8 different versions of Chinese
You're going to have a hard time convincing most people that Taiwanese, Hakka, Shanghainese, Toisan, Hunanese, etc. are versions of Chinese. They're local dialects.
But is there mutual intelligibility? This actually interests me a lot since I only hear this stuff and have little understanding of how language is structure in China. I'll need to learn this some day, so if you could explain now that'd be great.
If you're vegetarian for special snowflake reasons, then please save yourself the embarassment of arguing with someone in public since you won't get your way. :)
I would never do that. I have am allergy to meat for the last 20 or so years of my life. America has the same issue with oil, so I'm use to that. Really, no resturant should accommodate me (besides Loving Hut)... I just want whatever vegan/vegetarian item they have on their menu. I take pills with me and have to cook my food while in Japan, so my question was more like if I need to pack food with me to eat while in Taiwan. Thankfully Taiwan seems a lot more veggie friendly.
I rather not speak Japanese because of the fact Japan colonized Taiwan for 50 years
Most people who can only speak Japanese are very old, and won't be able to speak whatever Japanese you learned from teaching English in Japan or watching Anime.
You can't learn Japanese from watching anime... You learn it from immersion, books, lectures, and/or tutors. My husband does this and embarrassed me heavily while in Japan as he spoke very rudely to others. I study Japanese for grad school and got my undergraduate degree in Japanese history thus why I know it.
Please don't weeb out on people here, I've seen it before and it's embarassing for everyone involved.
What does this mean exactly? I'm probly gunna look like quite a dope at the 國立故宮博物院 giving my husband and friends a lecture... I hope some parts of it allow pictures without flash...
Any places you recocmend? I wanna go to the museum, take the train, eat local food, and visit sun moon lake so far.