Friday, June 28, 2013
I am moving to Taiwan, but I need a job first!?
I am moving to Taiwan, but I need a job first!?
I am moving to Taiwan, but I need a job first! I'm a college student in America (from america, or course) and i'm wanting to move to Taipei, but I need a job! I want to fly off within the next couple months. I don't know much Mandarin, but i'm learning, and all the Taiwanese people ive met know english very well. I dont care what kind of job it is, just something that I can get hired on quickly. I will go to school there, but I will need to get on my feet first, and get over the culture shock, so I will take a semester off. If anyone knows a website or a contact that can help me out, please let me know! Thanks!
Taiwan - 23 Answers
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McDonald's
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Mc Fish and Rice
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To be honest, I can't help with this one. Maybe post on a Taiwanese public forum works better.
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You can work as a part time or full time English teacher. Pays good!
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u can get a student visa but need to FIRST sign up with a univeristy. As far as I know u can then teach English Go check out tealit.com, they have a lot of info PS Why Taipei? There are better places in Taiwan (and cheaper).
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no
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Look on a website called www.esldewey.com. They can help you get a job teaching English when you get to Taiwan. They are very helpful and you'll have no problem finding a job in Taipei. You can make $600NT per hour for teaching (working at McDonald's pays $78NT per hour) and its a great way to meet local people. Another helpful website is www.daveseslcafe.com. Check out the Taiwan forum and you'll get an idea of what it's like for a foreigner in Taiwan.
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ok
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ok
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ok
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ok
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ok
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KFC
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KFC
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KFC
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ok
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take look this http://www.tealit.com/ I think you can teach english here ( I am living in Taipei) at first it would be hard but after few months you will be easier my msn is o919385357@hotmail.com if you have any question you can ask me I will do my best to answer :)
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ok
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KFC
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Check out this online discussion forum. http://forumosa.com/taiwan/viewforum.php?f=70
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KFC
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ok
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ok
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Friday, June 14, 2013
How can I mkae foreigners in Taiwan.?
How can I mkae foreigners in Taiwan.?
Hello, I have some questions. I live in Taipei, Taiwan. I'd like to make foreign friends in Taipei. But How could I make foreign friends? I'm a college student now. I'm an English major student. I have to improve my English and make some friends who are 22-30 years old. (Maybe long term relationship or best friends with foreigners.) If you have friends in Taipei, Taiwan. Can you help me to be their friends? I hope I can make friends who is an American. My email: leechieh25@gmail.com My MSN: leecieh25@hotmail.com or give me some imformation. Thanks.
Languages - 2 Answers
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You can try the British Council. http://www.britishcouncil.org/zh/taiwan.htm If you can afford it try doing overseas exchange programs. Many American schools provide exchange programs, but you have to talk to your school in Taipei to see if they work with any school in America.
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There are some churches in Taiwan that have American missionaries. They usually hold weekly activities and classes. In the classes, people discuss topics in English and during the weekend activities, people go out for fun events as ways of fellowship/developing friendship. I know a church in Keelung that you could try it out. They have missionaries that stay and live in Taiwan for a few years and have some other missionaries visiting every 3-4 months. It might be a good way to make friends. Here's their msn address: http://groups.msn.com/q8k22t6ebp39mjqd4tprppa8a6. You will be able to find info. about that church, including the address, activity invitation and snapshots of activities. Check it out if you'd like. The address is F5, No. 57, An-I Rd., Keelung, Taiwan. It's about 5-10 mins away by walking from the Keelung train station.
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Hello, I have some questions. I live in Taipei, Taiwan. I'd like to make foreign friends in Taipei. But How could I make foreign friends? I'm a college student now. I'm an English major student. I have to improve my English and make some friends who are 22-30 years old. (Maybe long term relationship or best friends with foreigners.) If you have friends in Taipei, Taiwan. Can you help me to be their friends? I hope I can make friends who is an American. My email: leechieh25@gmail.com My MSN: leecieh25@hotmail.com or give me some imformation. Thanks.
