This is an RTHK production called 鏗鏘集 which aired on TVB recently (2014-03-23).
It talks about using mandarin to teach chinese in HK and the negative effects on the students (they even said that students in HK had problems expressing certain things in Cantonese), and it also interviews people in GZ, and the impact
that the prohibition of Cantonese in the schools there has on the Cantonese level of the student.
One thing in particular which stood out was that in the GZ school, they said that even though most students are local, they're only allowed to speak mandarin at all times in the school, and that some parents even want them to speak mandarin at home to help them "adjust" to the school life.
I couldn't believe that the teacher in that school was a canto speaker but the lessons in the class were conducted entirely in mandarin.
Even though one of the guys in GZ said that he doesn't think that cantonese will die out in GZ, personally I think that it's hard to see how a language can survive if the next generation aren't even given any opportunities to speak it.
25 July is "Cantonese Day" now as well, in commemeroation of the protests on 25 July 2010.
Note:It took me a while, but I've finally embedded a youtube video-I was following the instructions, but it didn't work, finally figured out how to do it, which is the reason this post has so many edits.
It talks about using mandarin to teach chinese in HK and the negative effects on the students (they even said that students in HK had problems expressing certain things in Cantonese), and it also interviews people in GZ, and the impact
that the prohibition of Cantonese in the schools there has on the Cantonese level of the student.
One thing in particular which stood out was that in the GZ school, they said that even though most students are local, they're only allowed to speak mandarin at all times in the school, and that some parents even want them to speak mandarin at home to help them "adjust" to the school life.
I couldn't believe that the teacher in that school was a canto speaker but the lessons in the class were conducted entirely in mandarin.
Even though one of the guys in GZ said that he doesn't think that cantonese will die out in GZ, personally I think that it's hard to see how a language can survive if the next generation aren't even given any opportunities to speak it.
25 July is "Cantonese Day" now as well, in commemeroation of the protests on 25 July 2010.
Note:It took me a while, but I've finally embedded a youtube video-I was following the instructions, but it didn't work, finally figured out how to do it, which is the reason this post has so many edits.