Would anyone be up to a Taiwanese study group?

I could meet on Monday or Wednesday nights around the 古亭 or 大安 areas (Guting or Da'an Park for the Chinese-impaired ). Another place I could meet would be near Alleycats by 永康 street (Yong-Kang), though Alleycat's would be too dark for a study group... There are other places there...

The goal would be to read through the Maryknoll books (books 1 to 3) as well as share any new discoveries about Taiwanese. I have all the Maryknoll books and we can get copies.

Man I would so be there if it weren't for my damn asthmatic lungs! I had won a scholarship to Shi-Da, and after only three months I was too sick to go to class, or leave my place period. I left Taiwan in anger and shame. Even working in Houston can upset my asthma, and everyone around me is completely unaffected. Curse my weak lungs!

Sorry, had to get that out.

I currently have books 1 and 2 of the Maryknoll series, plus the cds...I've gone through 5 chapters in three weeks, repeating every sentence, and having listened to each cd about 3 to 5 times. I guess the only advice I can give for anyone wanting to join you is...play the sentence, pause it, repeat it, then listen to them repeat it (for most parts everything is said twice). This has worked for me...as it is...here in Texas. You lucky healthy lung people

Actually, maybe Houston is a better place to learn Taiwanese for more than one reason...

Better than Taiwan?

Is this still on? I am all for it, seriously. My taiwanese is next to none.
But I long to learn.

I'm in

Don't know why I'm posting this as I already sent PM's, but anyway... Alleycat's is too dark, but it would be a comfy place. Should we ask them if they'd turn up the lights for us? Or just go to the outdoor patio at Barrista?

And there's a place in Taipei to buy the Maryknoll books, but I'm not the one who knows where... Working on it...

I'm in and I PMed you the info for buying the books... Guess I could just post it here too

地址：台北市中山北路一段2號八樓
電話：（02）2314-1833
傳真：（02）2361-8843

I'll go investigate tomorrow since I have off again.

This group. What would you (we?) actually do?

Brian

The plan is to go through the chapters of the Maryknoll books one chapter per week. We have all week to study the chapter on our own, then we meet and talk about the chapter, pointing out interesting things and sharing any other Taiwanese we've learned outside that would be related to the stuff in the chapter. If it's anything like the Sanskrit study group I did back in Taichung, there may also be a lot of silence as people just read the chapter and then some random 'surprise quiz' testing at will.