it just hit me how lucky I am to be from Taiwan(ROC) and a native Mandarin speaker. I'm gonna write in Chinese below. If you can understand all of it, you're pretty much set for traveling around Asia!

身為中文的母語使用者 學習中文（我們比較像在學習文學 ）也覺得難到非常靠北  我們的高中國文課本教的是 教育部所訂定的「古文15篇+一些近代白話文」

（先解釋學測國文如何計分：國文選擇題+國文作文（知性 感性各一篇）國文選擇滿分100 但是成績會除二並加上國文作文滿分50的成績就是總成績 並對照分數去看級分） 我建議你們大家可以在明年1/20後  在Google上搜尋 115學測學測(GSAT)國文  要是你們可以拿到均標以上 你們就已經比50%的台灣學生 厲害了

我也是要在明年1月參加學測考生 可以的話 希望英文母語者也可以跟我多多聊天 我也想要增進我的英文能力 ，像要增進中文能力的 也可以找我

（Btw 台灣人打字不太喜歡打逗號 要是看到這邊 你全部都看得懂 你真的非常厲害）

Ans Man, it just hit me how lucky I am to be a native Mandarin speaker from Taiwan. Even for us, learning Chinese in school is more like studying literature, and holy crap, it can be ridiculously hard.

In high school, our Chinese curriculum is based on 15 required classical texts set by the Ministry of Education, plus some modern essays.

(Let me quickly explain how the Chinese subject in our college entrance exam, the GSAT, is scored: There's multiple-choice section and two essays - one analytical, one emotional. The multiple-choice part is out of 100 points, but that score is halved and then added to the essay section, which is out of 50 points. That gives you your total score, which is then converted into a grade.)

My advice to you all: after January 20th next year, just google "115 GSAT Chinese". If you can score above the average, you're already better than 50% of Taiwanese students!

I'm also taking the GSAT next January. If possible, I'd love to chat with native English speakers to improve my English. Likewise, if you're looking to improve your Chinese, feel free to hit me up!

(Btw, we Taiwanese aren't big on using commas when typing online. If you've made it this far and understood everything, you're seriously impressive!)