HeyJaredDiary of a Reverse Immigrant
Missives from my life as a Taiwanese Chinese American living in Taiwan.
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Why I Want My Child to Learn Taiwanese Even Though I Don't Speak It (opens the original)
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So, despite having lived in Taiwan now for 10+ years, I don’t understand Taiwanese. I have some basics that I’ve picked up (“thank you,” “time to eat,” “I don’t understand,” “yes,” “tired”), some food and other miscellaneous words and phrases I grew up with that I didn’t realize were not Mandarin until I moved here (“guava,” “mochi,” “playing house”) and some curses. But I could not even begin to carry on a conversation in Taiwanese.Sometimes, elderly folk will start speaking to me in Taiwanese
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