Celebrities Learn Chinese

Chinese is so popular and useful a language with the continued political stability, social progress and economic prosperity of China that more and more people realize that mastering Chinese is necessary. Even lots of celebrities learnt Chinese, and some of them can speak Chinese well enough to shock you. Do you know who are these celebrities? Here, raychinese give you some introduction.

1.      陆克文--Kevin Rudd: Prime Minister of Australia. Kevin Rudd is a China expert 中国通 (pinyin: Zhongguo tong). He worked in China as a diplomat with his family in the 1980s. Today, his elder son is studying at FUDAN University in Shanghai, and his younger son who is in a senior high school starts to learn Chinese language too. Personaly, Rudd showed great interests in Chinese history and culture when he as quite young, he studied Chinese history and Chinese language at the Australian National University in Canberra, and pursuit further learning at Taiwan Normal University later on.PM Rudd is the only leader from the western countries who can speak fluent Chinese language up to now.  It is more intersting that Kevin Rudd adopted the Chinese name 陆克文 (pinyin: Lù Kèwén) , a very nice creation according to the similar pronunciation of his English name:  LU 陆 for RUDD as the family name, and KEWEN 克文 for Kevin as the given name. Just from his creation for the Chinese name, you may find out that he has a great grasp of the world language of a new empire.

2.      Dashan: AKA Mark Rowswell, one performer in CCTV's 2009 Spring Festival Gala, has been called "the most famous foreigner in China", where he has worked as performer, television host and cultural ambassador for over 20 years. Although relatively unknown in the West, it's hard to find anyone in China who does not know of Dashan. Born and raised in Canada, Rowswell began studying Chinese in the mid 1980s, first at the University of Toronto and later at Beijing University. While in Beijing, Rowswell became interested in Chinese performing arts, particularly xiangsheng, a popular form of comic dialogue. An opportunity to appear on television suddenly gave Rowswell national exposure under the stage name "Dashan". Repeated appearances on programs with audiences in the hundreds of millions gradually turned "Dashan" into a household name across China.

3.      Michael Phelps (US):  who won his eighth gold medal of the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 4×100m medley on Sunday, breaking the record for most in a single Games. Phelps got everything ready before he started his Olympic visit to Beijing. He spent some time on Chinese learning over computer. He can speak Chinese a little bit for simple conversations. That's enough. If he can spare more time on mandarin Chinese, probably he can win a ninth gold medal for Chinese learning in the near future, I bet.

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