attempting to speak my native language (hakka) vlog (美国人说客家 kejia)

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  • Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
  • 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

Комментарии • 314

  • @unclescandal
    @unclescandal 2 года назад +17

    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 3 года назад +25

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

    • @matildalieu8139
      @matildalieu8139 3 года назад +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 🤣

  • @eu8235
    @eu8235 4 года назад +38

    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 4 года назад +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.

  • @celloting01
    @celloting01 3 года назад +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 3 года назад +3

      Absolutely, both Different languages yes.

    • @Jumpoable
      @Jumpoable 3 года назад +3

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

    • @michael-qt3er
      @michael-qt3er 2 года назад

      @@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 Год назад

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

    • @lysu80
      @lysu80 4 месяца назад

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

  • @dchinsee
    @dchinsee 4 года назад +68

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

    • @vitaminme
      @vitaminme  4 года назад +3

      thanks for the input!

    • @tracy_5577
      @tracy_5577 4 года назад +4

      There’s actually another RUclipsr called inmimisbowl

  • @kevinjonathanli
    @kevinjonathanli 4 года назад +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 3 года назад +3

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

    • @hendrasolderpanas8533
      @hendrasolderpanas8533 3 года назад +4

      iam hakka from belitung island..stay in jakarta city

    • @OMG-zg7cj
      @OMG-zg7cj 3 года назад +3

      Me from Sabah.

    • @anakitiktokwi2939
      @anakitiktokwi2939 3 года назад +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 3 года назад +3

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

  • @stefanieavery
    @stefanieavery 4 года назад +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  4 года назад +9

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

    • @lolawn2216
      @lolawn2216 4 года назад +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 4 года назад +4

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

    • @ombbpubg9557
      @ombbpubg9557 4 года назад +4

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

    • @ivander2329
      @ivander2329 3 года назад +1

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

  • @deacudaniel1635
    @deacudaniel1635 4 года назад +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 2 года назад +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 3 месяца назад

      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

  • @wangasm
    @wangasm 4 года назад +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!)

  • @YaoHongKok
    @YaoHongKok 3 года назад +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 3 года назад +1

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

  • @mistressfannypack9184
    @mistressfannypack9184 4 года назад +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

    • @tinman9193
      @tinman9193 3 года назад

      That's a great thought

    • @maiiiliew2237
      @maiiiliew2237 3 года назад

      Will support you if you can do that..

  • @Neyobe
    @Neyobe 3 месяца назад

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

  • @jimbochoo3316
    @jimbochoo3316 Год назад +3

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

    • @patrickochinski6754
      @patrickochinski6754 3 месяца назад

      What happened? Where did they go?

    • @dl2997
      @dl2997 Месяц назад

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

  • @memomartinez4685
    @memomartinez4685 Год назад +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.

  • @ktwpl28
    @ktwpl28 17 дней назад

    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.

  • @kelmok
    @kelmok 3 месяца назад

    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.

  • @lovepassiondream
    @lovepassiondream 3 года назад +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 2 года назад

      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

  • @carnival5925
    @carnival5925 4 года назад +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

  • @ahenrycc84
    @ahenrycc84 2 года назад +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)!

  • @delloda
    @delloda 4 года назад +15

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

    • @dheanadaffodils2752
      @dheanadaffodils2752 4 года назад +1

      delloda hahahaha 😂

    • @_vliu
      @_vliu 3 года назад

      Sai Tze....

    • @peterchen2643
      @peterchen2643 3 года назад +1

      Del zyah meh

    • @airguy
      @airguy 3 года назад

      Chap Cung Ci (Incorrect spelling, I know!) lol

    • @lindaliew8865
      @lindaliew8865 3 года назад

      @@airguy yeah hakka always swear chap cung. Which mean bastrad.lol

  • @JS-rm2ws
    @JS-rm2ws 2 года назад +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:-))

  • @scottscott232
    @scottscott232 4 года назад +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  4 года назад +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 4 года назад +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 3 года назад

      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! 😆

  • @davidwong4821
    @davidwong4821 3 года назад +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.

  • @serena-uo4cx
    @serena-uo4cx 4 года назад +4

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

  • @edysusanto4323
    @edysusanto4323 4 года назад +8

    It's so many hakka in Indonesia especially in Singkawang

  • @seanxim3697
    @seanxim3697 3 года назад +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

  • @calistaguo5182
    @calistaguo5182 3 года назад +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 :))

  • @caylateng5942
    @caylateng5942 3 года назад +1

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

  • @user-bu6ur1mo2h
    @user-bu6ur1mo2h 4 года назад +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 4 года назад

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

    • @liongkienfai104
      @liongkienfai104 3 года назад +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.

  • @bostonskin32
    @bostonskin32 4 года назад +3

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

  • @dololomo7157
    @dololomo7157 4 года назад +7

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

    • @txtrang2515
      @txtrang2515 3 года назад +1

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

  • @yasashiihitodesu
    @yasashiihitodesu Год назад

    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!

