Selling out Hakka are generally thought of as being linguistically talented. Many speak fluent Southern Fujianese (" Taiwanese ") and Mandarin in addition to their own mother tongue.
寧賣祖宗田，毋忘祖宗言客家人一般被認為較有語言天分，多數人在母語之外，還能說一口流利的閩南語和國語。