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Schools recruit language teachers for new curricula

CNA, TAIPEI [Tiong-iong-sia]

Ever since the Ministry of Education included the teaching of the nation's languages in the nine-year compulsory education system that began last September, many schools have included Hoklo, Hakka and aboriginal dialects in their curricula, an education official said yesterday. --> Although Hoklo, a major language of the people living south of the Min River in China's Fukien Province, is the mother tongue of most people in Taiwan, it has been overshadowed for many years due to the previous government's "Mandarinization program." ========================== Kai-sia: "Although English, a major language of the people living about the Thames River in Britain's England, is the mother tongue of most people in the United States, it has been…" LOL!