living in new zealand requires me to continuously learn and adapt to social customs and practices, and by doing so, have make me practice things quite different that what i was brought up with, and that includes speaking one hell lot of english, little mandarin, and almost no hokkien.

to be honest, i feel like myself when im speaking hokkien, and i miss speaking it. and here at NZ, how am i suppose to find a hokkien speaker? i do know some, but as they are doing the same thing as i am (learning and adapting), they worry that speaking in hokkine might result in their English going backwards. so where and who did i turned to to fulfill that desire to speak/listen to hokkien?

Penang Hokkien. just as its title suggests, its a weekly podcast in entirely Penang style hokkien. almost im from terengganu and i speak a version of hokkien that might be quite weird to penang folks, but i enjoy listening to it. especially when i work 7am in the morning on mondays. topics discussed could range from social situations, to life experiences (eg. wash clothes, being cheated by bad businessman, your favourite teacher at school).

the host for the show is a Malaysian currently living in US, in the name of John Ong. his guest speakers are mostly penang folks, either still living at Malaysia, or is expats overseas.

the webpage for the podcast is at http://www.penanghokkien.com . if you have any gadgets from Apple, the podcast is downloadable from iTunes for free.

check it out!