Mamdani speaks Mandarin to promote Broadway, and gets good reviews

NEW YORK – From the moment the video dropped showing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani looking direct to camera and speaking surprisingly good Mandarin, it created buzz online.Had he been taking secret language lessons? Faking fluency with artificial intelligence? Or maybe he had just been super diligent with Duolingo?In fact, Mamdani had studied Mandarin, but it was a while back – at the Bronx High School of Science, an elite public school that he attended from 2006 to 2010.The mayor, who is on vacation at an undisclosed location upstate, could not be reached, but a spokesperson said Mamdani had not spoken or studied Mandarin seriously since then.The video, which Mamdani made with the Theater Development Fund to amplify a lottery that offers 2,000 free Broadway tickets for high school st