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A video clip with English subtitles. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked in fluent Mandarin Chinese in a Q&A session at Tsinghua University in China, which brought down the house. Here are some reports about this event. NBC News BBC News USA Today NPR The Guardian New York Times The Telegraph A Chinese Net user ironically twitted online, saying "Zuckerberg spoke Chinese for 30 minutes straight. He has been learning Chinese AND running a company, but you guys are burying yourselves in Facebook. " Mark Zuckerberg said that he went to the northern Chinese city Tianjin because he wanted to be "a student of Huo Yuanjia", a legendary Kung Fu master in the early 1900s. His life was adapted into movies and TV series a number of times, including Jet Li's 2006 movie Fearless, which is one of Zuckerberg's favorites. Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury features a story of Huo's fictional disciple Chen Zhen, who brought to justice his master's murderers. P.S. I happen to have a former student who is a staff member of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University. She was on the spot at the forum. She chatted with me on WeChat saying that both Zuckerberg and Tim Cook are members of the Advisory Committee of Tsinghua. The audience "was thrilled" hearing him speaking Mandarin Chinese, for they had thought that he just knew some expressions of greetings. And the overseas students "felt pretty frustrated." She also said Zuckerberg might visit her school again next month to "submit his assignments" as a member of the committee.
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Kids at RBS learned a Chinese nursery song "两只老虎", the music of which was adopted from one of the most widely known songs in the world -- Frère Jacques (Are You Sleeping in English). 两只老虎,两只老虎, 跑得快,跑得快, 一只没有耳朵,一只没有尾巴, 真奇怪,真奇怪。 English Translation: Two tigers, two tigers Running fast, running fast. One has no ears. One has no tail. Very strange, very strange. Pinyin: Liǎng zhī lǎohǔ, liǎng zhī lǎohǔ Pǎo de kuài, pǎo de kuài Yī zhī méiyǒu ěrduo, yī zhī méiyǒu wěiba zhēn qíguài, zhēn qíguài Languageguide.org is a nice website for beginners to learn the basic vocabulary of Mandarin Chinese (and other languages), such as numbers, basic body parts, fruit and vegetables and so on. Just hover your mouse pointer on the image, and you'll hear its pronunciation.
Click the picture to go directly to the Mandarin Chinese page. This week, kids at RBS learned how to say eye, nose, ear, mouth and hand in Chinese. These are the characters and their pronunciations: eye 眼睛 yǎnjīng nose 鼻子 bízi ear 耳朵 ěrduo mouth 嘴巴 zuǐbā hand 手 shǒu They also colored (the black color is enough!) a panda page in our classes. Here's the original picture of the traditional Chinese ink wash painting of a cute baby panda. Here are two Youtube videos of the new-born twin panda babies at Zoo Atlanta. Their names "Mei Lun" and “Mei Huan” come from a Chinese idiom "美轮美奂",meaning “something indescribably beautiful and magnificent.” |
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About MeI currently teach Mandarin Chinese at Avon Public Schools, Connecticut. I am also Associate Professor of English in the School of Foreign Languages at Shandong Normal University. Categories
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