Tag: Taiwan
Record Numbers for Taiwanese Hokkien Test
Last month in Taipei, more than 20,000 applicants took Taiwan’s Hokkien Language Proficiency Exam, the highest number of candidates since Taiwan’s Ministry of Education...
US Looks to Taiwan for Chinese
Through the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO), the U.S. and Taiwan have launched the U.S.-Taiwan Education Initiative, which is aimed at “expanding...
Mix of Japanese-Indigenous Languages Survives in Taiwan
In the town of Hanhsi in the northeastern mountains here, where many of the Atayal indigenous people reside, a language resembling Japanese -- "Yilan...
Taiwan to Offer Mother-Tongue K–12 Education
Taiwan’s government has approved a national language-development bill to protect linguistic diversity, which requires national language courses throughout preschool, elementary, and high school education.
At...
Taiwan Launches “Mandarin-on-the-Go”
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education has announced Mandarin-on-the-Go, a new language-learning program for those...
Fostering Taiwan’s Indigenous Languages
The Executive Yuan, the executive branch of the Government of the Republic of China, approved a bill to foster the development of indigenous languages in Taiwan,...
Taiwan Goes Native
The Taiwanese Ministry of Education has announced that programs in the nation’s native languages will be compulsory from 2016.
The country’s Minister of Education Chiang...
PRC and Taiwan Collaborate on Linguistic Report
Mainland China and Taiwan are putting aside their tense history to work together closely on a joint language report about their respective dialects of the...
Chinese in Taiwan or China?
While the obivous place to go to learn Chinese is, well, China, it's sometimes easy to forget that for quite a while after the...
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Taiwan's Languages
The languages and dialects spoken in Taiwan have their origins in the Austronesian and Han lingual systems. The Austronesian languages are spoken by...
