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strikingstar
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 Message 41 of 75
10 January 2012 at 6:35am | IP Logged 
About 5 secs in, it sounds like sa zak cek which means 31 in Teochew.
But I don't think it's Teochew.
Also doesn't sound like Min Nan/Hokkien.
Maybe Hakka? This is what Hakka sounds like.
Hakka sample

(I'm half Teochew, half Cantonese. I don't speak any Teochew but I speak Cantonese. Go
figure.)

If it isn't Thai, then it probably isn't Lao either.
Might be Vietnamese, Khmer or Burmese.

AND IT'S DEFINITELY NOT SWAHILI. KABISA!!! Swahili isn't even tonal.
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zhanglong
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 Message 42 of 75
12 January 2012 at 4:51am | IP Logged 
It's so curious.

I asked a Shantou native. She could not decipher it but said that it seemed sinister or bad.

She said it was just her feeling.

I asked a Chaozhou native and they identified it as 闽南语, or Fujian language, as an excerpt from the Bible!



Edited by zhanglong on 14 January 2012 at 10:53pm

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zhanglong
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 Message 43 of 75
14 January 2012 at 10:57pm | IP Logged 
More specifically, it is Hokkien or Minnan Chinese spoken in Fujian province and also spoken as the Taiwanese local language.

From Wikipedia:

Hokkien

"
pinyin: Fúlǎohuà; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hō-ló-oē) or Quanzhou–Zhangzhou (BP: Zuánziū–Ziāngziū) is a group of mutually intelligible Min Nan Chinese dialects spoken by many overseas Chinese throughout Southeast Asia. Its originated from the same dialect in southern Fujian and is mutually intelligible with the Hokkien in Taiwan. It is closely related to Teochew, though mutual comprehension is difficult, and somewhat more distantly related to Hainanese. The Amoy and Taiwanese prestige dialect (based on Tainan variant[3]) are considered standards.
"
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druckfehler
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 Message 44 of 75
26 January 2012 at 12:58am | IP Logged 
Hello!

I'd like to join the east asian team (although a bit late). Can I?

I'm going to study Korean for the TAC.

Current Level: I think active A2, passive B1

Goals:

pass TOPIK level 4 = high Intermediate (until late October)
read a book in Korean with relative fluency (until end of 2012)


Edited by druckfehler on 26 January 2012 at 1:03am

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EmersoninKorea
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 Message 45 of 75
26 January 2012 at 4:23pm | IP Logged 
I'm game for you joining.
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 Message 46 of 75
26 January 2012 at 4:36pm | IP Logged 
I'm fine with you joining if the others are.
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zhanglong
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 Message 47 of 75
26 January 2012 at 7:18pm | IP Logged 
Absolutely! Welcome! Keep us posted on how you are doing with your Korean. :)

Edited by zhanglong on 26 January 2012 at 7:19pm

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druckfehler
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 Message 48 of 75
26 January 2012 at 11:01pm | IP Logged 
Thanks for the welcome everyone!

This is going to be my Log:

druckfehler's TAC 2012 한국어

I'll wait for petrklic's OK to add the Team name to my log.

Being part of Team 龍, I might look into Mandarin Chinese later this year (after I get my thesis out of the way). I've been wanting to start studying it for a while now, have read up on characters and pronunciation and learned a couple of sentences by watching Chinese series... I think I'll allow myself to study Mandarin as a reward if I do well in my Korean studies :)




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