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lianbeng is hokkien lang lah but used to live with teochew community since kindergarten lah.
teochew nang tend to speak at higher pitch than hokkien lang lah.
teochew nang1 and hokkien lang2 - see the diff?
As in my earlier posting, I've already pointed out that Teochew city was actually in Hokkien province until gerrymandered into Canton province. Yes, no shit, gerrymandering wasn't invented by PAP for political and defense purposes. Teowchew dialect is cousin of Hokkien dialect, not Cantonese. Both used almost the same tones and characters except some difference in pronunciation.
If you've been to Fujian (Hokkien) or Taiwan before, both are almost equally soft-pitched and smooth, with Hokkien having the slighter cruder edge. The ultimately crude Hokkien tone and vulgarity evolved as Hokkiens migrated south seas and particularly in Singapore, it evolved into the hardest edged and crudest and most vulgar dialect or language the world has ever heard.