More than once Chen Chin-lung has said to his children. "Daddy is writing a dictionary of the Ami language; if even you can't speak it, then nobody will buy a dictionary like that."
為此陳金龍不只一次的跟孩子們說：「爸爸在編阿美族語字典，如果連你們都不會說，這樣以後字典會賣不出去。」