The two dialects of Suzhou gossip and Chaoshan dialect are too different. Suzhou dialect is the representative of Wu Nong soft language, especially suitable for women, if the female Hanzi speaks Suzhou dialect, it will immediately feel gentle. Chaoshan dialect is more heroic, and men speak with particular momentum.
When I was a child, I didn't feel special when I spoke Suzhou dialect, but I knew that there was a saying circulating in the media: "I'd rather listen to Suzhou people quarrel than listen to XX people talking", Suzhou dialect can be so pleasant. When There are many Suzhou dialects, I like to drag a tone for each word, say it fast, and connect it like singing. Hello, you have to say "Oh ~ good ~", try it, you are singing. And there are many suzhou sayings, there are many colloquial dialects in a sentence, and outsiders really can't understand it.
When I was young, I worked together with the same age, took the salary and often went shopping in Shanghai, took a green car for more than an hour in the morning, went shopping on Changshu Road, Nanjing Road, Huaihai Road, shopping, every time I went shopping in the mall, the salesman would chat with us more, and some would learn us to talk about Suzhou dialect, I know that Shanghainese like to listen to us... In the evening, he returned to the Soviet Union with a full load, and on the train, he would take out the "booty" and look at it again and again...
Shantou husband returned to Suzhou with me for the first time, the family lived in Shantang Street at that time, outside the window is a small alley, every day people along the street in Suzhou dialect shouting, back and forth to listen to more, my husband also followed the study: "almond crisp, sock bottom crisp, Su big chicken cake." SuDa is a well-known cake produced by Soochow University. After several decades, he will only use this Suzhou dialect, which shows how brainwashed it is, and also shows that Suzhou dialect is difficult to learn.
The eastern Guangdong region basically speaks Chaoshan dialect, except for some Hakka. Mandarin has four tones, while Chaoshan has eight tones, so imagine how complicated it is.
Just came to Shantou, the aunts are very enthusiastic, often come to visit the door, they talk about home in the living room, I hide in the room, my husband always encourages me to chat with the aunts, what they say I listen to hard, but one, one, the word can not understand, the same as listening to foreign languages. Slowly, my aunts tried to speak Teochew Mandarin to me, and after I had children, I began to learn to speak Chaoshan dialect.
There are many interesting sayings in Chaoshan dialect, "yes", Chaoshan dialect "none", I specifically asked my husband why is "yes", and you prefer to say "none"? Wherever "special", "very" and "very" means, Chaoshan dialect likes to add a "si." after that, and then often hear "good si", "hot si", "comfortable si."...
I learned Chaoshan dialect for a while, so I went to the wet market to practice, I asked the vendors in Chaoshan dialect, and they would answer me in Mandarin, because as soon as I heard it, I knew that I was a foreigner. Every time I went to ask the vendors to buy something to eat, they would say three words in Mandarin "delicious", of course, I knew that it could be eaten, and then I slowly understood that the Chaoshan dialect "delicious" is "very delicious", they directly translated it into Mandarin, which made me a foreigner confused.
By the way, the first Chaoshan dialect that outsiders want to learn must be "eating tea" (drinking tea), because this is the gongfu tea custom that every Chaoshan person cannot do without.
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