Why??
"Dialects are useless, what can you do with it?"
That is what some may say. Actually, dialects are not useless. Instead, they are actually useful!
How??
How is it useful? The answer? Many ways.
1. Culture
2. Interaction
3. 活到老,学到老。
That is what some may say. Actually, dialects are not useless. Instead, they are actually useful!
How??
How is it useful? The answer? Many ways.
1. Culture
- Knowing your own culture is equivalent to knowing yourself. By learning dialects, you can learn your culture, and that is equal to learning yourself and your history!
2. Interaction
- Who to interact with? Many people. Your grandparents, relatives, or even your parents? Some people's grandparents, especially those of our generations, only know how to speak dialect and not other languages and by knowing dialects, you can interact more with them and won't that be interesting?
- Most importantly, you get to use it in your Community Involvement Programme (CIP) so that you can make your CIP activity more fun and meaningful as you not only able to understand what the elderly say, you get to converse with them to understand them and help them!
3. 活到老,学到老。
- But, we are still so young!
- No, you are not too young to start learning anything. Everybody is intelligent. So, why not start learning dialects? Learning dialects will also make you understand more about Chinese history through their vocabularies!
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