{"id":9505,"date":"2025-02-18T19:41:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itsc.ntnu.edu.tw\/?p=9505"},"modified":"2025-02-18T19:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:41:49","slug":"ntnu-bridges-taiwan-japan-language-gap-with-accelerated-taiwanese-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itsc.ntnu.edu.tw\/index.php\/en\/2025\/02\/18\/ntnu-bridges-taiwan-japan-language-gap-with-accelerated-taiwanese-course\/","title":{"rendered":"NTNU Bridges Taiwan-Japan Language Gap with Accelerated Taiwanese Course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On November 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, 2024,&nbsp;Assistant Professor Yoshida Shingo of the Graduate School of Language and Society at Hitotsubashi University&nbsp;taught an&nbsp;introductory Taiwanese language course,&nbsp;in&nbsp;Japanese, aimed atdeepening&nbsp;language and cultural exchanges between Taiwan and Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The course, titled&nbsp;<em>Taiwan-goda ~yo! Zen&#8217;in sh\u016bg\u014d! Nihongo de manabu sokush\u016b Taiwan-go&nbsp;<\/em>(It&#8217;s Taiwanese!&nbsp;Come Here for a&nbsp;Crash Course in Taiwanese, in Japanese), was part of the&nbsp;Historical Reconstruction and Internationalization of Modern Taiwanese Literature&nbsp;sub-project, itself a part of&nbsp;NTNU\u2019s SPROUT Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the opening ceremony,&nbsp;Director Nikky Lin,&nbsp;of the International Taiwan Studies Center&nbsp;at&nbsp;NTNU,made remarks in both Taiwanese and Japanese,&nbsp;elaborating on the historical status of Taiwanese as the lingua franca of Taiwan, and her hopes&nbsp;that this course&nbsp;would allow&nbsp;more people&nbsp;to&nbsp;understand Taiwanese,and encourage communication in different languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Yoshida, who&nbsp;has a long-standing passion for Taiwanese culture, started with three Taiwanese greetings:&nbsp;&#8220;<em>L\u00ed h\u00f3!<\/em>&nbsp;(Hello!)&#8221;,&nbsp;\u201c<em>P\u00eeng-an!<\/em>&nbsp;(Hope you\u2019re well!)&#8221;, and &#8220;<em>Tsia<\/em><em>\u030d<\/em><em>h-p<\/em><em>\u00e1<\/em><em>&nbsp;bu<\/em><em>\u0113<\/em><em>?<\/em>&nbsp;(Have you eaten enough?)&#8221;. Thefull-day course&nbsp;went on to&nbsp;cover&nbsp;pronunciation of&nbsp;Taiwanese&nbsp;Romanization,&nbsp;writing, daily conversation, literary reading, and the Taiwanese song &#8220;Made in Taiwan.&#8221; Assisted by Taiwanese language students, Professor Yoshida blended everyday expressions into simple conversations, helping students quickly master entry-level Taiwanese skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sub-project leader, Associate Professor Li Bi-chhin of the Department of Taiwan&nbsp;&nbsp;Culture, Languages and Literature,&nbsp;said that&nbsp;the large number of&nbsp;registered students&nbsp;reflected strong latent demand for&nbsp;this course.&nbsp;In the future,&nbsp;she&nbsp;will collaborate&nbsp;with the School of Continuing Education&nbsp;to design similar courses aimed at teaching Taiwanese to Japanese speakers. She pointed out that&nbsp;thanks to the rich cultural connotations which&nbsp;Taiwanese&nbsp;carries, it&nbsp;is of great significance&nbsp;in&nbsp;understanding Taiwan&#8217;s art and aesthetics, and so learning Taiwanese helps&nbsp;in&nbsp;gaining&nbsp;a deeper understanding of Taiwan&#8217;s traditional and&nbsp;creative&nbsp;culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;(Written by: Campus Reporter Taiwan 117 Xia Lijun \/ Edited by: Zhang Shi, Gregory Laslo&nbsp;\/ Reviewed by: Hu Shize)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-id=\"9506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itsc.ntnu.edu.tw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/unnamed-1-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"NTNU Bridges Taiwan-Japan Language Gap with Accelerated Taiwanese Course\" class=\"wp-image-9506\" 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