He Was a Rapper. Now He Teaches Lucid Dreaming in 20 Countries | Teacher 老師 💡 #LearnChinese #Shorts
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Charlie Morley used to rap. Now he teaches lucid dreaming in over 20 countries and gave the first ever TED talk on the subject. He struggled with the word teacher for years because in Tibetan Buddhism it carries too much weight. In Chinese, that weight is b...
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The Former Rapper Who Became a Lucid Dreaming Teacher | Teacher 老師 lǎo shī | Charlie Morley
Podcast | 1 months ago
Charlie Morley was a rapper and hip hop dancer before he became one of the world's leading teachers of lucid dreaming and the first person to give a TED talk on the subject. He struggled for years with the word teacher because within Tibetan Buddhism, where...
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Asia and the West Have Red and Green Completely Backwards | Red and Green Color 紅色 綠色
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In Western stock markets, green means your shares are up. In Asia, red does. The two systems are completely reversed, because red in Chinese culture has always meant luck, prosperity, and celebration. 红色 (红色, hóng sè) is red. 绿色 (lǜ sè) is green. 红茶...
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In Asia Red Means Profit and Green Means Loss. The West Has It Backwards | 紅色 綠色 | Josh Edbrooke
Podcast | 1 months ago
In Western stock markets, green means your shares are up and red means they are down. In Asia, it is the exact opposite: red is profit, green is loss, because red has always been the colour of luck, celebration, and prosperity in Chinese culture. Josh Edbro...
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She Taught Herself Chinese at 10 and Chose Her Own Chinese Name | I Got It 我明白
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Charlie Hoffs picked up a book on Chinese characters when she was ten and never looked back. By sixteen she was fluent, had been on Chinese TV, and had chosen her own Chinese name. One of the three characters she picked was 明 (míng), the same one inside to...
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She Fell in Love With Chinese at 10 and Chose Her Own Chinese Name | I Got It 我明白 wǒ míng bái | C
Podcast | 1 months ago
Charlie Hoffs picked up a book on the origins of Chinese characters when she was ten years old and fell in love with the story behind every single one. Six years later, fluent in Mandarin, she had chosen her own Chinese name from three characters she loved,...
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The Chinese Word for Trouble Is Also How You Call a Child Cute | Too Much Trouble 麻煩
Podcast | 1 months ago
In Chinese, the word for trouble has a secret gentle side. 麻烦 (麻烦, má fán) sounds heavy in English: troublesome, annoying, frustrating. But 小麻烦 (xiǎo má fán) is what you call a cheeky child you actually adore. And 麻烦你 (má fán nǐ) is the polite way...
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The Chinese Word for Trouble Is Also the Cutest Word for Kids | Too Much Trouble 麻煩 | Jesse Edbrooke
Podcast | 1 months ago
麻煩 (má fán) translates as too much trouble, but ShaoLan and Jesse Edbrooke agree it is one of the most flexible and surprisingly gentle phrases in Mandarin. 大麻煩 (dà má fán) is deep trouble, the kind you are in when a drug lord in a Hollywood movie is h...
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Machines Learn Instantly. Humans Are Falling Behind. Here Is the Fix | Dissertation 論文
Short | 1 months ago
Richard Price has one thought that keeps him awake at night. Machines learn faster than humans now. Once one machine figures something out, every other machine in the world learns it instantly. Humans have to start from scratch every time. In Chinese, a dis...
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Machines Learn Faster Than Humans. This Network Is Closing the Gap | Dissertation 論文 | Richard Price
Podcast | 1 months ago
Machines Learn Faster Than Humans. This Network Is Closing the Gap | Dissertation 論文 lùn wén | Richard Price Richard Price built Academia.edu because he believes anyone with an internet connection should have access to the elite knowledge being generated ...
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A 13-Year-Old Says This Chinese Phrase Works in Every Situation | I Don't Know 我不知道 💡
Guide | 1 months ago
Astrid is thirteen years old and she has already been to China alone. The phrase she used more than any other was not hello or thank you. It was 我不知道 (我不知道, wǒ bù zhī dào): I don't know. 知道 is to know, 不 flips it, 我 is I. Four characters. The ph...
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A 13-Year-Old Says This Is the Most Useful Chinese Phrase | I Don't Know 我不知道 wǒ bù zhī dào | Astrid
Podcast | 1 months ago
Astrid was thirteen years old when her mother dropped her at a camp in China for three weeks, alone, in a country where she barely spoke the language. The phrase she reached for most, in every situation she could not navigate, was not hello or thank you. It...
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