Mrs. Chang, a Hakka herself and fluent in Hakka, Mandarin and Taiwanese, says she chooses to speak Hakka because it is her mother tongue. She started to learn Mandarin at school and became fluent in Taiwanese as a child, watching traditional puppet theater and Taiwanese opera.
客語、國語、台語都十分流利的客家籍張媽媽說，自己會說客家話，因為那是自己的母語，然後上了小學開始學國語，閩南語則是小時候看布袋戲、歌仔戲自然而然學會的。