[lg policy] Taiwan faces complex language legacy

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded  From:  edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


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.



Full story:

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




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