Hi guys, I'm Cecilia Chen. I am a Chinese teacher from Taiwan. If you are interested in learning Taiwanese Mandarin, don't ask authentic Taiwanese Mandarin. Definitely check out my channel. By the way, I also offer free mini course for total beginner who wants to learn Taiwanese Mandarin. Alright, so check out the link down below. Alright, so today's topic, how to sound like Taiwanese people. Alright, so a lot of you, if you're learning Mandarin for a while in Taiwan, you probably already have this experience like, okay, in the class teacher teach you, for example, 吃飯,吃飯, which is to eat, yeah, 吃飯. But you might hear people say 吃飯,吃飯. So you're like, what? It's so different from what you learn, right? Okay, so let me tell you that there's some pronunciation that Taiwanese people tend to pronounce them bad. I will say, okay, or it's just our accent. Alright, three pronunciation, pronunciation. You have to um more relax about it. Okay, so first one is 吃飯,吃飯, okay. So in standard way, we need to curl out tongue, right? 吃飯, and the daily day to day life, we don't really say that. So for example, 知道,知道,知道 means to know, right? You can say,我知道, I know,我知道. Okay, but the problem is people don't say,我知道, people only say,我知道,我知道. It's almost like no curling. It's almost like this. See,知道,知道. Okay, so this is how we pronounce it, when you market or writing in either Chinese or Chinese, definitely still write this. Okay, okay, this is first one. Second one, 吃,吃 this pronunciation. 吃, again, we don't curl it, we just, we don't curl the tongue, okay. We just say 吃,吃, see, and so different. So we will say 吃飯, et,你要不要去吃飯,吃飯, you want to go eat? 吃飯,吃飯, or好吃,好吃, delicious. 這個很好吃,這個很好吃, we don't really say 这个很好吃, you know, people say like that, right? Okay, and last one is 吃,吃, again, it's about the tongue curling. So don't do that, that heart, you will say 老师,老师, you probably hear people say okay, 老师,老师,老师,老师,老师, and teacher, right? We don't really say 老师,老师, that's two of our purposes. A classic example of this 失 sound is, for example, let's take 10, okay, that's example, 10. In standard Mandarin, we should say 失, we have to curl out tongue, right? But in reality, honestly, there's no people saying 吃, people say 失, and it's almost like sounds like this 失,失, okay, so a lot of students ask me, so teacher, how do I know, are they speaking 10, number 10, or number 4? Because number 4 is 吃, and 吃, which one? Which one? Oh my god. Okay, so the tips is that you have to hear the tongue, okay? So for 吃, for 吃, definitely is number 4, because number 4 is 4 tongue. 4 吃, you hear is the writing up, so it's the second tongue, so this is definitely a 10, okay? What about I'm saying 四十,四十, this is how Taiwanese people say 40, we don't say 40, but 40, okay, 四十, so that's what I want to tell you, that this 吃,失,失, Taiwanese people tend to pronounce them like 四十, almost like that, okay? But definitely, no, which one is standard, which one is a day to day life speaking way? Of course, there are still people like to doing this current town very properly, but I would say 90% of Taiwanese people don't do this, okay? So this might help you to understand more what they are saying about, and also you can imitate how we speak, okay? So become more like Taiwanese, right? So that's about it. I hope you enjoyed this mini lesson, and remember to sign up my free mini course. One is learn and speak Chinese in 30 minutes, second is learn Chinese tongue in 30 minutes. So definitely check it out. Right, see you next time. Bye bye guys!