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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting. Are you American? European? That article was from 2024 and said covid was a reason for a big drop- makes sense- and that both countries wanted to encourage more students. Not sure if you meant it to be encouraging.

Dc is interested in a specific program through his school in HK, but Shanghai is preferable to HK bc it’s more Chinese. .. for some people, going to HK is not really going to China. He understands many people speak Cantonese in HK not mandarin (thanks for the snark though!). Although isn’t mandarin much more common in HK now, especially among younger people? As far as written form, dc first learned Taiwanese mandarin (8 years of it) eg, traditional- so hopefully he’s retained some. But again, I think Shanghai would be the preference.

Do you like Shanghai?

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Mandarin is more common but Cantonese is roughly 90%.  It wasn’t snark… my daughter is learning Mandarin and it is treated as a foreign language. (Complete with study trips to Taiwan or the mainland.)

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Got it, thank you. But to clarify, he’s not there to study language per se. [/quote]

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