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,
understand hokkien.
2) If yes, to whom? How do you rate your proficiency level? (comprehension only, or plus articulation)
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...not
reali...mi juz dun speak dialect
4) What is your opinion of people who speak dialects?
depends
on which dialect...but tend to associate hokkien clan as more uncouth...
5) Given a chance, would you join classes provided for the learning of your dialect?
not
reali...wld choose foreign lang instead...but dun mind learning cantonese to watch movies n drama serials...
6) If
you have children in the future, would you want them to learn your own (or any) dialect? Why and why not?
i dun mind them
learning...no harm in learning another lang