'The following is an account of what the Japanese. are ing towards native educations in Tamsui. The scheme. involves two distinct divisions. and objects—one department, under which adult, and intelligent Chinese are sufficiently' instructed in the Japanese language to enable them to become interpreters for immediate and pressing needs, and the other by which the complete and general education of the young is provided for. For the use of the first, complete Sinico-Japanese conversation books, containing military, commercial, and colloquial vocabularies were compiled by a Japanese and Chinese staff pho weeker unremittingly at their task until finish The school was opened in August, have to pass an examination admission. The students are one receiv ing instruction at government expense, the second consisting of members whose Knowledge of the Chinese classics and general intelligence renders them particularly fitted for future employment as teachers or clerks, and the third of the very young who have little or no knowledge of Chinese literature, and who will therefore be taken. through a full educational course Sifficiently versed in ordinary Japanese colloquial were able to pass an examination and have been successfully employed as teachers or clerks. The lower school which aims at teaching the solbanial of thei: Ghinese has been. further extended respective countries to japanese ant since April, 1896, several Japanese students, ranging from 26 to 40 years of age, were enrolled for the study of the local dialect. These persons had already passed through the "Normal School" course in Japan, and have been engaged for several years teaching in that country.
progress Several of these have made' 30, muc has been fonsd possible to draft in. picking up the language 1 that it them off to various localities for the purpose of instructing natives in Japanese.
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