Min nan dialogue with audio

[LiYuanXi]

Here is a link to a website for kids in Taiwan to learn Min nan dialect. I think it is quite interesting. What do you think?

http://www.mina.ks.edu.tw/mina4/index.htm

[yonglan]

That's a neat site, but it seems kind of buggy. It keeps stopping on me. Does it play straight through for you?

[ala]

It plays straight with no problems for me. IE6, WinXP, broadband.

[LiYuanXi]

The first run is not so smooth. The second run will be smoother as the whol flash movie is downloaded.

[JCJC]

Are there any other resources available for learning Minnanhua? I'd like to learn Min Nan Hua but I'm unaware of any resources to do this.

[OneEye]

Have you googled? Was this thread that died 8 years ago really the only thing you could find?

There are a decent number of resources out there for the variety spoken in Taiwan, but if you're looking for another variety I don't know.

I'm very much a beginner in 台語, but I like the "Harvard Taiwanese 101" book fairly well (despite the distinctly non-native English used throughout). The series put out by Maryknoll is also well-recommended and fairly standard material for teaching foreigners in Taiwan, despite the fact that it contains a lot of church-related vocabulary because of the nature of the organization. You could also look here for other resources.

[OneEye]

I found a book the other day called "Spoken Hokkien" by Fang Meili that looks pretty good. I believe it's published by SOAS and was developed while Fang was teaching there. It teaches the Tainan variety of Taiwanese/Minnan. It won't take you very far but it does have some good dialogues and good quality, clear audio.

There's a bookstore in Taipei called 台灣e店 (Tâi oân e tiàm) that deals exclusively in books related to Taiwan, nothing on China. I've heard that some of the employees don't even like to speak Mandarin with customers and would prefer to speak English if you can't speak 台語, but when I was there recently the old man working spoke to me in Mandarin (heavily-accented, and he took every opportunity to tell me how to say in Taiwanese what I had just said in Mandarin). They have a really awesome selection of books on the language, both instructional and academic. If you're in Taiwan and looking for this sort of thing, stop by. Make sure to say lí hó when you go in, not nǐ hǎo.