Fluent in Japanese, she now had to open a textbook and learn the rudiments of Mandarin. Fortunately, her parents 'native tongue was Taiwanese, a Chinese dialect after all, and the traditions of her family of farmers and scholars made her no stranger to things Chinese.
日文說寫流利的她，重新攤開課本，ㄅㄆㄇㄈ地卷著舌頭學國語；好在家常語言本來就是台語，耕讀傳家的傳統也讓她對漢文並不陌生。