| Finally, roughly 35 percent of the people questioned favored the their proposal to designate Hokkien as a national language alongside Mandarin. |
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| A child who speaks Hokkien at home may be schooled in Mandarin Chinese at school. |
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| Despite the vulgarity and unavoidable use of the Hokkien vernacular, he is actually compellingly funny. |
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| And funnily enough, most of the swearing was in Hokkien rather than Mandarin Chinese. |
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| A number of Chinese dialects are also widely spoken including Cantonese, Hokkien, and Mandarin together with Punjabi and Tamil. |
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| Having resided in Japan for more than 60 years, he speaks fluent Japanese as well as some Hokkien and Mandarin. |
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| He shouted at the elders after they said they could not understand what he was saying because he was using the Hokkien dialect. |
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| Singlish is influenced mostly by Hokkien Chinese, and if you don't know Hokkien, you may not understand Singlish that well. |
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| Written with a mix of phonetic Hokkien dialect and English, Shiga creates a fascinating and little-seen world. |
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| Similarly, you will often find Malaysians and Singaporeans using English words as if they were actually Hokkien or Cantonese. |
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| Seventy percent of the population is Hokkien, 14 percent is Hakka, 14 percent is Mainlander, and two percent is aboriginal. |
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| So, he continued spouting Hokkien for another 10 minutes, and then he suddenly stopped. |
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| In addition to his native Hokkien and Mandarin, he is fluent in English, Japanese, Spanish, Russian and German. |
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| Although these passages were written in Chinese characters, they make sense only to speakers of Hokkien. |
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| Fluent in both Mandarin and Hokkien, she has been able to interview more extensively than many other foreign scholars. |
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| In Hokkien, it would be easier and more natural sounding to employ the Tongyong system. |
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| My mother broke the news to me in our native Hokkien Chinese dialect. |
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| Feast your eyes on the oldest Chinese temple in Singapore and the island's most important Hokkien temple. |
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| Its primary official language, naturally, would be Hokkien, but it would do well to consider elevating Hakka, Mandarin and Paiwan to official status as well. |
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| In addition to English, he speaks Mandarin, and he can also hold a conversation in Hokkien and to a certain extent in Cantonese and Thai. |
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| A small minority are of Shanghainese, Hokkien, and Boat People descent. |
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| Speaking in Hokkien, he also presented 10 labor policies, including tightening foreign labor imports and making the privatization process more transparent. |
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| Anything rude or negative that we had to say, we expressed in Hokkien. |
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| Lin touted Malaysia as an ideal place for Taiwanese investors because that Malaysian workers can speak fluent English and various Chinese dialects such as Hokkien. |
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| The second largest language group is Taiwanese, or Hokkien, spoken by Hakka and Fujian natives, and based on the Minnan dialect of southern Fujian. |
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| He said the coalition avoided talking about the conflict between the Mainlanders and the Hokkien and promoted a concept of ethnic equality without real content. |
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| All I know when I grew up was that Mum was Hokkien, and spoke English. |
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| In a bid to preserve the Hokkien language, educators yesterday urged the Ministry of Education to tightly regulate Hokkien textbooks for elementary and junior high schools. |
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| My mother broke the news to me in our Hokkien Chinese dialect. |
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| The education ministry seeks to recruit approximately 1,000 more teachers to fill vacancies in Hokkien teaching spots and another 500 Hakka teachers. |
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| Singapore is a melting pot of Malays, Indians and an array of Chinese groups with their own languages, among them Hokkien, Teochew and Cantonese. |
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| In addition to Cantonese and Mandarin and Malay and Hokkien, Seetoh speaks idiomatic English plus Singlish, a slangy local patois that is spoken only idiomatically. |
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| Some of the Hokkien singular pronouns play the roles of possessive determiners with their nasalized forms. |
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| In Taiwan, the relationship between Standard Chinese and other varieties, particularly Taiwanese Hokkien, has been more politically heated. |
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| Along with Mandarin and Hokkien, Cantonese has its own popular music, Cantopop, which is the predominant genre in Hong Kong. |
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| The prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, then, also stopped giving speeches in Hokkien to prevent giving conflicting signals to the people. |
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| Marooned navy officers, consisting mostly of Cantonese and Hokkien tribesmen, set up their small gangs near river estuaries, mainly to protect themselves. |
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| Other methods such as public interaction, and attempts to eradicate the use of Korean, Hokkien, and Hakka among the indigenous peoples, were seen to be used. |
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| However, it has a relatively minor presence compared to other Southeast Asian nations, being the fourth most spoken Chinese variety after Hokkien, Hakka and Teochew. |
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| I love anything with hokkien noodles in it, and I'd highly recommend the pad thai. |
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