Research- Survey Questionnaire

Survey questionnaire for the Chinese Dialect Preservation

-What's your Ancestry?

-Can you speak your own dialect?

-How well can you speak your own dialect?

-What is the highest level of education your parents have completed?

-Will you teach your next generation to speak your mother's tongue?

-Besides your mother's tongue, what other dialect do you speak?

-How frequent do you use your dialect in daily communication?

-Are you interested in learning the dialect, if you got the chance to learn?

-As a Chinese, do you think that dialect is important to us and it should be pass down to the next generation?

The Aesthetic value of Chinese dialect

Chinese dialects have more than 3000 years of history and are divided into mainly 4 types of that often speak by Malaysian Chinese are Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka and Teochew. These dialects came from our ancestor that came from different part of china, it is our mother tongue. We usually speak among family or friends, this would make our relation of friends and family getting closer, it would let us feel familiar. Nowadays Malaysian Chinese mainly are using lingua franca to communicate with people, and if we do not preserve we might lost it forever. Although using lingua franca is easier to communicate with but we lose our identity of Chinese. Most of the younger generation is not learning the dialects of their own, and their parents are not teaching them to speak.

Speaking of Chinese dialects is not just to get closer to people but it is also the Chinese culture. In Cantonese there are divided into 3 subgroup that is Guangfu, Sei Yap and Guangxi and it is a little different and this is the unique point of Chinese culture. Dialect is also history from china that preserved and circulated by our ancestry. Beside that Chinese dialects not just spoken by Chinese it also spoke by many races in Malaysia. In some of the country’s Chinese had lost their root of Chinese dialects and their surname also changed. In conclusion, if we do not preserve our dialects and hand down to our younger generation, we will lose our Chinese identity and culture. Chinese is not Chinese anymore if we do not speak our own dialect.

Justification of Research

I want to do this research because I want to promote the usage of Chinese dialect in Malaysia and to show the values to preserve and to pass down to the next generation.

New Proposal

Theme: Preservation

Topic

Communication – Malaysian-Chinese dialect

Speaking chinese dialect is a culture that represent Chinese in Malaysia. Chinese are usually communicate with each other in their own dialect. People feel that speaking in dialect will make the relation get closer. As the world changes, the practice was not passed down to the new generation and the culture of speaking own dialect are going to disappear. Most of the younger generation are not able to speak in their own dialect and they think that it is not important.

Objectives

My objective in this project is to preserve the chinese dialects in Malaysia which is going to disappeared. Encourage people to speak in their own dialect and learn about the important and the aesthetic value of these dialects.

Suggested Output

-Video

-Graphic Installation