Taiwanese - Pronunciation Part 1 - Initials

[@jellysalsa]

This great. My wife is Taiwanese and has been teaching me Taiwanese. Your channel is very helpful.

[@jellysalsa]

@@s7r49 Great!

[@cholibrary4630]

This is awesome! Love your work mate!

[@HiTiLiT]

Great introduction !! I am anxious to learn. I really appreciate your effort. Have been searching for this content for a while. Not sure why it took me so long to find. I am happy to be your new student. Thank You !!!

[@AiongTaigi]

Awesome, welcome! I recommend the new Taigi Phonics series first, if you're just getting started. kzbin.info/aero/PLTSKFutIq9d1YCzD8RgIjpGsR9R34-BLt

[@HiTiLiT]

@@AiongTaigi Got it. Just made it through Part 1 & 2 of the original lessons. Will pause to start into the new lessons next. Thanks !!

[@AiongTaigi]

@@HiTiLiT The content of this older series is fine by the way, I just recommend using the more popular POJ writing system rather than Tailo and Hanji (Chinese characters). So please feel free to watch these as well, but I do recommend ignoring the Chinese characters, especially in your own notes & studies. They really don't help at all, even though it seems like they "should". Trust me on this one!

[@HiTiLiT]

@@AiongTaigi Thank you for the guidance...

[@小可愛-h4c]

阿勇你讓我好慚愧喔！我的英語比我的台語好，但我的英語也爛爛的。那我就跟你學拼音了吧，你用英語教台語，讓我整個充滿了雪恥的動機。這是和我一樣本省人的朋友傳給我的，謝謝你教我們台語啊！

[@AiongTaigi]

Ka-iû (加油)! Kiàn-gī khòaⁿ sin ê hē-lia̍t (建議看新ê系列), TaigiPhonics!

[@ella4mason]

I have been looking for this for ages. I met a Taiwanese teaching English. She was insisting that P in spot is pronounced is B and P in spring is pronounced in B. Now, I understand. She was taught English that way.

[@kendrickchua5903]

I have been looking for this all over the web! Thank you very much!!!! Toh sia li! I'm a Chinese-Filipino, btw. Hope to learn from you more.

[@suomeaboo]

Nice seeing you here, 6 years later!

[@pablollthek]

To-sia! That is a great video, I just started learning Taigi, and your channel is very helpful. Can you recommend some podcasts? I want to get used to listening the sounds, since I find it very challenging now.

[@linjames4740]

Ha ha so now I just learn Taiwanese pronunciation in English!! Thank you for your vids & dedication!!!

[@luigigomes8350]

希望這系列可以一直追加 我們在英國有一起在學喔

[@AiongTaigi]

Chán! 讚！ 請參考今年出个新系列，Tâigí Phonics: kzbin.info/aero/PLTSKFutIq9d1YCzD8RgIjpGsR9R34-BLt

[@ariel850131]

我是台灣人，但從小台語只有在聽得懂但講不流利的階段 我第一次聽到有台羅系統，覺得這個系統還蠻容易學習發音的 我講台語遇到比較大的困難是音調，因為台語單音，跟放在詞裡面的音調不一樣，有時候講話不太知道該用什麼音調

[@AiongTaigi]

會使看新个羅馬字課程、第 4, 5, 7 節課教調

[@Olivman84]

Yeah man! This is really good and really useful You are cool bro! Keep it up!

[@까마귀-f1k]

In reality, the pronunciation of the "b" in "boy" and the "p" in "spot" is nearly the same, so it seems necessary to explain in more detail that the vocal cords must fully vibrate when pronouncing "b". This also applies "g" and "sk"

[@anniengoc5782]

I would love to learn Taiwanese but cannot get any books in the US. Is there anything that you can help me with in PDF?. Thank you so much.

[@AiongTaigi]

ip194097.ntcu.edu.tw/memory/tgb/thak.asp?id=578

[@anniengoc5782]

Thank you so much.

[@HiTiLiT]

@@AiongTaigi Fantastic !! Thank you. I've picked up three small books over the years, one with a CD, and still have my textbook from my failed attempt at a TLI class over a decade ago. But your videos really tap into my learning strengths, and overcome my learning weaknesses 🤗...

