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kyssäkaali
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01 March 2010 at 7:51pm | IP Logged

Raincrowlee wrote:

I think one of your problems (among many for people trying to study Chinese dialects) is that Hakka seems to have developed into a number of its own dialects that are not completely intelligible. My wife is from Indonesia and Hakka is one of her family's languages, but she said that there were at least two types of Hakka in Taiwan, and that she didn't understand either of them.

Have you thought about recording your boyfriend? If you had dialogs or phrases that you wanted to learn, you could record him saying them with a program like Audacity and make MP3s for yourself. My wife used to do this with me to learn how to say certain words. That way you could learn the specific type of Hakka that your boyfriend's family speaks.

This may or may not work, all depending on your boyfriend's attitude to it. It doesn't matter if he supports you learning his language or not. For most people, sitting down and teaching someone a language like this or recording sound file after sound file simply does not sound appealing. I imagine someone might also get weirded out or feel self-conscious about you recording them and listening to their voice over and over. I hate my voice so I sure as hell would :P
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morganie
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01 March 2010 at 8:06pm | IP Logged

I'm pretty sure he supports me learning it, although I don't think he has enough time to be a teacher for me to seriously learn the language.

By the way, he speaks the Meixian dialect, the standard and most common form of Hakka.
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