1) Do you speak* any dialect? (If no, what language do you speak mainly and SKIP QUESTION 2) (*by speak, we mean ability to comprehend and articulate)

 

Yes, alil Cantonese.

 

2) If yes, to whom? How do you rate your proficiency level? (comprehension only, or plus articulation)

 

Grandmother. Extremely low. 

 

3) Do you find that Mandarin is replacing the role of dialects in places eg. home/market/hawker centre? If yes, has Mandarin diluted your dialect? (eg. do you replace the words you cant say in dialect with Mandarin instead?)

 

Yes. I replace words I dont know all the time!

 

4) What is your opinion of people who speak dialects?

 

their proficiency level in other languages is lower than their dialect

 

5) Given a chance, would you join classes provided for the learning of

your dialect?

 

 No

 

6) If you have children in the future, would you want them to learn your own (or any) dialect? Why and why not?

 

Probably not because it might affect their learning and comprehension of the two other main languages, english and mandarin, which i regard them to be far more important than dialects.