Daily Archives: February 28, 2017

A Glimpse of Taiwanese Hokkien

Introduction to Taiwanese Hokkien What’s your first reaction when you hear about Taiwanese Hokkien? You might think it’s a dialect of Chinese with the expectation that you are able to understand some of it if you speak Mandarin. However, with the historical events that happened over time since the language first got spread to Taiwan in the 17th century, Taiwanese…