CHIU CHOW IDENTITY TALK (Teochew, Chaozhou) 

FINALLY! Im born and raised by chiu chow family but I feel so alone and isolated in my own identity! I've always said I'm from HK (where my family lived for a long time) but deep down I know I'm a gaginang! lol!

thank you for giving diojiu people a voice & setting my ethnicity straight! ;) you guys are awesome!

I'm an indonesian teochew..!! Finally teochew nang speak out something.. hahaha.. proud of you guys.. and thanks fungbros for bringing up teochew in your video..

I've always considered myself as Cambodian-Chinese or just Cambodian even though I am part chiu chow. I don't know anything about that culture. I'll definitely look into it, thanks guys!

No Cambodian teochews😢

What does it means to be Teochew nang 潮州人? let's begin by learning to pronounce the word 潮州 correctly in our own dialect it's Tiejiu or Teojiu using English phonetically spellings (using French T instead of English T pronunciation .) Teochew is actual English word defined by some missionaries awhile back. Teochew is not an ethnic or race it was the name of a prefecture 府 throughout pre-republic China. Before the establishment of provincial system, there were two prefectures Guangzhou prefecture 广州府 and Teochew prefecture 潮州府 in what is now known as Guangdong province 广东省. Our ancestors came from Teochew prefecture located at northeastern quarter of today Guangdong province. Prefecture was the equivalent of province in ancient China, thus it was natural for all Chinese people to identify themselves with the prefecture hence our ancestors called themselves Teochew nang 潮州人。 Are Teochew people Cantonese? In modern day geography yes, but in every other ways no we're not Cantonese. First there is no language called Cantonese because Guangdong province has three main dialects Guangzhou dialect, Teochew dialect and Hakka dialect. Teochew language and culture and customs are very different than Guangzhou people. Teochew is much closer to Hokkieng 福建 or modern day culture of Taiwanese than Guangzhou cultures. Teochew cultures including Teochew cuisines retains many of ancient Chinese classical philosophies of Lao Tzu 老子/庄子 and Confucius 孔子。Guangzhou cultures contains much more fusion from the Viet Kingdom 越国 and Europe, etc. Are Teochew people ethnic Han Chinese? Yes we are. Like the Guangzhou and Hakka people our ancestors were not natives to the region. The first wave Han settlers in Teochew were Qin Emperor 秦始皇 Army soldiers who conquered the Viet Kingdom, followed by a few more waves of soldiers and their families to cultivate the lands and fight the enemies. then as Hokkieng 福建population over grew the lands waves after waves of the population emigrated south to Teochew prefecture. In fact there are quite a few villages in Hokkieng province still speak Teochew to this day. The most prominent organized mass immigration to Teochew were from Futian 甫田 (福建) which had unusual high population of scholars and high ranking imperial officials during the Yuan 元 (or Sui 隋， have look up this one ), they were the most loyal generals and high imperial officials who refused to surrender to the Mongols invaders long after all of China already lost. Most Teochew scholars credited the Futian immigrants as the most influential group of people that shaped and developed the Teochew cultures that we know today. they were all Han Chinese people. what about the natives? Many of them were driven south and those few remaining natives were allowed to maintain their cultures which still survive today. The emigration to South East Asia were organized by Han Teochew and spaces on boats were so limited I doubt it very much any native people could make it onboard.

Teocheow people are very proud people. Li Ka Shing is one of the richest Chinese men in the world and he is teocheow. My father told me that teocheow people are very frugal and said to be stingy. Teocheow can survive on very little. For example they can eat porridge, mueh with ghana, salty olive.

This was very heartwarming. I literally thought all the Chiu Chow people left would be the older generation. Its nice to know I'm not alone speaking Teochew out there in my generation. I am 24 years old have not met anyone my age that can speak Teochew. I can relate a lot to all of the stories you guys talk about. Even in the end I was counting along with you guys and understood all the words. Thanks again for this video, it kind of helped me find a part of myself!

