Common Taiwanese phrases

Learn common Taiwanese phrases in this video!
Video by Esther Insigne and Diandra Mongan

[@飼虻兒]

The actual chinese character for reference 1.汝足姝 2.創甚 3.沒要緊/無會要緊/未要緊 4.汝好 5.我聽無 6.汝欲去逃位 7.無一定 8.食飽沒/食飽未 9.汝足緣投 10.歹勢/歹澀(I prefer first one) 11.新年快樂 12.多謝

[@mizinamo]

For 1, I suggest 汝足媠. For 2, perhaps 創啥 ? For 6, 汝欲去佗位?

[@飼虻兒]

@@mizinamo if your world can match what it means I think it's ok.

[@necklacedon995]

My mom can speak this I can only speak mandarin but this is so nostalgic to listen to it’s like my moms saying it

[@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat]

For more depth stuff, definitely got to check "A'Ióng Tâigí 阿勇台語"

[@MusicWithWW]

I can understand most of the phrases. My parents come from Tong‘an Xiamen (廈門同安) in the Southern Min 閩南 region, so we have a different accent. Here are some: 1. 你很漂亮 - lih jin sui 3. 沒關係 - bue yao gin 4. 你好 - lih ho 6. 你要去哪裏 - lih berh kih doh lo 8. 你吃飽了嗎？- jia ba a berh 9. 你很帥 - lih jin yan dao 12. 謝謝 - gam sia

[@eliseeng1709]

Same here! It was my Angong Anma who come from Xiamen, but I am trying to relearn the language.

[@飼虻兒]

這邊我試著給個正字供參考 1.汝真姝 3.沒要緊/無會要緊/未要緊 4.汝好 6.汝欲去逃路 8.食飽矣無 9.汝真沿投/汝真緣投(不過緣應該是不唸做yan) 12.感謝

[@emmachapman-lin2359]

The have you eaten is also used as a kind of a goodbye/goodnight/how are you (I'm not sure which as it's been a while since I asked my Ama and Akong) but essentially whenever I asked them how to translate one of those things from english to Taiwanese they said the kind of equivalent was jia ba bue- which might explain why the person waved while they said it.

[@giuliaamendola9890]

Taiwanese are the nicest people. I often hear old people in the country say “bo ah! Bo ah!” sounds in context like “no way” maybe??????

[@fiestadancers]

Do sia! Rare to find Taiwanese video. Mahalo Nui!

[@itmecelery9745]

omg I used to hear wa tia bo all the time before my grandma died

[@ao5468]

I understand all of these as Singaporean Chinese. we learn dialect from our parent

[@mlorpf]

When she said "bo i ding" it sounded like Vietnamese to me. Taiwanese Hokkien sounds so beautiful to me, I want to learn it :)

[@zhouxbaejinyoung6615]

Happy New Year is very close to Mandarin

[@4fpu]

I like to learn Chinese as Taiwanese 🇹🇼 tounge, not China 🇨🇳. Thanks your video. Please upload more video. So useful.

[@johnorsomeone4609]

Please make more videos! This was great.

[@kubes8388]

well the literal translation are a bit off but yes I heard these all the time growing up countryside

[@Immortal_CelestialBeing]

thank you

[@MoreFormosa]

excellent ! thanks for posting this helpful language video

[@evarosario6371]

Thank you , im glad i found this taige ,

[@MrTraveller.]

This is excellent

[@vertigq5126]

Thanks for sharing! This is great! God bless you :)

[@zhouxbaejinyoung6615]

Taiwanese is Minnanyu right

[@TheShroomWelder]

It is a dialect of minnanyu

[@rarelymarilyn]

Wait I thought pai se was embarrassing? I’ve always heard my mom say that when she argues with my dad, so kinda confused about the translation there.

[@areitu]

Sort of- as far as I can tell, it implies you’ve embarrassed yourself. It’s sort of like a combination of “excuse me” an”I’m sorry” and doesn’t translate to English 1.1 You can say it if you bump into someone on accident, or “paiseh, i don’t understand you”

[@rarelymarilyn]

@@areitu ohhh alright! thank you for correcting me

[@aiyuyan]

Is it the equivalent of 不好意思?

[@_s_a_]

i liked it, thank you

[@johncristophersicsic5592]

are there any more videos on youtube like this? :

[@overflowchung7347]

kam sia dee🙂

[@jonathancross3097]

li kuah sa siau = what's up? an nua la = how may i help you?

[@caliindica420]

Sa Xiao 三小 = How may I help you? Kao Yao 靠妖 = Are you hungry?

[@ryanmgustafson96]

笑死

[@飼虻兒]

1.甚小 2.哭枵

[@renacosta390]

google translate is different? :D

[@jonathancross3097]

google translate doesn't support hokkien

[@dingus42]

where did you find hokkien on google translate 😲😲

[@PorkBoy69]

[@222wakeke]

Kinda different from what i heard here from other taiwanese people.

[@ixc6732]

tbh it'll always b diff depending on the area

[@areitu]

@@ixc6732 yeah it can be. I never hear my family say “li hou” for hello but they’ll use other words phrases or greetings like “jia ba bweh” or “gai tsah” (good morning) instead

[@eabaw4wrw3rqf72]

i dont remember a "v" existing within banlam phonetics

[@aiyuyan]

They dont seem to be using any standard transcription

[@georgemandom69]

Sorry is also 無好意思