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Very good food, too. The downside of Taiwan is to learn the local language.

Which, unless I am terribly wrong, involves ideographic characters and not alphabetic. This should be a major obstacle.

The written language is Traditional Chinese.

Exactly. I can recommend the work for Shaolan, Chineasy, for having the basics for Chinese language ideograms - and she is from Taiwan.

Unfortunately, if ideograms is all you have in the place, it will take quite some time and effort to be proficiently integrated.