Unfortunately this blog never really got off the ground as I got busy with other stuff (getting married, getting on with my job etc.) and it fell by the wayside.
However, things have now settled down a bit and I’ve opened a new website called Tailingua, which includes information about the language and a “News” section [...]
Archive for the 'Minnan' Category
Tailingua: New Website about the Taiwanese Language
October 20, 2007Computers and romanised Taiwanese
September 21, 2006In the comments section of this blog, Prince Roy asked a question about fonts for Taiwanese romanisation – a fleshed out answer is the subject of this post.
One of the problems with POJ being a fairly obscure system for writing a neglected language is that of entering the romanisation on a computer. Hanyu Pinyin for [...]
Taiwanese: a doomed language?
August 24, 2006Mark over at Pinyin News has posted about the latest issue of Sino-Platonic Papers, which is a paper by Deborah Beaser about the decline of the Taiwanese language. I feel the article contained a few flaws of fact and reasoning, but in general the conclusion she makes about the ‘inevitable’ decline of Taiwanese does not [...]
So sorry: pronouncing phái*-sè
August 21, 2006A couple of people have asked me about the name of this blog and how to pronounce it. I was looking around for a suitable site to explain the POJ romanisation for Taiwanese but (of course, silly me) there isn’t one. If I were to give a rough approximation of the pronunciation of phái*-sè, [...]
Online resources for Taiwanese learning
August 18, 2006One of the problems facing the Taiwanese learner is the severe lack of resources available for the language.
