NB: Handy browser plug in for reading characters (if you need to get through any of the webpages in Mandarin below): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/inkah-pop-up-dictionary/pcgmedbmchghfgikplcimdmfldfnecec/related?hl=en
Taiwanese Tutoring and Lessons
Online Options
1. iTalki platform (hire a tutor!): https://www.italki.com/teachers/chinese(taiwanese)?hl=en
In Person with Potential Online Availability
United States
1. Washington DC Taiwanese School: https://www.facebook.com/WDCTS/
2. Taiwan School (of the Taiwanese American Center of Northern California): https://www.facebook.com/SJTaiwanSchool/ and https://etaiwanschool.org
Taiwan
1. Mrs. Zhang private tutoring (user-friendly English/Mandarin website): http://www.mrszheng.com/home
2. Maryknoll Language Service Center (distance learning available, their materials are excellent): http://friendship.catholic.org.tw/school.htm
3. National Taiwan Normal University (aka Shida) offers Practical Taiwanese I & II as a “Culture Class” every academic quarter. Email [email protected] for more information.
4. National Taiwan University (aka Taida) offers Taiwanese language classes through their Chinese Language Division (CLD) continuing education program. Since the pandemic they are also running online classes. Email and contact information here: https://oia.ntu.edu.tw/prospective-students/learning-chinese-xu6g/for-non-ntu-students-n9as
5. New Bloom Magazine has started offering Taiwanese classes at their Taipei location (tuition on a sliding scale). Email [email protected] for more information
6. Shuanglian Church 雙連教會 (Taipei, Mandarin website): https://www.slpctaipei.org/slpc-tai-gi-class
Language Instruction (audio, ebooks, & printed books) - all English
1. Bite Size Taiwanese
1. Beginner lessons, designed by a Taiwanese-American: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bite-size-taiwanese-elementary/id1479600652
2. Short Takes book: https://bitesizetaiwanese.com/product/shorttakes/
2. Southern Hokkien (3 volumes, published by National Taiwan University):
1. Complete online course! http://ocw.aca.ntu.edu.tw/ntu-ocw/ocw/cou/104S114/1
2. Books: https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010663610
3. Glossika Hokkien course: https://ai.glossika.com/language/learn-taiwanese-hokkien
4. Spoken Hokkien (ebook with audio lessons for beginners, written by Dr. Meili Fang, a scholar of Taiwanese): https://speaktaiwanese.com/spoken-hokkien/
5. Practical Taiwanese Conversation (short beginner course designed by the Modern Taiwanese Language Association): http://learntaiwanese.org/
6. Maryknoll Taiwanese textbook, 3 volumes (once & still the gold standard): http://ip194097.ntcu.edu.tw/memory/tgb/MoWT.asp (scanned online, you can scroll through page-by-page)
7. Harvard Taiwanese 101: https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010864234?loc=M_0005_004
8. Taiwanese Grammar (by Phil Lin, also of Bite Size Taiwanese): https://www.amazon.com/Taiwanese-Grammar-Reference-Philip-Lin-ebook/dp/B00T02HAYI
9. Learning Taiwanese using Chinese Characters, 3 volumes: http://ip194097.ntcu.edu.tw/memory/tgb/MoWT.asp (scanned online)
10. Handbook of Taiwanese Romanization: http://taiwaneseamericanhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1196.-Handbook-of-Taiwanese-Romanization.pdf
Language Instruction (audio, ebooks, & printed books) - in Mandarin or Taiwanese
1. Let’s Learn Taiwanese Hokkien (Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced) - published by the Taiwanese Ministry of Education as downloadable pdfs. https://www.huayuworld.org/taiwanese-download.php
Taiwanese Dictionaries
1. https://www.mkdict.net/ (Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary)
2. https://chhoe.taigi.info/ (aggregates 7 different Taiwanese dictionaries & allows searching in 台文, Mandarin, POJ Romanization & English).
1. Example of how to use Chhoe Taigi if you aren’t literate in Mandarin: https://twitter.com/catielila/status/1162971685936607233?s=20
3. https://itaigi.tw/ (allows you to look up Taiwanese POJ using Mandarin characters and play back the Taiwanese pronunciation; sometimes I will look something up in English using Chhoe Taigi, get the Mandarin translation, and put that into iTaigi so I can hear the Taiwanese)
4. https://www.moedict.tw/ (Taiwanese Ministry of Education official dictionary, definitions in Mandarin - no English, unfortunately)
1. Previous version of the MOE Dictionary, still online: https://twblg.dict.edu.tw/holodict_new/
5. https://timeline.line.me/user/_dVmpHylF09TQQSYaX9CQK0pT_qUJaSEoLQVorxw (Taigi 台語小幫手) LINE App, type in Mandarin characters and it will send you a link with the POJ and audio pronunciation
Universities outside of Taiwan that offer Taiwanese
United States
1. Stanford University:
1. Beginning Southern Min (Taiwanese) Conversation (CHINLANG 10, 11, & 12): https://explorecourses.stanford.edu (enter “Taiwanese” as the search term). This class is taught by a great lecturer in the Chinese Language department. She’s very kind! Our class had a range of students - Singaporean Hokkien speakers; white Americans; 1.5 generation Taiwanese who had grown up unable to communicate with their Taiwanese-speaking grandparents; me (conversationally fluent in Taiwanese but back then fairly illiterate in characters).
