Why would you correct them? They’re right 100% of the time.
I thought neopets was dead
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See the mask haters thread for the latest video from RTi. “Will you wear a mask outdoors?”
It’s sad. I have an Australian neighbour whose wife is Taiwanese and they have a daughter too. Can you imagine when their daughter goes to school and is told common words such as jumper, petrol, bin are incorrect?… it’s sad and ridiculous
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What a blast from the past 
Lmao these are too funny 
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The number one reason Taiwan will never be successful in making English an official language here is because they refuse to accept that native English speakers speak English.
If I was a full time public school teacher (who learnt English as a second language), I’d be thrilled to have students fluent in English in my class. That isn’t the case. Instead those kids are told they’re wrong.
Who said they wanted to begin with?
Taiwan might make statements like “bilingual nation by 2030” but it’s all BS. It’s just political word games to appease the west. Truth is Taiwan doesn’t care about English because the survival of the nation isn’t dependent on it. China is Taiwan’s biggest trading partner, and China putting restrictions on Taiwan hurts Taiwan far more. Making products for the West doesn’t require english skills.
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The number one reason Taiwan will never make English an official language is there’s no point for it at all lol.
Anyway I think you should get over it. So some kids learn some bad English, big deal.
I mean no disrespect, but I thought that was what you were calling it as well:
I lived there for a few months in 2003-2004, and when I was there, I thought of the place as 苗栗縣 (Miáolì Xiàn (Miáolìxiàn?), or Miaoli County). But apparently there’s a case to be made for the other designation:
Or maybe I’ve misunderstood. In which case:
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This is a pretty funny topic. I’ve never taught but I’ve had Taiwanese question my English at times because they have been taught incorrect English. I think we need to learn from the locals and correct wrong English when we see it.
But it does not surprise me, I’m currently studying Chinese fulltime here and I’ve give up counting the amount of times they teach us some bollocks that only mainlanders use and Taiwanese never use. Number 1 rule is the teacher / textbook is right and don’t question it!
Both can be used in english, but bubble tea sounds better. Boba gives me visions of c*nty ABCs.
Pretty sure the word boba came from the bigger sized balls, a slang for big boobs. So its kinda weird to refer to everything under the bubble tea umbrella as ‘boba’ but whatever.
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Just colloquially, not seriously
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Bath ing shoot
Baysing shoot
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I worked with some great Taiwanese teachers when I started here. The manager was a psychopath though.
Then over time I worked with some good ones and some horrible ones.
The horrible ones were almost always family. And almost always could only teach by pressing play on the CD. Could never deviate from the sentence pattern or theme for the unit being taught. Never included previous material with new stuff they were learning. And always caused trouble for co-teachers. Especially the foreigners.
Regulations introduced around 2010 were supposed to strengthen the industry. From my experience it’s just made it worse. What used to be highly qualified linguistics teachers have been replaced by family members with a 10 week teachers accreditation license.
The other result was the large scale removal of foreign teachers from kindergartens/preschools. And yes there was reason for this. Namely that a couple of foreigners were found to be pedophiles. Meanwhile year after year the same schools are in the media for abusing the kids that attend them. And it isn’t foreigners beating them or forcing them to wash their mouths out with soap or any number of other horrendous actions.
Out of all that I’m tired of being lied to by managers and owners. At any job interview now I ask “what happens with troublemaker students/parents?” And every time I’ve been lied to so I’ve walked out of the schools and not returned.
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Coupled with inflated ego. But to be fair, teachers arent the only control freaks out there. they exist in every industry. Easier to ignore and smile than to make enemies with petty children.
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Likely a cultural issue around power and acceptance of outside influences. Your being deemed an outsider trumps all other considerations. Your suggestions will be tolerated at best, not accepted.
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Yep. You can teach kids how to say “orange”, “frog”, “l” and “f” correctly, when they’re pre-schoolers. One month in elementary and they’ll be massacring the pronunciation.
“My Taiwanese teacher obviously knows better, waiguoren.”
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Perhaps. I often see it as the Taiwanese teachers having an attitude like “I’m an English teacher. Obviously I speak English than you, English speaker”
Which is weird as I’m an English teacher too