Such bitter experiences made Ke Wei-chih very much aware that learning the local language is an essential survival technique, and so after arriving in Taiwan he insisted that his children learn Taiwanese dialect, just as he had learnt Sichuanese when living in Sichuan.
由於有切身的經驗，而深深瞭解學習當地語言是必要的生存之道，葛維智來到台灣後，要求子女一定要學習閩南語，就像當年自己住在四川能講四川話一樣。