Canadian Girl Speaking Mandarin

Excerpt from a Mao Zedong speech given in 1945

This was a CLASSROOM exercise and does NOT represent my personal views. Enjoy ;)

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这是毛泽东在中国共产党第七次全国代表大会上的闭幕词。[This was Mao Tse-tung's concluding speech at the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China.]

Our aim in propagating the line of the congress is to build up the confidence of the whole Party and the entire people in the certain triumph of the revolution. We must first raise the political consciousness of the vanguard so that, resolute and unafraid of sacrifice, they will surmount every difficulty to win victory. But this is not enough; we must also arouse the political consciousness of the entire people so that they may willingly and gladly fight together with us for victory. We should fire the whole people with the conviction that China belongs not to the reactionaries but to the Chinese people. There is an ancient Chinese fable called "The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains". It tells of an old man who lived in northern China long, long ago and was known as the Foolish Old Man of North Mountain. His house faced south and beyond his doorway stood the two great peaks, Taihang and Wangwu, obstructing the way. He called his sons, and hoe in hand they began to dig up these mountains with great determination. Another graybeard, known as the Wise Old Man, saw them and said derisively, "How silly of you to do this! It is quite impossible for you few to dig up those two huge mountains." The Foolish Old Man replied, "When I die, my sons will carry on; when they die, there will be my grandsons, and then their sons and grandsons, and so on to infinity. High as they are, the mountains cannot grow any higher and with every bit we dig, they will be that much lower. Why can't we clear them away?" Having refuted the Wise Old Man's wrong view, he went on digging every day, unshaken in his conviction. God was moved by this, and he sent down two angels, who carried the mountains away on their backs. Today, two big mountains lie like a dead weight on the Chinese people. One is imperialism, the other is feudalism. The Chinese Communist Party has long made up its mind to dig them up. We must persevere and work unceasingly, and we, too, will touch God's heart. Our God is none other than the masses of the Chinese people. If they stand up and dig together with us, why can't these two mountains be cleared away?

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[jeminijem2]

If you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao

You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow

[steph8614]

@jeminijem2 : please note in the description that I am not a 'Maoist' and that this is purely a classroom exercise.

[TheFlanker35]

Are you actually a Maoist or are you just reciting the speech? I know a guy who recited a Hitler speech in a German class and I thought he was a Nazi, but he wasn't and just chose the speech because of its charismatic appeal. I'd like to learn Chinese.

[steph8614]

@TheFlanker35 I am not a Maoist. This is a classroom speech chosen for me by my professor. It is purely acting...

[guanyu1989]

good job pronouncing! perfect tones, not much accent as well. very good job.

[dinocook84]

OMG!!! Increditable! Perfect!

[a0193029]

unbelievable! You speak perfectly. I am a Chinese. You speak Chinese much better than I do.

[ZYH778]

She's is a commie

[AlienBusDriver]

I speak a bit of apple myself: ching chong wangcha wangcha fried rice mcstoogen hypend freh vaginnnna on a sunday for veneral disease on a friday heil hitler ping pong pow yang?

[TheSafaFenoner]

HOLY COW, your Chinese is better than mine :O You even managed a Chinese Accent...

You obviously have a feel for the language because you are able to channel emotion into a language.

[TanakaBabe]

It puts my view of chinese culture in perspective after all the years of oppression and subtle divide and conquer by the west. It certainly is an amazing media article you will not find in mainstream at this time in the west. Thanks Steph and best of luck in your passions in life.

[changtianbailang]

看新闻联播看多了吧？

[ChineseGuyInMelody]

We just communistise her.

[numbers0station]

her pronunciation is good but this speech was probably in 湘话 since mao didn't know mandarin

[CarolineYan0115]

really good pronunciation!! i can hardly hear the accent=]