According to Hsieh Chih-wei, dean of the School of Foreign Language and Culture at Soochow University, technical colleges 'departments of applied foreign languages concentrate mainly on English, Japanese and German, and almost two-thirds of their courses are different from those offered by traditional language departments.
東吳大學外語學院院長謝志偉就指出，目前技術學院所成立的應用外語系多集中在英文、日文、德文三類，幾乎有三分之二的課程與傳統外語系不同。