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I'm not sure if you're missing the point. Yes, secondary schools used to teach in Chinese and English (more of the former if you chose a Chinese school, more o
by bsznjyewgd 10y ago
I'm not sure if you're missing the point.
Yes, secondary schools used to teach in Chinese and English (more of the former if you chose a Chinese school, more of the latter if you chose an English one), but the Chinese used to be Cantonese.
Now they're teaching even primary schools in Mandarin. The lingua franca is Cantonese, and Mandarin is a foreign language. Obviously, this is problematic. When I was going through the school system, Mandarin instruction (as a separate class, not as a language of instruction) didn't even start until fourth grade. Can you imagine starting your first day of grade one and your teacher starts speaking gibberish to you? That's ridiculous.
- hangonhn 10y agoNo I wasn't missing a point;I was missing an entire data set! I didn't know they moved that down to primary school! I knew they switched from English to Mandarin but I didn't realize they pushed it down to grade one. I am obviously wrong on that point. Thanks for the info.
- bsznjyewgd 10y agoActually, I think I implied more than what I meant to say. While they are now pushing the use of Mandarin as a language of instruction (and pushing it further down the age group), I'm not so sure they are starting at grade one (I'm now part of the diaspora myself, but this is in the Cantonese news once in a while). That was just me wondering to myself the absurdity of being taught in a language that I would've barely heard of at that point in life.
- spacehunt 10y agohttp://news.mingpao.com/pns/dailynews/web_tc/article/20160212/s00002/1455213807502 http://news.mingpao.com/pns/dailynews/web_tc/article/2016021... Of the 80 schools sampled, 36 teach Chinese in Cantonese in all classes, 22 teach in Putonghua in all classes, 9 teach in Putonghua in all classes of some grades, and the rest have a mix of both.