Mon, 10 October 2005 This is the first episode of My Taiwanese podcast Comments[12] |
Hi Jason,
I'm an American that's been living in Taiwan for 4 years. I live with a Taiwanese family here, and I just wanted to say thanks for your podcast! I've learned a little Taiwanese here, though I speak Mandarin MUCH better than Taiwanese. Anyway, thanks for the interesting topic, and I hope you keep improving!
I'm an American that's been living in Taiwan for 4 years. I live with a Taiwanese family here, and I just wanted to say thanks for your podcast! I've learned a little Taiwanese here, though I speak Mandarin MUCH better than Taiwanese. Anyway, thanks for the interesting topic, and I hope you keep improving!
Hi Katie!
How did you come to be living in Taiwan? Is it very different than the United States? I hope to visit Taiwan this summer.
I am working on Mandarin for fun also, but I am not putting in as much effort as I do for Taiwanese. I'm am trying to work through the Pimsleur audio lessons for Mandarin. Pimsleur is so great! I really wish they had Pimsleur Taiwanese.
I'm going to beg for Taiwanese Pimsleur periodically on my podcast.
Great to hear from you!
How did you come to be living in Taiwan? Is it very different than the United States? I hope to visit Taiwan this summer.
I am working on Mandarin for fun also, but I am not putting in as much effort as I do for Taiwanese. I'm am trying to work through the Pimsleur audio lessons for Mandarin. Pimsleur is so great! I really wish they had Pimsleur Taiwanese.
I'm going to beg for Taiwanese Pimsleur periodically on my podcast.
Great to hear from you!
posted by: jasonmcdowell on Tue, 10/11 12:19 PM EDT
Hi Jason. I'm a Taiwanese-American guy living in Japan. I was born in Taiwan and spoke Taiwanese as a child with my relatives there. When I moved to the States at the age of 4, I started to speak only Mandarin and English. My dad doesn't speak Taiwanese so my parents speak Mandarin with each other. Anyway, I just got back from a trip to Taiwan visiting family. It was nice to hear the language again since I don't have much chance to use it these days anyway. I picked up a nice Taiwanese learning book/CD set here in Japan that has phrases/vocabulary words in Mandarin, Japanese and Taiwanese. Probably not much use to most English-speaking listeners, but the recordings are quite useful. Anyway, if you need help with anything regarding Taiwanese or the podcast, let me know. keep up the good work
Hi Jason. I'm Taiwanese-American. When we were growing up, my parents insisted we speak Taiwanese at home, so I'm still able to converse for the most part. For anything beyond basic conversational topics (like politics or science, etc.), we always used English, so I can't claim full fluency :) But, I can appreciate your effort to try to learn Taiwanese. Many Chinese people, that speak only Mandarin, consider it hard to learn too, even though both are tonal languages and Taiwanese is essentially just a dialect.
Good luck on your studies.
Good luck on your studies.
Hi Jason,
Does your girlfriend recommend you learn Mandarin or Taiwanese first? Mandarin is so much more useful, I would think you should be spending more time on Mandarin than Taiwanese (unless her family is very political, then you may just have to suck it up). Putting so much emphasis on Taiwanese is like some Taiwanese guy dating an American girl named Maria Cassidy Sanchez from California, but then putting all his effort into learning Spanish instead of English.
Does your girlfriend recommend you learn Mandarin or Taiwanese first? Mandarin is so much more useful, I would think you should be spending more time on Mandarin than Taiwanese (unless her family is very political, then you may just have to suck it up). Putting so much emphasis on Taiwanese is like some Taiwanese guy dating an American girl named Maria Cassidy Sanchez from California, but then putting all his effort into learning Spanish instead of English.
Dear Jason,
I appreciated your Taiwanese language podcast. You put in alot of time and it was very interesting. I am looking forward to episode 2. I hope you continue. I am living in Xiamen China and also learning Minanwei. I think its such a wonderful language and hope it can be preserved and transferred to the next generation.
