Kevin Rudd: Learning Chinese Is a 'Doorway to Understanding' 

I guess it's HSK 4 but with a little assistance from his secretary.

Agree.

ck LIM For selling out to commie scrum!

HK Have a laugh Learn German, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, Danish, Norwegien, Sweedish, RUSSIAN + + +.

Ricardo Garfalo Vivien Bullwinkle an Australian nurse who was captured by the Japanese in WW2 said; You can forgive but NEVER forget. To change this a bit it can be said: You can trade with barbarians and PAGANS but never trust them!

My first thought when reading the auto translation: Wow, this must be some really deep, abstract chinese philosophy or something.

+Frederik Rasmussen What would you know laowai :P jk mate

+Marco Polo ;))

From scale 0 to 10, i will give his mandarin between 6.5 to 7.5. His accent is not particularly Chinese, but it is quite acceptable. Pretty good, overall.

Why? Any danger ma?

+How Huang y

I am spellbound at Heaven and Earth, and amused at "How Why" spelling English.

How Fun Chinglish?

lots of Australians are bilingual.

Its all about psychology an mentality. Peoples in the East(East of Vienna) have different psychology from peoples in the West. Indigenous peoples of Asia, Australasia and the Americas also have different psychology, spirituality. I was brought up with boith East and West so I know from experience. That's all I'm going to say as I'm not into arguing the toss. Either you can find this out for yourself or you can leave it. End of conversation. Goodbye.

+elkhananeli I respectfully disagree. US and Australia has a much longer history than mainland China. mainland China has but some 60 or so years of history. It is not related to ancient China nor traditional Chinese culture. For that one needs to look at Republic of China, aka Taiwan or other areas where traditional Chinese moved to once mainland was invaded by Soviet based government. Mainland China is a soviet based country with western, soviet styled culture. It is rather young and untested. Countries such as US and Australia have far longer culture than mainland China.

Mouse, I don't agree with you. Those people who moved to Taiwan or Hong kong had lost their Chinese tradition. They don't think they are Chinese. And it's very hard for them to get back because geographically they are not settling on locations where the traditonal Chinese civilizations are, or the resources are. And it is true that in terms of which government ruling, yes, the current party is young, it takes times to realize its own way to rule, but people in mainland didn't lost their root, the fundementals, like the way they think. Yes, they may lost traditions like politness and such temporarily. But if you think of China in its extremely long history, the recent 100 years is just short. There are numbers of periods in Chinese history that suffered from war. The recent 200 years is one of them. LIke the spring and autum periods, the three kingdom, they all have the length about 100,200 years. But Chinese always found their way to unify again and get back their traditions and be able to recover economically. It is due to its greatly established philosphies and strong adapability/embraceability of their culture. China will be back on its track.

anoni mouseIt "It is not related to ancient China nor traditional Chinese culture" -- it is a misperception. TBH your ignorance on China and politics in general frightens me.

Really? The Communist Party as the Chinese government form, is inherently a part of the thousands of years old traditional culture? I don't think so. China as a country (not its culture / people) IS relatively new, and very flawed at that. It is your ignorance, that you must note.

他是总理啊

Jay Sterling It's also "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" so both are correct.

in glass houses makes more sense, by implication., but kevin speaks good mandarin. doubtless not native speaker quality, few get that good that do not learn in childhood.

Jay Sterling Well normally it is throw stones at but it could also be in. If you are IN. a glass house you are going to break something from the inside. I hope this makes sense to you.

Shuyanchi He IS Chinese is great. Another fine example of Chinglish taught by Chinese teachers speaking Chinese?

@@roblloyd8453 I've noticed quite a few racist comments by you on this video. What's the deal? Is there some inner struggle in your life that you're not acknowledging? And so the only way to cope with the pain, is to scroll through RU-vid comments and leave racist comments? Atleast these Chinese have given the effort to learn another language and culture, despite what level they may be at. What do you have to show for YOURself?

為什麼呢?

He was put in office during one of the worst financial situations in history. He did a reasonable job while he was in given the circumstances. Kinda like how people ridiculed Obama. Two leaders placed into positions in terrible circumstances.

@@maitlandbezzina2842 Kevin Rudd had to organize a think tank for ideas on how to progress , which was more of a celebrity lovefest, of little value to the broader Australian community and at taxpayers expense.. Economically Australia had come a long way under John Howard from %18 interest rates under Paul Keating to around %6 and unemployment rate of %3, which at the time l remember a builder said that the %3 was probably unemployable anyway . A budget now in surplus after a long road of recovery from record deficit compliments of the previous Keating lead government, which Kevin Rudd promptly commited to the NBN , a decade of recovery and progress taken in less than 3 years. And then the overspend and waste on the GFC. Solar hot water systems for sporting clubs , often 3 times more than required, school halls, and public halls, as well as the pink batt fiasco which cost lives and homes, too quick to spend without proper systems in place for implementation or accounting for the money being spent/wasted. This country is well rid of Kevin Rudd, it's just a pity he won't shut the hell up.

@@roblloyd8453 they can write their name however they want, they don't owe you anything. Speaking of grass - why don't you just get back to complaining about the length of your neighbours lawn. That's all you old single-minded boomers are good for right? Get your head out of your ass.

你想要说什么，没看明白

Omg shut up. Achieve as much as he did, then speak up and say what you dint like about him. I mean it.

You "mean" it! Gosh, that IS serious. Actually I like him alright but in regards to his Mandarin ability he commits a lot of pompous twatery that looks just like the pompous twatery that so many other students of Mandarin engage in. Can you speak Mandarin. Did you learn it as an adult?

mrmoosedemeanerful im 21 and have been learning for 3 years so far. Its a very difficult language. Not because of grammar, characters or pronounciation. Its difficult because of differences between our cultures and the waya we look at the world and life. If you ever tried it you will know what I mean.

mrmoosedemeanerful im 21 and have been learning for 3 years so far. Its a very difficult language. Not because of grammar, characters or pronounciation. Its difficult because of differences between our cultures and the waya we look at the world and life. If you ever tried it you will know what I mean.

+mrmoosedemeanerful You are mistaken and therefore invalid in your remarks. He speaks the same pace as he speaks english. When he is making a speech in english he does the same gestures, its called maintaining eye contact, and its a polite way to relate to your audience. Its something most western institutions will make sure you do to improve presentation style. If you had a clue you would know this. And anyways he knows enough chinese to speak at a steady pace. So why would he slow his chinese down? Many chinese do not slow theirs. But one thing I notice is that many like to critique. Meanwhile when asians speak english, nobody is critiquing the speed of their speech, be it a head of state or the every day person. This speaks volumes about the one criticizing and less about Kevin Rudd.