Great video to show off the friendliness of Taiwanese even if they can't speak perfect English they never fail to try!

That's why I love Taiwanese people, they are so helpful, even if somebody is speaking a little English they are still willing to help as much as they can. I never had any problem when I'm visiting there except once with a very old taxi driver but still managed to get where I want at the end. Thumbs up 👍 for this kind of experiment.. creative

That pork bun lady is pretty impressive. The guy said red green yellow instead of traffic lights is epic.

This is awesome!

I am actually planning to visit Taiwan next month and I'm a little bit worried if Taiwanese people knows how to speak a little English. Good thing I saw your video and I am relieved. Your social experiment has proven that Taiwanese people are very welcoming and helpful to foreigners.

包子店員工的英文讓我驚艷了一把，台灣人大部分不管會不會某種語言，基本上都會滿樂於幫忙別人，其實真的滿溫暖的~

Most of Taiwanese students are good at reading and listening .They don't have many chances to talk to foreigners

I give credit to them for even trying. They did a good job.

紅綠燈 red yellow green 😂😂😂

我很多臺灣朋友都會講英語沒問題而且在臺灣，就算有一些英語不流利都很熱心幫忙解釋如果您想問路或地點，我喜歡臺灣人.

好意外包子店的英文能力完全翻盤 講的比前面都好😂 btw這影片拍的很好喔👍🏻

in taipei I rarely find people who can't speak even a little English, as long as they are under 40 years old; even when I speak to chinese to them they will speak English to me haha

你比台灣觀光局做的還要好！

the bun vendor really surprised me

上次看一些報導， 有些人是直接帶你去現場， 有些人是手腳並用也要表達給你知道， 我覺得有心最重要，會不會英文是沒差的， 比起語言共通，但人心冷漠要好上太多．

腳踏車的那位女孩，還有紅綠燈男生，我覺得都顯示了台灣人，我雖然英文不一定好，或者我可能本來有我自己的事情，但我一定會用盡我的所能幫助你。這真的是最感動的地方。

Very nice video, and it really shows the always wonderful and lovely + friendly Taiwanese people! :-) Taipei has improved alot towards English speaking tourists. When I went there for the first time back in 2005 it was really difficult to find people speaking English unless you stayed in high class hotels or restaurants - but during the last decade that changed so nowadays you can basically always find someone around you to ask for help in English. It would definitely be different if you did the same social experiment in other places on Taiwan though... Keelung, Hualien, Miaoli, Chiayi, Taitung, Penghu island to name a few :-)

他們好厲害喔~連賣包子店的店員口音耶也這麼標準 So impressive😆

So cool! Can't wait to spend my gap year in Taiwan

Thank you for this video Iris! Makes me more confident to travel to Taiwan.

This video is fun to watch. Great job!

Great video!!!!!! Love this video so much !!!

People in Taipei are mostly nice, they would love to speak English to help foreigner. But how about those foreigners? If I went to any country in the world, would they speak Chinese to us?

certainly am heading that way (in december) - thanks for posting that - very helpful (and reassuring!!)

Awesome 👍😊

This was a good video! I like your food/travel videos, but please do more like this!

Haha it was really interesting ,I'm so appreciated from you record this video , please welcome Taiwan anytime ,=)

Oh wow! Seems you did well and managed to roam around. They speak English and very helpful! Thanks for sharing.

I loved this because I went from Korea to Taiwan. In Korea, if they didn't speak English they just said "sorry, I don't speak English." In Taiwan, they made it work even when I tried to speak in mandarin (which I butchered). Both countries are very kind, but the way people go out of their way to be kind in Taiwan is like no other.

喜歡這種單元!!! 希望能再拍類似的第二集

Taiwanese are very polite, and friendly.

Hey, I love it. Thanks for doing all this.

謝謝你做這個實驗～

IrisVirus - thank you for this video. it is very helpful info. much appreciated for your effort into this video.

Great video and great work! Even if some Taiwanese people don't speak English they will do their best to help you. Many times happened with me.

