The registration period for the Test Of Proficiency-Huayu (TOP) closes this Thursday October 9 2008. There is still time to register.
Targeted word lists for each of the four levels are now available.
Test Date:11/1(Sat.)
Test Format:Paper-based
Test Levels:For Beginners, Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced
Test Fee:NT$1000
http://www.sc-top.org.tw/
Tag archives for Mandarin scholarship
Test Of Proficiency-Huayu: Registration period ends Oct 9
NTNU Mandarin Training Center
國立臺灣師範大學 National Taiwan Normal University, Shi-Da, founded the Mandarin Training Center in 1956 for the study of Mandarin Chinese by foreign students.
The Mandarin Training Center represents one of the world’s oldest and most distinguished programs for language study, attracting more than a thousand students from over sixty countries to Taiwan each year and making the [...]
Taiwan donates scholarships to Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic is one of the 23 nations, including the Vatican City, that maintain diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
Taiwanese Ambassador to the DR, Isaac Tsai, will donate US$1 million to the Ministry of Higher Education (SEESCYT) on behalf of his country. The funds will be used to help Dominican university students. The Taiwanese Embassy announced that [...]
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:
Results in! Test of Proficiency Huayu (Mandarin) 2008
Mandarin scholarship students across Taiwan will be receiving their results for the Test of Proficiency-Huayu (TOP) today. The tests were held on Saturday the 3rd of May 2008. I completed the beginner level.
I wrote about the Mandarin proficiency test a few months ago…. and here.
I picked up my certificate at the post office today. I [...]
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!!!

