Baby's First Taiwanese Words: Iù-gín-á ê thâu chi̍t-pah ê Tâi-gí jī Baby’s First Taiwanese Words

Baby’s First Taiwanese Words: Iù-gín-á ê thâu chi̍t-pah ê Tâi-gí jī Baby’s First Taiwanese Words ★About the Book★ The world's first multilingual picture book for young children to learn Taiwanese! Features Taiwanese alongside 8 other languages: English, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, French, and German. Rich and engaging content! Includes QR code for audio narration, vibrant full-color illustrations, and a beautifully designed layout for easy reading and understanding! ★Publication Support★ Scottish Taiwanese Association Yen Yung-neng × Da-Gao Chaos Music Troupe ★Heartfelt Recommendations★ * Founder of Taiwanese Literature Newsletter and World Taiwanese Cultural Forum / Tēn Liông-kng (Cheng Liang-Kuang) * Winner of the Lai He Medical Humanities Award, Founding Chairperson of the Taiwanese Romanization Association (2001) / Dr. Tiun, Ho̍k Chû (Chang, Fu-Ju) * Professor, Department of Taiwanese Literature, National Cheng Kung University / Professor Chiún Ûi-bûn (Chiang Wei-Wen) * Associate Professor, Department of Social Development, National Pingtung University / Professor Li Kam-Sio̍k * Director, Archives of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan / Lú Khé-bêng * Director, Julun Taiwan / Ong Tsì-sòk * Kao-chiu-khin / Lead Singer of Labor Service / Hî-á Lîm * Teacher, "Stupid Kids Stories" / Teacher Chiu Pik-Hoa (O͘-bah) * CEO, "Lee Tells Stories, I Listen" Podcast / Tiuⁿ Kiān-ióu ★Featured Recommendations★ ✦ Founder of Taiwanese Literature Newsletter and World Taiwanese Cultural Forum / Tēn Liông-kng (Cheng Liang-Kuang) Taiwanese children encounter a very diverse linguistic and cultural environment throughout their lives. Multilingual children possess international perspectives, strong self-confidence, broad horizons, and good interpersonal skills. They also learn new skills faster than monolingual children by using 8 languages, making this the best gift for children. The 100 illustrations and Pe̍h-ōe-jī (Taiwanese Romanization System) are beautifully printed. Pe̍h-ōe-jī is not a phonetic system; it is a formal script with a fixed tradition of writing. Readers can pronounce it according to their habitual reading styles. A picture book is also the best gift for Taiwan. Multilingual ability is a cultural asset that an ideal Taiwanese nation must possess. ✦ Winner of the Lai He Medical Humanities Award, Founding Chairperson of the Taiwanese Romanization Association (2001) / Dr. Tiun, Ho̍k Chû (Chang, Fu-Ju) Jenny is a Taiwanese child. After growing up, she married someone from Scotland and lives there. She has 2 children. Both children's mother tongues are quite proficient. Jenny says that Taiwanese people have a political consciousness and want to establish a nation. However, they lack sufficient cultural consciousness to support it. Therefore, she diligently publishes books in Taiwanese mother tongue. This is her third book, and it is also the most urgent. This picture book for young children uses the most frequently encountered items in our daily lives as material to teach young children their mother tongue. It is lively, interesting, and practical. It can be said to be the ABCs of learning a mother tongue. As far as I know, Jenny is the first Taiwanese person in Europe to publish books for Taiwanese children to learn their mother tongue! I look forward to her continuing to publish more advanced reading materials soon! ✦ Professor, Department of Taiwanese Literature, National Cheng Kung University / Professor Chiún Ûi-bûn (Chiang Wei-Wen) Professor of Linguistics, Department of Taiwanese Literature, NCKU This is an interesting, very practical and meaningful picture book for children. Learning Taiwanese through Pe̍h-ōe-jī (traditional Romanized Taiwanese scripts) can not only inspire children’s phonological awareness, but also cultivate and strengthen their Taiwanese identity. This is an interesting, very practical and meaningful picture book for children. Learning Taiwanese through Pe̍h-ōe-jī (traditional Romanized Taiwanese scripts) can not only inspire children’s phonological awareness, but also cultivate and strengthen their Taiwanese identity. ✦ Associate Professor, Department of Social Development, National Pingtung University / Professor Li Kam-Sio̍k Understanding Taiwanese, Understanding Taiwan This is the third multilingual comparative children's picture book by Chen Yun-ru, who bravely married to Scotland, following "Sailing Afar for Love: The Story of Missionary Wife Eliza, and The Story of Dr. Elizabeth Song." "Baby's First Taiwanese Words" uses seven languages that have appeared on Taiwanese soil for 400 