Basic verbs in Taiwanese Hokkien you need to know!

[@gettyyoung46]

As a kid, i remember saying "wa beh...' as to say 'I want...'.

[@南台灣文化]

這個數位創作者的台語專頁真是激勵人心！他用台語、客語和原住民語言來分享各種內容，無論是日常生活、文化故事，抑或是一些搞笑短片，攏是充滿本土味。佇眾多英文、國語的內容中，他的台語內容真的讓人耳目一新，咧鼓勵更多人認識台灣的語言和文化。 每篇貼文的用詞簡單又生動，看得出來他用心設計內容，讓不同族群、不同年齡的朋友都會有共鳴。而且嘛會提供字幕，無論聽懂台語的抑是正在學的人攏會感覺貼心！ 總之，這個專頁不僅是語言學習的好資源，也是一個欣賞台灣文化的好平台。若是愛台灣，愛本土文化，強烈推薦大家追蹤！

[@latishavanorbeek3271]

My taiwanese mom will be proud of me

[@NonoAn97]

Please keep doing Taiwanese Hokkien videos ❤️ I live in southern Taiwan and want to learn the dialect but there are very limited resources 🥲

[@antman4831]

隨便上網搜一搜都有啊, 多出街跟老人家交流都很容易學

[@TalaySeedam]

Taigi is actually one of Taiwan's national languages, it's not a dialect, but Taigi itself has many different dialects, like Tâi-pak dialect or Tâi-lâm dialect.

[@korawitwoonsin7547]

我是泰國人 been learning mandarin by zhuyin as taiwanese for few months, I’m fond of traditional characters and now I’m also interested in taiwanese hokkien.

[@khoinguyenquang2649]

Thank you for special teaching. So wonderful. Your work is helping conservation the Minnan culture as well introducing special Taiwanese culture to worlwide. Vote for you! From Vietnam guy.

[@ceciliachenchinese]

Thank you so much for your kind words 💖🙂👍👍

[@reemalin]

Thank you! You are a wonderful teacher! I am an ABC in NY whose dad is from Taiwan so I'm embarrassed to say I don't speak. Before I die I want to perfect my fluency in Mandarin, Taiwanese and Japanese (all 3 languages spoken in Taiwan by my dad and Amas generation) thank you for making the Taiwanese part possible so hopefully have one less regret before I die

[@ceciliachenchinese]

Thank you for your kind words 🙂 I hope you can find a Taiwanese teacher in NY 💖💖 Learning a language is fun 😁

[@reemalin]

@@ceciliachenchinese If you know anyone you can recommend I would greatly aprpreciate it. Taiwanese are almost as rare as Japanese in NY so finding qualified teachers is hard

[@翁樂書]

@@reemalin first perfect mandarin then start learning hokkien bc a lot of online hokkien materials r in mandarin

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

​@@reemalin Many Hokkien speakers in NYC that came from Fujian province.

[@camrios3925]

This is awesome! I’m fluent in Taiwanese so it super cool to watch this!

[@user-xg9tv4vu3k]

THANK YOU so much for the Taiwanese videos! I can’t find any apps for it and I’m refreshing my Taiwanese for my father and grandma who mainly speak Taiwanese. ❣️❣️❣️

[@ceciliachenchinese]

😊😊😊😊🙏

[@spacecraftcarrier4135]

Yo, Singaporean Chinese of Hokkien & Teochew descent here. I can't believe I just found you to brush up on my dialect and native language lol. It's interesting how Singaporean Hokkien pronunciation differs slightly. For example we pronounced Guá as more like "Wah", and tsiah-png as "jiak-png" lol. Or Siánn-mih is pronounced as "Simi" here haha. But I understood you pretty clearly! Hoseh lah

[@ceciliachenchinese]

it is definitely interesting to know the difference 😁 thank you for sharing

[@汎汎-e1e]

I watched several old Taiwanese movies recently and found that people back in the past also said "sim-mih" (usually written as 甚物 while siáⁿ-mih is written as 啥物)! It's so interesting hehe

[@rly1977]

As an ABT learning Taiwanese hokkien growing up, I grew up pronouncing 我 as "Wah" but later on I found out that I was hearing my parents wrong and it was actually "Gua". But I do say 吃飯 as "tsiah-png".

