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Josh-zhang -

wow, his chinese is really good. BTW, jiasen, ni hao.



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Gestalt -

Here's another video of him doing a TV interview in Mandarin as the newly elected prime minister

陆克文总理中央台访问 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Chinese State TV










muyongshi -

He's not bad! Not the best at all, but also considering the fact that he no longer lives in China
and probably very infrequently speaks it, I would say that he is doing okay. Yeah maybe it's all
screen prompted but even then....he's not talking monotone so he at least knows whats coming out
of his mouth










yonglin -

Yeh. Definitely some awe factor. Not because his Chinese is brilliant, but because he is a
politician and the freaking prime minister.

I wish some important politicians of my country would have passable foreign language skills....
they'll know some broken English, at best....










self-taught-mba -

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Commenting on this video:

It's good to see a politician speaking Mandarin it underscores the importance of learning it ( I
hope )

Don't really want this to become a bash contest here. He is able to communicate well enough,
although I think he was going on a little bit towards the end of the interview when the journalist
was trying to bid him farewell and good luck and he kept going. LOL

Tones are off, rhythm is awful, but he is communicating at least. His grammar is probably better
than mine because I have horrible grammar. (Self-taught people like myself sometimes end up
stringing sentences together which would make sense in English anyway, (our students are spared
the mistake!))

I expect better of the students we serve (and myself), but I think it's important to recognize
everyone's accomplishments and background.

Simple word choice mistakes people can learn from though:
he shouldn't use po4shi3 in this case but rather qiang3po4 (unless he possibly meant to say
po4shi4, which is highly doubtful as it is seldom used)
he uses bi3sai4 where jing4zheng1 or xuan3ju3 would be the appropriate choice

Honestly didn't watch the whole thing; skipped through half of it watched parts of the beginning
and the end.

I did like the part where the interviewer was asking him about increased opportunities or
something of that matter for Chinese going to Australia to study etc. with a look on his face that
would make it difficult for anybody to answer - dead serious look.










imron -

I found it amusing how he was speaking in Chinese, and then it would cut to the Chinese
interviewer asking him questions in English, that and when the interviewer addressed him as 老陆.










benjaminbauert -

Alexander Downer was a twerp and an embarassment. Here's to better days!

Happy Australia Day!












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