7th Period: Why should we learn Chinese? by Learn Chinese with Ms Lun https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs Find one famous person who speaks Chinese and explain how Chinese has helped him/her. Post your thoughts and related videos. You can also talk about the benefits of studying a foreign language, why we as high school students should learn Chinese and how to adapt ourselves to the ever-changing power-shifting unknown world. en-us 2017-10-04 20:37:05 UTC 2025-03-18 01:16:22 UTC hello@padlet.com Brisa Sanchez https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194832521 Vanessa Branch :  the first non-Asian Hollywood actress to star in a Chinese-speaking lead role. We should learn Chinese to talk to other Chinese people and be able to understand them. Chinese would open up a world of opportunity, you can communicate with other people, and it's not that hard to learn Chinese.]]> 2017-10-06 19:10:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194832521 Juana Garcia https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194833511 Celine Dion sings in flawless chinese in Mandarin at the chinese New's Year Gala in Beijing. She welcome in the Year of the snake by singing. She said " I had wonderful people in the studio with me, helping me understand the meaning of the song. " ]]> 2017-10-06 19:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194833511 Yessenia Sanchez https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194833963 Mark Zuckerberg : The facebook founder is learning mandarin chinese. It has helped him in a lot because his wife's family is chinese. He communicates with her and her family in chinese. I think high school students should learn chinese because it benefits on a lot to know more than 2 languages. ]]> 2017-10-06 19:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194833963 Karisia Martinez https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194834118 Mira Sorvino: Mira Sorvino spent a year in china as part of a study abroad program and became fluent. It helped her communicate with other people in china.]]> 2017-10-06 19:15:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194834118 Jaime Govea https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194834988  Mark Rowswell: he is a Canadian performer known by his chinese stage name "Dashan". He is also known
 for Acting, Comedy, and hostig gigs.]]> 2017-10-06 19:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194834988 Kimberly Terriquez https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194835166 Lou Jing :  The half-black, half-Chinese singer sparked a nationwide discourse on racism in China. Jing, who was born and raised in China, spoke and sang in perfect Chinese, flooring people who assumed she wasn't actually from China.  I think I'm the same as all the girls here, except for my skin color," she said. 
 ]]> 2017-10-06 19:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194835166 Christopher Mata https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194837433 Lou Jing : The half-black, half-Chinese singer sparked a nationwide discourse on racism in China after competing on Go! Oriental Girl, a Chinese reality TV singing competition. Jing, who was born and raised in China, spoke and sang in perfect Chinese, flooring people who assumed she wasn't actually from China. ]]> 2017-10-06 19:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194837433 Desiree Renteria https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194837622  
Kevin Rudd
Australia's former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd majored in Chinese at the Australian National University of Canberra, and then continued his studies in Taiwan. He has delivered speeches in fluent Chinese and also conducted Q&As in Chinese. The humble politician once told an interviewer that his "Mandarin is really bad, and it's getting worse and worse." And yet he still managed to conduct the entire interview fluently with excellent pronunciation. 
]]> 2017-10-06 19:28:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194837622 Gerardo Sanchez https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194842611 Cristiano Ronaldo: he was born Funchal, Portugal. He learn Chinese to communicate with his fans at china. ]]> 2017-10-06 19:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194842611 Arely Sanchez https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194842955 Mira Sorvino 
Golden Globe winner Maria sorvino hasn't spoken Chinese on camera, but the migjhty Aprodite Oscar  winner studied the language at Harvard, where she majored in East Asian Studies. In august, sorvino responded to weather she was still Fluent in Chinese that its manahuhada which means so so or half-horse, half tiger . it is important for her to learn Chinese so when she goes and perform their she can be able to talk to her audience in Chinese.
]]> 2017-10-06 19:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194842955 Xavier Molinar https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194843051  Herbert Hoover 
Hoover is the only U.S. president to be proficient in Chinese, which he learned after he moved to China ]]> 2017-10-06 19:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194843051 Juan Chable https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/7vs9ijh6cugs/wish/194846705 JEFF LOCKER is an American author, radio host, and actor. He’s famous not in the United States, Jeff is not known in the us but in Taiwan .
Chinese helped him in a way that made him write books and made him famous. i think is good we should learn foreign languages so we can visit places and not understand what they're saying

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