But although Wang Fu-chang was once "dumb" when it came to speaking Mandarin, perhaps it is indicative of the great success of the National Language program that the language in which he is most fluent today is that selfsame Mandarin. "Once at an ethnic seminar I found I just wasn't able to give my talk in my own native language, Taiwanese."
然而，儘管王甫昌當過國語啞吧，但或許是國語政策執行得十分成功，他現在所熟用的語言竟然是國語，「有一回，參加一個族群研討會，我根本無法用我的母語﹘ ﹘閩南語發表論文。」