Hahaha, I love that guy's creativity, "red yellow green" for signal, how about that!

Seem so lovely Taiwan, it'll definitely in my next travel list. Thanks.

Taiwanese are really friendly and helpful people. I've had many great experiences with the locals there. It's really amazing

Wow! What an amazing country. I am so impressed how polite everyone is when you just start speaking to them in English assuming they speak it. Everyone was so nice and happy to help in English. We have been studying Mandarin like crazy to try to communicate as best we can while there, but this gives us such peace of mind knowing that so many people are happy and able to help tourists whose Mandarin skills still have much room to improve. We get to meet our adopted daughter in Tainan in two weeks!

Would love to visit Taiwan someday. I had a 9 hr lay over in Taiwan years ago but didn't have chance to go around the city, hopefully someday. New subscriber here 😍

wow thanks for opening my eyes about Taiwan as friendly and I can get around with some English

Thank you for promoting Taiwan : )

Nice video! Welcome to Taiwan at anytime!

Great video!

thank you so much for this video!!! i’m going to taiwan in 3 days and even tho i can speak mandarin conversationally, it’s still not that good (especially reading. i cannot read 90% of the words) so i was soooo nervous until i saw this video :)

Been in Taiwan like a couple months ago and it was pretty impressive. I was afraid of that city before since have not been there and had a little things to know. Suprisingly, I felt save and sound and the people were really nice and kind. FYI, I travelled alone all by myself and kinda missing Taipei now

It's amazing to learn this. Me and my family will be going to Taiwan end of the year. We couldn't speak or read mandarin.

I used to walk by that park (at the beginning of the video) every day.

I'm gonna go to Taiwan on Tuesday and i wonder if i could get to Taipei 101 without speaking a single mandarin? Is it not that hard to use the MRT going there? Please help. Thank you so much.

When u ask the way to subway, I really afraid u will just get a sandwich back.

Iris 超厲害！

Thanks making this video. It's very useful especially for me. Cause in September i Would go for student exchange in Taiwan and I want ask to you. This video taking on? Tainan, Taichung or other else?

I am a HongKonger who has finished the journey in Taipei last week. I used English about 75 to 80 percent of conversations all the time because my Mandarin is very poor. Most of people especially Atayals (泰雅族) in Wulai can speak English well. However, it is my first journey in Taiwan which is a very nice place to go.

that's a cool video and I do agree speaking English with them. I was surprised such beautiful country has so little western visitors.

it's not surprising that most of Taipei ppl can speak basic English as there has been quite an influx of foreigners over a decade. my mum is a Taiwanese and I do get comments whether I am a returning Taiwanese (and I'm born in Singapore. I think most of Taiwanese living abroad for long time can relate that). anyway I love ur video!

Great video. I'm surprised the lady selling the bun can speak English so well. I wonder if the rest of Taiwan can communicate in English just as well.

Nice video. In Taipei I find ordering at a breakfast shop the most challenging as most of the owners do not speak english and they rarely have an english menu, also because they have such a big menu it's often hard to work out what order if you can't read or speak Mandarin. With most traditional taiwanese restaurants, they often don't have many options to choose from so it's easier to order. Google translate has become my best friend while here with the real time camera translate feature, but this has trouble with some traditional style fonts and when there is a vertical menu. Also I thought there would be much more english translations staying in the area that surrounds the universities because of all the international students, but I suppose most of them are learning Mandarin so will be able to get around much easier by using what they have learned. In my opinion from having visited Thailand a few times and now living in Taiwan, Taiwanese people who can speak english do it better than Thais and there are less translation errors, but Thailand is better setup for international tourists as most places in the city will have a translation, especially shop name signs which I was surprised that hardly any of them had this in Taiwan.

very cool!

My experience in Taiwan was a great one. I was there in the early 2000's and would love to visit again but cannot afford to.

Zhongxiao Fuxing! That place is awesome. As for the language, it's a great place for people to travel who don't know mandarin.

they are helpfull, i have an experience when i travelled to taiwan last year.. so i want to meet my friends in chang gung university but i don't know how to be there, then i try to ask direction to people with english and they don't understand what i was saying but they offered me their mobile phone to call my friends so they can pick me up.. that's so generous of taiwanese people..

