With support from two Taiwanese government organizations, the city of Fremont, California, began offering free Mandarin language training courses to its city employees on Sept. 19.
The course is part of a collaboration between the Taiwanese government and the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT). It is the first Mandarin training program provided by Taiwan to a local government in Northern California, according to Deputy Director Chu Yung-chang of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in San Francisco.
The two Taiwanese organizations supporting the classes are the San Francisco TECO and the Taiwan Overseas Community Affairs Council.
Taiwan and AIT began cooperating on the Taiwan-U.S. Education Initiative in June 2021. Under this initiative, the Overseas Community Affairs Council has been promoting the establishment of “Taiwan Centers for Mandarin Learning” (TCML) across the United States….