Sunday, October 05, 2003, 20:41 GMT
Hello, everybody:
I've just read the forum rules and I found out that we are allowed to talk about learning other languages here. Therefore, I would like to start a discussion on differences between Mainland Chinese Mandarin and Taiwanese Mandarin
I am not Chinese but my mother is Chinese and she has taught me some Mandarin. I am interested in learning more Chinese words but I realise that there are many differences between the two significantly different types of Mandarin. I am trying to learn pure Mainland Mandarin because I want to go to China to do business in the future.
I have a Simplified Chinese dictionary with hanyu pinyin so I can look up Mainland pronunciation and writing on my own. However, I don't have the time to flip through the dictionary trying to filter out Taiwanese Mandarin vocabulary from Mainland Mandarin vocabulary.
Therefore, can some of you Chinese on this forum please contribute a few vocab differences between Mandarin on the Mainland and in Taiwan? Please use hanyu pinyin because Chinese characters don't appear properly on this website.
I've just read the forum rules and I found out that we are allowed to talk about learning other languages here. Therefore, I would like to start a discussion on differences between Mainland Chinese Mandarin and Taiwanese Mandarin
I am not Chinese but my mother is Chinese and she has taught me some Mandarin. I am interested in learning more Chinese words but I realise that there are many differences between the two significantly different types of Mandarin. I am trying to learn pure Mainland Mandarin because I want to go to China to do business in the future.
I have a Simplified Chinese dictionary with hanyu pinyin so I can look up Mainland pronunciation and writing on my own. However, I don't have the time to flip through the dictionary trying to filter out Taiwanese Mandarin vocabulary from Mainland Mandarin vocabulary.
Therefore, can some of you Chinese on this forum please contribute a few vocab differences between Mandarin on the Mainland and in Taiwan? Please use hanyu pinyin because Chinese characters don't appear properly on this website.