English Good Morning Good Afternoon Good Evening How are you Fine, thank you And you

Good night Good bye Good bye (will be going now) See you tomorrow Please Please sit down Thank you You're welcome That's right Excuse me may I trouble you? May I ask you? Excuse me (to get attention) Sorry / I apologize Please hurry up Good Excellent Congratulations Yes, I agree No, I do not agree No, not so Slowly

Hokkien hoh tsa kih hoh ampoh hoh ah mih dih hoh boh hoh, toh siah dih leh hoh ah mih tsai hwei be kih lo bih nah, tsa koh ki bin huy sin dih tsiyah tseh tseh toh siah boh siah mih anih tioh mah huan dih / din tsiah meng tuwih poot tsuh tuwih poot tsuh hwei sin kha kinneh hoh ya ho kiong heeh hoh, guah tong eeh guah boh tong eeh boh, boh siah kah ban leh

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Lesson 2: Personal and Possessive Pronouns English Personal Pronouns: Singular I, me You He, she, it Guah Di Ee / Hokkien Chinese Characters

Plural We, us You They, them Gun / Lan Din In, Een /

Possessive Pronouns: Mine Your His, hers, its Our Your, yours Their, theirs Gua e Di e Ee e Gun eh / Lan eh Din e In eh / /

Demonstrative This That Those Interogative Pronouns Who? Whose? With whom? For whom? What person? Siang / Siang nga Siah nga eh Kap Siah nga Hoh Siang nga Siah Mih Lang Tsih geh Hih geh Hwaih

Examples: Who are you? Whose book is this? Whom are you talking with? Lesson 3: Simple Verbs English Know (to know people) Know (to know events, objects, places) Know (to know an ability / skill) Can (to ask permission) Hokkien pat tsai e-hiaw e-tsue Chinese Characters Di sih sianga Tsih pun tseh^ sih siah nga eh Dih kap siah nga kong uwey

Correct Good Understand

tio ho bing piak

Love Miss Want Like Hate

ai siaw diam beh see hwan geh

Examples: I know you! I know how to speak Hokkien. I can't go to Shanghai. I understand the story. Gua pat di! Gua e-hiaw kong Hokkien oey. Gua bue-hiaw kki Sionghai. Gua bing piak kosi. !

I love you! I miss you!

Gua ai di! Gua siaw diam di!

I want you! I like you! I hate you! Lesson 5: Counting and Non-Counting Numbers English Hokkien Counting Numbers 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 kong tsit neng / di * sa(n) si go lak chit pue kaw tsap

Gua beh di! Gua see hwan di! Gua geh di!

! ! !

Chinese Characters Non-Counting Numbers kong it di sam si ngo diok chit pat kiu tsap

* Neng is only used from numbers with values of 100 and higher. For numbers less than 100, use di.

28 34 46

di tsap pue sam tsap si si tsap lak

100 200

tsi pa neng pa

1,000 10,000 1,000,000

tsing ban tang

6,934 9,804 2,222 434 2,348 8,828 12,446 33,872 Lesson 6: Dates and Days of the Week English Dates: January February March April May June July August September October November December

lak tsing kaw pa sa(n) tsap si kaw tsing pue pa kong si neng tsing neng pa di tsap di si pa sa(n) tsap si neng tsing sa(n) pa si tsap pue pue tsing pue pa di tsap pue tsit ban neng tsing si pa si tsap lak sa(n) tsap sa(n) tsing pue pa chit tsap di

Hokkien

Chinese Characters

tsia geh di geh sa(n) geh si geh go geh lak geh tsit geh pue geh kaw geh tsap geh tsap it geh tsap di geh

Days of the Week: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday pai it pai di pai sa(n) pai si pai go

Saturday Sunday

pai lak pai dit

Month Year Lesson 7: Adverbs of Time English

geh nih

Hokkien

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Today Tomorrow Yesterday

kinah tsah dit binah dit

Every day Every week Every month Every year Every time

muy dit / muy pah tak le pay tak geh pay tak nih muy pah

Last month Last Year

ting geh ting nih

Recently Day after tomorrow

koon lay aw dit