pufftissue
秀才
Hi,
I posted this over in a different unrelated forum, but here is my dilemma. My friends say that the words that I am learning are often like mainland China's way of saying things. In Taiwan I'd like to learn Taiwan's variant of mandarin (let's put aside the political issues for now). The thing is, when I look in Pleco, I can only memorize what the dictionary says. How do you guys learn the Taiwanese variant of Mandarin? It's really frustrating b/c I will say something and they will understand, but then they will say "but in Taiwan we say "this"". Maybe it's like an American saying I'm going to the Loo; we'd understand, but we say bathroom or something like that.
It's to the point that when I look something up in Pleco, I put an asterisk by it in my head b/c I have little confidence that this is the way that the Taiwanese would say it.
Far-East pinyin dictionary is the only one where I could use with confidence, but it's not electronic. The Besta dictionaries are pretty trustworthy, but they're clearly geared for a native Taiwanese Mandarin speaker. Pleco is great but if only it would give Taiwan's variants more clearly.
Any suggestions?
I posted this over in a different unrelated forum, but here is my dilemma. My friends say that the words that I am learning are often like mainland China's way of saying things. In Taiwan I'd like to learn Taiwan's variant of mandarin (let's put aside the political issues for now). The thing is, when I look in Pleco, I can only memorize what the dictionary says. How do you guys learn the Taiwanese variant of Mandarin? It's really frustrating b/c I will say something and they will understand, but then they will say "but in Taiwan we say "this"". Maybe it's like an American saying I'm going to the Loo; we'd understand, but we say bathroom or something like that.
It's to the point that when I look something up in Pleco, I put an asterisk by it in my head b/c I have little confidence that this is the way that the Taiwanese would say it.
Far-East pinyin dictionary is the only one where I could use with confidence, but it's not electronic. The Besta dictionaries are pretty trustworthy, but they're clearly geared for a native Taiwanese Mandarin speaker. Pleco is great but if only it would give Taiwan's variants more clearly.
Any suggestions?