Sincerely, James Cummings
I appreciated your Taiwanese language podcast. You put in alot of time and it was very interesting. I am looking forward to episode 2. I hope you continue. I am living in Xiamen China and also learning Minanwei. I think its such a wonderful language and hope it can be preserved and transferred to the next generation.
Sincerely, James Cummings
I just listened to your first podcast on Taiwanese and enjoyed it a lot. My girlfriend of 6 years speaks Fujianese as her mother tongue but I didn't know a single word until I learned to say hello and good-bye in your podcast. It's not that I had no interest in her language but she is also my Mandarin teacher so we focus on that. In any case, I hope your lessons help some so I can surprise her and her family some day.
posted by: Beirne on Sun, 11/6 05:50 PM EST
Hi there!
I haven't worked on my Taiwanese stuff for a few weeks (which is ironic because I think about it every day) because I am worrying about trying to transfer into UCI. I was supposed to have a "yes" or a "no" answer from them already but I haven't yet. I can't concentrate on anything until I know about schools! At least they haven't told me no.
My girlfriend has a complicated language situation. Her family speaks Taiwanese at home. She is now best in English since all her higher education is in English although she took instruction for grades 1-6 in Mandarin. Once, before I could distinguish between Taiwanese and Mandarin and she was talking to her mom, I guessed she was speaking Mandarin. She replied to me, "Why would I speak Mandarin to my Mom?!"
I want to learn Mandarin too... but it isn't as useful to me as Taiwanese. All the people I know who I want to talk to in Taiwanese/Mandarin speak Taiwanese. Hopefully I can gain eventual fluency in both!
I haven't worked on my Taiwanese stuff for a few weeks (which is ironic because I think about it every day) because I am worrying about trying to transfer into UCI. I was supposed to have a "yes" or a "no" answer from them already but I haven't yet. I can't concentrate on anything until I know about schools! At least they haven't told me no.
My girlfriend has a complicated language situation. Her family speaks Taiwanese at home. She is now best in English since all her higher education is in English although she took instruction for grades 1-6 in Mandarin. Once, before I could distinguish between Taiwanese and Mandarin and she was talking to her mom, I guessed she was speaking Mandarin. She replied to me, "Why would I speak Mandarin to my Mom?!"
I want to learn Mandarin too... but it isn't as useful to me as Taiwanese. All the people I know who I want to talk to in Taiwanese/Mandarin speak Taiwanese. Hopefully I can gain eventual fluency in both!
Hi Jason, I came across your podcast by accident. I just wanted to say thanks. Can you post the names of the books you mentioned in the beginning of your podcast? Is the De-Cal reader available for purchase by non Berkeley students?
I'm sorry you haven't heard from UCI yet, but as a Cal student they'd be lucky to have you :) Good Luck!
I'm sorry you haven't heard from UCI yet, but as a Cal student they'd be lucky to have you :) Good Luck!
Hi Jason,
Your Taiwanese podcast is very interesting. I am a Taiwanese but I can't speak Taiwanese. Could you believe that?
You may know that there are two groups of Taiwanese in Taiwan; couple decades ago, some Chinese come to Taiwan from mainland China, and this group mainly speaks Mandarin. I am the offspring of this group. Six years ago, I came to the States for my Ph.D, and I met my wife who speaks fluent Taiwanese. Her family all speaks Taiwanese. I also would like to learn the Taiwanese. I am currently based on Philly. It is very interesting for a "fake" Taiwanese that in an English speaking country, listening to the podcast and learning Taiwanese.
Please keep doing good job!
Sincerely,
Ken
Your Taiwanese podcast is very interesting. I am a Taiwanese but I can't speak Taiwanese. Could you believe that?
You may know that there are two groups of Taiwanese in Taiwan; couple decades ago, some Chinese come to Taiwan from mainland China, and this group mainly speaks Mandarin. I am the offspring of this group. Six years ago, I came to the States for my Ph.D, and I met my wife who speaks fluent Taiwanese. Her family all speaks Taiwanese. I also would like to learn the Taiwanese. I am currently based on Philly. It is very interesting for a "fake" Taiwanese that in an English speaking country, listening to the podcast and learning Taiwanese.
Please keep doing good job!
Sincerely,
Ken
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