2. University of California, Berkeley:
1. Taiwanese Language (also Ethnic Studies 198), run by Taiwanese students as part of the DeCal (Democratic Cal) program: https://decal.berkeley.edu/courses/4137?fbclid=IwAR11feggamyA2uZwYm_3woFsR-10m0moNl5JlLdfUp2wFzf9CcR7uWuPprU
2. Contact info: [email protected]
3. University of Pennsylvania:
1. Beginning and Intermediate Taiwanese (also CHIN 051/151 and 052/152): https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/taiwanese
2. Contact information for the instructor: https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/people/faculty/gracewu
United Kingdom
1. SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) in London:
1. Elementary Spoken Hokkien: https://www.soas.ac.uk/cia/languages/languages-of-china-inner-asia-at-soas-hokkien-minnanhua-ban5-lam5-oe7-taiwanese.html
2. Contact information for the instructor: [email protected]
3. SOAS also offers one of the only Taiwan Studies masters programs outside of Taiwan itself: https://www.soas.ac.uk/taiwanstudies/
Australia
1. ANU (Australian National University) in Canberra
1. Taiwanese (also CHIN 2013/6016): https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/2021/course/chin6016
Taiwanese Shows and Channels
1. Taiwanese Public Television (PTS) Taigi channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6SRupi5lTDbIFJEOpReCQ
1. PTS Taiwanese lessons via current affairs (teaching slides are in 台文 with Mandarin subtitles, but anyone with intermediate Taiwanese skills can follow along - thanks to Matthew Chang for the recommendation): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe8vfIFNtjRdtsPxY3r-Q644ipqw9bFKC
2. Learn to KTV in Taiwanese (a super fun and user-friendly English-language site featuring all your favorite Taiwanese bands): https://taikegui.wordpress.com/
3. WaWa TV
1. Learn Taiwanese through pop songs (in Mandarin, with Mandarin and POJ subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3EqXZ8q3tR16DEdSvuB6-0vEl7ElAAjB
2. Practical Taiwanese lessons (Mandarin & POJ subtitles but fairly accessible for English speakers since the visuals/references are good): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3EqXZ8q3tR1PRC7DyBZStDE_G7Tj0EhB
4. 英台 EXPRESS 30 (Taiwanese-English Exchange with English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLQ55xBzMHI
5. 咱Kóng台語 - Let’s Speak Taiwanese (themed episodes teaching Taiwanese, Mandarin subtitles, some with POJ): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4GJFSb4h-qerAoZIX9sSmA
6. Four Taiwanese-language cartoon series (sponsored by the Taiwanese Ministry of Education): https://twbangga.moe.edu.tw/index
7. Taiwanese Cuisine Rescue Team 台灣味ê料理救援隊
(the name is a bit silly *but* this series has both English and Taiwanese subtitles - characters & romanization: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgvhchAPGWYNqFT0FpazSNlhrIrJ1roc-
8. 解文說字 for idioms & literary phrases: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9X_7mTn8zvXFrlHlOcMUr-zPyJ0QwBH4
Blogs that discuss Taiwanese language & translation (highly, highly recommend)
1. Translating Taiwanese lit: https://translatingtaiwanlit.com/tag/taiwanese-language-2/
2. Taiwan Translation Project: http://twtranslationproject.blogspot.com/
3. Language Log (Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania): https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/index.php?s=Taiwanese+
4. Tailingua (from the folks at Camphor Press): http://www.tailingua.com/
Academic and instructional talks on Taiwanese
1. Bite Size Taiwanese talk at 2020 Taiwan Fest (in English): https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=2084071348390168&ref;=watch_permalink
2. Professor Li Khin-huann’s talk on the future of Taiwanese (in Taiwanese with English and Mandarin subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiVFlXc8yAs&fbclid;=IwAR0dSIHP-5ehUpJiaIRpPqqzTDfUXkPGNZCrvr-DsNhBCNtaep4ldZjgptg
Running List of Taiwanese Podcasts
1. 台灣人台灣事 @HenaMa3
1. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E4%BA%BA%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E4%BA%8B/id1506018589
2. HenaMa’s blog has transcripts of each episode in Mandarin characters https://henamataiwan.blogspot.com/
2. 飯桌仔 - politics & culture @PngtohaPodcast (I love this podcast, the hosts primarily speak Taiwanese but will sometimes bring on guests that are only Mandarin fluent and they help them along) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%E9%A3%AF%E6%A1%8C%E4%BB%94/id1521411264
3. 台語探討 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%E5%8F%B0%E8%AA%9E%E6%8E%A2%E8%A8%8E/id1540556531
4. 肥宅熊的台語日常雜記 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%E8%82%A5%E5%AE%85%E7%86%8A%E7%9A%84%E5%8F%B0%E8%AA%9E%E6%97%A5%E5%B8%B8%E9%9B%9C%E8%A8%98-bears-taiwanese-talk/id1504008552
5. 這聲好啊 https://p