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"What have you learned about Taiwan using/learning Taiwanese that you wouldn't have learned in Mandarin?" As a Taiwanese person, I would say it's the red pill. Learning Taiwanese made me realize that my parents' fluency in Taiwanese isn't just a skill; it's their identity, something I should have inherited. Yet I belong to the Mandarin-washed generation. Coming to terms with the fact that I've been living in a colonial state (ROC) was both painful and enlightening. It forced me to confront the inaccuracies in some of my impressions about Taiwan. The journey of learning Taiwanese, and the enlightenment that came with understanding colonization, urged me to look deeper into the history of my homeland.

Just a note that the syllable-final stops in Hokkien only became glottal after *a.

and it doubles as the basis of all IKEA product names

The way you explain literary vs colloquial readings of Taiwanese and code-mixing with Mandarin makes it sound like they're secretly speaking 3 languages at the same time and it takes a native speaker's upbringing to know the conventions of which reading to use in which context... Wait that sounds a bit familiar with another trilingual culture I know!

This is SO bad!!! I'd say his small audience left gan focail amháin.

2 безумные вещи за первые 3 минуты: 1) лектор путает (дважды!) праславянский (предок всех славянских языков) и старославянский (сугубо литературный язык основанный на солунском диалекте древнеболгарского). 2. "В Украину пришли Кирилл и Мефодий" - это просто треш. Нет, не приходили. И они вообще не имеют отношения к украинскому или к любому живому языку, а только к изобретению первой славянской письменности, потомком которой уже в XVIII-м веке стал литературный украинский. Просто кошмар, дальше моих сил смотреть это нет.

Je me suis inscrite à ce mooc ! J'espère arriver au bout et maîtriser les pictogrammes ! Bonjour de La Réunion !

too much anglo biased information

Terrible sound.

Ja rozumiem medžuslovjanski

GERMAN!

La imagine degli gesti che è la piú importante rimane piccola, no si vede bene. O chissá non ho saputo ingrandirla

Ego parade and in so many languages, oh my😂

They can teach us a lot by challenging us to prompt them for better conversations 😂

Fano ha una provincia? 😁

Piccola correzione, non è provincia di Fano, ma di Pesaro

Hvala za video!

The 10 secrets to help you learn any language like never before! - Elisa Polese: 1. Spend at least 5-10 minutes a day practicing the language you want to learn. 2. Practice the skill you want to improve. 3. Use all the languages you are learning. 4. Do what you love. 5. Focus on the right things (Future and past tenses and useful language). 6. Create a routine and stick to it. 7. Treat yourself kindly. 8. Focus on small, reachable goals instead of the destination. 9. Balance between accuracy and fluency (Focus on one at a time). 10. When learning multiple languages focus on differences.

Ausgezeichnet!

Desesperante ver el contesto...

I love you Elisa!!

Your advices are always useful Elisa, thanks !

It's also a fantastic presentation and I'll reference this while speaking with my daughter.

Señor your voice sounds exactly like René Auberjonois. Even the cadence.

Adygebzetš'o Cyrillic, as in Cyril, rhymes with squrrel Ĉirilica

Nice video.

10:16 The Malagasy pronunciation is very accurate. I'm particularly impressed by how he nailed "efatra" with the stress on the penultimate syllable and muted last syllable. That's how native Malagasy pronounce it.

31:58 Mongolian is probably the most famous language with the Welsh LL sound. It sounds just like they're talking a strange type of Welsh except you can't understand a word!

@6:52 do You know the name of the typeface?

Sbagliato tutto

Great tips! Thank you Lydia!

I used to follow Mova Nanova and didn’t realize it had been shut down. Shame. Дзякуй за прэзентацыю!

he kinda speaks english with a thai accent now lmao

where is Xiacomanyc....He should have been on the list..

Dankon el Hispanio!

Her experiences abroad were truly just insanely racist. I'm ethnically Polish and Slovak, but, being white, of course no one ever interrogated me about why I wasn't learning Polish and Slovak, or why I wasn't trying to connect to my "roots". They just saw an ethnically Chinese person and said, "You should fit into the box I made for you and if you don't, you're wrong." Listening to that part just made me so mad on her behalf. It's just racist BS, and she shouldn't have had to deal with it.

Tronco tupi- guarani nao fale asneiras.

I studied Japanese for one full year in tha University, and we studied all three styles at the same time, and it wasn't that easy...many hours in writing...however, after I heard your recommendation, I thing that your way is the best one. I now study Chinese, and I really feel that your story system is the best one. 👍

Jesm sråzuměl vse, nemnogo učeńja, i jesm mogų pisati i slušati

We miss you, little bother!

Mirinda prelego. Kiel kutime cxe vi. Dankegon kaj gratulon. ❤

Esperanto is an artificial language with very simple grammar. Comparing a natural language to Esperanto sounds like an insult 😏

As a Croat I understand everything. For sure it helps that I know local kaikavian dialect, slovenian and russian :) Actually, this is a very nice project and I become really interested over last few years. Can you point me to some links and materials to learn more?

The Scots were defeated by the English at Culloden, not “the British”.

Obrigado Flávia. Parabéns, pelo tema abordado. Tenho um tio que encomendou um estudo genético da nossa família. Achei muito interessante, pois comprovadamente nossas origens chegam à região Ibérica, África e Tupi. Já descobrimos comprovadamente alguns familiares distantes. Achei incrível o nível de acerto do referido estudo.

As a speaker of Russian and Polish languages I understand everything.

Just think of goods as three boxes

Ci sono degli errori. In friuli prima dei romani cerano i carnici dalla carinzia (austria) a tireste, popolo Celtico. Questo a differenza dei Veneti che non erano Celtici. La deviazione veneta invece delle Venezia Giulia arriva solo dopo con la Repubblica di Venezia. Per dire a Trieste prima dei Veneti e degli Austriaci si parlava il friulano.

I dont get it. So this guy wants to learn chinese without knowing how to speak it or listen to it. Just use it as an alternate way of reading? Why?

Живи там! Живи там хорошо!