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		<title>Maryknoll Taiwanese-English dictionary data available</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2010/06/23/maryknoll-taiwanese-english-dictionary-data-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maryknoll have just updated their dictionary page with an Excel-format spreadsheet of the content of their Taiwanese-English dictionary.  The spreadsheet consists of 55,903 entries, with four columns for each entry (sort, romanization, Mandarin in characters, and English). Here&#8217;s a quick sample:


hoan tian 01
hoan-tian
不正常 ,反常
abnormal


hoan tian 01a
::la7u hoan-tian
罵老人記性差
old person forgetful because of age


hoan tiau
ho2an-tia7u
反調
sing off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maryknoll dictionaries now free to download</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2010/06/17/maryknoll-dictionaries-now-free-to-download/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2010/06/17/maryknoll-dictionaries-now-free-to-download/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the recent news that Maryknoll have decided to license their dictionaries under the Creative Commons, they have now uploaded pdf versions of both the Taiwanese-English and English-Taiwanese dictionaries to their website.

The documents are divided into letters of the alphabet, but the entirety of both dictionaries is available there. The great work put in by [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2010/04/14/call-for-papers-6th-international-conference-on-literature-in-taiwanese-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hoklo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taiwanese]]></category>

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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>Maryknoll dictionaries now &#8220;open-source&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2010/04/04/maryknoll-dictionaries-now-open-source/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2010/04/04/maryknoll-dictionaries-now-open-source/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dictionaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maryknoll]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great news for English speakers learning Taiwanese: Catholic missionary language training centre Maryknoll have just decided to release the contents of their two dictionaries (the English-Amoy Dictionary and the Taiwanese-English Dictionary) under a Creative Commons license. Their content, like this site, will now be open to anyone to use and remix, as long as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Map of locations connected with the Taiwanese language</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2010/03/19/map-of-locations-connected-with-the-taiwanese-language/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2010/03/19/map-of-locations-connected-with-the-taiwanese-language/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve put together a map with few places important to the Taiwanese language – bookshops, churches, libraries and museums – and you can view it in Google Maps. If you have any suggestions of other places to add, please let me know and I will make the necessary adjustments.

]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2010/01/20/meet-up-for-people-interested-in-the-taiwanese-language/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Learning Taiwanese]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Southern Min]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
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>
		<comments>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2010/01/20/taiwanese-dictionaries-a-hopefully-comprehensive-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dictionaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Etymology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hokkien]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Southern Min]]></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>2010 Conference on Taiwanese Proficiency Testing</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2009/12/15/2010-conference-on-taiwanese-proficiency-testing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2009/12/15/2010-conference-on-taiwanese-proficiency-testing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NCKU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Taiwanese Proficiency Test Center at the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan will be hosting a conference in March next year.  The third Conference on Taiwanese Proficiency Test (sic) will take place on the 13th March at the Banyan Campus of NCKU (off Daxue Rd near the train station). There&#8217;s a call for papers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using CSS to display Peh-oe-ji correctly</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2009/12/06/using-css-to-display-peh-oe-ji-correctly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2009/12/06/using-css-to-display-peh-oe-ji-correctly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Site News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taiwanese computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Times were that I was asking everyone who visited this site to download fonts in order to view the content properly. However, growing support for web fonts (in CSS3) means that many visitors with up-to-date web browsers are able to see the fonts I choose, even if those fonts are not installed on their computers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Site redesigned and back online</title>
		<link>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2009/12/05/site-redesigned-and-back-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tailingua.com/news/2009/12/05/site-redesigned-and-back-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Site News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a while without adding any new content, I&#8217;ve decided to update the design and add some features to the site.  In addition to the updated look of the site, there are a couple of additions worth pointing out.  The first is a sitemap to allow visitors to locate the information they are looking for.  [...]]]></description>
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