30/01/2020
When it comes to the former Australian prime-minister, Kevin Rudd, one can say that he is a professional by training. In 1976, he entered Australian State University; with Chinese language and Chinese history as his major. In 2008, he came to China and gave a speech at Beijing university.
His Chinese is fantastic, and he likes to mock himself about it:
“中国有个说法，叫‘天不怕，地不怕，就怕老外开口说中国话”
“Zhōngguó yǒu ge shuōfǎ, jiào ‘tiān búpà, dì búpà, jiù pà lǎowài kāikǒu shuō zhōngguó huà”
Chinese people have a saying: “Fear neither Heaven nor Earth (fear nothing), fear only a foreigner who opens his mouth and starts speaking Chinese”
