A-Bao once talked about it in an interview. Because she grew up in Kaohsiung, the Han friends asked her out of curiosity: “How to count the numbers in the Paiwan language?” She said with a little regret that she could only count from one to seven. One to seven — that was A-Bao’s limit at that time. In the “Mother’s Tongue” album, A-Bao needs to count from one to ten in the Paiwan language in the song “1-10”. So she asked for help from her mother, who is familiar with the Paiwan language. In the studio, when she wanted to confirm the pronunciation, she called her mother, started the amplification, repeated practice until the mother said, “pass.” Repeatedly, step by step, A-Bao finally put back together with the lost puzzles she should have had as a Paiwan tribe member.
