But to say that today everyone in Hong Kong can speak Mandarin would be an exaggeration. Especially among primary- and secondary-school children, the effectiveness of their efforts to learn Mandarin--in the words of Liu Rennian, a teacher at Seaward Woo College in Kowloon-- "is pretty insubstantial."
但是要說如今香港人個個都能說普通話了，卻又言過其實，特別在中小學階段「學普通話」的效果，套句九龍胡兆熾中學劉仁念老師的說法，「還只是聊備一格而已。」