I'm studying Mandarin and thinking of working maybe in Taiwan, since the wages are better than China's. I'd want to get speaking practice (main reason for going there actually), so would this be a problem? Is it more commonly spoken than Taiwanese?
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The official language is Chinese mandarin (traditional Chinese character set)
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Mandarin is the official language in Taiwan. But, if you are learning Mandarin as a second language, you may find it more difficult to understand spoken Mandarin in Taiwan. You might need to get used to it first, since native speakers typically speak faster.
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You'll do fine. There are some variations between Mandarin as spoken on Taiwan and Mandarin as spoken in Beijing, but they aren't major. You will have to learn traditional characters though as that's what is used on Taiwan.
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You'll be fine. The only difference between the Mandarin in Taiwan and China's is the stressed tone on some of the characters... 99.999% are the same, it's just the same as southern dialect english and the rest of the country. China seems to emphasize the curled tongue sounds better in certain aspects. but other than that, not much difference. There are the Taiwanese local dialect though... that is very different soundign than mandarin. but the characters are still the same. good luck and have fun in Taiwan, don't miss the great food at the night market. :D
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there isn't much speaking difference between Chinese and Taiwanese but the writing difference is huge... maybe you will notice some "dian, wan" instead of "diar, war" and some other frequent phrases but i can't imagine how much longer it will take you to write same amount of characters (i mean handwriting)... Traditional characters is the most scary point about Taiwanese...
