But learning one's own mother tongue is different. Never mind how many people in the past were illiterate and couldn't read even the simplest characters, they could speak their own dialect perfectly well all their lives. When have the old folk in the countryside today ever been to local vernacular classes?
但是唯獨學習母語不然，過去有多少文盲，雖然目不識丁，但一輩子母語呱呱叫，就如目前鄉下阿公阿媽，他們何時上過本土語言的課？