Singaporeans Try: Speaking In Their Dialect For 24H 

How well can you speak in your dialect?

more dialect content please!

words cannot express how hard I broke down in laughter hearing jess saying wah meng ti LMAOOO

As someone who grew up listening to my family speak in our native dialect my whole life but dont really speak it much with them, i felt Jes struggle here 😂 for the most part, i understand what they’re saying but conversing/speaking is on a whole another level. My brain need to process for a long and find the right words. I would either def failed this challenge or refer to my dialect book a lot 😅

Please do a part 2 , featuring sew, adria , Brenda , john . This episode totally rocks

As a Canadian who loves learning varieties of Chinese, not just Mandarin but also Cantonese Teochew, Hakka and also (Minnan/Hokkien/Taiwanese), I have learned new words through this video. It is very sad to hear that dialects are facing extinction. Elderlies have a lot to teach to the future generations and they should not be taken for granted. However I am happy to see Steph and Mandon who can speak their dialect better than most of the younger generations.

Please make Lery speak Tagalog/Filipino! Then ask him to add the subs when the RU-vid team is editing the video already hahahaa

I’m a Hong konger and I think that the Cantonese girl’s accent made her sound like she’s from the mainland - a guangxi-mandarin accent maybe? But otherwise I think she’s pretty good at it. She uses vocabulary close to HK Cantonese so I can still understand it easily

Her canto damn solid!!

Growing up getting scolded by my mum in Hokkien definitely helps you to learn it one way or another 😂

I'm half hokkien half Teochew. When I speak sometimes, I mixed both hokkien and Teochew together without realising, since both are very similar

This goes to show how important our dialects are. Mandon spoke the best out of the three. Steph's pronunciation needs further improvement but on the whole, she can speck in complete Cantonese.. I applaud Jess for trying her very best. 加油！ Growing up in a Cantonese-speaking environment, my dad didn't pass down Hainanese dialect to me and the rest in the family. The funny thing is, my mom's Cantonese is rather twisted and inaccurate. The saving grace was from watching many 70s, 80s and 90s HK dramas and listening to Cantonese songs of those eras. I can't say that my Cantonese is perfect but I never have big issues communicating using it.

and goodness i would never guessed steph is 34 i would have guessed 25 or 26 years oldd!!

HAHAHAHAHA JES CRACKED ME UPPP!!! 😂😂😂 I laughed so much watching her struggle. Mandon's Hokkien is really good and quite fluent. My Hokkien is quite broken as well, but I still try to practice speaking it to my mum, grandma and boss 🤭

steph's canto impressive :)

This episode was so interesting! Please do another pt. 2 with others!

I love this 'speaking in another language/dialect content'. Ever since the video where they learn korean

this was so funny and relatable HAHAHA honestly Jes did way better than I would have

Omg... you guys made me want to speak my Hakka language again...

very true jes and steph!!! hokkien dialect used to be the national language of taiwan at one point till they changed it to mando!! look at taiwanese now this generation cant even speak it... i couldnt imagine myself speaking welsh or polish

Not enough, more dialect content please! So funny when they’re not good at it (yes Jas) 😂

I would pass this 24hr challenge without fail as i been speaking dialect since young.

we want more content like this!!

This is why if people try to shame me for not speaking mandarin fluently, even though I'm actually fluent in Teochew, I will shame them back for likely not being able to speak their dialect. Our grandparents, great grandparents, and all other ancestors definitely did not speak Mandarin. Yet few people would ever question how Chinese they are. Let's remember that.

would say dialect is a misnomer. they are all languages (hokkien, cantonese, hakka) in their own right. ☺️ good for featuring this!

Yayy Cantonese represent ☺️🙌🏼

Can i make a special request for Mandon to sing the whole 我问天 song, Mandon has a really nice voice for the hokkien language!

