In Xiamen - the hometown of the Hokkien dialect, the media has cried foul that the people there can no longer speak it.

在福建话的故乡——厦门，媒体惊呼：小厦门人已经不会讲厦门话了！

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more than once?when I was extremely disrespectful to my mother, my father angrily called me "garbage" in our native Hokkien dialect.

我年少之时，不止一次当我不尊重我的母亲时，我的父亲用我们闽南土语生气地叫我“垃圾”。

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Once when I was young--maybe more than once--when I was extremely disrespectful to my mother, my father angrily called me "garbage" in our native Hokkien dialect.

我小时候有一次——也许不止一次——对母亲非常不尊重，我父亲很生气地用我们的当地福建方言骂我“垃圾”。

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About a decade ago he opened a mall in Xiamen, China, not far from his ancestral home, taking advantage of his ties and the fact that he and all of his children are fluent in the Hokkien dialect, spoken in the Fujian province, where he was born.

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Money is in Hokkien - the earthy dialect of Singapore's street stalls and not something the crisply laundered members of the investing community are normally anxious to be associated with.

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