🍀 Why I teach Taishanese (Chit-chat Taishanese)

In this episode, I will explain my personal experience and reasons why I started teaching Taisahnese.
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#台山話 #toisan #taishanese

[@monolidrocks4814]

Im third generation chinese, born in indonesia! My grandma my parents are all toisan speaker. But of course not as fluent as you. But it makes feel like home! Thank you!

[@johnfong9703]

Thank you Jade for helping to pass on our Taishanese dialect. I find it quite comforting to hear such fluent Taishanese.

[@北海老伍]

This is what we need. Imagine if the dialects could be revived, our next generation benefits it. In conclusion, to protect our dialect whether it's Taishanese or not that's our duty.

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

💪🏽💪🏽 very well said!

[@lindawong4910]

Couldn't agree no more Please keep make videos We thaisanese overseas will thank you very much

[@peterluo1776]

Totally agree. My mother tongue is similar to #Taishanese but I understand it. Our heritage, our pride, our history.

[@wilianty2893]

I'm Indonesian Taishanese, and yes, thank you for preserving this language! We need more people like you!

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Thank you! We also need more audience like you who are continuing to support preserving Taishanese!

[@peterluo1776]

Thanks for teaching #Taishanese. I left China at 9 years old. We use it daily at home but there's a gap - especially with technical terms etc. Great video.. keep it up !!

[@theaprilshhowers18]

Thank you so much for creating this channel! I'm taishanese and have always wanted to learn more than the conversational phrases I speak to my family! I dont speak the language to anyone else other than my family so it feels so great someone is out there to teach this language! I'm very happy to have found your channel and will continue watching your videos!

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Thank you so much! This has made my day!

[@MeLlamoKi]

Hello from Hong Kong!!!! I just wanna say thank you so much for creating this channel and sharing your knowledge about Toishanese!!!!! My grandparents on my mother’s side were Toishanese who immigrated to Hong Kong during the 50s. They always spoke Cantonese with a Toishanese accent to me and I had zero interest in learning Toishanese at all when I was still a kid. But when I grew up, I started to become more and more curious about my grandparents’ mother tongue. Unfortunately, my grandpa passed away a few years ago. So basically learning Toishanese from you makes me feel like I am building back a stronger bonding between me and my grandpa. Please keep it up and I really appreciate what you are doing 😊😊😊😊

[@learnteochewpenanghokkien]

I am a Penang Hokkien and Teochew speaker from Malaysia, Very happy to know that there are someone who try to preserve and promote taishanese language !! Keep it up !!!!!! You done a great job !!

[@stanchow847]

I am from hong kong i learned from my grandma took vare of .e when mu parents working my mom.dad speak toisan same like you i understand toisan and.speal.well i am 55 born.1968 my family and i come.to canada 1975 y speak just lile my grandmother i subscribe to your chanel enjiybyour video0

[@hunnywoowoo]

Thank you for keeping our language alive!!!! I deeply appreciate you.

[@Atheral]

Would love a series where you interview Taishanese residents of New York. Many were the original immigrants to Chinatown and I bet they have some great stories to tell.

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Bingo! That has been on my to-do list once the pandemic is over. Thanks for bringing it up to me :)

[@Wow_gurl250]

Thank you for doing this channel. My father's side is Toishanese. This reminds me of my childhood in Chinatown. Although I am Chinese-Canadian, we share a Toishanese disaspora. Thanks for connecting people and helping everyone explore our identity.

[@susanmok5994]

Thank you for preserving Taishanese! Good luck!

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Thank you!

[@bjmcia]

Love your reasons for trying to keep our native dialect alive; my siblings and I are now senior ABCs but learned Taishanese from our parents but we still speak it. I know that our dialect is slowly fading away even in Taishan; Changsha; and Sam Fow---the larger towns and cities. All of the school kids are learning Mandarin and English now. I have tried to converse with the school kids that I have encountered on the streets on their way to school but they look at me with funny looks when I speak Taishanese to them. Seems even at home they must be speaking PuTong Hwa now too. The parents and grandparents have given up trying to teach them it seems. Keep it up, Young Lady!! We are Chow/Zhou/Joe from HoiPing.

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Thank you for sharing your story!!

[@sarahkay4600]

Thank you thank you thank you for creating this channel! I know this may seem silly, but I recently found out that I'm not only Canto, but Taishanese as well! It happened by accident while listening to someone else explain that they were Taishanese. Instantly, I recognized the language and asked my mom if we were Taishanese and she confirmed it. I don't speak either Cantonese or Toisanese, but being able to hopefully gain some knowledge from your videos gives me a sort of comfort and joy, so thank you again.

