Re: Learning Hakka

[sllee <sllee@asiawind.com>]

Dear Leanne,

You can find some sources for learning Hakka on my website. You might have to be
able to read Chinese to find bookstores that sell Hakka tapes and books. Hakka
dialect is not a dead language, but I agree it is not the language on the rise.
Please see the discussions on this topic in the forum (access from my website).
You can join the discussion by writing to the Cc addresses. Thanks for your
interest.

SL Lee, PhD
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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Leanne Ralya-Eleff wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I found your web page, and I have a question that perhaps you can
> answer.  My grandmother is Hakka and so speaks Hakka. I would love to
> learn it to speak with her, however, I live in Phoenix, Arizona and I
> can't seem to find anyplace locally that teaches it.  I'm wondering
> which would be more beneficial for me to learn, Mandarin or Cantonese,
> based on the fact that both might be locally available (especially
> Mandarin).  It looks like there are similarities and differences with
> both.  My uncle told me that if I learned Mandarin, I would at least
> be able to understand Hakka, if not speak it.  Is that true?
> 
> My uncle also told me that Hakka is a dead language, but I saw
> statistics that say it is still spoken by 37 million people.  What is
> the truth here?
> 
> Any thoughts you have are greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Leanne Ralya-Eleff
>