Taipei, Nov. 3 (CNA) A Ph.D. student from the United States on Friday won the top prize in a Mandarin speech contest in Taipei that saw foreigners use Mandarin to describe their experiences in Taiwan or tell other personal stories.

Samuel Galler, one of the 77 contestants and a Ph.D. student at Oxford University, grabbed the first prize with a fluent speech about his fanciful interaction with his plants -- which he bought at the Jianguo Flower Market in Taipei -- and what he learned from that experience.

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