Only speak English in Taiwan?

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@OrangeOrganics

Arabic
Japanese
Korean

are all harder. I have a good friend who is an Arabist, and found Mandarin considerably easier. Also another friend who has amazing Chinese and then learned Korean and found the latter harder by several magnitudes. Chinese just takes a lot of memorization, but the grammar is pretty simple.

They are not harder. Japanese is probably harder as that has been confirmed by Foreign Service Institute, the other two are anecdotes.

@OrangeOrganics

PTT is full of comments about loser foreigners who live in Taiwan for ten years and can’t speak Chinese

PTT users represent nobody but themselves. It only has a few tens of thosuands of users.