Learning Taiwanese at TLI Kaohsiung Center TLI Koahsiung Center offers one-on-one and small-group instruction in Taiwanese.   See Learning Chinese at TLI Kaohsiung Center for information regarding fees and procedures.
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Class Size

One-on-one classes can be arranged at any time.  Small- group classes are seldom organized, since applicants interested in Taiwanese tend to either arrive singly or prefer individualized instruction.

Materials

Materials include TLI's in-house series and  the Maryknoll series, both of which use the Church system of romanization.

Brief History

Also called Hokkien and Southern Min, Taiwanese is the dialect of Taiwan's original Chinese settlers, who came from Fujian (Hokkien), the province of Mainland China directly across the Taiwan Strait from Taiwan.  It is spoken to some degree by most Taiwanese and is frequently alternated in daily speech with Mandarin, Taiwan's official language of government and education, brought to Taiwan by members of the Nationalist Party, who fled the Mainland on losing popular support to the Communist Party after World War II.