[@Bleeni]

Thank you for this video! We need more of this 💯💯💯

[@DontTakeCrack]

thanks cecillia, these are great. i especially like that you repeat the examples for practice. as a native taiwanese living in the west coast, i cant seem to find any teachers for this language

[@ceciliachenchinese]

Hey! I am glad that this is helpful! I personally don’t teach hokkien but I know professional teacher who works with me who can teach, if you are interested in online class I can help to arrange! If you like the idea, let’s talk by email ☺️ [e-mail]

[@necrophile18love]

Good content I’m also a Chinese speaker and I’m recently sooo into Taiwanese guy. This is very useful for me. Keep going

[@ceciliachenchinese]

I am glad that it helps 😁

[@ericarnold1525]

謝謝老師 I've been living in Taiwan for almost 4 years and picked up a few phrases and words but never found good material or explanations in English or Chinese thank you. Please do more videos

[@Steck1235]

Your Videos are so well done and helpful to learn!! Keep making more it's perfect! THank you so MUCH

[@ceciliachenchinese]

thank you so much for such a great comment ❤🙏

[@xwang267]

Please make more of these basic Taiwanese language videos! These are great!

[@DEFENDERNZ]

The "your turn" part is a really good idea!

[@ceciliachenchinese]

😁😁😁👍

[@michaelchen9343]

im so glad i found these videos thank you for making them

[@thelias91]

Please do more videos about taiwanese hokkien ! I’m really interested in the culture !

[@旅菲晉江人]

wow.Great channel, hope you continue to do it. by the way ,Fruits in hokkien is “果子”.ke-tsi."水果“”Is actually influenced by Mandarin

[@ceciliachenchinese]

🙏💖💖💖

[@MeritoriousLee]

I was looking for some help trying to remember my Taiwanese. Your video was helpful.

[@ceciliachenchinese]

謝謝你☺️

[@johncristophersicsic5592]

Omg thankyou for this!! Keep teaching lao su!

[@ceciliachenchinese]

😁😁😁👌👌好哦

[@AldO-HPB]

This is very practical and useful. Will appreciate more practical Taiyu lessons and rules. I am presently in Kaohsiung and want to communicate and connect with my colleagues better. Subscribed and looking forward! 🙏

[@ceciliachenchinese]

😊😊 thank you very much!

[@ceciliachenchinese]

thank you very much 😊🙏🙏

[@veheikko]

This was really useful, thanks for doing this!!

[@ceciliachenchinese]

I am glad to know 😊

[@cristianoemiliano4129]

Thank you for this great job. You are awesome.

[@ceciliachenchinese]

you are very welcome 🙂🙏

[@JSee182]

Hi Cecilia. Thank you so much for your videos! How do I say "Can I have two of these please?"

[@jackiefang8533]

Great Teaching!!! Please teach more!!

[@bentoblaster]

Mandarin is so basic, Taiwanese is where it's at.

[@willng1256]

It's the retarded cousin of the magnificent Min Nan

[@squattingtaiwan]

Super helpful. Thank you 😊

[@ceciliachenchinese]

☺️☺️不客氣

[@highontaiwan]

My wife's grandmother who lived in Yi-Lan 宜蘭 used to say "jia bwee" for time to eat.

[@BruceT-rg8bp]

Is it possible that you can convert the Chinese lyric from another song to Hokkien please? I would like to sing it in Hokkien, thank you

[@muhamatridhoyuliyanto1178]

So “Gocap, ceban” word used in Jakarta actually comes from Hokkien lol

[@dont_listen_to_Albo]

Thank you for the video. I want to learn Hokkien, the language of my ancestors.

[@shainneong1870]

Thank you ❤❤

[@salomez-finnegan7952]

能不能多拍類似這樣的華語影片啊？加油！ 感謝妳幫助傳播分享這個美麗語言，一定要好好將其保護下來、慢慢把它復興起來

[@ceciliachenchinese]

謝謝你的支持，我會盡量的^^對了這個是閩南語不是華語唷！🙂🙂

[@salomez-finnegan7952]

@@ceciliachenchinese 是啊 😂 我的意思是可以使用華語來教授泉漳語，另外搞這種教學影片吧 😁 我相信很多會中文的人也是對學習「閩南語/台語/泉漳語」很感興趣的，而且目前根本沒有什麼發達或好用的從零基礎開始的教學資源，所以這種東西是有非常好的發展前景，我認為

[@reemalin]

I wish I could learn from you in person!