Languages - 2 Answers
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You can try the British Council. http://www.britishcouncil.org/zh/taiwan.htm If you can afford it try doing overseas exchange programs. Many American schools provide exchange programs, but you have to talk to your school in Taipei to see if they work with any school in America.
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There are some churches in Taiwan that have American missionaries. They usually hold weekly activities and classes. In the classes, people discuss topics in English and during the weekend activities, people go out for fun events as ways of fellowship/developing friendship. I know a church in Keelung that you could try it out. They have missionaries that stay and live in Taiwan for a few years and have some other missionaries visiting every 3-4 months. It might be a good way to make friends. Here's their msn address: http://groups.msn.com/q8k22t6ebp39mjqd4tprppa8a6. You will be able to find info. about that church, including the address, activity invitation and snapshots of activities. Check it out if you'd like. The address is F5, No. 57, An-I Rd., Keelung, Taiwan. It's about 5-10 mins away by walking from the Keelung train station.
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Friday, June 7, 2013
Will the situation with Taiwan be a bigger concern to us than Iran in 2010?
Will the situation with Taiwan be a bigger concern to us than Iran in 2010?
I talked to a student from China who left when he was 8 years old. He has since gone back to visit. He said that China is pressuring Taiwan to join their Olympic team. That this is their last diplomatic overture. In 2010 Mainland China will resort to military force to bring Taiwan into the fold. What will our position be?
Taiwan - 4 Answers
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This is a very sad situation. We have a belligerent, emerging superpower on one side of the Taiwan Strait and a peaceful, freedom-loving democracy on the other side of the Strait. Taiwan was never part of China. Even the dictator, Mao Zedong, had no interest in Taiwan. On to your question: I'm not so sure China will attack Taiwan militarily; rather, China will "attack" Taiwan economically and financially. China will implement economic blockades, trade sanctions, or offer incentives to Taiwanese businesses and farmers. The United States will continue to abandon Taiwan in the interests of doing business with China and its burgeoning economy. One side note: The fate of Taiwan's political status remains, and should always remain, with the 23 million people of Taiwan -- not some student in China, the Olympic committee, overseas Chinese, me, you -- and certainly NOT Beijing. I unabashedly support Taiwanese independence, but it's not up to me.
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No. I do not think it will. The most hostile situation betweeen China and Taiwan existed when the old Nationalist (Kuomintang or KMT) Party was still in power on Taiwan. The KMT under Chiang Kai-shek was defeated by the Communists on the mainland in 1949 and ran away over to Taiwan. They themselves considered Taiwan a part of China and claimed they were the legitimate government of all China. Many governments, include that of the US, recognized the Nationists as such and referred to their regime as the Republic of China, not the Republic of Taiwan. It was not until 1972 that the US, together with the UN and governments of most other countries recognized the government in Beijing, and not the one on Taiwan, as the government representing all of China. Those countries that made the 180 degree turn around on the issue, including the US, now got stuck and could not undo one point: since they once (1949-1972) recognized the Nationalist government on Taiwan as the legitimate government of China, then Taiwan must have been a part of China. If Taiwan was not a part of China, how could a government on that island be one for the whole China? Now, the US and all those countries have to continue the "one China" policy they once maintained when they recognized the Taiwan government as the Chinese goverment. The difference now is that they recognize the Beijing government as the government of all of China and therefore, the Beiging government has also the legitimacy over Taiwan, which everyone has said is a part of China... There's another development as well. The Chinese Nationists who once ruled Taiwan are now out of power, being booted out by Taiwanese voters who are in the majority and whose families were not among the mainland refugees who came over with the KMT. So the KMT is now getting chummy with Beijing. Why not? The Nationists were dead set against Mainland China because they were in power in Taiwan and a mainland take over would mean they'd be out. But now that they are out anyway, what difference does it make anymore? So now, the main opposition to the mainland are the native Taiwanese, not the KMT. These native elements want independence. They were oppressed under the old Nationalist government on Taiwan before so I guess they do not want any people from the mainlamd to rule over them anymore. A reasonable reaction, of course. However, the native Taiwanese have as much international support and legality to have Taiwan as an independent nation as the native Hawaiians do of returning Hawaii to being an independent country again. In fact, the native Hawaiians have more of a claim than the native Taiwanese. Hawaii was a sovereign nation before 1898 while Taiwan was never one. So now, are we also supporting Hawaiian independence? Of course not and we'd resent any foreign powers that put their noses into our internal affairs regarding Hawaii (or Puerto Rico) also. If the Hawaiians were unhappy about being part of the US, it's our internal affairs between those citizens and the rest of us, not the business of any foreign power outside the US. Ditto with the differences between China and the native Taiwanese. It's their internal business, not ours. By the way, Taiwan has been part of China since 1683 when it was made part of Fujjian Province by the Qing Dynasty. It was upgraded to full provincial status in 1887. The Japanese occupied the island 1905-1945 but the UN and all the world's nations ,including the US, recognized it as a part of China again following Japan's defeat at the end of WWII. It's too late for us to change history!
