Taiwan faces complex language legacy

[Francis Hult]

AFP/Google

 

Taiwan faces complex language legacy

 

When Taiwanese scholar Shih Cheng-feng was a boy, he was forced to speak a language that was not his own, and four decades later he still feels handicapped by his education.

 

He grew up under a nationalist regime that had fled China and now wanted him and everyone else to speak the dominant dialect of the mainland, with the right Beijing accent.

 

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hQCWYHB_dRgmHaQhraDTZksGfx1A

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