Tan Choon Hoe: Penang Hokkien Books

Tan Choon Hoe is the author of four books on Penang Hokkien. He is credited as being the person to attempt teaching the language in printed form in recent times. He began writing those books in 2000, and published the first in 2001. Since then, his first book, originally entitled Learn to Speak Penang Hokkien Dialect, has undergone six print run, and as regarded as a local bestseller. In addition, Mr Tan has also produced three other books in Penang Hokkien, one of which to teach the language in Malay.

In addition to the books, Tan Choon Hoe is also credited with started Hokkien classes at the YMCA, where he taught for some time before he had to pass the class to another teacher due to lack of time. The classes are still continuing till this day.

I have had the privilege of getting to know Tan Choon Hoe after I began working on my romanization system. After we got to know each other, we began embarking on re-writing Mr Tan's books using the new romanization system, which we hope to be completed one day in the future.

In the following videos, I have recorded Tan Choon Hoe has he personally speaks about his books.

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