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Recently I started interacting more with a work colleague from Taiwan. Until now I have mainly talked with Chinese from mainland, and it is interesting now to see the many differences between Chinese spoken in China and Taiwan. One expression she recently taught me is that 大陆人 means 骂人. Has anyone else heard of this expression used like this? (The sentence she said was 哈哈你刚刚是大陆人吗）

I just discovered this website from NTNU: TaiGiddy, a gamified beginner Taiwanese learning resource. Looks like the "guidebook" sections are broken, but the interactive learning sections work just fine - I've completed the first unit and am working through the second unit.

Just thought I'd share a potentially helpful resource - I have no affiliation with TaiGiddy or NTNU.

Screenshot of an example exercise from the second unit - it's been really useful for helping me identify tones and remember tone change rules.

Hello everyone. I am working on a project to create free online textbooks/courses that are easily accessible, modernized, thorough, and easy to follow. I am just into languages as a hobby and am very passionate about advocating for local and regional languages. If you can help me and are interested, please let me know. Thank you!

I've been taking the Taiwanese classes on LTL Flexi and I'm going to finish all their classes in a month or two. That's only going to be at the A1 level though. I will ask my teacher if she'd offer classes outside of LTL Flexi, but I'm also looking at options on Italki. I definitely want to focus on the conversational skills, but I'd also like some written materials for review.

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Has anyone taken classes with teachers on Italki? If so, how have your experiences been? Who would you recommend?

I don't really know much about Taiwanese Hokkien, but I've been listening to some Hokkien songs like 請你不通嫌棄我 and 你甘拢袂不甘, and they seem to pronounce 這個 like [t͡ɕi ɾe] instead of [t͡ɕit̚ e] and 一個人 like [t͡ɕi ɾe ɾaŋ] instead of [t͡ɕit̚ e ɾaŋ]. It's kind of like Korean where the ending consonant gets attached to the beginning of the next syllable if it starts with a vowel: 발음 [pal ɯm] -> [pa ɾɯm].

Has this phenomenon been discussed before in Hokkien? What would this kind of phenomenon be called?

i'm part taiwanese myself and can only speak mandarin, cantonese and english. i can't really speak to relatives since most of them are either too distant, dead, or never learnt how to speak taiwanese, so i'm turning here for advice on how to practice and keep learning it.

i'm not in taiwan at the moment, but i go back quite often if that helps.

Can anyone explain the 6th tone in Hokkien to me? It seems that most dialects today don't use it and it's difficult to find information about it online.

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I read and speak Mandarin but novice at Taiwanese Hokkien. I use Glossika but I don't like their manner of recording and repetition. I just want to memorize words on word list.

Is there any site for that or any site that is intended for total beginners?

Is it uē or uā? I know the former generally is more common throughout Taiwan, but I’m wondering what’s more common in Yilan

It was at this link, but has been dead for a few weeks:

http://ip194097.ntcu.edu.tw/TG/jitian/tgjt.asp

Here was an alternative query page:

http://ip194097.ntcu.edu.tw/q/q.asp

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I already have the PDFs of books 1-3, but I can’t seem to find the accompanying audio files anywhere. I’ve heard that Maryknoll’s email address has been inactive for a while and wanted to check here first in case anyone was willing to help out. Alternatively, does anyone know where I can find the files online? Thanks!

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I’ve been struggling to find any audio of how to pronounce this word, all I have is it spelled out phonetically as kôe-chiap but want to make sure I’m saying it right if someone wouldn’t mind sharing a clip of how it’s pronounced. Thanks so much in advance!

Can someone use english words to help me sound kiông-pak out?

I'm having problems trying to pronounce this "tiau-nih thau gu" part.

Can someone help me?