Category archive: Taiwanese Hokkien (台語)
COCKROACH ALERT!
OMG! A COCKROACH JUST CRAWLED ON MY COMPUTER! TAIPEI, THIS IS WAR! EEEEEEEW! I squashed it, mercilessly with toilet paper, but now I’m plagued with the fear that a gigantic army of cockroaches is going to attack me in my sleep. It’s a revenge driven plot and I’m totally imagining the movie trailer, with a…
On Studying Taiwanese Hokkien (台語)
The other week I started studying Taiwanese Hokkien (台語) at Maryknoll’s Language Service Center in Taipei. I highly recommend their teachers. Although church romanization is extremely painful and confusing to pick up, the teachers all have around 20 years of experience in teaching Taiwanese and are excellent at drilling proper pronunciation and tones into you….
