Speaking in Hokkien and Mandarin at an anniversary dinner of the Singapore Ann Kway Association, he said even if dialects do not have much commercial value, they can still bring people closer ...

Some historians say that the mandarin-tossing tradition likely began in Penang by the Hokkien Chinese during the early 19th century, and it was linked to romance. Young maidens back in the day ...

My grandmother speaks most comfortably in Hokkien, a Chinese dialect, and knows how to speak in Mandarin. She can also manage a smattering of English, Malay and other Chinese dialects. I ...

There is very little recorded data translating Hokkien to English either, and professional human translators are scarce. To work around this, Meta used written Mandarin as an intermediary between ...

ACTIVISTS and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) must help promote Hokkien to the younger generation, said caretaker Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow. “The success in promoting Mandarin ...

This is a difficult task since, unlike Mandarin, English, and Spanish, which are both written and oral, Hokkien is predominantly verbal. Meta says that today’s AI translation models are focused ...

“We leveraged Mandarin as an intermediate language to build pseudo-labels, where we first translated English (or Hokkien) speech to Mandarin text, and we then translated to Hokkien (or ...

Every time I open Facebook on my phone, Ah Huat Hokkien Prawn Mee seems to pop up without fail in the ‘Hokkien Mee Hunting‘ group. Although the stall has been open for at least 1.5 months, it’s ...

The 55-year-old businessman said he picked up Mandarin and Hokkien from his neighbours and friends at a very young age. “There are more Indians in the constituency now, but when I was growing up ...

For Peng-Jen Chen, a Meta AI researcher, this particularly hit home because he grew up in Taiwan speaking Mandarin Chinese, but his father spoke Taiwanese Hokkien. Although speakers of the two ...

The awards celebrate not only Mandopop but also artists singing in Taiwanese - also known as Hokkien - Hakka and ... to promote tongues other than Mandarin. Sign up here. While Mandarin remains ...