Comments on: Top 10 Foreigners Who Speak Chinese Better than Me

By: vince

vince — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:53:13 +0000

Julien …. france shame … came in china through a GF~

By: Justin Liu

Justin Liu — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:22:13 +0000

I just watched Julien’s interview. He makes some very astute cultural observation.

By: Ong Chen Liang

Ong Chen Liang — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:21:09 +0000

I was in china (Beijing) since February 2009 until February 2010. I wish soon i can speak better mandarin well it is too hard LOL.

Love Beijing people accent. The ‘r’ accent…

Da Shan is the best mandarin speaker…

By: Janessa Rumpel

Janessa Rumpel — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:08:55 +0000

This topic was very informative and well written. I plan to do some more research on this. Thanks for sharing this timely information. We need more like this.

By: David

David — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:52:08 +0000

Steve Kaufmann should not be on this list, he’s a fraud.

By: David

David — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:10:23 +0000

Steve Kaufmann shouldn’t be on this list. He pretty much sucks at most of his foreign languages. He might be able to parrot the language in a prepared speech, but can’t carry a real conversation beyond something really basic.

By: TheKippies

TheKippies — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:53:32 +0000

Correction – I have heard of 2 on the list: DaShan and Kevin Rudd.

By: TheKippies

TheKippies — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:51:05 +0000

@Jonathan Kos-Read

Are you serious? Please tell me you are joking about males having better Chinese than females because they date/marry Chinese women.

I’ve known plenty of females who have dated and married Chinese men, and plenty of males who have dated/married Chinese women and speak terrible Chinese if they speak at all.

I’ve noticed that males usually have a hard time with the tones in Chinese, and me and some other friends have jokingly started saying that people who have bad tones speak “boy” Chinese. I think perhaps more are famous because a) more males come to China than female and b) the author left people off the list. I actually haven’t heard of anyone but Dashan off the list.

Also note: 90% of the people the author mentioned are white too. What about 大龙, the African American Chinese speaker who just was featured in the latest Ge You movie. Also 10-6 on the list actually don’t speak that good of Chinese.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:30:09 +0000

Great list with some intimidatingly accomplished people on it. They’re certainly something to aspire to.

I started learning Chinese in May 2007 when I took a job as an English teacher in Huizhou. I started writing Mandarin songs in late 2008 when I was living in Changde. I’ve written about 30 songs in Mandarin, some slow http://v.ku6.com/show/Zi3szRmW6CJ6X3mA.html some fast http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/XmYvT19EwXY/ and some in-between http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/hK1zATyQEQ4/

I hope to join the ranks of these people myself someday

By: ben

ben — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:29:21 +0000

Hey Jonathan, thanks for stopping by and adding your input. It’s some interesting insight, but makes sense since I know most people say that the best way to get better at a language us to date/marry someone who speaks it natively. Your experience seems to confirm this.