Education
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- In the early twentieth-century, Putonghua occupied special status in Chinese life due to the more through promotion in education, "Putonghua and the standardized Chinese characters shall be used as the basic language in education and teaching in schools and other institutions of education."(Law, Article 10) Thus, almost every schools required their students and teachers to speak Putonghua in school. Posting signs on school, holding Putonghua promotion week and some school may punish the students who speak dialect in school.
- But the Then more and more students learn how to say it, so that the young people are facing the challenge of losing the ability to understand and speak dialect. There is a news, 49 kindergarten students were asked whether they speak Putonghua in and out of the school, and 39 of them said yes, more surprising is 29 students said they cannot understand their local dialect. (Yuqi) Moreover, a huge communication problem showed up between grandparents and grandchildren. Grandparents can't understand Putonghua, but grandchildren can't speak dialect.