More and more looks like it’s just another internet troll.
First, long distance love difficulties…
After that, finding job problems…
Then, the ugly kid issue…
Now large money debt.
Either he’s a troll or a very unlucky guy…
We are just taking his word for it. They’re probably completely normal looking, and he’s just got a crappy relationship with them. Kind of low to call gf’s kids “ugly.”
I never mentioned I would be in good standing by referring the kid “ugly” but it is reality. Even others …my friends and locals at the breakfast place I go to all agreed that he is not “cute” looking kid compare w most Taiwanese kids of his age.
There are so many people in Taipei who are fluent (or at least conversant) in both Mandarin and English that OP’s lack of Chinese language skills is putting him at a huge disadvantage. The difficulty is not just about whether the job requires Chinese language skills. It is about whether OP’s colleagues would be forced to interact with him in English which they will find to be less natural for them to use. Almost everyone at my work has a graduate degree from the US or Europe and is fluent in English, but when it comes to inviting an A-doh to the meeting, the answer is sometimes “f-it! then we have to switch to the icrt channel and conduct this entire thing in English. let’s just brief him afterwards…” So why hire someone with poor Chinese skills and native English when they can hire someone with native Chinese and good English skills?
Consider taking some lessons, not just for Taiwan but elsewhere in the region where interacting with a Chinese person becomes inevitable. It won’t be hard to pick things up quickly if you already have some basics acquired at a young age.