chinese proficiency

i've been doing some basic research on working in hk, both at the secondary school level and postsecondary institutions level.

in the postsecondary level, they require you to be able to read and write chinese and english. remember this is just basic research. i wonder if it'll behoove me to learn some puatonghua. god, my pinyin (i'm not even sure if that's how your spell puatonghua) is horrific and my prounciation is even worse.

i need a good amount of time to do some thorough research on this.

this could be my best bet though.