The largest and oldest of them, and one of the largest of its kind in the world, is the Mandarin Training Center of the National Taiwan Normal University, established in 1957 when Liang Shih-chiou, the world-famous translator of Shakespeare's works into Chinese, was dean of the College of Arts.
目前國內的華語教學機構中，歷史最久、規模最大的，該是師大國語中心。師大國語中心是民國四十五年，梁實秋在師大文學院院長任內成立的。