September 14, 2026
Today I've added entries for two very important holidays that my family celebrates. One of them is cheng1 meng5, which is Tomb Sweeping day. (And I've added cheng1, which means clear, since that's part of the name for the holiday) I've also added chek8 ghueh(4) buan3, which literally translates to "7 month half", but I've recently learned that it's the Hungry Ghost Festival.
I'll admit that I'm normally not around family during these holidays, but this year, I was able to visit my mom's family during Cheng Meng, and I celebrated Chek Ghueh Buan with my dad's family (though we observed it a little early so the whole family could be there). I feel like I still don't really understand what you're supposed to do during these events, except pray and offer things to our ancestors. We always pray during holidays. I'd like to add more information about these holidays on this site, but I still need to learn more!
September 12, 2026
Today I added two slang words, one for "police", and one for "penis", just because they're words I know that I haven't added yet. I think they both have translations that are not slang, but this is what I grew up using!
I know penis is kind of a vulgar word, so I made it so it doesn't show up on the flashcards. I actually have a bunch of words on the site that aren't part of the flashcards, but you can still search for them. I mainly do this for more grammar-y words that I feel need more context. I also have a bunch of words that I've hidden because I added them many many years ago, and when I came back to the site in 2022, I completely forgot them. So I've been slowly going through the process of re-learning and un-hiding these words again.
September 11, 2026
Last week I got a most exciting package in the mail. I didn't actually know how to say "I received..." so I asked Soy Go about it, and now the translation for "to receive" has been added to this site! When I was watching Dear You, I actually recognized when one of the characters said ua2 siu1 dioh4 to mean "I got it", referring to getting a package in the mail.
I also added the translation for the word "cleaver", because I was thinking about needing to use my cleaver for something. What is that something? Keep tuning in, and maybe you'll find out!
September 10, 2026
Today I added the word hi1 mo7 希望, which my aunt told me means "hopefully". When I looked it up on What Teochew Say, they said it means "to hope", and Wiktionary said it also means "hope", to be used as a noun. Of course all of these things feel like the same meaning to me.
One of the things that I decided early on in making this site was that I wasn't going to bother with classifying every word by part of speech. It just felt unnecessary, and many words can be used as different parts of speech! Like how mang7 夢 can mean "dream" or it can mean "to dream".
September 9, 2026
I watched Dear You on Monday! I really enjoyed it, and I understood a lot more than I expected to. I still absolutely needed the English subtitles, but there were a lot of lines that I just understood on my own. (This is way better than when I watched Proud of Me, where I felt like I understood maybe 5 lines in the whole movie)
I also watched Hey, Houlai! and it was really silly with your typical Chinese humor, which I actually quite enjoyed. There is one scene where the villagers all start fighting with each other and one of the older men shouts "mai sio pah!", and it made me realize that I didn't have the translation for "fight" on my website yet. So that's been added.
And I also added one other word. I was talking to my aunt last week and I told her it was storming a lot, and she mentioned pak8 (hail), which was new to me!
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