Beschrijving
Nelson Dellis has attempted Everest three times. Each climb was tied to a cause: raising awareness for Alzheimer's disease, the condition that took his grandmother and the inspiration behind his journey to become a six-time USA Memory Champion. He has also attempted the Matterhorn twice, turned back once when a rockslide hit mid-climb, and describes it not as a mountain but as a pile of unstable rocks. In Chinese, every single one of those climbs is the same two words: 爬山 (pá shān). 爬 (pá) is to crawl, the same character used for reptiles and babies, and 山 (shān) is mountain. From there, the characters 上 (shàng) and 下 (xià), up and down, build the entire vocabulary for getting on and off cars, planes, and mountains in one elegant, logical system.
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*⏰ TIMESTAMPS:*
0:00 - Introducing Nelson Dellis and the phrase "mountain climbing"
1:00 - 爬山 (pá shān): to crawl up the mountain and why 爬 is the right word
2:00 - Nelson on three Everest attempts and the Alzheimer's cause behind each one
3:00 - The Matterhorn rockslide and why he turned back twice
4:00 - 上山 (shàng shān) and 下山 (xià shān): up the mountain and down
4:45 - 上下 (shàng xià): the pattern that builds cars, planes, and everything else
5:30 - 上車 (shàng chē), 下車 (xià chē), 上機 (shàng jī), 下機 (xià jī)
In Chinese, up and down, 上 and 下, are not just directions. They are the building blocks for boarding a car, stepping off a plane, ascending a mountain, and descending one. Learn two characters and the whole system opens.
*📖 KEY VOCABULARY:*
Mountain climbing: 爬山 (pá shān)
To go up to the mountains: 上山 (shàng shān)
To get down the mountains: 下山 (xià shān)
Go ups and downs: 上下 (shàng xià)
To get in the car: 上車 (shàng chē)
To get off the car: 下車 (xià chē)
To get on the plane: 上機 (shàng jī)
To get off the plane: 下機 (xià jī)
*👤 ABOUT THE GUEST:*
Nelson Dellis is a 6x USA Memory Champion, Memory Coach, Author, and Teacher. A world-leading memory expert and mountaineer, he has climbed Mt. Everest three times and is the founder of the non-profit Climb For Memory.
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