[@i_like_the_7]

Ask for the ISBN number

[@verrenyeux]

fantastic video! really clear and easy to understand

[@HcDaN]

哈！咱正想找這個，它就自動出現在 KZbin homepage 上了，感謝勇仔。

[@YouTubianGuy]

Thank you! Just started learning. I can already speak a bit of Taiwan Mandarin, Taiwanese will be a nice addition. When do people talk in mandarin and when in Taiwanese? Is it just random or does it depend on context?

[@HiTiLiT]

When I visit my wife's family, they mostly speak Taiwanese. They say They can never completely express exactly how They feel in Mandarin.

[@wsx26757942]

如果學習對象已知注音符號系統的話，可以看出ㄅㄆㄇㄈ，ㄉㄊㄋㄌ的順序來

[@matthewbristow972]

Hello. I'm new to your channel. Having learnt Korean, I am a firm believer of learning to speak a language in the actual characters/letters rather than in romaization. Your video is very useful, but I am curious about how you learnt the way of writing in Taiwanese Hokkien. There seem to be no resources or better yet books with for audio etc for learning the characters specific to Taiwanese Hokkien. There are a tonne of books and resources for Mandarin Chinese though. Do you have any suggestions or videos where you suggest a good book for.beginners or even a comprehensive guide for Taiwanese characters and grammar? Thank you

[@AiongTaigi]

I agree - we should definitely use the native script when learning a language. For Taiwanese, the romanization *is* the native script. Believe me, I made the exact same mistake for years, and it was an enormous error that hindered progress significantly. (You'll notice in this old video I use the characters, and in most of the newer videos I don't.) Korean uses a phonetic alphabet. Taiwanese also uses a phonetic alphabet - Lomaji (romanization).

[@chiangchengkooi9791]

Taiwanese being a Minnan language, uses nasal sound too, example goat, read Yneoh with a nasal sound. Another thing,Tone sandhi is a phonological change occurring in tonal languages, in which the tones assigned to individual words or morphemes change based on the pronunciation of adjacent words or morphemes.[

[@AiongTaigi]

I cover nasal sound and tone changes in detail, both in this old series and in the newly released one.

[@leishenQ]

Thanks for making these videos, I've always wanted to learn 台語。 I was wondering, is the pronunciation of "j" and "ji"as "g" or "l" a regional variation? Where did you learn Taiwanese, where "l" is the most common pronunciation?

[@AiongTaigi]

The j seems to vary wildly everywhere. I've heard it as all 3 in the North, South, and everywhere in between. The reason I stick with the l is simply that it's the easiest of the three sounds to say and (probably for the same reason) seems to be the most widely used. I am planning to do a video about the different accents, but otherwise I will normally be using and teaching the Southern accent, it's the most widely spoken and most widely understood. Thank you, hope you find this channel useful!

[@khai66113]

yes

[@webmace]

2:41 It is not " regular English 'L' sound " ==> It is " regular English 'N' sound " .

[@chieuphong5515]

Do you have anyvideos for numbers in Tawanese language ?

[@h3llo968]

Im beginning to learn Chinese and this was vert helpful thanks!

[@minitrox4312]

You can activate the subtitles in Spanish?

[@Zoendy-Animation]

amazing tutorial i like your teaching videos keep upload new videos thank you very much

[@hcyc5754]

超強。真的很佩服。 也很感動！！

[@FormosaC-zd6gc]

For foreigners, TLPA is excellent tool to speak Taiwanese language. It's like American's children learning "Phonics and Word studies" , how to speak English or Japanese.

[@AiongTaigi]

Not just for foreigners... Large majority of works written in Taiwanese since the late 1800s is in romanization.

[@chieuphong5515]

Please help i still find it hard to discriminate the pronounce of “ts” and “tsh”

[@user-JyotiDevReikiFarm]

身為講台語的台灣人覺得你比我厲害！(≧∇≦)

[@桃-s4h]

Hi. I speak hokkien/ taiwanese. Other than that, i speak mandarin and cantonese. Nice video though.

[@babycrystal5506]

Is there one alphabet for Taiwanese characters or is there more like Japanese? If so what is or are the alphabet(s)?

