Surely you’re not under the impression that Taiwanese never speak with
each other over the telephone, that there are no Taiwanese radio stations,
or that blind Taiwanese cannot speak.

Of course native speakers can become confused about what someone else is
saying. But that happens in all languages.

Of course, when speaking, one can use gestures and emphasis to clarify confused meanings. One can also see the faces of the person being spoken to, and immediately sense any lack of comprehension.

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Thanks for this great site.

See, what I fail to understand is, all Hoklo speakers today have a keyboard in front of their computers. Yet so few even dare to try to write down their own daily speech. As if writing Hoklo is a difficult task.

Another thing I fail to understand is with all the Hoklo teaching in Taiwan, the Hoklo speaker still fail to appreciate the single most important feature of their language: the tonal phrase structure. When will they ever take notice that this is very feature that makes their language so unique and special?