I'm Japanese American, so why can't they be called Chinese Vietnamese?? I have Chinese Thai friends and Chinese Filipino friends, they both and raised in Thailand and Philippines.

The Teochew dialect is very similar to the Hokkien dialect

damn, i didnt know olivia was theochew. even prouder to be theochew now lol

My firstname is Thai. Roots from chiou chow and Vietnam. Born and raised in Sweden. lol.

HOLY CRAP!!!! WHERE MY TEOCHEW FAM AT!!!!!😂💛🤪🤪🤪😂😂😂

I'm half teochew half Hakka. But I don't really speak those two languages. Heheh instead I speak mandarin and Cantonese

YAAAAAAS MY PEOPLE!!! Okay so I'm like, half Chiu Chow and half Viet but I really identify as more Chiu Chow because I've grown up closer to the language and culture. I used to be really frustrated that none of the Chinese kids around me spoke Chiu Chow and spoke Mandarin instead and I was pretty convinced for a while that we were the only Chiu Chow family where I lived haha. The interesting thing I think is that when my family speaks Chiu Chow, it's really different from the Chiu Chow that 100% pure Chiu Chow people speak. What we speak at home is sort of a mix of Chiu Chow AND Vietnamese. I think that's probably because my mom's family had moved from China to Vietnam so most of my aunts and uncles grew up only speaking Chiu Chow at home so over time, little bits of Vietnamese have been mixed into our Chiu Chow. It's really interesting when we do meet 100% Chiu Chow people though. My mom has no problem communicating with them because while she speaks the Chiu Chow/Vietnamese mix with me, she can still speak "traditional" Chiu Chow when prompted. I however, find it harder to speak the "traditional" Chiu Chow and so sometimes it takes me a while to get other Chiu Chow people (especially the older ones) what I'm saying. I'm actually sort of ashamed that I can't speak the language as well as they do. I think it's really cool that you guys made this video! It's great that you're spreading awareness of a different kind of Chinese :-)

Very interesting!! I feel a lot more educated after watching this. You guys should do a video about Okinawan identity. Many people think Okinawans are the same thing as Japanese but some Okinawans do not identify as being Japanese. It's a big thing in Hawaii.

I've been asking my parents what we are for like 25 years and they kept telling me Chinese, but they were born in Vietnam. Now I finally know the term and can explain to them thank you!

The confusing thing about all of us Teochew speakers is that we have different dialects from each other depending on where our parents came from whether it be Chaozhou China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand or wherever else. It would be hard understand each other because we pronounce it differently from one and another. I'm Cambodian/Teochew Chinese. I can identify as either since I'm mixed race.

This video made me have butterflies! I'm 100% TeoChew but it's pretty lonely when there's not a lot of us around. Luckily, I live in the Bay Area and was able to make friends who knows how to speak it. To make a conversation simpler, I just tell people that I'm Chinese and Viet unless they ask what kind of Chinese I speak. It's sad that there's not a lot around because I can't practice speaking the language, so my TeoChew is pretty broken. I just know enough to survive. But omgosh Olivia Thai!!

so for me, I knew I was 1/4 Chinese but I never really knew where I originated from. And then today I clicked on a Fung Bros Food episode just to take break from studying for midterms and to my surprise, I recognized the language. So I kept watching the episode and then I recognized the food too, but I still wasn't sure if I was Chiu Chow. And literally a half hour ago, I showed my uncle and mom the food episode and they were like "Yeah! You are Chiu Chow". I never really identified myself as Chinese before, let alone Chiu Chow. I always have identified myself as Vietnamese because my mom is full and my dad is half. Honestly I'm so glad you guys made this episode because it helped me discover something about myself.

