Born and raised in Hong Kong, Zhang Haang-yui briefly lived in Shenzhen during primary school, which he considered pivotal for learning Putonghua and Cantonese. Haang-yui, now a University of Hong ...

Now, two decades later, that figure has nearly doubled. But even as people get better at communicating in Mandarin, also known as Putonghua, some in Hong Kong are losing interest, or even ...

However, while it is mandatory for many students in Hong Kong to learn Hanyu Pinyin in Putonghua classes, Cantonese Pinyin is rarely used to learn pronunciations of Traditional Chinese.