years—Spanish, Dutch, French, German, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese—to introduce Taiwanese children to basic vocabulary related to food, clothing, housing, family (kinship), body parts, emotions, transportation, play (recreation), school (education), colors, animals, gardens, and weather, in order. This aligns with the principles of children's education: "from near to far, from concrete to abstract, focusing on the present and briefly touching on the past." The author's passion for passing on Taiwanese culture so that more people worldwide (especially those of Taiwanese descent abroad) can understand it is evident on every page. I believe that after reading this book, children will be able to understand Taiwan by getting to know the Taiwanese language. ✦ Director, Archives of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan / Lú Khé-bêng Jenny has released a new book! Following the trilingual picture books "Eliza: Missionary Wife of Li Ma-chiau" and "Dr. Elizabeth Song," she has now shown her maternal devotion with a 100-word baby book. The content is thoughtfully divided into levels, with an advanced version even including eight languages – Taiwanese, English, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, French, and German – which is dazzling. UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme considers recorded heritage preserved through media like languages and scripts as "national treasures" that depict the evolution of human society's thoughts, discoveries, and achievements, a legacy from the past to the present and future! Language education holds infinite imagination. I believe my young boys will love this book and enjoy discovering its treasures! ✦ Director, Julun Taiwan / Ong Tsì-sòk Since the Age of Discovery, Taiwan has been a melting pot of immigrants and changing regimes, with its multiculturalism and vibrant languages becoming its distinctive features. After World War II, Taiwan took another turn in its destiny, experiencing a period of drastic, exclusive cultural assimilation within a few decades. After several generations of memory and cultural cleansing, most mother tongues have largely disappeared. Even Taiwanese, once spoken by the majority, is now an endangered language. How to encourage children to connect with their mother tongue has become an urgent and critical issue in modern Taiwan. Flipping through this bright and warm picture book, I deeply feel that this is the children's book I have long sought, suitable for parents and children to learn together. Besides Taiwanese, it also includes languages for global communication such as English, Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and German, which helps foster children's acceptance of multilingualism and their worldview. I strongly recommend it to parents who are also struggling to find a suitable mother tongue picture book. ✦ Kao-chiu-khin / Lead Singer of Labor Service / Hî-á Lîm Having had a sneak peek at "Baby's First Taiwanese Words" by my long-time comrade-in-arms on the Taiwanese language path, Jenny, I can't help but exclaim, "Beautiful! This is the multilingual learning material I want my children to read!" Are you still stuck with the idea that "bilingual" only means "Mandarin Chinese and English"? You're truly out of touch with the times! This book starts with the basic "three languages"—Taiwanese, English, and Mandarin Chinese (plus Japanese and several European languages)—guiding you through understanding this vibrant world with different languages and charming illustrations. It not only allows children to easily engage with Taiwanese Romanization but also use Taiwanese to learn English and other foreign languages. Even the saying "doing two things at once, like shucking oysters and washing pants" doesn't fully capture its brilliance! ✦ Teacher, "Stupid Kids Stories" / Teacher Chiu Pik-Hoa (O͘-bah) Taiwan has always lacked foundational teaching materials, especially suitable picture books for young children. It’s a delight to discover this book written by Jenny, with its captivating illustrations. It selects 100 commonly used words from daily life for our children to learn while playing. I’m truly thrilled. Learning Taiwanese also helps with English, Dutch, Japanese, French, German, and Mandarin Chinese. It’s immensely beneficial and lays a solid foundation, nurturing multilingual abilities from an early age. ✦ CEO, "Lee Tells Stories, I Listen" Podcast / Tiuⁿ Kiān-ióu A resounding endorsement from the Taiwanese podcast team! "Giving willingly and with one's own strength!" This is the best annotation for this picture book, from its conception to its publication. The picture book "<<Baby's First Taiwanese Words>>" offers children, who are at the most opportune stage for language acquisition, a