HA Richie didn't contribute to this video

Please don't say Chiu Chow, because Chiu Chow is Cantonese for Teochew, Tiojiu, Diojiu, Teachiv, Tiachiu or Tiechiu. Since you are the descendants of Teochew, you should say "TIÔJIU" not "Chiu Chow". Let's learn Teochew: 1= JÈK (JÌK), 2= NÓR, 3= SA, 4= SÎ, 5= NGÓW, 6= LÀK, 7= CHÎK (CHÊK), 8= PÔRH, 9= KÀU, 10= JÀB, 11= JÂB-ÊK, 12= JÂB-YÍ, 20= YÎJÀB, 30= SAJÀB, 40= SÌJÀB, 50= NGÔWJÀB, 60= LÂKJÀB, 70= CHÌKJÀB, 80= PÒRHJÀB, 90= KÁUJÀB, 100= JÊKPÊH, 1000= JÊKCHAY (JÊKCHOY), 10000= JÊKBUÂNG. Keep speaking Teochew.

I’m Indonesian, and my great grandparents from china, so we can speak teochew/chiu chow ❤️ proud 🙏

There's A LOT of Teo Chews in South East Asia, like it's very widespread in every country, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand... So it's very strange to hear Chinese Americans talk about it like it's some very rare dialect group. haha

After 25 years of being confused about being Chiu Chow, I learned so much about my ethnicity and culture from this video!!

其實很多亞裔美國人對各種祖籍語言的瞭解程度，還不如對長期學習、研究亞洲語言和文化的白人。他們的主要語言 在 所在國社會的嚴重影響下，幾乎完全被所在國的通用語言（或者說工作語言）給取代，對祖籍語言的掌握程度比歐裔差，但稍微好過非裔，大部分非裔完全忘記自己的祖籍在非洲的哪裏，更別提他們的母語，早就被英語取代。 我認為或許所在國的語言可以作為第二語言，但絕對不要拿來取代祖籍語言作為母語，因為如果歐裔之間、非裔之間、亞裔之間忘記祖籍，完全不是什麽問題，人種一樣，不仔細看，根本看不出來，可是當你不是歐裔時，卻處於歐裔主導一切的社會，如果你忘記了祖籍，那麽白人肯打從心裏接納你嗎？講難聽一點，如果亞裔忘記了祖籍，對於白人來講，就是另一群“非裔”，且如果連家鄉話都不會説，又除了其他被同化的老鄉，連訴苦的適當對象都沒有，聽得懂你的話的全部是外族，而且因為忘記家鄉話，找不到老鄉抱團，又因為人種的關係，所以更難融入白人，最後自成一格，成為又一批被白人 馴化(剝奪固有文化) 的其他人種，很慘的。

Can you guys cover hmong ethnicity?

uhhh....did anybody else count along with them when then counted to 10? hahahaha...

one about cantonese people of china(guangdong) would be nice......

Why wouldn't you just say that you are Viet-Chinese instead? Sounds like making a whole lot of issue over something small. Just like there are Malay-Chinese, Brunei-Chinese, Indo-Chinese etc All these people's historical ethnicity is Chinese yet they are immigrated Chinese into a different country nationality. What's so hard to explain? Hey then i'm Mongolian, then instead of Chinese. If you know your history then you'll know why.

My upper body is asian but my low body is black.

wow I'm a toechew who is raised in Indonesia and just actually knew that we are called Chiu Chow hahaha a new knowledge! Thanks fung bros for sharing these Chinese knowledges. Makes me even prouder to be a Chinese hahaha

I just want to say thank you because I was ALWAYS confused about "what" i am, just like you guys mentioned, my parents never talked about nationality/ethnicity. I think they just wanted to keep it simple lol. My story is a lot like IE Tran, my mom&dad were born in Vietnam but my grandpa(before he passed) would teach me cantonese numbers so I thought i was half viet/half chinese? I've always wanted to go to China, find my roots, dig deep down lol. Maybe I'm Chiu Chow? Idk, I wish someone would make a documentary about Asian Americans going back to their homeland to find their roots/relatives and so on. I'd be down to do that lol. Anyway, THANK YOU AGAIN!