I'm coming visiting Taiwan next September and am learning th basic of Mandarin ^^ But that's great to know that I'll be able to survive with english ^^ Can't wait to be there ^^

Generally speaking, Taiwanese are nice and friendly. I spent 3 years studying there and it was one of the best periods in my life! Hope I can come back someday 😊

Very interesting that people in Taipei speak English so good. But what if you go to a fish market near the coast? Will you still be able to get along with just English?

Looking to come there next month July 5 where I'd the best hostel close to yoga & tai chi . Thanks you do a very good job. Aloha

I like your channel.. Jadi bs sekalian belajar bahasa inggris lebih fasih 😍Xiexie

Eu tô surpreso sim. E todos foram bem solícitos tentando ajudar sempre, muito legal.

yay so proud of being a taiwanese

那個大聲喊BL讓我狂笑超久

超棒的阿

Great job showing how you can get by without speaking Mandarin,

Think I'd have any luck in the other large cities? I might be moving to Taichung later this year. Don't think my level of Chinese is doable enough to get around (especially reading).

woow indah bener tempat yh salm sukses selalu

Thank you for making this video. I am currently applying to teach English, TEFL, over in Taiwan and I was horrified that I needed to learn the native language. I will still try my best to learn it, but it know it is a very hard language to learn. If I do secure a position it will be a year. It looks like the people are very friendly and know English well enough to help out if needed. You helped give me confidence that I am making a good decision. :)

Nice clip

最後那個包子店的英文真遛👍

i love living in taiwan.. they are helpful even some of them is really not good in english.. they will help you.

You did much better than I did in Hong Kong last year when I struggled to communicate in only English.

超棒的！

I think another important factor is that it was filmed in Taipei. I volunteered in a very rural place in Central Taiwan and hardly anybody knew English haha

i've always been curious as to if non native speakers can tell if u have an accent (like heavy accents) tbh u don't have a heavy accent but its def present, ya know what i mean? (love ur vid btw)

good job Iris.

I love Taiwan people so much they are so kind hearted love from India.

that's why i want to go next year. We went to Taipei and we felt so welcomed!!!

😱 such a privilege coming from English speaking country it’s the only language I know I am embarrassed to admit

哇 好感動哦 台北人從幼稚園就開始發瘋學英文到大學，這樣的程度是應該的！謝謝肯定～～～～

this video is sooo good!

基本上在台灣各大都市的大街上講英文應該都勉強可通，台灣人雖然不用英文當官方語言但是學校裡頭是必修課，就算不用功唸書的人也多半會幾句簡單的會話，但是如果去菜市場或是廟口等地方可能就比較困難一點了。

As an American student traveling to Taipei for study abroad who doesn’t speak Mandarin, this is very comforting. I wish I knew earlier that I would be traveling there so I could learn more!

hi,im yuka im new to watch ur video in Voicetube! im very interested in this topic! so i hope u will do the same thing for Japanese when u come to Japan !!!! it’s coz i think we hafta prepare for Tokyo Olympic 2020!

最後的太屌了

In Taipei, yes, most people can understand at least the basic english, but, if you go outside Taipei .. good luck ! ;-) Nevertheless, I love Taiwan in general ..

Thanks for nice promotion in Taiwan :)

I love taiwan. 😘 taoyuan here 👋

When I went to Taiwan, people are able to speak more Japanese than English. I was surprised! Also everybody was so nice. I’ll definitely be back there!

It's funny that you were actually shooting the man's 'part' during an interview.

Wow, so much easier than even Tokyo. I should check it out.

Taiwanese are so friendly!

Wow, Taiwanese people seem to be really friendly. I have been to mainland China a couple of years ago and the experience was a little...different.

When I was in Taiwan, if I ever needed help, there was usually an English speaker to help me. I am always greatful for their help. Taiwanese people are very kind.