Kevin Rudd mandarin address

Kevin Rudd addresses his colleagues, the Friends of the Communists in Mandarin

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News & Politics

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• Kevin
• Rudd
• Mandarin
• Communist
• Chinese
• CCTV
• Propaganda
• Machine
• cliche
• colloquialism
• Labor
• Party
• Election
• 2007
• Kevin07

[yadloz]

That is a ridiculous, desperate, puerile and slanderous attempt at tarnishing Rudd and it stinks of Australia's historic fear of Asia. The Mandarin had absolutely no relationship to what was being said and it disgusts me that people would use this form of baseless attack as opposed to genuine scruitiny of the Leader of the Opposition's policy positions that are before the Australian people.

[Sargathia]

it's just as hard for a Chinese person to learn English as vice versa

[vongfatima]

Also the moron who posted this does not realize China is a Market Capitalist economy.

[vongfatima]

I live in Macau China and people here honestly think his Mandarin is excellent. Better than some Chinese Dialect speakers here. If this comedian knew how well he spoke it he would not bag him. China is now a larger economic power than the US and don't force Australia to fight wars for them.

[Wingchunskunk]

HOLD ON IM A CHINESE AND MY FIRST LANGUAGE IS BRITISH ENGLISH . AND I SWEAR IM 21 AND I CANT READ AND WRITE AND UNDERSTAND SOME MANDARIN . We Can speak but not fluently , This is absolute truth . as in im no china man , im from singapore . english is our first language , mandarin is the second .

[elcamaleon1]

@elcamaleon1

To even further prove my point; languages are not equal. Some, like for instance Esperanto, Malaysian-Indonesian are very easy. They have consistent grammar, are pronounced exactly as they are written, and their words are unique, not homonyms. The composition of the language is straight, and not as Chinese - topic- comment.

Thus, learning Chinese is harder than learning, say, Japanese. And not a little, but a lot. Even taking into account the use of Kanji.

[elcamaleon1]

@Sargathia : You're wrong. English is a non-tonal language, and its vast variety of words are not homonyms that could be misinterpreted in cross-contextual situations. It is roughly written as it is spoken, and its natives learn to read in less than a year. A native Chinese is able to read a newspaper in her own language at around 15 yrs. She herself needs to explain contexts' appurtenance in cross-contextual situations. It is not, thus, as hard for a Chinese to learn English as vice versa

[1CaptainAustralia1]

ahaha, funny shit. never mind the butthurt kids here who can't handle someone making fun of their less than one term hero lol

[aaa1162]

LOL

[wenqiweiabcd]

Fail. You reckon no one else understands Chinese but yourself? It's Mr.Hu's voice and the subtitle is bloody irrelevant! Rudd does speak the Mandarin dialect of Chines, but there are so many video recordings of him speaking Chinese, why do you have to fake one???

[TheDrRudi]

You Idiot.