taiwanese
Taiwanese
Taiwanese
Essays
How to Forget your Mother Tongue and Remember your National Language
- A very interesting article about Taiwanese and its relationship with Mandarin.
- Information on Taiwanese phonology, grammar, relationship with other Chinese languages, scripts etc.
- Information on the language and its script.
- Information on learning the languages and lots of useful links.
Online Resources for Taiwanese Learning
- Several sites the author found useful when studying Taiwanese themselves.
Courses
Maryknoll Language Service Centre Available in English, Chinese, Spanish, Korean and Vietnamese
- Taiwanese textbooks with audio CDs and other language study books are available to those living in Taiwan, you only need to cover the printing and delivery costs. Well reviewed and thorough books, although some of the vocabulary is specific to the Christian religion.
Khaosiung Municipal Taiwanese Only available in Chinese
- A great course with audio and many lessons. Very useful if you can read traditional Chinese.
Websites
Glossika Taiwanese by James Campbell
- Gives basic information on pronunciation and tones.
- Information on Taiwanese, different scripts used to write it and book recommendations for learning Taiwanese.
21st Century Taiwanese Language & Art
- Information on Taiwanese, sentences, tutorials, basic phrases, grammar, vocab etc. A useful site with lots of resources. Note: Not all links work.
University of Berkley Taiwanese Audio
- Mp3 files with Taiwanese pronunciation, tones and vocabulary from the university classes.
- Useful words and phrases for travellers.
Introduction to Holok, a Taiwanese Language
- Grammatical information and vocab for Taiwanese.
Introduction to Modern Taiwanese Language
- Lots of information on Taiwanese sounds and tones. Available in traditional Chinese or English.
- A Chinese site with Taiwanese nursery rhymes and audio.
- Audio stories in seven Chinese languages, including Xiamen Min. 32 different versions are available in Xiamen Min with Chinese character transcripts. Useful for listening to authentic speech.
Learn Southern Min (Taiwanese/Hokkien)
- 40+ videos teaching tones, pronunciation and business Taiwanese through dialogues. Great resource.
Mandarin - Taiwanese - Hakka phrases, Good morning
- A collection of phrases in 3 Chinese languages written with Hanyu Pinyin and Campbell Universal Pinyin and hanzi.
E-books
Basic Sandhi Rule & Short Stories by Prof. K-H Liim, 1990
- An extract from a textbook with romanised Taiwanese, pictures and audio.
Podcasts
- One long podcast convering the author's experiences learning Taiwanese, resources for learning, linguistics, phrases, culture etc.
Blogs
- Posts on news items of interest to Taiwanese learners.
Intermediate Taiwanese Grammar by Matthew O'Connor
- Lots of useful info, with a dictionary of useful grammatical words in Taiwanese.
Made in Taiwan by Matthew O'Connor
- A blog with Taiwanese vocabulary thematically arranged.
- A very in-depth blog about Taiwanese and language education in Taiwan.
- Lots of interesting articles on Taiwanese in the news.
Forums
Hokkien (Minnan) Language Forum
- An active forum for discussing the Minnan languages and dialects.
- The huge Chinese Forums has a section devoted to Non-Mandarin Chinese. Try searching to find Taiwanese relevant threads.
Authentic Material
- Minnan wikipedia with more than 8,000 articles. Written in Pe̍h-ōe-jī.
Technical
FireDictionary: Taiwanese-English
- A pop-up dictionary that works as a sidebar in Firefox. Parses Taiwanese characters and Pe̍h-ōe-jī.
台 文/華文線頂辭典, 當代泉州音字彙, 當代泉州音字彙, 台語線頂字典
- Various Taiwanese-Mandarin and Taiwanese characters-romanization dictionaries.
- A useful tool for inputting Taiwanese on your computer.
- Lots of information on POJ (Pe̍h-ōe-jī), a popular romanization script used for writing Taiwanese.
Note: I have found it difficult to find Taiwanese resources as I can't read Chinese. If anyone can read Chinese and would like to help me out or know of any Taiwanese links in Chinese please e-mail me.