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Wayne
HulpleerkrachtChinese (Fookien)
Hi guys! Did you know that the word italki has a word play in chinese (Fookien) which means "I love to go home?"(愛回家) :)
21 jun. 2017 07:42
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大家好!你知道在italki上, (Fookien)闽南语里意为 “我爱回家”的单词吗? Why did you write “italki has a word”?Sorry,I cannot speak Fookien.I don‘t know that word.
21 juni 2017
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Hi bai :) I wrote "italki has a word play". A word play is a term that uses a word but not usually it's meaning. Hence the play. This is synonymous to a pun. One example I could give is this:
Hey Steve, you are playing the guitar so loud that it's giving me mu-sick (music)!
Fookien, Hokkien or amoy is a dialect that can be found in China, a portion of taiwan and in the Philippines. Hope you learned something :)
22 juni 2017
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Hi Phil! :) I think the word "italki" can be read as /ai-toki/. It could be a short cut to the phrase "I'm talking", not sure. Regarding the Hokkien expressio, the "I"is the 愛, "to" is the 回, and "ki" is the 家 or you can also use the word 去。
22 juni 2017
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I believe Wayne is saying that the Hokkien pronunciation of 愛回家 is similar to the word "italki." It's actually debatable how "italki" should be pronounced – in English, I say /aitɔki/, but others may say /aitɑki/ or /aitɔkai/. In other languages, it's pronounced as written /italki/.
Wayne, getting back to the Hokkien expression – I'm curious as to where the T comes from – is it the final of 愛, or the initial of 回 ?
21 juni 2017
Wayne
Taalvaardigheden
Chinees (Mandarijn), Chinees (Kantonees), Chinees (Hokkien), Engels, Filipijns (Tagalog)
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Chinees (Mandarijn), Engels
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