Dialect is
very interesting and unique language. Unfortunately, nowadays people seldom
been used to speak dialect with each other. Some of my friends have told me
they used to speak Mandarin at home. Or because of always watching HongKong
drama and movie cause them know to speak Cantonese fluently. By the way, most
of them are not Cantonese but Hokkien, Hakka or Teochew. How strange. So I think they are mostly affected by media rather than other sources. However for my
situation, I have slightly different with them. I know to speak Hokkien
fluently but actually my native is Teochew.
This is because there are mostly Hokkien people in my birth place which
mean my hometown and also my living place. That’s why my family and I used to
speak Hokkien rather than Teochew at home. Therefore, besides Teochew, Hokkien
is considered as one of my dialect to me in life.
Perhaps
some of them actually know the way to speak dialect but then they are not
really willing speak to others. I wonder why they act so. However, I used to
speak dialect to my family, it make me even comfortable. But among friends, I
mostly tend to speak Mandarin or English rather than using dialect. I don’t
know why, maybe I’ve classified as dialect been used to talk to family or
relatives while Mandarin or English used to talk to others. However, if someone
talks to me dialect could make me feel so warm and I would immediately think of
my family, relatives and hometown. I think this actually so-called unexplainable
familiar with that feeling. How do you think about it?!
