Language Attitudes
An interview on language attitude and background of a particular person is very unique and interesting. For this interview, I interviewed Jason Wong because there is a big contrast in language background between us since I grew up in a rural city in China while he grew up in an urban city. Jason is a multilingual man from Hong Kong who learned Cantonese and English at school in Hong Kong. Indeed, his mother influenced him to admire and enjoy speaking Mandarin because she loves Mandarin and has always believed that being able to speaking fluently in Mandarin is a representation of being a real Chinese. According to Jason, he always indicates to other people about knowing how to speak Mandarin is not only important to himself, but to the majority of the Chinese. In my perspective, uncommon rural Chinese language can be symbolic and significant.
Every person’s language background is very unique, and this applies to me and the interviewee Jason too. Jason was born in Hong Kong in......
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