What was it like to grow up speaking Mandarin only?

I think it's very good, so that I have developed a good habit of speaking Mandarin since I was a child, and when communicating with others, I can also communicate with people in a very fluent Mandarin, and I will also be praised by others, which is a very happy thing, and we should also develop a good habit of loving Mandarin from an early age.

Before I was in elementary school, I always thought that Mandarin was the universal language of the whole country, and everyone only spoke such a language. But then I learned that there was such a thing as a dialect, and the first time I saw them speak in dialects, I thought it was amazing, they used dialects to communicate with people in their hometown, and they used Mandarin to communicate with us, and it felt as if they knew more than we did.

Nowadays, children go to school to speak Mandarin, this thing is very normal, Mandarin is just a language, everyone can understand it, and there is no need for others to translate, it is natural to get used to it, and I will not feel that there is anything different from everyone, when I speak Mandarin, others will basically not use dialects to talk to you!

This feeling is still very good, the only drawback is that whenever I go to a city, I hear their dialect, it feels like they are talking about the book of heaven, I don't understand at all, there is often that kind of confused expression, but it also reduces a lot of trouble, when you don't have to communicate with others, the local dialect and Mandarin switch, that feeling is also very tired.

What can I say about this experience? There is no need to switch between dialects and Mandarin. Like roommate dialect and Mandarin to switch. Every time I want to call the family, I have to speak the dialect of the family, and at this time my experience is sad, and I feel that I have shortcomings.

Doesn't fit in with the classmates. The primary school is in Guangzhou, and the junior high school returns to his hometown to study junior high school. But I didn't speak the dialect of my hometown, and I spoke Mandarin with my classmates, so they would isolate me, thinking that I couldn't play with them, and I didn't make close friends.

It's the same in high school, where I feel excluded.

My cousin only spoke Mandarin when she was a child, because she followed her parents in other places since she was new, and she was surrounded by Mandarin speakers, so she couldn't speak her hometown, and now she has grown up and lived in her parents, and she is speaking her hometown dialect all around, and then she speaks Mandarin a little out of place, like a foreigner.