[quote=“headhonchoII”]You live in Taiwan and never heard of Taiwan Guoyu?
Taiwan Guoyu is Taiwanese inflected Mandarin (so think lazy with Sh’s and X’s , and heavier with the nasal sounds and lack of retroflex) and localized phrases and words such as ‘wo gen ni jiang’ and ‘wo you…’ with grammar derived from Taiwanese.
It’s spoken in the North too obviously as it is called ‘Taiwan guoyu’![/quote]
I think the OP’s use of the word to ‘Taiwan guoyu’ is the [url=How To Have a "Taiwan Guoyu" Accent to Your Taiwan Mandarin as mine in this thread[/url], i.e. if it were pronounced by someone using that accent it would be pronounced tai wan go yee
Though point of fact I’m not in Taiwan anymore…
I honestly never felt I heard or could identify regional accents in Mandarin spoken in Taiwan, other than the aforesaid tai wan go yee, and I lived in central Taiwan before moving to Taipei. I also had one good friend from Kaosiung who spoke very standard Mandarin, at least by Taiwanese standards.
I never spent any time in Tainan or elsewhere in the south so I may be ignorant simply due to lack of exposure to regional accents though