But others have said that because of Hong Kong's colonial past, it already possesses a multilingual environment similar to that of Europe or nearby countries such as Singapore, so promoting written and spoken multilingualism in Hong Kong is not beyond the bounds of possibility.
但也有人認為，香港因為殖民地的關係，在語言上已經有了類似歐洲，或是鄰近如新加坡的多語環境，培養香港人多文多語並非不可能。