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rob07 -

Kevin Rudd is the current Australian Leader of the Opposition. If you believe the polls, he will
be prime minister before the end of the year. He previously worked as a diplomat for several years
in Beijing and claims to be fluent in Mandarin.

Hu Jintao is in Sydney for APEC, so Kevin took the chance to try out his Mandarin. One of the
Australian newspapers posted a video and this should be a link to it:
http://media.smh.com.au/?rid=31424&c...reaking%20News

I'd be interested to know how good people think he is.



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carlo -

Pretty good, very understandable (with some Aussie accent but that's reasonable -he's not running
to become China's Prime Minister LOL).

I would be proud of having a PM who can speak a foreign language like that. Some politicians can
barely speak their own language properly. uh, and I wondered why they cut the video, I was
interested in hearing the whole story...










gato -

He sounds like he's at least conversationally fluent. His pronunciation is above average. It does
sound like he learned his Mandarin in Beijing as the "er's" are fairly noticeable.










skylee -

Not bad.










wannabeafreak -

Depressing. I wish I could speak like him.










johnd -

Sounds pretty impressive to me - the Chinese visitors will really appreciate it.










md1101 -

very decent. and im glad he's confident enough to use it. i was wondering why they cut it off...
then i realised.. most people watching that video wouldnt have had a clue what he was saying!










md1101 -

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...783466709.html

Looks like our foreign minister Alex Downer itsn't too happy Rudd is getting points for speaking
mandarin. (jealous maybe?)

And he seems to be trying to say he learnt French in 2 months:



Quote:

"I did the French language course and Mr Rudd did the Chinese language course. I did mine in two
months and he did his in two years, that could say something about him and me or something about
the two languages. I think the former but that sounds a tad partisan."












muyongshi -

I don't know to much about the guy but that is a bit big-headed and quite self important. Makes
himself look kind of stupid too in mind.

edit: these comments are referred to Downer's response to Rudd.










tiffsmith -

Bleh, you know he had that rehearsed since the day he decided to get into politics. ;)

我是 妒忌的 :P












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