China, Fuzhou Dialect (Mandarin)

Hello everyone! My name is Karry You. Below I have a map of where my language is from and I will be talking about a few things about my native language. Language is important to every culture. It is an important aspect of a culture, or rather, a core piece of culture.

I find it so important and unique to be able to speak another language, I sometimes often think if I can go back to when I was a kid. I would love to learn more. I feel that in our generation most kids don't want to learn anymore lanuages from their parents and their culture because English is already soemthing they are used to growing up. But there are a lot of benefits and advantages to learning more than just one. When you stop speaking the true language of a culture, you actually lose touch with that culture.

I am a Chinese-American born in the U.S and Fuzhounese is my first language, also my true native tones, when I am speaking Fuzhounese, I am speaking my true native tongues. The tones my parents growing up speaking, and my grandparents. The tone from previous generations passing it down to me. In Fuzhou, we mainly speak this language, and older generations like my grandma, while on the other hand, as younger generations starts to learn it, they mostly would want to learn mandarin instead.

My experience with learning this language started from a young age, I somehow ended up speaking this language without an instinct. It almost felt like I already knew what to say when I was learning this language. I am proud that I was able to learn from my grandma and talk to her about our native language.