3rd Period: Why should we study Chinese? by Learn Chinese with Ms Lun https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi 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 20:32:31 UTC 2025-11-18 03:32:24 UTC hello@padlet.com Patricio Villegas https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194405963 Mark Zuckerberg why does he learn chinese? ]]> 2017-10-05 17:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194405963 Jose Ojd https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194415451 I think we should learn chinese because to know how different the language is from ours.
Also that there is a whole different section its a bit harder to learn but here is a celebrity that is american but speaks chinese.
That is Tyson Beckford he speaks chinese here are some more that speak chinese
 ]]> 2017-10-05 17:26:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194415451 Hilario Fraire https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194416689 Herbert Hoover, the 31st president spoke Chinese. Him and his wife would speak Chinese so that the white house wouldn't understand them. ]]> 2017-10-05 17:28:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194416689 Karina Bautista https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194416905 learning Chinese helped Vanessa Branch in her career as an actress when she was in a Chinese film and had to speak Chinese in an american movie
   
 ]]> 2017-10-05 17:29:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194416905 janet robles https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194420152 the language chinese helped vanessa branch with her career as an actress to act in movie]]> 2017-10-05 17:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194420152 Annie Gutierrez https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194421128  Mark Rowswell know as(Dashan) was a Canadian foreigner at the time a lot of foreigners did not not speak Chinese .he learned Chinese at the university of Toronto. He shortly became big in china he hosts big and important events
 ]]> 2017-10-05 17:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194421128 Yordi Maldonado https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194421476 Dashan, was a performer in Chinese on CCTV's in 1998 new years Gala. i was a television show in china and a lot of people saw that show.]]> 2017-10-05 17:37:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194421476 Cristian Reynaga https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194422017  Vanessa Branch  is a  actor who  shocked audiences when she began speaking fluent Chinese during an episode of Entourage and in the film Suburban Girl.   she was "the first non-Asian Hollywood actress to star in a Chinese-speaking lead role."

]]> 2017-10-05 17:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194422017 PRISCI https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194423739 mine is john cena he speaks chinese . this helps him by him using it in his fights .
]]> 2017-10-05 17:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194423739 eric https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194424708 2017-10-05 17:42:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194424708 Ariadna Flores https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194425647 Mark Roswell is a Canadian foreigner that learned how to speak Chinese. This helped him on his career by performing in a skit in Chinese on CCTV's 1988 New Year's Gala.


]]> 2017-10-05 17:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194425647 https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194426066 2017-10-05 17:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194426066 Brandon something something Quintana https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194429219 the reason we need to learn Chinese because we don't wanna look like an idiot when talking to one another. For example... literally everyone who learned Chinese who's not Asian. They'll not look like a racist and not get in trouble over it so please learn them and not be stereotypical... meanies.]]> 2017-10-05 17:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194429219 Michael Romero https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194429896  
well his name is carlos tevez. he plays for a china team. he gets interview by chinese people so he answer them in chinese. ]]> 2017-10-05 17:50:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194429896 Rick Ramirez https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194430380
The main character Daniel Radcliffe from harry potter and also Emma Watson spoke mandarin-Chinese because this is an advertisement to increase profit and expand the movie across other countries.

]]> 2017-10-05 17:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194430380 michael romero https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194431663  
he plays for a chinese team. he get interview in chinese. so his answer in chinese.]]> 2017-10-05 17:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194431663 nestor https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194432598  Bob Wood-ruff an ABC News co-anchor, also speaks Mandarin. ]]> 2017-10-05 17:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194432598 Zuckerberg, who was visiting Tsinghua University after being appointed to its board, said he began studying Chinese in 2010 because his wife, Priscilla Chan, comes from a Chinese background. When he was planning to propose, he even asked his Chan's mother in Chinese for her daughter's hand in marriage. Some are speculating that Zuckerberg's Chinese—clunky and off-tone, but nonetheless capable—is also a way to win over the Chinese government, which has blocked Facebook among other American social media networks. https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194434051 http://time.com/3534248/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-chinese/]]> 2017-10-05 17:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194434051 Andres Hernandez https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194435498 Australia's former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is fluent in Chinese. He's delivered speeches in fluent Chinese as well as Q&As in Chinese. This is important because he was a PM and so he could communicate with ambassadors and world leaders in Chinese. ]]> 2017-10-05 18:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194435498 thien tran https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194437818 bruce lee daughter  Shannon Emery Lee (born April 19, 1969) is an American actress, martial artist and businesswoman. She is the daughter of martial arts film star Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Cadwell, the granddaughter of Cantonese opera singer Lee Hoi-Chuen, and the younger sister of Brando lee

]]> 2017-10-05 18:04:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194437818 zaida jenkins https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194438644  Lou Jing (born 1989) is a Chinese talent show contestant from Shanghai. She was born extramaritally to a Chinese mother and a Black father (an African American according to her), who left China before she was born and has lost contact ever since. Lou Jing's parents divorced after her birth on the basis of her mother's infidelity. 
 ]]> 2017-10-05 18:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194438644 Darrell Veal https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194460083 Iris Shun-Ru Chang was an American author and journalist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. The daughter of two university professors, Ying-Ying Chang and Dr. Shau-Jin Chang, who emigrated from Taiwan, Chang was born in Princeton, and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where she attended University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois and graduated in 1985. She earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989, during which time she also worked as a New York Times stringer from Urbana-Champaign, and wrote six front-page articles over the course of one year. After brief stints at the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune she pursued a master's degree in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.]]> 2017-10-05 18:44:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194460083 Israel Serrano https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194466903 Vanessa Branch a famous actor studied Chinese in Middle-bury college, where she doubled majored in Chinese and theater. She started in a Chinese film called "milk and fashion".]]> 2017-10-05 18:57:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/194466903 Alyssa Herrera https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/195284484 2017-10-09 15:55:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/195284484 Eric Carroll https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/195284949 vanessa branch a famous actor studied Chinese in middle-bury college ,where she doubled majored in Chinese and theater. she started in a Chinese film called ''milk and fashion''.she was also she was encourage to do Chinese by the film ''surburban girl''

]]> 2017-10-09 15:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/195284949 Esai Luna lunlaoshi https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/195647547 Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S President, spoke Mandarin. He and his wife used to converse in Mandarin so the White House staff wouldn't be able understand what they were saying.

]]> 2017-10-10 15:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/195647547 Cameron L https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/195650229
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. Dubbed the "Chocolate Girl," she took the stage after being eliminated to tell audiences not to judge her by her skin color: "I think I'm the same as all the girls here, except for my skin color," she said. "We share the same stage, and the same dream.
]]> 2017-10-10 15:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/195650229 lunlaoshi https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/195655903 2017-10-10 15:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/195655903 lunlaoshi https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/195655905 2017-10-10 15:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/195655905 Khris Simon https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/195661772 Facebook founder Zuckerberg visited a university and talked about how he studied Chinese and he spoke in the language. Speaking Chinese can help his business expand even more cause Chinese is where alot of business starts and grows.]]> 2017-10-10 15:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lunlaoshi/unya8humzohi/wish/195661772