Hey all,
This is going to be my thread for learning various Chinese varieties (hence the title of "trash bin" ). At this point I didn't want to make a new thread for each of them. I think I'll just keep posting notes/questions/translations here until it gets too busy.
Up for exploration are (in no particular order): Taiwanese, Cantonese, Taishanese, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Teochew and Hakka. No, not all at once, but just to list all the varieties I'm interested in.
On that note, up first in the queue is Taiwanese.
I'll be using the textbook Harvard Taiwanese 101 by Yeh and Lee, and focusing exclusively on spoken Taiwanese for now (though I'd love to eventually learn now to read and write it). After I get through this text, I'll either switch to Spoken Amoy Hokkien and Spoken Taiwanese (both by Bodman), or switch to another Chinese variety.
As Harvard Taiwanese 101 doesn't like to give very much by way of actual grammar explanations, I'll be posting my observations/questions/suspicions here as I work my way through the book. I thought it might be fun to kinda steal Karavinka's idea for Turkish and Thai. (Though I might be more apt to accept/ask for help. )
Lesson 1 coming soon~~