[@kimberlinachi3727]

JADE ! NEE HO MAH! IT'S KIM, YOUR SISTER CANTONESE TOISAN CLASS PROGRAM! I LOVE YOUR VIDEO! OMG, WE HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON! THANKS FOR DOING THIS! AW DEH NEE GOW HOI SAN WAH! I AM ABC AND PROUD TO SPEAK TOISAN/HOISAN WAH! (SORRY I don't like using the phonetics "Taishan' :( I LOVE TOISAN / HOISAN spelling instead. It is more in line with our dialect. :) I REALLY SUPPORT YOUR WORK, LET'S WORK TOGETHER TO PRESERVE OUR BEAUTIFUL TOISAN CANTONESE CULTURE AND LANGUAGE.

[@timurermolenko2013]

You are doing an extraordinary job by trying to preserve your language, which is quite endangered. I am just a dude hoping to learn Cantonese one day, but my heart is bleeding seeing people forgetting their beautiful languages and switching to practical/mainstream ones. Your motivation is the biggest thing - even if one person will start speaking Hoi san waa, your efford paid off. It is also very important to pass the language down the generation. Good luck to you 🍀

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

I totally agree with what you said. Thank you for your encouragements! Hopefully you get to learn Cantonese one day too!

[@orchid550]

Thank you for initiating this! I am second generation Chinese-Canadian and Taishanese was my first language. My parents and all of my aunties and uncles spoke it so I retained the ability to speak it even now. Whenever I hear others speaking the dialect in public, it catches me off guard but it is comforting at the same time. I've subscribed to your channel and look forward to future videos and sharing them with my kids.

[@UTFong]

This is very nice. My family speaks Taishanese. I understand it, but I never really learn how to speak it. This is awesome. Thanks for teaching.

[@JV-ge8bm]

Amazing job 👏 you’ve only just started but I can already tell you will be a great resource for many. The work you’re doing has a lot of value! Keep it up Jade 👍

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Thank you so much for your support and encouragement as always!!!

[@pingzhoulichi8214]

I feel you. I feel soo identified with your words... It kind of the voice deep inside me, though i rarely speak Taishanese, I only use it with my family... Mostly to speak with uncles and elderly people

[@pingzhoulichi8214]

I'm sharing this video everywhere lol

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Yes, keep speaking to your family, that is huge too! LOL thanks for being my ambassador!! 😀

[@leapsaw]

Jade, I treasure these videos so much. My first language is also Taishanese and I can feel it fading. There’s not a ton of resources on Taishanese and your videos help so much! I hope you make videos again.

[@benqbenq1590]

Hi I'm also taishanese from Malaysia, my family still speak taishanese. Wish you good luck

[@jingmingrong2454]

Your story of how you started learning Taishanese is similar to how I felt. When I was younger, I just wanted to learn English. After some life experience, I treasure my culture and decide to revisit again. Thank you for sharing. I would to put some of these in Chinese, but I do not have a Chinese keyboard.

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Ahh yes totally 🥺 I wish more people are outspoken about it and keep the dialect alive

[@cantobritt]

Another great video, Jade! Your story was so touching, and it was super interesting to hear how you ended up in Michigan and later New York. Keep up the great work!

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Thank you so much for your generous help to get me started on this channel! Let us continue to be canto warriors hehe

[@cantobritt]

@@TaishaneseStorieswithJade YEAH!💪🏻

[@SerendipityForever]

I used to chuckle with my siblings when my grandmother spoke in this tongue. I now realize there is something very sacred about Taishanese culture. Please keep making more videos to create more awareness of this language and the people.

[@Wasabi9111]

My paternal grandmother also spoken taishanese. But my parents spoke Cantonese and as I kid I had no clue what she was saying besides a couple of simple phrases. I should have made the effort to learn it instead of relying on my parents to translate. Listening to her speak taishanese brings so much memories.

[@desiderataification]

Thank you for your videos, keep taisanhua alive! 😃

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Thank you for watching and helping me to keep hoi-san-va alive!

[@winllyhuang9537]

OMG THANK U im really scared that one day when my parents arent around, i wont be able to preserve taishanese

[@savagetoywars3664]

Awesome, u got a subscriber from our family! Brings back great memories of my family speaking this left and right, nobody has spoken like that to us since our Mom who's unable to speak to us due to hopefully temporary health issues. I'm gonna speak to my kids in toishanese now!

