Oi!

took the bean up to singers on a week-long trip to see her po po and gong gong and instead of picking up some useful mandarin words or phrases, she's ended up with teochew colloquialisms!

to be precise, when she calls out to her po po, she expects her grandma to say, "oi!" instead of "yes!"; in turn, she will reply with an "oi!" if one of her grandparents calls out her name.

she's also, sometimes, taken to putting 'suffixes' at the end of noun or verb words. e.g. "put-na", "there-na", "on-na", "phone-na", which is a very teochew way of speaking.

...unfortunately, she hasn't really learnt any proper teochew words.