Mandarin-medium teaching seems to mirror the problem of English-medium teaching, often discussed in the Hong Kong media, where "there is little depth to class discussion." For most Hong Kong schoolchildren, Mandarin seems to be a "foreign" language.
普通話上課與香港媒體經常討論英語教學所呈現「課堂上討論不能夠很深入」的問題幾乎如出一轍，普通話在香港學生的認知裡，似乎等同於「外語」。