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

I also hope the health issue is temporary, and what a great way to bond with your kids in hoi-san-va!

[@kimfuzhang4052]

Thank you. I like to speak taishanese because my grandpa from taishan. Now i live in Jakarta Indonesia.

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Awesome!!

[@andrewwing7888]

My paternal side is Taishanese. I use to hear this dialect as a young kid. Australian Chinese here. Thanks for your video.

[@alexandrahenderson4368]

I can't wait to take your classes

[@chindaniel3625]

Keep it,up keep the dialect alive.i am,taishanese from Malaysia but hardly speak the dialect now.

[@williamchen8669]

Hi Jade, i am so happy to watch your introductory video. Finally, I have a way to train my children to properly speak my native tongue which is the Taishan dialect. This is the only earthly treasure that i can pass to my children.

[@fondytam.thrive]

Love this! Thanks for this. Chinese Canadian here. Almost all the people I know who speak Taishanese have passed away. When I travel around North America (San Fran, NYC, Vancouver, Toronto), I find othesr who speak Taishanese. They are surprised when I do!

[@habibcicero3833]

dont worry man we live on in canada, there are tons of older people who speak it and i was at a cliniic theother day and saw a young mother talking to her kids in hoisanva my father is hokkien and my mother is taishanese imagine how i feel cuz i can only speak canto (most younger taishanese nowadays can only speak canto where im from) i can understand a good chunk of taishanese tho so il practice

[@Re3f1swater]

I’m a Hoisan (thaishanese or thoishanese for canto or mandarin speakers) speaker born in the US my parents were from guangdong china. My first language was Hoisan yet my Hoisan has gotten worse over the years! 😅 but this was very easy to understand and made me feel at home! I do speak very clear English but I’ve never really felt this close to my language, I’ve always had to watch my Cantonese friends as I don’t know how to speak Cantonese yet I can understand them 😢. So thanks! (PS: learning mandarin in school!)

[@lunghingyuen6141]

I under stand littilebut taishanese and also my father is from Fu'an Village, Chonglou Township, Taishan County, Guangdong Province

[@dannymak7446]

Happy I found your page!

[@annie5247]

So happy to hear the language my grandparents speak. I can understand it but don't know how to speak it. Just ordered your book on Amazon! Keep Taishan wah alive and going!

[@benseac]

I've been learning Mandarin for the past few years but watching some of your Taishanese videos is inspiring me to try to learn it. Taishanese has such a pleasant sound to it. :)

[@cdawg_sf]

I am used to taishanese being considerably louder. Quite pleasant hearing Jade speak.

[@lunghingyuen6141]

U should take me to taishan city guandong provice china🇨🇳

[@ChefTosen]

support every video!

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Thank you 🙏🏽

[@harmonylim9699]

For 20 years of my life, I have been ashamed of being asian. Now that I am finally learning to embrace my culture and identity, I have no way of learning taishanese, as my ancestors have passed away. Thank you so much for helping me, so I can learn to keep this culture alive.

[@susieangelo6410]

Thanks, Jade! 💜

[@raykuang2889]

So awesome! Thanks Jade! You speak the kind of Hoisan my Dad speaks. Dad is from the Taicheng area so some words sound more Cantonese. My Mom speaks the kind that says "Ni" for "you" instead of "Nei" and "do gee" instead of "doo gei" for "myself". Thanks again, I'm an ABC from San Francisco but can speak conversational to almost fluent Hoisan because my parents came in the 80s and I liked it for the most part and was proud of it. I know a lot of ABCs weren't too proud to speak it or say their parents were Hoisan for some reason or the other.

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

I can totally see that. Hopefully that will change as we push out more Taishanese-learning resource to let people know what our language and culture are about. Also yes, I am also from Taicheng area!

[@raykuang2889]

@@TaishaneseStorieswithJade Absolutely! My nephew is like 1 and half and he hear's Hoishan and Cantonese in the house because my sister-in-law speaks Hakka/Canto, so we meet in the middle for her with Canto haha. And that's cool! I want to visit once this craziness is over. Might be a little while longer lol

[@jiahuanchen1413]

你好，台山老乡

[@stanleyliang6664]

love the channel! more vlogs!!! :)

[@sueychen7799]

Hi Jade, I also immigrated to the states when I was 12/13 and a lot of what you mentioned in the video really resonated with me! I can still read but I can no longer write many chinese characters :( That feeling of familiarity but also distance is so strange indeed. My partner speaks cantonese only and she wants to learn toishanese so that she can talk to my parents. Your videos are so helpful and the content is top notched. Thank you so much and take care!

