With fewer and fewer opportunities to speak Taiwanese in daily life, I believe many people, like me, will suddenly forget how to say a certain sentence and get stuck when chatting with others. The “TaigiTube Taiwanese water pipe” recommended in this article is a super good helper. By combining it with searching for YouTube videos, we can quickly know how to say “this sentence” in Taiwanese, and multiple video results will appear at once. It is completely free to use.
“TaigiTube Taiwanese Plumbing” is a great helper for learning Taiwanese pronunciation. You can easily find related videos with one click.
According to the developer, the creation of this website originated from watching local dramas with the whole family when he was a child. During this happy time, he unknowingly learned Taiwanese. He hopes to pass on this kind and warm experience, so he created “Taiwanese Water Pipe TaigiTube”. Perhaps some of the pronunciation in local dramas is not standard enough, and sometimes Taiwanese and Mandarin are mixed in, but it is the most authentic and familiar Taiwanese daily life for us.
The website design is influenced by YouGlish It is produced for inspiration and enlightenment, hoping to provide every learner with a learning channel that can experience daily situations, be close to life, and be full of fun.
Supplement: YouGlish uses YouTube videos to find English words, and TaigiTube is simply the Taiwanese version.
What’s even more special is that each video has a “like” and “down like” function. Everyone can rate whether the video is useful, thereby improving the algorithm to help every learner quickly find the most suitable video.
The method of use is very simple. After clicking the link above to enter TaigiTube, enter the sentence or keyword you want to query the pronunciation in the search box:
Like me typing “The weather is very nice today”:
However, not every sentence has appeared in YouTube videos. If the sentence I entered does not appear, it will show that the relevant video cannot be found. However, with a small modification and imagining what kind of sentences are the most common, the video can be found:
After I changed it to “The weather is very good today”, there were indeed videos, as many as 43 of them. Each one would jump directly to the video clip where this sentence appears, so that we can directly hear how to pronounce it in Taiwanese:
It is recommended that you listen to a few more videos so that you can better understand how to read:
However, it may have just been launched, and the algorithm has not been fully optimized. Some videos are in common Mandarin, not Taiwanese pronunciation. In this case, it is recommended to click the like button in the lower right corner to give feedback. If the video is good, you can also click like it:
It is very useful to look up sentences and words that are rarely spoken. For example, few people know how to say “to set up one’s own business” in Taiwanese. With the YouTube video, you can say it immediately:
TaigiTube Taiwanese Water Pipe is currently completely free to use and does not have any advertisements, so it is very Buddhist-friendly. The developer also provides sponsorship support options. If you think it is good, you can sponsor a small amount and get a selected collection of Taiwanese proverbs for free:
If you are interested in learning Taiwanese, in addition to this website, we have introduced itaigi、Xiong loves to learn Taiwanese You can also give it a try, they are quite useful.
Source: KOCPC Chinese