[@empireentertainmentevents1353]

More Hokkien videos pls!! Thank you.

[@ma.lunalizatadlip7331]

Thank you for sharing with us your knowledge , God bless and more power!

[@ceciliachenchinese]

You are welcome 😊😊

[@luxon4]

Need like 30 of these videos

[@jakekuo7562]

Same

[@latishavanorbeek3271]

u are my hero

[@Immortal_CelestialBeing]

thanks

[@patricklee2799]

I'm from Malaysia speaks Penang Hokkien. There are some differences in our Hokkien. Eg. Ee ai ki te luk ( where he want to go?). Ee ai chiak kuih chi ( he want to eat fruit). Lu ai chiak pui boh? ( you want to eat rice?)

[@benmasu6247]

It’s a little different from the Hokkien in southern Malaysia. But pretty similar to the Hokkien in northern Malaysia.

[@mariaferachen]

哇塞。我學了中文，對台語很有興趣。謝謝老師請做更多較台語的视頻

[@marcuskervy6507]

I hope you'd also include Chinese Characters that represent Hokkien words. This will make remembering the words much easier.

[@mizinamo]

Here is a transcript of the Taiwanese words and phrases in Chinese characters: 想欲 我想欲食飯。 我無想欲食飯。 無 汝想欲食飯無？ 食水果 （or another commenter says 食果子 would be more authentic Taiwanese） 食麵 啉 我想欲啉水。 茶 我想欲啉茶。 我無想欲啉茶。 汝想欲啉茶無？ 去 我想欲去臺北。 我無想欲去臺北。 汝想欲去臺北無？ 啥物 汝想欲食啥物？ 汝想欲啉啥物？ 佗位 (pronounced either tó-uī or as one syllable tueh) 伊想欲去佗位？ 伊想欲去佗？(toh)

[@JoseFernandez-uc4pf]

Very good lesson! Keep teaching tâi-gí

[@ceciliachenchinese]

好啊！

[@JoseFernandez-uc4pf]

hó--ah

[@chrisgrudge6964]

Can you make another Taiwanese video? 我覺得台語很有趣。 謝謝你！ Also your videos are great!

[@MultiFinlayson]

Fascinating, thank you!

[@ceciliachenchinese]

You are welcome ^^

[@lyah3550]

What is the name of that traditional Taiwanese dress? I love it 😍🥺

[@ceciliachenchinese]

thank you, that is call "旗袍qi2 pao2" 😊

[@natkretep]

Is it not also called tng sa (long dress)? In Singapore and Malaysia we often use the Cantonese term - cheung saam@@ceciliachenchinese

[@ceciliachenchinese]

@natkretep 我不知道馬來西亞文也不懂廣東話喔！

[@natkretep]

@@ceciliachenchinese I'm talking about Hokkien in Malaysia. In English we say cheongsam, and in Hokkien we say tng saa.

[@TalaySeedam]

I hope to watch more Taigi lessons, you have to speak it when you stay in Northern Taiwan.

[@lheadmendoza7527]

please make more videos about taiwanese dialect i really love it for me its better than zhongwen heheh jaiyou laoshi

[@ceciliachenchinese]

👌😊😊😊 I will try my best, thank you for your kind comment

[@conradtrinh6470]

Fascinating Chinese sound L sound like between L and N even the end too. Why Hokkian or Fu Jian sound very similar?

[@ceciliachenchinese]

真的很像😃

[@Statuskuo75]

im taiwanese and this is fun!

[@Mikechang-p5g]

My teacher!

[@andrewdunbar828]

For anyone interested in Taiwanese Hokkien culture, here's a great Taiwanese rock song from only a couple of years ago: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZu9o6BjdpmSi5Y&ab_channel=TaiwanBeats

[@panubun5312]

Support democracy, support Chinese classic writings !

[@광동아재廣東大叔]

May I ask you a question? In the following sentences you mentioned in the vid, is it possible to leave out the '想' and only use ‘要’ ? 廣東話裏通常要麽用 '想'，要麽用 '要'，基本不在一起使用。 ex> 我無想要去臺北 你想要淋什麽？伊想要去倒位？ In the first sentence, is it ok to replace the negation word 無 (bo) with 唔 (m) ? Thanks in advance. In Cantonese, only 唔 can be used.