  • @chaakming
    @chaakming 3 года назад +2

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

  • @papijaddy2963
    @papijaddy2963 4 месяца назад

    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!

  • @Miyu_ftadell
    @Miyu_ftadell 4 года назад +13

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

    • @dheanadaffodils2752
      @dheanadaffodils2752 4 года назад +2

      Mizuka Miyu oh wow same here 😂

    • @joditc
      @joditc 3 года назад

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

  • @IncorrectTarget.
    @IncorrectTarget. 4 года назад +3

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

  • @inmimisbowl
    @inmimisbowl 4 года назад +2

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

    • @vitaminme
      @vitaminme  4 года назад +2

      thanks! glad to warm your soul :D

  • @Robgti180
    @Robgti180 3 года назад +3

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

  • @lilychong859
    @lilychong859 3 года назад +1

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

  • @diva3713
    @diva3713 4 года назад +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  4 года назад +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

  • @poompatpetkhai3795
    @poompatpetkhai3795 3 года назад +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.

  • @joditc
    @joditc 3 года назад +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 Год назад

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

  • @Steven-ep7ed
    @Steven-ep7ed 2 года назад

    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!

  • @yiyan338
    @yiyan338 4 года назад +3

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

    • @liongkienfai104
      @liongkienfai104 3 года назад

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

  • @airguy
    @airguy 3 года назад +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!

  • @DisnStukKk
    @DisnStukKk 3 года назад

    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.

  • @sautsan8120
    @sautsan8120 Год назад

    Hi Hakka moi ! I enjoy your show …

  • @etone888
    @etone888 4 года назад +3

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

  • @prettytse7762
    @prettytse7762 3 года назад

    Alive and well!!!!!

  • @peachesbunny
    @peachesbunny 2 года назад +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

  • @sho9214
    @sho9214 4 года назад +1

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

  • @yeemingwong7474
    @yeemingwong7474 4 года назад +11

    Come to malaysia we have so many hakka people..

    • @patrickochinski6754
      @patrickochinski6754 4 года назад +2

      What kind of Hakka you guys speak?

    • @SlowReactionDriversAreTheWorst
      @SlowReactionDriversAreTheWorst 4 года назад +2

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

    • @yeemingwong7474
      @yeemingwong7474 3 года назад

      @@MrRowley5 yes im hakka ngin

    • @seanxim3697
      @seanxim3697 3 года назад

      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 3 года назад

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

  • @mahonah
    @mahonah 2 года назад

    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.

  • @sharony16
    @sharony16 3 года назад +2

    I grew up with my family speaking Hakka!

  • @loganperry9013
    @loganperry9013 3 года назад

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

  • @lawrencechong7590
    @lawrencechong7590 2 года назад

    I am Hakka from Malaysia.Fourth generation in Malaysia.

  • @phoebedobson7570
    @phoebedobson7570 3 года назад

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

  • @castoo
    @castoo 3 года назад

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

  • @emilieng29
    @emilieng29 3 года назад

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

  • @txtrang2515
    @txtrang2515 3 года назад +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.

  • @bruceming3810
    @bruceming3810 3 года назад +1

    wow your grandparents also speak perfect Cantonese.

  • @jokatosaminos9930
    @jokatosaminos9930 3 года назад

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

  • @susanmo8417
    @susanmo8417 3 года назад

    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 3 года назад

      ​@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.

  • @ksc888
    @ksc888 11 месяцев назад

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

  • @virtuallyly9045
    @virtuallyly9045 3 года назад +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 3 года назад

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

  • @darrellng7617
    @darrellng7617 4 года назад +1

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

  • @aldoiskandar4665
    @aldoiskandar4665 3 года назад

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

  • @ron321tube
    @ron321tube 3 года назад +1

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

  • @Valsenhuang
    @Valsenhuang 3 года назад

    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 3 года назад

      and sorry for my bad english hahah

  • @FlaneganB
    @FlaneganB 3 года назад

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

  • @martinjohnson3461
    @martinjohnson3461 4 года назад +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  4 года назад +2

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

  • @alexanderyau6347
    @alexanderyau6347 4 года назад +3

    I think the old lady speaks both Cantonese and Hakka.

    • @vitaminme
      @vitaminme  4 года назад +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 ruclips.net/video/bxfT3F_zQvU/видео.html

    • @alexanderyau6347
      @alexanderyau6347 4 года назад

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

  • @kopisusu552
    @kopisusu552 3 года назад

    greetings from hakka indonesia
    Singkawang city❤

  • @ferrroesdaryl7650
    @ferrroesdaryl7650 3 года назад

    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.

  • @ken2633
    @ken2633 3 года назад +1

    At 0.00 you started off in Cantonese! 😁

  • @jxshplayz9742
    @jxshplayz9742 3 года назад +1

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

  • @zephure88
    @zephure88 3 года назад

    Well done girls! love from Singapore ..