concise way to learn Taiwanese. It is an excellent early literacy tool and a perfect gift for parents who wish to pass on the Taiwanese language, as well as for all new Taiwanese parents. Let's hold our children's hands and, through simple images and rich colors, speak about the things we see around us in Grandma's language. Let's all speak Taiwanese together! ★About the Author★ ✦ Author Introduction Jenny Jamieson A Taiwanese Scot, member of the Presbyterian Churches in Taiwan and Scotland, passionate about travel and historical culture. Advocates for "Taiwan belongs to the world." ✦ Translator Introduction Tân Tin-nî From Da-Gao Salt Field, mother of two children from Taiwan and Scotland. ✦ Taiwanese Text Proofreader Tân A-pó A Taiwanese person born in Da-lin-pu. A-ling's spouse. ✦ Taiwanese Language Consultant Tân Kim-hoa Chen Jin-hua, a Taiwanese language worker. Currently serves as the Executive Director and Renwu Branch President of the Taiwanese Romanization Association, Chairperson of the Taiwan-Vietnam Cultural Exchange Association, Director of the Taiwan Writers Association, Director of the Kaohsiung Community University Promotion Association, and Director of the Southern Taiwan Society. Before the age of 43, she was "visually impaired" in Taiwanese literature and gained sight after learning Romanization. She learned Taiwanese literature from the esteemed scholars Dr. Tiun Ho̍k-chû and Professor Chiún Ûi-bûn. She now cultivates the neglected field of Taiwanese language, primarily engaging in frontline mother tongue education. Since 2002, she has been a Taiwanese teacher in elementary and secondary schools and community universities, specializing in teaching Taiwanese Romanization. For the past 20 years, while teaching and learning, she also completed her Master's degree in Taiwanese Literature. She has taught at the Department of Taiwanese Literature at National Cheng Kung University, the Taiwanese Romanization Association, Kaohsiung Medical University Taiwanese, Kaohsiung City No. 1 Community University, North Kaohsiung Community University, and the Language Education Center at National Kaohsiung Normal University, promoting the literacy of Taiwanese. Her published works include "Creative Teaching Materials for Taiwanese Romanization," "Collection of Student Works from the Kaohsiung City No. 1 Community University Taiwanese Literacy Class," "Makatao Pingpu Tribe Jialapu Night Festival," "Red Tortoise Cake Sisters," "A-lo Elf Choir," and "A-dàibèbùài" Memorial Collection for Teacher Huang Chao-rong. Her musical compositions include "Taiwan Coffee," for which she composed the music on Mr. Jian Shang-ren's 2014 CD. She firmly believes in the words left by former Southern Society President Teacher Cheng Cheng-yu to the Taiwanese people: "Education is the softest yet most powerful nation-building endeavor." Creating and teaching in Taiwanese are fundamental to mother tongue nation-building, which is Taiwan's core value. ✦ Illustrator Introduction Boris Lee (Lí Sîn-hô) Master of Illustration from the University of Edinburgh, UK. Currently engaged in picture book creation and teaching. Loves animals, nature, and conversations with people. Hopes his work can empower others. Author of the picture book "Remember" (Barbababa Culture). ✦ Visual Design Vank Kang (Khong Hók-un) Born in 1986 in Taipei, lives by the river. Has over ten years of design experience. Since 2020, has transitioned to freelance work. Passionate about paper-based design. His representative work is "The Pied Piper of Hamelin." ★Foreword★ ✦ Author's Foreword Taiwan, a small island nation at the crossroads of Eastern and Western cultures and North-South geography, is a global hub and a strategically vital location, both geographically, economically, and politically. Over the past four hundred years, travelers speaking Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese have left their homelands with their dreams and cultures, settling on this land and striving for a better future for the next generation. By reconnecting Taiwan's languages with these world languages once used on this soil, I hope our children can learn that "our ancestors came here to strive for a common good, and we should unite to befriend the world for the next generation." Let us become strong together! Taiwan is the Taiwan of the Taiwanese people, and even more so, the Taiwan of the world. ---------- 【Detailed Information】 Series: Independent Publishing Specifications: Paperback / 80 pages / 21 x 21 x 1 cm / Normal Grade / Full Color Printing / First Edition Publication Place: Taiwan ISBN: 9786267325414 ---------- 【Collaboration Welcome】 We welcome all forms of collaboration. Please message us to discuss. Taiginiau FB, IG, Threads: @taiginiau