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I'm sorry. I'm American. What is a "Taiwan"?
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no
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Saturday, June 1, 2013
what do you think about chinese characters?
what do you think about chinese characters?
I am a student in Taiwan and I would like to know what you think about Traditional Chinese characters and simplied ones. I think traditional chinese characters are much more beautiful than simplied ones. Traditional Chinese characters are made by the six categories -- self-explanatory, characters pictographs, pictophonetic characters, associative compounds, mutually explanatory characters, phonetic loan characters. So, each character is meaningful. However, Simplified Chinese characters are now widely used all around the globe. It's a shame that the traditional now is used only in Taiwan and Hong Kong. I still love the traditional ones for its symbol of Chinese culture although it is much easier to write the simplified ones. What do you think about it? example: traditional:é¾çš„傳人ã€ä¸è¯æ–‡åŒ–ã€æ·å²æ‚ ä¹…ã€å»£åšç„¡çª® simplified:é¾™çš„ä¼ äººã€ä¸åŽæ–‡åŒ–ã€åŽ†å²æ‚ ä¹…ã€å¹¿åšæ— ç©·
Psychology - 4 Answers
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Chinese characters are very interesting and beautiful.I'd like to learn to write them but I think that's very hard,they have to many lines!
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i'm from taiwan, have lived in the us for many years. the traditional characters are definitely better at least in the poetic sense. too bad the whole world is more interested in science,which favors the simplified ones. if you like to talk more,click on my name and leave a message
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Language is simply a tool for communication. It is undesirable (and unnecessary) for the written form to be overly complex. Ease of writing is the first and foremost consideration. If some people want to continue to use the traditional characters, they should be free to do so. However, for the majority of the populace, and for teaching in the schools, the simplified forms should be taught. Many foreigners who study Chinese and learn to write hundreds (or even thousands) of characters still frequently get the various radicals or components mixed up. Foreigners are often heard to say: "This item is related to metal, why doesn't it have the metal radical?" -or- "This item is only used by women, why doesn't it have the woman radical?" etc., etc. In a similar manner, some foreigners may examine various characters and ask people in Taiwan: "What does this stroke mean?" -or- "Does this loop go up or down?" etc. etc. ...... and in fact the vast majority of Taiwanese people cannot answer such questions. Additionally, if you pick several fairly complicated Chinese characters out of the dictionary and ask Taiwanese people to assess the "stroke count" of each, you will often get different answers!!! These points of analysis are important. If all those lines, dots, strokes, etc. have no particular meaning, and if the use of the radicals is not consistent across a wide range of characters, and if it is even difficult for Chinese speaking persons to agree on the stroke counts, etc., etc. ...... then it is obvious that "Chinese characters" (in their traditional form) can hardly be considered scientific, or even logical. Thus, since "Chinese characters" (in their traditional form) are neither scientific or logical, then they should be simplified. That way, they are much easier to remember. As for the complaint that "Chinese characters" (in their traditional form) are more beautiful, that is a totally subjective statement. It is not objective in any way, shape, or form. What do you think about the non-alphabetic scripts of the Indian subcontinent, or of Thailand, or Cambodia? Are they beautiful or ugly?? Well, I can tell you that the native people think they are beautiful. Have those scripts been simplified over the ages?? Well, they certainly have. Yet, today they are still considered beautiful. It is just a matter of mental adjustment ...... If you spend some time getting used to the simplified characters, you will become comfortable with them!!!
