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[Taiwan Immigrants' Global News Network] cooperated with [IC FM97.5] to share stories of new immigrants in Taiwan. This episode's guest is a Taiwanese woman Chen Yeh-mei 陳鑀枚 from Malaysia. Chen grew up and became interested in promoting new immigrants' language courses and became an editor for study materials. Chen Ai-mei's passion and selflessness touched the hearts of many new immigrants in Taiwan and inspired them to participate as well. [Taiwan Immigrants' Global News Network] has provided the episode in different languages such as Chinese, English, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian.
Chen is fluent in 7 languages (English, Malay, Indonesian, Cantonese, Hakka, Mandarin, and Taiwanese). She was the top student of the Department of Business Administration at the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman in Malaysia. Chen later own worked in an accounting firm where she met her husband who went to Malaysia for work. They got married in Taiwan where Chen became a Taiwanese spouse and they also had one child.
When Chen first arrived in Taiwan, she was focused on taking care of her family, she was so busy that she rarely had the chance to meet with other new immigrants in Taiwan. It was until one day her son came across a translation training course hosted by the National Immigration Agency (NIA) Service Station. Soon, Chen became an active volunteer at translation services for new immigrants. At the same time, Chen participated in the "National New Immigrant Torch Project" and the "New Immigrant Language Teaching Support Teacher". Here she was able to promote Southeast Asian culture, education, and also provide free teaching skills to new immigrants.
Aside from her contribution in editing new immigrant language textbooks for the NIA and Ministry of Education (MOE), Chen Ai-mei also designs textbooks to make teaching and learning more fun. She designed "The Kingdom of Huan - Mancala".
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Chen Ai-mei is deeply involved in the "Education of New Immigrant Children". (Photo / Provided by Chen Ai-mei)
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Chen Ai-mei said that the Sowing Game (Mancala) is a board game from Malaysia she often played as a child. In her version, she added Malaysian cultural elements for educational purposes. New immigrants from the Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam, and other countries also recognized the game after seeing it. In the Philippines, they use shells, in Malaysia, they use marbles. In Vietnam, the game is played to pass time and leisure. Through this board game, Chen likes to add stories from Southeast Asian culture, that way more people can learn about its culture and language.
If you are interested, you can learn more about Chen Ai-mei here: event page and Facebook page.
