Learning Hockkien: Tan Choon Hoe
I woke up this morning and saw a familiar face on theStar:Tan Choon Hoe. Tan is of one the country’s foremost experts on his mother tongue, Hokkien. He has come up with a new book on how to speak the dialect.
It is a must buy for all Hockkien dialect enthusiasts. He explains it this way:“I wanted to preserve my mother tongue and see it used by as many people as possible. In these days of the Internet, I see parents everywhere speaking to their children in ‘international’ languages. I don’t dispute the value of this, but we should still try to keep our dialect alive.â€
The books are available from most good book shops. From now till Oct, 30% of all sales will go to the Penang Adventist Hospital’s Fund for Needy Patients. If you would like to sponsor a certain number of books, PAH will re-sell the books and donate everything to the fund. For details, contact Tan at 012-482 0038.
Personally, I am hoping his book will be available online soon. I haven’t seen a copy of his book in the local book shops.
Very nice of you to have used this medium to talk for him. Good effort in preserving your mother tongue.
(BTW for the past two days I could not access your site, wonder why?)
oh thanks for coming over the past two days. i had some problems
but it is solved now. the author of the book sms me this morning and asked me to pass this info to my frens so I used the blog as a medium