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I believe Hong Kong already has something beyond this, where in certain schools, all subjects except languages were taught in English, meaning that English was essentially the first language. The Chinese takeover has thrown that in reverse as a matter of party edict. Still, this is an interesting development for Taiwan.
1 posted on 08/27/2018 11:12:06 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
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To: Zhang Fei

Yay! Anything pro-Western in that part of the world is a good thing.


2 posted on 08/27/2018 11:13:31 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Zhang Fei

I believe India also has a national policy similar to this.


3 posted on 08/27/2018 11:16:10 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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English is darn near the official second language here, sadly.


5 posted on 08/27/2018 11:56:26 PM PDT by llevrok (Vote while it's still legal.)
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I think I may have been the first foreign partner in an English language school in Taipei in 1977.

My Taiwanese partner got all the students, and I wrote the curriculum and hired the
English-speaking students in Taipei either as travelers or as students studying Chinese.

Mainland China was still closed, so all of us students from the west studying Chinese
went to Taipei.

Beautiful memories...
6 posted on 08/28/2018 12:15:21 AM PDT by jobim
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Why not just have English as a required course? It seems silly to make English a second language. Taiwan is a Chinese country and already has an official language, Chinese. And it was never a British colony like Hong Kong or Singapore, so it does not make sense historically or culturally.


7 posted on 08/28/2018 2:37:54 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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The US seems to be working toward “Press 2 for English” so is the world about to flip?


10 posted on 08/28/2018 3:35:23 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Zhang Fei; cba123
Like many Freepers I've done a fair amount of traveling in my day.Europe,Asia,Africa and South America to be precise.

More specifically my travels have taken me to a number of countries/regions that are part of Britain's colonial past...Hong Kong,India,several countries in East Africa and southern Africa being just a few.In those travels I've found that the better educated a person is the more likely he/she is to be at least "conversant",if not fluent,in English.

English is one of Hong Kong's "official" languages as it is in India,Tanzania,Kenya and South Africa.It's interesting,and gratifying,to hear that Taiwan will be making English an "official language".Too bad the United States doesn't declare it *the* official language.

11 posted on 08/28/2018 4:01:22 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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Singapore adopted English as official more than 50 years ago.
Nice to see Taiwan catching up.


13 posted on 08/28/2018 4:19:58 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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