Love this Treasure Island! Chen Chi-Ming, a second-generation new immigrant "settles in Taiwan" and devotes himself to teach Burmese

(Taiwan Immigrants’ Global News Network) cooperated with IC Voice FM97.5 [New Life Registration-We are in Taiwan] to launch a series of interesting stories about new immigrants in Taiwan. This episode invites second-generation new immigrant from Myanmar-Chen Chi-Ming (陳啟明). He was born and raised in Myanmar (緬甸). In 2017, he returned to Taiwan to join military service. Later, he fell in love with life on this treasure island, so he decided to settle in Taiwan and work in the field of education to become a Burmese language teacher. [New Immigrants’ Global News Network] also translated this episode into 5 languages including Chinese, English, Vietnamese, Thai and Indonesian, allowing more readers and listeners to share Chen Chi-Ming’s interesting stories.

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Chen Chi-Ming once went to Russia to study and became a "Russian expert". Photo/Retrieved from Facebook

Chen Chi-Ming is very talented in learning languages since he was a child. During his studies at the University of Yangon in Myanmar, he chose to go to Russia as an exchange student. He was very good with the Russian language, Russian culture, and Russian tourism, and he became a "Russian expert." Chen Chi-Ming reminds people who want to travel to Russia, that it is recommended to learn some simple Russian greetings and basic conversation and vocabulary before the journey, to help make the whole trip smoother. It is recommended to go to Russia in the summer because Russia is very cold in winter.

Chen Chi-Ming devoted himself to education because his close friends wanted to learn Burmese. Photo/Retrieved from Facebook

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Chen Chi-Ming, who returned to settle in Taiwan, shared that when he first arrived on this treasure island, his friends were curious about his identity as a "second-generation new immigrant from Myanmar" and even told Chen Chi-Ming that they wanted to learn the "circular script" of the Burmese language, so he devoted himself to work in the field of education as a professional Burmese language teacher. Being a teacher helped him understand Burmese culture more especially when he is preparing his teaching subject matter. At the same time, he uses an online platform with a special webpage "Learn Burmese with Teacher Amin" to share Burmese language lessons, Burmese customs, and Burmese music, etc., to let more people have a basic understanding of Myanmar, and at the same time enhance cultural sensitivity.

Everyone is welcome to learn Burmese with Chen Chi-Ming. Photo/Retrieved from Facebook

In addition, Chen Chi-Ming also suggests to those who are interested in the Burmese language, that they can start learning through local Burmese music, to start to get a sense of the language, and then it will be easier to learn the language and its writing in the future. Currently, teacher Chen Chi-Ming is teaching classes at Soochow University (東吳大學), everyone is welcome to sign up.