Are you a 'Banana'?

[simplythebest]

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:

 

[e_ti]

no
banana is to call chinese that cant even speak chinese.

like a banana..yellow outside...which says our skin
n white inside...speak ang mo

 

[jiggly_head]

ohh. dat means im not banana. i can speak :D

 

[szekeiemme]

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

 

[jiggly_head]

yahh order food damn important

 

[gan]

half banana ... can speak but cannot write chinese

 

[xerofighter]

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

same here. but i cant order food or communicate with mandarin. can only scold bad words.

 

[roughnecks]

half banana ... can speak but cannot write chinese

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

 

[yinho]

haha.. i got kaki here. me also half hainan half hakka. but both language also dunno how to speak. only know how to call ppl eat rice. "chiak pui" hehe

 

[szekeiemme]

hahhaa i noe simple mandrine words la.. n my name..

 

[xerofighter]

maybe someone should take the opportunity to start a mandarin class for us. specially for zth banana memebers only.

 

[Cypress]

speak fluently in cantonese and im quater banana coz i dont know how to read mandarin but can comunicate with mandarin speak ppl!!!

 

[yinho]

me too. but say only know mandarin. when it comes to mandarin news, kantoi

 

[SkYwAlKeR]

ahah....same here ler... i used to speak cantonese in ipoh but when come to mlk, people say i'm a banana coz i cant speak mandarin... so what's the problem??... ipoh people many also cannot speak mandarin mah... we use cantonese as our daily language...

 

[alexz]

i got a friend last time in sunway c. he is a baba nyonya. he cant speak not a single word in chinese. his language at home is malay. pity her mom lah, coz her mom not a baba nyonya.