People seem to get confused with the dialects and actually being Chinese....China has so many dialects it's ridiculous. You are Chinese regardless of dialect if your genes reside in china.

This is very interesting. It's cool to see another ethnic group that is similar to my ethnic group, Hmong. Although I have a Chinese last name and my parents were born in Laos, I identify as Hmong American, not Chinese or Lao. Thank you for this awesome knowledge!

WOwwwww I'm Chiu Chow but we're not even 1% of the population where I live, it's kind of awesome to watch this video and hear you all talk! I'm not used to youtubers speaking Chiu Chow dialect- like ever, so thank you for making this video and making me feel like I'm not the only one feeling 'isolated' and whatnot!

this is so rad! it's so hard to see gaginang represented anywhere, especially somewhere as recognized as your channel. thanks for repping guys!

Thanks for making this video!! I can relate to this so much.

Im Teochew but I identity as Vietnamese all the way! Vietnam is in my heart, mind and soul. It's what I speak. Its who I relate to

Asians look like Indians. Native Americans

Counting in Teochew sounds like counting in Hainanese!

The Teochew people are originally from this area Chaosan (south China border North of Guangdong/South of Fukien. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teochew_people As everyone already know before there was China, this part of the land was call Baiyue (hundred Yue/Việt). en.m.wikipedia.orgwiki/Baiyue The origin of Teochew people are part of Baiyue people so the Teochew are Yue/Việt but from different Tribe. Teochew is not from Northern China where the Han Chinese people are from which they look more Mongolian with way smaller eyes. But of course over 2000-3000 years of people intermingled together it is part of China now and only Vietnam is able to break free. That’s why Vietnamese are special in a way that everyone that was once in any part of Southern part of China came to become Vietnamese. Here is Namyue as a state before Han Dynasty. This was during the Qin Dynasty which is the first emperor of China United Northern China State. At this time the Qin did not conquered the Southern China yet where the /Yue/Việt Tribes lives. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanyue

Waiting for the day when there will be a video about Okinawans food and Okinawans identity and how we are different from the Japanese and Ainu

love you guys videos but this chiu chow stuffs is just silly man. apparently for some people, being Chinese/Vietnamese/or whatever isn't enough. they have to be something "unique" just to be different from other "common " people by being chiu chao/1/16 French lol or whatever. they don't get enough attention in life?

Hmong Identity Talk? Just an idea..

I struggle with this too. I'm a quarter Chinese, quarter Indonesian and half Dutch. My father past away when I was seven. My mother speaks Malaysian. I look more Chinese then Indonesian or Dutch, I'm not one of those beautiful half Asian half white people. People always identify me as Chinese, but I don't speak Chinese and my mother never thought me how to speak Malaysian. I have no Chinese or part Chinese friends. But everyone sees me as the Chinese girl. (Not like I'm bullied ) So I don't really know what I am. If everyone sees me as "Chinese girl" I will never really fit in with the "white"people. But I will never fit in with "the Asians" either...

The way you count 1-10 reminds me of my childhood so much. As a kid I thought all chinese people counted like that but then I knew some folk from a family that speak mandarin and it changed my mind forever lol I'm Thai-Chiu Chow by the way.

You are identified by the langu that yoy speak at home with your parents or grandparents. If yoy speak Teochew at home the you are Teochew, Vietnamese then vietnamese,asian speak English? Then you are a banana

Chuichow blood but Vietnamese raised...so I feel most comfortable identifying with my Vietnamese peeps

thank you for seriously making this video! I'm teochew-cambodian. Great-grandparents are from the Chaozhou area but parents and grandparents are from Cambodia!

