Edited version of this article published in Centered on Taipei magazine, Oct 2013. Tired of being left in the dark when it comes to learning Chinese, Trista di Genova talks with Michael Hoare about his ground-breaking new resource for wannabe Mandarin speakers, ‘Intimate Chinese: From grammar to fluency: A companion
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Trista di Genova (and NTU students), The Wild East The following article is an expansion on class discussion with National Taiwan University students. The topic was “What to tell your ABC cousin about moving to Taiwan.” What to bring: Bring your own, preferably laptop computer because the operating system is
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By Trista di Genova, The Wild East Hapless Chinese learners agree: the Taiwan-only useless system of ‘Bopomofo’ ought to be immediately phased out, and the agreed-upon phonetic system of Hanyu pinyin used to teach Chinese if Taiwan wants competency and credibility as a Mandarin-language training center. The first time I
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Alan Kwan was born in Hong Kong, and went to high school and law school there, then was an exchange student in Singapore and pursued graduate studies in International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE) in England. There, he applied for the MOE (Taiwan Ministry of Education) scholarship
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