32: Fallen Leaves: The Chinese Languages (with Wu Mei-Shin, Ye Jingting, and Israel Lai)
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The Different Types of Loanwords in Taiwan
In some languages, there's a feeling like English is encroaching on the vocabulary. In other languages, they happily take on loanwords and it's no problem. I find it really interesting is that because Taiwanese very used to co-switching. So we sometimes don't really forcefully translate English to Chinese or to Mandarin.
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