Teochews call themselves Deng Nang (Tang Ren - 唐人） - The Tang People (Tang Dynasty people).

my boyfriend and his whole family is speaking teochew i am German i understabd a little Bit of teochew through hearing is there any possibility (maybe a book) to learn the language?

So appreciate this segment! Both my parents were born in Vietnam from Chinese emigrants (father is Chiu Chow and mother is Cantonese). Arrived in Australia 7 years old in 1980. Only spoke Chiu Chow and Cantonese at home and schooled in Mandarin. Took many years to identify myself culturally in Australia. I AM AUSTRALIAN CHINESE descended from Chiu Chow and Cantonese heritage.

I wonder if Chiu Chow you all used in this clip is different from what I know from my experience, Teo Chew?

You guys should it a video on Taishan / Toishan people. :)

Can these Chinese in the video speak Teochew Chinese fluently ?

My family is definitely a bag of mixtures. On my mom's side, her mom's family is teochew from Vietnam who immigrated to Cambodia so already detached from China (last name Le), her dad's family is Cantonese who immigrated directly to Cambodia (last name Ng). On my dad's side, his mom's family is teochew in Cambodia (last name Teo) and his dad's side is full Cambodian (my last name is Cambodian). My grandparents speak Cantonese, Vietnamese, and teochew, but my parents are both culturally Cambodian and only speak Cambodian at home. When I ask my parents, they both identify as Cambodian, rather than Chinese or Vietnamese. I also speak Cambodian and French and not any Chinese dialect or Vietnamese. I kinda wish teochew and Vietnamese were passed down though. As for me, I personally identify as Cambodian-Chinese-American haha.

This video tackled an important aspect of Nationality vs Ethnicity. My dad is Portuguese and my mom is Japanese but born in Brazil, I was born in Brazil therefore I identify myself as a Japanese-Brazilian, not Portguese-Japanese, I grew up around the Japanese culture, from food, to family gatherings and everything, I just wasn't taught the language.

You forgot to mention Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. THere are many teochews in Malaysia and Singapore as well as Indo. Teochew is actually a Chinese dialect.

But tiochew people are also han chinese right? I mean cantonese, tiochew, shanghainese, hakka, hokkien people, all of their ethnicity are han chinese which is the largest ethnic group in China. cmiiw

So... because of this video, I now realize I'm part Chiu Chow. I'm Filipino but my maternal grandpa is full 'Chinese' (now I know he's Chiu Chow) and he always claimed he was Chinese. He was very secretive about where exactly he came from so I never knew much about him and he eventually passed away revealing very little about himself. Then one day, when I was a kid, my mum told me she knew how to count up to 10 in his dialect and growing up I thought she was making it up because it didn't sound anything like Mandarin or Cantonese. And then I see this video and you guys started counting... it sounded exactly what my mom said. Legit mind blown right now. Thanks for shedding light into this! I'm pretty amazed. XD

Of the Vietnamese Americans residing in America, what is the ratio between Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese?

Here is more coolness for being chiuchow/teochew: many words are 99% same with Korean words. Such as student. (*yes, hakseng), danger or dangerous (*wiheom).

我是本土潮汕人，我们本土潮汕人对自己身份的定位一般没有那么复杂，首先我们的第一认同是潮汕人，其次才是中国人，因为我们潮汕人由于语言 文化 风俗 甚至少数文字 和外地的差异造就我们有高度的认同感，我们互相帮助。在本土我们是一个高度聚合的人群，我们位于广东省东部的三座相邻的城市，本地人口大约1200万，外出到国内其他地方的人口约1000万，海外人口的统计比较笼统。

Great video. This is the chinese dialect I speak. These guys are right, when you tell someone you are chinese, they automatically assume you speak mandarin or cantonese. They don't know there are other dialects. Awesome video.

