What's up, Tim!
It's so cool to see foreign students getting to stay at your place, this reminded me of the time back in Germany, when i sleep over at my friends' house, their parents always have millions of questions about my nationality, history and culture. They tend to ask questions like, so which one would be a typical taiwanese child's mother language? Chinese? or Taiwanese?
They're always so interested in these type of asian culture, and I'm always proud to answer them.
Do you ask these students about their home country?
Dear Aubrey,
ReplyDeleteI usually ask the foreign students too many questions. When it comes to history and geography, I've learned that most Asian students don't do very well, so I have learned to stick to "modern culture" questions.
But I have learned that speaking Taiwanese is more common is central and southern Taiwan, while most people in Taipei only speak Mandrian. In the south, many of the older people only speak Taiwanese, the people your parents age will speak both, while people your age will speak Mandrian, and a little bit of Taiwanese. Would you agree with that?
Does anyone in your family speak Taiwanese?
Tim