西雅圖留學

Question

想請問:

1. 聽說西雅圖常下雨,
有多常下雨阿? 是毛毛雨嗎?

2. 西雅圖華人多不多?
說中文也會通嗎?
(因我希望到華人較少的地方念書)

3. 西雅圖雪季多長呢?

4. 稅率多高阿?

5. 西雅圖有不錯的英語教育 或 TESOL 的研究所嗎? (不要私立的喔)

感謝!

我已有托福成績,
應該不會再唸語言囉!

謝囉 : )

To: alexandra_schang

粉謝謝你喔,
可以問一下ㄧ學期學費約多少嗎?

Answer 1

西雅圖留學
washington state ㄉㄧ部分 seattle

1.seattle 有者四季分明ㄉ氣候~~交通便捷
seallte 四周山群環繞~海洋資源滿豐富ㄉ
再這裡熱愛運動和藝文氣息濃厚
因為靠近海洋~因氣流影響有時會下雨
至於毛毛雨?? 台灣是下毛毛雨還是大雨不一定ㄅ

2.在西岸來講seattle華人滿多ㄉ~再加上它這ㄍ城市很適合居住
環境良好~你去那邊應該要克服跟美國人講話ㄉ障礙ㄅ
所以你看到華人還是用英文比較好

3.氣候舒適~冬天ㄉ平均溫度在零下攝氏5~6度~不會冷~那還要知道雪季多長ㄇ

4.大城市發費都是比較貴ㄉ~你要有心理準備

5.公立ㄉ再西雅圖據我所知~西雅圖大學(私立ㄉ)為有名~至於國立ㄉ那邊都是地方性大學~你如果要找語言學校~你去問問代辦公司會比較好

我建議你可以找離西雅圖較進ㄉ地方讀~例如華盛頓州立大學等那邊也有不錯ㄉ語言學校

Answer 2

Hi there,

In response to your questions:
1. It rains a lot more in Winter, and often times it may appear sunny in the morning and start raining in the afternoon. It can rain hard and it can drizzle. That really depends.

2. There's certainly a decent Asian population (Korean, Japanese, Chinese). However there's not enough for you to communicate in Mandarin wherever you go (grocery store, restaurant, shopping mall). Frankly, the only place I can think of that you can get around with just knowing Mandarin is the International District (sort of like Chinatown).

3. This depends. But based on my past 5 years of experience living here, it ranges from 1-6 days/year. Even if it snows, there is rarely enough to accumulate.

4. The last time I checked it was around 8.8%, but don't quote me on that!

5. The University of Washington has a Master of Arts for Teachers (of English to Speakers of Other Languages) program (please refer to http://depts.washington.edu/engl/grad/MATESOL.html if interested). I wasn't sure about how good the program is so I checked the ranking at www.usnews.com. They don't have a specific ranking for TESOL, however in general the UW is ranked #8 in education programs. So you may want to consider!

I am a graduate student studying Physical Therapy at the University of Washington. Feel free to contact me if you have any other questions about the area!