So Mark Zuckerberg fluently speaks Chinese

During a Q&A session Mark Zuckerberg did at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, the founder of Facebook awed the internet and everybody in general, by speaking in Mandarin with the press for about a half-an-hour.


Some of the reasons why Mark Zuckerberg knows Mandarin, courtesy of The Daily What:

1. His wife is from China and she speaks Mandarin with her grandmother. He wants to interact with her family.
2. He wants to further his understanding about China/Chinese culture. He thinks learning a new language definitely helps him widen his knowledge, etc..
3. He mentioned that Mandarin is hard, he love challenges.

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