Taiwan’s Women’s Doubles Tennis Advances at Rogers Cup
A Taiwanese women’s doubles tennis team has advanced to the second round at the Rogers Cup. Sister Zhan Yong-ran and Zhan Hao-qing beat the Czech team of Andrea Hala-vikova and Lucie Hedra-dika. The Zhan sisters slammed down a 6-4, 3-6, 10-8 match to beat their opponent. Another Taiwanese competitor, Zhuang Jia-rong, who teamed up with...Continue reading
Violinist Wins Silver in Tchaikovsky Competition
Taiwanese violinist Zeng Yu-qian (曾宇謙) has been awarded the silver medal in the violin category of the 15th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. No one won the gold medal in the prestigious competition this year. Twenty-year-old Zeng beat contestants from Russia, Moldova, South Korea and Germany to achieve the best-ever performance for Taiwan in the...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Learning the languages of Taiwan
Listen Episode Description On this episode we speak to the founder of Glossika, a Taiwan based company that develops audio study kits for languages from all over the world, and recently has set its sights squarely on the languages of Taiwan. Earlier this year it’s released a kit for studying Taiwanese, and now it’s working...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Dubbing Cartoons for a Taiwanese Audience (7/21-22/2014)
Listen Episode Description Anyone from an English speaking country who flips to Cartoon Network in Taiwan can tell you, it sounds a little different from back home: The whole thing is dubbed from start to finish into Chinese. But it’s not just a simple matter of translating straight from English to Chinese. In fact,...Continue reading
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