The Teochew Store Blog / UK
Not Quite As Easy As ABC
Finding the proper Teochew terms to help 3-year-olds pick up a basic vocabulary in the Teochew language is surely as easy as ABC.
This was what we told ourselves when we set out to create Wa Si Teochew Kia—My First 120 Teochew Expressions Multimedia Flashcards 精选一百二十潮语词语》- 多媒体早教图卡), a set of educational flashcards with animated videos developed specially for babies and toddlers to learn their mother tongue together with their parents.
Then, we came to the word "mother"... Read more about some of the challenging decisions we faced in conceptalising and designing The Teochew Store’s first in-house product, which we realised through the generous funding of more than 100 backers from 14 different countries on Kickstarter last year. 
Wa Si Teochew Kia – My First 120 Teochew Expressions: Kickstarter Campaign Update 6
此时此刻，我们的喜悦无法用言语形容！从项目策划，到词汇考究，再到绘图、图卡和视频制作，以及Kickstarter众筹页面和礼品的筹备，还有后期宣传……在要兼顾本职工作的情况下，我们这个小团队用了将近四个月的时间走到了今天这一步，实属不易。
Wa Si Teochew Kia – My First 120 Teochew Expressions: Kickstarter Campaign Update 4
We are grateful to Jeunes Teochew de France for helping promote Wa Si Teochew Kia – My First 120 Teochew Expressions in the French language on Instagram, as well as Singapore TeoChew Nang SG and Learn-Teochew for kind their assistance on supporting this project on Facebook. They are all actively promoting our Teochew culture and language, so do “like” and follow their accounts as well.
潮舗非常感谢Jeunes Teochew de France (法國青年潮州人) 用法语在Instagram宣传我们的项目——《我是潮州囝——精选一百二十潮语词语》。我们也非常感谢 Singapore TeoChew Nang SG 与 Learn-Teochew 在Facebook为我们的项目做宣传。他们一直在热诚地发扬和分享潮州文化及语言，请大家一起”点赞”并订阅他们的页面。
In recent days, we received our first backings from Thailand, Switzerland and Germany. Because of everyone’s support, we have crossed the 90% mark of our crowdfunding (yeah!).
近日，我们还收到了来自泰国、瑞士和德国的第一份捐款。因为大家的踊跃支持，我们目前已经达到90%的筹款目标。（开心！）
Continue to help us bring this project to life. Please click here.
请大家继续支持我们，一起实现这个项目，谢谢！请点击这里。
Wa Si Teochew Kia – My First 120 Teochew Expressions: Kickstarter Campaign Update 3
我们原计划在达到筹款目标的50%时为您更新进度。但想不到因为大家的踊跃支持，目前我们已经达到目标的三分之二！我们感谢来自新加坡、美国、澳洲、英国、加拿大、香港、法国与丹麦等地的募捐者，以及通过社交媒体和口头宣传，帮忙推荐这个项目的朋友。
Wa Si Teochew Kia – My First 120 Teochew Expressions: Kickstarter Campaign Update 2
《我是潮州囝——精选一百二十潮语词语》已经入选Kickstarter「我们喜爱的专案」。他们将在Kickstarter全站推荐我们的宣传活动。这是一个很大的鼓励！
Wa Si Teochew Kia – My First 120 Teochew Expressions: Kickstarter Campaign Update 1
We are heartened to share that we have crossed the 20% mark of our crowdfunding, even though we are less than 48 hours into the campaign. Many thanks to our backers, who come from Singapore, the USA, Australia and the UK.
《我是潮州囝——精选一百二十潮语词语》多媒体早教卡的筹款活动启动不到48小时的时间里，我们已经达到筹款目标的20%以上。在此跟大家分享这个好消息，并感谢来自新加坡、美国、澳洲和英国的捐款者，以及热心为本项目宣传的家己人们。
Old Book on the Shelf: Elementary Lessons in the Swatow Dialect with a Vocabulary referring to Dr Douglas' Dictionary of the Amoy Vernacular
This book is a rare find, and a very useful one too.
Elementary Lessons in the Swatow Dialect [i.e. Teochew] is an unpublished reprint of Herbert Allen Giles’ Handbook of the Swatow Dialect, done by “J.C.G.” for private use in Swatow in 1881.
The book mainly teaches English speakers how to speak essential Teochew simple phrases and sentences.
Learn Diosua Ue with Juyee 和如意學潮汕話
A fellow Teochew in the UK is running a blog, Learn Diosua Ue with Juyee 和如意學潮汕話, since 2013 to help English speakers learn and appreciate our mother tongue. Her name, you guessed it, is Juyee 如意.
Juyee's blog is at learnteochewwithjuyee.blogspot.com
Juyee grew up speaking English and picked up Teochew, both speaking, reading, writing only as an adult. The Teochew Store recently spoke with her to find out more about her blog and her personal experiences in becoming fluent in our language, a formidable task for many of us!