Taiwan is a nice and beautiful place. If you are considering to visit Taiwan, you better know the following 10 need-to-know Mandarin Chinese sentence in Taiwan.

Need-to-know sentence 1 我要全糖

When ordering drink in Taiwan, you normally can decide how sweet you like.

So, you can say： 我要 + 全糖     / 半糖    / 少糖     / 無糖

wǒ yào +quán táng /bàn táng /shǎo táng /wú tang

It means I want normal sugar content/ half sugar content/ less sugar content/ no sugar content.

Need-to know sentence 2 我要正常冰

When ordering drink in Taiwan, you normally can choice how “cold” you want.

You can tell the clerk：我要+ 正常冰 / 少冰     / 去冰

wǒ yào +zhèng cháng bīng /shǎo bīng /qù bīng

It means I want normal ice cube content/ less ice cube content/ no ice cube

Need-to-know sentence 3 對不起

When you accidently hit or push somebody, or make any mistake, you need to say ”對不起(duì bù qǐ)”, which means “I am sorry.”

Don’t worry, Taiwanese are very kind people, if you disturb anyone or make a mistake, just say “對不起” to them. They will not really get mad to you (normally).

Need-to-know sentence 4 謝謝

When somebody help you or give you something or after you request something, you can say “謝謝(xiè xie)” to them, which means “thank you”

Need-to-know sentence 5 我要這個，謝謝

When you want to see or buy something, you can point out that and say “我要這個，謝謝(wǒ yào zhè ge ，xiè xie)”, which means “I want this, thank you.”

Need-to-know sentence 6 你好

It is just “hi”, “hello” in English, when you want to talk to somebody, or before you request something, you can always start form “你好(nǐ hǎo)”

Need-to-know sentence 7 我要去這裡

When you are in the street and don’t know how to go to the place you want，you can show people add and tell them “我要去這裡(wǒ yào qù zhè lǐ)”, which means “I want to go here.”

Need-to-know sentence 8 我吃素

If you are a vegetarian, you can tell the food shop “我吃素(wǒ chī sù)”, which means “ I am a vegetarian”.

Need-to-know sentence 9 這個多少錢

When you want to buy something, you better ask the price before you really want to buy it. You can ask the shop owner “這個多少錢(zhè gè duō shǎo qián)”, which means “how much is this?”

Need-to-know sentence 10 這個很好

If you want to commend something, you can say “這個很好(zhè ge hěn hǎo)”, which means “it is great”.

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Why learning Mandarin Chinese is a smart decision? Let’s check out the following 5 reasons. You will know why you batter start to learn Mandarin Chinese now.

Reason 1 Mandarin Chinese speaking population is in the very top ranking over the word.

Let’s see the document from Wikipedia：

Rank	Language	Speakers (millions)	Percentage of world pop. (March 2019)
1	Mandarin Chinese	918	11.922%
2	Spanish	480	5.994%
3	English	379	4.922%
4	Hindi (sanskritised Hindustani)	341	4.429%
5	Bengali	300	4.000%

 If you can speak Mandarin Chinese, your world will become wilder than your imagination. You will have bigger chance to communicate with a foreigner because both of you may both can speak Mandarin.

Reason 2 Increase you chance to gain more opportunities either in finding a job or developing your business.

Mandarin Chinese is one of the most popular language in the world. Also, there are a lot of Chinese Businessmen and enterprise all over the world.

Learning Mandarin Chinese won’t help you to get a job directly, but will increase the possibility to impress others.

In the other side, knowing Mandarin Chinese can assist you build up a closer relationship to a Chinese-businessman compare with those who don’t know any Mandarin Chinese.

Reason 3 Getting the “first hand” information- not through any translation information.

You may interest in Chinese culture, songs, movies, food or anything. But, how you get related information? How you learn it?

The benefit in learning Mandarin Chinese is you can review the information that you are interested directly. You don’t need to wait the others.

And, you don’t need to worried about if the translation is good or not. You won’t be miss leading. Sometimes, even the translator can really do their job well, but, just not like the original.

Reason 4 Break your limit

Mandarin Chinese is very a different language compare with English or Spain. When you try to understand Mandarin Chinese’s logic, you are also break your old habit, experience another new system.

If you want to learn a new language, why not Mandarin? It is not hard, as long as you find the right way, it is a commonly used language, and can bring you more chance to know different people.

Reason 5 Easier to build up your interpersonal networking relationship

It is a common sense that if you want to make friend with somebody quickly, speak his/her mother language is one of the best ways. Speak that language good or bad is not important, let them feel you are “part of them” is the key-point. Again, since Mandarin Chinese is the top 1 popular language, why don’t you choice it to learn!

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Is learning Mandarin Chinese hard to you? Let’s check out the following suggestions. You will find how to learn Mandarin Chinese easily as a beginner.

