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In this episode, we’ve talked about eating at “stir-fry places” in Taiwan, asking for recommendations, and also the price.

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In this episode, we’ve talked about personal pronouns like “you” and “I”, the “exclusive we” and “inclusive we”, and also how to express possession in Taiwanese.

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In this episode, we’ve talked about how to express the four seasons and common weather conditions in Taiwanese. Also, we learned some names of seasonal fruits.

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In this episode, we’ve talked about traveling by train to the beautiful east side of Taiwan, and also how to use prepositions to talk about your route and manner of transportation.

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NOTE: This week we're off for the Lunar New Year holiday, so today's episode will be a re-broadcast of Ep06: The Ninth Tone from our Pronounce it Like a Pro podcast series (show notes at link).  Don'…

In this episode, we’ve talked about some of the Lunar New Year’s Eve traditions in Taiwan.

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In this episode, we’ve learned how to ask “What time is it?”, “When are you going?”, and also time on the clock and different parts of the day.

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In this episode, we’ve talked about the “literary” pronunciation of numbers. We’ve also talked about several number-related expressions and how to ask for someone’s phone number and year of birth.

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In this episode, we’ve talked about the days of the week (Monday, Tuesday, etc.) in Taiwanese. Also, we learned about expressing days and weeks in a relative sense, such as “today” or “last week”.

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In this episode, we’ve talked about clothes shopping and learned some useful adjectives and intensifiers.

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In this episode, we’ve learned how to say “Do you speak Taiwanese?” and some responses to this question.

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In this episode, we learned 11 Taiwanese consonants and the important features about these sounds: voiced, voiceless, aspirated, and unaspirated.

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In this episode, we’ve learned how to describe locations in Taiwanese and some commonly used location suffixes.

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In this episode, we’ve learned some Taiwanese “measure words” while Phil and Alan figure out the ingredients for a Thanksgiving turkey dinner.

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In this episode, we’ve learned some higher numbers in Taiwanese and talked about the “red envelope” and weddings. Also, earlier this year, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex…

In this episode, we’ve learned how to count from 11-99 in Taiwanese and talked about some cultural differences on thinking about numbers, counting age and using the calendar.

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In this episode, we’ve learned how to count from 1-10 in Taiwanese and some idioms and phrases that use numbers. 

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In this episode, we’ve learned how to say “what is this?” and “what is that?”.

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In this episode, we’ve learned several ways to say goodbye in Taiwanese.

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In this episode, we’ve learned how to say sorry in Taiwanese.

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