to hear of your loss. You have my deepest condolences and sympathies. My dad had the same fight with GBM. I thought the 9 months leading up to his final fate had prepared me for it. But it didn’t. I wish all the love and support for you and your family.
Well done, These people are all 2nd generation ABC all were college educated. We are very glad & proud of them finding our roots in speaking out our native Taishanese.
Thanks Ray and Emily! Ray, deepest condolences on the departure of your father. He's proud of you and now your deep desire to speak hoi san hwa. I see that Emily is a Yee and I am a paper Yee. My hoi san hwa is in the intermediate level and it's a legacy my mom insisted. Let me try something on you -- "Oh ga moen yip ben yiu gong chung moon." On the inside of the door, you need to speak Chinese. Thank goodness my mom was strict about speaking Chinese at home. Our maternal grandmother lived with us so we had to speak hoi san with her. I was able to converse with relatives when they came to visit and was always praised for my ability to speak. I worked on the Cantonese by going to Chinese school for three years. It does help when I can practice both dialects with my husband who is fluent in both dialects and mando. Maybe we could have a zoom group and speak hoi san hwa!
Enjoying your chinglish. Very much like mine. I am sorry for your loss.
Thank you Ray and Emily for those videos - only only speak the language with my mother and sometimes my sisters and like you the language ends with us. I really appreciate the videos and for the most part I understand you - 😁
Thank you for creating a wonderful video speaking Toisan.
Sorry about your Daddy, We are sure that he enjoyed. Keep up the good video, Thanks,
Thank you Ray and Emily and Chris too. I thoroughly enjoyed your video. I got 99 to 100% of Emily and Ray but only 95% of Chris. I detect a little cantonese accent with Chris. I love it when you drop in an english word but a little surprised because at times I could think of how to say that word or convey the meaning in hoisan. My condolences to Ray. Please keep on with the videos. Now I will watch the first 3 videos. 陳玉泉, Tony Y. Chinn in Seattle.
Thank you Tony.
One apparent thing for me during this series, is that we are all conjuring deeply suppressed vocabulary, bringing us back to a certain time. There are words, phrases and euphemisms I’ve only heard my grandmother say, over 40 years ago. Or words my mother might say when she is emphatically expressing shock. Glad you are enjoying these videos.
Love watching your videos - my Mum and Dad came from Taishan - I was born New Zealand. Great to hear our dialect spoken - we all spoke Taishanese at home when growing up. Best wishes from us all from downunder Mervyn (Wong)😀👍
I’m sorry about your loss. I wanted to say thank you so much for these videos! While I don’t understand much, it’s comforting to hear a language I used to hear growing up!
My deepest condolences to you and your family. Well done and keep it up and going. Enjoyed watching episode 4.
I enjoyed this entertaining episode. It made me laugh. Chris was a great guest. Please make more videos. I am sorry about your dad and glad he was able to enjoy you honoring his roots and language.
Hope you both will continue making these videos in the future!
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Hey Emily ! You go girl! Your Hoi San Hua is great!
Hi ,Ray n Emily, i subscribe to your channel today, I'm speaking like you too, my children too.. I'm from Malaysia
I am pretty sure that the image you posted @12:55 is called Nian Gao. Fhat Gao is more of like a cupcake
This is great! Reminds me of being with family, especially since we have not been together as a group for a while.
May your Father Rest In Peace
Please accept my condolences on your great loss.
May I know which accent from the 18 Townships of Hoisan
you are speaking. Some accents vary alot
with one another. Eg.
my family "I"is ngok.Any idea Amrican
Hoisan accent come
mainly from which
part of Hoisan county.
Just curious. Thanks
Don’t know how the county lines are drawn, but my dad’s side is from Fao Sek and my mom’s side from Hoi Seng.
@@kaidoi888 Thank you
for the sharing. Fao Sek 浮石村 of Dou shan Town 斗山鎮:- A historic and cultural village, now
a national promoted
tourist spot. The village
bears the family surname of Chiu,趙. It
is about 30 km from the administrative centre of Toisan, Toi seng 台城. The Toisan
accent of San Francisco Toisanese actually is very close to Toi seng.
It is very uniform as been heard on many
videos produced by
American Toisanese.
Maybe this is the dominant Toisanese accent. You have the
final say.
ho yea, ho yea
Hey Ray if the fire fighter can go to my friend house yayun they can help her to move her stuff she speak in taishanese with me every one will leaugh at me
ray i want to meet emily inperson is tht okay with you ?