[@ceciliachenchinese]

yes you can leave the 想 no problem :)

[@ceciliachenchinese]

about second question I always been saying like this so I am not sure if you can :)

[@Bencat1832]

I subscribed. I learn. Thank you. To- sia

[@ceciliachenchinese]

Top-sia li

[@kahapsaychannel4411]

Good evening.. Is. Hokkien the most used language in taiwan?

[@ceciliachenchinese]

hi, the most most language in Taiwna is mandarin Chinese 🙂

[@juniorjr8609]

Hi teacher.An old taiwanese friend of mine here in Brasil once said that "niau-niau" (have no idea how to spell it) means "to take a piss" and "pitsoya" or something like that is "to shut up"...LOL...is that correct??

[@ceciliachenchinese]

haha, niau niau means "to take a piss". As I know, it doesn't have other meanings.

[@juniorjr8609]

@@ceciliachenchinese really? Aren't you kidding me? OMG...thank you!

[@nothingtoseeherefu]

@@juniorjr8609 acho o seu amigo disse 閉嘴啦 (Bì zuǐ la). 閉嘴 literalmente quer dizer "cala boca". 啦 é uma particula usada como ênfase

[@xJ9pQw2sR5]

Hmmmmm interesting don’t want in Singapore is more colloquial , we u ai or mai. I guess this is more formal ? Someone clarify

[@ceciliachenchinese]

It’s both fine, just different way to say, people use both.

[@from5to7]

Cecilia laoshi i have a question. I heard the pronunciation of Gua (I) changed over the decades because younger generations can’t pronounce the “Gu” sound since it doesn’t exist in mandarin. So how should I, a foreigner, pronounce it? Gua with the G or with the “W”

[@ceciliachenchinese]

Hi, I always pronounce as "wa" 🙂

[@from5to7]

@@ceciliachenchinese 謝謝🙏

[@overflowchung7347]

老师我的地方很多福建人 他们说话一样的 听起来像台语，我的朋友教我一点。 Salamat sa lektura！🙂

[@ceciliachenchinese]

對，福建話跟台語很像。 Walang anuman 😊🙏

[@Javier77040]

Thanks Cecilia!! Xie xie 😊❤️

[@ceciliachenchinese]

you are welcome 👌👌😊

[@robertopaclibarjr7741]

Can you please write also it in pinyin so that we can wrote it down and read it

[@schinsky6833]

1. Invest a significant time to learn chinese 2. finally visit wifes family in Taiwan 3. everbody speaks taiwanese 4. ?????? 5. watch this Video 6. profit

[@nhipsongthoinay12345]

I want to learn Taiwanese (Tâi-gí)

[@grapes_pig]

奇怪 但講一個啉 會合嘴 怎麼啉水講不會😂 而且 水的台羅打錯了

[@ceciliachenchinese]

有這麼奇怪嗎？0:38不是有「警告」了嗎？我合不合嘴人家都聽得懂餒。

[@grapes_pig]

@@ceciliachenchinese 還是跟您講一下😅

[@ketodiana]

I am Taiwanese and have a kindergarten level of "Taiwanese language" XD

[@ceciliachenchinese]

☺️☺️☺️也很棒了！

[@jkking3213]

I hear many people say “Tsia’h pá buē” to say hello, but shouldn’t it be “Tsia’h png buē”?

[@ceciliachenchinese]

Hi! Because pa = full Png = food (literally means rice We want to say: have you eaten yet? (Full)

[@mizinamo]

They are saying 食飽未 not 食飯未 :)

[@Jumpoable]

To drink is LIMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm, not LIN (what you're saying).

[@ceciliachenchinese]

Okkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk Taigi Master Johannes

[@Mr.Children.T_T]

把汉语字母化，还真是南岛文化啊😂 这YT的演算真是强大

[@linmuxi]

She missed a very important word: pang sai 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ceciliachenchinese]

😅😅😅😅

[@душаТайваньская]

啉茶 lim tê，lim字發音嘴唇要閉合！走音了

[@pohkokcheah2409]

sound very weird. fruits is ge zi

[@bad_____boy7918]

This is Cantonese not taiwanese 🙂🙈💔

[@jonathancross3097]

Eh?

[@tymanung6382]

Cantonese equivalent is yam, a as in about or another--- of course, old Mandarin" = to drink.