Are you a 'Banana'?

[12oY]

hei i am chinese but cant read and write chinese.. but can speak well.. ia that count??

 

[jaywat]

hainan here also hahaha...but speak until lak lak kak kak one hahaha

 

[yinho]

strangly.. i learn mandarin from cantonese because it does hav many similarities

 

[R.C.]

What is Banana in other term beside the fruit banana?

Banana meaning a person who can't speak their own dialect.

For an example, a chinese he can't read or write chinese, but at least he can speak.
Some even worse, can't speak, write or read at all.

I think I'm half banana :D

I still can read some chinese words. Both parents are Hakka and Hainan people. I hate hainan dialect, thats why I never bother to learn. I like Hakka but can't speak much.

I speak:-

1. Mandarin
2. Hokkien
3. Cantonese (not bad, but sometimes rojak with english or I just use hokkien if the communication about to breakdown :D)
4. Hakka not so good.

The only sentence I know in Hainan is .. 'Yan em hai yan, kwai em chi kwai' (Cantonese), 'Lang bo ti nang, kui bo ti kui' (Hainan) ROFLMFAO!

So what are you? :rolleyes:

My father is Hakka and my mother is Hainan ! I can't speak proper mandarin and can only speak simple cantonese. I talk English with my parents, very seldom use chinese.

 

[SkYwAlKeR]

hei i am chinese but cant read and write chinese.. but can speak well.. ia that count??

almost same here... cannot read or write... but can speak a little lar... those normal normal conversation can handle... when comes to hightech mandarin literature typed cannot handle... haha...

 

[iskymeow]

i'm not chinese but people think i am chinese so they talk to me in chinese which i barely understand.. so am i a banana? :p

 

[yinho]

iskymeow.. ur pic damn funny wei..

 

[rollakid]

i'm a chinese, and a hakka.

i can speak mandrin well, but not accurate like news reader, however i somehow unconciously speak good mandrin if i'm talking to someone who speaks very well.

i can read chinese words, well, roughly 60-70% of the commonly used one. would have problem if you want me to read out loud:p

write? hmm... maybe my name. i didn't write chinese for 2 year 7 months already, never touch it. was shock when i saw the form of the place i want to work temporary is in chinese, so i filled everything in english, except my name :P

being a hakka, i can understand hakka perfectly. 80% of my family members, as far as i know, are hakka (wonder why but mostly hakka marry hakka, those family in law also hakka, with a few exception). however, i can't speak hakka :( due to what happen 13 years ago in primary school where the headmaster says "dialags are banned", with my dad being a teacher in the same school, hakka is banned (okay.. more like discouraged lar..) in my family too, just my bro and i, can undertand but not speak. :( shame shame, now want learn also abit late hard to addapt.

cantonese, completely can't speak, understand abit, due to the cantonese drama on TV :D , other than that, there's no use for cantonese in kuching (except fellow zthians come from semenanjung lar...)

hokkien, understand partially, speak.. well.. need to think before speak, so not much point.

japanese.. hmm.. 220GB of anime with subtitle experience.. nothing more >_<

shame shame... biggest shame is hakka dunno how to speak hakka >_<

 

[EcstacyElmo]

i'm half chinese
speak mandarin bad, can read but poor
bad at cantonese
picking up hokkien ....
am i rojak buah?

 

[xtracooljustin]

im.. but can speak simple mandrine la.. simple ones.. to communicate n order food! ekekke

same here...
i go Malay school mah... so hardly converse in Mandarin...somemore my family all Cantonese wan...so my Cantonese n English very geng...

but my malay is very otai wan...

:)

 

[iskymeow]

iskymeow.. ur pic damn funny wei..

haha dun ask me wei, BH went and photoshop the pic and ask me to put as sig. :p

 

[G-4]

wah got hainan ppl = tau fung ppl !!!
iam hainan too,i know how to speak hainan 70% only,the rest forget oledi cause not much ppl know how to speak hainan.....

 

[NOSkill]

Sometimes it's really not their fault for not learning their native language. It's decided by their parents which school they go to.
So if love your own culture, you should go to a language school to learn your native language. Trust me, you're really missing a lot.
But I hate some people who won't stop speaking "Engrish". If you're a Chinese, I can communicate with you with any chinese dielect you might know.

Engrish:
1.) You see him come or not??
2.) You see people want what you also want.

You really gain no respect from speaking like this.

 

[G-4]

Sometimes it's really not their fault for not learning their native language. It's decided by their parents which school they go to.
So if love your own culture, you should go to a language school to learn your native language. Trust me, you're really missing a lot.
But I hate some people who won't stop speaking "Engrish". If you're a Chinese, I can communicate with you with any chinese dielect you might know.

Engrish:
1.) You see him come or not??
2.) You see people want what you also want.

You really gain no respect from speaking like this.

maybe they think engrish its high class mah.....so mah follow ppl loh......


my "yee kin" dont "for" me......

 

[melody]

quater banana:p
can't write chinese......except my name....n recognize some simple chinese..
can't speak Mandarin / Cantonese fluently....... !-.-

Am like u too! Dialect is Hokkien. Not fluent in Hokkien Cantonese/Mandarin but can understand lah! English educated....