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		<title>Call for papers: 6th International Conference on Literature in Taiwanese, 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2010/04/14/call-for-papers-6th-international-conference-on-literature-in-taiwanese-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just received this email with a call for papers for the autumn conference on Literature in Taiwanese:
Call for Papers
The 6th International Conference on Literature in Taiwanese, 2010
Application of abstract submission
Theme: Neo-aesthetics &#8211; Artistic Qualities and Diversity
Conference sponsor: Graduate Institute of Taiwan Culture, Language and
Literature
Conference site: Taiwan Normal University (Taipei, Taiwan)
Conference date: Oct. 23 &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet-up for people interested in the Taiwanese language</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2010/01/20/meet-up-for-people-interested-in-the-taiwanese-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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Where: The Artists&#8217; Village, 7 Beiping East Road, Taipei (台北市北平東路7號)
When: Thursday 28th January, from 8pm

Anyone who is interesting in learning the Taiwanese language, or in swapping information and suggestions about it, will be welcome along.  I&#8217;ll be there, as will a couple of people who are currently taking classes, so they will be able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taiwanese dictionaries &#8211; a (hopefully) comprehensive list</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2010/01/20/taiwanese-dictionaries-a-hopefully-comprehensive-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dictionaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Etymology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had cause to look for a bibliography of Taiwanese dictionaries, and was frustrated by the lack of consistent and comprehensive information available online. Having had a look in print too, it seemed that what I was looking for simply didn&#8217;t exist.  So, in a do-it-yourself spirit I&#8217;ve put together a list of 145 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Black-Bearded Bible Man</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2008/11/24/the-black-bearded-bible-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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A major production of an opera five years in the making is happening this week in Taipei.  The Black Bearded Bible Man is a bilingual English-Taiwanese production chronicling the life of the Reverend George Leslie Mackay (1844-1901), a Canadian missionary and one of the best-known foreigners in Taiwan&#8217;s history.
Mackay was responsible for founding Oxford College [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MoE releases online Taiwanese dictionary (finally!)</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2008/10/20/moe-releases-online-taiwanese-dictionary-finally/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2008/10/20/moe-releases-online-taiwanese-dictionary-finally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately no time to look into this in depth at the moment, but the Taipei Times today detailed the announcement by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan of a new web-based dictionary for Taiwanese (referred to in the report as Hoklo):
After seven years of development, the Ministry of Education has completed the first official online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ministry of Education to create standardised Taiwanese exams</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2008/10/04/ministry-of-education-to-create-standardised-taiwanese-exams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2008/10/04/ministry-of-education-to-create-standardised-taiwanese-exams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month the Taiwanese Ministry of Education (MoE) announced plans to create a system of standardised testing for Taiwanese.  The examinations, which will be outsourced to &#8220;competent organisations&#8221; are intended to be open to all, and will be divided into six grades: beginner, advanced beginner, intermediate, advanced intermediate, advanced, and professional.
Successful examinees will be awarded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NCKU hosts Taiwanese Literature Study Program</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2008/01/11/ncku-hosts-taiwanese-literature-study-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2008/01/11/ncku-hosts-taiwanese-literature-study-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taiwan&#8217;s second-highest ranked university, the National Cheng Kung University in Tâi-lâm (Tainan), is currently accepting applications for their 2008 Taiwanese Creative Literature Program.  Two parallel classes will be run in Tâi-lâm and Ko-hiông (Kaohsiung) to offer applicants a choice of study locations.
The one requirement is a minimum of 36 hours or two credits worth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>¿Habla taiwanés? No problem for this costaricana&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2007/12/05/%c2%bfhabla-taiwanes-no-problem-for-this-costaricana/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2007/12/05/%c2%bfhabla-taiwanes-no-problem-for-this-costaricana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Taiwanese are surprised when a non-local speaks in decent Mandarin, so the shock when a foreigner opens their mouth and Taiwanese comes out is palpable. The United Daily News yesterday featured an article about a Costa Rican woman who married a Taiwanese man from Lâm-tâu (Nantou) and learned to speak the language.
10年前從哥斯大黎加嫁到鹿谷的梅麗莎，不僅融入當地民情，以一口順溜的台語賣茶，更常讓買茶遊客驚訝：「哪裡來的外國人，台語怎麼說得比我還好！」
Ten years ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classic Taiwanese Film Festivals</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2007/12/03/classic-taiwanese-film-festivals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2007/12/03/classic-taiwanese-film-festivals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Work commitments mean I&#8217;m a bit behind on the news &#8211; one example being the recent Classic Taiwanese Film Festivals held in Tâi-pak (Taipei), Tâi-lâm (Tainan), Sin-tek (Xinzhu) and 	Phêⁿ-ô͘ (Penghu). The history of Taiwanese-language film is one marked by a long hiatus during the latter half of the martial law period (1945-1987) when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Typing Taiwanese &#8211; OpenVanilla 0.8 smoothes the way</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2007/11/22/typing-taiwanese-openvanilla-08-smooths-the-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2007/11/22/typing-taiwanese-openvanilla-08-smooths-the-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a both a Mac user and someone who is learning Taiwanese I find OpenVanilla indispensable as an Input Method for entering the Peh-oe-ji (POJ) romanization.  Version 0.7, which I was using before, had a number of small issues which made everyday use a little frustrating. Most serious of these was the failure of [...]]]></description>
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