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INTRODUCTORY.


SECTION. 1.

Study the preface, and master the tones. Without a thorough knowledge of these, the student will never become a good speaker of the Amoy dialect.


SECTION. 2.

我 Góa, I, me.

爾 Li, You, thou.

你們 Lín, Ye, you.

他 I, He, she, it, him, her.

咱們 Lán, 我們 Goán, We, us.

他們 Ín, They, them.

俱各 Lóng-tsóng, 衆 Tsèng, All.

各個 Ta̍k-ê Each, every.

有 Ū, Have, yes.

要 Beh, Will. (Sign of fuure.)

欲 Aì, Desire, wish.

來 Lâi, Come.

去 Khì, Go.

使 Chhe, Send, (a person.)

呌 Kiò, Call.

無 Bô, Not, no, not any.

不 M̄, Won't, unwilling.