Happy Birthday

This is from Tony Hung in Taiwan who is in Margaret Doty's beginning grammar/writing class:

Dear Margaret Ann Doty,

As it is, we may say "Son Ru Kwai Lo" as Happy Birthday in Taiwan .

There are two languages in Taiwan, one is the true Taiwanese, the other is Chinese (Chinese from mainland China; in 1941 a lot of people went to Taiwan to escape the threat of Communist Party. Chang Kai-Shek, who was the National Party leader [the National Party is the ruling party] led these people to Taiwan, so we may speak Chinese now).

Chinese is more popular with people in Taiwan, so we recorded the Chinese version of Happy Birthday in the wave file. (Click here if you have a sound card to hear Happy Birthday in Chinese.)

In fact, true Taiwanese is an ancient language in Taiwan, the aboriginal in Taiwan might speak true Taiwanese. That's why we add the "TRUE".