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2020 has been unlike any other and words that we never thought we'd use, are now part of our daily language.
https://www.rdasia.com/culture/15-words-and-phrases-that-defined-2020
Speaking of language, I never knew these words existed!
https://www.rdasia.com/true-stories-lifestyle/our-language/funny-words-you-probably-dont-know
概念要清晰，不然會中計。
陳雲：廣東話是香港官話，不是香港母語。香港教育局在聘請大陸學者，否定廣東話是香港人的母語，將粵語貶為方言。問題是：母語是什麼？
我告訴大家吧。母語這個觀念極之危險。母語源自歐洲的民族土語（native or vernacular language）的觀念，用母語教學的觀念，將粵語列為香港人的母語，必然一敗塗地。九七之後，董建華提倡母語教學，大家以為是廣東話教學，但其後就出現普教中，在香港人的兒童年齡群體裡面製造普通話的母語基礎，這顯示了母語是個迷惑香港人的觀念。
粵語不單只是到目前為止大多數香港人的土語，粵語更是南方官話。粵語是中原華夏雅言之南方流傳，既是華夏南方之交流語，也保留了華夏古語（主要是隋唐官話）的寶貴語音、語調、詞彙和文法，傳承了華夏古代文明，旁及百粵（南方的眾多粵族）語言和文明。
如果用母語的觀念來看，香港必須採用複合的語言政策（composite language policy），普通話（北方官話）就必須列入教學語言。
香港好多本土運動的鼓吹者（尤其是港獨派），不明白我的學術判斷，他們將香港話（俗化的香港土語）列為香港人的母語，而不知道這正是中了共產黨的奸計，因為一旦在香港的大陸移民眾多，例如達到三四成，香港土語就沒有地位。而堂堂學生會的官方電郵竟然用香港土語（鄙俗的廣東土話）寫作，而不是用簡潔文言，更令大陸留學生認為香港是蠻夷之地，加強了他們講普通話時候的高傲。
粵語是香港官話，是香港人在正式場合的中文交流語。粵語是不是你的母語，這個不重要，重要的是，它是香港官話。這個夠清楚了吧？
香港人的幸運，是當年英國殖民者採用雅言的觀念，在清朝的時候，英國派遣殖民官上廣州跟隨清朝的翰林太史學習中文和《四書》，在省城的學館書齋認識優雅言談，殖民官將廣府話列為香港的交流中文，而且將廣東話雅化、純化，將粵音提升成為雅正的電台語言和學校語言。如果當年英國殖民政府採用土語或母語觀念，應該是圍頭話、客家話、潮州話、河洛話、蛋家話成為香港的交流語，而且粗話連篇，而不是當年雅正的廣府話。大家可以比較一下廣州的電台，由於不是用雅言，故此他們用的粵音是粗鄙土氣的，自丟身價，令北方人不尊重廣東人。馬來西亞的粵語廣播和客家話廣播也是粗鄙的土語，而不是文人雅言。
我是客家人，但我也會講好粵語和推廣雅正的粵語，因為粵語是雅言。一旦採用武斷的母語觀念，我是應該排斥粵語的。（台灣人講的閩南話是古漢語遺留，但台灣的本土運動行了歪路，台灣人推廣的是民間的土話，不是雅正的閩南話。）
我這本書，講述了粵語的歷史和成為教學語言的正當地位。即使是北方人，我也建議他們學好雅正的廣東話（而不是那些粗口爛舌的香港土語！）。
最後必須一提，廣東廣西的語言極之繁多，廣府話是經過長期的時間考驗而成為兩廣的交流語的，期間沒有官方勢力推廣或壓迫，有兩廣人民的共識。兩廣人民長期認同廣府話為雅正的交流語，是有深刻原因的。
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I don't think it's purely coincidental that the latest round of blackface minstrelsy involved actors from Channel 8 (Shane Pow, Chew Chor Meng). So I want to talk about our monolingual vernacular broadcast stations in Singapore, and Channel 8 in particular.
In 2009, in the Channel 8 series 'Daddy At Home', the colleagues of a character played by Li Nanxing made fun of the fact that he was working as a cleaner--already classist and offensive to begin with. Then they joked that they should call him 'Aminah'--presumably because Malays are associated with menial occupations.
In March 2015, the Channel 8 actor Desmond Tan posted a photo of himself in blackface and a turban on Instagram. It was captioned: "I love my Indian look. What you think?"
In June 2015, former Channel 8 actress Sharon Au, while hosting the SEA Games opening ceremony, approached an Indian girl in the stands to say some line, which the girl didn't do very well. Au playfully admonished her by mimicking an Indian accent and shaking her head from side to side: "Vat happened?"
Vernacular broadcast stations exist to promote and propagate the use of our official languages. News broadcasts, for example, play the role of setting formal standards for the respective languages. On the surface, these provisions seem necessary to protect linguistic rights in a multicultural society--that one should be able to study and access media in the language of one's choice.
But I think we've failed to properly deal with some of the consequences of these policies. One of which is that monolingual environments (with the exception of English) create monoethnic and monocultural worlds. It would not surprise me that those who grew up on a diet of Channel 8 (and Channel U) would have found nothing wrong with the fact that the Mediacorp New Year Countdown in 2013 heavily featured Chinese songs and actors making wishes in Mandarin. It would have been the Singapore that they recognised and knew; a Singapore they took for granted as the norm.
