Typesetting in four languages — #Taiwanese or #台語, #Mandarin or #中文, English & Gaelic — is a challenge. But the proofs for our short story collection translated between Taiwanese and Gaelic are coming into shape. And they're beautiful. Stories by Elissa Hunter-Dorans, Kiú-kiong, Naomi Sím & Lisa MacDonald.

The book is available on pre-order, and will be out in June, after which we're planning events in both the UK and Taiwan.

https://books.windandbones.com/product/taigael-stories-from-taiwanese-and-gaelic

身為台灣福佬，我對深綠有一個臍帶的情感，所以忍不住就會看鄭的節目， 但是我實在沒辦法忍耐他們對川皇的癡迷
As #Taiwanese Hoklo I have a umbilical connection to the Deep Green ideology so I cannot help to watch Zheng's programm, but I really cannot bear their obsession with Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zglz8zXDFG4

Exciting to eat this rare find: #Taiwanese #dumplings/ #Goyza from Chimei

❝#Manila arrests #Chinese #spies posing as #Taiwanese ❞
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2025/01/31/2003831096
#馬尼拉
#Philippines
#菲律賓
#China
#中國
#中國人
#間諜

Check out this recent review of my high fantasy indie novel, Sins of a Dying Empire, part of Below the Heavens!

The first two books are available for free (as well as the currently publishing, serialized third book) in web novel form on Royalroad, found in my bio!

#indieauthor #indiebooks #indiefantasy #fantasy #selfpublished #webnovelist #writing #novel #fantasyauthor #taiwanese #asian #asiancreator #writers #book #books #fantasybook #bookstodon #webnovel #highfantasy #xianxia #royalroad #scribblehub #eastasian #indiewriter #alttext @bookstodon

Are there any #Taiwanese / #台語 / #taigi speakers who can help me with some Taiwanese onomatopoeia for a story I'm writing? I need the sounds of:

1. A creaky, rusted old bicycle
2. A bell, equally rusted but still just about usable, on this same bicycle.

This is quite crazy. There are ~23 million people in #Taiwan. So almost 20% of all Taiwanese visit Japan every year???

"The number of #Taiwanese visitors to Japan in 2023 was 4.2 million, the second highest overall."

(yeah, I know, probably a lot of repeats. But still!)

Excellent news. I recently completed a six month online program with a Taiwanese language teacher in Kaohsiung. It was very good for me as I already read Chinese characters and speak Taiwanese as a heritage speaker. I constantly despaired that it would seem so insurmountable for someone to pick it up from scratch. Gotta check out the programs at Berkeley, close to home

#Languages #Chinese #Cantonese #Taiwanese #Hokkien

https://mstdn.social/@davidonformosa/113537141930967459

I’ve been listening to a podcast called Dear Han People that’s a riff on Dear White People, but from Indigenous Taiwanese people to Han Chinese folks.

Mandarin-only, sometimes some Taiwanese, but very very good.

I found a cool website for learning Taiwanese through Hokkien music videos and their transcription.

This probably only works if you (1) can already read / write Chinese characters (2) already speak Hokkien but can write it. So, for heritage speakers like me.

I already have lots of personal projects but it’ll be fun to do this when I have some down time. Might be fun to surprise my parents with my knowledge of the songs they love.

Singapore Hokkien: cuss words and profanities

Taiwanese Hokkien: has printed literature about.. axolotls

https://zirk.us/@willbuckingham/113136041356540808

Good morning to readers, Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

#Russia still continues to receive modern #Taiwanese chips to manufacture its deadly weapons.

We visited a forensic lab to find out how chips from Ukraine’s allies are found inside #Russian weapons.

My idea of a wild Saturday night. Reading about Axolotls in #Taiwanese. Let nobody say that I don’t know how to have a good time.

Their #grandmothers were ‘#comfortwomen’ in #WWII. This is how it changed their lives.

Most of the girls were #Korean, while others were of #Taiwanese, #Chinese, #Filipino or other #Asian #descent. They were #forced to perform #sex #acts with up to five to 60 men per day.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Asia #Japan History #WWII #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #SexualAssault #Rape #Misogyny

https://www.reckon.news/honey/2024/08/their-grandmothers-were-comfort-women-in-wwii-this-is-how-it-changed-their-lives.html