China – The chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, surprised the audience who was listening to him in the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing, to make a speech in less than half an hour of Mandarin on a mission to your social network .
Zuckerberg married to Priscilla Chan, Sino-American, narrated to the public on Saturday the achievements and goals of your company and then posted the video on the social network, where told that it was the first time I made a speech entirely in Mandarin. He said it is an “honor” to speak to the students, since many of them said, “will be the next global leaders in technology, business and politics.”
Mark Zuckerberg surprised with speech in Mandarin and won Chinese praise
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In China, Facebook aind aé prohibited and only accessible through if you use a VPN service (virtual connection with foreign networks used to circumvent censorship). Users of the popular social network Weibo and equivalent praised Zuckerberg’s daring to make the speech in Mandarin after a first session of questions and answers in this same university last year have shown the limitations of Facebook creator of the language.
“Mark, really admire their ability to communicate in Chinese. I am impressed by your vocabulary and fluency. There’s still work ahead in pronunciation and tones, but it will come,” wrote one Internet user on Weibo. Zuckerberg joined the joint last Tsinghua Economics Year School and expressed a long time interest in Mandarin not only for professional reasons, but in order to communicate with the family of his wife who only speak this language.
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In September, Zuckerberg met with the president of China, Xi Jinping, when he was in state travel in the US and talked in Chinese. His attitude with China, such as when left a Xi biography on the desk of his office on Facebook when the headquarters was visited by Chinese officials a year ago, has been criticized sometimes for show their eagerness to enter the large market power Asian.
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