Everyday Taiwanese - Polite Phrases

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Published 2018-09-14

The Taiwanese alphabet is a little different from English. In total there are 18 letters. There are nine letters to take particular note of because they make a different phonetic sound than English:

The letters CH make a j-sound, in Taiwanese.
The letter K makes a g-sound, in Taiwanese.
The letter P makes the b-sound...
The letter T makes the d-sound...

The letters CHH make the ts-sound...
The letters KH make the k-sound...
The letters PH make the p-sound...
The letters TH make the t-sound...
And the letter G is generally silent, in Taiwanese.

You can see how the addition of an H produces a new sound, in Taiwanese.

Note: Small letters beneath the polite phrases serve as reminders.

All Comments (5)

@notalena1441 2 years ago

im thai and i recently made friends with a guy who is taiwanese, nobody speaks his language and there is a very low asian population where i live so im making the effort to speak to him in his native language! thankyou so much
@minorchord 5 years ago

Great video! Could you make videos like this one but with little conversations? Like one person asking the other how their day went, how have they been and what they're up to and so on.
@johncristophersicsic5592 3 years ago

i am a filipino now studying in taiwan and my course is long term care and I really find your videos helpful because we soon will talk with a gong and a ma, I hope there will be new videos :D thankyouu
@jasonwong1152 5 years ago

thanks all your sharings, i love Taiwanese and am studying it, i hope that i can communicate with the others by Taiwanese once day and watch movies with no Mandarin subtitle