I’ve been trying for quite some time (on and off, I do have my studies here as well) to try and find some money to study Chinese in Taiwan. This is a major initiative for the US government, so I thought it would actually be fairly easy to realize…no so.
All of the scholarships I found to study Chinese have enrollement at a American university as a prerequisite. Now, if I don’t have the money to study at a Taiwanese university, I certainly don’t have the money to enroll in an American university.
Am I look at this wrong? It just seems to me that immersion is the best way to learn a language. I couldn’t speak French until I had to, and I certainly won’t be able to speak Chinese without the same “encouragement” (I already have more or less the same basic knowledge of Chinese that I had of French when I came to France).
Just curious.
Could you please explain your situation in much more detail? Where were you born? Where did you grow up? What citizenship are you? Where are you living now? What are you doing there? Do you have parents or other relatives in the U.S. that you can go back and live with? As it stands, your question doesn’t make much sense. It sounds like you’re asking why the American government doesn’t offer a scholarship to you, when you have no connection with the U.S. I suspect that that’s not your actual situation, but there’s no way to tell unless you give us more detail.
With pleasure…
Charleston, SC
Americano
I’m studying philosophy in Paris. I’m doing it both to ameliorate my French, as well as, obviously, study philosophy.
I already have a B.A. in English (minor French)
I’ll be coming home in July.
All of them. I’m the lone wanderer.
I’d be glad to give you any more information you need.