When Wen-hsiung had just arrived in Taiwan, he would hardly say a word at his kindergarten. This was not because he was unsociable, but because in his short experience he had never heard nor spoken Mandarin. He could only speak a broad Cantonese Hakka dialect.
剛來台灣的文雄，在幼稚園裡顯得沉默寡言﹘ ﹘倒不是生性孤僻，而是在他小小的學習經驗裡，從來沒聽過、沒講過普通話（這裡叫「國語」）；他會的，是口音濃重的廣東客家話。