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faye06 -

No, not very different. I watch a lot of Taiwanese TV programs and I have no problem understanding
them from the very beginning. Only that, to people from mainland China, Taiwanese accent sounds a
little too girlish ~~ (if you are male)



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Yang Rui -

I spent time on a language course in Taiwan after a year and a half in northern China.

Although most people say it's fine, i found that i became a lot more self-conscious because the
Taiwanese tend to look down on erhuayin. So i immediately dropped the "er"s and found that my
accent sounded "less Chinese".

One of the other things about "guoyu" and Mandarin as spoken in the south of China is that they
seem to pronouce tones on ALL the characters. In the north of China (and in fact in standard
Mandarin), "qingsheng" is used quite widely and the tone on the second character of a
two-character word is sometimes left unpronounced eg. zhi1shi (knowledge) might be pronounced
zhi1shi2. Or zhuo1zi (table) becomes zhuo1zi3.

I don't suppose this matters all that much, but for some reason it gets on my nerves slightly -
probably my problem!

Oh, and one more thing, which picks up on what faye06 mentioned. I think in southern China and
Taiwan, there is much more of a distinction between "girl's Chinese" and "boy's Chinese". Girls in
the south and Taiwan often talk in a very "cute" way known as "dia3". They add lots of "ah" and
"la" and "luo" and "wo" to everything.

If you are male and studying in Taiwan or the south of China, the only advice I can give is to
stay away from girls, unless you don't mind talking in an incredibly camp fashion. In fact, I
think it's best for everyone to avoid talking like this, regardless of gender, but again that's a
personal preference.

Danwei has an interesting article about "dia3" here:
http://www.danwei.org/trends_and_buz...ko_and_dia.php

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skylee -



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If you are male and studying in Taiwan or the south of China, the only advice I can give is to
stay away from girls,

Very interesting suggestion.










HashiriKata -



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Very interesting suggestion.

but it could deprive some people of the whole point of learning Chinese, I guess!










流 -

I'm not sure, but I don't think they use the "r" sound outside of Beijing much...
To me, it seems like Taiwanese Mandarin is sort of lazy; they don't pronounce the tones as much. I
was talking to this girl from just north of Beijing, and noticed how prominent her tones were...
Anyway, I'm heading off for Taiwan in less than a month! I guess when I come back, I'll try to
Putonghua-ize my accent... Mine might be stronger than someone who goes to Taipei, because I'm
going to Hualien...

Oh, and you'll get to learn traditional Chinese characters.
如果你去台灣的話,請和來花蓮,因為我們會跟見 (I don't know if that is right or
not, but oh well...)

On a similar note, check out: http://www.forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.php?t=51864 (this has been
pointed out by others, I see...)












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