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Can Mark Zuckerberg improve his Mandarin Chinese?

Visit https://www.LingQ.com My Blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com/ My Facebook Page:   / lingosteve   My Twitter:   / lingosteve   Follow "Steve's Cafe" Channel:    / stevekaufmann   Ciick on CC for captions for translation of Chinese 侯宝林:    • 侯宝林 相声《讲帝号》   Mark Zuckerberg: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic... Transcript: Steve Kaufmann here, today I’m not going to talk about Polish. I’m going to talk about Mark Zuckerberg’s Chinese. Hello Mark, if you’re listening. I saw the video of Mark’s presentation in Beijing to a group of university students in Chinese, 20 minutes. I think he did a great job, hats off, full marks. He covered a lot of ground, used some very difficult words and was perfectly understandable. However, I think where Mark can improve is in his rhythm, intonation, the music of the language. When you learn a language the closer you can come to the intonation, the rhythm of the language, the better you’re going to pronounce, the better your phrasing is going to be, the more fluent you’re going to become. Now, when I studied Chinese 50 years ago, I struggled with the tones like everyone does because it’s difficult to remember is this particular word third tone, fourth tone, and to do that on the fly while you’re speaking is very difficult. My teacher gave me a cassette tape of _______, who was a leading Sun Chun performer, which are these comic dialogues in Chinese. I’m going to put in the description box _______ and a link to some of his videos on YouTube. I’m going to put a link to an article about Mark Zuckerberg which shows his video in Beijing. In those days, I listened to these over and over and over again. Even if I only partly understood, I understood some better than others, it was the music of it that captivated me and had a major impact on my pronunciation, my control of tones and my fluency. Today, I would have benefit of transcripts. So, Mark, you can find __________ or other Sun Chun people in YouTube. If it’s _________ the transcripts I’m sure are available because it’s quite old now, out of copyright I would imagine. Import them into LingQ, save words and phrases, listen while reading and then take it away and listen over and over again in your car or elsewhere. It’s going to definitely improve your fluency and pronunciation. That’s just something brief to say I don’t speak like a Sun Chun performer, I don’t speak like a Chinese person, but I’m a lot better than I was before I was able to get access to these Sun Chun tapes. So that’s my recommendation to Mark Zuckerberg and it’s also something that has application for all languages. If you can find content that captivates you, or you like the voice, or you like the way the person speaks, you want to listen to that over and over and over again so that it starts to resonate because there is that almost emotional tie to the language we’re trying to learn, the rhythm, the music, which makes everything better. So that’s my advice to Mark and my advice to those of you who are studying other languages. Thank you for listening, bye for now. Now I’d better get back to Polish!