A couple of amazing American guys who speak Taiwanese

[SimL]

This is a link sent to me by a friend.

http://www.netv.org.tw/movie_1.asp?catid=8#

I only watched about four of the clips but there seems to be three American guys - Jeff and Jason and an older guy whose name I haven't yet been able to work out - who speak Taiwanese *phenomenally* well!

My Taiwanese is not good enough to really know how close to native their accent it, but all three, especially Jeff, sound very good to me. I'd love to hear the opinions of others who are more familiar with Taiwanese.

PS. They seem to say "hö2" for "ho2" (="good"), which has been remarked about before on this Forum.

[SimL]

PPS. On another clip (the first one on page 4), Jeff says "öh" for "to learn"

[Ah-bin]

Wow!

There was a "Jeff" on Taiwanese TV years ago who I think might have been able to speak Taiwanese, I remember he could speak good Mandarin but I didn't have a TV so I'm not sure. These two look a bit too young for one of them to be the same person. I'm pleased to see there is a new generation of people doing it.

[Andrew]

Jeff's Hokkien is impeccable. Jason's tones are a bit inconstant. The older guy has a bit of an accent - his consonants are wrong.

[Andrew]

Does anyone else find that the videos no longer load?

[SimL]

I tried on Monday morning (15/3), and they were loading ok.

[Andrew]

Thanks, I reinstalled my WM and it works now.