Awesome video and 100% can relate 😆! My parents are Cambodian born Teochew nung, and I was born n raised in New Zealand so growing up was definitely confusing trying to explain ethnicity, culture and language! There's now a few thousand Teochews in NZ from the past generation that immigrated from Cambodia/Vietnam after the Khmer Rouge civil war (incl my family and first cousin side of the family). It's cool to see that there are more of our people out there and keeping the culture/identity alive 🤗

Kane comes off as a condescending dude...

stop making videos of culture that is not yours.

Nice to know that I can understand another language that most ppl don’t know.

I'm even more confused now but thank you all for your attempt to explain it.

Cambodian Teochew living in Paris France :)

Teochow native is here! I figure that somehow most Teochow Chinese overseas can speak Cantonese. I guess our culture is complicated to understand.

Hey oliviathai I thought our translation of our last name is 蔡. Choi in Cantonese and Cai in Mandarin. At least that is what my father told me.

Halfie here 😁... My father is full vietnamese and mother teowchew. Her parents immigrated from china to Vietnam where she was born. There is a strong sense of identity because of the segregation in Vietnam. In Cho Lon where she grew up, there was definitely a separation of vietnamese and Chinese, and even within the family, marrying a vietnamese person caused conflict. For the most part, growing up my cousins and i identified as Vietnamese because a few of my aunts and uncles married vietnamese people. To westerners i identify as Vietnamese to simplify things, but to other Asians Teowchew because I dont look like any particular ethnicity. Our family is quite blended in that conversations fluidly go between vietnamese, teochew and cantonese.

Firstly, it's TEO CHEW!!!!! Not chiu chow.

Although I'm chiu chow I didn't know the part about many of us going to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, etc. Cool! That is very confusing...my parents always lived in China but are chiu chow so not as confusing as some others

I just got goosebumps when they counted numbers. Any Thai-Chinese(Teochew) feel me?✋ I know there’re a lot of us😂

I'm Nepalese. This was interesting.

bang sai, pa li si ah

The folk saying that represents Bac Lieu province is the folowing two lines: -------------------Bạc Liêu nước chảy lờ đờ, -------- Dưới sông cá chốt, trên bờ Triều Châu. ---------------Bac Lieu is where the water runs slowly. The Chot fish swims near the shore of Chiuchow "Ngoài ra trong ca dao còn dùng cả những tiếng Tiều và tiếng Quảng Đông đã được Việt Nam hóa: -----------Gió đưa chú “tửng” từng tưng ----- Gặp chị bán gừng “na nả” chị ơi----- (Nguyễn Trúc Phương/ NTP) ------ (TC: “tửng” = đứa bé. Một số gia đình dùng chữ nầy để đặt tên ngoài cho con; Quãng Đông:“na nả” có lẽ là do chữ “nải nải” = bà chủ lớn, mà ra. Trong câu ca dao nầy chắc là tác giả dùng “nải nải” theo nghĩa châm biếm.) --------Hoặc: ------Chờ anh cho hết sức chờ ------- Chờ cho “ến xại” lên bờ “khui hui” (NTP) -----(TC: “ến xại” = rau muống; “khui hui” = trổ bông) -------

They look more like Vietnamese than Chinese

They are heaps of Teo chew Nang in Malaysia and Singapore, in fact they are the earliest to arrive in Southeast Asia 2 generations ago due to their expertise in maritime and making business. I'm the 4th generation and I am proud to be teochew!

YASSS MY CHIU CHOWS

I feel you guys. Growing up, I always thought I was the only one who was chinese that had a viet last name. As I grew older, I started to meet people that had that as well and go through the annoying process of explaining it to people XD. Everyone always just assumed I was viet and I wanted to change my last name so bad. It was really annoying because people didn't believe that I was chinese because of my last name. So, super glad to see this video :)

sounds a lot like Taiwanese 1-10 lol

Similar to my family history by in a European version. My maternal Grandfather and his family were ethnic Germans but they lived in Poland for 200 years my maternal grandmother and her family were also ethnic Germans but they lived in Moldova for 150 years. When I was younger I was never sure wheter my grandfather was Polish or German.

