Mark Zuckerberg stuns Beijing crowd by speaking Mandarin

"So cool! Mark Zuckerberg's speech all in mandarin! My vision for our bilingual students!"
- Sent from P.Kwan, BC Language Teacher
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On Wednesday, armed only with his favourite grey T-shirt and goofy smile, Mark Zuckerberg held court in one of China’s most prestigious universities for half an hour. In Mandarin.
So this son of a New York dentist gets a gold star – or a red flower, as they are called in China – for not only mastering the internet by the age of 30 but also somehow finding time to learn the world’s most difficult language.
“Hello everyone,” he said, to whoops of excitement from the audience (who, being elite business students could all speak English). “There are three reasons I decided to learn Chinese. The first, my wife is Chinese. Her grandmother can only speak Chinese. When I told her in Chinese I was going to marry Priscilla, she was very shocked. Then I want to study Chinese culture. The third: Chinese is hard and I like a challenge!” (Read the full article by Malcolm Moore, The Daily Telegraph, Beijing)

Check out the video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/w8MlL2GhhOw