Mandarin is the language that was forced upon Taiwan by the KMT after their retreat from China, it erases Taiwan’s cultural heritage and reinforces the “One China” narrative that fools the world into thinking Taiwan is a part of China. It’s time for Taiwan to scrap Mandarin entirely. Taiwan must ad…

The useful languages of this century are Chinese and English let’s have people be fluent in those ld.

From the languages you say you dislike, I wonder if what you hate is actually hard attack. [Hard Attack: How English is getting more "choppy"]

Admittedly who is doing the talking influences whether the language sounds nice or not And depends who is doing the listening as well [English vs mando vs Taiwanese. Pt 1] Ps Ollie only understands English and he responds only in CAT

[image] Marco: Could be trilingual. Practical problems. As simple as space on signs. Funding problems. If you use funds for replacing potentially millions of signs, those funds cannot be spent elsewhere, begging the question of how important this is, compared to other pressing educational nee…

[image] tommy525: https://youtube.com/shorts/5zRhhbZHJCw?si=BHv0Jcu5cTZEq_dl Honestly, your Taigi sounds beautiful. My cats responds to all 3 languages about the same I think. When I first got my cats, even before then when they were living on the streets, and I fed them everyday, I spoke M…

[image] hannes: Then, how exactly would this look like? Are we thinking of using Chinese characters or some sort of romanization? [image] Unified romanization for all Taiwanese native languages possible? Taiwanese and Hakka Corner [tur]

Romanization to be used by locals? Sure, good look with that.

[image] hannes: Romanization to be used by locals? Sure, good look with that. All you need to do is put it on the placement exams.

Romanization would be helpful in the sense that Indonesian, for example, is Romanized and uses the 26 letters of the alphabet, but I don’t know if Mandarin writing should be abolished. It would be a shame. It’s thousands of years old and so many people can read and write not myself unfortunately I …

[image] tommy525: but I don’t know if Mandarin writing should be abolished. It would be a shame. It’s thousands of years old Modern Mandarin itself is barely 250 years old. The writing of it began in 1915 by Chen Duxiu (陳獨秀) , who later founded the CCP in 1920. His proposal gained the suppor…

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Taiwan’s Identity: Time to Drop Mandarin?

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hansioux January 9, 2026, 1:38am 440