Choice the right materials and select the right speed to listen

There are a lot of Mandarin Chinese learning material for beginners. You can easily find hundreds of videos in YouTube. What you need to do is to choose the one that fit your level (or a little higher), don’t try to push yourself too much. There is an old saying in Mandarin Chinese: More Haste, Less Speed (欲速則不達) which means don’t be rush.

Some You Tubers can speak really good Mandarin, but maybe bit fast to you. Don’t forget there is a bottom in YouTube can adjust video speed. When the speed slow down, everything will become easier.

One day five vocabulary and one sentence

How many days are there is a year? 365days! That is right. If you can remember one new vocabulary and one sentence per day, after one year, you already familiar with so many new words and sentence.

Don’t think there are nothing, they are very important foundation as a beginner. You can develop yourself on top of them, you will improve fast.

The most important thing is to keep what you learn in your brain. Lesser but really understood and remember what you learned. How much you learned is just a number, how much you can understand and remember is the key point.

Slow is not bad, but need to move forward everyday

Ignore speed. Build up your own tempo. Slow doesn’t means anything, fast neither. As long as you are improving and move toward to your goal, slow is not bad. Well prepared for next level.

Don’t stay in place. It is means everyday get something new, everyday try something harder than yesterday. Not too much, just let you feel comfortable (a little stress still be fine).

Read Mandarin Chinese and find what you know

Language is for communication. Unless I try to connect with the real word, what I have learned will be useless.

As a beginner, how can I build up the connection? One of the easier ways is to read something. Reading is less stress than speaking, because you don’t need to respond people immediately and quickly.

However written language is hard than verbal language. What I suggest here is to pick up the characters/vocabularies that you knew. Through this, you can increase the opportunities to repeat what you know in your brain. Also, when you see them, you can try to think about their pronunciation and meaning and so on.

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It doesn’t matter how long you’ve learned Mandarin Chinese, as long as you wish to speak Mandarin Chinese fluently, you need to know the following 5 tips.

When speak Mandarin Chinese, don’t ignore tones and pronunciation

There are very few languages have tones, Mandarin Chinese is one of them. If you wish you can speak Mandarin Chinese fluently, then you have to pay more attention to tones. The same as pronunciation.

I am not saying you have to pronounce like a native Mandarin Chinese speaker. What you need to do is to focus on this, don’t ignore it.

Start from your first day of learning Mandarin Chinese, listen to it very carefully. If you are not used to “tones” and Mandarin Chinese, it is hard to get their sound and different. But as long as you keep focusing on them, you will find your improvement.

Know what Mandarin Chinese you are saying

This is very important. Sometimes, when my students say something wrong, I ask them to repeat what they say and try to clarified what the mistake is. However, about half of them couldn’t tell me what they just said. The answer from them normally is: I have no idea what did I pronounce, I just pick up anything “sounds like”. That is the problem.

As the other 50%, they know what they were saying. What they say is exactly what in their mind. However, sadly to say that the information they remember was wrong. That is the reason they couldn’t let people understand them.

Pay more attention to what you say and what you try to remember. When speak Mandarin Chinese, you need to know what you are saying.

Clear is always better than fast

Don’t try to speak Mandarin Chinese fast. Of course, when we speak your mother language, we can speak very fast, but not to a newly learned language.

Language is for communication. The purpose is to let people understand us. Speed is not for speaking training, it should be for listening.

Say everything clearly. Not only your pronunciation, but also the meaning. Present yourself clearly. Focus on accuracy, in stead of “sounds like a native speaker’s speed”. I didn’t say you need to use a very slow speed when speaking Mandarin Chinese. What I want to express is: speed should not be your goal in the beginning, natural is good enough.

Simple but correct can increase your fluency when speaking Mandarin Chinese

Sometimes, when I asked beginner students to do presentation, one of the common problems comes form here: they wish they can express very complicated idea through certain advanced vocabularies.

Frankly to say, this kind of presentation is terrible. Not only me, their teacher, but also their audiences, no one really understand what they want to show to us.

As a beginner, build up your skills step by step. One day you will have the ability to explain a very complicated concept through a lot of advanced vocabularies. Just be patient.

Accuracy should be put in the first place when you are trying to build up the foundation.

Repeat what you hear is very useful if you want to speak Mandarin Chinese fluently

It sounds very simple, but very useful. When study Mandarin Chinese, listen to your test book or videos is a good way to practice. However, repeat what you hear is a batter way to improve your speaking skills.

First, when repeating it, you must know what you are saying. Second, you can check your pronunciation immediately with what your teacher said. In your mind, you still keep both, yours and your teacher’s.

That make the differences become very clear. Also, it will easier to “copy” the correct sentences within just 2 seconds later.

What you need to do is to follow up what you hear. It won’t take you much time, but really good to you. Or, you can follow up everything in Mandarin Chinese you hear. Only to be careful about the speakers, if he or she can offer you good content or not.

Those five tips can helps you to improve you Mandarin Chinese speaking skills, really worth you to try.

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