Hi
I will be moving to Taiwan in June this year, is there a Chilean or Latin people living in Taiwan??
I have so many question to make to a spanish speaker!!!
Thanks
Bienvenido a La Isla. Bienvenido a Forumosa.
No soy chilena pero te aseguro que hay -no muchos, si, pero no pocos. Latinos hay de todos los colores y sabores, desde estudiantes, trabajadores asalariados, hasta amas -y amos- de casa y empresarios. No estaras solo -asi que ojo con lo que dices, el espagnol no es idioma secreto aca. LOL.
Que la pases bien.
p.s.
Oh, en Taiwan se consumen muchos productos chilenos, especialmente frutas.
there are a lot of latin americans living in Taiwan. My girlfriend (El Salvador) for example and a lot of students at a university in Tainan that I met. Your best bet for meeting other latin americans is thru the universities since a lot are here to study Chinese or other majors.
¡Hola clau_jd, y bienvenido/a! Si solo buscas quienes hablan español, también hay algunos que no son latinos aquí en el foro. ¿Que harás aquí en Taiwan?
Sí, ahora es la temporada para arándanos chilenos. Se encuentran en supermercados como Wellcome y también en Costco.
Hay mucho que te podemos decir acerca de la vida aquí, y que es lo que debes traer. (Como masa harina, jaja – si traes un montón de masa harina para Icon, será tu amiga para siempre!)
That would be NCKU. You can’t go to NCKU without meeting hordes of MBA studying Latin Americans. Mostly pretty hot girls, too.
Ah, to be ten years younger.
That would be NCKU. You can’t go to NCKU without meeting hordes of MBA studying Latin Americans.[/quote]
Why are there so many more Latin American students than there used to be? Has some policy changed, or is it simply a combination of increased Latin Amerian wealth, increased international importance of Chinese, and Taiwan’s ties to various Central American countries? (It’s a good development, but I’m not too sure where it’s come from.)
It’s Taiwan’s ties to the countries. They get a special MOFA Scholarship, which is 30k/month plus Airfares for the duration of your degree. (+ year’s language study).
Most of the ones I know still manage to drink that all away and are broke about a week after they get paid though O.o; and 30K’s quite a lot down here…
Lostinasia:
They increased the overall amount of scholarships, and the kinds available. Also, as ICDF and Taiwan missions abroad have more asistance proyects in Latin America, they try to give the scholarships there. There is, of course, more interest in learning Chinese, and the scholarships here are considered “good” in the sense they give you a lot of support. It depends on the person to take advantage of that support in a good way -even though in my time -when we had to pay our own tickets- we also got quite afew who came here for tourism -read partying. Anyway, I know very few people paying their own way.
Overall, there was an incentive a few years ago to recruit as many foreign students as possible -dunno if that will change when we get the Chinese students by the thousands as they expect*. The Latinos may not be the majority, but we are conspicuous and enthusiastic.
Tsukinodeynatsu:
Well, they increased the amount -from 15K to 30K- a few years ago -but students must pay their tuition, as per the scholarship for allied countries. Which means they should be saving a bit every month for the big wham bill for each semester… in theory. I’ve always heard them complain about paying for their books… And yes, you always get a few children who’ve never been away from home and have to learn money management the hard way. Either that or they get money sent from home -sometimes the same amount as the scholarship. Anyways, they won’t starve to death and they have to figure out a way, as four years is a long time.
MOFA is just for countries with diplomatic ties. For places like Peru, Brasil, Chile, Mexico, which you also see students by the boatload, there are also scholarships available, like MOE.
*I’d like to make that statement sarcastic but given the current conditions, it may not be so…
That would be NCKU. You can’t go to NCKU without meeting hordes of MBA studying Latin Americans.[/quote]
Why are there so many more Latin American students than there used to be? Has some policy changed, or is it simply a combination of increased Latin Amerian wealth, increased international importance of Chinese, and Taiwan’s ties to various Central American countries? (It’s a good development, but I’m not too sure where it’s come from.)[/quote]
What tsukinodeynatsu and Icon said. Although, I’ve met several students from Panama, Columbia and Paraguay (they came crawling out of the woodwork during the FIFA World Cup), also.
There’s a semi-famous Chilean here. The guy in the new Sun Chips commercial is from Chile. He’s also been on the boxes of some frozen food here.
hi all
I never even thought i could find so many people from latin america
I’m going to ask all of you your emails 
My boyfriend got accepted in a research program in Chan Gung hospital in Taoyuan, and I am moving with him… it is my chance to learn mandarin and 1 year of “vacations” is not bad for me.
Icon, thanks for your email… you know that the picture in your profile is Condorito, a chilean comic that I love!!! good start between us!!
you seem to know a lot about taiwan… can you recommend me a language center to learn mandarin??
Dragonbones, Icon: yo les llevo harina feliz!!!
por mensaje privado les envío mi email para contactarnos…
Gracias por sus respuestas!!!
Look, Chang Gung hospital has its own transportation system, very reliable. You could even live in Taipei -say Minchaun area- and take one bus directly to the hospital in Taoyuan.
I know there is an area in Taoyuan favored by the Venezuelan pilots working for China Airlines, lemme ask around.
As to Chinese lessons, almost all use the same book, NTU’s got a good program, NCCU, too. Muchos te diran que vayas al MTC en Shida que es el mas famoso, muchos latinos alla, pero no es muy bueno, se durmieron en sus laureles y la administracion es un desastre.
And yes, you cannot swing a cat without hitting a Latino these days.
ps.
Yep, I sported the Chilean flag for a while in honor of the miners. Used to have Mafalda before, LOL.