[@AiongTaigi]

Hanji and Loji (Latin alphabet), similar to Japanese Kanji + Kana

[@kendrickchua5903]

Do you have a pdf file of this? Thank youi.

[@gnaixx]

今天才知道原來boy的b是聲帶要震動的濁音

[@nodoorartgallery]

👍👍👍，💯。對許多外國人來說，臺語很難學，但是只要看對臺語有深入研究的阿勇老師的教學內容就會知道，這並不是一件很困難的事，這是一個很值得推薦的學習臺語的KZbin教學影片。

[@chieuphong5515]

Are you living in Taiwan?

[@sheepball]

sweet tutorial! you speak better taiwanese than some taiwanese haha!

[@4105rrr]

+sheepball it's true! I am very surprise and impress!

[@fearchar998]

I'm afraid that, as an English speaker, the references to and contrasts between, for example, the B in "boy" and the the P in "spot" are simply confusing. The main difference between these two for an English speaker is that the B is voiced and the P is unvoiced, which I don't think is what you are trying to get across (although, to be frank, I'm guessing). Are you trying to show un/aspirated forms? To be constructive, my suggestion is to use the Taiwanese words as examples, and elucidate these with IPA as well as more conventional orthography. It may be worth bearing in mind that English pronunciation varies so widely that it is rarely a useful model.

[@aewtx]

Yes, the English "examples" are poor examples. In English, "spot" does not have a "b" sound. It's still a "p" sound. And the "stop" does not have a "d" sound. Even when he says those "example" words in full, they don't have those sounds. His Taiwanese and English pronunciations are good though, so as long as you just don't pay attention to those "examples," you will do fine.

[@livelaughlovepeace4061]

Fearchar indeed correct

[@chui_Yoshi]

His use of examples are actually not bad: B in “boy” for voiced consonant and p in “spot” for the unaspirated voiceless consonant. English Wikipedia also uses “st,” “sp,” and “sk” very often to present such unaspirated voiceless sound.

[@rayw6339]

Why the fujianese dialect is suddenly called Taiwanese?? I don’t get it!!

[@testercwt]

Incredible tutorial

[@khai66113]

TLPA is not Tailo phing im.

[@AiongTaigi]

This video is around 5 years old 👌

[@beebless3802]

I wonder how can i spell my name in mandarin letter?

[@Luckimee]

I just want to say...I love you 💕

[@mamushi72sai]

no R?

[@user-daniel0530]

We don't have r in Taiwanese 😅

[@mamushi72sai]

@@user-daniel0530 you know what happened. I was quickly scanning this vid looking for Taiwanese pronunciation of mandarin. I was super focused on that and I just jumped around looking for it not even realizing the romanization and characters were not matching. sorry about that. I didin't even realize this was taiwanese hakka.

[@user-daniel0530]

@@mamushi72sai That's ok! But one thing I need to tell you. This is not Taiwanese Hakka ,this is Taiwanese hokkien (Min Nan) 😅

[@mamushi72sai]

@@user-daniel0530 I suck at everything that I do.

[@zyhz3960]

我一直不瞭解羅馬拼音… 為什麼「豬」的音感覺就是 D開頭的拼音，為什麼是用T開頭? TAIPEI應該是TAIBEI? TANSHUI應該是 DANSHUI? 豬應該就是 DI… 我自己覺得這樣比較直覺啦，當然也可能是我不夠瞭解羅馬拼音…

[@AiongTaigi]

字法是人人之間个「約束」。不通看伊「正確」啞無。 譬論講、是按盞「豬」个意思是 PIG、不是 CROCODILE？是按盞「鱷」即是 CROCODILE、不是 PIG？朗着是咱个約束。 豬寫 TI、只个約束對叨位來呢？因爲台語羅馬字有一个約束个規定：某乜字若送氣加 H、無送氣無 H。 按呢 P / PH、T / TH、K / KH 朗是「無送氣」甲「送氣」个爭差。 其實只个規定參國際音標 (IPA) 个送氣規定仝音。P / PH、T / TH、K / KH 抵(剛)好參國際音標朗相仝音。 IPA → 台語 [p] [pʰ] → P, PH [t] [tʰ] → T, TH [k] [kʰ] → K, KH 若英語个、英語無分者个音。英語个 T、有冬時仔讀 [t] 、有冬時仔讀 [tʰ] 無要緊。對英語母語个人、[t] 甲 [tʰ] 無爭差。 譬論講 TOP、相對 IPA [tʰɔp]、STOP 相對 IPA [stɔp] (不是 [stʰop]、無送氣)。 所有塊寫羅馬字个語言、約束个「字、音對照」無一定仝欵。英、法、德、越南、台、等等、朗使用羅馬字、仝字也無一定仝音。

