"If we lose the former linguistic environment in which teaching and textbooks were all in English, will our standard of English go into a terminal decline?" This is one of the doubts raised in Hong Kong's newspapers by people in favor of retaining the system of English-medium schools.
「失去了過去全部用英文教課、讀英文課本的語言環境，我們的英語程度會不會更是江河日下」，香港報紙上，贊成繼續保留「英中」制度的人提出質疑。