And lthough her husband's family all understand Taiwanese and Mandarin, when theygettogether they are still accustomed to conversing in Hakka. "When I had first married into his family, I felt like I was a foreigner," she says. That old feeling of being excluded was really hard to take.
而夫家人雖都懂閩南語及國語，但聚在一起時總是習慣用客家話交談，「剛嫁到他家時，我覺得自己好像外國人」，她說，老被排除在外的滋味實在不好受。