Top 50 phrases to get by Taiwan: Getting around and shopping

💬 [哪裡] is the common Taiwan way to say "where"; you'll also hear [哪邊] in everyday speech. In [這是哪裡？], [是] links [這] and [哪裡], but in [洗手間在哪裡？] you can ask with [在] instead when you mean location.

💬 In Taiwan, [捷運] means the city metro/MRT; that's the normal local word to learn, not mainland-style [地鐵]. [站] is "station," so you can swap in other transport words: [公車站] for bus stop.

💬 [計程車] is the Taiwan word for "taxi"; on the mainland you'd usually hear [出租車]. Learning the Taiwan version helps a lot for real street use.

💬 [走] literally means "walk/go," and [直走] is the fixed way to say "go straight." You'll hear it a lot in directions, often with [左轉] or [右轉].

💬 [想] often means "would like to" or "want to" before a verb, so [我想去...] is a useful soft pattern. Swap the verb to make new sentences: [我想買...] "I want to buy..." or [我想看...] "I want to see...".

💬 [這個] can go before a noun to mean "this ...," as in [這個地址] "this address." The same pattern works everywhere: [這個車站] "this station," [這個問題] "this question."