4/2/2020 Reflection

We learnt about different animals and food in Hokkien. We can simply ask how much food one is going to eat by saying ‘li eh sai jia kway bao’ which directly translates to how many packets you want to eat. The youtuber introduced ‘si ka zua’ as lizard however we learnt that this term is actually monitor lizard while lizard is actually ‘ji leng’ which stands for a kind of dragon. I did not expect that some of the Hokkien words for the animals sound similar to their actual sounds they emit. For example, ‘gu’ for cow sounds like its moo sound.