30th June 2024: New e-textbook published: 台語初級: Elementary Taigi for Mandarin Speakers
This textbook, for Mandarin speakers starting out learning Hokkien/Taigi/Taiwanese, is written in Mandarin and is a revised and translated version of Spoken Hokkien.
4th June 2024: Updated Errata (Spoken Hokkien)
An updated Errata (minor corrections) for Spoken Hokkien. View/download the document here [1 page, PDF].
30th April 2024: New e-textbook published: 台語中級 : Taigi Intermediate for Mandarin Speakers
This textbook, for Mandarin speakers learning Hokkien/Taigi/Taiwanese, is written in Mandarin and is a revised and translated version of Spoken Hokkien Intermediate.
2nd February 2024: Minor update of Spoken Hokkien Intermediate
This version is an update with a small number of Hokkien word spellings corrected.
23rd January 2023: Spoken Hokkien Intermediate e-textbook newly published and launched today
26 June 2022: Spoken Chinese e-textbook now available from this site
The textbook Spoken Chinese, previously available from https://www.spokenchinese.net/ , is now available here on this Speak Taiwanese website.
13 February 2022: online payment system updated
From 4 to 12 February there was a problem with the online payment system; this has now been fixed.
November 2020: all audio free download coupon with ebook
The ebook now comes with a coupon (on the last page) with details for free download of all 61 MP3 audio files that accompany the lessons (in the form of a single 9MB Zip file).
23 May 2020: Errata (Spoken Hokkien)
We have made a small number of minor corrections to the text and layout of the online version of Spoken Hokkien. For the details of the text corrections, see our errata document here [1 page, PDF].
24 May 2020: Audio
We are aware that at the end of this year Adobe is removing support for the Flash player that plays audio within the Spoken Hokkien ebook. We have already provided many Spoken Hokkien purchasers with complete sets of standalone MP3 audio free on request.
We will continue to provide MP3 audio on request to people who have purchased the ebook PDF (see our Contact form).