Hahaha I am teochew that is bad at it, but well versed in hokkien, as for cantonese swearing is my forte 😂

My late maternal grandfather knew how to speak English so when I was young I basically relied on him as a translator whenever I had to speak to my grandmother who only spoke Teochew. One time, my parents left me with them for a week when they went travelling and my mom hoped when they came back I would have picked up some Teochew (since my grandfather was working part time, there would be some time of the day when it would be just me and her). To her great surprise when they came to pick me up, my grandmother was speaking little bits of English. Turns out that whenever she spoke to me, I just looked at her blankly having no idea what she was talking about and she just gave up and asked my grandfather to teach her some English words so she could somewhat communicate with me. I do feel a bit sad not having picked up either Teochew or Hokkien as I can only communicate with both my grandmothers with only very basic Chinese since they speak and understand their dialects better.

Just FYI for those who think our dialect composition is just mere; teochew, hokkien, cantonese, hainanese and hakka. Amongst each individual group you have also got different way of pronunciation. Example within teochew you have got different tones and pronunciation. Teochew haiyeo, teochew swatow, teochew por neng, teochew kekyeo....etc. Just "sleep" itself, you have got: ngk, ngee, uuk, ngor amongst the teochew. Hokkien: you got hokkien, huiwah, hokkien an kueh, hokkien namwah, hokkien engchoon, hokkien chuanchwee, and all of them speak differently. "Fire" in hokkien you have got; hey, her, huay. Same applies to the other dialects, you have sub group ammongst the same dialect.

Wow, Mandon can speak Hokkien so well, better than my "Hokkien Lang" friend from Penang.

Lol, did Steph just said 粉腸 in Cantonese for rice rolls? 😂 It should be 腸粉 (Cantonese). 粉腸 is to Scold someone in Cantonese, especially in HK.

Should’ve made Jeslene do the outro in Hokkien also HAHAHAHA

Jes vulgarities not in dialect , now that's really bad 😂

Hokkien listening comprehension =100m but hokkien oral= 50m I guess it’s quite hard to speak hokkien in one full sentence coz quite a lot of mandarin vocabulary don’t hv hokkien equivalent or we will simply just use Chinese when we are stuck.

Can we have an ep with teochew pleaseeee~

Steph sounds so sweet speaking Cantonese 😊

this mandon really spoil market sia...he's cute, can cook, and now he's so fluent in hokkien too! (i love it when guys speak dialects, maybe coz i like ahbengs lol)

Pray is WA MENG TI I CHOKED 🤣

This eps isso interesting and satisfying to hear them speak. Im a hokkien but i cant speak it cause i never grow up speaking it but i can understand it. Quite a pity because i like the way it sounds lol. I do wanna learn Cantonese also for the sounds. I feel that dialect is abit disappering as people mostly speak English and the generations after wont follow up with it.

petition for a compilation of jes saying umm 1500 times ✋

I could speak really well before 20yo, until all my grandparents passed on and seldom speak, but able to understand well. As of now, a decade later, it's rusty, but understandable.

make more videos of dialects, sure very funny

Mandon has strong "i prepare super hard to try to impress before turning on my camera" vibes

direct translate to dialect really fun..hahaha

know i wanna properly learn canto and hokkien HAHA. and yea i agree that the younger generation will most likely not be able to speak their dialects.

A lot hokkien in Singapore so similar to Johor, Melaka, Kl, Selangor

I feel so nervous for Steph. While watching I cannot emphasize how stressful it must have been to try to convert to HK's version of Cantonese, which is usually what we hear when watching TVB dramas (which is close to Chinese). Fun Cheong not wrong, but usually Cheong Fun is spoken and more understood (good that she brought this out, but only people who speak Cantonese can understand). Air fryer I think hei zha guo is enough, then I think rarely people will say tong seuhng (not cheong), but its understood. Maybe tak hahn is more appropriate, though Im not seeing it fitting in this situation. Although my Hokkien/Teochew isnt that great, but for Jes, rather than say baibai (praying), we can say tolong (ask for help; I know its originally Malay, but Malay and hokkien has many words that are borrowed from each other). "tolong dan je mai laosai" - hope that later I dont have diarrhoea. Dont have to say sa zhup hun for mentioning minutes in time; bua also can (means half). if ending 5 mins use the analogue clock number that it is at and say (number) ji. I think rather than translate, language or dialects itself is quite dynamic. Usually dialects are quite expressive and don't usually conform to the standard language that we learn in school. So long as it is understood. Hope Jes dont give up and hope the government can allow more dialect shows to be produced in Singapore, even if the only timeslot is on Friday around noontime for now - or maybe it has changed coz I havent been keeping up with Mediacorp. Mandon: there is a term for bye in hokkien: zai kian, just that its not commonly used and direct translation from Jack Neo's "Happy Can Already" series.

