Currently, only a small number of primary schools in Hong Kong teach Mandarin (i.e. standard Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect, and known in mainland China as putonghua or "the common speech," and in Taiwan as guoyu or "the national language"). There are also very few which hold their Chinese classes in Mandarin.
目前香港少部分的小學設有普通話課，而在全港所有小學的中文課中，只有少數以普通話進行。