  • @delloda
    @delloda 4 года назад +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 4 года назад

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

    • @delloda
      @delloda 4 года назад +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 4 года назад +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 4 года назад +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 3 месяца назад

      @@prakorngirodkunkid7877 There is also a Hakka museum in Indonesia

  • @liongkienfai104
    @liongkienfai104 3 года назад

    Just another Indonesian in the comment section passing by lol~
    Nice effort with the Hakka, but it still sounds too Cantonese. Happy practicing!

  • @meibeliny.2769
    @meibeliny.2769 3 года назад +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 3 года назад +1

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

  • @stephenahsen
    @stephenahsen 3 года назад

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

  • @SlowReactionDriversAreTheWorst
    @SlowReactionDriversAreTheWorst 4 года назад +4

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

    • @chrissyly5026
      @chrissyly5026 4 года назад +2

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

    • @fcyvr5860
      @fcyvr5860 3 года назад +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 3 года назад

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

  • @kennyzeng21
    @kennyzeng21 2 года назад

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

  • @ilmnt.guidance
    @ilmnt.guidance 3 года назад

    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 3 года назад

      Sama di indo betah mana bro

  • @Asdi-tw9hp
    @Asdi-tw9hp Год назад

    saya sangat senang bisa mendengar kan bahasa hak ka

  • @JP-hn4vl
    @JP-hn4vl 3 года назад

    This is so precious 🥺

  • @bryanleon1436
    @bryanleon1436 3 года назад

    Continue our Hakka culture, and speak Hakka at home.

  • @jeffc899
    @jeffc899 4 года назад +1

    Hello... Borneo Island Hakka here.

  • @Whois514
    @Whois514 3 года назад

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

  • @josechong8207
    @josechong8207 Год назад

    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.

  • @MindofYǒng
    @MindofYǒng 3 года назад +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

  • @dlluo8616
    @dlluo8616 4 года назад +3

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

    • @fcyvr5860
      @fcyvr5860 3 года назад +1

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

    • @dlluo8616
      @dlluo8616 3 года назад +1

      I am now working in Bao'an District of Shenzhen

    • @dlluo8616
      @dlluo8616 3 года назад +1

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

    • @fcyvr5860
      @fcyvr5860 3 года назад

      @@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 3 года назад

      @@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

  • @ct2568
    @ct2568 4 года назад

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

  • @ziyanglow289
    @ziyanglow289 3 года назад

    hakka is a sub ethnic group of han chinese, hakka people are still han chinese, not a different ethnicity. i am a hakka too, but i cant speak hakka, my family speaks mandarin, cantonese and hokkien.

  • @fungfa5555
    @fungfa5555 2 года назад

    Hi, we speak hakka too in Bangka, indonesia

  • @tinman9193
    @tinman9193 3 года назад +1

    Very very nice I m from Nagaland Northeast India where people speak many different language or dialects and I am always wondering how come a couple of million people speaks so many languages each completely different from the others.. Its said that we migrated to India from China, we look southeast Asian or east Asian but there is no historical records as our people didn't know how to read n write but since our people lived in isolation for hundreds of years there is not much influence from the outside world thus we still speak all this language or dialects which we carried on from the place it originated.. When I see southeast Asian speaking their language I feel like some of them sound similar to the ones which are spoken here by some tribes. I feel like some language from China sound like the Ao dialect of the Ao Naga tribe and so on..

    • @liongkienfai104
      @liongkienfai104 3 года назад

      Most Naga people speak a Tibeto-Burman language, which is part of the larger Sino-Tibetan language family (Sino meaning Han Chinese). Therefore Naga people are most closely related to the people of Myanmar and Tibet. But also distantly related to Han Chinese.

    • @tinman9193
      @tinman9193 3 года назад

      @@liongkienfai104 it's because when we migrated from China we had to cross Myanmar inorder to reach Nagaland India and this migration happened for centuries some stay on the way some took a different path and some reached Nagaland n also we see lots of similarities between the Philippines tribes and us Naga's in terms of culture traditions n so on therefore lots of Naga's in Myanmar as well but they are different from the Burmese..where R u from btw?

    • @tinman9193
      @tinman9193 3 года назад

      @@liongkienfai104 and also I saw one video of China where people were speaking a language that was very similar to the ones spoken here I can share the link if u want...

    • @pushinp1011
      @pushinp1011 3 года назад

      Hope you safe bro in northeast india ,i know alot about yall culture,food, etc🙏 im Indonesian born Hakka Chinese.

    • @tinman9193
      @tinman9193 3 года назад +1

      @@pushinp1011 yes I m doing just fine brother hope u r doing good too.nice to meet u ..

  • @thaulai1187
    @thaulai1187 2 года назад

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

  • @tfchin23
    @tfchin23 Год назад

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

  • @alvinchung243
    @alvinchung243 2 года назад

    ngai mai yit pun su pun nga papa . salam hakka indonesia 👍

  • @renisusanti21
    @renisusanti21 3 года назад

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