Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
2 Hour(s) 17 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Sophia Choo
Rating
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Course Overview
English, Mandarin, Chinese
Are you a language enthusiast who is often hunting for the next language to explore? Or are you a practical language learner who wants to learn Teochew to converse with your grandparents or understand the local culture better? Then this course is for you.
Through this course, you will learn the basics of the Teochew Dialect, which is a widely spoken dialect in many parts of Singapore, Malaysia as well as Chao Shan province in China. You will also learn essential and simple Teochew phrases to communicate with English and sometimes Mandarin translation.
The outline of this beginner course includes:
1. Introduction
2. Family
3. Food
4. Celebrations
5. Time and Direction markers
6. Home
7. Body parts and Illnesses
8. Prepositions, Adverbs and Adjectives
9. Education
10. Technology, Current Affairs and Social issues
By the end of these 10 lecture series, you should be comfortable listening and speaking basic conversational Teochew. Given that dialects often do not have any form of written language script, the only way forward would be to find a language partner and converse with them. Alternatively, you could stay tune to my next series of lectures for intermediate learners where you would enjoy real life conversations between native speakers.
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 10 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Family
- Section 3 Food
- Section 4 Celebrations
- Section 5 Time and Direction markers
- Section 6 Home
- Section 7 Body parts and Illnesses
- Section 8 Preposition and Adjective
- Section 9 Education
- Section 10 Technology, current affairs, social issues
What You’ll Learn
- Learn basic conversational teochew and pronunciation
- Know more about the teochew culture
- Learn common teochew vocabulary
- Understand basic conversational Teochew
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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AAlice Vuu
This course is amazing! It’s a fantastic opportunity for me to reconnect with the language my family speaks, especially since I’ve felt a bit disconnected from my roots. With this program, I'm diving into essential vocabulary and everyday phrases that truly bring the language to life. I’m thrilled to have discovered this course because resources for learning this language are so rare. I really hope that there will be more interesting exercises and vocabulary to practice more.
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PPeter Israpanitpong
Considering how limited materials there are for this language, I’m thankful that it’s available. It’s a good intro to Teochew and to get the most from it one should play and listen to it multiple times. I liked the end of lesson activities and the instructor has a nice voice as well. The only drawback is that a lot of the lessons seem like reading from a list. More examples of the vocab in use in phrases would be helpful.
