Quest Posted October 27, 2004 at 03:40 PM Report Share Posted October 27, 2004 at 03:40 PM Hakka: mms://media.chinaradio.cn/chinese/kjh/hour/2004102624.wma 90% ChaoZhou: mms://media.chinaradio.cn/chinese/czh/hour/20041008.wma 80% Minan/Taiwanese: mms://media.chinaradio.cn/chinese/mnh/hour/20041027.wma 70% If they speak more slowly, I can probably understand everything. I didn't think these dialects were that intelligible. The Hakka one is like a perfect blend of Mandarin and Cantonese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xuechengfeng Posted October 27, 2004 at 04:09 PM Report Share Posted October 27, 2004 at 04:09 PM 0% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ala Posted October 27, 2004 at 05:46 PM Report Share Posted October 27, 2004 at 05:46 PM Hakka: 30-40%, Hakka sounds similar to Mandarin though. Chaozhou: 20% Taiwanese: 10% If they speak more slowly, I can probably understand everything. I didn't think these dialects were that intelligible. News format is a little different from colloquial speech, it's more Mandarinized in presentation. Nevertheless, I can only understand very little, mostly just one or two words in a long sentence (Shanghaiese doesn't help me out at all). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireball9261 Posted October 29, 2007 at 01:42 AM Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 at 01:42 AM Hakka: 20%, . Chaozhou:50% Taiwanese: 85% I guess this is the most standard Taiwanese. I don't think I understand street Taiwanese as much (maybe 50%), and forget about southern Taiwanese. I wonder how much I will understand if it's Shanghainese or Hangzhou dialect. I always thought I understand Shanghainese and Hangzhou dialect more than Taiwanese, but I never try it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ncao Posted October 29, 2007 at 02:51 AM Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 at 02:51 AM Hakka-50% It does really sound like a blend of Mandarin & Cantonese. Chaozhou and Minnan- 1% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ah-Bin Posted October 29, 2007 at 03:01 AM Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 at 03:01 AM Many thanks to Quest for posting these great resources. I had been looking for a Zhangzhou radio station for ages. This sort of listening helps to improve speaking and listening about more complex things that you don't always get to hear in colloquial speech. Can't understand too much though.... Haha, just noticed why..... it is in Teochiu not Zhangszhou:oops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
文言訓開班 Posted October 29, 2007 at 06:07 AM Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 at 06:07 AM 冇听咗每一全野, 但 客家 - 70%左右 朝洲 - 55%左右 - chao zhou's a little weird for me, so i think that percentage will probably go up and down depending on the day. i think it's the mandarin-like vocab with the canto-like pronunciation 闽南 - 40%左右 - this is crazytalk . Some of it sounds like cantonese... 对我一直讲好快 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiYuanXi Posted October 29, 2007 at 07:51 AM Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 at 07:51 AM Hakka: 40% Teochew: 65% Taiwanese: 100% Think taiwanese is the easiest for me (have got a friend who speaks only taiwanese) .. hakka.. I seldom get to hear it in Singapore. Teochew is quite common here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiwan Posted October 30, 2007 at 10:51 AM Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 at 10:51 AM Hakka: 1% ChaoZhou: 99% Minan/Taiwanese: 60% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zozzen Posted November 10, 2007 at 01:15 AM Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 at 01:15 AM Quest, can you write the transcript for hakka and teochew's clips? I can only understand around 30-40%, being able to catch up some phrases, but not really get the whole sentence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
channamasala Posted December 17, 2007 at 03:26 AM Report Share Posted December 17, 2007 at 03:26 AM Cantonese: 0% Hakka: 5% Taiwanese: improving by the day. 10%? I've found with Taiwanese that when I hear it, I have no idea what the actual words the person is saying are. However, if I just sort of sit back and let my ears do the thinking, I start to understand the general gist of what the speaker is saying...while continuing to not understand the individual words. Odd. This happened in Jingtong a few months ago; we went hiking up Shulongjian and the two dogs that the owners of our hotel had followed us up, then disappeared. On the way back we asked an old lady if she'd seen the two dogs. She talked for about 45 seconds in Taiwanese. "What did she say?" asks my boyfriend. "That the dogs came by about an hour ago and headed home." "So you understood what she said?!" "Not really." A lot of Taiwanese is very similar to Mandarin ("wah bu ei hiang dai yi" should be a phrase any decent speaker of Mandarin would understand)...and a lot of it is really, really not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geek_frappa Posted December 20, 2007 at 03:50 AM Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 at 03:50 AM Hakka: 5% Teochew: 15% Taiwanese: 80% (from reference point of fujianhua) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaimei Posted March 2, 2008 at 01:43 AM Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 at 01:43 AM Hakka: 20% ChaoZhou: 5% Minan/Taiwanese: 10% All the southern speech,so strange~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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