{"id":188,"date":"2005-11-03T16:14:14","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T08:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=188"},"modified":"2005-11-03T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T08:15:26","slug":"taiwan-to-introduce-mandarin-test-for-prospective-foreign-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2005\/taiwan-to-introduce-mandarin-test-for-prospective-foreign-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan to introduce Mandarin test for prospective foreign students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning next June, Taiwan will require that foreign students and overseas Taiwanese-Chinese applying to study in universities take a newly developed Mandarin proficiency text, according to the <i>Taipei Times<\/i>. Those who do not pass will be required to take Mandarin lessons to supplement their studies.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the proficiency test levels: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elementary\n<dl>\n<dt>Level 1<\/dt>\n<dd>can understand simple instructions and basic dialogues<\/dd>\n<dt>Level 2<\/dt>\n<dd>can understand the main points of topic and read ads, posters, etc.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/li>\n<li>Intermediate\n<dl>\n<dt>Level 3<\/dt>\n<dd>can understand general conversation and short texts<\/dd>\n<dt>Level 4<\/dt>\n<dd>can pick up the main points of a discussion and understand longer texts<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/li>\n<li>Advanced\n<dl>\n<dt>Level 5<\/dt>\n<dd>can discuss specialist subjects and understand simple classical Chinese texts and proverbs<\/dd>\n<dt>Level 6<\/dt>\n<dd>can expound upon and discuss topics and understand news reports at native speed<\/dd>\n<dt>Level 7<\/dt>\n<dd>native speaker fluency<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/archives\/2005\/11\/03\/2003278504\">Foreign students face Mandarin test<\/a>, <i>Taipei Times<\/i>, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning next June, Taiwan will require that foreign students and overseas Taiwanese-Chinese applying to study in universities take a newly developed Mandarin proficiency text, according to the Taipei Times. Those who do not pass will be required to take Mandarin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2005\/taiwan-to-introduce-mandarin-test-for-prospective-foreign-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,55,32,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-literacy","category-mandarin","category-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}