{"id":12962,"date":"2019-11-16T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T09:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-literature-2\/michael-phelps-learning-chinese\/"},"modified":"2019-11-16T09:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T09:04:15","slug":"michael-phelps-learning-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/michael-phelps-learning-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Phelps Learning Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Michael Phelps learns to speak Chinese<\/p>\n<p>  Michael Phelps (US) who won his eighth gold medal of the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 4&times;100m medley on Sunday, breaking the record for most in a single Games.<\/p>\n<p>  Phelps got everything ready before he started his Olympic visit to Beijing. He spent some time on Chinese learning over computer. He can speak Chinese a little bit for simple conversations. That&rsquo;s enough. If he can spare more time on mandarin Chinese, probably he can win a ninth gold medal for Chinese learning in the near future, I bet.<\/p>\n<p>  Age: 23 (date of birth: June 30, 1985)<\/p>\n<p>  Place of birth: Baltimore, United States<\/p>\n<p>  2008 Olympic results:<\/p>\n<p>  Eight gold medals (400m individual medley, 4&times;100m freestyle relay, 200m freestyle, 200m butterfly, 4&times;200 freestyle relay, 200m individual medley, 100m butterfly, 4&times;100 medley relay)<\/p>\n<p>  Career achievements:<\/p>\n<p>  Seven gold medals at 2007 World Champio<em><\/em>nships (200m freestyle, 100m butterfly, 200m butterfly, 200m individual medley, 400m individual medley, 4&times;100 freestyle relay and 4&times;200 freestyle relay)<\/p>\n<p>  Five gold medals at 2005 World Champio<em><\/em>nships (200m freestyle, 200m individual medley, 4&times;100 freestyle relay, 4&times;200 freestyle relay, 4&times;100 medley relay)<\/p>\n<p>  Four gold medals at 2003 World Champio<em><\/em>nships (200m butterfly, 200m individual medley, 400m individual medley, 4&times;100 medley relay)<\/p>\n<p>  One gold medal at 2001 World Champio<em><\/em>nships (200m butterfly)<\/p>\n<p>  Previous Olympic results:<\/p>\n<p>  Six gold medals at 2004 Olympics (100m butterfly, 200m butterfly, 200m individual medley, 400m individual medley, 4&times;200 freestyle relay, 4&times;100 medley relay)<\/p>\n<p>  Two bro<em><\/em>nze medals at 2004 Olympics (200m freestyle, 4&times;100 freestyle relay)<\/p>\n<p>  Phelps is the most successful Olympian of all time with a career tally of 14 golds, five more than anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>  He broke fellow American Mark Spitz&rsquo;s 1972 record of seven wins at a single Games after coming close to matching his mark at Athens four years ago when he collected six golds.<\/p>\n<p>  He has an unusual physique with a long torso and comparatively short legs, providing minimal resistance in the water.<\/p>\n<p>  His sister Whitney was a member of the US World Champio<em><\/em>nship team in 2005.<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2800561887\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Phelps learns to speak Chinese Michael Phelps (US) who won his eighth gold medal of the 2008 Summer Olympics<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2847],"tags":[151,157],"class_list":["post-12962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-literature","category-chinese-poems","tag-mandarin","tag-mandarin-chinese"],"views":270,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}