[@grapes_pig]

看看 用羅馬字的印尼語 越南語的T也是發ㄉ的音

[@He_who_rides_many_winds]

Thanks bro.

[@rixmarics]

are taiwanese and hokkien different?

[@AiongTaigi]

Hokkien is an umbrella term for all of the variants and languages from the Hokkien area. Taiwanese originated there around ~400 years ago, but is now substantially different and only partly mutually intelligible with other Hokkien languages whether in or out of China, e.g. Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, etc. Kind of like all the various Romance languages. Most people can't name one besides French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese - but there are dozens or hundreds of languages with different numbers of native speakers and varying degrees of mutual intelligibility.

[@rixmarics]

@@AiongTaigi oh..thank you for that. so what's the main language use in taiwan? is it mandarin?

[@AiongTaigi]

@@rixmarics Both are widely used. Mandarin more in Taipei and among younger people, Taiwanese more outside of Taipei and among older people.

[@rixmarics]

@@AiongTaigi thank you for the info. Hope to learn the language. I just having difficulties in differentiating mandarin, hokkien, taiwanese and other chinese laguage.

[@不要隱藏我留言]

@@AiongTaigi 請你不要誤導其他人，台灣的閩南語跟中國大陸的閩南語並沒有“substantially”的不同，差異主要體現在腔調、部分用詞的不同，尤其和廈門閩南語還是可以互通。 我就請問你，English 傳到美洲也快四百年，但你會認為美國最多數人用的語言不是English而是"American"嗎？拿拉丁語系比擬完全錯誤

[@dhananjaykumar-yk8jh]

I want to learn taiwani language

[@ailoan6234]

tôi yêu Đài Loan

[@clarissecabarles9168]

Pag natuto ako nito punta nako sa taiwan😊

[@user-JyotiDevReikiFarm]

發言非常標準

[@NovelFiles]

Great. Saya mau belajar

[@vinicioslucas7319]

我是巴西人，我两年学习中文，如果我也学台语的话，人们都会认为是假的 嘻嘻

[@kimeli]

its not taiwanese, its hokkien.

[@ailoan6234]

臺語 Taiwanese

[@寗琨棋]

這樣講好像不太明確，畢竟台語一詞也有台灣語言簡寫之意，所以客家話跟各族原住民語也屬於台語的一種。如果是我，我會翻成 Taiwanese-Hokkien(台灣閩南語)跟Taiwanese-Hakka(台灣客家話)

[@kevinwijaya9613]

Wa si medan lang. Lí lang e hokkien wa bo siang tampok pi wa lang.

[@AiongTaigi]

Khòaⁿ bô.

[@kevinwijaya9613]

@@AiongTaigi that was written in indonesian style writing. To be honest, i sometimes only partially grasp your written taigi if it was written in full sentences. From what i understand, what you're saying is you dont understand what i said in my version of written hokkien, do you?

[@kevinwijaya9613]

@@AiongTaigi anyways, out of all your vocabularies in early part of the video, i see the only difference is how we pronounce the pig word in hokkien. You say 'ti', we medanese say "tu". I'm not tone deaf but i dont know how to write tonal consonants, so pardon my half ass hokkien writing hehe

[@AiongTaigi]

@@kevinwijaya9613 ti / tu are both said in Taioanese. Depends on the speaker.

[@kevinwijaya9613]

@@AiongTaigi wow, you even spell taiwanese differently. I really want to visit taiwan when this whole pandemic mess is over. Meanwhile, do you have any suggestion for me regarding tonal consonants? Are they even really that important?

[@JoseMartinez-p8f4x]

Hi😂