{"id":527687,"date":"2026-07-06T10:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/527687\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:23:15","slug":"elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-and-other-influential-parents-whose-kids-are-learning-mandarin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/527687\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Other Influential Parents Whose Kids Are Learning Mandarin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg<\/p>\n<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg began learning Mandarin in 2010, partly to communicate better with his wife Priscilla Chan\u2019s Chinese-speaking family. He famously showcased his language skills during a public Q&amp;A conducted almost entirely in Mandarin at Beijing&#8217;s Tsinghua University in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>His three daughters, Maxima, 10, August, eight, and Aurelia, three, are reportedly learning Mandarin too, with Zuckerberg previously saying he wanted them to understand the language and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg began learning Mandarin in 2010, partly to communicate better with his wife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,241098,350,146,85,46,3890,241099,93887,3032],"class_list":["post-527687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-chinese-language","tag-elon-musk","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-jim-rogers","tag-mandarin","tag-mark-zuckerberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}