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Although I think Traditional Chinese characters are much more elegant and poetic, speaking as someone who has attempted to learn both sets of characters, I think Simplified Chinese is the easiest and most straightforward to learn, the Traditional set being so much more tricky. Still, it does seem a shame that the old characters should almost disappear from usage. Perhaps there could be some kind of compromise?
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I am a student in Taiwan and I would like to know what you think about Traditional Chinese characters and simplied ones. I think traditional chinese characters are much more beautiful than simplied ones. Traditional Chinese characters are made by the six categories -- self-explanatory, characters pictographs, pictophonetic characters, associative compounds, mutually explanatory characters, phonetic loan characters. So, each character is meaningful. However, Simplified Chinese characters are now widely used all around the globe. It's a shame that the traditional now is used only in Taiwan and Hong Kong. I still love the traditional ones for its symbol of Chinese culture although it is much easier to write the simplified ones. What do you think about it? example: traditional:é¾çš„傳人ã€ä¸è¯æ–‡åŒ–ã€æ·å²æ‚ ä¹…ã€å»£åšç„¡çª® simplified:é¾™çš„ä¼ äººã€ä¸åŽæ–‡åŒ–ã€åŽ†å²æ‚ ä¹…ã€å¹¿åšæ— ç©·
Psychology - 4 Answers
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1 :
Chinese characters are very interesting and beautiful.I'd like to learn to write them but I think that's very hard,they have to many lines!
2 :
i'm from taiwan, have lived in the us for many years. the traditional characters are definitely better at least in the poetic sense. too bad the whole world is more interested in science,which favors the simplified ones. if you like to talk more,click on my name and leave a message
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Language is simply a tool for communication. It is undesirable (and unnecessary) for the written form to be overly complex. Ease of writing is the first and foremost consideration. If some people want to continue to use the traditional characters, they should be free to do so. However, for the majority of the populace, and for teaching in the schools, the simplified forms should be taught. Many foreigners who study Chinese and learn to write hundreds (or even thousands) of characters still frequently get the various radicals or components mixed up. Foreigners are often heard to say: "This item is related to metal, why doesn't it have the metal radical?" -or- "This item is only used by women, why doesn't it have the woman radical?" etc., etc. In a similar manner, some foreigners may examine various characters and ask people in Taiwan: "What does this stroke mean?" -or- "Does this loop go up or down?" etc. etc. ...... and in fact the vast majority of Taiwanese people cannot answer such questions. Additionally, if you pick several fairly complicated Chinese characters out of the dictionary and ask Taiwanese people to assess the "stroke count" of each, you will often get different answers!!! These points of analysis are important. If all those lines, dots, strokes, etc. have no particular meaning, and if the use of the radicals is not consistent across a wide range of characters, and if it is even difficult for Chinese speaking persons to agree on the stroke counts, etc., etc. ...... then it is obvious that "Chinese characters" (in their traditional form) can hardly be considered scientific, or even logical. Thus, since "Chinese characters" (in their traditional form) are neither scientific or logical, then they should be simplified. That way, they are much easier to remember. As for the complaint that "Chinese characters" (in their traditional form) are more beautiful, that is a totally subjective statement. It is not objective in any way, shape, or form. What do you think about the non-alphabetic scripts of the Indian subcontinent, or of Thailand, or Cambodia? Are they beautiful or ugly?? Well, I can tell you that the native people think they are beautiful. Have those scripts been simplified over the ages?? Well, they certainly have. Yet, today they are still considered beautiful. It is just a matter of mental adjustment ...... If you spend some time getting used to the simplified characters, you will become comfortable with them!!!
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Although I think Traditional Chinese characters are much more elegant and poetic, speaking as someone who has attempted to learn both sets of characters, I think Simplified Chinese is the easiest and most straightforward to learn, the Traditional set being so much more tricky. Still, it does seem a shame that the old characters should almost disappear from usage. Perhaps there could be some kind of compromise?
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