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  • Hi, so there's an urban legend saying that Taiwanese (people) doesn't (don't) like to speak English.

  • So today I'm gonna trying (try) to find out with (the) Goodnight app to see whether it's true or not.

  • So let me press the chatting (chat) button.

  • Oh, I got connected.

  • Hi.

  • Hello, (hi).

  • How are you?

  • Fine, thank you.

  • How's your day?

  • Can you speak English?

  • English... a little.

  • Oh, very well.

  • So how was your Chinese New Year?

  • Did you eat a lot?

  • Hello?

  • Ah, so he hanged (hung) up on me.

  • Hi, Happy New Year!

  • Happy New Year, hehe.

  • I can't speak English.

  • Let's try, umm, how are you?

  • How are you today?

  • Hi, hello?

  • Hello.

  • Hi, who's this?

  • You must be Taiwanese.

  • No.

  • Yes you are.

  • Of course you understand what I'm saying, otherwise you wouldn't say "no."

  • - Hello.

  • - Hello.

  • - How's it going?

  • How are you?

  • - "How are you?"

  • Are you pretending to be a foreigner?

  • Where are you (come) from?

  • - I'm from Taiwan.

  • So how's your day?

  • Fine.

  • Good?

  • Good day.

  • But I wanna go to (a) restaurant.

  • Which one would you recommend (to) me?

  • (unintelligible) How do you say "Shilin Night Market"?

  • Oh, of course I know it's "night market".

  • Hello hello.

  • Hi.

  • Are you Ray?

  • My English is very bad.

  • Whoa, your English is very good! I can understand (you).

  • - Do you have...? - Do I have what?

  • L-I-N-E.

  • Oh, LINE.

  • Well, what's LINE?

  • I don't really understand. What's Line?

  • WeChat?

  • We... WeChat.

  • WeChat.

  • Ah!

  • Facebook?

  • Let we make a friend. (Let's be friends.)

  • Make a... see, now your English is very good.

  • I thought you saying (said) your English is not good.

  • It's actually very good.

  • Okay, Happy Chinese New Year.

  • Bye.

  • Bye.

  • Hello?

  • Hi.

  • Hi, what's your name?

  • Where do you live in Taipei now?

  • So, I'm living in... near Xinyi,

  • near (the) Taipei 101.

  • Yeah, so I'm wondering if I want to visit some good restaurants at Taipei,

  • where would you recommend?

  • Maybe I can take you (somewhere) .

  • Oh you can take me to the restaurant?

  • That's very nice of you.

  • Yes, it's my pleasure.

  • Wow, thank you!

  • How come your English is so good?

  • Maybe I can learn English more (more English. A language exchange.

  • Ah, yeah, that's actually a great idea.

  • So I can also learn Mandarin.

  • Yeah, you're a genius.

  • Yeah, it's my pleasure.

  • Do you have free time now?

  • To meet?

  • Now?

  • I think it's a little bit (of a) short notice.

  • Hi, hello.

  • Hi, how are you?

  • Can you speak Chinese?

  • What's your name?

  • My name is Jackie.

  • Do you guys go to the bar, or restaurant(s), or night markets, or...? - We will go to bar and club(s), to listen (to) some hip hop music,

  • because i like (the) rap music.

  • Do you want to hear some?

  • Yeah, why not?

  • That would be very good.

  • Okay, okay.

  • Yeah, that's my freestyle.

  • Wow, very impressive!

  • That's very good.

  • Even though I don't really understand what you were talking about (saying).

  • So (did) you like it?

  • Yeah, yeah, very much.

  • I think you should rap more.

  • Thank you so much, bye.

  • So that was a very interesting experience.

  • Also the Taiwanese are really friendly,

  • and they can communicate with me in English,

  • so I definitely look forward to more experience (opportunities) to chat in person in (the) future.

Hi, so there's an urban legend saying that Taiwanese (people) doesn't (don't) like to speak English.

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