Students studying Chinese in Taipei might be interested in the 6th Taipei Chinese Character Festival. There is a “Cultural Bazzar” and an Art Exhibition featuring ten South-east Asian artists.
Cultural Bazaar
The bazaar will feature a fusion of Chinese characters and the cultural creative industries. Activities include calligraphy, paper cutting, lithography, interactive character quizzes, New Year’s couplet [...]
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Rotary International Youth Program limits interaction with Taiwanese
The Rotary International Youth Program allows thousands of teenagers world wide to attend a year long exchange program in the country of their choice.
Mads Meoller, the Danish student, made some interesting comments regarding the,
written agreement between the exchange students and the organizers of the program that discouraged them from learning about Taiwanese politics, and matters concerning the weaker or stronger sex, which limited their interaction with their Taiwanese counterparts. “It was a fight to learn about culture,” he observed…..having restrictions like these does seem to be a contradiction in terms.
Studying Mandarin at Shida
Blogger Shu Flies is a Mandarin Scholarship student at the National Taiwan Normal University’s (Shida) Mandarin Training Center. Located in Taipei, Shida is the place were most foreigners end up learning Mandarin.
Shu Flies has written about her experience at Shida:
Sound less stupid listen to ChinesePod
Meg over at Simpson’s Paradox sums up the benefits of ChinesePod brilliantly:
“Ten minutes a day with Jenny and Ken make me sound slightly less stupid!”
Well, I think an hour a day would be better. I listen to up to three hours a day and I really do sound less stupid.
MOE Mandarin Enrichment Scholarship
The Taiwanese Ministry of Education(MOE) Huayu (Mandarin) Enrichment Scholarship program was established in 2005. The purpose of the program is to encourage international students and individuals to undertake Mandarin study in Taiwan. The scholarship program is quite flexible and award periods of 2 months, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and 1 year are available.
A monthly stipend of NT$25,000 (approximately US$820) is offered to recipients….you can learn Chinese for free!!!
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