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Originally Posted by JoaNor  Most of the kids who go to school learn BOTH Mandarin and Cantonese in addition to their local dialect...  But also inside these lingual regions they have different dialects... |
Speakers of Cantonese are taught Mandarin but no vice versa. The vast majority of Chinese in the mainland learn only Mandarin. Since the handover from the British, the CCP has been pushing for HK folks to become more fluent with Mandarin, which is the lingua franca of the nation as a whole, local dialects notwithstanding.