HOKKIEN

GSCE 'O' LEVELS HOKKIEN EXAM PAPER

Instructions :
1 Read the passage carefully
2 Grade yourself at the end with the grading system provided at the end of the passage
3 Not that difficult, CHIN CHAI DO LAH!


SECTION A : ORRLLER EXEMINETION (oral examination)


Question: Singellela why become rich?


Koo zhar wu chee kai char bor kia, Singellela. (long long time ago there was a girl called singellela)

She got two sisters, but the stepmarder and the sisters all damn kuai-lan, so she quite zhia lat(gone case) oso.

Last time, Singellela got own maid but now she is the amah.

Everyday must cook lah, clean lah, simi sai mah bao kao liao. (what shit also do)

If her sister say liak kar zhuak, she liak. ( if the sister says catch cockraoach she catch)

CPF pun boh ( no cpf money also)

But then, kek piak got one ah pek got one son call Ah MIng got party. ( next door got one old man's son got party )

Singellela very happy caus enever go party b4. But, her stepmarder say, "Le mana eh sai kerh?, this one baru lu eh sister wu standard". ( how can you go? this one only ur sisters got standard)

So Singellela have to help sisters and stepmarder.

Tap pai hoh, buay chiak, buay koon, and buay pang-sai. ( everyday ah, Singellela no eat, no bathe and no shit)

That night, they all go except Singellela. She stay at home cook maggi mee. Her neighbour ask her, "eh why lu boh kerh party?" ( why you didnt go party?)

Singellela say, "i wan but lao bu kong buay sai, boh pian". ( i want but marder dont let so no choice"

Aiyah her neighbour says , kerh la i give u money. (go la i give u money to go )

so singellela brush teef and zhang zhui, cheng kor after that look very different. ( she brushed teeth, bathed and wore pants)

at the party, ah ming ver sien because all the char bor all boh sui wan ( ah ming bored cause all the girls not pretty)

dance floor also got one ah pek dancing.

Just as ah ming told himself, aiyah zhe pai zhia lat, ( thie time die la) singellela came in.

Ah MIng straight away lau nuar ( drool)

Ah MIng say to Singellela, 'I wan kak le zhuo flen" ( iwan to friend you)

Singellela say ok but this Ah ming liek octopus, here touch, there touch.

At 12 oclock, one ah pek died on the dance floor. He bocome ghost and tell Singellela all the good 4d numbers.

So after that, Singellela buy and become rich. VERY RICH!

So she pay back the neighbour and zhuo sen lee. ( she did her own business)

simi sen lee wa mana ey zhai? ( what business how I know??)


SECTION B

GRADES - GAUGE YOUR COMMAND OF HOKKIEN

A1, can understand the story and pronounce Hokkien correctly.
-Hokkien ey sai (Hokkien okay)

A2, can understand half story / or cannot pronounce Hokkien properly
-zhia lat(die la)

E8, dont understand story or catch no ball
- leow leow, mai kong le si Hokkien nang. ( die die also dont tell people you are Hokkien person)

F9, dont understand at all
- kerh see la. wah mana zhai le kong simi? (GO DIE LA, HOW I KNOW WHAT ARE YOU?)




p/s
the actual passage does not consist of the bracketed parts. Its just to help some of you who don't understand at all.



- to bananas! may they be yellow always ( in a good way lah)-