In public housing, ethnic quotas are imposed supposedly to prevent the formation of racial enclaves. I wonder why this has not been applied to our media landscape. Because each of our vernacular stations--Channel 8, Channel U, Suria, Vasantham--is a virtual racial enclave. It is possible to come home from a workplace where people speak only one language, switch on the TV, and nestle with similar company. The silo-isation is seamless. Television, which could have been a civic instrument reminding us of that deep, horizontal comradeship we have with fellow citizens of all stripes, is instead an accessory to this social insulation.
I'm not here to crap on Channel 8. A predictable response to some of the concerns raised above is that I am exploiting the ideal of multicutural accommodation (multicultural casting) to squeeze the use of English into the vernacular channels. These spaces have to be maintained as linguistically pure because of the idea that they are under siege by English, that global language, signifier of upward mobility, and so cool it has no need to announce its coolness.
There have been too many times when I've been told that any plea for English to be emphasised as a main lingua franca is tantamount to asking the Chinese to 'sacrifice' their identity 'for the sake of minorities'. In this formulation, minorities are seen as accomplices of a right-wing, anti-China, pro-US/UK Anglophone political elite intent on suppressing the Chinese grassroots.
Because the mantle of victimhood is so reflexively claimed, the problem is re-articulated as the 'tyranny of the minority' rather than that of neglect by the majority. And national unity is cast as something suspect--unity of the Chinese community achieved only through the loss of dialects, unity with the other races at the cost of Mandarin attrition. With this kind of historical baggage, I can't even begin to critique Channel 8 without being seen as an agent of hostile encroachment.
But what I can do is to keep supporting the works of our filmmakers who try to give us images of ourselves which are truer to the Singapore that we live in. Anthony Chen's 'Ilo Ilo' faced some limitations in diverse representations as he was telling the story of a Chinese family. But he had Jo Kukathas in a scenery-chewing role as a school principal. Royston Tan, in his tender and wistful short film 'Bunga Sayang', explored the relationship between an elderly Malay lady and a Chinese boy. And Boo Junfeng, while casting Malay leads in his harrowing 'Apprentice', must have grappled with the risk of producing a domestic film whose main audience might have to depend on subtitles. And yet he took that risk, and the film performed creditably at the local box office.
(I have to also mention our minority filmmakers, such as K Rajagopal, Sanif Olek and Raihan Halim, all of whom are producing important films which expand our visions of Singapore.)
If we were truly a multicultural society, there would be nothing remarkable about what the above filmmakers have done. But with a background of persistent blackfacing, slurs, invisibilities and humiliations, any recognition that minorities exist, that they are as essentially Singaporean as Chinese bodies, that they may appear in international film festivals as one of the myriad faces of Singapore, is an occasion for healing. One cannot help but give thanks for the balm. There is much healing to do.
Trying out life as a Japanese language student in Kosaka, the sleepy little countryside town in Akita prefecture!
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Hi! My name is Loretta, a girl from the U.S. who moved to Japan! I moved to Japan on the MEXT scholarship and recently graduated with my MBA. Here are some answers to common questions:
1. Do I Speak Japanese? Yep! I was taught formally in High School and have been speaking now for over 15 years.
2. What University did you go to in Japan? I'm a recent grad of Yokohama National University's "Masters of Business Administration" Program
3. How old are you?: Year of the dragon. :D The math is up to you.
4. How did you get into Japanese school?: http://tinyurl.com/yb8yylch
5. What camera equipment do you use?: I film my videos with a Canon 60D using a 30mm Sigma Art Lens and I edit with Sony Vegas Pro 10 (with some help from photoshop). Additional cameras include GoPro Hero 7 Black and DJI Majic Air
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Help me pick my new Tokyo apartment! Here are the first 3 I visited, along with Jason from Apts.jp More apartments coming next week!
Who I used:
Expat-friendly rentals from Apts.jp: https://apts.jp/
This is NOT a sponsored video! Thanks to Jason and the team for letting me drag along a camera while we went apartment hunting. Let me know which one you liked so far!
- - - - - - - - D I S C O U N T S !!! - - - - - - - -
https://go.italki.com/kemushichan ← Japanese Learning on iTalki!
Click this for a discounted language lesson with the teacher of your choice. (You get a discount, and I get a commission!)
NINJA WIFI provider:
http://tinyurl.com/j9tc2fh
Cheap Pocket WiFi for your next trip in Japan. Link above gives you a discount at checkout!
JAPANESE STATIONERY
Discount code: KEMUSHI10 for 10% off your first stationery box with My Bungu Box
https://www.mybungubox.com/
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My Second Channel: https://tinyurl.com/yb88ob94
Me: https://www.youtube.com/user/kemushichan
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http://www.instagram.com/KemushiJP
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Yummy Japan - KemushiChan
5F, RKF-EBISU, 2-1-2, Ebisuminami, Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo, 150-0022, Japan
Business Inquiries:
Hello@KemushiChan.com
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Hi! My name is Loretta, a girl from the U.S. who moved to Japan! I moved to Japan on the MEXT scholarship and recently graduated with my MBA. Here are some answers to common questions:
1. Do I Speak Japanese? Yep! I was taught formally in High School and have been speaking now for over 15 years.
2. What University did you go to in Japan? I'm a recent grad of Yokohama National University's "Masters of Business Administration" Program
3. How old are you?: Year of the dragon. :D The math is up to you.
4. How did you get into Japanese school?: http://tinyurl.com/yb8yylch
5. What camera equipment do you use?: I film my videos with a Canon 60D using a 30mm Sigma Art Lens and I edit with Sony Vegas Pro 10 (with some help from photoshop). Additional cameras include GoPro Hero 7 Black and DJI Majic Air
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Featuring Music from the YouTube Audio Library
♪ American Vernacular
♪ Sour Apples
♪ Le Freak
♪ Jazz Apricot
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