Would like to bring my daughter to Taiwan in the Summer of 2017 to learn Mandarin. She will be 13 years old and her Mandarin language skill is currently basic. What do you think is the best Mandarin language school in Taipei?
I don’t have any firsthand knowledge about this subject. @dashu , elsewhere you’ve indicated that you’re planning to enroll your child in a school , so I’m not sure whether the original poster’s situation matches yours.
There have been discussions of the problem of helping children to become competent in Mandarin, and some of these discussions have taken place in the context of schooling. I don’t know whether the discussions below will help you; I’ve put them here just in case they will:
This topic has been under discussion a number of times, so I thought as we are in the process of doing this, I would post my first-hand experience. I’d like to make it clear that I’m talking about children older than kindergarten age, who don’t speak any Mandarin and who have little or no experience of Chinese culture, enrolling in ordinary public schools in Taiwan.
My son has just turned eight and should be in grade 3 in the Taiwanese system. Foreign children who start at around kindergarten a…
Hello everyone. I am not yet in Taiwan. I am planning to move to Taiwan next year,around June or July. I am considering about my kids’ education in Taiwan. They are 7 and 9 and will be 8 and 10 by next year. I have been searching for information about education for foreign kids in few forum sand I found this forum very helpful. Now I know that it’s more practical for me to send my kids to local schools because it is too pricey in American/Int’l schools. I found many examples of foreign kids educ…
Big school? Small school?
Here’s a continuation on this experience as we’ve checked around. In our “zone” there are two other schools, one larger (it used to be an overfill school) and one smaller. The smaller one has something like 5 classes/grade where the bigger two have 10+. The smaller school also seems to have a class size of around 20 whereas the bigger schools are near the max of 30. This is the difference between going to a school with 100 first graders and going to one with 350+ first…
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I was born in Taiwan and came to the US when I was 4 and have been living in NY for over 30 years. Next summer (2016) I plan to take my two kids who will be 5 and 8 to Taiwan to live for a minimum of 1 year (hopefully 2 years) for them to learn Mandarin. Since they were born, I have been trying to speak to them in Mandarin and they can understand me however cannot communicate back in complete sentences. However, my Mandarin is limited to just conversational and I cannot read and write. As th…
Hi everyone, this is my first post. I’m impressed on how large this forum is, I just hope I am posting this on the right location.
My wife is a Taiwanese descendant, and we currently live in Brazil. Her father moved to Brazil many years ago, got married to a Brazilian and had a daughter. Then after a couple of years they all came back to Taiwan, where they lived some years and it was during that period that he got his daughter the Taiwanese documentation and passport (so she has dual citizenshi…
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You’re welcome, and I hope something in those posts will help you, but really, the people who made those threads supplied the knowledge; I merely pasted links to the threads.
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