Wu Tsai-shun, who heads the department of elementary and junior high school education at the Ministry of Education, recently stated: "Children should speak their mother tongue at home and they will also learn Mandarin Chinese when they start attending kindergarten, but they can only start to learn a foreign language in the third grade of elementary school.
前些日子，教育部國教司長吳財順曾公開喊話：「幼童在家應說母語，上幼稚園後，母語之外再學國語，小學三年級之後再學外語。