Fan, Hong-Yan, a Vietnamese New Immigrant, who Overcomes Language Difficulties and Serves as Lecturer on Foreign Culture

National Immigration Agency plans to train new immigrants to become multicultural talents for the first time this year to encourage new immigrants and their children to participate in public affairs. 92 trainees have certificated after training and will serve as multicultural lecturers at various service stations in the future. National Immigration Agency (Chiayi City Service Center) organized “Family Education and Regulation Dissemination for New Immigrants” course. Fan, Hong-Yan, a new immigrant from Vietnam was invited to serve as a lecturer on foreign culture and share the experience of training to be a lecturer.

20 years ago, Hong-Yan was envious of the happy marriages of friends from her hometown in Taiwan. She hoped that she could marry in Taiwan like them. Because of language differences, which caused troubles in communication, and drove her to worked hard for learning Chinese. After a few years, her Chinese had improved, and she was able to understand her family better, and gradually improved their relationship with each other.

Due to domestic calamity, Hong-Yan had to raise her child alone. Now that her son is in high school, she thought that she should also change, and hoped to become a different self through multiple learning, so she participated in the training course organized by NIA. She appreciated NIA for providing learning opportunities and platforms. "I used to have low self-esteem and not dared talk to people. After taking the course, I’ve learned about different cultures and met many people of different nationalities. It gave me a sense of security and made me more cheerful and confident. I want to work hard to change myself, and to change the child's mind to make him proud for his new immigrant mother."

Huang, Yan-Xun(黃艷薰), the Director of Chiayi County Service Center, stated that National Immigration Agency actively promotes the multicultural talent training program to invites new immigrants and their children to participate in the training courses. The trainees must participate in the 28-hour intensive training of the initial and advanced courses and pass the test to obtain a certificate of completion. The training includes diverse and abundant courses on the purpose to make multiculturalism in Taiwan better understood by new immigrants and narrow the distance between various ethnic groups.

In addition, new immigrants and foreign friends who have any questions of life in Taiwan can call the "1990, Immediately Help You" for consultation. The special line provides consultation services in multiple languages.