Future generation still can speak their mother tongue already not bad liao lor

Actually, dialect won’t die one. But in Sg, it’s true that younger generation have lesser knowledge of their dialect. But these dialects are from China, and people there, even the young ones speak it day to day. So it won’t die. Only in Sg. You see even the younger generation in KL can speak fluent Cantonese. The people in Klang can speak fluent Hokkien.

It's not dialects but language. A lot of people got confused in the meaning of dialect. I speak Cantonese but I dont understand Hokkien. If dialects you can understand hokkien and Cantonese vice versa as it sound similar. I also speak Taishanese a vatiant or DIALECT of the YUE where Cantonese is one of the dialect of YUE. Taishanese and Cantonese sound similar.

Died at wa meng ti 😂

I am 52yo and grew up in a Hokkien / English family. We never speak in 100% Hokkien, there are always English, Malay, etc mixed into our sentences

sew amanda speaking in hokkien pls!

Cantonese is the easiest because a lot of people around us speak it (Malaysia, HK) and we have good access to these countries. I'm not even Cantonese by ethnic group but my Cantonese is easily the best among the dialects. My hokkien and teochew is super rojak (mix with english, malay and others). 25 years ago my distant relative from swatow came and no one can communicate with him in teochew except my grandparents. When I go Taiwan, my hokkien doesn't even come close and I can only understand 20-25% of what they say. Even my "ah beng" colleague which is considered damn good by Singapore standard also struggle and can he say he only understand about 80% when they speak fast and got to guess the rest. Got some words he never even hear before.

Goodbye in Hokkien is zai gian.

Wow mandden you win 🏆

good

The one in taiwan so cute, keep mixing up hokkien & cantonese

In Penang we pronounced as Bei Sai not Boey Sai

Come Challenge me, pc of cake lei. Wow Lou sad to see the younger gen of Spore losing touch

sadly no teochew representation 😔 part 2 maybe? hahaha

I’m sorry, this is kinda out of topic but I can’t get over Manson

You should go ask the bananas to speak their dialect too, see if they can do better than them haha

Cantonese actually not bad eh it’s really hard to speak Cantonese

please don't say "fen cheong" when you wanna order chee cheong fun lol it means asshole, CCF in short is "Cheong fun" 🤣

Hi first

Teochew plsss

😅

I am hokkien but my cantonese is better, thanks to watching many tvb dramas 😅😅😅😅

No way bro playing Gunivere in mythic rank☠☠☠

Pray= bobi

Try find someone to talk in hainanese. Canto and hokkien is too common

I think Singaporeans' second language will eventually become Japanese or Korean.

Jes will look gorgeous in lady wear and long hair. Hope she has a boyfriend. A real man boyfriend cos she's pretty yet handsome too 😁

i can understand what theyre speaking but i cannot reply 😭😭

kopi O kosong

no one asked the boy what kind of language he tried to learn....speak lah don't understand speak meaning meh?

The tragic consequence of the language policy pushed by our dear prime minister: a generation who lost their cutlure and roots.

am I tripping but did the gap between Jes's teeth became wider as compared to before 😶😶

Malaysian Chinese be like... Wait, is a challenge? Aren't you like ..force to be able to speak it? 🗿...damn, the same time i thought all Singaporeans speak malay too. Singaporeans have it easy... 😂

no cus that’s so real people speak better Koreans and jap 😭😭

Chibynese sure speaks