Taiwanese Hokkien is spoken by about 15 million people. Taiwan's home language beside Mandarin: roughly two thirds of Taiwan's 23 million report speaking it, with fluency skewed older. Counts Taiwan's variety only. The wider Hokkien/Southern Min continuum (Fujian, SE Asia) runs to 45 million or more, but this course teaches Tai-lo orthography and Taiwan usage, so the wider figure is not claimed. Nearly every speaker also speaks Mandarin, so the pair adds few new people.
On our measured language map, its closest relatives are Cantonese, Hunsrik and Tongan. If you speak one of those, much of the vocabulary will feel familiar from day one.
Every lesson is built from 2,000 real Taiwanese Hokkien sentences, aligned with their translations word by word and piece by piece, so you always see how the sentence actually works instead of memorizing flashcards. The grammar is discovered from the sentences themselves, 933 patterns so far, and a spaced-repetition quiz teaches it in the order that unlocks the most of the language first. Our measured estimate for reaching conversational level from English is about 1,184 hours of study. Read how it works.
Most apps only teach Taiwanese Hokkien through English, if they teach it at all. These starting languages already have a built course, and any other published language can be paired on request:
Speaker figures follow Ethnologue and national censuses, rounded. The difficulty estimate is calibrated against U.S. Foreign Service Institute data.