FEATURE/Language of our own: Fun Taiwanese classes gain popularity in France
08/10/2023 05:00 PM
In a classroom in Paris, Taiwan's top envoy to France François Wu (吳志中) was serenaded with ballads from his homeland, sung not in French or Mandarin, but in Taiwanese Hoklo.
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