Beginner Taishanese 1 (Zoom Conference)

Class Time – Mon., 7:30–9:00 PM ET

Total Sessions – 8

Class Size: 3 – 8 Students

Pre-requisites – none

Material – InspirLang Taishanese Curriculum for Beginners (textbook included)

Have you been listening to Taishanese conversations for years at the dinner table but found it clueless of what your families were saying, or have been looking for simple ways to connect with your families by having a conversation with them in Taishanese? The Taishanese-learning zone is a dessert for its heritage speakers who grew up oversea, not only due to its lack of learning resource, but also due to the discouraging conception that it is useless to learn Taishanese, in comparison to other more popular dialects of Chinese.

We hope to make a change in the smallest ways by making Taishanese resource available to everyone. Whether you are a frequent listener of the Learn Taishanese Daily podcast, or you are referred to this course by a friend, you are welcome to join this Heritage Taishanese 1 course. This course is designed for non-native or heritage speakers who have connections with Taishanese family members but have little or no experience in its formal learning In this course, you will be introduced with the basic Taishanese sentence structures and vocabulary, as well as the application of our Romanzation system and tones (Wu’s Phonetic System). After studying this 8-week course, you will be able to ask and answer basic questions in Taishanese and hold a simple conversation with your family.

Writing – There will be 15 minutes in each session that is used to study traditional Chinese characters so that you can recognize more characters the next time you visit Chinatown!

Some topics that will be covered in this Level 1 class:

• Basic greetings
• Nationalities
• Pronunciations and tones
• Basic sentence structures to ask and answer open-ended questions
• Directions
• Numbers
• Eating out

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