{"id":10022,"date":"2025-10-23T20:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itsc.ntnu.edu.tw\/?p=10022"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:07:52","slug":"learning-tai-gi-with-taigiddy-an-experience-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itsc.ntnu.edu.tw\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/learning-tai-gi-with-taigiddy-an-experience-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning T\u00e2i-g\u00ed with TaiGiddy: An Experience Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Gregory Laslo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u3000\u3000Although I arrived in Taiwan with the initial goal of learning Mandarin, I was always more interested in the culture of Taiwan itself. But it took me too long to realize that while Mandarin will allow you to live and get around in Taiwan, T\u00e2i-g\u00ed is perhaps more necessary to understand the history of Taiwan and its history as experienced, felt, spoken, and written by its inhabitants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u3000\u3000However, I always felt the bar to entrance was high, due to the difficulty of tonal languages. Mandarin is hard enough for me! For students without experience in a tonal language like Mandarin, and those not in Taiwan to absorb the linguistic environment, the bar is much higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u3000\u3000This was why TaiGiddy, a gamified T\u00e2i-g\u00ed learning platform spearheaded by Professor L\u00e2u S\u00eang-hi\u00e2n (\u5289\u627f\u8ce2) at NTNU, appealed to me. Individual units are small, requiring only about ten minutes to complete, which lets a learner jump in and out as they wish, and makes the experience feel relaxed and natural. Of course, a user can make the process more academic if they so desire, pairing it with a textbook or course of their choosing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u3000\u3000My practice immediately made a difference in my everyday understanding of T\u00e2i-g\u00ed. Prior to beginning this process, I could occasionally understand conversations in T\u00e2i-g\u00ed\u2014but only with strong context clues and Mandarin vocabulary mixed in. But within just a few lessons\u2014before even understanding any words\u2014I could already feel my brain better parsing the T\u00e2i-g\u00ed that I overheard in my environment, clearly hearing the seven tones and sandhi. Once you grasp the tones and Romanization, learning vocabulary and grammar becomes easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u3000\u3000TaiGiddy ensures accuracy by requiring learners to complete prior lessons before moving on to harder ones. While this may make early segments feel a little tedious for those who already have some T\u00e2i-g\u00ed background, the difficulty curve for those who don\u2019t is well-structured, never feeling like you\u2019ve missed something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u3000\u3000All in all, I highly recommend TaiGiddy for students interested in learning T\u00e2i-g\u00ed from the ground up. Professor L\u00e2u and his team plan to continue improving it, and they are open to feedback through the website. As the first and largest T\u00e2i-g\u00ed learning resource of this type, I see it as a strong achievement and a crucial milestone on the path to making T\u00e2i-g\u00ed a part of everyday life\u2014hopefully including my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Start learning here: https:\/\/taigiddy.tcll.ntnu.edu.tw\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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