{"id":488,"date":"2023-06-15T14:01:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingriley.com\/?p=488"},"modified":"2023-07-12T05:20:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T05:20:16","slug":"why-is-taiwanese-so-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingriley.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/15\/why-is-taiwanese-so-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Taiwanese so difficult?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every language has a fair share of irregularities. However, they normally represent only a small portion of the entire language. My mother tongue has at least 40% of irregularities. You can hardly find a language as difficult as it is. Have you ever met a native speaker who can&#8217;t even pronounce a common surname in their native language? Or people don&#8217;t know how to say lightening in their mother tongue? Can you imagine a word should be pronounced differently even in &#8220;the same context&#8221;. Or there exist massive amounts of tonal changes without reason\uff1f<br><br>Can you name a language which native speakers fail in daily-life scenarios? Yes. Taiwanese &#8211; a language in which native speakers cannot master colloquial speech. A language that native speakers stumble over common, non-technical terms. A language that native speakers fail to master tonal changes perfectly. And of course, a language that is drastically dying due to its incredible complexity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every language has a fair share of irregularities. However, they normally represent only a small portion of the entire language. My mother tongue has at least 40% of irregularities. You can hardly find a language as difficult as it is. Have you ever met a native speaker who can&#8217;t even &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tingriley.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/15\/why-is-taiwanese-so-difficult\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taiwanese"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tingriley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tingriley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tingriley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tingriley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tingriley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tingriley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/tingriley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tingriley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tingriley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tingriley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}