Tseng Chi-lang says that studies have shown that when a child graduates from primary school in the United States, he can read tens of thousands of English words, while a child completing elementary school in Taiwan will only be able to recognize about three thousand individual Chinese characters. From this angle, Taiwanese children might seem to have less language ability.
曾志朗表示，有一項調查指出，美國一個孩子到小學畢業，可以認識幾萬個辭彙，而我們中國的小學生，在學校可能只學會約三千個單字，相較之下，我們的孩子好像語文能力比較薄弱。