They want speakers of Malay, Vietnamese, Thai and Indonesian.
It does not matter whether the aspiring guides are Taiwanese, new immigrants or their children, or other foreigners, it said.
I can say no problem, let’s eat, sweetie and how much n all of those languages.
There’s more, and not just New Taipei.
Tour guides who can speak any of the languages would receive NT$2,000 (US$63.12) per tourist per day, the bureau said.
Subsidies can also be given to translators that the travel agencies hire to assist the tour guides.
Down: Mainland Chinese.
Up somewhat: Hongkongese, Macanese, North Americans, Australasians, Southeast Asians, and Taiwanese.
Up significantly: Japanese and Koreans.
To meet the needs of foreign visitors, the Presidential Office Building said it is looking for volunteers with foreign language skills to provide a more comprehensive tour-guide service as it installs a multi-language audio tour system.
I think there’s a comment worth making about this, but I’m not a tour guide, so I’ll just ponder it. 