The purpose of this workshop is to give students who study mandarin in Europe the opportunity to learn about the characteristics of another language in the Sinitic language family. By understanding the basic linguistic structure of Taiwanese, the workshop will also enable students to benefit in comparison with their Chinese counterparts. From the perspective of language acquisition, it is useful to construct a distance from the language being learned to understand it. In this Taiwanese workshop, we will try to learn Taiwanese through Mandarin. The workshop will focus on the basic linguistic elements of the language, such as intonation, pronunciation, and the provision of simple sentence patterns, as well as music or poetry.

Dr. Liu Chanyueh is currently an Emerging Professor at the Institut National des Langues et Cultures Orientals (Inalco) and head of the Center for Taiwan Studies. At Inalco, he teaches: Taiwanese languages, contemporary Taiwanese social and cultural phenomena, East Asian performing arts, and interculturality. His main research areas are language and culture teaching and performing practice, Taiwanese performing arts and their social interaction, transformation of literature, and transmediality.

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DATE: Thursday, June 5, 2025

TIME: 16:45 – 20:00

LOCATION: SIN 1, at the Department for East Asian Studies/Chinese Studies, Altes AKH, Campus, Spitalgasse 2, Yard 2, Entrance 2.3