Dao De Jing translated
The Dao De Jing is a writing that can be interpreted in many ways and each time you read it you may find that you see it in a different way. It’s…
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Articles tagged Chinese from David DuVal's writing archive.
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How money laundering works with fentanyl
Money laundering is complicated, which is one of the reasons it thrives. Let’s look at fentanyl, Mexico, and China… There are many Chinese…
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Affirmations in English, Chinese and Spanish
Daily Affirmations for Strength, Clarity, and Growth Most days when I get on the elliptical machine at the gym, I use a set of affirmations like…
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Sichuan-Italian Fusion
Sichuan-Italian fusion. Bowtie pasta with assorted vegetables and sichuan peppercorns. If you have never had Szechuan peppercorns, it’s…
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Common Greetings for the Year of the Snake
Well, the Chinese New Year just past, and it is now the year of the snake according to the Chinese Lunar Calendar. And this is a time when…
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Migration from TikTok to Little Red Book.
I’ve been getting some messages from my Chinese friends that everybody is switching from TikTok, over to a Little Red Book 小红书. I’ve used it…
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Success with the 16:8 Intermittent fasting diet
I first started hearing about intermittent fasting a year or two ago. I believe there were some people like Rich Roll, who were making some…
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Language Learning Apps (private lesson teachers)
So for a long time, I was taking lessons on Italki. During Covid I took a Chinese lesson every day and I remember at that time I was paying…
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Who Am I? 我是谁？
This was one of the slides at an event I attended last night. Everyone spoke Chinese, and the speaker gave a lecture for more than an hour about…
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Chinese and English Meetup group in Irvine
It's been about 3 years since I became the organizer of the Irvine Chinese and English Meetup group. Not only do we have a Meetup.com group with…
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Amateur Drawings of Harry Potter Characters
Back in 2021 when I was having sleep problems during Covid, I made a series of drawings, including the below Harry Potter characters: Harry…
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Monterey Park Shooting
In the blink of an eye 20+ people were shot at the studio where I worked for 10 years. The manager that hired me, Mr. Ma, who I knew very well…
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Chinese Dialects Project
I always try to keep one fun project for myself that consumes around 10% of my time. Over the years I have dabbled in many different software…
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Mostly I write here simply to document my progress in Chinese. With each book I read, I look up fewer and fewer characters, but it still requires…
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Well the name doesn't translate very well (Amazon books uses this translation as well), but I just finished reading this book. It the second full…
Read articleYou want to hear me speak Chinese?
So with that exciting homepage where I told you I speak Chinese, you probably were curious to hear me speak Chinese, or else you wouldn't have…
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好久不见
The title of this post means: "Long Time, No See", and it is pronounced: "Hao Jiu Bu Jian". This was one of the first songs I learned to sing in…
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