Re: Languages in China's Fujian and Taiwan

Dung Ping wrote:

> Thanks all for information. The other day I had lunch at a Chinese
> restaurant. The waitress is from Taiwan, and cashier young man from
> Fujian Provicne, China. But they talked to each other in a language I
> don't understand. In the U.S., most people of Fujian are from the
> Fuzhou area. So I thought the cashier was from a place near Fuzhou.
> He told me, in mandarin, that his language is 98% same as the
> waitress's. The waitress told me she is native Taiwan, and speaks both
> mandarin and local languages.
>
> Tomorrow I will go there again to ask.

If the food's good, you should tell us where it is.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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