Since Mandarin Chinese is the lingua franca of the Chinese world and English is the international language, it goes without saying that we should study them-but why not also reserve a sliver of time to study one's own dialect?
華語是華人的共同語言，而英語是國際通用語，我們學習這兩種語言是理所當然的事，但為何不能撥出一丁點空間來學習自身方言呢？