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

This is so heartfelt to read! I am really glad that my story resonates with yours, and hopefully many others. It's awesome that your wife is trying to learn to communicate with your parents. Good luck with that and please feel free to reach out to me @inspirlang if you never need help on finding Taishanese resources!

[@orangeorange2897]

Thanks for the channel. I’m losing the language but want to get it back.

[@jeffreyfung7535]

Great thanks, inspiring. I prefer the video and blog that you published on KZbin and your website😍😍. Hopefully, you can produce more video and blog to promote Taishanese, may god bless you.🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Work in progress, thank you for your encouragements!

[@batalla9]

Thank you so much (mgoi)!!!

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

m soi hag hei! You are most welcome!

[@stanchow847]

I show your video to my mom and friends

[@deejaywyw1]

I from malaysian and I speak taishanese....

[@aaronnkl]

thank you for the channel, I am a Chinese from Kuala LUmpur , malaysia. my mother spoke Taishan but I don't

[@jsloo007]

I’m technically first generation here in Long Beach learned from my grandma as well as cooking 😊

[@ccc2403]

I keep staring at her earrings, look so nice.

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Haha thank you!

[@mmarcco]

Im learning Cantonese not Taishanese but one thing i noticed is that i find the yue languages more soft and pretty than other chinese "dialects" like mandarin. Your voice on its own was very amsr or like relaxing to listen to. Im not learning taishanese so ill listen to this for just like asmr(?) instead

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Haha maybe one day I will actually experiment this on ASMR and see what will happen 🤭

[@eb.3764]

Beautiful language and sound! just saw that you also teach Cantonese Zoom classes!! Might have to look into that this summer. Is the "Learn to Speak Cantonese 2" available on amazon by the way?

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

We would love to have you in class! The digital version of "Learn to Speak Cantonese 2" is available on Amazon now too 🎉

[@Mstotoro90]

外公是恩平人 （ 四邑公會 沙巴，馬來西亞 . 在這有此公會） 外公没和我们说恩平话，老妈也没教 我们孙子都几乎不会讲了，可惜 每次長輩見面才有機會聽學 但我都在自習了，網上自學 但沒背景也很難practise 😅 請教老媽她都不要教。。 四處請教親戚

[@laurencechan470]

@wan cai 很欣賞你的毅力 加油！ 恩平人在沙巴多嗎 西馬和新加坡都好少

[@nelic2111]

Michiganders represent！If you ever come back to Michigan now, you would probably have a different experience, but there would likely not be that many Taishanese speakers still.

[@lunghingyuen6141]

❤ i like you so much

[@xunisysli9824]

since both of my parents passed away over 20 years ago, I rarely find a chance to speak Taishan wah.

[@Quadraginta1337]

台山话和广东话确实很类似！ They’re so similar it makes my head hurt!

[@PL22-JudgeDredd]

OMG, I have not heard Taishan for over 30 yrs. I am Taishanese and used to be able to understand but couldn't speak. I have forgotten even understanding.

[@popdude56]

Nice ~

[@popdude56]

I will share your story~

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Thank you!

[@popdude56]

Same Path~ here Girl. Got here when i was 5th grade. From Hoisan. But China is trying to eliminate all dialects expect Mandarin. I got a student from Guangzhou who is 18th y/o doesn’t know Cantonese as well.

[@lunghingyuen6141]

Jade i undee littile bit taishanese

[@bayarea415able]

Thank you Jade for helping preserve Taishanese. I'm told, by hearsay, that our dialect is fading away. NOTE: I wish I would speak Taishanese here in this comment, but it'll be "off."

[@lunghingyuen6141]

Jade i want to meet you inperson i do under stand taishanese littile bit

[@jiujiulaishishi]

keep it up!

[@alexandrahenderson4368]

I've been searching for Chinese dialects and languages to learn. But because of the unity project in China it's been very difficult. I wanted to learn Min and Jin but it's nearly impossible

[@lunghingyuen6141]

Hey jades your preants speak taishanese ?

[@MathTidbits]

I would like to confirm if "freedom" and "lard-pork fat " sounds the same in Toisanese ? Because the rock band "beyond" from hongkong kept siging about "freedom" but sounds like "pork-fat" in Toisanese. Btw, the rock band "beyond" are all Toisanese.

