We were taught Beijinghua at my university. It was actually kind of weird; we used Taiwanese textbooks and were taught fan2ti3zi4 long before we were even introduced to the concept of jian3ti3zi4, but we had to speak with a Beijing accent. Of course, those of us who went to Taiwan for our year abroad got rid of the R straight away, along with the retroflexes. I can’t for the life of me pronounce shen2me shi2hou the way I was taught any more; my retroflexes have become completely Taiwanised (Taiwanisised?).
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We were taught Beijinghua at my university. It was actually kind of weird; we used Taiwanese textbooks and were taught fan2ti3zi4 long before we were even introduced to the concept of jian3ti3zi4, but we had to speak with a Beijing accent. Of course, those of us who went to Taiwan for our year abroad got rid of the R straight away, along with the retroflexes. I can’t for the life of me pronounce shen2me shi2hou the way I was taught any more; my retroflexes have become completely Taiwanised (Taiwanisised?).