Nee's Language Blog

I was always amazed by friends from the language communities who were able to publish their books. I could see so much effort, dedication, and knowledge put into writing the book. It is one of my dreams to publish a book, my own book. The purpose is to share with others because as they said, “sharing is caring”, isn’t it?

My friend, Sanda, is a native Chinese and Hakka speaker from Taiwan. Like most Chinese speakers, Sanda has difficulties in learning English. English, being a language from different language group with Chinese, has a lot of differences, such as pronunciation and conjugation. Sanda was demotivated to learn it and she believed that learning English is difficult. However, as a Chinese speaker, it is easier to learn Japanese. Japanese is one of the languages that Sanda knows.

We have already known that, through Esperanto, we can make friends with foreigners because Esperanto is a true language of friendship. I live in Taoyuan city (桃園) which is located in northern Taiwan. Although the number of Esperantists in northern Taiwan is not many if compared with that in the southern part where the Esperanto movement is growing more vigorously, I still manage to make friends by Esperanto.

တ႐ုတ္ဘာသာကို သင္ယူေနၾကေသာသူေတြအ​ေနနဲ႔ တ႐ုတ္စကားလံုးေတြဟာ အကၡရာတင္မဟုတ္ဘဲ အႏုပညာလက္ရာတစ္ခုလည္းျဖစ္တာကို နားလည္​သ​ေဘာ​ေပါက္​ရမယ္​။ျပီးေတာ့ တရုတ္အကၡရာတိုင္းမွာ႐ွိတဲ့ စုတ္ခ်က္ေတြရဲ႕အဓိပၸါယ္ကိုလွပစြာ ေပါင္းစပ္ထားျခင္းျဖစ္တယ္။အဲ့လိုေျပာရျခင္းဟာ တ႐ုတ္အကၡရာေတြဟာ အမွန္တကယ္႐ွိေနတဲ့အရာဝတၳဳေတြအေပၚမူတည္ၿပီးအခ်ိန္ႏွင့္အမ်ွ တိုးတက္ေျပာင္းလဲလာလို႔ျဖစ္တယ္။ကြၽႏု္ပ္အဲ့ဒါကို ၁၀၀ ရာခိုင္ႏႉန္းအမွန္မေျပာႏိုင္ေပမဲ့ တ႐ုတ္စကားလံုး​ေတြနဲ႔ပတ္​သက္​ၿပီးျပထားတဲ့ ရုပ္​ျပစာအုပ္​​ေတြရွိတယ္​။ဥပမာေျပာရရင္ ''ေန'' နဲ႔ ''လ'' ကိုအရင္ကဘယ္လိုေရးသာၾကတယ္နဲ႔ယေန႔ေခတ္တိုင္​​ေအာင္​ ဘယ္လိုအဆင့္ဆင့္ေျပာင္းလဲတိုးတက္လာတယ္ဆိုတာကို ေအာက္မွာၾကည့္ႏိူင္ပါတယ္။ 日 နဲ႔ 月 ကေတာ့ယေန႔ေခတ္သံုးတဲ့အကၡရာေတြျဖစ္တယ္။

You have probably never heard of the Eurovision (the Eurovision Song Contest) if you were not raised in Europe. It did not catch my attention until the recent few years but I am not a crazy fan either. But I was hooked to it, this singing competition show is different.

Foreigners’ presence in Taipei city is quite visible. Wherever you go, on the street or inside the MRT station, you will see foreign faces easily. Taipei is really an international city. There are a lot of foreign restaurants, bars, nightclubs, etc. If you have free time every day and want to get some acquaintances, Taipei has plenty of meetups that you can join. One of them is “Language Meetup” where participants gather to practice different languages. These participants come from various walks of life: expats, professionals, students, etc.

Let's meet Manfred Sailer from Germany Website
1. Could you tell us about yourself, including the languages you know? Hello, my name is Manfred Sailer. I am a German monolingual. Ever since elementary school, I have been fascinated by the grammar. I still remember how excited I was when we learned what an "adjective" was. I only started learning other languages at the age of 10. I managed to turn grammar into my profession, studying general linguistics and working as a linguist in the English department of Goethe University, Frankfurt. I love learning languages, though I am quite lazy when it comes to memorizing vocabulary.