It would have been nice to have a Chinese Cambodian (or Chinese Thai) instead of three Chinese Vietnamese... The Cantonese are actually the largest group of Chinese in Vietnam while the Teochew are the biggest group in Cambodia, Thailand and Laos...

OMG! I wonder if this type of Chinese is where my great grandparents come from. When they counted to ten, that sounded a lot like Thai! My mom is from Bangkok, but her maternal grandparents are from China and spoke Teochew. Interesting stuff!

who can speak teochew here?

I'd like to share my story! My grandfather is 100% Teochew who moved from China to settle in Thailand. My grandmother, on the other hand, is 100% Teochew born in Thailand. They gave birth to my mother, who is, of course, biologically 100% Teochew. In Thailand, I think anyone born in the country can automatically get a legal citizenship. So, despite being biologically 100% Teochew, my grandmother and my mother are considered "Thai citizen of Chinese descent" instead. In fact, there are a lot of Thai-born Teochew people like this, and also the fact that Thailand accepts Chinese people easily, Teochew people in Thailand are not considered "aliens" of the country anymore. My mother was then married to my father, who is from Southern Thailand (of course, 100% Thai). So, biologically, I would consider myself half Thai-Chinese, or half Southern Thai-Teochew Chinese to be specific. But in Thai people's aspect, I would just be considered a Thai person of Chinese descent instead, just like my mom. And the fact that I'm being a half Chinese is not considered a "cool thing" anymore since there are many people like me already. So, shout out to them all!

Chaozhou people are AWESOME! They are well known for their smartness and strong business sense in comparison to the other Chinese. Some of the most successful Chinese people are Chaozhou people - like the RICHEST man in Asia - Li Ka-Shing, or the top tennis player Michael Chang, or the popular Hong Kong singer Wakin Chau.

Cambodian, Vietnamese Teochew grew up in New Zealand and currently living in Australia. Thanks for the vid, I need to brush up on my Teochew :)

The country with the most teochew is Thailand

This is a very good video, therefore, many people who think there are only Cantonese and Mandarin in China have a lot more ideas about China. But there are actually more than 80 types of languages that people speak in China. Wishing u guys can make more videos about others.

My favorite video of all times! Thanks for providing the world (well, at least the youtube community) a glimpse of each Chiu Chow person experiences. Also, Dave and Andrew, you two ROCK! Love all your videos! Keep up the great work!

I live in Teoyall，Canton（廣東潮陽關埠鎮）.It is a shame that teochew area has no the ability to attract talented people from other places in China and to develop local economy.On the contrary,She send thousands of her outstanding sons and daughters to the Pearl River Delta，Shanghai or Beijing per year.What is unfortunate,now many kids cannot speak fluent teochew because of China's policy of generalizing manderin.（他們會把“是呾”說成“可是”，把“昨日”說成“昨天”，把“烏”說成“黑”……就是一種夾雜著普通話語法的不倫不類的感覺）Though there are few televisions and broadcasts using teochew,they are not popular in local people.Actually I have also forgotten a lot of traditional grammar and vocabulary in Teochew.積惡哪！QAQ😔

This video is so interesting! Btw, my great grandparents are from China and they immigrated to Indonesia. My grandparents, parents, and me all were born in Indonesia. I identify myself as a Chinese Indonesian - ethnically Chinese nationality Indonesian. When people asked again, which Chinese am I ( it is kinda common question anyway ), i will answer i am a Hokkian ( Fu Jian ) coz that's where my great grandparents came from. My grandparents speak Teochew too ! haha.

I actually love this video. Finally brings light to chiu chow people. And I can finally understand what they're speaking

Teochew nang....not chiu chow....

In France, in wikipedia, it's writen that many immigrants recorded as Cambodians or Laotians are actually Teochew chineses. And it's often the case in Quebec, where I'm from (lots of them where refugees).