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channamasala -
Cantonese: 0%
Hakka: 5%
Taiwanese: improving by the day. 10%?
I've found with Taiwanese that when I hear it, I have no idea what the actual words the person is
saying are. However, if I just sort of sit back and let my ears do the thinking, I start to
understand the general gist of what the speaker is saying...while continuing to not understand the
individual words. Odd.
This happened in Jingtong a few months ago; we went hiking up Shulongjian and the two dogs that
the owners of our hotel had followed us up, then disappeared. On the way back we asked an old lady
if she'd seen the two dogs. She talked for about 45 seconds in Taiwanese.
"What did she say?" asks my boyfriend.
"That the dogs came by about an hour ago and headed home."
"So you understood what she said?!"
"Not really."
A lot of Taiwanese is very similar to Mandarin ("wah bu ei hiang dai yi" should be a phrase any
decent speaker of Mandarin would understand)...and a lot of it is really, really not.
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geek_frappa -
Hakka: 5%
Teochew: 15%
Taiwanese: 80% (from reference point of fujianhua)
Kaimei -
Hakka:
20%
ChaoZhou:
5%
Minan/Taiwanese:
10%
All the southern speech,so strange~
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