[@88foldpath]

My family speaks HoiPing accent. Some pronunciations are different from what I learn online and confuse me lmao fml

[@ginaforever331]

🥲 love this

[@lunghingyuen6141]

my father is anhtony santos

[@Gtr888-ub6xf]

After dating so many different Asian woman, I have never dated a taishanese woman😢 which I was also born as one.

[@sarcastico3238]

♥️♥️♥️

[@lilymoy]

Dwah jeah

[@malaynesia8051]

can u explain what is different 台山，四邑 or 五邑 . tq just learn more .

[@GipChan]

So impressive, 我係在港台山第三代，我呀嫲99歲，我唯一識識講少少就係因為佢，你會番台山嗎？ 台山邊度人？

[@popdude56]

It will go away. Jade~

[@lunghingyuen6141]

You shoould teach all the fire fighter how to speak taishanese 🇨🇳🇺🇸🚒👨‍🚒

[@frankwong1539]

Donald Trump as an example may not be an Anglo-Saxon more closely related to German ancestry. Hans Drumpf was his father's name when he immigrated from Germany to the US and changed his last name to Trump. The US is not a purebred country more like mutts mixed races. At least if they are Caucasian it is difficult to tell. Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra were Italian descendants both changed their names to sound English. Italians are very likely to pick a blonde American-born to be their wife rather than their own.

[@shunde232]

你好，靚女。❤🎉

[@oliviatom6332]

the first 15 seconds... HOW DID U KNOW

[@ethanlee8086]

why didn't you teach us Cantonese anymore, I'm gonna cry I hope after graduation I could move to Michigan if there're more Cantonese people living there

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

I am still updating Cantonese contents! I just separate those two in different channels. Just made a recent update on my Cantonese channel: kzbin.info 😀

[@CongNguyen-ib1ro]

are you in minnesota?

[@its_so_edna]

Where did you live when you were in Michigan?

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

It's a super small town that's about two hours of driving from Detroit. I haven't met with anyone who knows it unless they are from there. Why, are you also from Michigan?

[@its_so_edna]

@@TaishaneseStorieswithJade yes. Between Detroit and Ann Arbor.

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

@@its_so_edna 😮 we also used to visit Ann Arbor regularly, we were in Swartz Creek. Have you been there?

[@its_so_edna]

@@TaishaneseStorieswithJade I have not been there but it's not that far. Just right up 23. We go by that way heading "up north". Also I am taishanese but born here.

[@chindaniel3625]

Nice to know you are trying to preserve taishanese dialect.i hope the dialect is not the way of the dinasaurs.

[@lunghingyuen6141]

Hi jade How are you my name is Lung

[@lunghingyuen6141]

Yo jade are you from chong lou fuan town taishan country Guangdong ?

[@lmkletterbox]

Hi, is Taishan and Hoishan the same?

[@ry4850]

ngeep oohm schlui koi seng ha, hai ma?

[@vwhlim]

「幾好」，「知處」是 「A隨」之本字。

[@vwhlim]

It is interesting that most of your sounds you follow the 台城音 but you have two pronunciations with 好 sometimes you say hao , 同水埗，大江音。

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

Ohh interesting! Isn't hao from 台城?? Which other pronunciation did I use in video? 👀

[@resellpanda88]

Kok!

[@aaronnkl]

I can speak cantonese and hakka. I feel that Taishan dialect is heavily influenced by Hakka

[@laurencechan470]

Not 'heavily' influenced . Phonetically, some vowels of Cantonese like short 'a' not aa, is changed to vowel 'i' in both Taishan and Hakka in many everyday used words. Eg 一 yat becomes yit. 九 gau-- giu 十 sap --sip, 有 yau--yiu,收 sau--siu, 真---jan--jin. vowel ou changed to oh (Meizhou Hakka only) 好 hou--hoh, 早jou--joh. The s consonant change to tf with a puff of air is common in Taishan and Meizhou Hakka. Thus Taishanese may sound like Hakka in a way.

[@MrLue9]

How to learn taishanese??

[@TaishaneseStorieswithJade]

We have a Taishanese textbook (with complementary audio files) for beginners here: inspirlang.com/lovetaishan We also have Taishanese live classes on Zoom: inspirlang.com/taishanese-online/ Hope that helps!

[@chibba]

Ill neck gor ma neck gor hi lol jk. Most Cantonese speaker would want to learn that first haha. jk jk jk.

[@lunghingyuen6141]

i under stand littile taishanese not much