> most local schools don't teach Cantonese formally anymore You probably already know the nuances, but just to be clear, schools have probably never taught Can

> most local schools don't teach Cantonese formally anymore You probably already know the nuances, but just to be clear, schools have probably never taught Cantonese "formally" at all - instead, schools taught "Chinese" (i.e. a localized version of written Mandarin) using Cantonese. And now some schools in HK are teaching Mandarin using Mandarin. > it's hard to find Cantonese specific written materials like textbooks etc especially for kids. True. Please consider supporting one of the few projects out there trying to fix this problem: https://hambaanglaang.hk/ https://hambaanglaang.hk/ > Without that supporting academic ecosystem, it's just a oral language spoken by less and less each generation. Cantonese has been "taboo" for various reasons. Learned people traditionally shunned it for Classical Chinese (pre-1950s) and for Written Mandarin (post-1950s). We're trying to fix that. It's crazy to think that a language spoken by at least 20+ million people never had any proper monolingual dictionary (until we made one...)